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1.
_ ___ had been an evident influence on Naturalism. It seemed to stress the animal impulse of
man, to suggest that man was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.
A. Unitarianism
B. Origins of Species
C. Puritanism and Influence
D. Capitalist Economy
2.
Who is called “the true father of our national literature” by the writer H. L. Mencken?
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Mart Twain
C. Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
3.
In the first part of the 20
th
century, apart from Darwinism, which was still a big influence upon
the writers of this period, there were two thinkers _____ whose ideas had the greatest impact
on the period.
A. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud
B. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud
C. the Swiss Car Jung and the American William James
D. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud
4.
The
American
realists
approached
the
harsh
realities
and
pressures
in
the
post-Civil
war
society by _____.
A. a comprehensive picture of modern life in its various occupations, class stratifications and
manners
B. a psychological exploration of man’s subconsciousness
C. a disillusion of heroism resulting from the dark memories of the Civil War
D. both A and B
5.
By the turn of the century, with the publication of
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
and
The Mysterious Stranger
, the change in Mark Twain from ______ to _____ could be felt.
A. an optimist...an almost despairing pessimist
B. an almost despairing pessimist...an optimist
C. a local colorist...a naturalist
D. a naturalist...a local colorist
6.
The Portrait of A Lady
is generally considered to be Jame’s masterpiece, which ____.
A. incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American
girl in a European cultural environment
B.
tells
a
story
about
a
young
and
innocent
American
confronting
the
complexity
of
the
European life
C. is about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome
D. tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American
life
7.
About Henry James’ literary criticism, which of the following is not right?
A. It is both concerned with form and devoted to human values.
B. He indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life in every possible form.
C. He advocates the freedom of the artist to write about anything that concerns him.
D. He believes that the artist can’t feel the life, but he can understand human nature in their
own way.
8.
The characters presented by the naturalist writers were _____.
A. more often than not dominated by their environment and heredity
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B. usually idealized heroes or heroines of unspotted virtue and dazzling accomplishments
C. in most cases examples of human experience
D. people who were simply all good or all bad
9.
After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to ____.
A. an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society
B. an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality
C. a poor and backward society … an industri
alized and commercialized society
D. an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society
10.
Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?
A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.
B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.
C.
Humans
should
be
united
because
they
had
to
adapt
themselves
to
changing
harsh
environment.
D. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes,
their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.
11.
Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain's style of language?
A. His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.
B. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.
C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition
and anti-climax.
D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.
12.
Which of the following is not written by Henry James?
A.
The Portrait of A Lady
and
The Europeans
B.
The Wings of the Dove
and
The Ambassadors
C.
What Maisie Knows
and
The Bostonians
D.
The Genius
and
The Gilded Age
13.
By the end of the 19
th
century, the American realists sought to _____ and therefore rejected the
portrayal of idealized characters and events in their writings.
A. describe the wide range of American experience
B. show animal nature of human beings
C. present the subtleties of human personality
D. both A and C
14.
Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain?
A.
In
his
writings,
he
made
a
more
extensive
combination
of
American
folk
humor
and
serious literature than previous writers had ever done.
B. His
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
is usually considered a classic book written for boys
about their particular horrors and joys.
C.
His
caustic
and
increasingly
bleak
view
of
human
nature
began
to
appear
in
his
early
books.
D. As a sequel to
Tom Sawyer
,
Huckleberry Finn
marks the climax of his literary creativity.
15.
One of Henry James’s literary t
echniques innovated to cater for his psychological emphasis is
his________.
A. technique of stream of consciousness
B. first person narrative
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C. author’s participation in narrating
D. narrative point of view
16.
The great American realist Henry James treated with great care _________ in the first period.
A. ancient European civilization which is satirized severely in his writings
B. the emotional and moral problems of Americans in Europe, or Europeans in America
C. the clashes between two different cultures, European and American
D. both B and C
17.
Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _______.
A. the love and marriage theme
B. the theme of humor and satire on life
C. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism
D. the international theme
18.
After the Civil War America had been transformed from
to
.
A. an agrarian community…a society of freedom and equality
B. an agrarian community…an industrialized and commercialized society
C. an
industrialized and commercialized society…a highly developed society
D. a poor and backward society…an industrialized and commercialized society
19.
The three dominant figures in the period of Realism of America are William Dean Howells,
Mark Twain and________.
A. Henry James
B. Tom James
C. James Joyce
D. Henry Joyce
20.
The use of ________ in his writings has made Mark Twain one of the major literary figures in
the 19
th
century American literature.
A. point of view
B. stream-of- consciousness
C. interior monologue
D. vernacular
21.
_______ is generally considered to be Henry James’ masterpiece, which incarnates the clash
between
the
Old
World
and
the New
in
the
life
journey
of
an
American
girl
in a European
cultural environment.
A.
The Portrait of a Lady
B.
The Golden Bowl
C.
Daisy Miller
D.
The Turn of the Screw
22.
For
Melville,
as
well
as
for
the
reader
and
_________,
the
narrator,
Moby
Dick
is
still
a
mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A. Ahab
B.
Ishmael
C. Stubb
D. Starbuck
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. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and
less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.
A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D.
pessimistic
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.
Dreiser’s
Trilogy
of
Desire
includes
three
novels.
They
are
The
Financier,
The
Titan
and_____ .
A. The Genius
B. The Tycoon
C.
The Stoic
D. The Giant
25. The impact o
f Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the
nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school
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of realism: American___________ .
A. local colorism
B. vernacularism
C. modernism
D.
naturalism
26.
Robert
Frost
combined
traditional
verse
forms
-the
sonnet,
rhyming
couplets,
blank
verse
-with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______farmers with its idiosyncratic
diction and syntax.
A. Southern
B. Western
C. New Hampshire
D.
New England
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.
As an
autobiographical play,
O’Neill’s
___________(1956)
has gained
its
status
as
a
world
classic
and
simultaneously
marks
the
climax
of
his
literary
career
and
the
coming
of
age
of
American drama.
A. The Iceman Cometh
B.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
C. The Hairy Ape
D. Desire Under the Elms
28. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of- consciousness, the other narrative
techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological
and biblical allusions.
A. impressionism
B. expressionism
C.
multiple points of view
D. first person point of view
29
. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________.
A. short, clear sentences
B. abundance of local images
C. ordinary American speech
D.
highly refined language
30.
One
of
the
characteristics
that
have
made
Mark
Twain
a
major
literary
figure
in
the
19th
century America is his use of____________ .
A.
vernacular
B. interior monologue
C. point of view
D. photographic description
31. It is on his____________
that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested.
A. childhood recollections
B. sketches about his European tours
C. early poetry
D.
tales about America
32.
At
the
middle
of
19th
century,
America
witnessed
a
cultural
flowering
which
is
called
“____________________”.
A. the English Renaissance
B. the Second Renaissance
C.
the American Renaissance
D. the Salem Renaissance
33.
As
a
philosophical
and
literary
movement,
the
main
issues
involved
in
the
debate
of
Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________.
A.
nature, man and the universe
B. the relationship between man and woman
C. the development of Romanticism in American literature
D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism
34. About the novel
The Scarlet Letter
, which of the following statements is NOT right?
A. It’s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.
B. It’s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.
C. It’s mainly about the moral, emotional a
nd psychological effects of the sin upon the main
characters and the people in general.
D
. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.
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35. The great sea adventure story
Moby-Dick
is usually considered____________.
A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.
B
. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with nature
C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure
D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty
36.
In
his
poems,
Walt
Whitman
is
innovative
in
the
terms
of
the
form
of
his
poetry,
which
is
called “____________________.”
A.
free verse
B. blank verse
C. alliteration
D. end rhyming
37. After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.
A
. an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society
B. an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality
C. a poor and backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society
D. an industr
ialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society
38. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?
A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.
B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.
C. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh environment.
D.
Their
characters
were
conceived
more
or
less
complex
combinations
of
inherited
attributes,
their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.
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. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language?
A.
His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.
B. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.
C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration
，
repetition
and anti- climax.
D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.
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. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of t
he
19th
century
French
literature
on
the
American
men
of
letters
gave
rise
to
another
school
of
realism: American ______.
A. Romanticism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Realism
D.
Naturalism
41. Which of the following is not written by Henry James?
A.
The Portrait of A Lady
and
The Europeans.
B.
The Wings of the Dove
and
The Ambassadors
.
C.
What Maisie Knows
and
The Bostonians
.
D.
The Genius
and
The Gilded Age
.
42.
More
than
five
hundred
poems
Dickinson
wrote
are
about
nature,
in
which
her
general
Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed.
A. man and man
B. men and women
C.
man and nature
D. men and God
43
. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson’s poems about nature?
A.
In
them,
she
expressed
her
general
affirmation
about
the
relationship between
man
and
nature.
B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man and
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nature.
C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.
D.
Many of them showed her feeling of nature’s inscrutability and indifference to the life and
interests of human beings.
44.
As
a
great
innovator
in
American
literature,
Walt
Whitman
wrote
his
poetry
in
an
unconventional style which is now called free verse, that is _________.
A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains
B.
poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
C. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat
D. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
45. In the first part of the 20th century
，
apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers -______
，
whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.
A.
the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud
B. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud
C. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James
D. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud
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. Which of the following can be said about Eugene O’Neill plays?
A.
Most
of
his
plays
are
concerned
about
the
root,
the
truth
of
human
desires
and
human
frustrations.
B. His tragic view of life is reflected in many of his works.
C. His plays are concerned about the relationship between man and nature as well as man and
woman.
D.
Both A and B.
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. Most of O’Neill’s plays
are concerned about the following except______.
A.
success and failure in man’s literary career
B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality
C. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration
D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament
48. Which of the following can be said about a typical modern literary work?
A. It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.
B. It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory.
C. It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience.
D.
Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public.
49. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following is not right?
A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with
personal, literary, and historical allusions.
B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.
C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in
concrete,
perceptual
reality,
and
to
organize
images
into
larger
patterns
through
juxtaposition.
D.
For
he
was
politically
controversial
and
notorious
for
what
he
did
in
the
wartime,
his
literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.
50. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poetic expression.
A. England
B.
New England
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C. Plymouth
D. Boston
51. Which of the
following statements is right about Robert Frost’s poetry?
A. He combined traditional verse forms with the difficult and highly ornamental language.
B. He combined traditional verse forms with the pastoral language of the Southern area.
C.
He
combined
traditional
verse
forms
with
a
simple
spoken
language- the
speech
of
New
England farmers.
D. He combined traditional verse forms with the experimental.
52.
Which
of
the
following
statements
can
be
said
about
the
works
of
Scott
Fitzgerald,
a
spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?
A. Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending
American dream of fulfillment.
B.
They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the
modern world.
C. They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces.
D. They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.
53. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American
authors of the 20th century?
A.
The Sun Also Rises.
B.
The Old Man and the Sea.
C.
Mosses From the Old Manse.
D.
The Green Hills of Africa.
54. Which of the following statements is right about the novel
A Farewell to Arms
?
A.
The
aut
hor
favored
the
idea
of
nature
as
an
expression
of
either
god’s
design
or
his
beneficence.
B. The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the
1930s.
C.
The
author
emphasizes
his
belief
that
man
is
trapped
both
physically
and
mentally
and
suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.
D. It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian
nurse.
55. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkne
r’s novels?
A. Cambridge.
B. Oxford.
C. Mississippi.
D.
Yoknapatawpha.
56. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities
inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.
A. observe with no judgment whatsoever.
B. reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum.
C. observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the events.
D.
both A and B.
57. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?
A. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic
field.
B.
There
appeared
a
significant
group
of
Jewish- American
writers
whose
works
were
set
against the Jewish experience and tradition.
C. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.
D.
American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its
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