美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

A. Stubb B. Ishmael C. Ahab D. Starbuck

11. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? A.

Religion B. Life and death

C. Love and marriage D. War and peace

12. It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law. A.

Mark

Twain B. Emily Dickinson

C.

Theodore

Dreiser D. Henry James

13. Of the following American writers, _____ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A.

Mark

Twain B. Ernest Hemingway

C.

Henry

James D. F. S. Fitzgerald

14. The works of _____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.

A. F. S.

Fitzgerald B. John Steinbeck

C. Hemingway

Ernest

D.

William Howells

15. In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.

A.

individualism B. freedom

C.

democracy D. all the above

16. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as ____. A.

the

Golden

Age B. the Modern Age

C.

the

D.

Gilded the

Age Puritan Age

17. ____ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

A.

Ernest

Hemingway B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. William

Faulkner D. John Steinbeck

18. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ____. A.

short

writer B. novelist C.

dramatist D. translator

19. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?

A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative. B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand. C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago. D. He represents a new group of Southern writers

20. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ____.

A. England during World War I B. Paris during the French Revolution C.

America

D. America after the Revolutionary War

21. Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?

A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence. B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will. C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.

story

Puritan

D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.

22. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of ___. A.

Thomas

Hood B. Benjamin Franklin C.

Thomas

Jefferson D. George Washington

23. ___ is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism.

A.

Nature B. Walden C.

On

Beauty D. Self-Reliance

24. William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.

A. New England B. South C. Mid West D. West

25. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _____.

A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby Dick

B. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow C. Young Goodman Brown and Moby Dick

D. The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle 26. Which of the following novels was NOT written by Henry James?