美国文学史期末复习资料

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.

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

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6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____

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II.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items.

(10 x 1’= 10’)

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

15.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

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

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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.

a.Native Son

b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin

c.Invisible 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.

a.A Street Car Named Desire

b. The Hairy Ape

c.Long 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

c. The Hairy Ape

d. The Glass Menageries

4.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how

the society is responsible for the murder.

a.Native Son

b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin

c.Invisible Man

d. Go Tell It on

the Mountains

5._________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second

World War.

a.A Farewell to Arms

b.The Catcher in the Rye

c.The Red Badge of

Courage

d. The Naked and the Dead

6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.

a.A Farewell to Arms

b.The Sun Also Rises

c.The Old Man and the Sea

d. The Naked and the Dead

7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and

travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.

a.T he Grapes of Wrath

b. U.S. A.

c.Babbitt

d. The Adventures of Augie March

8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with

such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.

a.B abbitt

b. Light in August

c. U.S.A.

d. The Grapes of Wrath

9.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose

title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

a. Absolom, Absolom!

b. The Sound and the Fury

c.A Farewell to Arms

d. The Great Gatsby

10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she

becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.

a.An American Tragedy

b. Sister Carrie

c. McTeague

d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in