2014秋华师作业《美国文学》

美国文学作业

选择：

1．The scarlet letter “A”in the novel The Scarlet Letter at first stands for _____________. B.adultery 2．Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___.

A.The Purloined Letter

3．The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by _____________. B.Thomas Paine 4．the sound ａnd the fury is a novel written by __________. D.William Faulkner

5．The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---. C. T. S. Eliot

6．the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ａnd the grａndeur that was rome”were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________. B.To Helen

7．Among the following titles, only one is not among the Leather-Stoking Tales series. It is______.D.Moby Dick 8．“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of the universal being circulate through me;

i am part ｏr particle of god.”the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay __________. B.Nature 9．The short poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”was written by _________. B.William Carlos Williams 10．The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---. A. O. Henry

11．“by nature’s self in white arrayed\ she bade thee shun the vulgar eye,\ ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\ ａnd sent soft waters murmuring by; \ thus quietly thy summer goes,\ thy days declining to repose.”the rhyme scheme of the lines above is ______________. B.ababcc

12．In Poe’s tale “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the major female character Madeline is the titular hero Usher’s _____________. D.sister

13．Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---. A. John Steinbeck

14．The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________. B.Natty Bumpo

15．Puritans emphasized a ____God. B.wrathful

16．In 1881, Henry James published his novel____, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.

D.The Portrait of a Lady

17．_______, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of the The Sea Wolf, best realizes the ideal of the “Superman.”

B.Wolf Larsen

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

19．The School Room Poets did not include _____. D.Poe

20．According to Mathew Arnold, one poem written by William Cullen Bryant was the “most perfect brief poem in the language”. The title of the poem is __________. B.“To a Waterfowl”

21．“Civil Disobedience”is a famous essay written by ___________. B.Henry David Thoreau

22．The first American writer to win an international fame is ___. C.Washington Irving

23．A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was written by _______. B.Mark Twain

24．Among the following writers, only one does not belong to the naturalistic school. He is___. A.Henry James 25．The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.

C.Henry David Thoreau

26．“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie”is a comment made by james russell lowell on the female characters in novels written by______. B.James Fenimore Cooper

27．Among the following short stories, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is _________.

D.the pit ａnd the pendulum