美国文学综合练习3附标答

1、Test Three (Chapter5-6 with answers)I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1. What President reportedly claimed that Uncle Toms Cabin started the Civil War? A. Grant B. McKinley

2、C. Lincoln D. Buchanan2. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of speech of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the_ of death，the title of the poem is I heard a Fly buzz when I died.A. moment B. suffering C. happiness D. meaning3. The poetic style Whitman devised is now c

3、alled _, that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A. sonnet B. Ballard C. epic D. free verse 4. By using the technique of contrast in Uncle Toms Cabin, Stowe describes two opposite fates of the slave: one gained freedom by rebellious struggle; the other died due to his submission

4、. Who they are?A. Tom and Cassy B. Eliza and Tom C. John and Tom D. Tom and Marie 5. More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature， in which her general _about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed. A. scepticismB. eulogyC. happinessD. denial6. In his cluster

5、 of poems called Leaves of Grass, _gave America its first genuine epic poem. A. Walt Whitman B. Emily Dickson C. Mrs. Stowe D. Robert Frost7. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's？ A. War and peaceB. Love and marriage C. Life and deathD. Religion

6、8. This is my letter to the World is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson's _about her communication with the outside world. A. happinessB. angerC. anxietyD. sorrow9. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from .to .A. 1861-1914B. 1863-1918C. 1865-1914D

7、. 1865-191810. is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A. Henry JamesB. Emily DickinsonC. William Dean HowellsD. Mark Twain11. is not the work of Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. Life on the

8、MississippiD. The Mill on the Floss12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is against .A. British colonistsB. slaveryC. chauvinismD. monocracy13. American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was .A. Jane AustenB. Watt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher Stow

9、e14. The novel _ is not written by Henry James.A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the DoveC. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger15. The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind is the title of one chapter in Dreisers novel _.A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. Ja

10、nnie Gerhardt16. The main theme of _ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the Novel.A. Henry Jamess B. Mark Twains C. Theodore Dreiser D. William Dean Howells17. Daisy Miller is written by .A. HawthorneB. TwainC. MelvilleD. James18. T

11、heodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary _which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. naturalismB. realismC. determinismD. humanism19. Mark Twain wrote most of his

12、 literary works with a _language. A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacular20. After The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book called_， and the book from which "all modern American literature comes." A. Life on the Mississippi River B

13、. The Gilded Age C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. The Sun Also Rises21. Winterbourne is used as a _in Henry James's "Daisy Miller." A. Protagonist B. Narrator of the events C. A character of central consciousnessD. Persona22. The author of "The Portrait of a Lady" is best

14、 at_. A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human life B. a truthful delineation of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women C. a dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on an international scene D. disclosing the s

15、ocial injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War23. In the following writers，who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "Stream-of-consciousness" novels and the founder of psychological realism_. A. Henry James B. Mark TwainC. Emily Dickenson D. Th

16、eodore Dreiser24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human "_". A. bestialityB. goodnessC. compassionD. greed 25. The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “ ”.A. The Gilded Age B. The Jazz AgeC. The Lost Age D. The Golden Age26. While Ma

17、rk Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, _ had apparently laid greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.A. Dreiser B. WhitmanC. James D. Fitzgerald 27. The works of _ are characterized with local colors.A. WhitmanB. Mark TwainC. DicksonD. James28. i

18、s regarded as “as true father of our national literature”.A. Mark TwainB. JeffersonC. FranklinD. Hemingway29. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is famous for its characterization of .A. Tom SawyerB. HuckC. Jim D. a runaway slave30. and the West Became Twains major theme.A. DeathB. The Mississippi valle

19、yC. AdventuresD. The South31. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain makes sharp contrasts between .A. life and deathB. adventures and terrorsC. wealth and povertyD. nature and culture (or wilderness and civilization)32. Henry James is famous for his novels of .A. love themeB. international themeC

20、. revolutionary themeD. pastoral theme33. _ realism is characterized by his psychological approach to his subject matter.A. Twains B. WhitmansC. JamessD. Steinbecks34. In the following statements, _ is not about the local colorism in American literary realism.A. Their writings are concerned with the

21、 life of a small, well-defined region or province.B. The characteristic setting is the isolated small town.C. Their materials were extensive or wide-ranging and the topics were connective.D. Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life, recorders of a present that

22、 faded before their eyes.35. _, a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time.A. The AmericanB. Daisy MillerC. The EuropeansD. The Portrait of a Lady 36. With the publication of , Henry Jamess reputation was firmly

23、established on both sides of the Atlantic.A. Daisy Miller B. The Portrait of A LadyC. The AmericanD. The Wings of the Dove37. Emily Dickinson got inspiration from in her writing of poetry.A. hymnsB. sonnetsC. free verse D. heroic couplets38. Mark Twains first novel _-, written in collaboration with

24、Charles D. Warner and published in 1873, though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize.A. The Gilded AgeB. The Age of Innocence C. The Roughing Time D. The Jazz Age39. Stylistically, Henry James fiction is characterized by _.

25、A. short, clear sentencesB. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD. highly refined language40. The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following except _.A. spiritual freedom B. escape from different sort

26、s of social oppressionC. mobility and instabilityD. a small society where people of different colors can live like brothers41. Twain had become national sensations after he reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields. The story is _.A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountryB

27、. Tramp AbroadC. The Gilded AgeD. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer42. Which is not true description of Mark Twain?A. He is known as local colorist, who preferred social life through portraits of the local characters of his regions.B. He portrayed uniquely American subjects in a humorous, colloquial, poe

28、tic language. C. He wrote about the lower-class people.D. He was an admirer of ancient European civilization.43. _ is generally considered to be James masterpiece, which incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment.

29、A. The Portrait of a Lady B. Daisy MillerC. An AmericanD. Sister Carrie44. Which of the following descriptions is true of Whitman?A. He often uses variations of meters, esp. iambic tetrameter.B. He uses long lines.C. He explores the inner life of he individual.D. He uses intense metaphors and a lot

30、of ellipsis. 45. In “Because I Could not Stop for Death”, the poet uses personification. Her companion is _.A. travelerB. horseC. deathD. carriage46. Which of the following works was not written by Henry James?A. Daisy MillerB. The Golden BowlC. The Beast in the JungleD. The Prince and Pauper47. _ w

31、as an American psychologist famous for his theory of “stream of consciousness”.A. Henry JamesB. William JamesC, Sigmund FreudD. William Faulkner48. An American Tragedy is a masterpiece by . A. HemingwayB. DreiserC. FaulknerD. Fitzgerald49. The impact of on the American thought and the influence of t

32、he 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to American naturalism.A. Darwins evolutionary theoryB. Marxist theoryC. TranscendentalismD. Puritanism50. In 1859, Darwin published The Origin of Species , which exerted great influence on American A. RomanticismB. RealismC.

33、 Modernism D. Naturalism II. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false. Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1. Mrs. Stowe has never passed her own opinion to her novel directly. ( )2. Closely related to Emily Dickinson's religious poetry are her poems concerning

34、Death and immortality. ( )3. The chief and immediate cause of the Civil War was slavery. ( )4. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 just after he was selected president of United States the first time. ( )5. The subject matters of Walt Whitmans poetry are always beautiful rural scenery

35、. ( )6. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as Naturalism in the literary history of the United States. ( )7. After the Civil War, disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilden” one. ( )8. Mark Twains later

36、works unmistakably showed his change from an optimist and humorist to an almost despairing determinster. ( )9. The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is Henry Jamess Daisy Miller. ( )10. American Naturalism, like realism, had come from Europe. ( )11.

37、 “Local Colorism” is a unique variation of American literary romanticism.( )12. The Portrait of A Lady is one of the representative works of Henry James.( )13. 20th Century American literature is also called the Age of Realism. ( )14. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim have their journe

38、y to freedom on the Hudson River. ( )15. Twains humor is only of witty remarks mocking at small things or of farcical elements making people laugh. ( )16. Most of Emily Dickinsons poems were published posthumously.( )17. Darwins impact of the idea “survival of the fittest” on Dreiser is great.( )18.

39、 James in 1915 became a naturalized British citizen. ( ) 19. Dreiser successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society. ( )20. Darwinism was a big influence over the writers of the modern period. ( ) III. For each of the quotations listed

40、below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken 1. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest

41、. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. 2. I a

42、m satisfied - I see, dance, laugh, sing; As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty, Shall I postpone my acceptation and real

43、ization and scream at my eyes, That they turn from gazing after and down the road, And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent, Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?3. But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent m

44、an, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he? 4. “Masr, if you was sick, or in trouble, o

45、r dying, and I could save ye, Id give ye my hearts blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, Id give em freely, as the Lord gave his for me. Oh, Masr! dont bring this great sin on your soul! It will hurt you more thant will me! Do the worst you ca

46、n, my troublesll be over soon; but, if ye dont repent, yours wont never end!” 5. Sitting alone, she was now an illustration of the devious ways by which one who feels, rather than reasons, may be led in the pursuit of beauty.  Though often disillusioned, she was still waiting for that halcyon d

47、ay when she would be led forth among dreams become real.  Ames had pointed out a farther step, but on and on beyond that, if accomplished, would lie others for her. It was forever to be the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world.  6. From a Child

48、I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books. Pleasd with a Pilgrims Progress, my first Collection was of John Bunyans Works, in separate little Volumes. In fact, the quality of this small ripe country seemed as sweet to her as the taste of an Oc

49、tober pear; and her satisfaction was at the root of the good spirits which enabled her to take her cousins chaff and return it in kind. If her good-humour flagged at moments, it was not because she thought herself ill-used, but because she suddenly felt sorry for Ralph. It seemed to her that he was

50、talking as a blind and had little heart in what he said. 7. As the eyes of half the regiment swept in one machinelike movement, there was an instants picture of a horse in a great convulsive leap of a death wound and a rider leaning back with a crooked arm and spread fingers before his face. On the

51、ground was the crimson terror of an exploding shell, with fibers of flame that seemed like lances. A glittering bugle swung clear of the riders back as fell headlong the horse and the man. In the air was an odor as from a conflagration. 8. Because I could not stop for DeathHe kindly stopped for me T

52、he Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality 9. Isabel thought this a better answer than she admitted; it was a tolerable description of her own manner of judging, but it would not have sounded well fro her to say so. On the lips of a person less advanced in life and less enlightened by experience than Mrs. Touchett such a declaration would savour of immodesty, even of arrogance. She risked it nevertheless in talking with Ralph, with whom she talke