美国文学史习题 (1)

I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four

items. (10 x 1’= 10’)

1. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant.

2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ____.

3.

Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?

4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the __ attitude of its author.

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.

9.___ is

not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.

writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic

and more ___.

11.______ is the father of American Literature.

12._____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the

main stream of life.

13._____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.

14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s

language?

From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.

A. Walden

B. Nature

C. Civil Disobedience

D. Common Sense

16.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

17.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en

-mass” and the ____ as well.

18.What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?

19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.

20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby

Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):

1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but

whose name in unknown to us.

Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

2.The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value of

fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.

Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape Day’s Journey into Night d. Death of Salesman

3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on

the playwright himself.

a. Long Day’s Journey into Night

b. Henderson the Rain King