美国文学史及选读练习题

美国文学史及选读练习题

I. Choose the relevant match from Column II for each item in Column I.

Section A I II

( ) 1. Walt Whitman A. The Scarlet Letter

( ) 2. Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book

( ) 3. Washington Irving C. Typee

( ) 4. O Henry D. Leaves of Grass

( ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne E. The Gift of the Magi

Section B I II

( ) 1. Hester Prynne A. The Portrait of A Lady

( ) 2. George Hurstwood B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

( ) 3. Isabel Archer C. Moby Dick

( ) 4. Ahab D. Sister Carrie

( ) 5. Eva Clare E. The Scarlet Letter

Section C I II

( ) 1. Benjamin Franklin A. Martin Eden

( ) 2. Thomas Paine B. Leather-Stocking Tales

( ) 3. James Fenimore Cooper C. Rights of Man

( ) 4. Mark Twain D. Poor Richars’s Almanac

( ) 5. Jack London E. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10%)

1In Washington Irving’s work appeared the first modern Short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.

2The first important American novelist was .

3To a Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of ______’s work, it regarded as “the most perfect brief poem in the language ” .

4 A superb book entitled ______ came out of Henry David Thoreau’s two-year life experience near a

small lake.

5William Sidney Porter，whose pen name was ______，was the author of The Cop and the Anthem．

6Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.

7American Romanticism ended with the Walt Whiteman’s.

8was called “the father of the American detective stories”.

9was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England.

10Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is.

11The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

12______was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War．

13American Romanticism started with the publication of Washington Irving’s ______ .

14The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

15Benjamin Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece .

16On January 10,1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared.

17Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.

18The most outstanding poet in America of 18th century was .

19was the first American lyric poet.

20was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England.

III: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the ONE that would best complete the statement.

1. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Harriet Beecher

2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”

A. Michael Wigglesworth

B. Edward Taylor

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Philip Freneau

3. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”

A. John Smith

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Thomas Jefferson Paine

4. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.

A. common sense

B. imagination

C. intuition

D. individualism

5. Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

A. Typee

B. Omoo

C. White Jacket

D. Moby Dick

6. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A. Modernism

B. Rationalism

C. Sentimentalism

D. Transcendentalism

7. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Sister Carrie

C. The Great Gatsby

D. The Old Man and Sea

8. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.

A. Rationalism

B. Romanticism

C. Neoclassicism

D. Enlightenment

9. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.

A. Thoreau

B. Emerson

C. Hawthorne

D. Whitman

10. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.

A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

B. Innocents Abroad

C. Life on the Mississippi

D. The Rise of Silas Lapham

11. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”

A. The American Scholar

B. English Traits

C. The Conduct of Life

D. Representative Men

12. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in and Thoreau.

A. Jefferson

B. Emerson

C. Freneau

D. Oversoul

13. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”

A. The Financier

B. The Titan

C. The Stoic

D. An American Tragedy

14. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.

A. The Golden Bowl

B. The American

C. The Tragic Muse

D. Daisy Miller

15.Walden is written by .

A. Emerson

B. Thoreau

C. Poe

D. Hawthorne

16. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .

A. O. Henry

B. Henry James

C. Jack London

D. Mark Twain