2013-2014-1 美国⽂学史及选读期末复习材料 ⅠMultiple choices
1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?
A. Common Sense
B. The American Crisis
C. The Rights of Man
D. The Autobiography
2. “These are the times that try men’s souls”, these words were once read to Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?
A.Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Paine
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington
3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ______.
A. Chartist Movement
B. Romanticist Movement
C. Enlightenment Movement
丝光沸石D. Modernist Movement
4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable to______.
A. the colonial order
B. religious obscurantism
C. the Puritan tradition
D. the secular literature
5. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted ______ in 177
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A. Declaration of Independence
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B. the Sugar Act
C. the Stamp Act
D. the Mayflower Compact
6. ______ usually was regarded as the first American writer.
A. William Bradford
B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Captain John Smith
7. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made 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 Muse
8. Who was considered as the “poet of American Revolution”?
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Edward Taylor
C. Michael Wigglesworth
D. Philip Freneau
9. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet ______ to appear in America up to that time.
A. Edward Taylor
B. Philip Freneau
C. William Cullen Bryant
D. Edgar Allen Poe
10. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in ______.
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Young Goodman Brown伦理电线在2019
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C. The Marble Faun
D. The Ambitious Guest
11. “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul… Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England ______.
A. Romanticism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Naturalism
D. Symbolism
12. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
A. Nature
B. Walden
C. On Beauty
D. Self-Reliance
崔莎13. Mark Twain created, in _________, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
A. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
C. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
D. The Gilded Age
14. _________ marks the climax of Mark Twain’s literary creativity.
A . The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn B. The Gilded Age
C. Life on the Mississippi
D. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
15. Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.
A. The Ambassadors
B. The Wings of the Dove
C. The Bostonians
D. The Mysterious Stranger
16. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _________.
A. transcendentalists
B. idealists
C. pessimists
D. impressionists
17. 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
18. T. S. 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
19. 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
20. In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _________, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
A. stream of consciousness
B. imagism
C. symbolism
D. naturalism
21. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ______, there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.
A.Herman Melville
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Mark Twain
D. Theodore Dreiser
22. A New ______ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century.
A. realism
B. critical realism
C. romanticism
D. naturalism
23. From Henry David Thoreau’s 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 Sense
24. 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
25. 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 Sea
B. Moby Dick
C. White Jacket C. Billy Budd
26. The ship “______” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A. Sunflower
B. Armada
C. Mayflower
D. Pequod
27. From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous ______, an annual collection of proverbs.
A. The Autobiography
B. Poor Richard’s Almanac
C. Common Sense
D. The General Magazine
28. In American literature, the eighteen-century was the age of the Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
29. ______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
30. Edgar Allen Poe’s first collection of short stories is ______.
A. Tales of a Traveler
B. Leatherstocking Tales
C. Canterbury Tales
D. Tales of the Grotesque of Arabesque
31. ______ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville well known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.
A. Moby Dick
B. Typee
C. Omoo
D. Billy Budd
32. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
A.The American Scholar
B. English Traits
C. The Conduct of Life
D. Representative Men
33. The three dominant figures of the realistic period in American literature are _________.
A. Theodore Dreiser, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howells
B. Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean Howells
C. Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser and William Dean Howells
D. Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howells
34. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _________.
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