美国文学期末复习资料题.doc

.- 2013-2014-1 美国文学史及选读 期末复习材料 Ⅰ Multiple choices 1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine? A. Common Sense B. The American Crisis C. The Rights of Man D. The Autobiography 2. “These are the times that try men’s souls”, these words were once read to Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words? A. Benjamin Franklin B. Thomas Paine C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington 3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ______. A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement 4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable to______. A. the colonial order B. religious obscurantism C. the Puritan tradition D. the secular literature 5. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted ______ in 1776. A. Declaration of Independence B. the Sugar Act C. the Stamp Act D. the Mayflower Compact 6. ______ usually was regarded as the first American writer. A. William Bradford B. Anne Bradstreet C. Emily Dickinson D. Captain John Smith 7. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “______” who appeared in America. A. Ninth Muse B. Tenth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse 8. Who was considered as the “poet of American Revolution”? A. Anne Bradstreet B. Edward Taylor C. Michael Wigglesworth D. Philip Freneau 9. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet ______ to appear in America up to that time. A. Edward Taylor B. Philip Freneau C. William Cullen Bryant D. Edgar Allen Poe 10. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in ______. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Young Goodman Brown C. The Marble Faun D. The Ambitious Guest 11. “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul… Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England ______. A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism C. Naturalism D. Symbolism 12. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism? A. Nature B. Walden C. On Beauty D. Self-Reliance 13. Mark Twain created, in _________, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature. A. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn B. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer C. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg D. The Gilded Age 14. _________ marks the climax of Mark Twain’s literary creativity. A . The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn B. The Gilded Age C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer 15. Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James. A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the Dove C. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger 16. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _________. A. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionists 17. Ezra Pound’s long poem _________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected. A. The Waste Land B. The Cantos C. Don Juan D. Queen Mab 18. T. S. Eliot’s first major poem _________(1917), has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English. A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock B. The Waste Land C. Four Quartets D. Preludes 19. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel _________. A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. A Farewell to Arms 20. In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _________, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. A. stream of consciousness B. imagism C. symbolism D. naturalism 21. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ______, there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century. A. Herman Melville B. Henry David Thoreau C. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser 22. A New ______ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century. A. realism B. critical realism C. romanticism D. naturalism 23. From Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, ______ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government. A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense 24. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _________. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism 25. Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything: history, philosophy religion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry. A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby Dick C. White Jacket C. Billy Budd 26. 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. Pequod 27. From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous ______, an annual collection of proverbs. A. The Autobiography B. Poor Richard’s Almanac C. Common Sense D. The General Magazine 28. In American literature, the eighteen-century was the age of the Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution 29. ______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club. A. Henry David Thoreau B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman 30. Edgar Allen Poe’s first collection of short stories is ______. A. Tales of a Traveler B. Leatherstocking Tales C. Canterbury Tales D. Tales of the Grotesque of Arabesque 31. ______ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville well known as the “man who lived among cannibals”. A. Moby Dick B. Typee C. Omoo D. Billy Budd 32. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? A. The American Scholar B. English Traits C. The Conduct of Life D. Representative Men 33. The three dominant figures of the realistic period in American literature are _________. A. Theodore Dreiser, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howells B. Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean Howells C. Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser and William Dean Howells D. Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howells 34. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _________. A. Anne Bradstreet B. Jane Austen C. Emily Dickinson D. Harriet Beecher 35. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named_________. A. The Son of the Wolf B. The Sea Wolf C. The Law of Life D. White Fang 36. In Henry James’ Daisy Miler, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _________. A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich 37. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _________. A. T.S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E.E.Cumings 38. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _________. A. The Roaring Twenties B. The Jazz Age C. The Dollar Decade D. all of the above 39. In 1954, _________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”. A. T.S Eliot B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faukner 40. William Faukner’s novel _________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view. A. The Sound and the Fury B. Startoris C. The Unvanquished D. The Town 41. “The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit” is the title of one chapter in Dreiser’s novel _________. A. An American Dream B. Sister Carrie C. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. Jannie Gerhardt 42. 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’ B. William Dean Howells’ C. Mark Twain’s D. O. Henry’s 43. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _________became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century. A. sentimentalism B. romanticism C. realism D. naturalism 44. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel _________. A. The Call of the Wild B. The Sea Wolf C. Martin Eden D. The Iron Heel 45_________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time. A. The American B. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portait of a Lady Answers: 1-5 DBCDA 6-10 DBDCA 11-15 BAAAD 16-20 CBADA 21-25 BCCCB 26-30 CBBBD 31-35 BABCA 36-40 BCDBA 41-45 BACCC Ⅱ Filling the following blanks with proper answers 1. Captain John Smith became the first American writer. 2. The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. 3. The first major intellectual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay colony was John Cotton, sometimes called “the Patriarch of New England.” 4. Anne Bradstreet published The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, and she was nicknamed the tenth Muse. 5. Poor Richard’s Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 6. Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”. 7. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. 8. Philip Freneau developed a natural, simple, and concrete diction, best illustrated in such nature lyrics as “The Wild Honey Suckle” and “The Indian Burying Ground”. 9. Philip Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 10. In Washington Irving’s Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. 11. Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the Leatherstocking tales. 12. “To a Waterfowl” is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. 13. “Thanatopsis”, William Cullen Bryant’s best-known poem, consists of four stanzas in iambic tetrameter abab. The title means “view of death”. 14. Edgar Allan Poe is considered “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”. 15. Emerson believed above all in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance. 16. In Walden, Thoreau thought it better for a man to work one day a week and rest six, and the rest of the time could be devoted to thought. 17. Hawthorne’s stories touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. 18. Moby Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. 19. After his death, Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. 20. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, had become an American institution and the most famous literary woman in the world. 21. William Dean Howells found his subject matter in the experiences of the American middle class. 22. William Dean Howells called for the treatment of the “smiling aspects of life” as being the more “American.” 23. The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment. 24. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called free verse. 25. OHenry’s stories are usually short and interesting; Famous for their surprising end. 26. Henry James is famous for his international theme of the traditionless American confronting the complexity of European life. 27. Jack London believed in the inevitable triumph of the strongest individuals. 28. Dreiser’s greatest and most successful novel, An American Tragedy, is about a young man who acts as if the only way he can be truly fulfilled is by acquiring wealth—through marriage if necessary. 29. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Lost Generation,” devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. 30. Wallace Stevens’ work is primarily motivated by the belief that “ideas of order”. 31. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a lost generation.” Ⅲ Decide whether the statements are true or false (T/F). 1. John Winthrop’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been regarded as the first distinct American literature written in English. 2. In 1612, William Bradford published in England a book called A Map of Virginia; With a description of the country. 3. Philip Freneau was neoclassical by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit. 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was recognized as the lead