美国文学习题

1. William Faulknerw(福克纳)is the author of ______.

a. Far From the Madding Crowd

b. Sound and Fury（喧嚣与骚动）

c. For Whom the Bell Tolls

d. Scarlet Letter

2.The great transcendental 超验的work by Henry David Thoreau is______.

a. Nature

b. Walden瓦尔登湖

c. Experience

d. Essays

3. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

a. This is my letter to the world 这是我给世界的信

b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died我听到苍蝇的嗡嗡声——当我死时

c. This is just to say

d. Because I could not stop for death因为我不能停下来等待死神

4.Sister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹is a masterpiece of _______work. Dreiser

a. romantic

b. classic

c. neo-classic

d. naturalistic 自然主义

5.“God help them that help themselves” is found in ______’s work.

a. Franklin

b. Freneau

c. Jefferson

d. Paine

6.Daisy Miller is a great work by _____.

a. Henry James 娘娘腔

b. Mark Twain

c. Dreiser

d. Stowe

7. Hester is a character in ______.

a. Gone with the Wind

b. The Fall of the House of Usher

c. Babbitt

d. Scarlet Letter

8. . Jack London’s ______is his patently autobiographical novel.

a. The Call of the Wild

b. The Sea Wolf

c. Martin Eden

d. The Iron Heel

9.The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.

a. John Steinbeck

b. John Cheever

c. John Updike

d. John Dos Passos

10. . The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be______.

a. O’Neil

b. Pound

c. Robert Frost

d. Scott Fitzgerald Jazz Age

11. _____was the most important person of the transcendental club. 超验主义

a. Hawthorn

b. Whitman

c. Emerson

d. Thoreau

12. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?

a. Hemingway

b. Fitzgerald

c. Gertrude Stein

d. William Faulkner

13. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over

____.

a. Ezra Pound

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Robert Frost

d. Emily Dickinson

14. Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by______. Rose for Emily

a. Willa Cather

b. Doris Lessing

c. William Faulkner

d. Nathaniel Hawthorn

15. ______is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.

a. The Raven

b. Annabel Lee

c. The Fall of the House of Usher

d. Song to Celia

16.Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by _____.

a. Jack London

b. Sinclair Lewis

c. William Faulkner

d. Ernest Hemingway

17._____is the au thor of the work ’The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’.

A. Washington Irving

B. James Joyce

C. Walt Whitman

D. William Butler Yeats

18. "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity", which author of the following authors does the mention belong to________.

A. Washington Irving

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Walt Whitman

19. . Walt Whitman is radically innovative in the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject is__________.

A. free verse

B. blank verse

C. lyric poem

D. heroic couplet

20. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

A. naturalism

B. realism

C. determinism

D. humanism

21.Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?

A. Cambridge.

B. Oxford.

C. Mississippi.

D. Yoknapatawpha.