英语专业美国文学试题exercise

Exercise Two

Ⅰ. Write the names of the authors.(10%)

1.The Prince and the Pauper

2.The Red Badge of Courage

3.“A Clean, Well Lighted Room”

4.Call of the Wild

5.“Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

6.“A Station at the Metro”

7.“Fire and Ice”

8.The Autobiography

9.“One’s Self I sing”

10.The Scarlet Letter

. Fill in the following blanks. (10%)

1.In the novel , Hemingway described the

dignity and courage of the common people during the Spanish Civil War.

2.

was a great inventor, diplomat, and founding father of the United States of America.

3., the earliest well-known American

naturalist writer, wrote a novel about the American Civil War.

4.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway became the spokesman

for what Gertrude Stein had called “”.

5.____________________, writing well before the Modern Poetry movements of

the 20th century, is often considered the “father of modern poetry.”

. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate (15%)

1. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?

A It is an early expression of naturalist writing.

B It is full of symbolism.

C It is argues the distinction between “sins of passion” and “sins of principle”

D It is considered a “romance” by its writer because it shows fantastic events and does not limit itself to strict, literal reality.

2. 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

3. _____ was known as the founder of the American short story.

A Washington Irving

B Mark Twain

C Jack London

D O. Henry

4. Ezra Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______.

A French symbolism

B The Beat Generation

C confessional poetry

D Imagism

5. 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 sentimentalism

B romanticism

C realism

D naturalism

6. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme.

A blank verse

B heroic couple

C free verse

D iambic pentameter

7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot 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 Jazz Age

B The Gilded Age

C The Roaring Age

D The Beat Age