美国文学复习范围

2021年1月22日发(作者：龙伯坚)
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the early 19
th
century Rip Van Winkle had established __________
‘
s reputation at home and
abroad , and designated the beginning of American Romanticism .
American Transcendentalists formed a club called

___________________


short story
“
The legend of Sleepy Hollow
“
is taken from Irving
’
s work named __________ .

also
wrote
two
biographies
,
one
is
The
Life
of
Oliver
Goldsmith
,
and
the
other
is__________ .
central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is __________ , who goes by the various names
of Leather Stocking , Deerslayer , Pathfinder and Hawkeye.
1845 , Thoreau began a two-year residence at __________ Pond .
Thoreau
’
s Concord jail experience , came his famous essay __________ .

American
Romantic
period
stretches
from
the
end
of
eighteenth
century
through
the
outburst of the __________ .
9. In 1836 , a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of
America . It was entitled Nature by __________ .
le is best known as the author of one book named __________ , which is , critics have
agreed , one of the world
’
s greatest masterpieces.

one of America
’
s first and foremost realists and humorists , __________ , the pen name of
Samuel Langhorne Clements , usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he
knew about from firsthand experiences .
Hemingway , whose own style is based on Twain
’
s , once said ,
“
All modern American
literature comes from ______________________________ .
”

3.
__________
,
the
first
American
naturalist
,
was
not
much
influenced
by
the
scientific
approach . He was a genius with amazing sympathy and imagination .

____________________
,
Stephen
Crane
’
s
greatest
novel
,
the
accident
of
war
makes
a
young man seem to be a hero . War changes men into animals . In the view of author , good or
bad , hero and coward , are ,merely matters of chance, of fate.
identification of potency with money is at the heart of Dreiser
’
s masterpiece __________ .

’
s novel __________ relates the story of a good girl
’
s downfall and destruction in a slum
environment .

Twain
’
s
first
novel
,
__________
was
an
artistic
failure
,
but
it
gave
its
names
to
the
America of the post- bellum period which it attempts to satirize .
r visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published _________________ the following year .
r
’
s novel ___________ , a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900 ,
was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim , naturalistic portrayal of American society .
10. Norris
’
s novel __________ has been called
“
the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel
“
and
“
a consciously naturalistic manifesto
“
.

Multiple Choice

1. As a philosophical and literary movement , ____flourished in New England from the 1830s to
the Civil War .


A. modernism


B. rationalism



C. sentimentalism



D. transcendentalism
ndentalismt doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____and Thoreau .
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A. Jefferson


B. Emerson


C. Freneau



D. Oversoul

3. The desire for an escaped from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention
of American literature , evident in _____.


A. James Fenimore Cooper
’
s Leatherstocking Tales



B. Henry David Thoreau
’
s Walden


C. Mark Twain
’
s Huckleberry Finn

















D. All of the above

Melville
’
s
_____is
not
only
an
adventure
story
,
but
also
a
significant
philosophical
work on spiritual exploration .


A. Moby Dick



B. The Egg



C. Nature



D.
”
The Over-Soul
“

Waldo Emerson
’
s first book _____is the fundamental document of his philosophical , and
expresses his constant , deeply felt love for the natural scenes .


A. Walden




B. Nature





C. Daisy Miller




D. Leatherstocking Tales

is the character who appears in the Moby Dick?


Prynne


B. Mr. Hooper


C. Ahab




D. Pearl
is regarded as the
“
Declaration of Intellectual Independence
“
?


A. The American Scholar


B. English Traits


C. The Conduct of Life

D. Representative Men
Bradstreet was a Puritan poet . Her poems made such a stir in England that she became
known as the
“
_____
“
who appeared in America .


A. Ninth Muse



B. Tenth Muse



C. Best Muse


D. First Muse
is not connected with Thomas Paine ?

A. Common Sense

B. The American Crisis

C. Pennsylvania Magazine

D. The Autobiography
poem is not written by Phillip Freneau ?


A. The British Prison Ship



















B. The Wild Honey Suckle


C. The Indian Burying Ground
















D. The day of doom


1. _____in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity .


A. Mark Twain



B. William Dean Howells

C. Bret Harte



D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
n Crane
’
s novel , Maggie : A Girl of the Street , is the story of a girl _____ .



A. who is brought up in a poor area of Chicago


B. who is loved by her family but betrayed by her friends



C. who experiences the violence and cruelty of the society almost every day


D. who is evil by nature
Howells , James , and Mark Twain active on the scene , _____became the major trend in
the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century .


A. sentimentalism



B. romanticism



C. realism



D. naturalism
4.
_____is
not
the
representative
writers
in
the
Age
of
Realism
in
the
literary
history
of
the
United States .


A. Henry James



B. Emily Dickinson



C. William Dean Howells



D. Mark Twain

5. _____is considered to be Theodore Dreiser
’
s greatest work .


A. An American Tragedy


B. Sister Carrie


C. The Financier



D. The Titan
6. _____is not a novel by Henry James dealing with the international theme.


A. What Maisie Knows

B. The Wings of the Dove

C. The Ambassadors

D. The Golden Bowl


exerts
the
single
most
important
influence
on
literary
naturalism
,
of
which
Theodore
Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representatives writers ? _____


A. Freud






B. Darwin





C. W. D. Howells





D. Emerson
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