美国文学史试题2

I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases and

put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)

1. The Puritan philosophy known as was important in New England during colonial time and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations. .

2. The term The Gilded Age is given by to describe the post-civil war years.

3. Roger Chillingworth is a character in the novel of______.

4. ’s poems have the musical qualit y and romantic beauty. To Helen is his famous poem.

5. is the summit of American Romanticism.

6. The first important American novelist was .

7. In 1845, Thoreau began a two year residence at Pond.

8. The American Romantic Period covers from the end of the 18th century through the outbreak of the .

9. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is .

10. The characters in American naturalistic works are passive and controlled by heredity and _____ .

11. Fr anklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece ______ .

12. Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win international fame.

13. With the publication of Emerson’s in 1836,American Romanticism reached its summit.

14. The international theme is a major theme in the novels of .

15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called .

答案:1. Puritanism 2. Mark Twain 3. The Scarlet Letter 4. Allan Poe

5. Transcendentalism

6. Cooper

7. Walden

8. Civil War

9. Ezra Pound 10. social environment 11. Autobiography 12. Sketch Boo 13. Nature 14. Henry James 15. free verse

II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers

or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)

1. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”?

A. The Financier

B. The Titan

C. The Stoic

D. An American Tragedy

2. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?

A. Mark Twain

B. Jack London

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Frank Norris

3. The imagist poets followed three principles, they are , direct treatment and economy of expression.

A. blank verse

B. rhythm

C. free verse

D. common

speech

4. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortest poem written by .

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C.Ezra Pound

D. Wallace Stevens

5. Which of the following novels was Not written by Ernest Hemingway?

A. The Old Man and the Sea

B. A Farewell to the Arms

C. The Sun Also Rises

D. The Sound and the Fury

6. The Waste Land is written by .

A. Robert Frost

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Carl Sandburg

D. Ezra Pound

7. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and of the early settlements.

A. journals

B. poetry

C. drama

D. folklores

8. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly .

A. prolific

B. artistic

C. optimistic

D. pessimistic

9. believed that nature is ennobling and the individual is divine.

A. postmodernists

B. transcendentalists

C. realists

D. naturalists

Herman Melville’s is not only an adventure story, but also a significant philosophical work on spiritual exploration.

A. Moby Dick

B. The Egg

C. Nature

D. The Over-Soul

11. Which of the following novels was notwritten by Jack London?

A. The Sea Wolf

B. To Build a Fire

C. The Call of the Wild

D. Martin Eden

12. Who is the man who put into many of Emerson’s theories into practice?

A. Thoreau

B. Poe

C. Hawthorne

D. Whitman

13. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poem The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter writ ten by .

A. T. S. Eliot

B.Robert Frost

C.Ezra Pound

D. Carl Sandburg

14. The author of The Great Gatsby is .

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Ezra Pound

C. F. S. Fitzgerald

D. Emily Dickinson

15. Sister Carrie finally became a famous .

A. teacher

B. nurse

C. actress

D. scientist