华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库(1)及满分答案

华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库（1）

及满分答案

内容摘要： A poetic line of two feet is called ___________.A.monometerB.dimeterC.trimeterD.tetrameter答案:B"The Spectre Bridegroom" was written...

A poetic line of two feet is called ___________.

A.monometer

B.dimeter

C.trimeter

D.tetrameter

答案:B

"The Spectre Bridegroom" was written by the American author ---.

A.Washington Irving

B.Nathaniel Hawthorne

C.James Feminore Cooper

答案:A

The poem “Thanatopsis” was written by __________.

A.Emily Dickinson

B.William Cullen Bryant

C.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

答案:B

Among the following philosophers, only one did not have an influence over the writings of Jack London. He is________.

A.Karl Marx

B.Nietzsche

C.Spencer

D.Foucault

答案:D

Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---.

A. John Steinbeck

B.Sherwood Anderson

C.Sinklair Lewis

答案:A

Among the following fictions written by John Steinbeck, only one is about the Second World War. It is ______________.

A. “The Snake”

B. The Grapes of Wrath

C. “The Moon Is Down”

D.“The Pearl”

答案:C

Nathaniel Hawthorne gave a definition to the term "romance" in his Preface to the novel ---.

A.The House of the Seven Gables

B.The Scarlet Letter

C.The Marble Faun

答案:A

the sound ａnd the fury is a novel written by __________.

A.Stephen Crane

B.Theodore Dreiser

C.Macbeth

D.William Faulkner

答案:D

After the success of ____, Herman Melville became known as a man who lived among cannibals.

A.Typee

B.White Jacket

C.Omoo

D.Moby Dick

答案:A

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 values

B.rigid ideas of social status

C.bigotry ａnd eccentricity

D.harmony ａnd integrity

答案:D

___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga.

A.deerslayer

B.pathfinder

C.hawkeye

D.Mohican

答案:D

Twice-told Tales is a collection of stories written by ___.

A.Nathaniel Howthorne

B.Edgar Ellan Poe

C.Washington Irving

答案:A

The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________.

A.Henry David Thoreau

B.Ralph Waldo Emerson

C.Henry James

答案:B

the village near boston in which both emerson ａnd thoreau lived was called _________.

A.Boston

B.Concord

C.Jamestown

答案:B

Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---. A.Henry James