美国文学秋季学期练习题1
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1. ________is not a play written by Tennessee Williams.A. Cat on Hot Tin RoofB. The Glass MenagerieC. Death of a SalesmanD. A Streetcar Named Desire2. From ______ in the 1920s, Black(or African- American) literature started one upsurge after another.A. The Harlem RenaissanceB. The Beat MovementC. The Lost GenerationD. The worker’s movement3. Which of the following is not said about Ezra Pound?A. For he was politically, controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the imagist movement.C. From his analysis of Chinese ideogram Pound learned to another his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality and to organize images into large patterns through juxtaposition.D. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal literary and historical allusions.4. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway_______.A. emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that m an is doomed to be entrapped.B. Wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930sC. Favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’s design or his beneficence.D. Tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a French nurse5. Eugene O’neill is remembered for his tragic view of life, and most of his plays are about_____.A. The root, the truth of human desires and human frustrationsB. The moral nature of the modern mankindC. The relationship between man and nature as well as an and womanD. The inner contradiction of men before the red world6. Which of the following does not describe the strikingly successful artistic techniques in Catch-22？A. BurlesqueB. black humorC. anti-heroD.simple plot7. In his poems, Robert Frost combined traditional verse to forms with________.A. A simple spoken language the speech of New England farmersB. The pastoral language of the southern areaC. The difficult and highly ornamental languageD. Both A and B8. The literary characters of the America type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following Features except that they_______.A. Speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemanC..are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savage (red and white) untainted by society9. The Raven was written in 1844 by_______.A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson10. The main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism and generally philosophically concerning______.A. The cold, rigid rationalism of UnitarianismB. The relationship between man and womenC. He development of Romanticism in AmericaD. Nature man and the universe11. ______ can be broadly defined as“the faithful representation of reality”or “verisimilitude”it includes the period of time from the civil war to the turn of the century.A. American Realism C.American SentimentalismB. American Transcendentalism D. American Romanticism12. Which of the following works is not be Ernest Hemingway?A. The Old Man and SeaB. A Farewell to ArmsC.Sound and FuryD. For whom to Bell Tolls13. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by________.A. Jack LondonB. Sinclair LewisC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway14. Which of the following is said of the American Naturalism?A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the storiesB. Their characteristic setting is an isolated townC. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations or inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forcesD. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing environmental conditions15. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called_______, that is_________.A. Hymn, poetry with chanting refrains.B. Blank verse, poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat.C. Free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.D. Ode, poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feeling.16. By the end of he 19th century, the realists had rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and event, instead, sought to______.A. Describe the wide range of American experienceB. Present the subtleties of human personalityC. Show animal nature of human beingsD. Both A and B17. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser set himself to project the _____American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is no one character whose status is not determined economically.A. PuritansB. MaterialisticC. PsychologicalD. Religions18. _______was poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by Eastern culture.A. T.S.EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman19. Which of the following is not a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?A. Exquisite and elaborateB. minute and detailed descriptionsB. lengthy psychological analyses D. American colloquialism20. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. rationalismC. DevolutionD. Evolution21. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statement is not right?A. It is a love story and a story of sinB. It is a highly symbolic story as the author is a master of symbolismC. It is mainly about the moral emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in generalD. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel22. American Colonial literature is longer than any other literary and sermons, which started when the first settlers kept diaries and sermons and developed till________.A. The mid of 18th centuryB. early 17th centuryB. the end of 17th century D. the end of 18th century23. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?A. The WastelandB. The Scarlet LetterC. Leaves of GrassD. As I Lay Dying24. Whitman’s poem are characterized by all the following features except______.A. Strict poetic formB. a simple and conversationallanguageB. a free and natural rhythmic pattern D. an easy flow of feelings25.Which of the following is not written by Faulkner? A. The Sound and Fury B.A Rose for EmilyD. Tender is the night26._______ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’classic.A. Allen SalingerB.E.E. CummingsC.J.D. Salinger D. Henry James27.Which one of the following statement is NOT True of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream of consciousness narrativeB. His writing is often complex and difficult to understandC. He represents a new group pf Southern writers28.As a spokesman of the“Roaring 20s’”. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed ______.A. the problems of the human heart in conflict with itselfB. the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern worldC. the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forcesD. the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment29.In the beginning paragraph of chapter 3. The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and girls came and went like moths”. The author most likely indicates that______.A. there was a crowd of party goersB. these people were light -heartedC. these were crazy and ignorant charactersD. such life does not have red meaning30.______ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream -of consciousness ”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William Faulkner D. His often depicts slum life in New York and ChicagoC. Light in AugustC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain31.As the leader of the Harlem writers who created the Black Renaissance ______ as known as the“Poet Laureate of Harlem”.A. Ralph EllisonB. Langston HughesC. Richard WrightD. Alice Walker32.Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ________ the one book from which“all modern American literature comes”.A. The Adventure of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventure of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg33.Romantics put emphasis on the following Expect _______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism34.In the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called ________.A. the English RenaissanceB. the American RenaissanceC. the Second RenaissanceD. the Salem Renaissance35.The main theme of The Art of Fiction written by ______ clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Theodore DreiserD. Ernest Hemingway36.In the line“We slowly drove-He knew on haste/ And I had put away /My labor and my leisure too. /For his Civility -”, the word“civility”means______.A. abilityB. politenessC. kindnessD. pleasure37.Which one is not the characterized of modernism?A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.C. The work of Mary and Freud had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind38.Which of the following plays by O’Neill can be read autobiographicall y?A. The Hairy ApeB. The Emperor TonesC. The Iceman ComethD. Long Day’s Tourney Into Night39.The Civil War had transformed America from _____ to _____.A.an agrarian community, a society of freedom and equalityB.an agrarian community, an industrialized and commercialized societyC.an industrialized and commercialized society, a highly -developed societyD. a poor and backward society, an industrialized and commercial society40.Robert Frost combined traditional verse from -sonnet, rhyming couplet, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. southernB. westernC. New EnglandD. New Hampshire41.The realistic period is referred to as“the Gilded Age”by______.42.Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating flections and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment43.With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the literary scene _______ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism44.Anna Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poem made such a stir in England that she become known as the“_______”who appeared in America.45.Apart from The Autobiography, Franklin is perhaps best remembered in print for his _______.A. The Way to WealthB. The Sketch BookC. The Biography Christopher ColumbusD. Poor Richard’s Almanac46.Moby Dick is usually considered ______.A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universeB. a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychologyC. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure47.The image of the famous“henpecked husband”is created by _______.D. both A and BTenth Muse Mark Twain A. B. Ninth Muse C. Best Muse D. First MuseA. B. Henry James C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore DreiserA. Washington IrvingB. Fennimore CooperC. William Dean HowellsD.Mark Twain48.As a philosophical and literary moment, _______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism。
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I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the fouritems. (10 x 1’= 10’)1. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant.2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ____.3.Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the __ attitude of its author.5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by ___.6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literaryadvocates in ___ and Thoreau.7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of IntellectualIndependence”?8.____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.9.___ isnot among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironicand more ___.11.______ is the father of American Literature.12._____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside themain stream of life.13._____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’slanguage?From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense16.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?17.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.18.What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, MobyDick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story butwhose name in unknown to us.Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains2.The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value offine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape Day’s Journey into Night d. Death of Salesman3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based onthe playwright himself.a. Long Day’s Journey into Nightb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries4.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accidentand how the society is responsible for the murder.Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains5._________ is one of the best works in American literature about theSecond World War.Farewell to Arms Catcher in the Rye Red Badge of Couraged. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.Farewell to Arms Sun Also RisesOld Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahomaand travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.a.The Grapes of Wrathb. . A.d. The Adventures of Augie March8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money,with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.9.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique andwhose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom!b. The Sound and the FuryFarewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced andhow she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague , A Girl of the Streets11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist tellingus the story in the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.a.Sister Carrie Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Portrait of a Ladynovel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War.American Tragedy b. Sister CarrieRed Badge of Courage d. McTeague13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme ofthe universality and equality in value of all people and all things.b. The Ravenc. Song of Myself14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship killa great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with theconflict between man and his fate.Octopus b. Moby-Dick c. The Rise of Silas Lapham d. Leaves of Grass15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introductionmainly concerned with the four uses of nature.a. Waldenb. Naturec. The Scarlet Letterd. The American ScholarI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.a. The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. Titanicis father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.a. Tennessee Williamsb. Eugene O’Neillc. Arthur Millerd. Elmer Ricewas the first American writer to write entirely American literature.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Washington Irvingc. Mark Twaind. Ernest Hemingway4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.a. Benjamin Franklinb. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emersond. Henry David Thoreauthe greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buck Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitmanis father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan PoeDean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a. Stephen Craneb. Frank Norrisc. Theodore Dreiserd. Henry James8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a. William Dean Howellsb. Mark Twainc. Ernest Hemingway Dreiser9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language anddeep thoughts. He is______.a. Ernest Hemingwayb. William Faulknerc. F. Scott Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha Countyin the deep south. He is ______.a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Ernest Hemingwayd. Mark Twain11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the AmericanJews are major characters.a. Sinclair Lewisb. Saul Bellowc. Norman Mailerd. Jerome David Salingeris often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Robert Frostc. .d. Emily Dickinson is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literaturein 1936.a. John Steinbeckb. William Faulknerc. Eugene O’Neilld. Arthur Miller14. He was the first black American to write a book about black lifewith great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.Who is he?a.Richard Wrightb. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughesd.Ralph Ellison15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgeraldthe Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):2.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______.a. N, Sb. Revolutionaries, Reactionariesc. Union, Confederacyd. Slavery, Anti-Slaverypraised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.a.Anne Bradstreetb. Edward Taylorc. Thomas Pained. Philip FreneauTwain was a representative of ________ in American literature.a. transcendentalismb. naturalismc. local colorismd. imagism4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.a. Benjamin Franklinb. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emersond. Henry David Thoreaugreatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________.a. Washington Irving Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinsonis father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan PoeJames is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a. Stephen Craneb. Frank Norrisc. Theodore Dreiserd. William Dean Howells8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a. William Dean Howellsb. Mark Twainc. Ernest Hemingway Dreiser9. ________’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.a. Ernest Hemingwayb. William Faulknerc. F. Scott Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, YoknapatwaphaCounty in the deep south. .a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Ernest Hemingwayd. Mark Twain11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the AmericanJews are major characters.a. Sinclair Lewisb. Saul Bellowc. Norman Mailerd. Jerome David Salingeris often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Robert Frostc. .d. Emily Dickinson is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a. John Steinbeckb. William Faulknerc. Eugene O’Neilld. Arthur Miller14. _______ was the first black American to write a book about blacklife with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and hismasterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.b.Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughesd. Ralph Ellison15. ________ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collectionof short storiesa. F. Scott Fitzgeraldb. William Faulknerc. John Steinbeckd.Ernest HemingwayII. Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):6.The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is notrecognized by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.a. The Hairy Apeb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. Long Day’s Journey into Nightd. The Glass Menageries7.The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape Day’s Journey intoNightGlass Menageries8.The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his nameis unknown.Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains 4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Day’s Journey into Nightb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries5.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accidentand how he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains6._________ is one of the best works in American literature about theSecond World War.Farewell to Arms Catcher in the Rye Red Badge of Couraged. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.Farewell to Arms Sun Also RisesOld Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead10.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahomaand travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.b.The Grapes of Wrath b. . A.d. The Adventures of Augie March11.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money,with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.12.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique andwhose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom!b. The Sound and the FuryFarewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced andelopes with Hurstwood and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague , A Girl of the Streets11. It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group ofpeople on a whaling ship kill a great whale but they themselves are killed by the whale in the end, except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.b.Sister Carrie Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. Moby Dickd. The Portrait of a Ladynovel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War, in which wound is called the red badge which symbolizes courage.American Tragedy b. Sister CarrieRed Badge of Courage d. McTeague13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme ofthe universality and equality in value of all people and all things.b. The Ravenc. Song of Myself14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially butwho rises morally because he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.Octopus b. The Rise of Silas Lapham c. Moby-Dick d. Leaves of Grass15. It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailedas the “declaration of intellectual independence” in America.a. The American Scholarb. Naturec. The Scarlet Letterd. WaldenII. Match the following (1×20%)A. Match Works with Their AuthorsSelwyn Mauberly3. Autobiography4. The Scarlet Letterof GrassRaven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer9. Long Day’s Journey into Night10. The Old Man and the SeaTwain b . Ernest Hemingwayc. Eugene O’Neilld. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitmang. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin FranklinDavid Thoreau j. Ezra PoundJefferson l. . EliotB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1.Hester Prynne . TouchettHenry CompsonJoads Edward CummingsCaulfield ThomasPortrait of a Lady b. The Scarlet Letterc. The Hairy Aped. A Farewell to ArmsSound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrathg. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye i. Native Son j. Death of a SalesmanManIII. Match the following (1’×20=20’)A. Match works with their authorsVan Winkle3. Nature4. The Scarlet Letterof GrassRaven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. Cantos10. The Old Man and the SeaPound b. Ernest Hemingwayc. Mark Twaind. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitmang. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emerson Irving j. Waldo EmersonB. Match characters with the works in which they appear.2.Captain Ahab and Starbuck ArcherHenry and Catherine CompsonJoads Edward CummingsCaulfield ThomasTyrones LomanPortrait of a Lady b. Moby-Dickc. Death of a Salesmand. A Farewell to ArmsSound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrathg. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Ryei. Native Son j. Long Day’s Journey into Night , Absalom l. The Old Man and the SeaV. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.1.T o the best of your knowledge, analyze and make comments onEmerson’s Nature2.C omment on any American poet you like.3.A nalyze and/or comment on any one of the American novels or playsyou have read.V. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: [1]Youressay should have at least 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.)4.M ake comments on an American novel we have discussed in thiscourse.5.C omment on an American poet.6.D escribe how your knowledge of American literature is improvedafter taking this course..IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)1.Why do people think Franklin is the embodiment of American dream?2.What is “Lost Generation”?V. Discussion. (1 x 20’ = 20’)State your own interpretations of Hemingway’s iceberg theory of writing?IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)3.What is Hawthorne’s style? Explain the style with examples.4.At the end of the 19th century, there were three fighters for Realism.Who are they? What are their differences?________True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.2. Thomas Jefferson was the only American to sign the 4 documents that created the US.3. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil.4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology.5. Hurstwood is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.6. Faulkner’s region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.7. Placed in historical perspective, Howells is found lacking inqualities and depth. But anyhow he is a literary figure worthy of notice.8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.9. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.10. Emily Dickinson expresses her deep love in the poem “Annabel Lee”. II. Decide whether the statements are True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)1. Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.2. American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural elements.3. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.4. “Young Goodman Brown” wants to prove everyone possesses kindnessin heart.5. Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Twain or Howells.6. The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality.7. Frost’s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.9. Roger Chillingworth is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.10. After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one.。
大学美国文学试卷
美国文学1．第7题__C__ was considered to be the first American writer.A.Washington IrvingB.Benjamin FranklinC.John SmithD.Hoffman答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.02．第8题The School Room Poets did not include _____.A.LongfellowB.LowellC.HolmesD.Poe答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.03．第9题pound’s poem “the river-merchant’s wife” was translatedｆrom a poem by the chinese poet __________.A.李白B.杜甫C.白居易D.王安石答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.04．第14题Tales of a Traveller was written by the American author__________.A.James Fenimore CooperB.Washington IrvingC.Nathaniel Hawthorne答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.05．第18题The modern critic Van W. Brooks calls _____ a shredded Shakespeare play.A.The Scarlet LetterB.Moby DickC.Billy BuddD.Mardi答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.06．第19题“Civil Disobedience” is a famous essay written by ___________.A.Ralph Waldo EmersonB.Henry David ThoreauC.E. B. White答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.07．第20题among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___.A. Edgar Ellan PoeB.Herman MelvilleC.Emily Dickinson答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.08．第21题The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB.Herman MelvilleC.Edgar Ellan Poe答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.09．第22题The poem “Thanatopsis” was written by __________.A.Emily DickinsonB.William Cullen BryantC.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.010．第23题"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.A.T. S. EliotB.Wallace StevensC.Robert Frost答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.011．第24题The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB.Edgar Allan PoeC.MelvilleD.Longfellow答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.012．第25题Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of man and ____.A.natureB.self-relianceD.life答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.013．第26题____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.A.To a WaterfowlB.ThanatopsisC.To HelenD.Annabel Lee答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.014．第27题1.牋牋？________ was the first writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.A.Mark TwainB.Harriet StoweC.Bret HarteD.Henry James答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.015．第28题______ translated the Bible into the Indian tongue.A.Benjamin FranklinB.Roger WilliamsC.. John EliotD.John Cotton答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.016．第29题The best-selling books in the first decades of the twentieth century wereA.news reportB.travel booksmercial booksD.historical romances答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.017．第30题Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.A.old valuesB.rigid ideas of social statusC.bigotry and eccentricityD.harmony and integrity答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.018．第38题___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga.A.deerslayerB.pathfinderC.hawkeyeD.Mohican答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.019．第39题"To a Waterfowl" is a poem written by ---.A.Edgar Ellan PoeB.William Cullen BryantC. Whittier答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.020．第40题Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___.A.The Purloined LetterB. LigeiaC.The Tell-tale Heart答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.021．第41题The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.A.New YorkB.BeijingC.BostonD.Chicago答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.022．第42题The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________.A.Henry JamesB.FitzgeraldC.Ernest HemingwayD.William Faulkner答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.023．第43题The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______.A.Martin EdenB.The Iron HeelC.The Sea WolfD.The Call of the Wild答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.024．第44题Among the following authors the one who received 4 pulitzer prizes was ---.A.Robert FrostB.Jack LondonC.Mark Twain答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.025．第45题My Lost Youth written by ____ is about his hometown of Portland, Maine.A.Henry W. LongfellowB.John CottonC.Carl SandburgD.Anne Bradstreet答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.026．第46题William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.A.Mark TwainB.O’ HenryC.Jack LondonD.William Dean Howells答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.027．第47题When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A.Henry JamesB.Scott FitzgeraldC.HemingwayD.William Faulkne答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.028．第48题Puritans emphasized a ____God.A.mercifulB.wrathfulC.benevolentD.learned答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.029．第49题The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.A.Ralph Waldo EmersonB.Philip FreneauC.Henry David Thoreau答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.030．第50题____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.A.To a WaterfowlB.ThanatopsisC.To HelenD.Annabel Lee答案:B您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.031．第51题Besides symbolism, all the following qualities except ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick, a world classic.A.narrative power ？B.psychological analysisC.speculative agility ？D.optimistic view of life答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.032．第52题The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________.A.Isabelle ArcherB.Natty BumpoC.Ishmael答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.033．第53题A poetic line of two feet is called___________.A.monometerB.dimeterC.trimeterD.tetrameter答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.034．第54题Perhaps Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of ___________ is to be found in I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died---a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces.A.enthusiasmB.deathC.crisisD.fantasy答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.035．第55题Jack London did not write ______.A.The Sea WolfB.The Call of the WildC.The AmbassadorsD.White Fang答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.036．第56题American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. It was _____.A.. Anne BradstreetB.Jane AustenC.Emily DickinsonD.Harriet Beecher答案:C您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.037．第57题The first writings that we may call American were the narratives and ___ of the early English settlements.A.. documentsB.journalsC.statementsD.files答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.038．第58题Many of O’ Henry’s stories tell about the lives of poor people in ____.A.ChicagoB.New YorkC.New JerseyD.New England答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.039．第59题William Faulkner once declared that ___ was the first truly American writer from whom we are descended.A.Washington IrvingB.CooperC.HawthorneD.Mark Twain答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.040．第60题The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________.A.Ernest HemingwayB.Ezra PoundC.T. S. EliotD.William Carlos Williams答案:B您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.041．第1题1.？？？？？While working for the Virginia City Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted the pseudonym “Mark Twain,” which means two fathoms.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.042．第2题1.牋牋？Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.043．第3题Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.044．第4题"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.045．第5题“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe.答案:错误您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：0.046．第6题"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.047．第10题1.？？？？？Many of O Henry’s stories contain a lot of slangs and colloquial expressions, just like his own speech.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.048．第11题1.牋牋？To Hawthorne and Poe, the telling of a tale was a way inquiringinto the meaning of life.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.049．第12题1.牋牋？Immediately after their arrival in America, the American Puritans became more preoccupied with business and profits, as they had to be in the grim struggle for survival.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.050．第13题"Declaration of Independence" was drafted by Benjamin Franklin alone. 答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.051．第15题Many of Poe’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.052．第16题The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.053．第17题life ａnd death is a major theme in emily dickinson’s poems.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.054．第31题1.牋牋？American naturalism, like Romanticism, had come from Germany. 答案:错误您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：0.055．第32题1.？？？？？Throughout his life, Steinbeck’s greatest happiness and deepest sorrow were caused by his American dream of success.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.056．第33题1.牋牋？Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and veil, never showed a positive part of the life.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.057．第34题The poet Robert Frost wrote in traditional rhyme schemes, but his themes are very modern.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.058．第35题Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doyle.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.059．第36题"A Rose for Emily" is a Gothic short story written by William Faulkner. 答案:正确您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：0.060．第37题The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman. 答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.0。
美国文学习题集1
美国文学习题集（含答案）12012-10-15 19:10点击次数：141 Basic Literary KnowledgeⅠ. Fill in the blanks1. iambic foot, stressed2. repetition3. symbol4. couplet, heroic couplet5. trochaic1. The _____is the most commonly used foot in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllable comes first, followed by a ______syllable.2. Rhyme is the _____of sounds in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem. For example: we/thee, man/can, and gold/hold.3. A _____is a sign that suggests more than its literal meaning.4. The two-line stanza form is called the _____, the best-known being the _____which is written in iambic pentameter with an end rhyme.5. The _____foot, which is the reverse of the iambic foot, also consists of one stressed and one unstressed syllables, but with the stressed one coming first.6. unstressed7. Washington Irving8. Edgar Allan Poe9. Bret Hart6. An anapestic foot is made up of two _____and one stressed syllables, with the two unstressed in front.7. American achievements in the short story have demanded international respect and admiration for more from ______in the early 19th century.poetics of the short stories.9. There were two other American writers who had made significant contributions to the literary form of short story: ______, with his stories of early life in California, started a vogue of local color stories and made the short story seem completely at home in the US, and Henry James, brought to the form a careful writing that made his stories models.10. In the 20th century, there have been many who have won fame abroad as well as in the US for their stories: ______, _______, _______, ________, and dozens of others.11. As you read from writer to writer, f rom ______‟s Rip Van Winkle to ______‟s A Good Man is Hard to Find, you will see the coming of a short story age, growing from an entertaining tale into a store which probes deep into human souls.12. Modern literary fiction has been dominated by two forms: _______13. Washing Irving, the father of American literature, developed the _____as a genre in American literature.14. ______is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective stories. He is also credited with developing many of the standardfeatures of detective fiction. His detective M August Dupin of Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter is the forerunner of a long line of fictional detectives who are eccentric and brilliant.16. stressed, unstressed17. stanza18. final consonant16. A dactylic foot is made up of one ______ and two _______syllables, with the stressed in front.17. The _____is a structured division of a poem, consisting of a series of verse lines which usually comprise a recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. In traditional English poetry, there are various forms containing two, there, four, five, six, seven, eight or nine lines.18. Consonance is the repetition of _____but with different preceding vowels e.g. heart/light, flag/plug. Unlike alliteration and assonance, consonance can serve as end rhythm.1-5 BDCBDⅡ. Multiple Choices1. Edgar Allan Poe wrote poems which are marvels of beauty and craftsmanship such as ________.A. I Hear America SingingB. The RavenC. To a WaterfowlD. The Fall of the House of Usher2. Which writer is not a poet?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Anne BradstreetC. Edward TaylorD. Thomas Hooker.3. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the _______A. RevolutionismB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. Rationalism4. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment, ______was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution5. Who was considered as the“poet of American revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau6-10 BCADB6. Thomas Jefferson‟s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pur suit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call _______.A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Regionalism7. Howells defined realism as “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”, and he best exemplified his theories in three novels: The Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Laphan, and ______.A. White FangB. The last of the MohicansC. A Hazard of New FortunesD. The Prince and the Pauper8．Mark twain created, in ______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SawyerC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburyD. The Gilded Age9. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such American writers as ______.A. Mark TwainB. Francis Scott FitzgeraldC. Wait WhitmanD. Stephen Crane10. Although realism and naturalism were products of the 19th century, their final triumph came in the 20th century, with the popular and critical successes of such writers as Edwin Arlington, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, and _____A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Sherwood AndersonC. Washington IrvingD. Ralph Ellison11-15 CAACA11. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. She was ______.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickensonD. Harriet Beecher12. Choose the well-known short stories written by William Sidney Porter.A. The Gift of the MagiB. Self-RelianceC. The Red Badge of CourageD. The Minister‟s Black Veil13. In 1900, Jack London published his first collection of short stories, named _____A. The Son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD. White Fang14. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______become the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism15. Choose from the following writers a staunch advocate of 19th century American realism.A. Mark TwainB. Washington IrvingC. Stephen CraneD. Jack London16-20 DDECC16. Which writer has naturalist tendency?A. Frank NorrisB. William Dean HowellsC. Theodore DreiserD. Both A and B17. Early in the 20th century, ______published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B18. The American “Thirties” lasted from the Crash, though the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second Worl d WAR 1939. THIS WAS a period of “_______”A. PovertyB. BleaknessC. Important social movementsD.A new social consciousness19. The imagist writers followed three principles. They respectively are direct treatment, economy of expression and _______.A. local colorB. ironyC. clear rhythmD. blank verse20. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest written by ______.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. E .E. Cummings21-25 CEEDB21. Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy are good examples of Arlington Robinson‟s_______ attitude.A. romanticB. fantasticC. realismD. materialistic22. Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poems was not written by Frost?A. BirchesB. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningC. After Apple-PickingD. The Road Not TakenE. Richard Cory23. As a poet, Sandburg was associated with the Imagists and wrote well=known Imagist poems such as _______.A. FogB. LostC. MonotoneD. The HarborE. all of the above24. Sandburg had also taken interest in folk songs which he tried to collect and sing during his travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well-known _______.A. Good Morning, AmericaB. The People, YesC. In Rechless EcstasyD. The American Songbag25. ______, one of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of T. S. Eliot‟s aesthetics, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism.A. Sweeny AgonistesB. Tradition and the Individual TalentC. A Primer of Modern HeresyD. Gerontion26-30 AADCE26. T. S. Eliot‟s used a form, that is, the orc hestration of related themes in successive movements, in such works as ________.A. The Waste LandB. A Rose for EmilyC. The Scarlet LetterD. The Egg27. Eliot‟s first major poem (1917) _______ has been called the first m asterpiece of modernism in English.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. The Waste LandC. Four QuartetsD. Preludes28. Choose the collections of short stories written by Fitzgerald.A. Flappers and PhilosophersB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Yong MenD. All of the above29. The three poets Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and ______opened the way to Modern poetry.A. O. HenryB. Henry David ThoreauC. E. E. CummingsD. Robert Frost30. In Paris, Hemingway, along with _______, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. T. S. EliotD. James Joyce31. In 1954, _______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.A. T. S. EliotB. Earnest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner31-33 BAE32. William Faulkner is one of the most important southern writer in the United States. ______, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom are works that ambitious critics tend to admire.A. The Sound and the FuryB. The Invisible ManC. A Good Man Is Hard to FindD. The Wrath of the Grapes33. Most of the important 20th American poets were related with Imagist movement, including _______.A. Ezra PoundB. Wallace StevensC. E. E. CummingsD. Carl SandburgE. all of the aboveⅢ. IdentificationⅢ. Identification.1. the American Crisis2. Thomas Paine3. Philip Freneau4. To a Caty-Did5. According to Freneau‟s note, a Caty-Did is a well-known insect. When full grown, it is about two inches in length, and of the exact color of a green leaf. It can sing such a song as Caty-Did in the evening toward autumn.6. Song of Myself7. Walt Whitman8. free verse9. Emily Dickinson 10. C11. C 12. Sister Carries13. Theodore DreiserPassage 1These are the times that try men‟s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, i n this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain toocheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but” to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER,” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.Questions:1. Which book is this passage taken from?2. Who is the author of the book?1. the American Crisis2. Thomas PainePassage 2But you would have uttered moreHad you known of nature‟s power;From the world when you retreat,And a leaf‟s your winding sheet,Long before your spirit fled,Who can tell but nature said,Live again, my Caty-did!Live, and chatter Caty-did.Questions:3. Who is the writer of these verses?4. What is the title of this lyrical poem?5. What is Caty-did?3. Philip Freneau4. To a Caty-Did5. According to Freneau‟s note, a Caty-Did is a well-known insect. When full grown, it is about two inches in length, and of the exact color of a green leaf. It can sing such a song as Caty-Did in the evening toward autumn.Passage 3I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.My tongue, every atom of my blood, form‟d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death.Creeds and schools in abeyance,Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,Nature without check with original energy.Questions:6. This is the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled______.7. The name of the poet is _____.8. What is the verse structure?6. Song of Myself7. Walt Whitman8. free versePassage 4Because I could not stop for death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For his civility.We passed the school where children played,Their lessons scarcely done;We passed the fields of gazing grain,We passed the setting sun.We paused before a house that seemedA swelling of the ground;The roof was scarcely visible,The cornice but a mound.Since then ‟t is centuries; but eachFeels shorter than the dayI first surmised the hors es‟ headsWere toward eternity.Questions:9. Who is the writer of the lines?10. In which category would you place this poem?A. narrativeB. dramaticC. lyric9. Emily Dickinson 10. C11. The poet is noted for her uses of _____to achieve special effects.A. perfect rhymeB. exact rhymeC. slant rhymePassage 5When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human.The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counselor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognized for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.Questions:12. From which novel is this paragraph taken?13. Who is the author of the novel?12. Sister Carries13. Theodore DreiserⅣ. Literary Terms1. Satire 12. Irony2. short story 13. Plot3. Stanza 14. Nonfiction4. Subtext 15. Narration5. tall story/tall tale 16. Imagery6. Verse 17. Simile and metaphor7. Rhythm 18. Character8. Foot 19. Surrealism9. Meter 20. Theatre of Absurdity10. Sonnet 21. Deconstructionism11. LyricⅤ. Questions and Answers1. How do you understand Mark Twain‟s use of Local Color in his writing?2. Discuss the reflection of realistic and naturalistic tendencies on the American 19th-century novels.3. Discuss the concept of Wasteland in relation to he works of those writers in the 20th century American literature.Ⅵ. Analysis of Literary WorksRip Van WinkleAt the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape. It is a little of great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists, in the early times of the province, just about the beginning ofthe government of the good Peter Stuyvesant, (may he rest in peace!) and there were some of the house of the original settlers standing within a few years, built of small yellow bricks brought from Holland, having latticed windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weather-cocks.In that same village, and in one of these very houses (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple good-natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina. He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors. I have observed that he was a simple good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient hen-natured husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation; and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed.Questions:1.Try to explain the setting by making reference to the above passage selected from Rip Van Winkle.1. By the setting of a story we mean its time and place-its geography, era, reason, and society. Most writers invoke particular places and particular times, and their stories establish these settings precisely. Precise setting helps to establish the truth of the story, to persuade the reader of the validity of the take. In “Rip Van Winkle”, by a detailed description of a remove, isolated “little village of great antiquity”, Irving creates a quiet, tranquil, ante-bellum social aura, which may betray his personal dislike of change, revolution and war; on the other hand, this setting prepares readers for the following exotic experience of Rip.Setting can give us information vital to plot and theme. Often, setting and character will reveal each other. At the start of A Rose for Emily, Faulkner depicts Emily Grierson‟s house, once handsome but now “an eyesore among eyesores” surrounded by a gas station. Still standing refusing to yield its old-time horse-and-buggy splendor to the age of the automobile, the house in “its stubborn and coquettish decay” embodies the character of its owner.In some stories, a writer will see to draw a setting mainly to evoke atmosphere. The atmosphere is the aura or mood, or the general pervasive feeling aroused by the work which shares the reader‟s attitudes and expectations. Gothic fiction and Edgar Allan Poe‟s horror stories abound with settings of this kind.2.Daisy MillerWinterbourne, who had returned to Geneva the day after his excursion to Chillon, went to Rome toward the end of January. His aunt had been established there for several weeks, and he had received a couple of letters from her.” Those people you were s o devoted to last summer at Vesey have turned up here, courier and all,” she wrote.” They seem to have made several acquaintances, but the courier continues to be the most in time. The young lady, however, is also very intimate with some third-rate Italians, with whom she packets about in a way that makes much talk. Bring of that pretty novel of Cherbuliez‟s---Paule-- Mere-and don‟t come later than the 23rd.”In the natural course of events, Winterbourne, on arriving in Rome, would presently have ascertained Mrs. Miller‟s address at the Am erican banker‟s and have gone to pay his compliments to Miss Daisy.” After what happened at Vevey, I think I May certainly call upon them,” he said to Mrs. Costello.“If, after what happens---at Vevey--- and everywhere-you desire to keep up the acquaintance, you are very welcome. Of course aman may know everyone. Men are welcome to the privilege!”“Pray what is it that happens-here, for instance?” Winterbourne demanded.”The girl goes about alone with her foreigners. As to what happens further, you must apply elsewhere for information .She has picked up half a dozen of the regular Roman fortune hunters, and she takes them about to people‟s houses. When she comes to a party she brings with her a gentleman with a good deal of manner and a wonderful mustache.”“And where is the mother?”“I haven‟t the least idea. They are very dreadful people.”Winterbourne meditated a moment.” They are very ignorant-very innocent only. Depend upon it they are not bad.”“They are hopelessly vulgar,” said Mrs. Costello. “Whether or on being hopelessly vulgar is being …bad‟ is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike, at any rate; and for this short life that is quite enough.”The news that Dairy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustache s checked Winterbourne‟s impulse to in straightway to see her. He had, perhaps, not definitely flattered himself that he had made an ineffaceable impression upon her heart, but he was annoyed at hearing of a state of affairs so little in harmony with an image that had lately flitted in and out of his own meditations” the image of a very pretty girl looking out of an old Roman window and asking herself urgently when Mr. Winterbourne would arrive. If, however, he determined to wait a little before reminding Miss Miller of his claims to her consideration, he went very soon to call upon two or three other friends. One of these friends was an American lady who had spent several winters at Geneva, where she had placed her children at school. She was a very accomplished woman, and she lived in the Via Gregoriana. Winterbourne found her in a little crimson drawing room on a third floor; the room was filled with southern sunshine. He had not been there ten minutes when the servant came in, announcing” Madame Mila!” Th is announcement was presently followed by the entrance of little Randolph Miller, who stopped in the middle of the room and stood staring at Winterbourne. An instant later his pretty sister crossed the threshold; and then, after a considerable interval, Mrs. Miller slowly advanced.Questions:2. In his whole writing career James is concerned with “point of view”, which is at the centre of his aesthetic of the novel. Comment on the “point of view” in this story.2. The method of “point of view” as James term ed means observing events and people through the consciousness of his characters. In Daisy Miller Winterbourne is the objective spectator, through whose eyes James reveals the conflicts between Mrs. Walker and Dairy, through whose mind James illustrates the situation and characters clearly.3. Daisy defies European conventions and falls a victim to her own innocence. Discuss the character of Daisy.3. She is fresh, pure, brave, honest, and enthusiastic. She represents American independent spirit. She likes freedom and dares to challenge old European convention and tradition. But somehow she is not well-cultured or well-refined.4. In his story Winterbourne shows contradictory attitudes toward Daisy. He tries to decide whether she is a flirt or a native girl. Illustrate his attitude by citing some examples from the reading.4. “They‟re very ignorant-very innocent only, and utterly uncivilized. Depend on it they‟re not bad.” “The poor girl‟s only fault is her complete lack of education.”5. In this selected reading, when Daisy is taking a walk with Winterbourne and Giovanelli, Mrs. Walker gets there and tries to “rescue” her from her indiscretions. But Daisy refuses her. As an American Living in Europe, what do you think Mrs. Walker represents?5. She represents European conventional opinions. As an American living too long in Europe, she is overwhelmed by European over-refined, degenerated, and artificial sophistication.6. James‟ fame largely rested on his handing “the international theme”----American innocence in contrast with European sophistication. What is James‟s attitude towards the difference in morality of Daisy Miller from that of the Old World?6. James enjoys juxtaposing American moral innocence with the somber decadence of Europe and presenting the superiority of at least some of American values to those of the Old World. However, the final death of Dairy in Some indicates that European values are strong and overwhelming.To HelenHelen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That ge ntly, o‟er a perfumed sea,The weary, wayworn wanderer boreTo his own native shore.Om desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face.Thy Naiad airs have brought me homeTo the glory that was GreeceAnd the grandeur that was Rome.Lo! In yon brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee standThe agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy Land!Questions:7. “To take sound away from poetry”, said one poet “is like tearing the wings from a bird”. Poets, like musicians, are sensitive to the effects of sounds. Analyze the lines from To Helen and explain the device of alliteration in your own words.O Captain! My Captain!O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;The ship has weather‟d every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:But O heart! heart! heart!O the bleeding drops of red,Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.O Captain! My captain! Rise up and hear the bells:Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;For you bouquets and ribbon‟d wreaths---for you the shores a-crowding;Here Captain! Dear father!This arm beneath your head;It is some dream that on the deck,You‟ve fallen cold and dead.My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;My father does not feel my arm; he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchor‟d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!But I, with mournful tread,Walk the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.Questions:8. Read the poem lyrics of O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman and analyze it terms of free verse.Invisible manXXV. The Hunting of the Invisible ManFor a space Kemp was too inarticulate to make Adye understand the swift things that had just happened. The tow men stood on the landing, Kemp speaking swiftly, the grasp something of the situation.“He‟s mad,” said Kemp; “inhuman. He is pure selfishness. He thinks of nothing but his own advantage, his own safety. I have listened to such a story this morning of brutal self-seeking! He has wounded men. He will kill them unless we can prevent him. He will create a panic. Nothing can stop him. He is going out now-furious!”“He must be caught,” said Adye. “That is certain.”“But how?” cried Kemp, and suddenly become full of ideas. “You must begin at once. You must set e very available man to work. You must prevent his leaving this district. Once he gets away he may go through the countryside as he wills, killing and maiming. He dreams of a reign of terror! A reign of terror, I tell you. You must set a watch on trains and roads and shipping. The garrison must help. You must write for help. The only thing that may keep him here is the thought of recovering some books of notes he counts of value. I will tell you of that! There is a man in your police station—Marvel.”“I know,” said Adye,” I know. Those books—yes.”“And you must prevent him from eating or sleeping; day and night the country must be astir for him. Food must be locked up and secured, all food, so that he will have to break his way to it. The houses everywhere must be barred against him. Heaven send。
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美国文学综合练习1附标答第一篇：美国文学综合练习1附标答Test One(Chapter1-2 with answers)I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1.____, whose unfinished Autobiography has become a classic of world literature.A.IrvingB.FranklinC.CooperD.Bryant2.The Declaration of Independence was drafted by ___.A.PaineB.WashingtonC.FranklinD.Jefferson3.The American literature is aboutyears old.A.200B.300C.400D.5004.Diaries, histories, journals, letters, commonplace book, travel books occupy a major position in the literature of the ____ period.A.classicalB.romanticC.realisticD.colonial5.To what rights does the Declaration of Independence say all men are entitled?A.Life, liberty and pursuit of happinessB.Freedom of Speech and pressC.Freedom of Thought and educationD.Abolishing all evil forms6.____ was the only American to sign the four documents that created the United StatesA.FranklinB.JeffersonC.EmersonD.Washington7.The Pilgrims, a small religious group which left their mother country on the ship “Mayflower”, A.1492B.1628C.1620D.16038.Which does not belong to the official documents that created the United States?A.A.the Declaration of IndependenceB.the ConstitutionC.the CrisisD.the treaty of alliance with France9.As an explorer and leader,was been known as a national hero in America.A.Christopher ColumbusB.Captain John SmithC.William BradfordD.Edward Taylor10.Amid the tumult of the American Revolution, the political philosopher Thomas Paine, whose ____ awakened American enthusiasm for independence?mon SenseB.AutobiographyC.WaldenD.History of the Dividing Line11.“Government is a necessary evil, but its purpose was the benefit of the individual, not his exploitation.” is ____ point of view.A.Paine’sB.Jefferson’sC.Cooper’sD.Emerson’s12.The American Puritanism had been a healthy legacy to the Americans.The rhetoric is plain, with a touch of nobility traceable to the direct influence of ____A.the ConstitutionB.the BibleC.French symbolismD.Shakespeare13.The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of ____.A.FranklinB.EmersonC.JeffersonD.Hawthorne14.Whose writing style is fresh, simple and direct while therhetoric is plain and honest?.A.RomanticistsB.TranscendentalistsC.American PuritansD.British settlers15.“Nothing can settle our affairs so expeditiously as an open and ditermined De claration for Independence” is from ____.A.JeffersonB.PaineC.CooperD.Emerson16.Of the Puritan values, which one of the following is not included?A.hard workB.thriftC.pietyD.predestination17.____ is the only good American author before the Revolutionary War.A.FranklinB.JeffersonC.EmersonD.John Smith18.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America was passed on July 4, ___A.1775B.1777C.1778D.177619.____was a Puritan and he was also one of the pilgriims who were on the Mayflower a nd signed the “Mayflower Conpact”.A.William FradfordB.Captain John SmithC.John CalvinD.Edward Taylor20.Which line is from Jefferson?A.He has refused his Assent to Laws the most wholesome and necessaryfor the public good.B.To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadnessin it.Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him.C.There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at theconviction the envy is ignorance.D.Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancientand honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.II.Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false.Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1.Franklin was already a successful businessman when Washington, Jefferson, and other founders of the nation were born.()2.American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.()3.The book “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford was not the earliest and most reliable record of the hardships and triumphs of the Pilgrims.()4.Franklin helped establish a tradition in American writing of complex, utilitarian style.()5.Captain John Smith’s writings helped set the form of the exploration and travel narratives that inspired men to move westward to America and across the continent.()6.The American Puritans, like their brothers back in England, were not idealists.()7.Jefferson thought that natural rights of man must be secured by law and government is not necessary.()8.Franklin hoped that some form of reconciliation with Great Britain could be worked out.Pain, on the other hand, welcomed the idea of separation.()9.The Way to Wealth shows how a child discovers through purchase of a toy that one may pay more for something than it is worth.()10.In the formal, largely factual presentation of the Declaration there was no place for the metahpors and allusions upon which Paine relied so frequently.()11.Thomas Paine’s attitude toward separation fromEnglanddiffer from the attitude of most Americans including Franklin.()12.William Bradford was an adventurer, while Captain John Smith was a Puritan.()III.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.1.When in the Course of human events, if becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, …2.And if a string do slip, by chance, they soonDo screw it up again: wherebyThey set it in a more melodious tuneAnd a diviner harmony.For in Christ’s coach they sweetly sing.As they to glory ride therein.3.Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himself amongst them, and he not only diverted them from surprising the fort, butprocured his own liberty, and got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, that those savages admired him more than their own Quiyouckosucks.The manner how they used and delivered him is as follows.4.After these things he returned to his place called Sowans, some 40 miles from this place, but Squanto continued with them, and was their interpreter, and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation, he directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and neverleft them till he died.5.From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.Pleas’d with a Pilgrim’s Progress, my first Collection was of John Bunyan’s Works, in separate little Volumes.Key to Chapter 1-2 练习答案I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1.B2.D3.C4.D5.A6.A7.C8.C9.B10.A11.B12.B13.A14.C15.B16.D17.A18.D19.A20.AII.Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false.Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1.T2.T3.F4.F5.T6.F7.F8.T9.F10.T11.T12.FIII.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.1.Jefferson’s the Declaration of Independence2.Edward Taylor’s The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended3.Captain John Smith’s The Gene rall Historie4.William Bradford’s The Pilgrims Meet the Indians5.Franklin’s The Autobiography第二篇：文学概论综合练习文学概论综合练习题题型及分数分布一、填空题，共15空，每空2分，共30分二、列举题，共3题，每题10分，共30分三、简答题，共1题，15分四、论述题，共1题，25分填空题1、中国的第一部诗歌总集是________________，其中的作品大部分是四言一句，称为_____________。
《美国文学》题库及答案
《美国⽂学》题库及答案《美国⽂学》题库及答案I.Multiple Choice1. American literature is only more than ____ years old.A. 500B.400C. 200D.1002. The Puritan values did no include______.A. wastefulnessB. thriftC. pietyD. hard work3. The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.______was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RomanticismD. Realism4. Franklin was the epitome of the______.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Charlist movementD. Romanticism5. _____was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.A. FranklinB. HawthorneC. PaineD. Emerson6. “Moby Dick was written by_____A. Mark TwainB. ThoreauC. MelvilleD. Whitman7. “The Scarlet Letter” is characterized by its______.C. PlatonismD. classicism8. “Huckleberry Finn is the masterpiece of________.A. Henry JamesB. Jack LondonC. Mark TwainD. Stephen Crane9. Choose the novel written by Henry JamesA. The Golden BowlB. The Portrait of a LadyC. Sister CarrieD. Daisy Miller10. Early in the 20th century, _____ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T.S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. both A and B11._____ is the founder of “Imagist” movement.A. Ezra PoundB. HemingwayC. Robert FrostD. Steinbeck12. Mark Twain’s works are characterized by_____A. NaturalismB. TranscendentalismC. Local ColorismD. Imagism13. ________ is said to be the father of American poetryA. T.S. EliotB. E.D. RobinsonC. Philip FreneauD. Dreiser14. Hawthorne is regarded as a _______.C. realistD. romanticist15. ______ represents the most leading spirit of American Transcendentalism.A. EmersonB. FranklinC. Mark TwainD. Whitman16.“The Art of Fiction” was written by_____A. LongfellowB. Henry JamesC. FitzgeraldD. Faulkner17. Imagination plays the most important part in________.A. realismB. romanticismC. naturalismD. classicism18. ______ is considered to be the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.A. Mending WallB. Dry SeptemberC. A Farewell to ArmsD. The Grapes of Wrath19. Uncle Tom in the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a(n)______A. Negro slaveB. salesmanC. industrialistD. officer20. Mark Twain’s works are characterized by______A. NaturalismB. TranscendentalismC. Local ColorismD. Imagism21. “The Great Gatsby” is the masterpiece of_____C. DickinsonD. Hemingway22. The United States of America was founded in______.A. 1776B. 1876C. 1789D.168923. The ancestors of American Indians were______A. AsiansB. AfricansC. EuropeansD. Australians24. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was written by______.A. H.B. Stowe B. John SteinbeckC. HawthorneD. Mark Twain25. ______ does not belong to the lost generation.A. DreiserB. T.S. EliotC. FaulknerD. Hemingway26. ______ was well known for his story “Rip Van Winkle.”A. BryantB. Washington IrvingC. Allan PoeD. Philip Freneau27. “Farewell to Arms” is the master pieced produced by______A. FaulknerB. DreiserC. HemingwayD. Longfellow28. It was ______ who wrote the formal declaration of independence.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Benjamin FranklinC. WashingtonD. Washington Irving29. _____has been exerting a great and enduring influence upon world literature, especially that of France and European symbolism.A. FranklinB. BradstreetC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Philip Freneau30. The masterpiece of Hawthorne is _________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. Richard CoryD. A Psalm of Life31. Engene O’Neill is a _______.A. novelistB. poetC. puritanD. dramatist32.Hemingway’s style of writing is characterized by______.A. high-sounding wordsB. simple dictionC. complicated sentencesD. mix metaphor33. T.S. Eliot is not only a poet but also a ______.A. criticB. statesmanC. churchmanD. novelists34. “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” was written by_____.A. T.S. EliotB. O’NeillC. Stephen CraneD. Saul Bellow35. “The Grape of Wrath” is one of the remarkable novels of_____.A. the Civil WarB. DepressionC. SuppressionD. Aggression36. Theodore Dreiser showed the_____ tendency in his novels.A. PuritanismB. classicismC. romanticismD. naturalism37. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading figure of________.A. TranscendentalismB. RomanticismC. RationalismD. Naturalism38. “The Sound and the Fury” was the masterpiece of ______A. Robert Lee FrostB. T.S. EliotC. FaulknerD. Steinbeck39. Emily Dickinson is an American________.A. dramatistB. novelistC. female poetD. male poet40. “Th Emily Dickinson is an American ark Twain’s______A. materialismB. classicismC. socialismD. colorism41. “The Portrait of a Lady” is one of best novels of_________.A. Henry JamesB. John SteinbeckC. William FaulknerD. Walt Whitman42. What Whitman is famous for his_________.A. “Leaves of Grass”B. “Mending Wall”C. “Richard Cory”D. “The Burial of the Dead”43. “Catch-22” is the masterpiece of______A. Saul BellowB. Joseph HellerC. DreiserD. Fitzgerald44. The English settlement in America began in_________A.1507B.1607C.1707D.180745. The first World War broke out in______.A.1614B.1714C.1814D.191446. The jazz age refers to the decade ofA.1950’sB.1980’sC.1920’sD.1820’s47. Franklin was a _____.A. PuritanB. romanticistC. classicistD. imagist48. “Rip Van Winkle” was written by_______.A. FreneauB. Allan PoeC. Washington IrvingD. Thomas Jefferson49.“The Scarlet Letter” is the masterpiece of______.C. BradstreetD. Allan Poe50.It was______who wrote “The Age of Reason”A. WashingtonB. JeffersonC. Benjamin FranklinD. Thomas Paine51.“Song of Myself” is a ______written by Whitman.A. novelB. poemC. dramaD. essay52.Tom in Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a _____.A. Negro slaveB. American IndianC. School masterD. industrialist53. Mark Twain belongs to the literary school of_____.A. transcendentalismB. realismC. romanticismD. naturalism54._______is a famous American female poet.A. Allan PoeB. FreneauC. Emily DickinsonD. Robinson55. “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” is the masterpiece of_____.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Stephen CraneD. Robert Lee Frost56. It was____ who wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken.”C. Robert Lee FrostD. T.S.EliotⅡ Define the literary terms briefly in English1. American Transcendentalism2. Romanticism3. The Puritans4. Realism5. Enlightenment6. Transcendentalism7. EnlightenmentIII Explain the following quotations in your own words.1. Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed.2. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference.3. Let us, then, be up and doing, With heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.4. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked.5. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!_____6. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.7. But still he fluttered pulses when he said,“Good morning”, and he glittered when he walked.8. something there is that doesn’t love a wall,He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”9. Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat10. But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today11. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Ⅳ Answer the following questions in English1. Why is American literature important for you?2. What is the theme of “The Waste Land”?3. Whose novel (or which novel) do you enjoy most?Why?4. What is the style of Hemingway’s novel?5. What is the significance of American literature?6. Do you like American literature? Why?7. What is the real theme in “Sister Carrie”?8. What is the central subject and primary significance of Hawthorne’s major works?9. Which American writer do you like best? Why?10. What is the theme of “Catch-22”?11. What are the features of Emily Dickinson’s poems?12. Why should we learn American literature?13. Which poem do you enjoy most? Why?《美国⽂学》作业参考答案I.Multiple Choice1.C2.A3.B4.A5.D6.C7.A8.C9.B 10.D11.A 12.C 13.C 14.D 15.A 16.B 17.B 18.D 19.A 20.C21.B 22.C 23.A 24.D 25.A 26.B 27.C 28.A 29.C 30.A31.D 32.B 33.A 34.B 35.B 36.D 37.A 38.C 39.C 40.D41.A 42.A 43.B 44.B 45.D 46.C 47.A 48.B 49. A 50.D51.B 52.A 53.B 54.C 55. A 56. CII.Define the literary terms briefly in English1.American transcendentalism was a philosophical dissent from Unitarianism. Transcendentalists rejected the materialistic psychology in favor of the idealism of Kant who asserted that intuition could surpass reason as a guide to the truth. To transcendentalists, spirit is inherent and pervading and is the only reality in the universe in which nature stood as a symbol of Spirit. Transcendentalismemphasized the divinity of man, the significance and right of the individual, and the possibility of the self-perfection of the individual.2. Romanticism is characterized by the pursuit of freedom, emphasis of individualism, a reliance upon the good of nature and “natural” man, and an abiding faith in the boundless resources of the human spirit and imagination.3.The Puritans were members of the church of England who at first wished to reform or “Purify its doctrines. They kept in common with all advocates o f strict Christian orthodox, insisting on man’s original sin and depravity.4. Realism is a literary school. The American realist William Dean Howells refered to the method of realistic literary creation as “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material. The realists tended to be highly selective in their choice of material, focusing upon what seemed real to their largely middle-class readers.5. Enlightenment in America was a progressive “intellectual movement which contributed to free the Americans from the limitation of Puritanism which had been prevailing in American society, and stimulate them to strive for the establishment of their independent and democratic nation. The enlighteners were confident in the proqress by education and appealed to Reason.6．American transcendentalism was a political dissent from Unitarianism. Transcendentalists rejected the materialistic psychology in favour of the idealism of kant who asserted that intuition could surpass reason as a guide to the truth. To transcendentalists, spirit is inherent and pervading and is the only reality in the universe in which nature stood as a symbol of Spirit. Transcendentalists emphasized the divinity of man, the significance and right of the individual, and the possibility of the self-perfection of the individual.7. Enlightenment in America was a progressive intellectual movement which contributed to free the Americans fromthe limitations of Purtanism which had been prevailing in American society, and stimulate them to strive for their independent and democratic nation. The enlighteners were confident in the proqress of education and appealed to reason.III Explain the following quotations in your own words.1. Those who have never succeeded before will enjoy the sweetness o success most.2. In my life and literary creation, I did not follow others’ footsteps (or footprints). SometimesI chose a different way. That was the reason why I was unique and different from them both in life and poetic writing.3. Let us rise up and take actionTo meet any challenge in our life.We should learn to work and to be patientAnd persevere in pursuing our goalTill we reap the fruit of achievement one after another.4. He always dressed himself properly and elegantly And he showed his kindness and considerateness when talked with others.5. Don’t tell me in sad voice that life is nothing but an meaningless and empty dream.6. Only when you feel thirstiest and bitterest, can you really understand and enjoy the holy sweet drink.7. He stirred the pulses of the persons he was greeting with “Good morning”. While he was walking, his manners appeared to be so brilliant and attractive that he drow much public attention.8. Wall, as a barrier for communication or mutual understanding, is not good at all. Sometimes, it is necessary to remove the wall.Wall, as a boundary or limitation or border, is needed sometimes, so that good relations can be kept among different strata of people, or different countries.Wall is a paradox, which is both good and bad in haman life9.The honeysuckle qrows so agreeably and beautifully.However the beautiful flower hid its beauty in the quiet and lonely place.10.We had better take action every day, not remain idle and inactive so that we can make progress each day.11.I have a lot of obligations and duties to fulfill, so there is still a long way for me to go beforeI can relax or leave this world.Ⅳ Answer the following questions in English1. Key points:① the significance of American literature in the world literature ② the manifestation of American life and culture③the requirement of improving English2. The theme of the poem is modern spiritual barrenness, the despair and depression that followed the first world war, the sterility and turbulence of the modern world, and the decline and breakdown of Western culture.3. The answer depends on individual student’s inclination.4. His style of writing is characterized by short and terse sentences, simple diction filled with emotion, vivid colloquialisms, and particularly the simplicity of his laconic statements.5. Key points: ① its place in the world literature② the manifestation of American life and culture③ the requirement of professional knowledge and skills as English majon.6. The answer is flexible. It de pends on an individual Student’s inclination.7. The real theme in Sister Carrie is the purposelessness of life. While looking at individuals with warm, human sympathy, he also sees the disorder and cruelty of life in general.8. The central subject of Haw thorne’s major works was the human soul. His exploration of the soul resulted from his skeptical attitude toward the social reality that was characterized by a rapid change in almost all aspects of social life, and from his ambition to probe into the nature of man. The primary significance of his major works dwells in the interect and the consistend vitality of his criticism of life.9. The answer is flexible, depending on students’ inclination, logic and language skills.10. Its real theme is to expose the dehumanization of all contemporary institutions, the absurd and corrupt bureancracy and the alienation of individuals existing in a systemized chaotic condition, such as war.punctuation and capitalization. Her mode of expression is characterized by clear-cut and delicately original imagery, precise diction, and fragmentary and enigmatic metrical pattern.12. Key points: ①the significance of American literature in the world literature ② the manifestation of American life and culture ③ the requirement of improving English.13. The answer is flexible and depends on student’s inclination.。
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美国文学课程考试题库一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪部作品是纳撒尼尔·霍桑的代表作？A. 《红字》B. 《白鲸》C. 《了不起的盖茨比》D. 《老人与海》2. 马克·吐温的《汤姆·索亚历险记》发表于哪一年？A. 1869年B. 1876年C. 1884年D. 1893年3. 爱德加·爱伦·坡被誉为什么？A. 现代侦探小说之父B. 现代科幻小说之父C. 现代恐怖小说之父D. 现代奇幻小说之父4. 以下哪位作家是“垮掉的一代”的代表人物？A. 欧内斯特·海明威B. 杰克·凯鲁亚克C. 威廉·福克纳D. 约翰·斯坦贝克5. 以下哪部作品是海明威的代表作？A. 《太阳照常升起》B. 《永别了，武器》C. 《老人与海》D. 所有选项都是6. 弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》反映了哪个时代的社会风貌？A. 维多利亚时代B. 爵士时代C. 工业革命时期D. 冷战时期7. 以下哪部作品是威廉·福克纳的代表作？A. 《喧哗与骚动》B. 《我弥留之际》C. 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》D. 所有选项都是8. 以下哪位作家是“黑人文艺复兴”运动的代表人物？A. 理查德·赖特B. 詹姆斯·鲍德温C. 托尼·莫里森D. 所有选项都是9. 托尼·莫里森的《宠儿》是哪一年获得普利策奖的？A. 1987年B. 1988年C. 1989年D. 1990年10. 以下哪部作品是“现代主义”文学的代表作？A. 《荒原》B. 《尤利西斯》C. 《追忆似水年华》D. 所有选项都是二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）11. 《红字》中的女主角名叫________。
12. 《白鲸》中的船长名叫________。
13. 《了不起的盖茨比》中，盖茨比的豪宅位于________。
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第一部分殖民地时期的美国文学What are the characteristics of Colonial America?All of the works written during this period are utilitarian , polemical , or didactic .The purpose of literature for these Puritans was first of all usefulness . It should teach some kond of lesson . In content , the literature of the colonial settlement served either God or colonial expansion or both . The literary style of the earliest American writers , in fact seems to have been determined by a practical consideration of the sort of impression each writer wanted to make upon a selected group of readers . Puritans’metaphorical mode of perception helped to develop literary symbolism as they saw the physical world a symbol of God . Hence symbolism as a technique was a common practice in writing . The Piritans placed unusual stress upon plainness in writing because they were unusually interested in influencing the simp;e-minded people . Bearing the direct influence fo the Christian Biblical poetics , the Puritan writings are fresh , simp;e ,direct , and with a touch of nobility . As it faithfully imitated and transplanted European forms to the new experience , early American literature was as much a product of continuities as an indigenous creation.第二部分理性文学和革命文学1 As we have seen , theology dominated the Puritan phase of American writing . Politics was the next great subject to command the attention of the best minds.2 From 1732 to 1758 , Franklin wrote and published his famous Poor Richard’s Alman ac , an annual collection of proverbs .3 EnlightementThe eighteenth –century England is also , and better , known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age fo Reason . The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe at the time , with France in the vanguard . The Enlightenment celebrated reason (rationality) , equality , science and human beings’ ability to perfect themselves and their society . The movement was based on the basic theories provided by the philosophers of the age , which ranged from John Locke’s materialism , Lord Shaftsbury’s deism , and George Berkeley’s immaterialism to David Hume’s skepticism . Whatever philosophical beliefs they might have , they held the eommom faith in human rationality and the possibility of human perfection through education . They believed that when reason served as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and social relations , superstition , injustice , privilege and oppression were to yield place to “eternal truth” ,”eternal justice” , and “natural equality” or inalienable rights of men . Everything was put under scrutiny , to be measured by reason . No authorities , political or religious or otherwise , were acepted unchallenged while almost allthe old societies and governments and all the traditional concepts , including Christianity , were examined and criticized . The belief provided theory for the French Revolution in 1789 and the American War of Independence in 1776 .Alexander Pope (1688~1744) , Joseph Addison (1672~1719) , Richard Steele (1672~1792) , Jonathan Swift (1667~1745) , Daniel Defoe (1660~1731) , Henry Fielding (1707~1754) , Richard B. Sheridan (1751~1816) , Oliver Goldsmith (1730~1774) , Edward Gibbon (1737~1794) , and Samuel Johnson (1709~1784) were among the famous enlighteners in England . As England had already gone through its bourgeois revolution , what the English enlighteners were lege to do was to strive the bring the revolution to and end by clearing away the feudal remnants and rep;ace them with bourgeois ideology .第三部分美国的浪漫主义文学1 In 1828 the election of the frontier hero Andrew Jackson as the seventh President of the United States had brought an effective end to the “Virginia Dynasty” of American Presidents .2 Wsahington Irvi ng’s Skwtch Book bacame the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic .3 Washington Irving was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism , and his familiar style was destined to outlive the formal prose of such eontemporaries as Acott and Cooper ,and to provide a model for the prevailing prose narrative fo the future .4 What are the unique features of American Romanticism? Although foreign influnences wre strong,American romanticism exhibited from the very outset distinct features of its own.It was different from its English and European counterpart because it originated from an amalgam of factors which were altogether American rather than anything else.American romanticism was in essence the e xpression of”a real new experience”and contained”an alien quality”for the simple reason that “the spirit of the place”was radically new and alen.Foe instance ,the American national experience of “pioneering “ into the west proved to be a rich fund of material for Ameican writers to draw upon.The wilderness with its virgin forests ,the sound of the axe cutting its way westward, the exotic landscape with its different sights, smells,and sounds(the robin rather than the nightingale is Emily Dicckinson’s “criterion of tone,”for example), and the quaint,picturesque civilization of a primitive race—all these constituted an incomparably superior source of inspiration for native authors.A rude Natty Bumppo in buckskin, dweling in a fromtier blockhouse, treading a solitary bridle path through virgin forests was ,perhaps , matter enough for any romantic genius.And indeed, American authors were quite responsive to thestimulus which American life offered.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s tentive treatment of the frontier and the Indians in his works such as Hudson valley, William Cullen Bryant’s sketches of the wild west prairie where no human being had ever set foot and James Fenimore Cooper’s five Leatherstocking tales with”their majestic descriptions of American’s limitles s forests and broad blue inland lake”—these are but aafew instances whereby the new American sensibility began to make itself felt.And ,of course , we should not forget to mention Emerson,Thoreau,Hawthorne,Melville and Whitman, all people who were instrumental ,in one way or another ,in creating an indigenous American literature.Then there is American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider.American moral values were essentially Puritan.Public opinion was overwhelmingly Puritan;social life and cultural taste were predominantly conditioned by the Puritan and cultural taste were predominantly conditioned by the Puritan atmosphere of the nation.Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did Puritanism;no one has been so successful in imposing his way of thinking on the continent as the American Puritan.puritanical influence over Ameican romanticism w3as conspicuously noticeable.One of its palpable manifestations is the fact that American romantic authors tended more to moralize than their English and European brothers.It is true that Edgar Allan poe fought vehemently against “the heresy of the didactic”,and writers like John Greenleaf Whittier tried to advocate both beauty and goodness.But the fact remains, nonetheless ,that many American romantic writings intended to edify more than theyentertained.There seemed to be areas of life which it was better for them to leave alone, taboos of a kind that most of the literary world agreed,however tacit it may have been, on not breaking.Sex and love werem for instance, subjects American authors were particularly careful in approaching.Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter talks eloquently about the sin itself ,and Whitman was for a long time misunderstood by his own countrymen because Leaves of Grass contains lines and passages not at all palatable to their “genteel” taste.练习二1.Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leaderof_________ movement, yet he never applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.2.Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many ofEmerson’s theories, was_________.Define the literary terms listed belowAmerican TranscendentalismKeys: 1. Transcendentalist, 2, H.D ThoreauTerm: American Transcendentalism or “New English Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance” is more of a tendency, an attitude, than the philosophy of Transcendentalists.To “transcend” something is to rise above it, to pass beyond its limits. Transcendentalists took their ideas from the romantic literature of Europe, from new-Platoism, from German idealistic philosophy, and from the revelations of Oriental-mysticism. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. The major features of New England Transcendentalism can be summarized as the follows.Firstly, the Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit, or the Oversoul, as the most important thing in the Universe. Secondly, they stressed the importance of the individual. To them, the individual was the most important element of society. Thirdly, they offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spi rit or God. Nature was , to them, alive, filled with God’s overwhelming presence. Transcendentalism is based on the belief that the most fundamental truths about life and death can be reached only by going beyond the world of the senses.As a philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from 1830s to the Civil War. Its doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Emerson and Thoreau. Emerson’s Nature has been called the “Manifesto of American Transcendentalism” an d his The American Scholar has been rightly regarded as America’s “Declaration of Intellectual Independence.” Thoreau built and went to live in a small cottage on Walden Pond for a little over two years, and then came back to write about his experience there in his famous book Walden. To later generations, scarred by the horrors of the Civil War, the transcendentalist persuation that humanity was godlike and that evil was non-existent appeared to be an optimistic folly. As a philosophy, Transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. It exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. Yet Transcendentalism wasa powerful expression of the intellectual mood of the age, and theideas it represented have remained a strong influence on great American writers from the days of Hawthorne and Whitman to the present.练习31．_________deals with the effects of a curse, and though the tale itself is fiction, the germ of the story sprang from the author’s family history.2. Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of strongly_________stories which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. The finest example is the recreation of Puritan Boston, _________.3. _________ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage inpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.Define the literary terms listed belowSymbolismKeys:1.The House of the Seven Gables 2, symbolic The scarlet letter3. Moby-Dick.Symbolism: Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveys two kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it stands for something other than itself. In other words, a symbol is both literal and figurative. People, places, things and even events can be used symbolically. A symbol is a way of telling a story and a way of conveying meaning. The best symbols are those that are believable in the lives of the characters and also convincing as they convey a meaning beyond the literal level of the story. Hawthorn and Melville were the two masters of symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter “A” on Hester’s breast can give you symbolic meanin gs. If the symbol is obscure or ambiguous, then the very obscurity and the ambiguity may also be part of the meaning of the story.Answer the following questions.1.Give a brief analysis of the main characters in The scarlet Letter2.Give a brief analysis of the character Ahab in Moby-Dick.3.What is the theme in Moby-Dick?4.What is Hawthorn’s style?Keys:2, The way in which Hawthorn wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritan moralism. The load of didacticism is nowhere heavier and the desire to elevate nowhere stronger than it is, perhaps, in this 19th American classic. Reading it, one wonders whether it is a story of love. The answer is yes, but then no, because the love part of the story is long over before the book begins. One wonders whether it is a story if sin. The answer is yes, but then no, for the sinning part is long over before the book opens Modern and contemporary authors would have written pageswhere Hawthorn uttered not a word, What he was predominantly concerned was the moral, emotional, and psychological effect of the sin on the people in general and those complicated in it in particular. In the strong character of Hester Psynne we see the tension between society and solitude which, as Marius Bewley put it, lies near the center of all Hawthorn’s art, The Scarlet Letter is not a praise of a Hester Prynne sinning, but a hymn on the moral growth of the woman when sinned against. Hawthorn’s female characters tend to fall into two broad categories. (答案未完)4．Ahab may have been Melville’s portrait of an Emersonian self-reliant individual. Melville lost no opportunity in his criticism of New England Transcendentalism. Constantly under his attack is its emphasis on individualism and Oversoul. To say that the whole of Moby-Dick is a negative reflection upon Transcendentalism is not in fact an exaggeration. Take Emerson’s self-reliance for instance. Ahab is too much of a self-reliant individual to be a good human being. He stands alone on his own one leg among the millions of the peopled earth, For him the only law is his own will. To him the world exists for his sake. His selfhood must be asserted at the expense of all else: lives may be sacrificed, and nature may have to be vanquished in order that he may do what he will. He never stops to think---and he never bothers about it---that, in asserting his private personality, he denies ruthlessly the humanity and individuality of his fellowmen. Ahab is no Odysseus, and this crew seems to be a ship of fools too much under the captain’s evil spell to exercise their discretion. Between them, they encompass their own undoing. Richard Chase is right when he says that the idea Melville conveys in Moby-Dick is “Death-spiritual, emotional, physical,” which is the p rice of self-reliance when it is pushed to the point of solipsism. Ahab is, to be more exact, a victim of solipsism, his tragedy stemming in the main from extreme individualism, selfish will, a spirit too much withdrawn to itself to warrant salvation, Moby-Dick thus reveals the basic pattern of 19th century American life: loneliness and suicidal individualism in a self-styled democracy,5. One of the major themes in Melville is alienation, which he sensed existing in the life of his time on different levels, between man and man, man and society, and man and nature. Captain Ahab seems to be the best illustration of it all. He cuts himself off from his wife and kid, and stays away most of the time from his crew, and he hates Moby---Dick which is am embodiment of nature. He is angry because his pride is wounded. After the loss of his leg in his encounter with the white whale, he seems to hold God responsible for the presence of evil in the universe. Thus his anger assumes the proportions of a cosmicnature. He is bent on avenging himself. He hears of no objection. In his egocentric obsession within “the masoned, walled town of a captain’s exclusiveness,” he loses his sanity and humanity and becomes a devilish creature rushing headlong toward his doom. And he know s it most clearly of all. When D.H Lawrence remarks,”“he {Melville}records also, almost beyond pain or pleasure, the extreme transitions of the isolated, far-driven soul, the soul which is now alone, without any real human contact” he had Ahad topmost in his mind. In a sense Ahab embodies all of the evil he once consigned to Moby-Dick9. A. Hawthorne wrote romance because he thought it the predestined form of American narrative. He presented material on the alienation between fact and fancy. The purpose of a novel, as it developed in 18th century Europe, was to record the actual events of life, to stick to what actually happened, but Hawthorn explained that the purpose of romance was to present the truth of the human heart by the writer’s own choice or cre ation. He wanted to reveal reality and satirize it but not to offend the Puritan conventions, For Hawthorne, romance, unlike the novel, was not tied to conventional reality. Romance had the freedom to depart from novelistic realism. Hawthorne felt that the literary artist was justified in changing events around if that could better get to the truth of the individual psychology. Psychological truth was more important than actual truth. Hawthorne used atmosphere to help reach the truth of the heart. Often he would use shadow to create effect. He used this because the world of light and shadow was the world of imagination. Therefore, for Hawthorne romance was the meeting place of the actual and the imaginary. In this stories, there is a strong fairytale element, He would use his imagination to change the actual events, but the purpose was to reach psychological truth. Hawthorne mingled the supernatural with the actual and developed analytic, psychological romanticism.B, Hawthorne used symbols and setting to reveal the psychology of the characters. It is characteristic of Hawthorne. He used masks, veils, shadows, emblems to give dramatic forms to the universal dilemmas of humanity. A black veil stands for the wickedness of man; a marble heart symbolizes an indivi dual’s unpardonable sin; and a garden of poisonous flowers represents hell.C. He wrote stories with narrative interest, ease in transition, coherence, and complexity, One of the means he adopted is making stories parable in form and symbolic in style.D. His style is soft, flowing, and almost feminine. His touch is light, but his observation is somber.E. He used ambiguity to keep the reader in a world of uncertainty. Important questions are never fully resolved. The simple word “or”enjoys high frequency in his stories. Hawthorne gave the reader many ways to interpret the story and then he stopped without telling the reader which one he wanted the reader to choose. To create ambiguity, the author often employed the technique of multiple views.。
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全部美国美国文学部分练习（全）美国文学部分大作业Exercises for Chapter One of American Literature(第一章)1. 选择题1. Which of the following statements is NOT a famous concept of Transcendentalism?[A]Nature is ennobling[B] The individual is divine and self-reliant.[C] Man is capable of knowing truth by intuition[D] Man is corrupted in nature.2. Which of the following works began to make Irving internationally known?[A] The Sketch Book[B] A History of New York to the End of the Dutch Dynasty[C] Bracebridge Hall[D] Tales of Traveler3. Which of the following is NOT true concerning Irving?[A] He is the father of the American short stories.[B] He is the American Goldsmith.[C] He is the first American writer[D] He is the first writer to declare the independence of American literature.4. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne is mainly concerned with ___________.:[A] the corruption of the society[B] the consequence of sin and guilt[C] the wrong doing of one generation that lives in,, successive ones[D] "overreaching intellect"5. Rip Van Winkle has taken from ________.[A] Spanish stories [B] A German Legend[C] English tales [D] Italian folktales6. "But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands, from some passing traveler. " What is the rhetorical device used in this sentence?[A] Hyperbole. [B] Metaphor. [C] Irony. [D] Paradox.7. Which of the following statements about Emerson is NOT true?[A] He was generally known as an essayist.[B] He was the chief spokesman of Transcendentalism.[C] He practiced the theory by living a simple life.[D] For him, nature is symbolic.8. For Emerson, nature could symbolize the following except ________.[A] God [B] Spirit [C] Oversoul [D] the whole universe9. What is Hawthorne's attitude toward Puritanism?[Al Negative. [B] Affirmative. [C] Indifferent. [D] Mixed.10. One typical feature of Irving's writing is _________.[A] always preaching [B] his best classic style[C] short and difficult to [D] symbolic11. " I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. "Who could have written these lines?[A] Edgar Allen Poe. [B] Walt Whitman.[C] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [D] Henry David Thoreau.12. Which of the following is NOT true withTranscendentalism?[A] It inherited much from American Puritanism and European realism.[B] It focused on the intuitive knowledge.[C] Nature is its unofficial manifesto.[D] It is related in some way with the German idealism.13. What kind of narrative point of view is adopted in Moby Dick?[A] The first person.[B] The second person.[C] The third person limited.[D] The third person omniscient.14. Which of the following has influenced Melville's: EXCEPT ________.[A] Shakespearean tragic vision [B] Emersonian Transcendentalism [C] Hawthorne's black vision of life [D] Irving's writing15. Which of the following writers is NOT optimistic about human nature?[A] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [B] Nathaniel Hawthorne[C] Walt Whitman. [D] Henry David Thoreau16. Which of the following cannot poetry?[A] Elegant and gentle. [B] Simple and open.[C] Unconventional. [D] Colloquial.17. When Emerson states in the introduction to his Nature:"Our age is retrospective. " Which of the following is closest to its understanding?[A] We are conservative.[B] We see this world through our ancestors' eyes.[C] We usually look back upon the good old days.[D] We write a lot of books about the past.18. Which of the following novels does not represent the theme return to nature?[A] Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.[B] Thoreau's Walden .[C] Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales.[D] Melville's Moby Dick .19. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of the American Romantic writings?[A] Expression of the artist's imaginations, emotions, impressions, or beliefs.[B] Emphasis on rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.[C] Love for the remote, supernatural, mysterious, exotic and illogical quality of things.[D] T o see nature as a source of mental cleanness and spiritual understanding.20. The statement that a man's journey to the dark forest and his encounter with the devil are symbolic of man's life journey from innocence to knowledge, from good to evil may well sum up one of the major themes of ________.[A] Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"[C] Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"[D] O. Henry's "The Cop and the Anthem"21. Here is a short passage from a story: "He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe, …and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. " The story must be ________.[A] Cooper's "Leather-stocking Tales"[B] Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"[C] Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"[D] Hemingway's "Indian Camp"22. "The universe is composed of Nature and the soul . . present everywhere. " This is the voice of the book _______ which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase of New England Transcendentalism.[A] Walden by Thoreau [B] The Scarlet Lette r by Hawthorne[C] Moby Dick by Melville [D] Nature by Emerson23. In Whitman's giant work, Leaves of Grass, and, above all, ________.are all that concerned him.[A] individualism [B] divine love[C] sympathy [D] the power of blackness24. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Hawthorn "Young Goodman Brown"?[A] Allegory. [B] Ambiguity.[C] Interior monologue. [D] Symbolism.25. In Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" all the drastic changes lapsed20 years displeased Rip EXCEPT that ________.[A] he has got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony[B] the country has finally got its independence from the yoke of the British colonial rule[C] there comes now the scramble for powers between parties.[D] past glories and a tranquil life of the small village are gone.B. 阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)1. "In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and describing its own design. Let us interrogate apparition, thatshines so peacefully around us. Let to what end is nature?"Questions :A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is "the great apparition"?C. What is the writing style?2.... Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of witch-meeting?Be it so, if you will. But, alas! It was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become; from the night of that fearful dream. "Questions:A. Identity the work and the author.B. What is the general idea of this passage?C. Did the author tell for sure whether it was only a dream or not?3. "I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. "Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the meaning of the phrase "a spear of summer grass" ?C. What is the implied meaning of the two lines?4. "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf;a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled 5, 000 years ago.Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the basic tone of this passage?C. What is the meaning of the underlined part?5. "God knows, ... I'm not myself-I'm somebody else-. . . I'm changed, and I can't tell what's my name, or who I am.Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. The speaker says he is changed. Do you think changed, or the social environment changed?C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?6. "Standing on the bare ground, -my head bathed by the blitl air and uplifted into infinite space, -all mean egotism vanishI become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. Tl currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am pa or particle of God. "Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What does the word "blithe" mean here?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?C. 回答题(Questions and answers)1. Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Oversoul. What is your understanding of Emersonian " Oversoul " and its relationship with "a transparent eyeball"?2. One of the most distinctive features of Hawthorne's writing is his art of ambiguity. Exemplify it with his story, "Young Goodman Brown".3. Like Hawthorne, Melville is fond of symbolism in his writings. The white whale, Moby-Dick, is the most important symbol in the novel. What symbolic meaning does Moby Dick stand for?4. Whitman is one of the most important figures in American poetic history. He has carried on a sort of experiment on the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression. What are the characteristics of Whitman's free verse?5. Literary critics have seen Rip Van Winkle as a symbol of several aspects of America. What are the aspects that the story and its hero symbolize?D. 论述题(Topic discussion)1 . Melville's Moby Dick is more than a great whale story that reflects the American whale industry in 19th century; it is capable of multiple interpretations. Discuss the themes you can find in the fiction.2. In his whole life, Hawthorne is preoccupied with sin and evil in man; and in almost every novel he wrote, Hawthorne discussed sin and evil. Then what makes Hawthorne obsessed with all this sin and evil?Exercises for Chapter One of American Literature(第二章)A．多项选择(Multiple choice questions)1: Who is generally considered to be the one “with but a deformed conscience" in Mark Twain's works ？[A] Tom Sawyer.[B] Huckleberry Finn.[C] Hank Morgan. [D] Widow Douglas2. Which of the following is Twain's language?[A] Vernacular. [B] Colloquial.[C] Elegant. [D] Humorous.3. Which of the following writers is famous for his "international theme"?[A] Henry James. [B] William James.[C] Mark Twain. [D] Theodore Dreise4. Winterbourne is used as a narrator of the events in HenryJames __________.[A ] Daisy Miller[B] The American[C] The Turn of the Screw[D] The Wing of the Dove5.Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is true?[A] Since she scarcely goes out of her house, she pays little attention to the outsideworld.[B] She prefers to explore the inner life of herself rather that the social one.[C] She is strongly influenced by Calvinism and has a firm: belief in after-life.[D] She is not interested in love because she herself never gets married.6. Which of the following does NOT belong to Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire? "[A] The Financier'.[B] The American[C] The Titan. [D] The Stoic.7. Which' of the following is a correct match between the writer? and his work? , .[A] Mark Twain: The Financier[B] Theodore Dreiser: Daisy Miller[C] Henry James; The Turn of the Screw[D] Emily Dickinson: The Wing of the Dove8. " Her Message is committed/To hands I can not see---" The above two lines are taken from________.[A] Whitman's: "Song of Myself"[B] Dickinson's "This is my letter to the World"[C] Pound's: "A Pact"[D] Frost's: "The Road Not Taken"9. Theodore Dreiser gives his novel the title of "An American Tragedy" mostlybecause__________.[A] he tries to give an ironical meaning to the story.[B] he attempts-,to reproduce an authentic trial fictionally[C] it is the typical thing that can happen to an American in the pursuit of riches[D] he is surprised that such tragedy should happen in America.10.Isabel, the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady, returns to her unhappy home in Rome at the end of the novel because__________.[A] she is still naive and immature[B] she wants to be responsible to her husband[C] she- wants to be responsible to her own choice[D] she has nowhere else to go11.. Which of the following statements is NOT true?[A] Mark Twain became doubtful about the' idea of develop?ment and skeptical of the goodness of human nature in his later years.[B] Henry James; who never: criticizes his fellowmen, is the spokesman for the wealthy and leisured class in America.[C] From Emily Dickinson's poetry, one can hardly find any traces of political movement in the society of her time.[D] To Theodore Dreiser, communism is a likely means improving the social organizationof man. , :12. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain, referred to as __________.[A] the Golden Age [B] the Puritan Age[C] the Gilded Age [D] the Modern Age13. Local colorism is a unique variation, of American literary realism, the representatives of which does NOT include __________.[A] Sarah Orne Jewett [B] Bret Harte[C] Hamlin Garland [D] Stephen Crane ,14. "I was letting on to give up sin, but away. inside of me; I was holding on to the biggest oneof all. " The sentence, which taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written: in a(n) __________ tone.[A] ironic, [B] regretful[C] sincere [D] delightful15. Henry James' idea of realism differs from that of the realist writers because his emphasisis on man's__________.[A] language [B] inner world[C] surroundings [D] real actions16. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by __________.[A] Mark Twain [B] Charles Darwin[C] Henry James [DI Ralph Wa1do Emerson17. However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiringbut a dangerous quality and her __________ of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.[A] admiration [B] sympathy,[C] disgusting [D] defiance18. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson's verse is true?[A] It exposes the evils of the society.[B] It paves the way for the following generation of free verse poets; .[C] It shares the same poetic conventions with Walt Whitman.[D] It exhibits a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of her experience oflove, death, and immortality.19. Compared with the writings of Mark Twain's, Henry James's fiction is noted for their__________.[A] frontier vernacular [B] rich colloquialism[C] refined elegant language [D] vulgarly descriptive words20. By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes; "It was forever to be the pursuit of thatradiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world. " Dreiser implies that__________.[A] there is a bright future lying ahead[B] one can never fulfill one's desire[C] one should 'always :have forward looking[D] happiness is found in the end21. Emily Dickinson wrote many short' poems .an various' aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? .[A] Religion and immortality [B] Life and death.[C] War and peace. [D] Nature and society22. In Daisy Miller, James chose the Castle of Chillon as the setting of the story clearlybecause of its status-as a shrine to ___________, consecrated by Byron in his association with Daisy whose American habits of free social intercourse runs up the elaborately regulated code of manners in Europe.[A] integrity [B] freedom[C] constancy . [D] autocracy23. The sentence "only the fittest can survive in a completive amoral society" may beregarded as an appropriate summary of _________.[A] Jack London's Martin Eden [B] `Hemingway's For Whom. the bell Tolls[C] Drsiser's Sister Carrie[D] M elv ille’s Moby Dick24. Here is a passage from, a novel: "The man gave him a last push and closed the door. As hedid so, Hurstwood slipped and fell in the snow: It hurt him, and some vague sense of shame returned. He began to cry and swear -foolishly. " The novel must be_________.[A] Dreiser's Sister Carrie[B] Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath[C] London's Martin Eden[D] Twain’s The Adventures of T om Sawyer25. Here are a few lines from a poem: " With Blue-uncertain stumbling Buzz─/Betweenthe light ─and me─/And the Windows failed─and then/I could not see .to see─." The poem must be _______.[A] Emily Dickenson's “I Heard a Fly buzz-when I died─"[B] Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee"[C] Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" .[D] Robert Frost's. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"B.阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)1. “I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: `All right, then;:I'll go, to hell' -,─and tore it up."Questions:A. Identify the novel and the writer.B. Why do "I" decide to go to hell?C. How do you understand this decision of going to hell?2. "Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant. "Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What special feature can you draw from the form-of this line?C. What idea does this statement convey?3. "And neigh like boanerges─Then─prompter than a StarStop─docile and omnipotentAt its own stable door, ─(Emily Dickinson: “I like to see it lag the:Miles”)Questions:A. What is being described *in, this, poem?B. What rhetoric devices are used in this stanza?C. What is the poet's attitude toward this object being described?4. "In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In yourrocking-chair, by your, window, shall y dream such hap piness as you may never feel.”(Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie)Questions:A. Who does "you" in the quotation refer to?B. What mood; do you think, was the narrator in, judging from this quotation?C. What idea can you draw from the "rocking-chair"?5 . "'Terrible-! ' said, that little lady, joi ning her, “ I hope itsnows enough to go sleigh riding.“ “ Oh, dear,”said Carrie, with whom the sufferings of Father Goriot were still keen.“That's all you think of.Aren't you sorry for the people who haven’t anything tonight?"”(Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie ) Questions:A. What does snow mean to the little lady?B. What kind of mood, do you think, was Carrie in, judo from the above dialogue?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?C. 回答题(Questions and answers)1. "Poor Winterbourne was amused, perplexed-above all he'a charmed. He has never yetheard a young girl express herself just this fashion; ... Certainly she was very charming, but how extraordinarily communicative and how tremendously easy(Daisy Miller by Henry James)Question: What kind of narrative point of view is employed 114 What does this quotation reveal of the character of the young (Daisy Miller)?2. "Since then─'tis Centuries─:.and yet Feels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses 's Heads Were toward Eternity─"("Because I could not stop for Death-" by Emily Dickinson.Question: What kind of meaning, can you get from the first two lines in the above quotation?What is Dickinson's understanding of death?3. Mark Twain and Henry James are both; considered to be great realistic writers. What are thedifferences ,between ;them in the aspects of theme andlanguage?4; What literary group does Theodore Dreiser belong t?? What are the characteristics of this group? Name two more American representatives that belong to this group.5. "The only thing I don't like, she proceeded, is, the. society. "(Daisy Miller by Henry James)Question: What kind of society does Daisy not like? Why?D论述题(Topic discussions)1. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:. can be interpreted in many, ways and, has-won its :lasting, place in the American canon. Discuss the image ?f Huck Finn,and the social significance bf this character.2. Henry James is regarded as an -international messenger who bridges the New-America withthe Old Europe: His characters are inevitably encountered with cultural conflicts. Take -Daisy Miller as an example to analyze the two characters; Daisy Miller and Winterbourne and the cultural conflicts they undergo.综合美国文学第三章综合练习(Exercises)A. 多项选择(Multiple choice questions)1. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ”The above four lines are taken from_______.[A] Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"[B] Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-"[C] Frost's "After Apple-Picking"[D] Dickinson's “Because I could not stop for Death”2. In writing the poem “The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter”Pound took its material from the ancient _______ poetry:[A] French [B] Italian[C] Chinese [D] Japanese3. In "After Apple-Picking", Robert Frost wrote: "For I have too much/Ofapple-picking: I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired. " From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ________.[A] happy about the harvest[B] wearing out the freshness of apple-picking[C] still desired of apple-picking when seeing the harvest[D] indifferent of what once desired4. In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neill adopted ______ to portraythe helpless situation of human beings in a hostile universe.[A] expressionist techniques [B] surrealistic approach[C] romantic approach [D] dramatic monologues5. In " petals on a wet, black bough", the f igure of speech used here is______.[A] metaphor [B] hyperbole[C] pun [D] simile6. "My little horse must think it queer/To stop without a farm house near."The above two lines are taken from Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", a beautifully structured poem which follows______.[A] iambic tetrameter [B] iambic pentameter[C] trochaic tetrameter [D] trochaic pentameter7. Here are four lines from a short poem: "I feel the laddersway as the boughsbend. /And I keep hearing from the cellar bin/The rumbling sound/Of load on load of apples coming in. " The poem must be______.[A] Frost's "After Apple-Picking"[B] Dickenson's "Because I could not stop for Death"[C] Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"[D] Whitman's "There Was a Child Went Forth"8. Eugine O'Neill's play, The Hairy Ape, is often said to be concernedwith______.[A] the wretched situation of working people[B] the problem of modern man's identity[C] the conflict between illusion and reality[D] the inevitability of man's final salvation9. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Frost's poetry?[A] It is usually presented in the dramatic monologue.[B] It is rich in images, metaphors and symbols.[C] Nature is one of the most impor tant thematic concerns in his poetry.[D] Most of his poems are written in the form of free verse.10.Which of the following plays is regarded as a semi-autobiographic play byO'Neill?[A] Beyond the Horizon. [B] he Emperor Jones.[C] Long Day's Journey Into Night. [D] The Iceman Cometh.11.Nick Carraway is both a character and a narrator in the novel: entitled[A] This Side of Paradise [B] The Sun Also Rises[C] Tender is the Night [D] The Great Gatsby12，Who is the person that used the term "The Lost Generation" fc - the first time.to refer to writers like Hemingway?[A] Gertrude Stein [B] T. S. Eliot[C] Sherwood Anderson [D] Ezra Pound13. “Grace under pressure” is a major feature of______'s novels.[A] William Faulkner[B] Henry James[C]Theodore Dreiser[D] Ernest Hemingway14.Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.[A] The Sun Also Rises[B] The Old Man and the Sea[C] A Fare-veil to arms[D] For Whom the Bell Tolls16. William Faulkner was worldly famous not only for his ingenuous mastery ofthe streams of consciousness technique, but also for imaginative creation of a mythic kingdom called______.[A] The Mississippi River[B] Yoknapatawpha County[C] Oxford County[D] The Town of Jeffeson17. Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion inits title?[A] The Sound and the Fury. [B] Light in August.[C] Absalom , Absalom [D] Go Down, Moses.18. "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his carfor her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowingcalligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax noticewas also enclosed, without comment. " The above two sentences must be taken from______.[A] Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily"[C] Hemingway's story "Indian Camp"[D] James's story "Daisy Miller"19. The statement that a poor young man from the West trying make his fortune inthe East but disillusioned in the quest of idealized dream may well sum up the theme of______. .[A] The Hairy Ape[B] For Whom the Bell Tolls[C] The Great Gatsby [D] Go Down , Moses20. "In a Station of the Metro"is a typical imagist poem that fully displaysPound's definition of image, which is______..[A] to present an intellectual and emotional instant of time[B] to reveal a poet's instantaneous experience of life[C] to bring out a natural outburst of the poet's emotions 689[D] to retell a poet's past moment of experience21. That profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language andthe simple form may be a very appropriate statement to describe ______'s poetry.[A] T.S. Eliot [B] Ezra Pound[C] Robert Frost [DI Emily Dickenson22. "Later when he started to operate Uncle George and three Indian men held thewoman still. She bit Uncle George on the arm and Uncle George said, 'Damn squaw bitch! ' and the young Indian who had rowed Uncle George over laughed at him.” The above two sentences must be taken from______.[A] Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily"[C] James's story "Daisy Miller"[D] Hemingway's story "Indian Camp"23. Which of the following statements i s NOT a typical feature imagism?[A] To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word.[B] T o create new rhythms, as the expressions of a new mood[C] To recommend heroic couplet as a preferable verse form.[D] To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject.24. When we say that a boy's night journey to an Indian village witness theviolence of both birth and death provides all i possibilities of a learning experience, we are probably discussi about______'s thematic concern i n his fiction writing.[A] William Faulkner [B] Ernest Hemingway[C] Mark Twain [D] Henry James25. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story "A Rose 2~ Emily", can beregarded as a symbol standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT______.。
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美国文学练习1I.Multiple choice・ Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10x V= 10，)B 1> In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______________was the dominant.A. humanismB. rationalismC. romanticismD. evolutionB 2、The short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow^^ is taken from Irving^ work named___________ .A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New YorkA 3、Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A. RationalismB. inner selfC. personal feelingsD. individualismC 4、The short story "Rip Van Winkle" reveals the _________ a ttitude of its author.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. conservativeD. ironicB 5、Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ___________ andThoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Mark TwainA 6、Which is regarded as the "Declaration of Intellectual Independence^^?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. OversoulD. Self-relianceD 7、_______ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. PaineD. Washington IrvingB 8、_______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. WhitmanC 9、Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the mass^^ and the__ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. lifeC 10、For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________ ，the narrator, Moby Dick isstill a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. AhabB. StubbC. IshmaelD. StarbuckC 11、The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality andequality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd. ChicagoB 12、The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale butthemselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopusb. Moby-Dickc. The Rise of Silas Laphamd. Leaves of GrassB 13、An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________________________ .a. The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. TitanicB. the Modem PeriodD. the Realisticas .A. the Naturalist Period C. the Romantic PeriodC 14> __________ was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buckb. Harriet Bicher Stowec. Emily Dickensond. Walter WhitmanD 15、. ____________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan PoeB 16、In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment.was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. EvolutionA 17、 ------- Which statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.A 18、Who is regarded as the first American prose epic. A. Nature B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden D. Moby-DickA 19、The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of WashingtonIrving's ----------------------------- a nd ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A history of New YorkC 20、The period before the American Civil War is generally referred toII. True or false choices: 1. Franklin's autobiography, published after his death, has become one of the classics of thegenre.2. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel3. Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work.4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of theImagist movement in the early 19th century.5. —The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Poe's poems.6. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hester 9s illegitimate daughter.7. The famous poem 一A Psalm of Life was written by Edgar Allen Poe.8. —The Raven is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.9. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes a search for truth.Ill Simple questions1、 What are Puritan thoughts?2、 What is Transcendentalism and list some representative figures?3、 American Renaissance4、 Explain the symbolic meanings of "A" in The Scarlet Letter.5、 How does E. A. Poe anticipate the 20th century literatureIV・ Interpreting the following textText IBecause I could not stop for Death —He kindly stopped for meThe Carriage held but just OurselvesAnd Immortality.We slowly drove He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility —We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess in the RingWe passed the Fields of Gazing Grain ・・We passed the Setting Sun —Since then ・・ *tis Centuries ・・ and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses1 2 3 4 5 6 HeadsWere toward Eternity —Questions:1 Identify the poet and the title of this poem? （2，）2 Explain the underlined words （4，）3 What are the implications of "the School", "the fields of Gazing Grain"，he Setting Sun”？（3‘）4 How do you understand “Since then 'tis Centuries and yet / Feels5 shorter than the Day" ? （3‘）6 What are the speaker's opinions about death? （3‘）Text IIOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weakry,Over many a quint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one rapping, rapping at my chamber door."Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door --------------Only this, and nothing more."Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;—— vainly I had tried to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow —— sorrow for the lost Lenore—— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name LenoreNameless here for evermore.And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me 一filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, "1 Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door 一Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door ; 一This it is and nothing more."n Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting ・ "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night!s plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! -quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming,And the lamp-light o' er him streaming throve his shadow on the floor;And my soul from out chat shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted・nevemiore!7.Identify the poet and the title of this poem?8.Explain the images "the raven^^ and "the chamber door".9.Why did the author used a non-human creature to utter the word?10.Try to explain the theme of the poem.。
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（完整版）美国文学史练习Exercises of Chapter 2I. Multiple Choice1. Which of the following is NOT one part of The LeatherStocking Tales by Cooper?A. The SpyB. The PathfinderC. The PioneersD. The Deerslayer2. Which statement about Thoreau was NOT right?A. He was a lover of nature.B. He was a particular kind of romantic.C. He was a polemicist.D. He was a thorough transcendentalist.3. Which of the following has been called “the manifesto of American transcendentalism?”A. Divinity School AddressB. Self-RelianceC. NatureD. The American Scholar4. As a philosophical and literary movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. sentimentalismB. transcendentalismC. modernismD. rationalism5. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .A. the Modern PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Naturalist Period6. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT .A. The Marble FaunB. TypeeC. The Scarlet LetterD. Mosses form an Old Manse7. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson’s?A. I Heard a Fly Buzz When I DiedB. The RavenC. This is My Letter to the WorldD. I Like to See it Lap the Miles8. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT.A. the strict poetic formB. the free and natural rhythmC. the easy flow of feelingsD. the simple and conversational language9. Poe’s first collection of stories is .A. Tales of a TravelerB. Leather Stocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque10. Which book is not written by Emerson?A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. NatureD. Civil Disobedience11. The first example of Hawthorn’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in .A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest12. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is .A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Henry David ThoreauD. Washington Irving13. Transcendentalists recognized as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking14. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men15. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustinC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher16. Captain, My Captain is written for .A. LincolnB. WhitmanC. WashingtonD. Heminway17. Which of the following books is a tremendous chronicle of an appalling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale?A. The Scarlet LetterB. Moby DickC. The Marble FaunD. Moses from an Old Manse18. was the first man of letters from the United States to win and international reputation.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. James Fenimore CooperD. Longfellow19. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most outstanding of all the writers in literature.A. transcendental/ EnglishB. transcendental/ AmericanC. realistic/ EnglishD. realistic/ American20. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a .A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translator21. In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Henry David ThoreauD. Herman Melville22. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is in .A. England during World War IIB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. the Middle Ages in ItalyD. Puritan America23. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes .A. the microcosm of human societyB. a search for truthC. the unknown worldD. nature24. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with .A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings25. 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 TalesB. The Scarlet LetterC. The House of the Seven GablesD. The Marble Faun26. is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick27. 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”28. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the Great NatureD. evil of the world29. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. all the above30. For Melville, as well as for the reader and , the narrator, Moby-Dick is stilla mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. StarbuckB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Arab31. was a romanticized account of Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville becomeknown as the “man who lived among cannibals”.A. Moby-DickB. TypeeC. OmooD. Billy Budd32. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except .A. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace33. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except .A. brevityB. directnessC. plainest wordsD. obscure34. is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Walt WhitmanC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain35. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear .A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers36. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as .A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experienceB. the thought that designates man as a social animalC. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD. the modes of thinking37. In the poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of .A. the theory of universalityB. singularity and equality of all beings in valueC. both A and BD. none above38. Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and theas well.A. natureB. lifeC. selfD. self-reliance39. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. Lyrical and well-structuredB. Free-flowingC. Simple and rather crudeD. Conversational and casual40. In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death .A. passionatelyB. pessimisticallyC. in despairD. peacefullyII. Bland Filling1. The Romantic period in the American literary history covers the time between the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war . It started with the publication of Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass . This period is also called Romanticism .2. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and the other is The Life of George Washington .3. In Song of Myself , Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.4. Typee by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.5. From Thoreau’s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay Civil Disobedience .6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter .7. Published in 1823, The Pioneer , the first of The Leatherstocking Tales, in their publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.8. Edgar Allan Poe can somewhat be called “the Father of the American detective story”.。
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1．第1题Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _______.A.short, clear sentencesB.abundance of local imagesC.ordinary American speechD.highly refined language您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.02．第2题When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A.Henry JamesB.Scott FitzgeraldC.HemingwayD.William Faulkne您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.03．第3题After the success of ____, Herman Melville became known as a man who lived among cannibals.A.TypeeB.White JacketC.OmooD.Moby Dick您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.04．第4题___ wrote Rights of Man in 1792 to suggest the overthrow of the British monarchy.A.Thomas PaineB.Benjamin FranklinC.George WashingtonD.Jefferson您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.05．第5题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.A.Stephen CraneB.Frank NorrisC.Jack LondonD.Walt Whitman您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.06．第6题William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.A.Mark TwainB.O’ HenryC.Jack LondonD.William Dean Howells您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.07．第7题There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ___ on the Puritan soil.A.RomanticismB.PuritanismC.mysticismD.Unitarianism您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.08．第8题____ made many translations, among which, Dante’s Divine Comedy was the best.A.William C. BryantB.Henry W. LongfellowC.EmersonD.Hawthorne您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.09．第9题____, first governor of Plymouth, left a wealth of letters after he died.A.William BradfordB.William WordsworthC.John WinthropD.John Eliot您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.010．第10题___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga.A.deerslayerB.pathfinderC.hawkeyeD.Mohican您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.011．第11题______ is not a character in the novel The Scarlet Letter.A.Arthur DimmesdaleB.Roger ChillingworthC.Goodman BrownD.Pearl您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.012．第12题5. Puritan values do not include ____.A.hard workB.thriftC.sobrietyD.debauchery您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.013．第13题The first great American juvenile literature was _____.A.Sketch BookB.The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.WaldenD.Mardi您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.014．第14题1.牋牋？___ is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A.Self-relianceB.NatureC.The American ScholarD.. The Bells您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.015．第15题______ translated the Bible into the Indian tongue.A.Benjamin FranklinB.Roger WilliamsC.. John EliotD.John Cotton您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.016．第16题The first writings that we may call American were the narratives and ___ of the early English settlements.A.. documentsB.journalsC.statementsD.files您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.017．第17题The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB.Edgar Allan PoeC.MelvilleD.Longfellow您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.018．第18题The arbiter of nineteen-century literary realism in America was ______.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.O’HenryD.William Dean Howells您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.019．第19题Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of man and ____.A.natureB.self-relianceC.selfD.life您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.020．第20题As a Modernist poet, Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______A.cubist school of modern paintingB.Imagist MovementC.stream-of-consciousness techniqueD.German Expressionism您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.021．第21题Most critics have agreed that __ is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision.A.FitzgeraldB.FrostC.CummingsD.Hemingway您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.022．第22题in 1952, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named ___ in The old Man and the Sea.A.Natty BumppoB.PocahontasC.SantiagoD.Henry您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.023．第23题Mrs. Stowe’s did not ever write _______.A.The Man That Was a ThingB.Uncle Tom’s CabinC.The StoicD.Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.024．第24题Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times, ____ was an admirer.A.Harriet BeecherB.Jack LondonC.Henry JamesD.O’ Henry您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.025．第25题Eugene O’Neil did not write ______.A.The Emperor JonesB.Anna ChristieC.The Hairy ApeD.The Saloon您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.026．第26题With the precedent of Whitman, ___also undertook as a spokesman for the common pople. He was proud later to “favor simple poems for simple people.”A.Wallace StevensB.Edwin RobinsonC.Robert FrostD.Carl Sandburg您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.027．第27题The collections of his occasional lectures on poetry entitled ___ established Wallace Stevens as a major American poet.A.Ideas of OrderB.The Necessary AngelC.HarmoniumD.Parts of a World您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.028．第28题The novel which was described by a critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is ____.A.Young Goodman BrownB.MardiC.Daisy MillerD.The Tragic Muse您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.029．第29题1.Realism, a literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth”in the depiction of ordinary life, originated in ______ ,A.GermanyB.FranceC.EnglandD.Italy您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.030．第30题Mark Twain’s first book is ________.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Gilded AgeD.Jumping Frog您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.031．第31题The novel which was described by a critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is ____.A.Young Goodman BrownB.MardiC.Daisy MillerD.The Tragic Muse您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.032．第32题Franklin shaped his writings after the ____ of the English essayist Addison and Steel.A.Spectator papersB.WaldenC.. NatureD.The Sacred Wood您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.033．第33题“I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,/The black-clad cricket bear a second part” These lines written by ____________.A.Roger WilliamsB.John EliotC.Anne BradstreetD.Washington Irving您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.034．第34题1.Realism, a literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth”in the depiction of ordinary life, originated in ______ ,A.GermanyB.FranceC.EnglandD.Italy您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.035．第35题“We hold these truths to be elf-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” This sentence is taken from ___.mon SenseB.The Declaration of IndependenceC.The AutobiographyD.The American Crisis您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.036．第36题____ was considered to be the first American writer.A.Washington IrvingB.Benjamin FranklinC.John SmithD.Hoffman您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.037．第37题Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?A.Stowe’s Uncle Ton’s CabinB.James’s The Portrait of a Lady.C.Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms ？D.Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.038．第38题Perhaps Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of is to be found in I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died---a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces.A.enthusiasmB.deathC.crisisD.fantasy您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.039．第39题1.牋牋？Franklin had never been _____.A.a printerB.a scientistC.a statesmanD.an atheist题目分数：2此题得分：2.040．第40题4. The most quoted among Franklin’s writings could be ___, an annual collection of proverbs.A.The AutobiographyB.Poor Richard’s AlmanacC.SpectatorD.. Nature您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.041．第41题The Declaration of Independence was the product of the joint efforts by ___,A.George WashingtonB.Thomas JeffersonC.Thomas AddisonD.Irving您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.042．第42题Mark Twain’s first book is ________.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Gilded AgeD.Jumping Frog您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.043．第43题Mark Twain had never been a _______.A.humoristB.ambassadorC.frontierD.lecturer.题目分数：2此题得分：2.044．第44题In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A.Puritan ？B.materialisticC.psychological ？D.religious您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.045．第45题___ might be considered as a great realist of human spirit.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Jack LondonD.Theodore Dreiser您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.046．第46题My Lost Youth written by ____ is about his hometown of Portland, Maine.A.Henry W. LongfellowB.John CottonC.Carl SandburgD.Anne Bradstreet您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.047．第47题___’s A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country was a guide to the country and an invitation to the bold spirits needed to enlarge and strengthen the English plantation in the new land.A.John SmithB.William BradfordC.John WinthropD.John Cotton您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.048．第48题Puritans emphasized a ____God.A.mercifulB.wrathfulC.benevolentD.learned您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.049．第49题___ did not ever show his/her concern for the Indians.A.Anne BradstreetB.Philip FreneauC.Roger WilliamsD.John Eliot您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.050．第50题A Key into the Language of America was a significant work by____.A.Roger WilliamsB.John CottonC.John SmithD.Noah Webster您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.0。
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美国文学史习题American LiteratureChapter 1 The Romantic PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. Of all the following issues, _____is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic write rs in the American literary history.A. Puritan moralityB. Human bestialityC. Noble savagesD. Divinity of man2. Henry David Thoreaus work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.A. WaldenB. The PioneersC. NatureD. "Song of Myself"3. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote fro m______s writings.A. Walt WhitmanB. Henry David ThoreauC. Herman MelvilleD. Ralph Waldo Emer son4. Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodim ent of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutiona ry War and the American Civil War.A. the democratic idealsB. the romantic idealsC. the self-reliance spiritsD. the religious ideals5. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural eff ort was to behave as a supreme_________.A. democratB. individualistC. romanticistD. leader6. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ___________.A. The Naturalist PeriodB. The Modern PeriodC. The Romantic PeriodD. The Realistic Period7. In the following works, which sign the beginning of the American literature?A. The Sketch BookB. Leaves of GrassC. Leather Stocking TalesD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn8. _____is the author of the work The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.A. Washington IrvingB. James JoyceC. Walt WhitmanD. William Butler Yeats9. Washington Irvings Rip Van Winkle is famous for_________.A. Rips escape into a mysteriousB. The storys German legendary source materialC. Rips seeking for happinessD. Rips 20-years sleep10. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.B. Irvings relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can har dly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.C. Irvings taste was essentially progressive or radical.D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best cl assic style that American literature ever produced."11. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over-Soul12. The phrase "a transparent eye-ball compares philosophical mentation of Emersons. It appears in_________.A. The American ScholarB. NatureC. The over SoulD. Essays: Second Series13. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmeasas :Our Intellectual Declaration of Independen ce".A. "Self-Reliance" B. "Divinity School Address" C. "The AmericanScholar" D. "Nature"14. _____is the most ambivalent (有争议的) writers in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Walt WhitmanC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain15. "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity", which author of the following authors does the mention belong to________.A. Washington IrvingB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Wh itman16. In Hawthornes novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as________.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers17. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_______.A. The House of the Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithe dale Romance18. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in the form of hispoetry. What he prefers fo r his new subject is__________.A. free verseB. blank verseC. lyric poemD. heroic couplet19. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. Lyrical and well-structuredB. Free-flowingC. Simple and rather crudeD. Conversational and casual20. " The horizons edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day." The tw o lines are taken from____________.A. "There Was a Child Went Forth" by Walt WhitmanB. "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra PoundC. "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" by Walt WhitmanD. "Ulysses" by Joyce21. "Moby Dick" is regarded as the first American_________.A. Prose epicB. Comic epicC. Dramatic fictionD. Poetic fiction22. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT________.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the great NatureD. evil of the world23. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true?A. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is a short story.B. "Benito Cereno " is a novella.C. The Confidence---Man has something to do with the sea and sailors.D. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American prose epic.24. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the indi vidual is____, therefore, self-reliant.A. insignificantB. vicious by natureC. divineD. forward-lookingAnswer:1～5BADBD 6～10CBADC 11～15ABCAC 16～20BBAAA 21～24ABCCII. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1. "Time grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on : a tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows k eener by constant use. For a long while he used to perpetual club of the sages,philosop hers, and other idle personages of the village.Questions:1) Please identify the author and the title of the work.2) Whats the meaning of this passage?参考答案:1) This is an excerpt from "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. (P408)2) With his wife’s dominance at home, the situation became harder and harder for Rip Van Winkle. His wife’s temper became worse and she scolded him for more often. H e had to stay in the club with idle people. (P407)附:Question: Please describe the changes Rip Van Winkle experienced.Answer: 1) Rip Van Winkle was the hero in Irving’s works. He was a good-natured man, a henpecked (惧内的，妻管严的) husband.2) Because his wife’s shrewish (泼妇一样的) treatment, Rip had to escape from his home to the little inn in the village. When it failed to give him some restful air, he had to go hunting in the high mountain, where Rip met a stranger, and the man asked Rip to carry keg for him. Then Rip reached the place in the valley, where many strangers were playing nine- pins. Later Rip got drunk after drinking the liquor, which made him sleep for 20 years.3) Rip woke up as an old man, entering the village learned that his wife had died, he g ot the freedom of his own,; and the American had been dependent from the control of Britain, he had changed from a subject of the King (George III) into a citizen of the in dependent new U.S.....2. " I celebrated myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"Questions:1) Please identify the author and the title of the poem that had used when published. 2 ) What is the theme of this poem?参考答案:1) In the 1856, the title was "Poem of Walt Whitman, anAmerican", then it becam e "Walt Whitman" in 1860, until 1881, it finally became "Song of Myself". The autho r is Walt Whitman. (P456--457)2) In this poem Whitman sets forth two principle beliefs:A. The theory of universality (普遍性), which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things;B. The belief in the singularity (个别性) and equality(平等性) of all beings in value. (P457)3. "Standing on the bare ground, ----my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -----all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball.I am nothing. I see all." Questions:1) Please identify the author and the title of the work.2) Please briefly interpret this pa ssage.3). What rhetorical device of "transparent eye-ball".4) Emerson said he want to become a transparent eye- ball, what king idea did he want to express?参考答案:1) This selection is from "Nature" by Emerson. (P427)2) In the essay Emerson clearly expresses the main principles of his Transcendentalist pursuit and his love for nature. Emerson develops his concept of "Over-Soul" Or "Universal Mind". Last but not the leas, it affirms the divinity of the human beings. (P423)3) It used the device of metaphor. (P423) 4) He wanted to tell us: Nature can purify (净化) our quality and let us get comfort. (P243)III. Questions and answers:1. The Romantic Period was called "The AmericanRenaissance". Discuss the backgro und of the Romantic Period, and compare it with the Romanticism of Britain. Answer:1) The two Romanticism both stress the imaginative and emotional qualities of literat ure;2) They all pay attention to psychic states of the characters and exalt the individual and common man;3) American Romanticism revealed unique characteristics: (difference)<1> American authors describe their native land,, especially the spirit of the pioneering into the west, the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature;<2> American writers use local dialect in language;<3> Puritanism has great influence over American Romantics;<4> Calvinism of original sin is obvious in their works;<5> Transcendentalism is very important theory in American Romanticism;<6> The important setting in American Romanticism are: ① the early puritan settlem ent; ② the confrontation with the Indians; ③ the frontiersmen’s life; ④ the wild west;⑤ imagination. (P399—402)2.Explain the theory of Transcendentalism, then list its important author and works. Answer:Transcendentalism is a very important theory in American Romanticism, its main idea s are:1) Man has the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or the ability of getting knowled ge transcending the senses;2) Nature is ennobling and individual is divine, therefore,man should be self-reliant.3) Man is divine/holy and perfectible and man can trust himself to decide what is right and act accordingly; (but to Hawthorne and Melville man is a sinner);4) Universe is over-soul -a symbol of the spirit, God or the universe, there is an emotional communication betw een an individual soul and the universal "over-soul" -unity of Nature.5) The important authors are: Emerson (The American Scholar) and Thoreau.6) "Nature", Emersons works, is called the unofficial manifesto for the club. (P421P4 22)3.Washington Irving was called "Father of the American short stories" and "the Ameri can Goldsmith". What characteristics did he have?Answer:1) He was nostalgic author, and he always juxtaposing the Old and the New world;2) He remained a conservative and always exalted a disappearing past, and he prefer t he past to present, prefer a dream-like world to a real one;3) His stories were always from legend, especially German legends, showing best clas sic style. (P405406)4. Sea adventures are Melvilles favorite subject; "Moby-Dick" is a great novel in the theme, which is also noted for its symbolism, please anal yze it in detail.Answer:1) About the sea adventure: it symbols the voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe; a spirit exploration into mans deep reality and psycholog y;2) About the boat; it symbols the society, and the crew symbol all kinds of people with different social and ethnic ideas;3) About the white whale: To the author, it symbols nature, it is a complex, unfathoma ble and beautiful; To the captain Ahab, it is evilness, is a wall. So he will lead all his c rew to cut through the wall to dig out all the unknown, mysterious things behind it. To the narrator, Ishmael, it is a mystery. (P460461)5. Walt Whitman is a unique poet. Can you explain what make him unique? Answer:1) His themes are: Democracy; the Revolutionary War and the Civil War; freedom; o penness; brotherhood; individualism; the growth of industry and the wealth of the citi es; universality.2) His styles are special: "free verse"; "catalogue"; simple and even crude language.Chapter 2 The Realistic PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of speech of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the______of death, the title of the poem is "I heard a F ly buzz when I died".A. momentB. sufferingC. happinessD. meaning2. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary _____ _which emphasized heredity and environment as important determ inistic forces shaping individualized characters who were pres ented in special and detailed circumstances.A. naturalismB. realismC. determinismD. humanism3. More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are ab out nature, in which her general _____about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed.A. skepticismB. eulogyC. happinessD. denial4. "This is my letter to the World" is a poem expressing Emily Dickinsons _____about her communication with the outside world.A. happinessB. AngerC. AnxietyD. sorrow5. Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as "I like to see it lap the Miles", which describes a(n) ______, an embodiment of mode rn civilization.A. snakeB. animalC. the roadD. train6. After "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer", Twain gives a liter ary independence to Toms buddy Huck in a book called_____, and the book from which "all modern American literature come s".A. Life on the Mississippi RiverB. The Gilded AgeC. Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Sun Also Rises7. Winterbourne is used as a ______in Henry Jamess "Daisy M iller".A. ProtagonistB. Narrator of the eventsC. A character of central consciousnessD. Persona8. Emily Dickinsons verse is most aptly characterized as ___ ________.A. exposing the evils of the societyB. paving the way for the following generation of free vers e poetsC. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt WhitmanD. exhibiting sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of e xperience, such as love, death, immortality and etc.9. The author of "The Portrait of a Lady" is best at______ _.A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human lifeB. a truthful delineation of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women.C. a dramatizing the collisions between two very different c ultural systems on an international sceneD. disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilizedsociety after the Civil War.10. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____________.A. the Age of RealismB. the Age of ModernismC. the Age of RomanticismD. the Age of Colonicalism11. Who exerts the simple most important influence on litera ry naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin12. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human "______".A. bestialityB. goodnessC. compassionD. greed13. ______is considered by H.L. Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."A. HemingwayB. PoeC. IrvingD. Twain14. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___ ____language.A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacular15. Henry Jamess fame generally rests upon his novels and s tories with________.A. international themeB. national themeC. European theme D . Regional theme16. In the following writers, who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "Stream-of-consciousness" novels and the founder of psychological realism______________.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Emily DickensonD. Theodore Dreiser17. In Henry James "Daisy Miller", the author tries to port ray the young woman as an embodiment of ___________.A. the corruption of the newly richB. the free spirit of the New WorldC. the decline of aristocracyD. the force of convention18. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinsons?A. War and peaceB. Love and marriageC. Life and death D . Religion19. The following titles are all related to the subject tha t escapes from the society and returns to nature except_____ _____.A. Dreisers Sister CarrieB. Coppers Leather-Stocking TalesC. Thoreaus WaldenD. MarkTwains The Adventures of Huckleberr y Finn20. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is_________ _.A. Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The FinancierD. The Titan21. Closely related to Emily Dickinsons religious poetry are her poems concerning ___________.A. ChildhoodB. Youth and happinessC. LonelinessD. Death and immortality22. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the liter ary scene, _________became the major trend in American litera ture in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism Answer：1～5AAACD 6～10CCDCA 11～15DADDA 16～20BAABD 21～22DCII. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1. "It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because Id got to decide, fore ver, betwixt tow things, and I knowed it. I studied a minu te, sort of holding my breath, and then says to my self: "All right, then, Ill go to hell"----and tore it up.It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never though no more aboutreforming."1) Who was the "I", which book was the passage taken from? And by whom? 2) Why did he think "it was awful thought"?Analyze it.3) Analyze the characteristic of the hero.Answer:1) The character is Huckleberry Finn, the passage is taken from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.2) It is the climax of the Hucks inner struggle on the Mi ssissippi, when Huck is conflicting whether or not he should write a letter to tell Miss Watson where Jim is, and he is polarizing/contradicting by the two opposing forces betwe en his heart and his head, between his affection for Jim a nd the laws of the society against those who help slaves e scape. Hucks final decision -to follow his own good hearted moral impulse rather than co nventional village morality. During his thinking Huck thinks of the consequence of helping Jim (the runaway slave), he m ight go to hell, "it was awful thought", with the eventual victory of his moral conscience over his social awareness, Huck grows. (P480)3) Huck is an innocent and reluctant rebel, a typical Ameri can Boy with a "sound heart and deformed conscience". Throug h the eyes of Huck, the Pre-Civil War American society is fully exposed and we are deep ly impressed by Mark Twains thematic contrasts between innoce nce and experience, nature and culture, wildness and civiliza tion.2. "I should think it might be arranged," Winterbourne was thus emboldened to reply. "Couldnt you get some one to stay ----for the afternoon---with Randolph?"Miss Miller looked at him a moment; and then with all serenity, "I wish youd stay with him!" she said.Questions:1) Please identify the work and the author.2) Please analyze the character of Daisy Miller in literature.参考答案:1) It is taken from Henry James’s"Daisy Miller". (P513)2) She is the American Girl in Europe, a celebrated type w ho embodies the spirit of the New World. However, innocence, the keynote of her character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures. (P499-500)3. "We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess---in the Ring---We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain----We passed the Setting Sun---Questions:1) Please identify the poem and the poet;2) What does "the School, the Fields of Gazing Grain and the Setting Sun" s tands for?Answers:1) The lines are from "Because I could not stop fro Death" , Emily Dickinson. (P523)2) It stands for three stages of life: the School----youth;the Fields of Gazing Grain----mature period;the Setting Sun------end of life.4. "The Eyes around---had wrung them dry---And breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset----when the KingBe witnessed---in the Room----"Questions:1) What is the meaning of the first line? 2) What does "t he King" refer to? 3) What idea does the poem from which this stanza is taken express?Answers:1) It means the relatives and friends had cried and cried so that there were no tears any more.2) "The King" refers to the God of death. 3) The poem exp resses that the author even imagined her own death, the los s of her own body, and the journey of her soul to the un known.5.Take examples to analyze the style and theme of M ark Twain.Answer:Mark Twain is a great literary of America, H. L. Mencken c onsidered him "the true father of our national literature".1) Twains works like "Adventure of Huckleberry Finn" and "Li fe on the Mississippi" shaped the views of America and comb ined American folk humor and serious literature together;2) "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" and The Adventures of Huc kleberry Finn" proved to be the milestone in American litera ture, and they were the record of a vanishing way of life in the pre-Civil War Mississippi.3) The books were noted for their unpretentious, colloquial, poetic, humorous, innocent and free style;4) The language of Twain was simple, direct, lucid and fait hful to truth -"vernacular";5) Twain was famous for a local colorist, who presented soc ial life through portraits of the local characters of his r egion - people living in the area, the landscape, the customs, diale cts, costumes. Especially the theme of the Mississippi valley and the West;6) The work of Twain were always confined to a particular region, historical moment, strong accent, intensified humor to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed rom anticism.6.The characteristic and theme analyses of Henry James. Answer:1) The Freudian approach is famous in his novels and his l iterary essays.2) James took great interest in international themes -the clashed between two different cultures and the emotional and moral problems of Americans in Europe, or Europeans in America in his first period.3) "The Portrait of A Lay" is generally considered to be h is masterpiece.4) James experimented with different themes and forms in his middle period.5) In his last an major period, James returned to his "int ernational-theme."6) The typical pattern of the conflict between the two cult ures would be that of a young American man or an American girl (Daisy Miller) who goes to Europe and affronts/met wi th his or her destiny. The unsophisticated boy or girl woul d be beguiled, betrayed, cruelly wronged at the hands of th ose who pretend to stand for the highest possible civilizati on.7) He focuses on psychological approach. His fictional worldis concerned more with the inner life of human beings -this emphasis on psychology and on the human consciousness p roves to be a big breakthrough in novel writing.8) He is regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "s tream-of-consciousness" novels and the founder of psychologicalrealism.9) James avoids the authorial omniscience as much as possible and makes his characters reveal themselves with his minima l intervention. (P495-498)7. Please analyze the characteristics of Emily Dickinsons poe ms.Answer:1) Dickinsons poems are usually based on her own experiences , her sorrows and joys. But within her little lyrics Dickin son addresses those issues that concern the whole human bein gs, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and nat ure. (theme)2) Her masterpiece -----"I heard a Fly buzz---when I died", she looked at death from the point of view of both the living and the dying. She even imagined her ow n death, the loss of her own body, and the journey of her soul to the unknown.3) The style of Dickinson:A: A particular stress pattern: dash-------B: Capital letters as a means of emphasis;C: Language: brief, direct, and plain;D: Poem: short, always on single image or symbol (e.g. "I like to see it lap the miles"---------describe a train in the personification of the literary devi ce) E: Her poems tend to be personal and meditative (e.g. Becau se I could not stop for Death).8. Darwins evolutionary theory gave rise to American naturali sm, what are their characteristics?Answer:The American naturalists accepted the more negativeimplicatio n of Darwins theory, and used it to explain the behaviours in literary works.1) They regarded man as the complex combinations of inherited attributes/elements, their habits conditioned/controlled by s ocial and economic forces;2) They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of the s ociety and portrayed misery and poverty/poorness;3) They dealt with the nature of the man of "underdogs" -"bestiality", as an explanation of sexual desire;4) Their languages were unpolished;5) The naturalists believed that the real and true nature i s hidden from the eyes o the individual, or beyond his con trol;6) Naturalism evolved/came from realism, but the tone of the authors were more ironic and pessimistic.Chapter 3 The Modern PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the_________.A. Imagist MovementB. Chartist MovementC. Modernist MovementD. Romantic Movement2. Strong affinity of the Chinese and Oriental literature ca n be found in the works of_________.A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Art hur Miller3. In Robert Frosts famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Sn owy Evening", there are four lines like these: The woods ar elovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep. The second sleep refers to______.A. dieB. calm downC. fall into sleepD. stop walki ng4. Of the following American poets, whose work was first re cognized in England and then in America?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Wal lace Stevens5. "For I have had too much/ Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desi red" From these lines we can conclude that the speaker ____ ______.A. is happy about the harvestB. is tired of the w ork of apple-pickingC. is not tired when seeing the harvestD. becomes indiff erent of the job6. In these lines "The apparition of these faces in the cr owd; / Petals on a wet, black bough", Ezra Pound uses the figure of speech of ________.A. metaphorB. simileC. hyperboleD. contras7. ONeills inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was co nstantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his pla ys, especially during the twenties when ______was in full sw ing.。
美国文学考试题及答案
美国文学考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 马克·吐温的代表作《汤姆·索亚历险记》中，汤姆·索亚的好友是谁？A. 哈克贝利·费恩B. 艾米·劳伦斯C. 乔·哈珀D. 贝基·撒切尔答案：A2. 《了不起的盖茨比》的作者是哪位美国作家？A. 海明威B. 福克纳C. 菲茨杰拉德D. 爱伦·坡答案：C3. 以下哪位作家被誉为“美国现代小说之父”？A. 亨利·詹姆斯B. 威廉·福克纳C. 约翰·斯坦贝克D. 杰克·伦敦答案：A4. 《白鲸》中的主人公亚哈船长是为了追逐哪头鲸鱼而最终丧命？A. 莫比·迪克B. 蓝鲸C. 灰鲸D. 虎鲸答案：A5. 《红字》中的女主角海斯特·白兰因何罪名被判刑？A. 偷窃B. 谋杀C. 通奸D. 叛国答案：C6. 《老人与海》中的老渔夫圣地亚哥在海上与哪种动物搏斗？A. 鲨鱼B. 鲸鱼C. 鳄鱼D. 马林鱼答案：D7. 《麦田里的守望者》的主人公霍尔顿·考尔菲尔德最想成为哪种人？A. 律师B. 医生C. 教师D. 麦田里的守望者答案：D8. 《飘》的主人公斯嘉丽·奥哈拉是哪个美国南方家族的成员？A. 威尔克斯家族B. 汉密尔顿家族C. 奥哈拉家族D. 巴特勒家族答案：C9. 《愤怒的葡萄》中，约德一家是因为什么原因离开俄克拉荷马州的？A. 寻找工作B. 逃避战乱C. 追求自由D. 家庭纷争答案：A10. 《看不见的人》的主人公在小说中代表了哪个群体？A. 黑人B. 移民C. 工人阶级D. 残疾人答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）1. 《瓦尔登湖》的作者是______。
答案：亨利·戴维·梭罗2. 《草叶集》是______的代表作之一。
答案：沃尔特·惠特曼3. 《美国悲剧》的作者是______。
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美国文学习题1．In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of Enlightenment. _____________was the dominant spirit.A.HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. “God helps them that help themselves.”is found in ____________work.A. Paine‟sB. Franklin‟sC. Freneau‟sD. Jefferson‟s3. Which statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.4. 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.5. Which is connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common SenseB. American Crisis.C. The Right of ManD. The Autobiography.6. “These are the times that try men‟s souls”, these words were once read to Washington‟s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas PaineC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington7. Which statement about Freneau is true?A. He was a scientistB. He was a pamphleteerC. He was a poetD. He was a bitter polemicist8. Which work is written by Freneau?A. The Right of ManB. The Wild honey SuckleC. Poor Richard‟s AlmanacD. The Day of Doom9. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Anne BradstreetB. Edward TaylorC. Michael WiggleworthD. Philip Freneau10. At the Reason and Revolution Period, American were influenced by the European movement called _____________.A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement11.Stetement ____________ is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.A. Hawthorne is a realist writer.B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist.C. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism.D. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect.12. In Walt Whitman‟s “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to ___________.A. the poet himself as a childB. any American childC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet‟s neighbor13. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ___________.A. the microcosm of human societyB. the search for truthC. the unknown worldD. nature14.Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with _________________.A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings15. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ____________-.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Nathanel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman16. _____________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 TalesB. The Scarlet LetterC. The House of the Seven GablesD. The Marble Faun17. ___________is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet letterC. WaldenD. Moby Dick18. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving‟s ___________ and ended with Whitman‟s Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A History of New Y ork19. 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 V an WinckleC. The Custom-HouseD. The Birthmark20. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Merville is not true?A. Bartleby, the Scrivener is a short story.B. Benito Cereno is a novella.C. The Confidence-Man has something to do with the sea and sailors.D. Moby Dick is regarded as the first American Prose epic.21. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except______________.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the Great NatureD. evil of the world22. 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 TalesB. Hawthorne‟s The Scarlet Letter.C. Whitman‟s Leaves of Grass.D. Irving‟s Rip V an Winkle.23. As a philosophical and literary movement, _________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism24. In Hawthorne‟s The Scarlet Letter, “A”may stands for ______________.A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. All the above25. ______is not the member of Transcendental Club.A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. WhitmanD. Fuller26. Poe‟s first collection of short stories is _______________.A. Tales of a TravellerB. Leatherstocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque27. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. StarbuckB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Arab28. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter?A. Hester PrynneB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Pearl29. __________was a romanticized account of Melville‟s stay among thePolynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville become known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.A. Moby DickB. TypeeC. OmooD. Billy Budd30. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as _________.A. The naturalist PeriodB. The Modern PeriodC. The Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic period31. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.A. The House of Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithdale Romance32. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?A. The Sketch BookB. Leaves of GrassC. Leatherstocking TAles..D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn33. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except_______________.A. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace34. Emily Dickinson‟s poetic idiom is noted for the following except_____________.A. brevityB. directnessC. plainestD. obscure35. “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent,perhaps, trough the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” Which of the following writings is the thought reflected in?A. Nathaniel Hawthorne‟s Y oung Goodman Brown.B. Mark Twain‟s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.C. Walt Whitman‟s Leaves of Grass.D. Herman Melville‟s Moby Dick.36. It is his _________that Washington Irving‟s fame mainly rested.A. tales about AmericaB. early poetryC. childhood recollectionsD. sketches about his European tours37. ________is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Walt WhitmanC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain38. In Hawthorne‟s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as __________________.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers39. Washington Irving‟s Rip V an Winckle is famous for__________________.A. Rip‟s escape into a mysterious placeB. The story‟s German legendary source materialC. Rip‟s seeking for happinessD. Rip‟s 20-year sleep40. The publication of ____________established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over Soul41. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson‟s?A. This is my letter to the worldB. I heard a Fly buzz-when I diedC. The Road Not TakenD. I like to see it lap the Miles42. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _________.A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experienceB. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonC. the modes of thinkingD. the thought that designates man as a social animal43. Which three novels drew from Melville‟s adventures among the people of the South Pacific island?A. TypeeB. OmooC. MardiD. Redburn44. In the poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of ______________.A. the theory of universalityB. singularity and equality of all beings in valueC. both A and BD. none above45. Most of the poems in Whitman‟s leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ___________as well.A. natureB. lifeC. selfD. self-reliance46. Emily Dickinson‟s poems(441) “This is my letter to the World”expresses the poet‟s _____________about her communication with the outside world.A. indignationB. joyC. anxietyD. indifference47. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. lyrical and well-structured.B. free-flowing.C. simple and rather crudeD. conversational and casual48. Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. NatureB. EssaysC. The Over-SoulD. Of Studies49. In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death______________.A. passionatelyB. pessimisticallyC. in despairD. peacefully50. Which book is not written by Emerson?A. Representative MenB. English Traits.C. NatureD. The Phodora.51.The Age of Realism in the literary history of the America refers to the period from ____to ___________.A. 1861-1914B. 1863-1918C. 1865-1914D. 1865-191852. ___________is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A. Henry JamesB. Emily DickinsonC.William Dean HowellsD. Mark Twain53. ___________explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era.A. Innocents AbroadB. The Gilded AgeC. Roughing ItD. The Middle Y ears54. _________is considered to be Theodore Dreiser‟s greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan55. ___________is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the writer in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.A. The AmericanB. The EuropeansC. Daisy MillerD. The Portrait of a Lady56. Stylistically, Henry James‟s fiction is characterized by ___________--.A. highly refined languageB. ordinary American speechC. short, clear sentencesD. abundance of local images57. _________- is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD. Tony58. ___________-- is not a novel by Henry James dealing with the international theme.A. What Maisie KnowsB. The Wings of the DoveC. The AmbassadorsD. The Golden Bowl59. The setting of __________is America, where some Europeans, who are actually expatriated Americans, learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life.A. MiddlemarchB. The EuropeansC. Daisy MillerD. The Portrait of a Lady60. Mark Twain‟s ___________shows the disastrous effects of slavery on the victimizer and the victim alike.A. The Mysterious StrangerB. Tragedy of Puff‟nhead WilsonC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It61. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?A. FreudB. DarwinC. W.D. Howells D. Emerson62. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19 th century American writers, is well known for his _________________.A. international themeB. wasteland imageryC. local colorD. symbolism63. In Henry James‟s Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an ambodiment of __________.A. the force of conventionB. the free spirit of the New WorldC. the decline of aristocracyD. the corruption of the newly rich64. The literary characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they __________--.A. speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemenC. are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savages (red and white) untainted by society65. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,_________ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism66. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _________________.A. transcendentalistsB. idealistsC. pessimistsD. impressionists67.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___________language.A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacular68. Henry James experimented with many different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being___________.A. nothingnessB. disillusionmentC. international themeD. relationship between men and women69. Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America‟s_____________.A. naturalistsB. realistsC. modernistsD. romanticists70. Dreiser‟s Trilogy of /Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and __________________.A. The StoicB. The GiantC. The TycoonD. The Genius71. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to __________.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. Moby Dick72. The impact of Darwin‟s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ___________-.A. modernismB. naturalismC. vernacularismD. local colorism73. Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which “all modern American literature comes”?A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Gilded AgeD. Life onthe Mississippi74. Mark Twain had led an active life in the very center of the American experience. He had been a ____________.A. printer, pilot, soldierB. silver-minor, gold washerC. lecturer, traveler, businessmanD. novelist, autobiographer75. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel________________.A.The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. The Iron Heel76. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named ____________-.A. The Son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of lifeD. White Fang77. The main theme of ___________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James‟B. William Dean Howells‟C. Mark Twain‟sD. Jack London‟s78. Stephen Crane‟s best stories include __________, _________ and _______________________, all reinforcing the basic Crane motif environment and heredity over-whelming man.A. Open BoatB. An ExperimentC. The Blue HotelD. The Red Badge of Courage79. Mark Twain stood on the side of China in its struggle against foreign invasions. His _______ and ________- are two notable examples of his vigorous attacks on the imperialist behaviour of the United States and other foreign countries in China.A. The Treaty with ChinaB. To the Person Sitting in DarknessC. Disgracefull Persecution of a BoyD. Golddsmith‟s Friend Abroad Again80. Dreiser was left-oriented in his views. He visited Russia and wrote _______- and _____________to express his new faith, and shortly before his death, he joined the Communist Party.A. Dreiser Look at RussiaB. Tragic AmericaC. An American TragedyD. The Titan81.In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?A. The Green Hills of AfricaB. The Snows of KilimanjaroC. To Have and Have NotD. Death in the Afternoon82. ___________-is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F.Scott FitzgeraldC. William /FaulknerD. Ezra Pound83. _________is Hemingway‟s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”.A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimeD.For Whom the Bell Tolls84.Fitzgerald‟s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of __________________.A. the Jazz AgeB. the Romantic periodC. The Renaissance PeriodD. the Neoclassical Period85. Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?A. Ezra PoundB. William Carlos WilliamsC. Robert FrostD. Theodore Dreiser86. In a tragic sense, _________is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible. A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. In Our TimeC. The Farewell to ArmsD. The Old Man and the Sea87. Faulkner once said that __________is a story of “lost innocence,”which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom88. Robert Frost combined traditional verse form---the sonnet, rhymingcouplets, blank verse---with a clear American local speech rhyme, the speech of ____________farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. southernB. westernC. New HampshireD. New England89. In which of the following poem by Ezra pound did you find the allusion to Vishang?A. In a Station of the Metro.B. The River-merchant‟s Wife: A LetterC. A PactD. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley90. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?A. J.D. SalingerB. Ezra PoundC. Righard WrightD. Ralph Ellison91. Sinclair Lewis‟ Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited ___________-.A. up-class mindB. middle-class mindC. proletarianD. ordinary people92. Y ank‟s sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man‟s ___________.A. loveB. homey relationsC. identityD. development93. In A Rose For Emily, Faulkner makes best use of ___________devices in narration.A. romanticB. realisticC. gothicD. modernist94. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different fro itspredecessors. It is always referred to as “_____________”.A. ImagismB. black humourC. new fictionD. the beat Generation95. As an autobiographical play, O‟Neill‟s ______________(1915) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.A. Long Day‟s Journey Into NightB. The Hairy ApeC. Desire Under the ElmsD. The Iceman Cometh96. Tender is the Night is a _____________by Fitzgerald.A. short storyB. novellaC. poemD. novel97. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _____________.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. Robert FrostD. Eugene O‟Neill98. From Eugene O‟Neill‟s works, we can see he is _____________.A. a man of optimismB. a man of pessimismC. a man of apathyD. a man of inactivity99. ____________-is Hemingway‟s first true novel, which portrays “The Lost Generation”.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. The Old Man and the SeaC. The Sun Also /RisesD. A Farewell to Arms100. _______________is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.A. Sinclair LewisB. Eugene O‟NeilleC. Arthur MillerD. Tennessee Williams101. ___________is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. The Sound and the Fury D Absalom, Absalom102. _____________stems from the ambiguity of the speaker‟s choice between safety and the unknown.A. Mending the WallB. Home …BurialC. The Road Not TakenD. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening103. Hemingway‟s writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences_________________-.A. in his childhoodB. in the warC. in AmericaD. in Africa104. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except________________.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest Hemingway105. __________fuses symbolism, poetry, and the affirmation of a pagan idealism to show how materialistic civilization denies the life---giving impulses and destroys the genuine artist.A.Desire Under the ElmsB. the Emperor JonesC. Lazarus LaughedD. The Great God Brown106. Most of Eugnen O‟Neille‟s plays are tragedies, dealing with ______________-.A. class conflictsB. human existence and predicamentC. racial discriminationD. domestic affairs107. __________is not considered to be one of the masters in the field of American fiction in the modernistic period.A. F.Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. Arthur MillerD. William Faulkner108. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both…” In the above two lines of Robert Frost‟s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to ______________.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one‟s course of life109. The American “Thirties”, lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period _____________-.A. povertyB. bleaknessC. important social movementsD. a new social consciousness110. ____________showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T.S. EliotD.E.E. Cummings111. Ezra Pound‟s long poem ________-contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab 112. Wallace Steven‟s “poetry is primarily motivated by the belief that true ideas correspond with an innate order in nature. Many of his good poems derive their emotional power from reasoned revelation. This philosophical intention is supported by the titles Stevens gave to his volumes such as ______________.A. HarmoniumB. Ideas of OrderC. Parts of a WorldD. All of the above113. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______________.A. The Roaring TwentiesB. The Jazz AgeC. The Dollar DecadeD. All of the above114. In 1954, ____________was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.A. T.S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner115. ____________wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upperclass; the rising ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labourned for both of them.A. FaulknerB. FitzgeraldC. HemingwayD. Steinbeck116.In Faulkner‟s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ______________, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. stream of consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalism 117. Most of the writers in the modern period were able to probe into the inner world of human reality on the base of ____________-.A. William James‟“stream of consciousness”B. Carl Jung‟s “collective unconscious” and “archetypal symbol”C. Sigmund Freud‟s “interpretation of dreams”D. All of the above118. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged than they were ______________.A. a Lost GenerationB. a Beat GenerationC. a Jazz GenerationD. none of the above119. Who is the author of the work: “The Grapes of Wrath”?A.John SteibeckB. Eugene O‟NeillC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD.Theodore Dreiser120. In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in _____________.A. Main StreetB. An American TragedyC. Winesburg. OhioD. Sister Carrie。
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1. “God helps them that help themselves.” is found in ____________work.A. Paine’sB. Franklin’sC. Freneau’sD. Jefferson’ｓ2. 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.3. “These are the times that try men’s souls”, these words were once read to Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas PaineC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington4. Which work is written by Freneau?A. The Right of ManB. The Wild honey SuckleC. Poor Richard’s AlmanacD. The Day of Doom5. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”？A. Anne BradstreetB. Edward TaylorC. Michael WiggleworthD. Philip Freneau6. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ___________.A. the microcosm of human societyB. the search for truthC. the unknown worldD. nature7.Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with _________________.A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings8. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers Americahas produced so far, Emerson and ____________-.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Nathanel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman9. ___________is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet letterC. WaldenD. Moby Dick10. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s ___________ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A History of New York11. 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 TalesB. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.D. Irving’s Rip Van Winkle.12. As a philosophical and literary movement, _________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____________, the narrator, MobyDick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. StarbuckB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Arab14. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.A. The House of Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithdale Romance15. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?A. The Sketch BookB. Leaves of GrassC. Leatherstocking Tales..D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn16. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except_______________.A. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace17. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except_____________.A. brevityB. directnessC. plainestD. obscure18. “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, trough the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” Which of the following writings is the thought reflected in?ung Goodman Brown.A. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s YoB. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.C. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.D. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.19. The publication of ____________established E merson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over Soul-mass” and the 20. Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of Grass sing of the “en___________as well.A. natureB. lifeC. selfD. self-relianceII. Fill into the blanks with suitable phrase or term. (2x10=20%).1.The American of Scholar is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”2.In 1620, a number of Puritans who tried to purify or reform the church of Englandstepped on the New England shore at Plymouth in the ship named Mayflower3.Among all the settlers in the New Continent, English settlers were the mostinfluential.4.In American Literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of Reason andRevolution.Autobiography he talks first of all about how he studied language.5.In Franklin’s6.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as Rip Van Winklewhich is about a good-natured lazy husband who falls into a 20-year sleep.7．Published in 1823, T he Pioneers was the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, in their order.8．Philip Freneau was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution” and the “Father of American Poetry.”two-year experiment at Walden9．A superb book Walden came out of Thoreau’spond.10．As one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain , thepen name of Samuel Langhorne. Clemens, usually wrote about his own personalexperiences and things he knew about from firsthand experiences.III. Match the writer in Column A with the works in Column B (1X10=10%)Column A Column Ba.Franklinb.John Smithc.William Cullen Bryantd.James Fennimore Coopere.Philip Freneauf.Washington Irvingg.Nathaniel Hawthorneh.Edgar Allan Poei.Ralph Waldo Emersonj.Walt Whitman1.( b) A Description of New England2.( h) The Raven3.( g) The Scarlet Letter4.( a) Autobiography5.( e) The Wild Honey Suckle6.( c) To a Waterfowl7.( d) The Deerslayer8 ( j)Leaves of Grass9.( f) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow10.( i ) Nature。
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美国文学史及选读第一册练习题I. Multiple Choice1. Who is different from others according to thedivision of writing period?A. Washington IrvingB. William CullenBryantC. Captain John SmithD. James FennimoreCooper2. The American Romantic Period lasted roughly from ____ to ____.A. 1798-1832B. 1810-1860C. 1860-1864D. 1776-17833. Who has been called the “Father of American Literature”?A. Walt ScottB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Washington IrvingD. Philip Freneau4. Who is the first American prose stylist that acquired international fame?A. Captain John SmithB. Washington IrvingC. Benjamin FranklinD.E. A. Poe5. Thomas Paine is a ____?A. novelistB. dramatistC. poetD.pamphleteer6. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes ____A. short storiesB. literary critic theoriesC. poemsD. dramas7. Which of the following is Not one of the mainideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of theIndividual B. Faith in ChristianityC. TheOver-Soul D.Self-Reliance8. Which of the following is Not optimistic abouthuman nature? .A. RalphEmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. NathanielHawthorne D.Henry Thoreau9. In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver WendellHolmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declarationof Independence B. Self-Relianc eC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar10. Which of the following statements about TheScarlet Letter is Not true? _____.A. It explores man’s never-ending search forthe satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between thesociety and the individual.C. It presents a psychological analysis of theinward tensions of the characters.D. It is about the effect of sin on the peopleinvolved and the society as a whole.11. According to Hawthorne, the scarletLetter “A” which originally stands for “_____”, finally obtains the meaning of “able” or “angel”through Hester’s efforts.A.arroganceB. adulteryC.agonyD. accomplishment12. _______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A.PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago13. ____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith14. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist15. As a literary and philosophical movement, ____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A.modernism B. rationalismC.sentimentalismD. transcendentalism16. “The Custom-House” is an introductory note to _____.A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance17. The setting of the novel The ScarletLetter is in ____.A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC.Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary WarII. Identify the author of the following works1. Moby Dick2. On Self-reliance3. The Last of Mohicans4. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow5. The House of Seven Gables6. The Fall of the House of the Usher7. Billy Budd8. Twice Told Tales9. Annabel Lee10. Walden。
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美国文学史及作品选读练习1I. Match the works with the authors given below. (10%)a.Michael Wigglesworthb. .Franklinc. John Smithd. William Cullen Bryante. James Fennimore Cooperf. Philip Freneaug. Washington Irving1.( ) A Description of New England2.( ) Rip Van Winkle3.( ) The Day of Doom4.( ) Autobiography5.( ) The Wild Huoney suckle6.( ) To a Waterfowl7.( ) The Deerslayer8 ( ) The Thanatopsis9.( ) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow10.( ) The SpyII. Blank Filling. （20%）1. The first permanent English settlement in North American was establishedat________, Virginia.2. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the ________values thatdominated much of the early American writing.3. The first American Literature was neither American nor really literature It was notAmerican because it was the work mainly immigrants from __________.4. __________ was regarded as the “Poet of the American Revolution.”5. In American Literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of ________ andRevolution.6. Annabel Lee ,a poem from_____________ ,mourns the death of a beautiful girl .7. The first important American novelist is ____________.8. _________was the first American to achieve an international literary reputationafter the Revolutionary War.9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is __________, who goes by thevarious names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathinder and Hawkeye.10. Thanatopsis is Bryant‟s best –known poem. The title of the poemmeans________.III.Multiple Choice （30%）1. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist_________.A. John WinthropB. John SmithC. William BradfordD. John Goodwin2. The Puritan dominating values were:A. hard workB. thriftC. pietyD. sobriety3. Which writer is not a poet?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Anne BradstreetC. Edward TaylorD. Thomas Hooker4.Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she beca me known as the “____________” who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse5. The 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.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Pequod6._______________ another important colonial poet, achieved wide popularity among his contemporaries with his gloomy entitled “ The Day of Doom”.A. Edward TaylorB. Michael WigglesworthC. Anne BradstreetD. Cotton Mather7.Franklin was the epitome of the ________.A.American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist8.The following proverbs------ There are no gains without pains.------ One today is worth two tomorrows.come from_________.AutobiographyPoor Richard‟s AlmanackThe Sketch BookA Description of New England9. Much of the beauty of the poem__________ lies in the sounds of the words and the effect created through changes in rhythm.A. To a WaterfowlB. ThanatopsisC The Wild Honey suckleD.The Indian Burying Ground10. _______usually start with standard characters----- the lazy husbands or the termagant wife.A. Washington IrvingB. James Fennimore CooperC. William Cullen BryantD Philip Freaneau11.Which poem is not written by Freneau?A .the British Prison ShipB. The Wild Honey SuckleC. The Indian Burying GroundD. The Day of Doom12. _____is the author of the work ‟The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‟.A. Washington IrvingB. James JoyceC. Walt WhitmanD. William Butler Yeats13. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.B. Irving‟s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imaginationcan hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.C. Irving‟s taste was essentially progressive or radical.D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected thebest classic style that American literature ever produced."14. In the early nineteenth century, American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did __________.A. PuritanismB. RomanticismC RationalismD. Sentimentalism15.Poe‟s first collection of short stories is __________.A. Tales of a TravellerB. Leatherstoking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueIV. Decide Whether the Statements Are True or False.(10%)1.American literature is the oldest of all national literature.2. The colonies that became the first United States were for the most part English.3.In 1620 a number of Puritans came to settle in Massachusetts .4.The seventeenth century American poets adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strangely –new environment.5.In Franklin‟s Poor Richard‟s Almanack, he talked first of all about how he stu died language..6. Philip was the first American Lyric poet of distinction , he could make his poems sing melodies that might be stately.7.The Wild Honey Suckle was suggested by the fact that some Indian tribes buried their dead in a sitting. .8. The Last of The Mohicans were the best work by Adgar Allan Poe.9.Freneau wrote impassioned verse in support of the American Revolution.10.In the poem Israfel , Poe expresses a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature.V. Explain the following literature terms.(10%)PuritanismVI .Identification of Fragments. ( 4%)1. I had begun in 1733 to study languages; I soon made my self so much a master of the French as to be able to read the books with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length refused to play any more…author:________________ work:_________________2.If nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the sameThe space between , is but an hour,The frail duration of a flower.Author:_______________ work: ________________VII. Read the quoted part and answer the questions: (16%). "Time grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on: a tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village.Questions:1) Please identify the author and the title of the work. (2%)2）Please give a summary of the story. 8%3) Give a brief analysis of the symbolic meaning of this work. (6%)参考答案：I(10%): 1.-5 C. G A .B F 6-10 D E D G EII. (20%)1. Jamestown2. Puritan3. England4. Philip Freneau5. reason6. Adgar AllanPoe7.James Fenimore Cooper 8. Washington Irving 9. Natty Bumppo 10. view ofdeathIII. (30%)1-5 B A D B C 6-10 B A B C A 11-15 D A C A DIV.(10%) F T T T F F F F T FV. (10%)1. Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans. The Puritans wereoriginally members of a division of he Protestant Church. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them Puritans. They came to America out of various reasons, but it should be remembered that they were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles .Puritans wanted to purify their religious beliefs and practices. They were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to complete “purity”. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. Puritans‟ lives were extremely disciplined and hard, but in the grim struggle for survival that followed after their arrival in America, they became more and more practical. As a culture heritage, Puritanism did have a profound influence on the early American mind. American Puritanism also had a enduring influence on American literatureVI. (4%) 1.Franklin Autobiography 2. Freneau The Wild Honey suckle VII. (16%)1) This is an excerpt from "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. (2%)2) (a) Rip Van Winkle was the hero in Irving‟s works. 1‟ He was a good-natured man,a henpecked husband. 1‟ (b) Because his wife‟s shrewish (泼妇一样的) treatment, Rip had to escape from his home to the little inn in the village. 1 … When it failed to giv e him some restful air, he had to go hunting in the high mountain, 1‟ where Rip met a stranger, and the man asked Rip to carry keg for him. Then Rip reached the place in the valley, where many strangers were playing nine-pins. 1‟ Later Rip got drunk aft er drinking the liquor, which made him sleep for 20 years. 1‟ (c) Rip woke up as an old man, entering the village learned that his wife had died, he got the freedom of his own, 1‟ and the American had been dependent from the control of Britain, he had changed from a subject of the King (George III) into a citizen of the independent new U.S. 1‟ ( 8%)3).Rip Van Winkle has been seen as a symbol of several aspects of America. 1‟ Rip, like America, is immature, self-centered, careless, anti-intellectual, imaginative, and jolly as the overgrown child. 1‟ The Dame is another symbol –of puritanical discipline and the work ethic of Franklin. 1‟ The town itself is emproblematic of America-forever and rapidly changing. 1‟ Washington Irving has Rip sleep throu gh his own country‟s history, and return to the “busy, bustling, disputatious” self-consciously adult United States of America. His conflicts and dreams are those of the nation-the conflict of innocence and experience, work and leisure, the old and the new, the head and the heart. 2。