专八英美文学习题-美国文学

A 1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of ________ century.

A .the 18th

B the 19th

C the 20th

D the 21th

A 2. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.

A . American Enlightenment B. Sugar Act

C. Chartist movement

D. Romanticist

A 3. The main form of the early American Literature is _______.

A. poetry

B. drama

C. novel

D. essay

A 4. The first American writer is______.

A. John Smith

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Philip Freneau

D. Thomas Paine

C 5. ________ is perhaps the most outstanding writer of the Post-Revolutionary period.

A. John Smith

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Philip Freneau

D. Thomas Paine

A 6. _______ is perhaps the most of Benjamin Franklin‘s quoted of all his writings.

A. Poor Richard’s Almanac

B. Rights of Man

C. The Autobiography

D. Common Sense

D 7. ______ is considered as the ―Father of American Poetry‖.

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Thomas Paine

C. John Smith

D. Philip Freneau

D 8. _______ is Thomas Paine‘s famous pamphlet.

A.. The Age of Reason

B. Agrarian Justice

C. The American Crisis

D. Common Sense

A 9. ______ descriptions of America laid a foundation for the American literature.

A. John Smith‘s

B. John Johnson‘s

C. John Nowel‘s

D. John Webster‘s

D 10. ______ was appropriately born into an age of the Revolution of Independence.

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. John Smith

C. John Webster

D. Thomas Paine

C 11. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the_______.

A. revolutionism

B. reason

C. individualism

D. rationalism

B 12. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment and _______ was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Revolution

D. Evolution

B 13. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of _______.

A. Thomas Hood

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. George Washington

D 14.Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?

A. Common Sense

B. The American Crisis

C. Pennsylvania Magazine

D. The Autobiography

D 15. Which poem is not written by Philip Freneau?

A. The British Prison Ship

B. The Wild Honey Suckle

C. The Indian Burying Ground

D. The Day of Doom

D 16. Which of the following does not belong to this literary period?

A. The American Crisis

B. The Federalist

C. Declaration of Independence

D. The Waste Land

B 17. From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous __________, an annual collection of proverbs.

A. Autobiography

B. Poor Richard’s Almanac

C. Common Sense

D. The General Magazine

A 18. ________ is often regarded as one of America‘s earliest naturalist poets. Sometimes called ―the American Worthsworth,‖ he looked nature and the American landscape for evidence of the divine and for poetic inspiration.

A. William Cullen Bryant

B. Edgar Allen Poe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Walt Whitman

A 19. Which of the following works is regarded as the Declaration of Intellectual Independence‖?

A. The American Scholar

B. English Traits

C. The Conduct of Life

D. Representative Men

D 20. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ________.

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Jane Austen

C. Katherie Anne Porter

D. Emily Dickinson

B 21. In the middle of the 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called ―______‖.

A. the English Renaissance

B. the American Renaissance

C. the Second Renaissance

D. the Salem Renaissance

A 22. ______ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism in the history of American literature.

A. New England Transcendentalism

B. England Transcendentalism

C. the Harlem Renaissance

D. New Transcendentalism

C 23. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is right?

A. It's a love story and a story of sin.

B. It's not a highly symbolic story though the author is a master of symbolism.

C. It's mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main

characters and the people in general.

D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.

D 24 Moby-Dick is usually considered ______.

A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe

B. a spiritual exploration into man's deep reality and psychology

C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure

D. both A and B

A. 25. Dickinson's poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys. But

many of her little lyrics concern ______.

A. the whole human beings, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and nature

B. the lower-class working people who live a life of poverty and sordidness

C. the middle-class people who live in confusion and in void of faith

D. the upper-class people who live in comfort and idleness

C 26. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called ______, that is ______.

A. hymn…poetry with chanting refrains

B. blank verse…poetry witho ut rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat

C. free verse…poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme

D. ode…poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings

B 27. One of the features of Emily Dickinson's poetry is that ______.

A. they are long and whimsical in imagery

B. they are short and often based on one single image

C. they are very musical and colorful

D. they are very political and situational

D 28. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features…______, with the English Romanticists.

A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions

B. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters

C. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature

D. both A and B

A 29. As a philosophical and literary movement, transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War, whose most important representatives are ______.

A. Emerson and Thoreau

B. Emerson and Whitman

C. Hawthorne and Melville

D. Edgar Poe and James Cooper

A 30. Hawthorne‘s unique gift was for the creation of ______ which touch the deepest roots of man‘s moral nature.

A. symbolic stories

B. romantic stories

C. gothic stories

D. humorous stories

D 31. Which of the following is not written by Herman Melville?______

A. Typee and Omoo

B. Mardi and White Jacket

C. Moby-Dick and Pierre

D. The Bostonians and Billy Budd

C 32. The novel Moby Dick shows the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against ______.

A. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forces

B. the gliding great demon of the seas of life

C. the white whale

D. the savage harpooners and the motley crew

C 33. In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of ______.

A. a happy and active life

B. adventurous experiences

C. a single household and an inactive life

D. a hard and suffering life

A 34. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving's ______ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Tales of a Traveller

C. A History of New York

D. The Scarlet Letter

A 35.As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______.

A. nature, man and the universe

B. the relationship between man and woman

C. the development of Romanticism in American literature

D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

D 36. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not right?

A. It's very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.

B. It's a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.

C. It's mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main

characters and the people in general.

D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.

A 37. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson‘s poetry?

A. Dickinson‘s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way.

B. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.

C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.

D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.

A 38. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered______.

A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.

B. an adventurous exploration into man's relationship with nature

C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure

D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty

A 39. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called ―______‖.

A. free verse

B. blank verse

C. alliteration

D. end rhyming

C 40. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed.

A. man and man

B. men and women

C. man and nature

D. man and God

A 41. Washington Irving‘s ______ became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the 19th century.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Charles the Second

C. The Scarlet Letter

D. Moby Dick

D 42. Despite strong foreign influences, American romantic writings are typically American which can be revealed in the following __________.

A. a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling nature

B. the American national experience of ―pioneering into the west‖

C. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction

D. all of the above

A 43. In the well-known story ―Rip V an Winkle‖Rip falls into sleep for 20 years, during which __________ takes place.

A. the Revolutionary War

B. the Civil War

C. the War for Independence

D. World War I

D 44. According to Emerson, which of the following is said about nature?

A. Nature is emblematic of the material world, alive with God‘s overwhelming presence.

B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human mind.

C. Without nature man can improve himself and become spiritually whole.

D. Both A and B.

C 45. Which of the following statements is said about most of the poems in Whitman‘s Leaves of Grass?

A. They identify his ego with the conservative America.

B. They celebrate the self and ignore sexuality.

C. They sing of the ―en-masse‖ and the self as well.

D. They reject the pursuit of love and happiness of individuals.

D 46. The subjects of Emily Dickinson‘s poems are mainly about the following except__________.

A. religion

B. death and immortality

C. love and nature

D. man and morality

C 47. All of the following can be said of Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s works excep t _________.

A. man‘s moral nature

B. the dark side of the human character

C. the impact of nature on human spirit

D. sin and deliverance

B 48. Which of the following statements about American Romantic literature is right?

A. Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe are the forerunners of the literary movement of New

England Transcendentalism in the 19th century.

B. The forest Y oung Goodman Brown goes to during his night journey is literally a place

where the evil beings rustle about.

C. For Emerson and his disciples, material economy is good for spiritual.

D. Rip V an Winkle feels happy and fortunate to be with his family again after he comes back

from the woods.

B 49. In his famous poem Song of Myself, Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs: the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value, and the theory of ______, which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things.

A. nationality

B. universality

C. nature

D. community

B 50. Moby Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ________based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.

A. romanticism

B. realism

C. naturalism

D. surrealism

C 51. In the poem ―I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—‖ Emily Dickinson gives a tense description of the greatest rending of the moment of ________.

A. love

B. immortality

C. death

D. nature

C 52. Which of the following is not right about the characteristics of Emily Dickinson‘s poetic writing?

A. Her poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way.

B. Her poems have no titles and a particular stress pattern.

C. Her poems are usually rather long and rarely less than 20 lines.

D. Her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness.

D 53. Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of American literature is NOT true?

A. In most of the American writings of this period there was a new emphasis upon the

imaginative and emotional qualities of literature.

B. The writers of this period placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of

emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.

C. There was a strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man.

D. Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of reason and

nationality.

C 54. The New England Transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in New England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _________ in Boston.

A. Classicism

B. Calvinism

C. Unitarianism

D. Puritanism

D 55. In the following statements, _________ is NOT true about Washington Irving‘s famous story ―Rip V an Winkle‖ .

A. The story is not only well-known for Rip‘s 20-year sleep but also considered a model of

perfect English in American literature.

B. The story is set against the background of the inevitably changing America.

C. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past are revealed, to some extent,

in the story.

D. Irving describes Rip‘s response and reaction in a dramatic way, so that we see clearly both

the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past.

A 56. As one of Hawthorne‘s most profound tales, Young Goodman Brown is written in the manner of its concern with_________.

A. guilt and evil

B. good and bad

C. moral and corruption

D. destruction and hope

D 57. Which of the following is NOT among the artistic features of Whitman‘s writing?

A. Free verse.

B. The use of the poetic ―I‖.

C. Allegory.

D. Musicality and rhythm.

C 58. More than five hundred poems Emily Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general _________ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.

A. denial

B. eulogy

C. skepticism

D. happiness

B 59. Ralph W. Emerson‘s first little book _________ established him as the most eloquent spokesman of Transcendentalism.

A. Essays

B. Nature

C. The American Scholar

D. The Over-Soul

A 60. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.

A. common sense

B. imagination

C. intuition

D. individualism

B 61. Which of the following statements concerning the basic tenets of American Transcendentalism is NOT correct?

A. Individualism is elevated by the Transcendentalists.

B. Intuition is less important than experience.

C. Nature is only another side of God.

D. Transcendentalists have a new and delightful thrill in nature.

D 62. Melville‘s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

A. Typee

B. Omoo

C. White Jacket

D. Moby Dick

C 63. Hester Prynne i s the heroine in Hawthorne‘s novel ______.

A. Moses from an Old Manse

B. Twice-Told Tales

C. The Scarlet Letter

D. The Blithedale Romance

D 64. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A. Modernism

B. Rationalism

C. Sentimentalism

D. Transcendentalism

A 65. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ______.

A. Rip Van Winkle

B. Legend of the Alhambra

C. Life of Goldsmith

D. Life of Washington

B 66. We can summarize that Wal t Whitman‘s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they are ______.

A. conventional and casual

B. lyrical and well structured

C. simple and rather crude

D. free-flowing

C 67. ―This is my letter to the World‖ is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson‘s ______ about her communication with the outside world.

A. indifference

B. anger

C. anxiety

D. sorrow

A. 68. _____ has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the ―Transcendental Club‖.

A. Nature

B. The American Scholar

C. Walden

D. Civil Disobedience

A 69. _____ is a symbol of microcosm of the world we are living in.

A. The Pequod

B. Moby Dick

C. The Scarlet Letter

D. Nature

B 70. _____ held a ―black‖ vision of life and human beings.

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. James Fenimore Cooper

C 71. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possible read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT_____.

A. malignancy

B. beauty

C. adultery

D. God

C. 72. According to Emerson, man‘s capacity is _____.

A. ambiguous

B. limited

C. infinite

D. subsidiary to God

C. 73. _____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.

A. Nature

B. Walden

C. Moby Dick

D. The Scarlet Letter

A. 74. Whitman‘s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT______.

A. a strict poetic form

B. a simple and conversational language

C. a free and natural rhythmic pattern

D. an easy flow of feelings

A. 75._____ is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of

considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century.

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Emily Brontё

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. George Eliot

D. 76. According to Emerson, which of the following is said about nature?

A. Nature is emblematic of the material world, alive with God‘s overwhelming presence.

B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human mind.

C. Without nature man can improve himself and become spiritually whole.

D. Both A and B.

A. 77. Henry David Thoreau‘s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.

A. Walden

B. The Pioneers

C. Nature

D. "Song of Myself"

D. 78. ―Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind‖is a famous quote from ______‘s writings.

A. Walt Whitman

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Herman Melville

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A. 79. ?Leaves of Grass‘ commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.

A. the democratic ideals

B. the romantic ideals

C. the self-reliance spirits

D. the religious ideals

B 80. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was to behave as a supreme_________.

A. democrat

B. individualist

C. romanticist

D. leader

C. 81. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ___________.

A. The Naturalist Period

B. The Modern Period

C. The Romantic Period

D. The Realistic Period

D. 82. Washington Irving‘s ―Rip Van Winkle‖ is famous for_________.

A. Rip‘s escape into a mysterious

B. The story‘s German legendary source material

C. Rip‘s seeking for happiness

D. Rip‘s 20-years sleep

C. 83. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?

A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.

B. Irving‘s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be

ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.

C. Irving‘s taste was essentially progressive or radical.

D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who ―perfected the best classic

style that Ame rican literature ever produced‖.

A. 84. The publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.

A. Nature

B. Self-Reliance

C. The American Scholar

D. The Over-Sou l

D. 85. All the following nove ls are in Cooper‘s Leatherstocking Tales except ________.

A. The Pioneers

B. The Prairie

C. The Deerslayer

D. The Spy

C. 86. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmeasas: Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence".

A. ―Self-Reliance‖

B. ―Divinity School Address”

C. ―The American Scholar‖

D. ―Nature‖

A. 87. _____is the most ambivalent (有争议的) writers in the American literary history.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Walt Whitman

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Mark Twain C. 88. ________is the writer of ―There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity‖.

A. Washington Irving

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Walt Whitman

B. 89. In Hawthorne‘s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as________.

A. saviors

B. villains

C. commentators

D. observers

B. 90. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_______.

A. The House of the Seven Gables

B. White Jacket

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Blithedale Romance

A. 91. 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

A. 92. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?

A. Lyrical and well-structured.

B. Free-flowing.

C. Simple and rather crude.

D. Conversational and casual.

A. 93. ―The horizon‘s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.‖ The two lines are taken from____________.

A. ―There Was a Child Went Forth‖ by Walt Whitman

B. ―In a Station of the Metro‖ by Ezra Pound

C. ―Cavalry Crossing a Ford‖ by Walt Whitman

D. ―Ulysses‖ by Joyce

A. 94. ―Moby Dick‖ is regarded as the first American_________.

A. Prose epic

B. Comic epic

C. Dramatic fiction

D. Poetic fiction

B 95. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT________.

A. mystery of the universe

B. sin of the whale

C. power of the great Nature

D. evil of the world

C. 96. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is____, therefore, self-reliant.

A. insignificant

B. vicious by nature

C. divine

D. forward-looking

B. 97. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______ and Thoreau.

A. Jefferson

B. Emerson

C. Freneau

D. Over-soul

A. 98.Transcendentalists recognized _______ as the ―highest power of the soul‖.

A. intuition

B. logic

C. data of the senses

D. thinking

D. 99. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in _______.

A.James Fenimore Cooper‘s Leatherstocking Tales

B.Henry David Thoreau‘s Walden

C.Mark Twain‘s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D.All of the above

A. 100. Herman Melville‘s _______ is not only an adventure story, but also a significant

philosophical work on spiritual exploration.

A. Moby Dick

B. The Egg

C. Nature

D. The Over-Soul

D. 101. In the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following items.

A. moral enthusiasm

B. faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception

C. adoration for the natural world

D. all of the above

B. 102. Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s first book _______ is the fundamental document of his philosophy, and expresses his constant, deeply felt love for love for the natural scenes.

A. Walden

B. Nature

C. Daisy Miller

D. Leaterstocking Tales

D. 103. From the following, choose the characteri stics of Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s poetry.

A. being highly individual

B. lack of form and polish

C. striking images

D. all of the above

A. 104. Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A. ―Of Studies‖

B. ―Self-Reliance‖

C. ―The American Scholar‖

D. ―The Divinity School Address‖

C. 105. Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?

A. Hester Prynne

B. Mr. Hooper

C. Ahab

D. Pearl

B. 106. The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is a novel about ________.

A. American Civil War

B. American Revolution

C. American West Expansion

D. The First World War

B. 107. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________

A. Philip Freneau

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Emily Dickinson

B. 108. The Minister’s Black Veil was written by ________.

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. 109. A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to

continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.

A. Realism

B. Critical realism

C. Romanticism

D. Naturalism

B. 110. Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, ―Rip V an Winkle‖, from a

________.

A. Greek legend

B. German legend

C. French legend

D. English legend

A. 111. ―Rip V an Winkle‖is found in Irving‘s longer work, ________.

A. The Sketch Book

B. History of New Y ork

C. Tales of a Traveler

D. The Precaution

B. 112. Who is called ―the true father of our national literature‖ by the writer H. L. Mencken?

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Mark Twain

C. Hemingway

D. William Faulkner

A. 113. In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, which was still a big influence upon the writers of this period, there were two thinkers _____ whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.

A. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud

B. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud

C. the Swiss Car Jung and the American William James

D. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud

D. 114. The American realists approached the harsh realities and pressures in the post-Civil war society by _____.

A. a comprehensive picture of modern life in its various occupations, class stratifications and

manners

B. a psychological exploration of man‘s subconsciousness

C. a disillusion of heroism resulting from the dark memories of the Civil War

D. both A and B

C. 115. By the turn of the century, with the publication of The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Mysterious Stranger, the change in Mark Twain from ______ to _____ could be felt.

A. an optimist...an almost despairing pessimist

B. an almost despairing pessimist...an optimist

C. a local colorist...a naturalist

D. a naturalist...a local colorist

B. 116. About the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller, which of the following is not right?

A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.

B. She comes from the new world but remains traditional and conservative.

C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new world.

D. The author‘s sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome was

easily felt.

D. 117. About Henry James‘ literary criticism, which of the following is not right?

A. It is both concerned with form and devoted to human values.

B. He indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life in every possible form.

C. He advocates the freedom of the artist to write about anything that concerns him.

D. He believes that the artist can‘t feel the life, but he can understand human nature in their

own way.

A. 118. The characters presented by the naturalist writers were _____.

A. more often than not dominated by their environment and heredity

B. usually idealized heroes or heroines of unspotted virtue and dazzling accomplishments

C. in most cases examples of human experience

D. people who were simply all good or all bad

D. 119. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?

A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.

B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.

C. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh

environment.

D. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes,

their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.

A. 120. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain's style of language?

A. His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.

B. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.

C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition

and anti-climax.

D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.

D. 121. Which of the following is not written by Henry James?

A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans

B. The Wings of the Dov e and The Ambassadors

C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians

D. The Genius and The Gilded Age

C. 122. The great American realist Henry James treated with great care _________ in the first period.

A. ancient European civilization which is satirized severely in his writings

B. the emotional and moral problems of Americans in Europe, or Europeans in America

C. the clashes between two different cultures, European and American

D. both B and C

D. 123. Theodore Dreiser, one of the great American naturalist writers, emphasized determinism in his works and therefore created characters who _________ .

A. were always haunted by their past memories and could not reconcile themselves with the

realities

B. could never get rid of the control of their environment and heredity

C. were punished for the sins of their ancestors and could never get their salvation

D. without any exception ended up in tragic deaths

A. 124. Which of the following statements can be said about the novel Sister Carrie?

A. Its heroine is a country girl, who strives to gain her material rise in big cities b ut soon gets

tired of her success.

B. Its heroine is a Southern aristocratic woman, who refuses to come to terms with the

present.

C. It tells about a young sailor, who struggles to reach the upper society but soon gets

disillusioned.

D. The heroine is a young vain girl, who indulges herself in grand parties and luxurious trips

but soon becomes penniless.

A. 125. In Henry James‘ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of_____.

A. the free spirit of the New World

B. the corruption of the newly rich

C. the force of conviction

D. the change of the social force

D. 126. Henry James‘s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _______.

A. the love and marriage theme

B. the theme of humor and satire on life

C. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism

D. the internati onal theme

A 127. The three dominant figures in the period of Realism of America are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and________.

A. Henry James

B. Tom James

C. James Joyce

D. Henry Joyce

D 128. The use of ________ in his writings has made Mark Twain one of the major literary

figures in the 19th century American literature.

A. point of view

B. stream-of-consciousness

C. interior monologue

D. vernacular

A. 129. _______ is generally considered to be Henry 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.

A. The Portrait of a Lady

B. The Golden Bowl

C. Daisy Miller

D. The Turn of the Screw

A. 130. Which one of the following statements is NOT true about the theme of ―The Art of Fiction‖?

A. The aim of the novel is to present art itself.

B. The artist has the freedom to write about anything that concerns him.

C. The artist should be able to ―feel‖ the life, to understand human nature and to record them.

D. The writer can write human experiences explored in every possible form: illusion, despair,

reward, delight, etc..

A. 131. In his ―Trilogy of Desire‖, Theodore Dreiser‘s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century. The ―Trilogy of Desire‖ includes The Financial, The Titan and ________.

A. The Stoic

B. The Genius

C. An American Tragedy

D. Jennie Gerhardt

D. 132. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century ________ novels and the founder of psychological realism.

A. local

B. color

C. physical

D. stream-of-consciousness

C. 133. ____ is not among the artistic features of Whitman‘s writing.

A. The use of the poetic ―I‖

B. Free verse

C. Musicality or rhythm

D. Allegory

A. 134. The realistic period is referred to as ―the Gilded Age‖ by ______.

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Theodore Dreiser

B. 135. ______, being a boy‘s book specially written for the adults, is Mark Twain‘s most representative book.

A. Roughing It

B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

C. Life on the Mississippi

D. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. 136. As a realist, Mark Twain concerned particularly about the local character of a region, which came about as ―_______‖.

A. Naturalism

B. Transcendentalism

C. Local Colorism

D. both A and C

B. 137. Realism was a reaction against_____ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.

A. Rationalism

B. Romanticism

C. Neoclassicism

D. Enlightenment

A. 138. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name _____.

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

C. William

D. Howells D. Theodore Dreiser

A. 139. _____ is considered the founder of Psychological realism.

A. Henry James

B. Jack London

C. Mark Twain

D. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. 140. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.

B. They portrayed misery and poverty of the ―underdogs‖, who were demonstrably victims

of society and nature.

C. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme of human

―bestiality,‖ especially an explanation of sexual desire.

D. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.

D. 141. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James‘s writing style?

A. Exquisite and elaborate language

B. Minute detailed description

C. Lengthy psychological analysis

D. American colloquialism

C. 142. The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to .

A. 1861 – 1914

B. 1863 – 1918

C. 1865 – 1914

D. 1865 – 1918

B. 143. Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"

A. Tom Sawyer

B. Huckleberry Finn

C. Jim

D. Tony

C. 144. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .

A. international theme

B. waste-land imagery

C. local color

D. symbolism

C. 145. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named .

A. The son of the Wolf

B. The Sea Wolf

C. The Law of Life

D. White Fang

B. 146. Sister Carrie written by _____ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature.

A. Sinclair Lewis

B. Theodore Dreiser

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. H.L. Mencken

C. 147. Mark Twain‘s ____ tell s a story of his boyhood ambitious to become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.

A. Roughing It

B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

C. Life on the Mississippi

D. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

B. 148. Stephen Crane‘s style has been called reali stic, _____ and impressionistic.

A. romantic

B. naturalistic

C. classical

D. imagining

A. 149. _____ is the scene of Dreiser‘s Sister Carrie.

A. New Y ork

B. Chicago

C. California

D. Washington

C. 150. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _____ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.

A. sentimentalism

B. Romanticism

C. realism

D. naturalism

D. 151. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of

American poetry.

A. Ezra Pound

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Robert Frost

D. Both A and B

A 152. . __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po

(Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.

A. Ezra Pound

B. Robert Frost

C. T. S. Eliot

D.

E. E. Cummings

B. 153. . Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely

connected.

A. The Waste Land

B. The Cantos

C. Don Juan

D. Queen Mab

D. 154. When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President__________ .

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Theodore Roosevelt

C. Abraham Lincoln

D. John F. Kennedy

D. 155. . Carl Sandburg had also taken interest in folk songs which he tried to collect and sing during his

travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well-known___________ .

A. Good Morning, America

B. The People, Yes

C. In Reckless Ecstasy

D. The American Songbag

A. 156.. The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose

name was_________________ .

A. Sinclair Lewis

B. Thomas Stearns Eliot

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. William Faulkner

A. 157. . Thomas Stearns Eliot's first major poem____________ (1917), has been called the first

masterpiece of modernism in English.

A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

B. The Waste Land

C. Four Quartets

D. Preludes

D. 158. . The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F.

Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their 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 above

D. 159. . Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in 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 Sea

B. For Whom the Bell Tolls

C. The Sun Also Rises

D. A Farewell to Arms

B. 160. . __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm

in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.

A. Of Mice and Men

B. The Grapes of Wrath

C. The Great Gatsby

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

A. 161. In William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique

called_____________ , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts o f one char-acter.

A. stream of consciousness

B. imagism

C. symbolism

D. naturalism

A. 162. . William Faulkner's novel___________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, toid from four different points of view.

A. The Sound and the Fury

B. Startoris

C. The Unvanquished

D. The Town

B. 163. William Faulkner's novel___________ is about a poor white family' s journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown, Yoknapatawpha.

A. Intruder in the Dust

B. As I Lay Dying

C. Absalom, Absalom!

D. Light in August

A. 164. .The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.

A. Age of Realism

B. Age of Clasicalism

C. Age of Romanticism

D. Age of Renaissance D. 165. . Which of the following works is regarded as the first American prose epic?

A. Nature

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. Walden

D. Moby-Dick

D. 166. . In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for .

A. Adultery

B. Angel

C. Amiable

D. All the above

C. 167. . The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .

A. the Naturalist Period

B. the Modern Period

C. the Romantic Period

D. the Realistic Period

C. 168. . The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to .

A. 1861 – 1914

B. 1863 – 1918

C. 1865 – 1914

D. 1865 – 1918

B. 169. . The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American .

A. modernism

B. naturalism

C. vernacularism

D. local colorism

D. 170. . Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?

A. Ezra Pound

B. William Carlos Williams

C. Robert Frost

D. Theodore Dreiser

B. 171. . Who is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?

A. Sinclair Levis

B. Eugene O'Neil

C. Arthur Miller

D. Tennessee Williams

B. 172 . The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except .

A. William Faulkner

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. John Steinbeck

D. Ernest Hemingway

B. 173. In 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".

A. T.S. Eliot

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. John Steinbeck

D. William Faulkner

A. 174.. In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in .

A. Main Street

B. An American Tragedy

C. Winesburg, Ohio

D. Sister Carrie

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