内部英美文学期末考试复习提纲

Exercise:

Multiple choices:

1.

America

as

a

nation

was

founded

in

the

year_______________.

A. 1776

B. 1783

C. 1778

D. 1780

2.

________

was

regarded

as

a

poet

of

the

American Revolution.

A. Philip Freneau

B. Walt Whitman

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. Thomas Jefferson

3.

The

ship

______

carried

about

one

hundred

Pilgrims

and

took

66

days

to

beat

its

way

across

the

Atlantic.

In

December

of

1620,

it

put

the

Pilgrims

ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A. Sunflower

B. Armada

C. Mayflower

D. Titanic

4.

Among

the

following

writers,

who

is

not

in American romanticism?

A. Poe

B. Emerson

C. Hawthorne

D. Anne Bradstreet

5.

Washington

Irving

got

his

idea

for

his

most famous story,

Rip Van Winkle

, from

a ________

A.

Greek

legend

B.

German

legend

C. French legend

D. English legend

6.

Rip Van Winkle

is found in Irving’s longer

work, ________

A.

The

Sketch

Book

B.

History

of

New

York

C. Tales of a Traveler

D. The Precaution

7.

Which

of

the

following

is

not

true

of

Benjamin Franklin?

A. printer and author

B. inventor and scientist

C. professor and journalist

D. diplomat and philosopher

8.

American___________

as

a

cultural

heritage

exerted

great

influences

over

American

moral

values

and

literary

traditions and works.

A.

Atheism

B.

Puritanism

C. Deism

D. Cynicism

9. Which of the following is not true of

The

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

?

A. It was the first and only work written

about American Civil War.

B.

It

is

considered

the

first

popular

self-help book ever published.

C.

It

was

the

first

major

secular

American autobiography.

D.

It

is

the

first

real

account

of

the

American Dream in action as told from

a man who experienced it firsthand.

10. Which of the following is not true about

American Puritanism?

A. All men have original sin.

B. The atonement is limited.

C.

Women

should

be

controlled

by

men

for women have evil nature.

D. God decided every thing before things

occurred.

11.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

is considered a record of all the following

except ______.

A. self-persecution

B. self-improvement

C. self- cultivation

D. self-examination

12.

Washington

Irving’s

contribution

to

American literature is unique in more ways

than one. He did all of the following except

__________.

A. the reverence for nature

B. the worship of the headless horseman

C. the exhibition of the supernatural

D. the longing for the good old days

13. Which of the following may

not

be the

ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A.“Trust

thyself”

B. “Make thyself”

C. “Avoid extremes”

D. “Build your own world”

14. Among the following facts, which is true

about Allan Poe?

A.

He

liked

to

write

on

beautiful

but

dead

women.

B. He impressed his readers by his peaceful,

light hearted and funny scenes.

C.

He

lived

an

uneventful

and

comfortable

life.

D. He thought writing should teach readers

moral lessons.

15.

The

meanings

of

the

letter

“A”

in

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous novel

The

Scarlet

Letter

may

include

all

of

the

following except ______.

A. absence

B. ambiguity

C. able

D. angel

16.

Walt

Whitman

is

a

poet

with

a

strong

sense

of

mission,

having

devoted

all

his

life

to

the

creation

of

the

“single”

poem,

______.

A

．

The Love Song of J

．

Alfred Prufrock

B

．

The Waste Land

C

．

Murder in the Cathedral

D

．

Leaves of Grass

17.

Which

of

the

following

statements

is

NOT

true

of

American

Transcendentalism?

A

．

It

can

be

clearly

defined

as

a

part

of

American Romantic literary movement.

B

．

It can be defined philosophically as “the

recognition

in

man

of

the

capacity

of

knowing truth intuitively”.

C

．

Ralph

Waldo

Emerson

was

the

chief

advocate of this spiritual movement.

D

．

It sprang from South America in the late

19th century.

18.

The

unofficial

manifesto

for

the

Transcendental

Club

was

______________,

Emerson’s

first

little

book, which established him ever since as

the

most

eloquent

spokesman

of

New

England Transcendentalism.

A

．

The American Scholar

B

．

Self

—

reliance

C

．

Nature

D

．

The Over

—

Soul

19. Which of the following statements might

be true of the theme of

Song of Myself

by

Whitman?

A

．

This

poem

describes

the

growth

of

a

child

who

learned

about

the

world

around

him

and

improved

himself

accordingly.

B

．

This

poem

shows

th

e

author’s

cynical

sentiments

against

the

American

Civil

War.

C

．

This poem reflects the author’s belief in

Unitarianism or Deism.

D

．

This poem reflects the author’s belief in

the

singularity

and

equality

of

all

beings

in value.

21.

In

American

literature

the

first

important

writer

who

earned

an

international

fame

on

both

sides

of

the

Atlantic Ocean is______.

A.

Washington

Irving

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C.

Nathaniel

Hawthorne

D. Walt Whitman

22.

Though

Walt

Whitman

and

Emily

Dickinson

were

romantic

poets

in

theme

and

technique,

they

differ

from

each

other

in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas

Whitman

likes

to

keep

his

eye

on

human

society

at

large,

Dickinson

often

addresses

such issues as_______, immortality, religion,

love and nature.

A. progress

B. freedom

C. beauty

D. death

23.

The

Romantic

Writers

would

focus

on

all

the

following

issues

EXCEPT

the

______ in the American literary history.

A. individual feeling

B. survival of the fittest

C. strong imagination

D. return to nature

24.

In

_______,

Washington

Irving

agrees

with the protagonist on his preference of

the

past

to

the

present,

and

of

a

dream-like world to the real world.

A. “Young Goodman Brown”

B.

“Rip Van Winkle”

C. “Rappaccini’s Daughter”

D.

“Bartleby, the Scrivener”

25.

Like

Nathaniel

Hawthorne,

_________

also

manages

to

achieve

the

effect

of