大学美国文学史作业答案

问题 1 2 分 保存Darwinism_______ had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that man was dominated by the forces of evolution.问题 22 分 保存The Portrait of a Lady _____ is the best novel of Henry James’ “first period”. It is a story about a young, bright American girl goes to Europe to explore life.问题 32 分保存is a novella about a young American girl who gets“killed ” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.A. The Portrait of a LadyB. Daisy MillerC. The EuropeanD.The American问题 42 分保存JamesHenry probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writingin a rich and intricate style that supposed his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.问题 52 分 保存Huckleberry Finn At the heart of Mark Twain ’s achievement is his creation of two characters: Tom Sawyer and _____.问题 62 分保存_______’s stories still had many unrealisticqualities: “tall tales ” and unlikely coincidences. He is never a pure realist.A. Mark TwainB. Henry David ThoreauC. Henry JamesD. Nathaniel Hawthorne问题 7 2 分保存local colorRealism first appeared in the United States in the literature of___, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of thingsimmediately observable: the dialects, customs, sights and sounds of regional.问题 82 分保存Henry Jamesis considered the founder or Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.问题 92 分保存Mark Twain ’s first novel, _______ was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.A. The Mysterious StrangerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. The Innocents Abroad问题 102 分保存romanticismIn the late nineteenth century, although Americans continued to read the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne and Poe, the great age of American had ended.问题 112 分保存The Art of Fiction______ was Henry James ’ mostfamous and influential critical essay written in response to a lecture on fiction delivered by the English novelist Sir Walter Besant at the Royal Institution on April 25, 1884.问题 122 分保存is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience ”.A. JimB. Tom SawyerC. Huckleberry FinnD.Tony问题 132 分保存The Red Badge of CourageIn ____, Stephen Crane ’s greatest novel, the accident of war makes a young man seem to be a hero. War changes meninto animals. In the view of author, good and bad, hero and coward are merely matters of chance, of fate.问题 142 分保存The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outage to American girlhood ” is Henry James ’_______.A. Woman in LoveB. AwakeningC. The Portrait of a LadyD. Daisy Miller问题 15 2 分保存Innocents Abroad The result of mark Twain’s European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called .问题 162 分保存Mark TwainAs one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists, _____, the pen name ofSamuel Langhorne Clemens, usually wrote about his own personal experiences and thongs he knew about from firsthand experiences.问题 172 分保存The Adventure of Huckleberry Finnwas Mark Twain ’s masterwork from which, as ______noted, “all modern American literature comes.”A. Theodore DreiserB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. William Dean Howells问题 182 分保存Henry James_____ was a realist, but not a naturalist. He was an observer of the mind rather than a recorder of time. His realism was a special kind of psychological realism.问题 192 分保存“____” was a term created by the Fre nch novelist, Emile Zola.A. NaturalismB. Psychological causesC. RealismD.Transcendentalism问题 202 分保存With the publication of ______ in 1900, Theodore Dreiser committed his literary force to opening the new ground of American naturalism.A. The StoicB. An American TragedyC. Sister CarrieD. The Bulwark问题 212 分保存Stephen Crane_____, the firstAmerican naturalist, was not much influenced by the scientific approach. He was a genius with amazing sympathy and imagination.问题 222 分保存realismBy 1875, American writers were moving toward___ in literature. We can see this in the true-to life descriptions of Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Hamlin Garland.问题 232 分 保存Martin Eden is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.问题 242 分保存On the Origin of Species In 1859, Darwin published , which exerted great emphasis on American Naturalism.问题 252 分保存In his later novels, Mark Twain seems less hopeful about democracy, which is reflected in his work, _________.A. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur ’s CourtB. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgC. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of CalaverasCountryD. The Mysterious Stranger问题 26 2 分保存Jack London was at his height of his powers when hewrote_______, which is deeply influenced by DarwinismA. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. To Build a Fire问题 272 分保存The AmbassadorsHenry James ’s most mature, and perhaps his best, novels are considered to be his last three: The Golden Bowl , _____, and The Wings of the Dove .问题 282 分 保存An American Tragedy Dreiser ’s greatest novel, _____, reveals a last stage in his thinking; social consciousness.问题 292 分保存In ______, a character, Mr. Sewell, expresses WilliamDean Howell’s own opinions by saying: “The novelists migh t be the greatest possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation.”A. The Rise of Silas LaphamB. A Hazard of New FortunesC. Through the Eye of NeedleD. A Modern Instance问题 302 分保存The literary Characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they .A. are polite and elegant gentlemenB. are simple and crude farmersC. are noble savages (red and white) untainted by societyD.A. speak local dialects问题 312 分保存We usually divide Henry James ’ career as a writer into three stages: early, middle and mature. Which of the following work belongs to James ’ early stage?A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD.The Wing of Dove问题 322 分保存Huckleberry FinnErnest Hemingway, whose own style is based on Twain ’s, once said, “All modern American literature comes from_____.”问题 332 分保存Dreiser ’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and .A. The StoicB. The TycoonC. The GiantD.The Genius问题 342 分保存inner worldWhile Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life ” of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid great emphasis on the “” of man.问题 352 分保存InternationalHenry James first achieved recognition as a writer of the “_____”novel----a story which brings together persona of various nationalities who represent certain characteristics.问题 362 分 保存The Call of the Wild In 1902 London published his first novel .问题 372 分保存In his works, Theodore Dreiser’s tone is a lways_________.A. satiricalB. sadC. comicD. serious问题 38 2 分保存The changing consciousness of the character is the real story._______ gave this kind of literature a name. He called it“stream -of-consciousness”.A. William JamesB. James JoyceC. Henry JamesD.John Conrad问题 392 分保存Mark Twain is regarded as “the true father of our national literature ”.问题 402 分保存Among the following writers, who has been entitled at one time “Kipling of the Klondike ”?A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Frank NorrisD. Jack London问题 41 2 分 保存McTeague Norris’ novel has been called “the first fullbodied naturalistic American novel” and “a consciously naturalistic manifesto”.问题 422 分保存_________ in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.A. Henry David ThoreauB. William Dean HowellsC. Bret HarteD. Mark Twain问题 432 分 保存The Gilded Age The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to a s “”.问题 442 分保存_______, who became the editor of Harper ’s Monthly in 1891, created the first theory for American realism.A. Emile ZolaB. William Dean HowellsC. Stephen CraneD. Hamlin Garland问题 452 分保存Stephen Crane’s novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Street , is the story of a girl_______.A. who is loved by her family but betrayed by her friendsB. who is evil by natureC. who is brought up in a poor area ofChicagoD. who experiences the violence and crueltyof the society almost every day问题 46 2 分保存Daisy Miller The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood ” is Henry James ’.问题 472 分保存William Dean HowellThe most straightforward definition of realism is probably the one given by the American realist___: that is, “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.问题 48 2 分保存the environment All of Stephen Crane ’s characters are controlled by _____. This is what makes Crane a “naturalist ”.问题 492 分保存Mark Twain, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had even done before, or since.问题 502 分保存Life on the MississippiMark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, in the village of Florida, Missouri, and grew up in the larger river town of Hannibal. The steamboats which passed daily were the fascination of the town and became the subject matter of Twain ’s_____.。