美国文学2014在线作业

单选题

第1题 (2.0) 分

The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.

A、 Nathaniel Hawthorne

B、Herman Melville

C、Edgar Ellan Poe

第2题 (2.0) 分

Among the following, only one is not a representative feature of O Henry’s short stories. It is _________.

A、 conversational opening

B、improbable coincidence

C、Surprise ending

D、multiple points of view

第3题 (2.0) 分

“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie” is a comment made by james russell lowell on the female characters in novels written by______.

A、Washington Irving

B、James Fenimore Cooper

C、Philip Freneau

D、George Washington

第4题 (2.0) 分

“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of the universal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay __________.

A、The American Scholar

B、Nature

C、Self-Reliance

第5题 (2.0) 分

Among the following novels, only one was not written by Herman Melville. It is _____________.

A、The Confidence-Man

B、The PIlot

C、Moby Dick

第6题 (2.0) 分

Among the four novels written by Henry James, the one written first in chronological order is _________.

A、The Portrait of a Lady

B、The Golden Bowl

C、The Ambassadors

D、 The Wing of the Dove

第7题 (2.0) 分

The author who was famous for his novels of the international theme was ___________.

A、Henry James

B、Mark Twain

C、Theodore Dreiser

D、Stephen Crane

第8题 (2.0) 分

"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.

A、T. S. Eliot

B、Wallace Stevens

C、Robert Frost

第9题 (2.0) 分

Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---.

A、Henry James

B、William Faulkner

C、Ernest Hemingway

第10题 (2.0) 分

Among the following novels, only one is not written by William Faulkner. It is _____________.

A、Light in Augusts

B、As I Lay Dying

C、The Golden Bowl

D、Go Down, Moses

第11题 (2.0) 分

Eugene O’Neil did not write ______.

A、The Emperor Jones

B、Anna Christie

C、The Hairy Ape

D、The Saloon

第12题 (2.0) 分

As a Modernist poet, Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______

A、cubist school of modern painting

B、Imagist Movement

C、stream-of-consciousness technique

D、German Expressionism

第13题 (2.0) 分

William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.

A、Mark Twain

B、O’ Henry

C、Jack London

D、William Dean Howells