现当代美国文学练习答案

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African American

literature attained

to a

higher degree of

maturity

in 1952

when

Ralph

Ellison’s

Invisible

Man

appeared

in

print,

which

tells

an

archetypal

existential story of the unnamed African American protagonist seeking for

his identity

.

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In writing

Absalom, Absalom!

, Williams Faulkner was inspired by many things. But

one

of

his

inspirations

was

the

story

of

King

David

and

his

son

Absalom

in

the

______.

A.

American history

B. Greek mythology

C.

the Bible

D.

Roman mythology

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T. S. Eliot was a __________.

A.

critic, poet and novelist

B. poet, novelist and politician

C.

novelist, essayist and poet

D. playwright, critic and poet

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The

term

“the

lost

generation”

stems

from

a

remark

made

by

____

Gertrude

Stein

__

_ to Ernest Hemingway

, “Y

ou are all a lost generation.”

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Which of the following American writers has NOT been a Nobel Prize winner?

A. F. Scott Fitzgerald

B.

John Steinbeck

C.

William Faulkner

D.

Ernest Hemingway

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Which of the following statements concerning Ernest Hemingway is NOT true?

A.

Hemingway

identified

the

rapid

change

in

women’s

status

after

WWI

and

the

general blurring of sex roles that accompanied the new sexual freedom

B.

His

work

is

preoccupied

with

the

cultural

and

psychological

meanings

of

femininity

C.

As

Hemingway

aged,

his

interest

in

exclusively

masculine

forms

of

self- assertion and self-definition became more pronounced

D.

War,

hunting,

human

dignity

and

triumph

have

been

recurring

motifs

in

Hemingway’s works.

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Which of the following statements concerning the role of the sea

in Hemingway’s

novella

The Old Man and the Sea

is NOT correct?

A. His strength,

resolve and pride are

measured

in terms of

how

far out

into the

gulf

he sails.

B.

The sea symbolizes the benevolent side of nature.

C. Through the protagonist's interactions with the sea, his character emerges.

D.

The sea provides glimpses of the depth of the protagonist’s knowledge.

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Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost?

A. The Road Not Taken

B. Mending Wall

C. A Pact

D. Fire and Ice

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Alice

Walker

is

a

feminist

African

American

writer.

She

is

best

known

for

The

Color

Purple

published

in

1982,

a

novel

which

has

won

both

the

American

Book

Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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In

1927

T.

S.

Eliot

became

a

British

citizen

and

converted

from

the

Unitarian

Church to the Church of England.

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Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?

A.

Ernest Hemingway

B. F. S. Fitzgerald

C. Sherwood Anderson

D. Emily Dickinson

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Which of the following poets is a Nobel Prize winner?

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Wallace Stevens

C. Ezra Pound

D. Robert Frost

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Strong affinity to

the Chinese and oriental

literature can be

found

in

the works of

______.

A.

Henry James

B. Ezra Pound

C. Mark Twain

D.

Arthur Miller

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Who

has

made

the

statement

that

all

modern

American

literature

comes

from

a

single book called The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B.

William Faulkner

C.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

D.

T.S. Eliot

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_________ championed the imagist movement from 1912 to 1914, setting down the

imagist

principles.

Then

Amy

Lowell

led

the

movement

into

the

period

of

“Amygism,” as Pound called it, from 1914 to 1917.

A. Ezra Pound

B. T. S. Eliot

C. H. D.

D.

Carl Sandburg

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Toni

Morrison

is best known

for

her

fifth

novel_

Beloved

_, which

is based on

the

true story of a slave mother killing her own children just for them to avoid slavery

.

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Among

the

following

writers,

who

is

often

acclaimed

literary

spokesman

of

the

Jazz Age?

A.

William Faulkner

B.

Eugene O’Neill

C. Henry James

D.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The

imagist

poets

followed

three

principles;

they

are

________,

direct

treatment

and economy of expression.

A. blank verse

B.

musical rhythm

C.

the sequence of metronome

D. everyday speech

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“There

was

music

from

my

neighbor’s

house

through

the

summer

nights.

In

his

blue gardens

men and girls came and

went

like

moths among the whisperings and the

champagne and the stars…” This qu

otation is taken from ______.

A. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

B.

Daisy Miller by Henry James

C. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

D.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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Pioneer of

modern American poetry

, _________ did

not only produce

great poetry

himself

but

also

helped

his

contemporary

poets

including

T.

S.

Eliot,

H.

D.,

and

Robert Frost with their literary careers.

A. William Carlos Williams

B. Ezra Pound

C.

Edgar Allan Poe

D. Robert Lowell

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The author of

Desire under the Elms

(1924) is______

A.

Lorraine Hansberry

B. Theodore Dreiser

C. Eugene O’Neill

D.

Tennessee William

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