美国文学期末复习题

1、文档大全2013-2014-1 美国文学史及选读期末复习材料实用标准文案I Multiple choices1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common SenseB.The American CrisisC. The Rights of ManD.The Autobiography2. “ These are the times that try men s souls ” , these words were once read to Washington s troops and did much to spur excite

2、ment to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas PaineC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the .A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist Moveme

3、ntC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable to.A. the colonial orderB. religious obscurantismC. the Puritan traditionD. the secular literature5. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Cont

4、inental Congress adopted in 1776.A. Declaration of IndependenceB.the Sugar ActC. the Stamp ActD.the Mayflower Compact6. usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William Bradford B. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith7. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made

5、 such a stir in England that she became known as the “ ” who appeared in America.A. Ninth Muse B. Tenth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse8. Who was considered as the “ poet of American RevolutionA. Anne BradstreetC. Michael Wigglesworth9. In 1817, the stately up to that time.A. Edward TaylorC. William

6、 Cullen BryantB. Edward TaylorD. Philip Freneaupoem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poetto appear in AmericaB. Philip FreneauD. Edgar Allen Poe10. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne in .s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan BostonA. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Mar

7、ble Faun D.The Ambitious Guest11. “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul Spirit is present everywhere ” . This isthe voice of the bookNature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a newphase, the phase of New England .A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism C. Naturalism D.

8、 Symbolism12. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. Nature B. Walden C. On Beauty D. Self-Reliance13. Mark Twain created, in great books of world literature.赛用 TheAdventure of Huckleberry Finn, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of theC.14.A .C.

9、The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg marks the climax of Mark TwainThe Adventure of Huckleberry FinnLife on the MississippiD.B.D.The Adventure of Tom SawyerThe Gilded AgesB.literary creativity.The Gilded AgeThe Adventure of Tom Sawyer15. Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.A. The Ambas

10、sadorsC. The BostoniansB.D.The Wings of the DoveThe Mysterious Stranger16. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be.A. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionists17. Ezra Pound s long poem contained more than one hundred poems

11、 loosely connected.A. The Waste Land B. The Cantos C. Don Juan D. Queen Mab18. T. S. Eliot s first major poem (1917), has been called the first masterpiece ofmodernism in English.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. The Waste LandC. Four QuartetsD.Preludes19. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded i

12、n Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel.A. The Old Man and the SeaB.For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD.A Farewell to Arms20. In William Faulkner s The Soundand the Fury , he used a technique called , in

13、whichthe whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. stream of consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalism21. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and , there arose a kind of teachingsof transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry Da

14、vid ThoreauC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser22. A New had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spreadto continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century.A. realism B. critical realism C. romanticism D. naturalism23. From Henry David Thoreau s

15、jail experience, came his famous essay, which states Thoreau s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense24. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .A. interna

16、tional themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism25. Herman Melville s is an encyclopedia of everything: history, philosophy religion,etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB.Moby DickC. White JacketC. Billy Budd26. The sh

17、ip “ ” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way acrossthe Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Pequod27. From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous , an annualco

18、llection of proverbs.赛用TheAUtobiography B.Poor Richard ' s AlmanacC. Common Sense D.The General Magazine28. In American literature, the eighteen-century was the age of the Enlightenment. wasthe dominant spirit.A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution29. was the most leading spirit o

19、f the Transcendental Club.A. Henry David Thoreau B. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman30. Edgar Allen Poe s first collection of short stories is .A. Tales of a TravelerB.Leatherstocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD.Tales of the Grotesque of Arabesque31. was a romanticized account

20、 of Herman Melville s stay amongthe Polynesians. The successof the book soon made Melville well known as the“ man who lived among cannibals ” .A. Moby Dick B. Typee C. Omoo D. Billy Budd32. Which is regarded as the “ Declaration of Intellectual Independence” ?A. The American Scholar B. English Trait

21、sC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men33. The three dominant figures of the realistic period in American literature are.A. Theodore Dreiser, Emily Dickinson and William Dean HowellsB. Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean HowellsC. Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser and William Dean HowellsD. Mar

22、k Twain, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howells34. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This wasA. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher35. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named.A. The Son of t

23、he WolfB.The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD.White Fang36. In Henry James Daisy Miler , the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of .A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New WorldC. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich37. “ The apparition of

24、these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is theshortest poem written by .A. T.S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E.E.Cumings38. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. ScotFitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining thei

25、r friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as.A. The Roaring Twenties B. The Jazz Age C. The Dollar Decade D. all of the above39. In 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his“ mastery of the artof modern narration ” .A. T.S Eliot B. Ernest

26、 Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faukner40. William Faukner s novel describes the decay and downfall of an old southernaristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, toldfrom four different points of view.A. The Sound and the FuryB. StartorisC. The UnvanquishedD. The Town41. “The Lure

27、 of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit" is the title of one chapter in Dreiser'家novel文案.A. An American DreamB.Sister CarrieC. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.Jannie Gerhardt42. The main theme of The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of th

28、e novel.A. Henry James ' B. William Dean Howells ' C. Mark Twain ' s D. O. Henry ' s43. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,became themajor trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalism B. romanticism C. realism D. na

29、turalism44. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novelRome,A. The Call of the Wild B. The Sea Wolf C. Martin Eden D. The Iron Heel 45 is a novella about a

30、 young American girl who gets “killed " by the winter in and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.A. The AmericanB.The EuropeansC. Daisy MillerD. The Portait of a LadyAnswers: 1-5 DBCDA 6-10 DBDCA 11-15 BAAAD 16-20 CBADA 21-25 BCCCB 26-30 CBBBD 31-35 BABCA 36-40 BCDBA 41

31、-45 BACCC n Filling the following blanks with proper answers1. Captain John Smith became the first American writer.2. The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people.3. The first major intellectual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay colony was John Cotton, sometimes called“the Patriarch of Ne

32、w England. ”4. Anne Bradstreet published The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America , and she was nicknamed the tenth Muse.5. Poor Richard ' s Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin.6. Thomas Paine ' s famous pamphlet CommonSense boldly advocated a “ Declara

33、tion for Independence ”.7. Thomas Jeffersondrafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.8. Philip Freneau developed a natural, simple, and concrete diction, best illustrated in such nature lyrics as“The Wild Honey Suckle " and &

34、quot;The Indian Burying Ground ".9. Philip Freneau has been called the“Father of American Poetry ".10. In Washington Irving' s Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the firstgreat American juvenile literature.11. Cooper' s enduring fame rests on his frontier stori

35、es, especially the five novels that comprise the Leatherstocking tales .12. “To a Waterfowl " is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant' s wok.13. “Thanatopsis ” , William Cullen Bryant ' s best-known poem, consists of four stanzas in iambic tetrameter abab. The title means“ view of

36、death ".14. Edgar Allan Poe is considered “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories ".15. Emerson believed above all in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance.16. In Walden, Thoreau thought it better for a man to work one day a week and rest six, and

37、 the rest Bftheime could be devoted to thought.17. Hawthorne ' s stories touch the deepest roots of man' s moral nature.18. MobyDick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.19. After his death, Longfellow became the only American to be

38、 honored with a bust in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey.20. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author ofUncle Tom' s Cabin , had become an American institutionand the most famous literary woman in the world.21. William Dean Howells found his subject matter in the experiences of the American middle

39、 class.22. William Dean Howells called for the treatment of the“smiling aspects of life" as beingthe more aAmerican.”23. The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment. 24. The poetic st

40、yle Walt Whitman devised is now called free verse. 25. O Henry' s stories are usually short and interesting; Famous for their surprising end. 26. Henry James is famous for his international theme of the traditionless American confronting the complexity of European life.27. Jack London believed i

41、n the inevitable triumph of the strongest individuals.28. Dreiser ' s greatest and most successful novel, An American Tragedy, is about a young man who acts as if the only way he can be truly fulfilled is by acquiring wealththrough marriage ifnecessary.29. Writers of the first postwar era self-c

42、onsciously acknowledged that they were a" LostGeneration, " devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.30. Wallace Stevens ' work is primarily motivated by the belief that“ideas of order ".31. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway became the spokesman for wh

43、at Gertrude Stein had called “a lost generation. ”in Decide whether the statements are true or false (T/F).1. John Winthrop ' s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been regarded as the first distinct American literature written in English.2. In 1612, William Bradford publi

44、shed in England a book calledA Map of Virginia ; With adescription of the country.3. Philip Freneau was neoclassical by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was recognized as the leader of transcendentalist movement, but he always applied the term “Transcendenta

45、list " to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.5. To Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, the tellingof a tale was a way of inquiring intothe meaning of life.6. Walt Whitman was attacked in his lifetime for his offensive subject matter of sexuality and for his conventional style.7. Tom Sawye

46、r walked out of Twain ' s pages directly from his fresh memory of his boyhood in the west.8. Hurstwood is a character in Theodore Dreiser' s Sister Carrie .9. In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights.10. Edwin Arlington Robinso

47、n began his career as a novalist in bleakness and poverty.文档大全11. The greatest of America s realists, such as Henry James and Mark Twain, moved well beyond a superficial portrayal of nineteenth-century America.12. Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Mark Twain or Wi

48、lliam Dean Howells.13. Sister Carrie is generally regarded as Theodore Dreiser s masterpiece.14. Generally speaking, Jack London was much more interested in ideas than Stephen Crane and less sentimental than Frank Norris.15. Ralph Waldo Emerson s prose style was sometimes as highly individual as his

49、 poetry.16. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.17. Georgia, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, New England, all were named after French monarchs and lands.18. Benjamin Franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassic ideals of clarity, restraint, sim

50、plicity and balance.19. The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Edgar Allan Poe s poems.20. The Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century. It is an elaboration of a fact which the author took out of the life of the Puritan past.21. Walt Whitman was so great that he won respect and love durin

51、g his lifetime for hisLeavesof Grass .22. Many of O. Henry s stories contain a lot of slang and colloquial expressions, just like his own speech.23. Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Mark Twain or William Dean Howells.24. Robert Frost rejected the revolutionary po

52、etic principles of his contemporaries, and chose “ the old-fashioned way to be new ” instead.25. John Steinbeck s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own co

53、mmercial advantage.26. Transcendentalists spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society.27. Washington Irving was the first great belletrist, writing always for pleasure, and to produce pleasure.28. James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stor

54、ies: the sea adventure tale and the frontier saga.29. Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.30. “ Young Goodman Brow”n seems to prove everyone possesses some evil secrets1-5 FFTFT 6-10FTTFF 11-15 TFFTT 16-20 FFTFT 21-25FFFTT 26-30 TTTTTN Answer the following questi

55、ons briefly.1. These are the times that try men s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot willin this crisis shrink from theservice of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves thelove and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this cons

56、olation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly This dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.Questions:(1)Which book is this passage taken from?(2)Who is the aut

57、hor of this book?(3)Whom is the author praising? Whom is the author criticizing?(4)What重0 you think of the language?Answers:(1) The American Crisis.(2) Thomas Paine(3) Paine is praising those who stand “ it ” , it referring to “ the service of their country ” . In the meantime, Paine is criticizing

58、those who shrink from the service of their country in this crisis.(4) The language is plain, impressive and forceful. Paine himself once said that his purpose asa writer was to use plain language to make those who can scarcely read understand and to fit the powers of thinking and the turn of language to the subject, so as to bring out a clear conclusion that sh