英美文学复习资料2

I. Choose the right answer. (25 items, 50 points, 2 points for each)

1. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for

his_____.

A. international theme

B. waste- land imagery

C. local color

D. symbolism

2. Emily Dickinson’s verse is most aptly characterized as ______.

A. exposing the evils of the society

B. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets

C. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman

D. exhibiting sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as

love, death, immortality etc.

3. Which essay of Emerson is regarded as an unofficial manifesto for the

“Transcendental Club”?

A. Self-reliance

B. Nature

C. The American Scholar

D. The Over-soul

4. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______.

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

C. William

D. Howells D. Theodore Dreiser

5. Which of the following statements is said about most of the poems in Whitman’s

Leaves of Grass?

A.They identify his ego with the conservative America.

B.They celebrate the self and ignore sexuality.

C.They sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.

D.They reject the pursuit of love and happiness of individuals.

6. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are roughly divided into two kinds: those of ________.

A. horror and ratiocination

B. love and nature

C. horror and love

D. love and death

7. All the following are the works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT _____.

A .The Marble Faun B. Typee

C. The Scarlet Letter

D. Mosses from an Old Manse

8. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ____.

A. the strict poetic form

B. the free and natural rhythm

C. the easy flow of feelings

D. the simple and conversational language

9. I n Hawthorne’s novel and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as ________.

A. commentators

B. observers

C. saviors

D. villains

10. William Faukener is the author of ____

A. Far From the Madding Crowd

B. Sound and Fury

C. For Whom the Bell Toll s

D. Scarlet Letter

11. Who is the author of the work "The Grapes of Wrath"?

A. John Steinbeck

B. Eugene O'Neil

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. Theodore Dreiser

12. Which of the following statements can be said about the novel Sister Carrie?

A. Its heroine is a country girl, who strives to gain her material rise in big cities

but soon gets tired of her success.

B. Its heroine is a Southern aristocratic woman, who refuses to come to terms

with the present.

C. It tells about a young sailor, who struggles to reach the upper society but soon

gets disillusioned.

D. The heroine is a young vain girl, who indulges herself in grand parties and

luxurious trips but soon becomes penniless.

13. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _____.

A. indestructible spirit B .pessimistic view of life

C. war experiences

D. masculinity

14. After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to

Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.

A. Life on the Mississippi

B. The Gilded Age

C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

15. About Washington Irving, Father of American short stories, which of the

following statement is right?

A.Many of his writings focused on American subjects, landscapes, particularly

the legends of the Hudson River region of the fresh young land.

B.His writings preferred the Old World to the New.

C.As a writer, he always exalted a disappearing past.

D.He is well-known for his international theme across the Atlantic.

16.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?

A. Exquisite and elaborate language

B. Minute detailed description

C. Lengthy psychological analysis

D. American colloquialism

17. Which of the following indicates a permanent convention of American

literature which is evident in both of Cooper’s Leather-stocking Tales and

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

A.The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature.

B.The desire to push forward to the west frontier.

C.The self-reliance and independence of the individual.

D.Both A and B.

18.Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some

common features —, with the English Romanticists.

A.an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions

B.an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters

C.an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature

D.both A and B