美国文学复习题(有答案版)

美国文学复习题（有答案版）

1. Thomas Jeffers on

2. Walt Whitman

3. Mark Twai n

4. Robert Frost

5. Ezra Pound

6. Carl Sa ndburg

7. Saul Bellow

8. Ern est Hemi ngway

9. John Stei nbeck

10. Jack Lon don

11. Sin clair Lewis

12. Fla nnery O 'Connor

13. O. Henry

14. Jerome David Sali nger

15. William Falk ner 美国文学复习提纲第一部分连线题(1*10=10')

The Declarati on of In depe ndence O' Captai n. My Capta in

Jump ing Frog

Mending Wall

In a Station of the Metro

Chicago

The Adve nture of Augie March Men without Wome n The Grape of Wrath

The Call of the Wild

Babbit

A Good Man Is Hard to Fi nd

The Last Leaf

The Catcher in the Rye

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. Ni nth 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. Huma nism

B. Rati on alism

C. Revoluti on

D.

Evoluti on

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

A. The America n Crisis

B. The Federalist

C. Declarati on of In depe ndence

D. The Age of Reas on

4. At the Reas on and Revoluti on Period, America ns were in flue need by the

Europea n moveme nt called the ______ .

A. Chartist Moveme nt

B. Roma nticist Moveme nt

C. En lighte nment Moveme nt

D. Modernist Moveme nt

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

com muni cati on with _____ .

A. n ature

B. tran sce nden talist ideas

C. huma n beings

D. celestial beings

6. _______ teassimple but very moving story in which four people living in a

puritan community are invoIved in and affected by the sin of adultery in differe nt ways.

A. Twice-Told Tales

B. The Scarlet Letter

C.The House of the Seven Gables

D. The Marble Faun

A. poems 11. I n

Hawthorne A. Adultery 12. The period before the America n Civil War is gen erally referred to as _______ .

A. the Naturalist Period

B. the Modern Period

C. the Roma ntic Period

D. the Realistic Period

13. I n the foll owi ng works, which sig ns the begi nning of the America n literature?

A. The Sketch Book

B. Leaves of Grass

Leatherstocking Tales D. Adventures of Huckleberry

Fi nn

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

A. war and peace religio n 15. Emily Dick inson

A. brevity obscure 16. The publication

B. bve and marriage

C. life and obath

D.

's poetic idiom ifontrtecfoll owing except ___

B. direct ness

C. pain est word s of

D.

established Emerson as the most eloquent

7. Washington Irving

's social conservation and literary for the past is revealed,

to some exte nt, i n his famous story, ___ .

A. The Lege nd of Sleepy Hollow

B. Rip Van Win kle

C.The Custom-house

D. The Birthmark

8. The conven tio n of the desire for an escape from society and a retur n to n ature in America n literature is particularly evide nt in .

A. Cooper Leatherstocking Tales

B. Hawthorne 'The Scarlet

Letter

C.Whitman ' Lseaves of Grass

D. Irving s Rip Van Winkle

9. As a philosophical and literary moveme nt, ___ flourished in New En gla nd from 1830s to the Civil War.

A. modernism

B. rati on alism

C. sen time ntalism

D. tran sce nden talism

10. Edgar Alla n Poe main ly writes _____ .

B. literary critic theories

C. short stories

D. dramas

ThesScaret Letter, A”“ mayartd for _

B. An gel

C. Amiable

D. All the above

spokesma n of New England Tran sce nden talism.

A. Nature

B. Self-Relia nee

C. The American Schoar

D. The Over-Soul

17. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United St ates refers to the period from ________ t o ________ .

A. 1861 …1914

B. 1863 …1918

C. 1865 …1914

D.

1865 (1918)

18. ________ i s consieid to be Theodore Dreiser 's greatest work.

A. An American Tragedy

B. Sister Carrie

C.The Financier

D. The