美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五

I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases and

put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at

Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 .

2. John Smith became the first American writer.

3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much

of the early American writing.

4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of Reason and Revolution.

5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece The Autobiography .

6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense appeared.

7. The signing of The Declaration of Independence symbolized the birth of an independent

American nation.

8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was Philip Freneau .

9. Washington Irving’s Sketch Book became the first work by an American writer to win international fame.

10. Transcendentalism is the summit of American Romanticism.

11. With the publication of Emerson’s Nature in 1836,American Romanticism reached its

summit.

12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel the Scarlet Letter .

13.Henry James’ major fictional theme is international theme .

14. The Civil War brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into

existence.

15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called free verse .

16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by Emily Dickinson .

17. The term The Gilded Age is given by Mark Twain to describe the post-civil war years.

18. Theodore Dreis er’s first novel is Sister Carrie.

19. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is Pound .

20. Ernest Hemingway is the spokesman for Lost Generation.

II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers

or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)

1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was .

A. Bret Harte √

B. Mark Twain

C. Henry James

D. William Dean Howells

2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?

A. The Gilded Age

B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn √

D. Jumping Frog

3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?

A. Mark Twain √

B. Jack London

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Frank Norris