英美文学-美国部分练习题

AmericaReviewChapter 11、_______ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith2、The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the_______.A. RevolutionsimB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. Rationalism3、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 MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse4、Which statement about Benjamin Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.5、The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of_______.A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington6、From 1732 to 1758 , Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _______, an annual collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard’s AlmanacC. Common SenseD. The General Magazine7、Which poem is not written by Philip Freneau?A. The British Prison ShipB. The Wild Honey SuckleC. The Indian Burying GroundD. The Day of DoomAnswer: DCBDB BDChapter 21、As a philosophical and literary movement, _______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism2、Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______ and Henry David Thoreau.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Philip FreneauD. Oversoul3、Transcendentalists recognized _______ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking4、Transcendentalism appealed to those who disdained the harsh God of the Puritan ancestor, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of the New England_______.A. HumanismB. NaturalismC. RealismD. Unitarianism5、Edgar Allan Poe’s first collection of short stories is _______.A. Tales of a TravellerB. Leather stocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque6、Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Of StudiesB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Divinity School Address7、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. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common sense8、_______ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The success of the boot soon made Melville well known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.A. Moby DickB. TypeeC. OmooD. Billy Budd9、”The universe if 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. RomanticismB. TranscendentalismC. NaturalismD. Symbolism10、Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance11、Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. NatureD. Self-Reliance12、_______ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones” and that evil will come out of evil though it may take many generations to happen.A. The Marble FaunB. The House of Seven GablesC. The Blithedale RomanceD. Young Goodman BrownAnswers: DBADD ACBBA ABChapter 3、41. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ___.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Jane Austenc. Emily Dickinsond. Harriet Beecher2. The publication of the novel ____ stirred a great nation to its depths and hurried on a great war.a. My Bondage and My Freedomb. Stanzas of Freedomc. V oices of Freedomd. Uncle Tom’s Cabin3. Which statement about O. Henry is wrong?a. His stories are usually short and humorous and the ends of his stories are always surprisingb. The plots of his stories are exceedingly clever and interesting.c. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.d. He wrote about the rich people.4. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel ______. a. The Call of the Wild b. The Sea Wolfc. Martin Edend. The Iron Heel5. Which is not one of the three staunch advocates of nineteenth-century American realism.a. Mark Twainb. Henry Jamesc. William Dean Howellsd. Jack London6. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were__________ .A. traveling booksB. commercial booksC. historical romancesD. news reports7. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B8. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________ .A. First World WarB. Second World WarC. Civil WarD. War of Independence9. The American "Thirties", lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period of_______A. povertyB. bleaknessC. important social movementsD. a new social consciousnessE. all of the above10. In the pre-war period, such writers as______________ , pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced.A. Mark TwainB. Jack LondonC. Stephen CraneD. Theodore DreiserE. all of the above11. In the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote compassionately about common people, workers and farmers.A. Emily DickinsonB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD. Langston Hughes12.The Imagist writers followed three principles, which is not the principle?A. direct treatmentB. economy of expressionC. clear rhythmD. blank verse13. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. " This is the shortest poem written by____________ .A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD.E. E. Cummings14. __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD.E. E. Cummings15. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab16. The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose namewas_________________ .A. Sinclair LewisB. Thomas Stearns EliotC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner17. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______.A. The Roaring TwentiesB. The Jazz AgeC. The Dollar DecadeD. all of the above18. In 1954,___________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner19. 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 SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms20. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls21. _____ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who la bored for both of them.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. John Steinbeck22. 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 consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalism23. William Faulkner's novel___________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, toid from four different points of view.A. The Sound and the FuryB. StartorisC. The UnvanquishedD. The Town24. The title of J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye comes from___________ poem " if a body catch a body coming from the rye".A. William WordsworthB. William BlackC. Alfred TennysonD. Robert Burns25. William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac belong toA. the Confessional SchoolB. the Black Mountain PoetsC. novelists of absurdityD. the Beat Writers26. In the decade of 1920s, Eugene O' Neill established an international reputation with such playsas___________ .A. The Emperor JonesB. Anna ChristieC. The Hairy ApeD. all of the above27. " American Shakespeare" refers to____________ .A. Elmer RiceB. Edward AlbeeC. Eugene O'NeillD. Tennessee WilliamsAnswers: 1-10 CDDCD CDBEE 11-20 CDCAB ADBDB 21-27 AAA DD DC。