美国文学分章试题
Exercises for American Literature
PartⅠ
Ⅰ. Multiple choice:
1._____ reports of exploration in Jamestown have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.
A. John Smith’s
B. Washington Irving’s
C. Franklin’s
D. Jefferson’s
2. Which statement is NOT true about the 17th century American literary life?
A. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and journals of the early settlements.
B. The writers of the Southern and Middle Colonies who followed John Smith
made their greatest contribution to American literature.
C. There were more urban audience for books and newspapers.
D. Literature developed slowly especially in the South.
3. _____ was the first American writer.
A. John Smith
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Philip Freneau
D. Anne Bradstreet
4. John Smith’s _____ (1624) contains his most famous tale of how the Indian Princess Pocahontas saved him from the wrath of her father Powhatan.
A. The General History of Virginia
B. The history of New England
C. A Map of Virginia
D. The history of Plymouth Plantation
5. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the _____ values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.
A. Puritanic
B. Transcendental
C. romantic
D. realistic
6. _____ , the Puritan clergyman who wrote more than 450 works in his life, was an example of the Puritan ideal of hard work.
A. John Smith
B. Cotton Mather
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. John Cotton
7. The Puritans wished to restore simplicity to church services and the authority of _____ to theology.
A. the Bible
B. the government
C. the Church of England
D. God
8. The first major intellectual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was _____ , sometimes called “the Patriarch of New England”.
A. John Cotton
B. John Smith
C. Philip Freneau
D. Cotton Mather
9. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is the first published collection of
poems of _____ .
A. Edward Taylor
B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Walt Whitman
D. Philip
Freneau
10. The first major center of thought in America was _____ .
A. Boston
B. Philadelphia
C. Now York
D. the State of Virginia
Ⅱ.Complete the following statements:
1.At last early in the __________ century, the English settlements in __________
and __________ began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.
2.The earliest settlers in US include __________ , Swedes, __________ , French,
__________ , Italians, and __________ .
3.The Puritans had come to New England for the sake of __________ , while
Virginia had been planted mainly as a __________ .
4.The best way to learn more of the colonial Puritan mind is to meet two important
figures, __________ and __________ .
5.Most Puritan verse was decidedly plodding, but the work of two writers, Anne
Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of __________ .
Ⅲ.Define the literary terms listed below:
1. Theocracy
2. The Puritan Movement
Ⅳ.Answer the following question:
What was the first American literature like?
PartⅡ
Ⅰ. Multiple choice:
1.American Enlightenment can be described as the following except that _____ .
A.it dealt a decisive blow to the puritan traditions
B.it brought to life secular education and literature
C.its representatives took the task of disseminating knowledge among the
people
D.it exerted little influence on the War of Independence
2.The following statements are true to Benjamin Franklin except _____ .
A. a priest
B. a scientist
C. a diplomat
D. a humanist
3.Benjamin Franklin shaped his writing after _____ .
A. the Spectator Paper
B. French writers
C. John Milton
D. Walt Scott
4.Poor Richard’s Almanac written by Benjamin Franklin is _____ .
A. a novel
B. a collection of short stories
C. a collection of poems
D. an annual collection of proverbs
5.“His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation” refers to
_____ .
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Thomas Paine
D. Noah Webster
6.Thomas Paine boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence” in his famous
pamphlet _____ .
A. Common Sense
B. The Case of the Officers of the Excise
C. The American Crisis
D. Rights of Man
7.Thomas Paine’s chief contribution was a series of sixteen pamphlets entitled
_____ .
A. Common Sense
B. The Case of the Officers of the Excise
C. Rights of Man
D. The American Crisis
8.Which of the following is true about Thomas Jefferson? _____ .
A.He contributed a lot to the foundation of University of Virginia.
B.He served for two terms as president.
C.He drafted the Declaration of Independence.
D.All of the above.
9._____ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Philip Freneau
C. Thomas Paine
D. Edward
Taylor
10.As a poet and political journalist, Philip Freneau is _____ .
A. a satirist and a sentimentalist
B. a humanitarian
C. a poet of reason and a deistic optimist
D. All of the above
Ⅱ.Complete the following statements:
1.As we have seen, _________ dominated the Puritan phase of American writing,
__________ was the next great subject to command the attention of the best minds.
2.American __________ dealt a decisive blow upon the Puritan traditions and
brought to life __________ and literature.
3.In 1783, the year the United States achieved its independence, __________
declared, “America must be as independent in literature as she is in politics, as famous for the arts and for arms”.
4.Born in Boston in 1706, Benjamin Franklin went to Philadelphia as a young man
and began his career as __________ .
5.Philip Freneau was __________ by training and taste yet romantic in essential
spirit.
Ⅲ.Define the literary terms listed below:
1. the Age of Reason
2. the Enlightenment
Ⅳ.Answer the following question:
Why do people think Benjamin Franklin is the embodiment of American dream?
Part Ⅲ
Ⅰ. Multiple choice:
1. A new Romanticism, appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century,
came to America in _____ .
A. the early 19th century
B. the mid 19th century
C. the last years of 19th century
D. the last years of the 18th century
2._____ became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on
both sides of the Atlantic.
A. Washington Irving’s Sketch Book.
B. Washington Irving’s A Tour on the
Prairies
C. James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales
D. Henry Thoreau’s Walden
3.Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the general characteristics shared by
romantics? _____ .
A.Moral enthusiasm
B.Faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception
C.The practice of a hard and disciplined life
D.The presumption that man’s soc iety was a source of corruption
4.Transcendentalists took some of their ideas from _____ .
A. German idealistic philosophy
B. the Romantic literatures of
Europe
C. neo-Platonism and Oriental mysticism
D. All of the above.
5.The first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature
appeared in Washington Irving’s _____ .
A. The sketch Book
B. A History of New York
C. Tales of a Traveler
D. Alhambra
6._____ was the first important American novelist who began his literary career on
a dare.
A. James Fenimore Cooper
B. Washington Irving
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
7._____ is one of James Fenimore Cooper’s best sea romances.
A. The Spy
B. The Pilot
C. The Deerslayer
D. The Pioneers
8.Cooper launched two kinds of great popular stories, the sea adventure tale and
_____ .
A. the frontier saga
B. the detective stories
C. the love stories
D. gothic
novels
9.Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Leatherstocking Tales?
_____ .
A. The Deerslayer
B. The Pathfinder
C. The Pilot
D. The Pioneers
10.The last of the Mohicans in The last of the Mohicans refers to _____ .
A. Uncas
B. Chingachgook
C. Hawkeye
D. Natty Bumppo
11.In 1817, _____ written by William Cullen Bryant introduced the best poet in
America up to that time.
A. “To a Waterfowl”
B. “Thanatopsis”
C. “The Raven”
D. “To Helen”
12.Which poem by William Cullen Bryant expressed both the poet’s grateful view
and his sense of a divine power guiding and protecting everything in nature?
_____ .
A. “To a Waterfowl”
B. “Thanatopsis”
C. “The Raven”
D. “To Helen”
13.Edgar Allan Poe deserved the following except _____ .
A. a playwright
B. a poet and an editor
C. a literary critic
D. a writer of
fiction
14.Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece’
And the grandeau that was Rome.
The above lines are selected from Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem _____ .
A. “The Raven”
B. “To Helen”
C. “Ligia”
D. “Annabel Lee”
15.The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address are two speeches that
made _____ famous.
A. Walt Whitman
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Herman Melville
16.Thoreau once wrote the reason that he went to live in a hut at Walden is that
_____ .
A.he wanted to live the life of a hermit
B.he didn’t want to be arrested for failure to pay the taxes
C.he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life
D.he didn’t like the people around him
17.The story of The Scarlet Letter is set in _____ in the days of the Massachusetts
Colony.
A. the ancient Europe
B. the 19th century Europe
C. the Puritan Boston
D. the 19th century Boston
18.Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote all of the following except _____ .
A. Typee
B. The House of Seven Gables
C. The Marble Faun
D. Young Goodman Brown
19.When Herman Melville’s Moby Dick first appeared, which of the following is
NOT true about what happened to this great work? _____ .
A.It seemed to be a complete failure at the time.
B.Critics in general also failed to see the qualities of this book.
C.Hawthorne was one of the few who recognized it as a work of genius.
D.It was a great hit at that time and was welcomed by the readers.
20.Which of the following works established Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic
reputation? _____ .
A. Voices of the Night
B. Poems on Slavery
C. Song of Hiawatha
D. Ballads and Other Poems
Ⅱ.Complete the following statements:
1.Through the first half of 19th century the pursuit of _________ , utility, and
_________
remained an American characteristic.
2.__________ values were prominent in American politics, art, and philosophy until
the Civil War.
3.As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither __________ nor
_________ .
4.Romantic writers placed increasing value on the __________ expression of
emotion and displayed increasing attention to the __________ states of their characters.
5.In 1828, __________ published An American Dictionary of the English Language.
6.Irving was the first great __________, writing always for __________, and to
produce __________ .
7.Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes and Whittier were regarded as the “__________
poets”.
8.At an early age, Irving preferred a literary __________ .
9.Ironically, while Poe was struggling in America, his work was commanding more
and more praise in __________. His influence was especially strong on many __________ writers.
10.Emerson believed above all in __________, independence of mind, and
self-reliance.
11.For Thoreau, as for Emerson, __________ and __________ ranked above all.
12.Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of strongly __________ stories
which touched the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. The finest example is the recreation of Puritan Boston, __________ .
13.__________ is a tremendous chronicle of s whaling voyage in pursuit of a
seemingly supernatural white whale.
14.“Pequod” in Moby Dick is a name of __________ .
15.Longfellow’s poetry was popular for his gentleness, sweetness, and __________ .
Ⅲ.Define the literary terms listed below:
1. Romanticism
2. Transcendentalism
3. Symbolism
Ⅳ. Comment on one of the following:
1.Benjamin Franklin and the American Dream
2.Moby Dick
3.The Scarlet Letter
4.“The Wild Honey Suckle”
5.“To a Waterfowl”
6.“To Helen”
Part Ⅳ
Ⅰ. Multiple choice:
1.The end of _____ marked the beginning of what Mark Twain called The Gilded Age.
A. The American War of Independence
B. World War One
C. World War Two
D. The Civil War
2. “A Psalm of Life” is a famous poem written by _____.
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D. Emily Dickinson
3. By the 1870s _____ had waned.
A. Puritanism
B. the New England Renaissance
C. Realism
D. Classicism
4. By the end of the Civil War, _____ became the nation’s literary center.
A. New York
B. Boston
C. Jamestown
D. Los Angeles
5. _____ had originated in France, a literary doctrine that called for reality and truth in the depiction of ordinary life.
A. Puritanism
B. New England Renaissance
C. Realism
D. Classicism
6. Local color began to decline _____ .
A. after 1920
B. by the turn of 19th century
C. after 1910
D. in the 1870s
7. The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was _____ .
A. William Dean Howells
B. Mark Twain
C. Bret Harte
D. Hamlin Garland
8. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called _____, that is, poetry without fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
A. free verse
B. blank verse
C. lyrics
D. sonnet
9. “Song of myself” is a famous poem written by _____ .
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D. Edgar Allan Poe
10. _____ was the first book of Mark Twain.
A. Jumping frog
B. Innocents Abroad
C. Roughing It
D. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
11. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is the masterpiece of _____ .
A. Henry James
B. William Dean Howells
C. Mark Twain
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. In “The Cop and the Anthem” the main reason for Soapy to deliberately commit
one crime after another is that _____ .
A. he hates the wealthy people
B. he just wants to revenge himself
C. winter is coming and Soapy has no refuge except the prison
D. he just does that for no reasons
13. The Gift of the Magi is one of the best stories by _____ .
A. O. Henry
B. Mark Twain
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
D. Jack London
14. Jack wrote the following except _____ .
A. The Four Million
B. The People of the Abyss
C. The Iron Heel
D. The Call of the wild
15. Which of the following novels is written by Jack London? _____ .
A. The Portrait of a Lady
B. The wings of the Dove
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. The Sea Wolf
16. Theodore Dreiser’s masterpiece of Naturalism is _____ .
A. An American Tragedy
B. The Financier
C. The Titan
D. The Stoic
Ⅱ.Complete the following statements:
1. Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of ________ .
2. James probed deeply at the individual ________ of his characters.
American naturalist writers attempted to achieve extreme ________ and frankness.
3. The naturalists emphasized that the world was ________ .
4. Darwinism seemed to stress the ________ of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.
5. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about man and ________ .
6. Many of Dickinson’s poems were based on single ________ or symbols.
7. O. Henry imitated ________ as a model.
8. Jack London was influenced by the teaching of Marx, Nietzsche and ________ .
1.Dreiser’s ________ consists of The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic.
2.Dreiser’s greatest and most successful novel was ________ .
Ⅲ.Define the literary terms listed below:
1. The Gilded Age
2. International Theme
3. Realism
4. Naturalism
Ⅳ.Answer the following question:
1. What is the theme of The Leaves of Grass ?
2. What are the major differences between Mark Twain and Henry James as major writers in the school of realism?
Part Ⅴ
Ⅰ. Multiple choice:
1. Writer of the first postwar era self=consciously acknowledged that they were _____ .
A. a Lost Generation
B. a Beat Generation
C. a Jazz Generation
D. None of the above
2. During the 1920s William Faulkner published one of the influential American
novels of the age, _____ .
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. An American Tragedy
C. Winesburg, Ohio
D. The Waste Land
3. After _____ a group of new American dramatists emerged, and the American
theater ceased to be dependent on the dramatic traditions of Europe.
A. the War of Independence
B. the Civil War
C. World WarⅠ
D. World WarⅡ
4. _____ came as a burst of literary achievement in the 1920s by Negro playwrights,
poets and novelists who prepared the way for the emergence of numerous black writers after mid-century.
A. The Lost Generation
B. The Beat Generation
C. The Harlem Renaissance
D. The New American Theater
5. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.”
These lines were written by _____ .
A. Ezra Pound
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Robert Frost
D. Carl Sandberg
6. Edwin Arlington Robinson was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for _____ .
A. three times
B. twice
C. once
D. four times
7. The central image of Frost’s “Design” is _____ .
A. a fly
B. a moth
C. a spider
D. a bird
8. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the writing atyle of Carl
Sandburg ? _____ .
A. He avoided regular stanza pattern and traditional blank verse
B. He wrote an utterly free verse
C. He developed Whitman’s long line but moderated its rhetorical impact and
intensity
D. His poems are often difficult to understand and rich in allusions
9. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature in _____ .
A. 1948
B. 1949
C. 1950
D. 1951
10. T. S. Eliot deserves the following titles except _____ .
A. a great poet
B. a dramatist
C. a literary critic
D. a great novelist
11. In 1954 _____ was awarded a Nobel Prize for his mastery of the art of modern
narration.
A. John Steinbeck
B. William Faulkner
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. T. S. Eliot
12. The central theme of Faulkner’s works focuses on _____ .
A. the county of Yoknapatawpha
B. the universal theme of the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself
C. the Americans
D. Oxford
13. _____ received the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature.
A. William Faulkner
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. T. S.
Eliot
14. “A Rose for Emily” is a famous short story written by _____ .
A. William Faulkner
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. Sherwood Anderson
15. Which of the following works of Hemingway is NOT about the war? _____ .
A. Death in the Afternoon
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ⅱ.Complete the following statements:
1. ________ stands as a great dividing line between the 19th century and
contemporary America.
2. The Lost Generation writers were devoid of faith and ________ from a
civilization.
3. In the 1920s the most prominent American playwright was ________ .
4. In “A Pact”, the poet makes a pack with ________ .
5. Robinson was interested in the ________ legends.
6. The later works of Stevens became increasingly meditative and ________ .
7. The first of Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot is ________ .
8. The Waste Land introduces a poetic form---- the ________ of related themes in
successive movement.
9. In his best novels, Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering
______.
10. ________ was the spokesman for the “Lost Generation”.
11. For Whom the Bell Tolls was set in Spain during the ________ .
12. A farewell to Arms portrayed a farewell both to war and ________ .
13. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of
modern ________”.
14. John Steinbeck was the foremost novelist of the American ________ in the
1930s.
15. Faulkner’s Snopse Trilogy consists of ________ , The Town and The Mansion
Ⅲ.Define the literary terms listed below:
1.Avant-garde
2. The Lost Generation
3. The New American Theater
4. Stream of Consciousness
Ⅳ.Answer the following question:
1. Discuss the thematic concerns of A Farewell to Arms.
2. Discuss the themes of William Faulkner.
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