200511美国文学 作业(专升本)

《美国文学》作业

一、单选题

1. American literature is only more than ____ years old.

A. 500

B.400

C. 200

D.100

2. The Puritan values did no include______.

A. wastefulness

B. thrift

C. piety

D. hard work

3. The 18

th

century was the age of the Enlightenment.

______was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Romanticism

D. Realism

4. Franklin was the epitome of the______.

A. American Enlightenment

B. Sugar Act

C. Charlist movement

D. Romanticism

5. _____was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.

A. Franklin

B. Hawthorne

C. Paine

D. Emerson

6. “Moby Dick was written by_____

A. Mark Twain

B. Thoreau

C. Melville

D. Whitman

7. “The Scarlet Letter” is characterized by its______.

A. symbolism

B. rationalism

C. Platonism

D. classicism

8. “Huckleb

erry Finn is the masterpiece of________.

A. Henry James

B. Jack London

C. Mark Twain

D. Stephen Crane

9. Choose the novel written by Henry James

A. The Golden Bowl

B. The Portrait of a Lady

C. Sister Carrie

D. Daisy Miller

10. Early in the 20

th

century, _____ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.

A. Ezra Pound

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Robert Frost

D. both A and B

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11._____ is the founder of “Imagist” movement.

A. Ezra Pound

B. Hemingway

C. Robert Frost

D. Steinbeck

12. Mark Twain’s works are characterized by_____

A. Naturalism

B. Transcendentalism

C. Local Colorism

D. Imagism

13. ______ is a poet of profound simplicity.

A. T.S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Langston Hughes

D. Robert Burns

14. Which writer has naturalist tendency?

A. Crane

B. Norris

C. Theodore Dreiser

D.T.S. Eliot

15. “The Portrait of a Lady” was written by______

A. Henry James

B. Franklin

C. Emerson

D. Hawthorn

16. During the 19

th

century the only American female poet was_____.

A. Jane Austin

B. Anne Bradstreet

C. Gorge Eliot

D. Emily Dickinson

17. ______ is the most important playwright in America

A. Hemingway

B. Eugene O’Neill

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Faulkner

18. Hester Prynne is the main character in______.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Sister Carrie

C. Farewell to Arms

D. The Great Gatsby

19. “Leaves of Grass” is a collection written by______.

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Robert Frost

C. Walt Whitman

D. Longfellow

20. F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous for his masterpiece,______.

A. The Grape of Wrath

B. Cup of Gold

C. The old Man and the Sea

D. The Great Gatsby

21. ______ is considered to be the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.

A. Mending Wall

B. Dry September

C. A Farewell to Arms

D. The Grapes of Wrath

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2. Uncle Tom in the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a(n)______

A. Negro slave

B. salesman

C. industrialist

D. officer

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3. Mark Twain’s wo

rks are characterized by______

A. Naturalism

B. Transcendentalism

C. Local Colorism

D. Imagism

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4. “

The Great Gatsby

” is the masterpiece of_____

A. Whitman

B. Fitzgerald

C. Dickinson

D. Hemingway

25. The United States of America was founded in______.

A. 1776

B. 1876

C. 1789

D.1689

26. The ancestors of American Indians were______

A. Asians

B. Africans

C. Europeans

D. Australians

27. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was written by______.

A. H.B. Stowe

B. John Steinbeck

C. Hawthorne

D. Mark Twain

28. ______ does not belong to the lost generation.

A. Dreiser

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Faulkner

D. Hemingway

29. ______ was well known for his story “Rip Van Winkle.”

A. Bryant

B. Washington Irving

C. Allan Poe

D. Philip Freneau

30. “Farewell to Arms” is the master pieced produced by______

A. Faulkner

B. Dreiser

C. Hemingway

D. Longfellow

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1.“Catch

< br>-

22” was written by______.

A. Mark Twain

B. Joseph Heller

C. T.S. Eliot

D. O’Nell

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2.“The Waste Land is a long _______ written by T.S. Eliot”

A. novel

B. drama

C. essay

D. poem

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33. The Enlightenment is characterized by______

A. reason

B. emotion

C. humanism

D. joint venture

34. The representative of American Enlightenment was________

A. Franklin

B. Robert Lee Frost

C. Steinbeck

D. Stephene Crane

35. Emily Dickinson is an American_______

A. dramatist

B. essayist

C. female poet

D. male poet

36. ________ is said to be the father of American poetry

A. T.S. Eliot

B. E.D. Robinson

C. Philip Freneau D. Dreiser

37. Hawthorne is regarded as a _______.

A. naturalist

B. classicist

C. realist

D. romanticist

38. ______ represents the most leading spirit of American Transcendentalism.

A. Emerson

B. Franklin

C. Mark Twain

D. Whitman

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9. “The Art of Fiction” was written by_____

A. Longfellow

B. Henry James

C. Fitzgerald

D. Faulkner

40. Imagination plays the most important part in________.

A. realism

B. romanticism

C. naturalism

D. classicism

41. ______ is considered to be the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.

A. Mending Wall

B. Dry September

C. A Farewell to Arms

D. The Grapes of Wrath

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2. Uncle Tom in the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a(n)______

A. Negro slave

B. salesman

C. industrialist

D. officer

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3. Mark Twain’s works are characterized by______

A. Naturalism

B. Transcendentalism

C. Local Colorism

D. Imagism

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4. “

The Great Gatsby

” is the masterpiece of_____

A. Whitman

B. Fitzgerald

C. Dickinson

D. Hemingway

45. The United States of America was founded in______.

A. 1776

B. 1876

C. 1789

D.1689

46. The ancestors of American Indians were______

A. Asians

B. Africans

C. Europeans

D. Australians

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7. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was written by______.

A. H.B. Stowe

B. John Steinbeck

C. Hawthorne

D. Mark Twain

48. ______ does not belong to the lost generation.

A. Dreiser

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Faulkner

D. Hemingway

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9. ______ was well known for his story “Rip Van Winkle.”

A. Bryant

B. Washington Irving

C. Allan Poe

D. Philip Freneau

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0. “Farewell to Arms” is the master pieced produced by______

A. Faulkner

B. Dreiser

C. Hemingway

D. Longfellow

51. William Faulkner is the author of ______.

A

Far From the Madding Crowd

B

Sound and Fury

C

For Whom the Bell Tolls

D

Scarlet Letter

52. Robert Frost is a famous_______.

A

novelist

B

playwright

C

poet

D

literary critic

53.

The Old Man and the Sea

is one of the great works by ________.

A

Jack London

B

Charles Dickens

C

Samuel Coleridge

D

Earnest Hemingway

54. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.

A

Allegory

B

Conflict

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C

Irony

D

Flashback

55. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______.

A

Nature

B

Walden

C

Experience

D

Essays

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6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _____and serious literature.

A

American folk humor

B

funny jokes

C

English folklore

D

American values

57. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?

A

Fennimore Cooper.

B

Nathaniel Hawthorn.

C

Walt Whitman.

D

Washington Irving.

58. I Have a Dream is addressed by _____.

A

Abraham Lincoln

B

John F. Kennedy

C

Martin Luther King

D

Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

A

This is my letter to the world

B

I heard a Fly buzz

—

when I died

C

This is just to say

D

Because I could not stop for death

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0. Eugene O’Neil is an American ______.

A

novelist

B

playwright

C

poet

D

essayist

61. The American civil war ended in______

A.1765

B.1865

C.1761

D.1861

62. The Cuban missile crisis resulted from between America and the soviet Union.

A. the cold war

B. the Hot War

C. the Civil War

D. World War

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3. “Song of Myself” was wri

tten by______.

A. Longfellow

B. Frost

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Whitman

romantic writers believed that ______ was superior to rationalism.

A. transcendentalism

B. naturalism

C. imagination

D. Puritanism

65. It was ______ who wrote the formal declaration of independence.

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Benjamin Franklin

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C. Washington

D. Washington Irving

66.

_____has

been

exerting

a

great

and

enduring

influence

upon

world

literature,

especially

that

of

France

and

European symbolism.

A. Franklin

B. Bradstreet

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. Philip Freneau

67. The masterpiece of Hawthorne is _________.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Sister Carrie

C. Richard Cory

D. A Psalm of Life

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8. Engene O’

Neill is a _______.

A. novelist

B. poet

C. puritan

D. dramatist

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way’s style of writing is characterized by______.

A. high-sounding words

B. simple diction

C. complicated sentences

D. mix metaphor

70. T.S. Eliot is not only a poet but also a ______.

A. critic

B. statesman

C. churchman

D. novelists

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1. “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” was written by_____.

A. T.S. Eliot

B. O’Neill

C. Stephen Crane

D. Saul Bellow

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2. “The Grape of Wrath” is one of the remarkable

novels of_____.

A. the Civil War

B. Depression

C. Suppression

D. Aggression

73. Theodore Dreiser showed the_____ tendency in his novels.

A. Puritanism

B. classicism

C. romanticism

D. naturalism

74. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading figure of________.

A. Transcendentalism

B. Romanticism

C. Rationalism

D. Naturalism

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5. “The Sound and the Fury” was the masterpiece of ______

A. Robert Lee Frost

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Faulkner

D. Steinbeck

76. Emily Dickinson is an American________.

A. dramatist

B. novelist

C. female poet

D. male poet

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7. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” shows Mark Twain’s______

A. materialism

B. classicism

C. socialism

D. colorism

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8. “The Portrait of a Lady” is one of best novels of_________.

A. Henry James

B. John Steinbeck

C. William Faulkner

D. Walt Whitman

79. What Whitman is famous for his_________.

A. “Leaves of Grass”

B. “Mending Wall”

C. “Richard Cory”

D. “The Burial of the Dead”

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0. “Catch

-

22” is the masterpiece of______

A. Saul Bellow

B. Joseph Heller

C. Dreiser

D. Fitzgerald

81. The period from 1865

—

1914 has been referred to as the _______in the literary history of the United States.

a. Age of Realism

b. Age of Classicalism

c. Age of Romanticism

d. Age of Renaissance

a. Ezra Pond

b. e. e. cummings

c. Robert Frost

d. William Cullen Bryant

a. Walt Whitman

b. Carl Sandburg

c. Langston Hughes

d. Allen Ginsberg

a. Jack London

b. Herman Melville

c. Sinclair Lewis

d. Ralph Ellison

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2. With “Collected Poems”, ______won the second Pulitzer Prize.

83. Grass is a poem written by _______.

84. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.

85. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.

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