美国文学史及选读试卷

Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)

1.______was the first colony in American history.

A. Massachusetts

B. New Jersey

C. Virginia

D.Georgia

2. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One

of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on

this young nation.”

A. John Smith

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Thomas Jefferson

D.Thomas Paine

3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.

A. common sense

B. imagination

C. intuition

D. individualism

4. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________

A. Philip Freneau

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Emily Dickinson

5. 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. Sunflower

B. Armada

C. Mayflower

D. Titanic

6. Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in

pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

A. Typee

B. Omoo

C. White Jacket

D. Moby Dick

7. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England

from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A.Modernism

B.Rationalism

C.Sentimentalism

D.Transcendentalism

8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Sister Carrie

C. The Great Gatsby

D. The Old Man and Sea

9. 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. materialistic

C. psychological

D. religious

10. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.

A. Rationalism

B. Romanticism

C. Neoclassicism

D. Enlightenment

11. ________ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.

A. T. S Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Ezra Pound

D. Walt Whitman

12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?

A. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing

close friends.

B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.

C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.

D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.

13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _______.

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Theodore Dreiser

14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?

A. The Old Man and Sea

B. A Farewell to Arms

C. Sound and Fury

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

15. Which one is NOT the characteristic 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 Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.

D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.

I.Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)

Column A Column B