美国文学选择题及答案(可编辑修改word版)

美国文学选择题及答案

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

’s work.

25.“God help them that help themselves” is found in

a.Franklin

b. Freneau

c. Jefferson

d. Paine