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美国文学期末复习题

美国文学期末复习题

2013-2014-1美国文学史及选读期末复习材料

ⅠMultiplechoices

1.WhichisnotconnectedwithThomasPaine?

A.CommonSenseB.TheAmericanCrisis

C.TheRightsofManD.TheAutobiography

2.“Thesearethetimesthattrymen’ssouls”,thesewordswereoncereadtoWashington’stroopsanddidmuchtospurexcitementtofurtheractionwithhopeandconfidence.Whoistheauthorofthesewords?

A.BenjaminFranklinB.ThomasPaine

C.ThomasJeffersonD.GeorgeWashington

3.AttheReasonandRevolutionPeriod,AmericanswereinfluencedbytheEuropeanmovementcalledthe______.

A.ChartistMovementB.RomanticistMovement

C.EnlightenmentMovementD.ModernistMovement

8.Whowasconsideredasthe“poetofAmericanRevolution”?

A.AnneBradstreetB.EdwardTaylor

C.MichaelWigglesworthD.PhilipFreneau

9.In1817,thestatelypoemcalledThanatopsisintroducedthebestpoet______toappearinAmericauptothattime.

A.EdwardTaylorB.PhilipFreneau

C.WilliamCullenBryantD.EdgarAllenPoe

10.ThefinestexampleofNathanielHawthorne’ssymbolismistherecreationofPuritanBostonin______.

A.TheScarletLetterB.YoungGoodmanBrown

C.TheMarbleFaunD.TheAmbitiousGuest

11.“TheuniverseiscomposedofNatureandthesoul…Spiritispresenteverywhere”.ThisisthevoiceofthebookNaturewrittenbyEmerson,whichpushedAmericanRomanticismintoanewphase,thephaseofNewEngland______.

A.RomanticismB.TranscendentalismC.NaturalismD.Symbolism

12.WhichisgenerallyregardedastheBibleofNewEnglandTranscendentalism?

A.NatureB.WaldenC.OnBeautyD.Self-Reliance

13.MarkTwaincreated,in_________,amasterpieceofAmericanrealismthatisalsooneofthegreatbooksofworldliterature.

A.TheAdventureofHuckleberryFinnB.TheAdventureofTomSawyer

C.TheManThatCorruptedHadleyburgD.TheGildedAge

14._________markstheclimaxofMarkTwain’sliterarycreativity.

A.TheAdventureofHuckleberryFinnB.TheGildedAge

C.LifeontheMississippiD.TheAdventureofTomSawyer

15.ChoosethenovelwhichisnotwrittenbyHenryJames.

A.TheAmbassadorsB.TheWingsoftheDove

C.TheBostoniansD.TheMysteriousStranger

16.Generallyspeaking,allthosewriterswithanaturalisticapproachtohumanrealitytendtobe_________.

A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists

17.EzraPound’slongpoem_________containedmorethanonehundredpoemslooselyconnected.

A.TheWasteLandB.TheCantosC.DonJuanD.QueenMab

18.T.S.Eliot’sfirstmajorpoem_________（1917）,hasbeencalledthefirstmasterpieceofmodernisminEnglish.

A.TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrockB.TheWasteLand

C.FourQuartetsD.Preludes

19.ErnestHemingwaywasbadlywoundedinItalyandsenttoahospitalwherehefellinlovewithanurse.Thesetwopersonslaterbecamethecharactersofhisnovel_________.

A.TheOldManandtheSeaB.ForWhomtheBellTolls

C.TheSunAlsoRisesD.AFarewelltoArms

20.InWilliamFaulkner’sTheSoundandtheFury,heusedatechniquecalled_________,inwhichthewholestorywastoldthroughthethoughtsofonecharacter.

A.streamofconsciousnessB.imagism

C.symbolismD.naturalism

21.LedbyNathanielHawthorne,RalphWaldoEmersonand______,therearoseakindofteachingsoftranscendentalismintheearlynineteenthcentury.

A.HermanMelvilleB.HenryDavidThoreau

C.MarkTwainD.TheodoreDreiser

22.ANew______hadappearedinEnglandinthelastyearsoftheeighteenthcentury.ItspreadtocontinentalEuropeandthencametoAmericaearlyinthenineteenthcentury.

A.realismB.criticalrealismC.romanticismD.naturalism

23.FromHenryDavidThoreau’sjailexperience,camehisfamousessay,______whichstatesThoreau’sbeliefthatnomanshouldviolatehisconscienceatthecommandofagovernment.

A.WaldenB.NatureC.CivilDisobedienceD.CommonSense

24.MarkTwain,oneofthegreatest19thcenturyAmericanwriters,iswellknownforhis_________.

A.internationalthemeB.waste-landimagery

C.localcolorD.symbolism

25.HermanMelville’s______isanencyclopediaofeverything:

history,philosophyreligion,etc.inadditiontoadetailedaccountoftheoperationsofthewhalingindustry.

A.TheOldManandtheSeaB.MobyDick

C.WhiteJacketC.BillyBudd

26.Theship“______”carriedaboutonehundredPilgrimsandtook66daystobeatitswayacrosstheAtlantic.InDecemberof1620,itputthePilgrimsashoreatPlymouth,Massachusetts.

A.SunflowerB.ArmadaC.MayflowerD.Pequod

27.From1733to1758,BenjaminFranklinwroteandpublishedhisfamous______,anannualcollectionofproverbs.

A.TheAutobiographyB.PoorRichard’sAlmanac

C.CommonSenseD.TheGeneralMagazine

28.InAmericanliterature,theeighteen-centurywastheageoftheEnlightenment.______wasthedominantspirit.

A.HumanismB.RationalismC.RevolutionD.Evolution

29.______wasthemostleadingspiritoftheTranscendentalClub.

A.HenryDavidThoreauB.RalphWaldoEmerson

C.NathanielHawthorneD.WaltWhitman

30.EdgarAllenPoe’sfirstcollectionofshortstoriesis______.

A.TalesofaTravelerB.LeatherstockingTales

C.CanterburyTalesD.TalesoftheGrotesqueofArabesque

31.______wasaromanticizedaccountofHermanMelville’sstayamongthePolynesians.ThesuccessofthebooksoonmadeMelvillewellknownasthe“manwholivedamongcannibals”.

A.MobyDickB.TypeeC.OmooD.BillyBudd

32.Whichisregardedasthe“DeclarationofIntellectualIndependence”?

A.TheAmericanScholarB.EnglishTraits

C.TheConductofLifeD.RepresentativeMen

33.ThethreedominantfiguresoftherealisticperiodinAmericanliteratureare_________.

A.TheodoreDreiser,EmilyDickinsonandWilliamDeanHowells

B.MarkTwain,HenryJamesandWilliamDeanHowells

C.MarkTwain,TheodoreDreiserandWilliamDeanHowells

D.MarkTwain,EmilyDickinsonandWilliamDeanHowells

34.Americanliteratureproducedonlyonefemalepoetduringthenineteenthcentury.Thiswas_________.

A.AnneBradstreetB.JaneAusten

C.EmilyDickinsonD.HarrietBeecher

35.In1900,Londonpublishedhisfirstcollectionofshortstories,named_________.

A.TheSonoftheWolfB.TheSeaWolf

C.TheLawofLifeD.WhiteFang

36.InHenryJames’DaisyMiler,theauthortriestoportraytheyoungwomanasanembodimentof_________.

A.theforceofconventionB.thefreespiritoftheNewWorld

C.thedeclineofaristocracyD.thecorruptionofthenewlyrich

37.“Theapparitionofthesefacesinthecrowd;Petalsonawet,blackbough.”Thisistheshortestpoemwrittenby_________.

A.T.S.EliotB.RobertFrostC.EzraPoundD.E.E.Cumings

38.TheFitzgeraldlivedsoextravagantlythattheyfrequentlyspentmoremoneythanF.ScotFitzgeraldearnedforparties,liquor,entertainingtheirfriendsandtraveling.Itwasthislivingstylethatnicknamedthedecadeofthe1920sas_________.

A.TheRoaringTwentiesB.TheJazzAgeC.TheDollarDecadeD.alloftheabove

39.In1954,_________wasawardedtheNobelPrizeforLiteratureforhis“masteryoftheartofmodernnarration”.

A.T.SEliotB.ErnestHemingwayC.JohnSteinbeckD.WilliamFaukner

40.WilliamFaukner’snovel_________describesthedecayanddownfallofanoldsouthernaristocraticfamily,symbolizingtheoldsocialorder,toldfromfourdifferentpointsofview.

A.TheSoundandtheFuryB.Startoris

C.TheUnvanquishedD.TheTown

41.“TheLureoftheSpirit:

TheFleshinPursuit”isthetitleofonechapterinDreiser’snovel_________.

A.AnAmericanDreamB.SisterCarrie

C.DreiserLooksatRussiaD.JannieGerhardt

42.Themainthemeof_________TheArtofFictionrevealshisliterarycredothatrepresentationoflifeshouldbethemainobjectofthenovel.

A.HenryJames’B.WilliamDeanHowells’C.MarkTwain’sD.O.Henry’s

43.WithWilliamDeanHowells,James,andMarkTwainactiveonthescene,_________becamethemajortrendintheseventiesandeightiesofthenineteenthcentury.

A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.realismD.naturalism

44.WhileembracingthesocialismofMarx,Londonalsobelievedinthetriumphofthestrongestindividuals.Thiscontradictionismostvividlyprojectedinthepatentlyautobiographicalnovel_________.

A.TheCalloftheWildB.TheSeaWolfC.MartinEdenD.TheIronHeel

45_________isanovellaaboutayoungAmericangirlwhogets“killed”bythewinterinRome,anditbroughtHenryJamesinternationalfameforthefirsttime.

A.TheAmericanB.TheEuropeans

C.DaisyMillerD.ThePortaitofaLady

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ⅡFillingthefollowingblankswithproperanswers

1.CaptainJohnSmithbecamethefirstAmericanwriter.

2.Thepuritanslookeduponthemselvesasachosenpeople.

3.ThefirstmajorintellectualspokesmanoftheMassachusettsBaycolonywasJohnCotton,sometimescalled“thePatriarchofNewEngland.”

4.AnneBradstreetpublishedTheTenthMuseLatelySprungUpinAmerica,andshewasnicknamedthetenthMuse.

5.PoorRichard’sAlmanacisanannualcollectionofproverbswrittenbyBenjaminFranklin.

6.ThomasPaine’sfamouspamphletCommonSenseboldlyadvocateda“DeclarationforIndependence”.

7.ThomasJeffersondraftedtheDeclarationofIndependencewithJohnAdams,BenjaminFranklin,RogerSherman,andRobertLivingston.

8.PhilipFreneaudevelopedanatural,simple,andconcretediction,bestillustratedinsuchnaturelyricsas“TheWildHoneySuckle”and“TheIndianBuryingGround”.

9.PhilipFreneauhasbeencalledthe“FatherofAmericanPoetry”.

10.InWashingtonIrving’sSketchBookappearedthefirstmodernshortstoriesandth