美国文学复习题(有答案版)

美国文学复习题(有答案版)

美国文学复习提纲

第一部分连线题（1*10=10’）

1. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence

2. Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain

3. Mark Twain Jumping Frog

4. Robert Frost Mending Wall

5. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro

6. Carl Sandburg Chicago

7. Saul Bellow The Adventure of Augie March

8. Ernest Hemingway Men without Women

9. John Steinbeck The Grape of Wrath

10. Jack London The Call of the Wild

11. Sinclair Lewis Babbit

12. Flannery O’ Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find

13. O. Henry The Last Leaf

14. Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

15. William Falkner The Sound and the Fury

第二部分单项选择(1.5*20=30’)

1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England

that she became known as the “________” who appeared in America.

A. Tenth Muse

B. Ninth Muse

C. Best Muse

D. First

Muse

2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.

________ was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Revolution

D.

Evolution

3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?

A. The American Crisis

B. The Federalist

C. Declaration of Independence

D. The Age of Reason

4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the

European movement called the ________.

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

D. Modernist Movement

5. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual

communication with ________.

A. nature

B. transcendentalist ideas

C. human beings

D. celestial beings

6. ________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a

puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

A. Twice-Told Tales

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The House of the Seven Gables

D. The Marble Faun

7. Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to

some extent, in his famous story, ________.

A. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

B. Rip Van Winkle

C. The Custom-house

D. The Birthmark

8. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature

in American literature is particularly evident in ________.

A. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales

B. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet

Letter

C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

D. Irving’s Rip Van Winkle

9. As a philosophical and literary movement, ________ flourished in New England

from 1830s to the Civil War.

A. modernism

B. rationalism

C. sentimentalism

D. transcendentalism

10. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes __________.

A. poems

B. literary critic theories

C. short stories

D. dramas

11. In Hawthorne’s The Scarl et Letter, “A” may st and for ________ .

A. Adultery

B. Angel

C. Amiabl e

D. All the above

12. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ________ .

A. the Naturalist Period

B. the Mod ern Period

C. the Romantic Period

D. the Realistic Period

13. In the foll owing works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?

A. The Sketch Book

B. Leaves of Grass

C. Leatherstocking Tal es

D. Adventures of Huckl eberry

Finn

14. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the foll owing except ________.

A. war and peace

B. l ove and marriage

C. life and d eath

D.

religion

15. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the foll owing except ________.

A. brevity

B. directness

C. pl ainest word s

D.

obscure

16. The publication of ________ est ablished Emerson as the most el oquent

spokesman of New Engl and Transcend ent alism.

A. Nature

B. Self-Reliance

C. The American Schol ar

D. The Over-Soul

17. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United St ates refers to the

period from ________ to ________.

A. 1861…1914

B. 1863…1918

C. 1865…1914

D.

1865 (1918)

18. ________ is consid ered to be Theod ore Dreiser’s greatest work.

A. An American Tragedy

B. Sister Carrie

C. The Financier

D.The

Titan

19. ________ is a novell a about a young American girl who get s “kill ed” by the winter

in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.

A. The American

B. The Europeans