完整word版美国文学选择题及答案

美国文学 选择题及答案

3. The Old Man and the Seais one of the great works by .

a. Jack London

b. Charles Dickens

c. Samuel Coleridge

d. Earnest Hemingway

4. ____ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.

a. Allegory

b. Conflict

c. Irony

d. Flashback

5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is . a. Nature b. Walden

c. Experience

d. Essays

6. Mark Twain shaped the world 's view of America and made a combination of _ and serious literature.

a. American folk humor

b. funny jokes

c. English folklore

d. American values

7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?

a. Fennimore Cooper. c. Walt Whitman.

8. I Have a Dream is addressed by

a. Abraham Lincoln

b. John F. Kennedy

c. Martin Luther King

d. Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

a. This is my letter to the world

b. I heard a Fly buzz — when I died

c. This is just to say

d. Because I could not stop for death

10. Eugene O 'Neil is an American .

a. novelist

b. playwright

c. poet

d. essayist

11. The period from 1865 — 1914 has been referred to as the history of the United

States.

a. Age of Realism

c. Age of Romanticism

12. With “Collected Poems ”, __

1. William Faulkner is the

author of _ a. Far From the Madding Crowd

c. For Whom the Bell Tolls 2. Robert Frost is a famous ___ b. Sound and

Fury

c. poet

d. literary critic

b. Nathaniel

Hawthorn. d. Washington in the literary b. Age of Classicalism d. Age of Renaissance won the second Pulitzer

Prize. b. e. e. cummings

a. Ezra Pond c. Robert Frost

13.Grass is a poem written by

b. Carl Sandburg

c. Langston Hughes

d. Allen Ginsberg

14. Moby Dick is the most important work by .

a. Jack London

b. Herman Melville

c. Sinclair Lewis

d. Ralph Ellison

15. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his .

a. novels

b. poems

c. short stories

d. dramas

16. ____ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

a. Tender Is the Night

b. Anna Christie

c. The Beautiful and Dammed

d. The Great Gatsby

17. The American literature in modern period is divided into two parts by the event of

a. the expatriate movement

b. the Great Depression

c. the First World War

d. the Second World War

18. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser 's Trilogy of Desire? a. The Titan b. The Financier c. The “Genius ” d. The Stoic

19. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to art of modern narration ”. a.

William Faulkner c. Saul Bellow 20. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of a. romantic c. neo-classic 21. The Octopusis written by __ a. Frank Norris b. Sherwood Anderson

c. Willa Cather

d. Stephen Crane

22. James Baldwin 's most famous short story is .

a. A Rose for Emily

b. The Story of an Hour

c. Sonny 's Blues

d. A Clean, Well-lighted Place

23. ______ w rote several novels with the name o “f Rabbit ”.

a. Arthur Miller

b. Thomas Pynchon

c. John Updike

d. Wallace Stevens

24. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by .

a. Robert Frost

b. Longfellow

c. Ezra Pond

d. Carl Sandburg

25. “ Godhelp them that help themselves ”is found in 's work. a. Franklin b. Freneau

c. Jefferson

d. Paine

a. Walt Whitman for his “mastery of the

b. John Steinbeck

d. Earnest Hemingway

work.

b. classic

d. naturalistic