美国文学分章试题5

Exercises for American Literature
Part Ⅴ
Ⅰ. Multiple choice:
1. Writer of the first postwar era self=consciously acknowledged that they were
_____ .
A. a Lost Generation B. a Beat Generation
C. a Jazz Generation D. None of the above
2. During the 1920s William Faulkner published one of the influential American
novels of the age, _____ .
A. The Sound and the Fury B. An American Tragedy
C. Winesburg, Ohio D. The Waste Land
3. After _____ a group of new American dramatists emerged, and the American
theater ceased to be dependent on the dramatic traditions of Europe.
A. the War of Independence B. the Civil War
C. World WarⅠ D. World WarⅡ
4. _____ came as a burst of literary achievement in the 1920s by Negro playwrights,
poets and novelists who prepared the way for the emergence of numerous black
writers after mid-century.
A. The Lost Generation B. The Beat Generation
C. The Harlem Renaissance D. The New American Theater
5. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.”
These lines were written by _____ .
A. Ezra Pound B. T. S. Eliot C. Robert Frost D. Carl Sandberg
6. Edwin Arlington Robinson was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for _____ .
A. three times B. twice C. once D. four times
7. The central image of Frost’s “Design” is _____ .
A. a fly B. a moth C. a spider D. a bird
8. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the writing atyle of Carl
Sandburg ? _____ .
A. He avoided regular stanza pattern and traditional blank verse
B. He wrote an utterly free verse
C. He developed Whitman’s long line but moderated its rhetorical impact and
intensity
D. His poems are often difficult to understand and rich in allusions
9. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature in _____ .
A. 1948 B. 1949 C. 1950 D. 1951
10. T. S. Eliot deserves the following titles except _____ .
A. a great poet B. a dramatist C. a literary critic D. a great novelist
11. In 1954 _____ was awarded a Nobel Prize for his mastery of the art of modern
narration.
A. John Steinbeck B. William Faulkner
C. Ernest Hemingway D. T. S. Eliot
12. The central theme of Faulkner’s works focuses on _____ .
A. the county of Yoknapatawpha
B. the universal theme of the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself
C. the Americans
D. Oxford
13. _____ received the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature.
A. William Faulkner B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. T. S.
Eliot
14. “A Rose for Emily” is a famous short story written by _____ .
A. William Faulkner B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck D. Sherwood Anderson
15. Which of the following works of Hemingway is NOT about the war? _____ .
A. Death in the Afternoon B. A Farewell to Arms
C. The Sun Also Rises D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ⅱ.Complete the following statements:
1. ________ stands as a great dividing line between the 19th century and
contemporary America.
2. The Lost Generation writers were devoid of faith and ________ from a
civilization.
3. In the 1920s the most prominent American playwright was ________ .
4. In “A Pact”, the poet makes a pack with ________ .
5. Robinson was interested in the ________ legends.
6. The later works of Stevens became increasingly meditative and ________ .
7. The first of Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot is ________ .
8. The Waste Land introduces a poetic form---- the ________ of related themes in
successive movement.
9. In his best novels, Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering
______.
10. ________ was the spokesman for the “Lost Generation”.
11. For Whom the Bell Tolls was set in Spain during the ________ .
12. A farewell to Arms portrayed a farewell both to war and ________ .
13. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of
modern ________”.
14. John Steinbeck was the foremost novelist of the American ________ in the
1930s.
15. Faulkner’s Snopse Trilogy consists of ________ , The Town and The Mansion

Ⅲ.Define the literary terms listed below:
1.Avant-garde 2. The Lost Generation
3. The New American Theater 4. Stream of Consciousness