美国文学综合练习进步3附标答.doc

.- Test Three (Chapter5-6 with answers) I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. 1. What President reportedly claimed that Uncle Tom’s Cabin started the Civil War? A. Grant B. McKinley C. Lincoln D. Buchanan 2. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of speech of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the______ of death，the title of the poem is I heard a Fly buzz when I died. A. moment B. suffering C. happiness D. meaning 3. The poetic style Whitman devised is now called ________, that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A. sonnet B. Ballard C. epic D. free verse 4. By using the technique of contrast in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe describes two opposite fates of the slave: one gained freedom by rebellious struggle; the other died due to his submission. Who they are? A. Tom and Cassy B. Eliza and Tom C. John and Tom D. Tom and Marie 5. More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature， in which her general _____about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed. 　　 A. scepticism　　B. eulogy　　C. happiness　　D. denial 6. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, ________gave America its first genuine epic poem. A. Walt Whitman B. Emily Dickson C. Mrs. Stowe D. Robert Frost 7. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinsons？ 　 　A. War and peace　　B. Love and marriage 　 C. Life and death　　D. Religion 8. This is my letter to the World is a poem expressing Emily Dickinsons _____about her communication with the outside world. 　　 A. happiness　　B. anger　　C. anxiety　　D. sorrow 9. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from .to . A. 1861---1914 B. 1863---1918 C. 1865---1914 D. 1865---1918 10. is not the representative writer 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 11. is not the work of Mark Twain. A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Mill on the Floss 12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is against . A. British colonists B. slavery C. chauvinism D. monocracy 13. American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was . A. Jane Austen B. Watt Whitman C. Emily Dickinson D. Harriet Beecher Stowe 14. The novel ______ is not written by Henry James. A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the Dove C. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger 15. The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind is the title of one chapter in Dreiser’s novel _________. A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. Jannie Gerhardt 16. The main theme of ________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the Novel. A. Henry James’s B. Mark Twain’s C. Theodore Dreiser D. William Dean Howells’ 17. Daisy Miller is written by . A. Hawthorne B. Twain C. Melville D. James 18. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances. A. naturalism　B. realism　C. determinism　D. humanism 19. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language. 　 　A. grand　　B. pompous　　C. simple　　D. vernacular 20. After The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Toms buddy Huck in a book called_____， and the book from which "all modern American literature comes." 　 　A. Life on the Mississippi River　　 B. The Gilded Age 　 　C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn　 　D. The Sun Also Rises 21. Winterbourne is used as a ______in Henry Jamess "Daisy Miller." 　　 A. Protagonist　 　B. Narrator of the events 　　 C. A character of central consciousness　　D. Persona 22. The author of "The Portrait of a Lady" is best at_______. 　　 A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human life 　　 B. a truthful delineation of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women 　 C. a dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on an international scene 　　 D. disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War 23. In the following writers，who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "Stream-of-consciousness" novels and the founder of psychological realism______________. 　 A. Henry James　　 B. Mark Twain　　 C. Emily Dickenson　 　D. Theodore Dreiser 24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human "______". 　 　A. bestiality　　B. goodness　　C. compassion　　D. greed 25. The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “ ”. A. The Gilded Age B. The Jazz Age C. The Lost Age D. The Golden Age 26. While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, ____ had apparently laid greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man. A. Dreiser B. Whitman C. James D. Fitzgerald 27. The works of ____ are characterized with local colors. A. Whitman B. Mark Twain C. Dickson D. James 28. is regarded as “as true father of our national literature”. A. Mark Twain B. Jefferson C. Franklin D. Hemingway 29. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is famous for its characterization of . A. Tom Sawyer B. Huck C. Jim D. a runaway slave 30. and the West Became Twain’s major theme. A. Death B. The Mississippi valley C. Adventures D. The South 31. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain makes sharp contrasts between . A. life and death B. adventures and terrors C. wealth and poverty D. nature and culture (or wilderness and civilization) 32. Henry James is famous for his novels of . A. love theme B. international theme C. revolutionary theme D. pastoral theme 33. ____ realism is characterized by his psychological approach to his subject matter. A. Twain’s B. Whitman’s C. James’s D. Steinbeck’s 34. In the following statements, _________ is not about the local colorism in American literary realism. A. Their writings are concerned with the life of a small, well-defined region or province. B. The characteristic setting is the isolated small town. C. Their materials were extensive or wide-ranging and the topics were connective. D. Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life, recorders of a present that faded before their eyes. 35. ______, a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time. A. The American B. Daisy Miller C. The Europeans D. The Portrait of a Lady 36. With the publication of , Henry James’s reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic. A. Daisy Miller B. The Portrait of A Lady C. The American D. The Wings of the Dove 37. Emily Dickinson got inspiration from in her writing of poetry. A. hymns B. sonnets C. free verse D. heroic couplets 38. Mark Twain’s first novel ______--, written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873, though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize. A. The Gilded Age B. The Age of Innocence C. The Roughing Time D. The Jazz Age 39. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by ________. A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images C. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language 40. The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following except ________. A. spiritual freedom B. escape from different sorts of social oppression C. mobility and instability D. a small society where people of different colors can live like brothers 41. Twain had become national sensations after he reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields. The story is ___. A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country B. Tramp Abroad C. The Gilded Age D. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 42. Which is not true description of Mark Twain? A. He is known as local colorist, who preferred social life through portraits of the local characters of his regions. B. He portrayed uniquely American subjects in a humorous, colloquial, poetic language. C. He wrote about the lower-class people. D. He was an admirer of ancient European civilization. 43. ____ is generally considered to be James masterpiece, which incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment. A. The Portrait of a Lady B. Daisy Miller C. An American D. Sister Carrie 44. Which of the following descriptions is true of Whitman? A. He often uses variations of meters, esp. iambic tetrameter. B. He uses long lines. C. He explores the inner life of he individual. D. He uses intense metaphors and a lot of ellipsis. 45. In “Because I Could not Stop for Death”, the poet uses personification. Her companion is _____. A. traveler B. horse C. death D. carriage 46. Which of the following works was not written by Henry James? A. Daisy Miller B. The Golden Bowl C. The Beast in the Jungle D. The Prince and Pauper 47. ____ was an American psychologist famous for his theory of “stream of consciousness”. A. Henry James B. William James C, Sigmund Freud D. William Faulkner 48. An American Tragedy is a masterpiece by . A. Hemingway B. Dreiser C. Faulkner D. Fitzgerald 49. The impact of on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to American naturalism. A. Darwin’s evolutionary theory B. Marxist theory C. Transcendentalism D. Puritanism 50. In 1859, Darwin published The Origin of Species , which exerted great influence on American A. Romanticism B. Realism C. Modernism D. Naturalism II. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false. Write a “T” for true and “F” for false. 1. Mrs. Stowe has never passed her own opinion to her novel directly. ( ) 2. Closely related to Emily Dickinsons religious poetry are her poems concerning Death and immortality. ( ) 3. The chief and immediate cause of the Civil War was slavery. ( ) 4. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 just after he was selected president of United States the first time. ( ) 5. The subject matters of Walt Whitman’s poetry are always beautiful rural scenery. ( ) 6. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as Naturalism in the literary history of the United States. ( ) 7. After the Civil War, disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilden” one. ( ) 8. Mark Twain’s later works unmistakably showed his change from an optimist and humorist to an almost despairing determinster. ( ) 9. The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is Henry James’s Daisy Miller. ( ) 10. American Naturalism, like realism, had come from Europe. ( ) 11. “Local Colorism” is a unique variation of American literary romanticism. ( ) 12. The Portrait of A Lady is one of the representative works of Henry James. ( ) 13. 20th Century American literature is also called the Age of Realism. ( ) 14. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim have their journey to freedom on the Hudson River. ( ) 15. Twain’s humor is only of witty remarks mocking at small things or of farcical elements making people laugh. ( ) 16. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published posthumously. ( ) 17. Darwin’s impact of the idea “survival of the fittest” on Dreiser is great. ( ) 18. James in 1915 became a naturalized British citizen. ( ) 19. Dreiser successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society. ( ) 20. Darwinism was a big influence over the writers of the modern period. ( ) III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken 1. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. 2. I am satisfied - I see, dance, laugh, sing; As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets coverd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty, Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes, That they turn from gazing after and down the road, And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent, Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead? 3. But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he? 4. “Mas’r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I’d give ye my heart’s blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I’d give ’em freely, as the Lord gave his for me. Oh, Mas’r! don’t bring this great sin on your soul! It will hurt you more than’t will me! Do the worst you can, my troubles’ll be over soon; but, if ye don’t repent, yours won’t never end!” 5. Sitting alone, she was now an illustration of the devious ways by which one who feels, rather than reasons, may be led in the pursuit of beauty. Though often disillusioned, she was still waiting for that halcyon day when she would be led forth among dreams become real. Ames had pointed out a farther step, but on and on beyond that, if accomp