美国文学常识练习题
美国文学练习题
1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.
a. Far From the Madding Crowd
b. Sound and Fury
c. For Whom the Bell Tolls
d. Scarlet Letter
2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.
a. novelist
b. playwright
c. poet
d. literary critic
3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________.
a. Jack London
b. Charles Dickens
c. Samuel Coleridge
d. Earnest Hemingway
4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
a. Allegory
b. Conflict
c. Irony
d. Flashback
5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______.
a. Nature
b. Walden
c. Experience
d. Essays
6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of
_____and serious literature.
a. American folk humor
b. funny jokes
c. English folklore
d. American values
7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation
after the Revolutionary War?
a. Fennimore Cooper.
b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.
c. Walt Whitman.
d. Washington Irving.
8. I Have a Dream is addressed by _____.
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Martin Luther King
d. Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?
a. This is my letter to the world
b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
c. This is just to say
d. Because I could not stop for death
10. Eugene O’Neil is an American ______.
a. novelist
b. playwright
c. poet
d. essayist
11. 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 Classicalism
c. Age of Romanticism
d. Age of Renaissance
12. With “Collected Poems”, ______won the second Pulitzer Prize.
a. Ezra Pond
b. e. e. cummings
c. Robert Frost
d. William Cullen Bryant
13. Grass is a poem written by _______.
a. Walt Whitman
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Langston Hughes
d. Allen Ginsberg
14. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.
a. Jack London
b. Herman Melville
c. Sinclair Lewis
d. Ralph Ellison
15. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.
a. novels
b. poems
c. short stories
d. dramas
16. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
a. Tender Is the Night
b. Anna Christie
c. The Beautiful and Dammed
d. The Great Gatsby
17. The American literature in modern period is divided into two parts by the event of ______.
a. the expatriate movement
b. the Great Depression
c. the First World War
d. the Second World War
18. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire?
a. The Titan
b. The Financier
c. The “Genius”
d. The Stoic
19. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
a. William Faulkner
b. John Steinbeck
c. Saul Bellow
d. Earnest Hemingway
20. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _______work.
a. romantic
b. classic
c. neo-classic
d. naturalistic
21. The Octopus is written by ________.
a. Frank Norris
b. Sherwood Anderson
c. Willa Cather
d. Stephen Crane
22. James Baldwin’s most famous short story is _______.
a. A Rose for Emily
b. The Story of an Hour
c. Sonny’s Blues
d. A Clean, Well-lighted Place
23. ________wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.
a. Arthur Miller
b. Thomas Pynchon
c. John Updike
d. Wallace Stevens
24. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.
a. Robert Frost
b. Longfellow
c. Ezra Pond
d. Carl Sandburg
25. “God help them that help themselves” is found in ______’s work.
a. Franklin
b. Freneau
c. Jefferson
d. Paine
26. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is ______.
a. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
b. A Boy’s Will
c. The Waste Land
d. The Golden Bough
27. Daisy Miller is a great work by _____.
a. Henry James
b. Mark Twain
c. Dreiser
d. Stowe
28. Hester is a character in ______.
a. Gone with the Wind
b. The Fall of the House of Usher
c. Babbitt
d. Scarlet Letter
29. 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
30. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s _______.
a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c. Life on the Mississippi
d. The Prince and the Pauper
31. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _______.
a. Walt Whitman
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Martin Luther King
32. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.
a. John Steinbeck
b. John Cheever
c. John Updike
d. John Dos Passos
33. ______is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.
a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
b. The Glass Menagerie
c. Light in August
d. A Streetcar Named Desire
34. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.
a. Flannery O’Conner
b. Saul Bellow
c. Ralph Ellison
d. Sherwood Anderson
35. ______is NOT among the postwar poets in modern American literature.
a. Robert Lowell
b. Gary Synder
c. Allen Ginsberg
d.
e. e. cummings
36. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by_____.
a. Washington Irving
b. Fennimore Cooper
c. Edith Wharton
d. William Dean Howells
37. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be______.
a. O’Neil
b. Pound
c. Robert Frost
d. Scott Fitzgerald
38. _____was the most important person of the transcendental club.
a. Hawthorn
b. Whitman
c. Emerson
d. Thoreau
39. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_______.
a. religion
b. love and marriage
c. life and death
d. war and peace
40. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its predecessors. It is referred to as ______.
a. Imagism
b. black humor
c. new fiction
d. the Beat Generation
41．Stephen Crane is famous for ________and other stories.
a. An American Tragedy
b. The Ambassadors
c. Main Street
d. The Red Badge of Courage 42．______has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and one Nobel Priz
e.
a. Earnest Hemingway
b. John Steinbeck
c. Eugene O’Neil
d. William Faulkner
43．Beloved is the masterpiece of _______.
a. Tony Morrison
b. Ralph Ellison
c. John Dos Passos
d. Willa Cather
44．Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
a. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.
b. To put the stress on traditional values.
c. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.
d. To advocate a conscious break with the past.
45．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
46．Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?
a. Hemingway
b. Fitzgerald
c. Gertrude Stein
d. William Faulkner
47．The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around ______.
a. 1820
b. 1850
c. 1880
d. 1920
48．The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.
a. Nature
b. Self-Reliance
c. The Over-Soul
d. The American Scholar 49．Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.
a. Ezra Pound
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Robert Frost
d. Emily Dickinson
50．_______is the representative work of the Beat Generation.
a. The Great Gatsby
b. On the Road
c. Look Back in Anger
d. The Sun Also Rises
51．Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by______.
a. Willa Cather
b. Doris Lessing
c. William Faulkner
d. Nathaniel Hawthorn
52．Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as well as a _______writer.
a. classical
b. transcendental
c. postmodernist
d. realistic
53．Who is considered the father of American poetry?
a. Philip Freneau
b. William Cullen Bryant
c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
d. Henry David Thoreau
54．In America, “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. Edith Wharton
d. Catharine Anne Porter
55．______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
56．Arthur Miller is an American _____.
a. novelist
b. poet
c. playwright
d. essayist
57．Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by _____.
a. Jack London
b. Sinclair Lewis
c. William Faulkner
d. Ernest Hemingway
58．________is featured by black humor.
a. Caricature
b. Catch-22
c. The Catcher in the Rye c. Death of a Salesman 59．Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?
a. Pearl Buck
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Tony Morrison
d. Katharine Mansfield
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b
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5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by ___. 6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ___ and Thoreau. 7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? 8.____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.
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1.C aptain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.T he puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.T homas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.
5.T homas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.I n Washington Irving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
8.C ooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”.
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History And Anthology of American Literature （6） 附：作者及作品 一、殖民主义时期The Literature of Colonial America 1．船长约翰·史密斯Captain John Smith 《自殖民地第一次在弗吉尼亚垦荒以来发生的各种事件的真实介绍》 “A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony” 《弗吉尼亚地图，附：一个乡村的描述》 “A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country” 《弗吉尼亚通史》“General History of Virginia” 2．威廉·布拉德福德William Bradford 《普利茅斯开发历史》“The History of Plymouth Plantation”3．约翰·温思罗普John Winthrop 《新英格兰历史》“The History of New England” 4．罗杰·威廉姆斯Roger Williams 《开启美国语言的钥匙》”A Key into the Language of America” 或叫《美洲新英格兰部分土著居民语言指南》 Or “A Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New England ” 5．安妮·布莱德斯特Anne Bradstreet 《在美洲诞生的第十个谬斯》 ”The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America” 二、理性和革命时期文学The Literature of Reason and Revolution 1。本杰明·富兰克林Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ※《自传》“ The Autobiography ” 《穷人理查德的年鉴》“Poor Richard’s Almanac” 2。托马斯·佩因Thomas Paine (1737-1809) ※《美国危机》“The American Crisis” 《收税官的案子》“The Case of the Officers of the Excise”《常识》“Common Sense” 《人权》“Rights of Man” 《理性的时代》“The Age of Reason” 《土地公平》“Agrarian Justice” 3。托马斯·杰弗逊Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ※《独立宣言》“The Declaration of I ndependence” 4。菲利浦·弗瑞诺Philip Freneau (1752-1832) ※《野忍冬花》“The Wild Honey Suckle” ※《印第安人的坟地》“The Indian Burying Ground” ※《致凯提·迪德》“To a Caty-Did” 《想象的力量》“The Power of Fancy” 《夜屋》“The House of Night” 《英国囚船》“The British Prison Ship” 《战争后期弗瑞诺主要诗歌集》 “The Poems of Philip Freneau Written Chiefly During the Late War” 《札记》“Miscellaneous Works” 三、浪漫主义文学The Literature of Romanticism 1。华盛顿·欧文Washington Irving (1783-1859) ※《作者自叙》“The Author’s Account of Himself” ※《睡谷传奇》“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” 《见闻札记》“Sketch Book” 《乔纳森·欧尔德斯泰尔》“Jonathan Oldstyle” 《纽约外史》“A History of New York” 《布雷斯布里奇庄园》“Bracebridge Hall” 《旅行者故事》“Tales of Traveller” 《查理二世》或《快乐君主》“Charles the Second” Or “The Merry Monarch” 《克里斯托弗·哥伦布生平及航海历史》 “A History of the Life and V oyages of Christopher Columbus” 《格拉纳达征服编年史》”A Chronicle of the Conquest of Grandada” 《哥伦布同伴航海及发现》 ”V oyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus” 《阿尔罕布拉》“Alhambra” 《西班牙征服传说》“Legends of the Conquest of Spain” 《草原游记》“A Tour on the Prairies” 《阿斯托里亚》“Astoria” 《博纳维尔船长历险记》“The Adventures of Captain Bonneville” 《奥立弗·戈尔德史密斯》”Life of Oliver Goldsmith” 《乔治·华盛顿传》“Life of George Washington” 2．詹姆斯·芬尼莫·库珀James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) ※《最后的莫希干人》“The Last of the Mohicans” 《间谍》“The Spy” 《领航者》“The Pilot” 《美国海军》“U.S. Navy” 《皮袜子故事集》“Leather Stocking Tales” 包括《杀鹿者》、《探路人》”The Deerslayer”, ”The Pathfinder” 《最后的莫希干人》“The Last of the Mohicans” 《拓荒者》、《大草原》“The Pioneers”, “The Praire” 3。威廉·卡伦·布莱恩特William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) ※《死之思考》“Thanatopsis” ※《致水鸟》“To a Waterfowl” 4。埃德加·阿伦·坡Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ※《给海伦》“To Helen” ※《乌鸦》“The Raven” ※《安娜贝尔·李》“Annabel Lee” ※《鄂榭府崩溃记》“The Fall of the House of Usher” 《金瓶子城的方德先生》“Ms. Found in a Bottle” 《述异集》“Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque” 5。拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ※《论自然》“Nature” ※《论自助》“Self-Reliance” 《美国学者》“The American Scholar” 《神学院致辞》“The Divinity School Address” 《随笔集》“Essays” 《代表》“Representative Men” 《英国人》“English Traits” 《诗集》“Poems” 6。亨利·戴维·梭罗Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ※《沃尔登我生活的地方我为何生活》 1
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美国文学史及选读试卷 Ⅰ. Multiple choices. (60 points in total, 2 for each) 1. 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 2. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”. A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance 3. 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 14. In the following statements, _________ is NOT true about Washington Irving’s famous story “Rip Van Winkle.” A. The story is not only well-kno wn 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 is 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. 15. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Experience is a serous discussion about the conflict between _________ and ordinary life.
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