英美文学(美国文学)Quiz3

Quiz for American Literature

I. Fill in the blanks

1. The period extending from _______ to __________ has been referred to as the Realistic Period

in American literary history.

2.

The

_________

War

affected

the

social

and

value

system

of

the

United

States

greatly

and

gave rise to the development of Realism.

3. William Dean Howells was one of the founders and sponsors of American Realism and wrote

about the____________________ class.

4. _______________________ was one of the founding fathers of psychological fiction, a novelist

of psychological realism.

5.

In

Daisy

Miller

,

the

writer

created

an

American

girl

as

a

_________________

type,

who

is

naive, innocent, travels to Europe, meets with devil, corruption and becomes mature.

6.

Henry

James

devoted

his

whole

life

to

___________

and

____________

society

instead

of

participating in the life he wrote about.

7. Henry James’ literary career can be divided into ______ distinctive stages, and he is reputed for

his

_________________________________

on

American

_________________

vs.

European

______________________.

8.

_________________

shows the author’s critical attitude towards U. S.

imperialist behavior.

9. ________________ is the pen name of William Sidney Porter, one of the most prolific modern

short story writers.

10. In memory of O Henry’s great contribution to American literature, the American literary circle

set up __________________________ in ____________, only one year after the establishment

of the most prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

11. American local colorist fictionists, on the one hand, were ______________ about the past; but

on the other hand, they also want to show how things are right at the present.

12.

Mark

Twain

is

the

pen

name

of

___________________________

His

masterpiece

is

Huckleberry Finn

13.

Naturalism

is

an

________________________

of

realism,

influenced

by

the

evolutionary

theory put forward by Charles ________.

14. ___________________ grafted Darwin’s biologica

l thesis onto a social model and developed

the theory of _________________________________.

15.

The

major

difference

between

Realism

and

Naturalism

is

that

realists

try

to

describe

the

____________________ of society while naturalists depict sordid side of life.

16.

Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

was the first ________________ novel in America written by

Stephen Crane

, relating the story of a good woman’s

___________ and destruction in a slum

environment.

17. _______________________ is regarded as the wheelhouse of American naturalism.

18.

Sister Carrie

is about a country girl who goes to ___________ to pursue her American Dream.

19.

McTeague

by Frank Norris is a consciously naturalistic ______________________ .

20.

_____________________________________

is

an

all-time

best

seller,

which

made

its

writer

—

___________________ immediately popular and a highly paid author for the next 12

years.