美国文学复习题(有答案版)

美国文学复习题(有答案版)

美国文学复习提纲

第一部分连线题（1*10=10’）

1. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence

2. Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain

3. Mark Twain Jumping Frog

4. Robert Frost Mending Wall

5. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro

6. Carl Sandburg Chicago

7. Saul Bellow The Adventure of Augie March

8. Ernest Hemingway Men without Women

9. John Steinbeck The Grape of Wrath

10. Jack London The Call of the Wild

11. Sinclair Lewis Babbit

12. Flannery O’ Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find

13. O. Henry The Last Leaf

14. Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

15. William Falkner The Sound and the Fury

第二部分单项选择(1.5*20=30’)

1. 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. Tenth Muse

B. Ninth Muse

C. Best Muse

D. First

Muse

2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.

________ was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Revolution

D.

Evolution

3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?

A. The American Crisis

B. The Federalist

C. Declaration of Independence

D. The Age of Reason

4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the

European movement called the ________.

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

D. Modernist Movement

5. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual

communication with ________.

A. nature

B. transcendentalist ideas

C. human beings

D. celestial beings

6. ________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a

puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

A. Twice-Told Tales

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The House of the Seven Gables

D. The Marble Faun

A. The American

B. The Europeans

C. Daisy Mill er

D. The Portrait of a Lady

20. ________ is d escribed by Mark twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a

d eformed conscience”.

A. Tom Sawyer

B. Huckl eberry Finn

C. Jim

D. Tony

21. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ________ l anguage.

A. grand

B. pompous

C. simpl e

D.

vernacul ar

22. The book from which “all mod ern American literature comes” refers to ________.

A. The Great G atsby

B. The Sun Also Rises

C. The Adventures of Huckl eberry Finn

D. Moby-Dick

23. In which of the foll owing works Hemingway present s his phil osophy about life

and d eath through the d epiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?

A. Death in the Afternoon

B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

C. To Have and Have Not

D. The Green Hills of Africa

24. ________ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he d epict s a vivid portrait of

“The Lost Generation”.

A. The Sun Also Rises

B. A Farewell to Arms

C. In Our Time

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

25. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming coupl et s,

bl ank verse—with a cl ear American l ocal speech rhythm, the speech of ________ farmers with it s idiosyncratic diction and synt ax.

A. Southern

B. Western

C. New Hampshire

D. New Engl and

26. ________, one of the most import ant poet s in his time, is a l eading spokesman of

the “Imagist Movement”.

A. J. D. Salinger

B. Ezra Pound

C. Richard Wright

D. Ralph Ellison

27. “Tender Is the Night” is a ________ by Fitzgeral d.

A. short story

B. novell a

C. poem

D. novel

28. ________ is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner.

A. Go Down, Moses

B. Light in August

C. The Sound and the Fury

D. Absal om

29. ________ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safety and

the unknown.

A. Mending the wall B Home Burial

C. The Road not Taken

D. Stopping by Wood s on a Snowy

Evening

30. Hemingway’s writing styl e, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly

and permanently influenced by his experiences ________.

A. in his chil dhood

B. in the war

C. in America

D. in Africa

31. The foll owing writers were award ed Nobel Prize for literature except ________.

A. William Faulkner

B. F. Scott Fitzgeral d