American Literature(美国文学考试试卷)
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一、选择填空
1. William Faulkner is the author of Sound and Fury.
2．Robert Frost is a famous poet.
3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by Earnest Hemingway.
4．The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is Walden.
5．I Have a Dream is addressed by Martin Luther King.
6．Eugene O’Neil is an American playwright.
7. Grass is a poem written by Walt Whitman.
8．Moby Dick is the most important work by Herman Melville.
9. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his short stories.
10. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of naturalistic work.
11. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by Robert Frost.
12. “God help them that help themselves” is found in Franklin’s work.
13. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is The Waste Land.
14. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
15. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.
16. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be Scott Fitzgerald.
17. Emerson was the most important person of the transcendental club.
18. Eugene O’Neil has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and one Nobel Prize.
19. Gertrude Stein initiated the name of the Lost Generation.
20. On the Road is the representative work of the Beat Generation.
二、判断
1．Hawthorne was a symbolic writer in some sense. （√）2．Mark Twain was the father of American language. （√）3．American literature is the oldest of all the national literitures. （×）4．O. Henry paid little attention to plot in writing. （×）5．Eugene O’Neil is an American poet.（×）6．Daisy Miller is a great work by Mark Twain. （×）
7. Putting the stress on traditional values is a typical feature of modernism. （×）
8. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over Ezra Pound. （√）9．Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology. （×）10. According to Henry James,the aim of the novel is to reflect life reality. （√）11．To Hawthorne sin will get punished,one way or another. （√）12．Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology. （×）13．Hawthorne only touched upon the problem of love in The Scarlet Letter. （×）14．Allan Poe advocated "pure" poetry. （√）15．Scarlet Letter is a great work by Mark Twain. （×）
16. Mark Twain depicted the adventurous spirit of American people. （√）
17. Grass is a poem written by Carl Sandburg. （×）
三、选择连线
1. The Sound and the Fury Wiliam Faulkner
2. The American Scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Walden Henry David Thoreau
4. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. Moby Dick Herman Melville
6. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
7. The Gilded Age Mark Twain
8. The Call of the Wild Jack London
9. Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
10. The Waste Land T—S—Eliot