美国文学期末复习（修改）(1)

44. The author of Death of a Salesman is _______.

A. Eudora Welty B. Arthur Miller C. Tennessee Williams D. Carson McCullers 45. The author of Woman Warrior is_____.

A. Amt Tan B. C.Y. Lee C. Maxine Hong Kingston D. Pearl Buck 46. The first symbol of self-made American man is_____.

A. George Washington B. Washington Irving C. Thomas Jefferson D. Benjamin Franklin 47. American Renaissance started from______.

A. Pragmatism B. Utilitarian

C. New England Transcendentalism D. the age of Realism 48. The most influential novelist in Romantic period is_______.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Emily Dickinson D. Fennimore Cooper

49. ________divided the 19th century into the age of Romanticism and Realism in American literature.

A. The Spanish-American war B. The Civil War C. WWI D. WWII 50. William Howells explores the life of _______Americans.

A. lower-class B. upper-class C. working-class D. middle-class

51. _______addressed Ernest Hemingway and his peers as “the Lost Generation” which entitled a generation in the 1930s.

A. Gertrude Stein B. William Dean Howells C. Sherwood Anderson D. Henry James 52. Catch 22 is a novel with outstanding____.

A. euphemism B. Black humor

C. allusion D. stream of consciousness

53. In______. Captain Ahab is obsessed with the revenge on a whale which sheared off his leg on a previous voyage, and his crazy chasing of it eventually brings death to all on board the whaler except Ishmael, who survives to tell the tale.

A. Typee B. White Jacket C. Moby Dick D. Billy Budd 54. Which of the following novels is not written by Henry James?

A. Daisy Miller B. The Golden Bowl C. What Maisie Knew D. The Rise of Silas Lapham

55. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of the______.

A. Quakers B. Anglicans C. Catholics D. Puritans

56. It is a critical commonplace now that American literature is based on a myth, that is______.

A the ancient Greek myth of Zeus B.the British myth of the Saint Grail

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C. the Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden D.the legend of the Sleepy Hollow

57. Romanticism in American literature stretches from_____to the break forth of American Civil War.

A. early 17th C B. early 19th C C. early 18th C D. Spanish-American War

58. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s________is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”.

A. Nature B. The Conduct of Life C. Representative Men D. The American Scholar 59. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of____.

A. blank verse B. free verse C. sonnet D. quatrain 60. William Faulkner is NOT the writer of_____.

A. Herzog B. A Rose for Emily C. As I Lay Dying D. Go Down, Moses

61. James Fennimore Cooper?s novel_____is the first to reveal the west and Native Americans? life in a passionate way.

A. Do Down, Moses B. The Last of the Mohicans C. Winesburg, Ohio D. O’Pioneers!

62. “The Lost Generation” refers to the writers who relocated to Paris in the post WWI years to reject the values of American materialism. All the following but____are involved in this group.

A. F.S Fitzgerald B. Ernest Hemingway C. Theodore Dreiser D. John dos Passos

63. Realism in American literature stretches from _____to the end of 19th.C.

A. early 17th C. B. early 18thC. C. American Civil War D. Spanish-American War 64. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____.

A. Jack London B. Charles Dickens C. Samuel Coleridge D. Ernest Hemingway 65. The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____.

A. J. D. Salinger B. Jack London C. Flannery O'Connor D. Saul Bellow

66. The image of the famous \

A. Washington Irving B. Fennimore Cooper C. Edith Wharton D. William Dean Howells

67. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often thought to be ____.

A. Eugene O'Neill B. Ezra Pound C. Robert Frost D. Scott Fitzgerald 68. ____ is the most important person of the transcendentalist club.

A. Hawthorn B. Whitman C. Emerson D. Hemingway

69. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____.

A. friendship B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace 70. Robert Frost is a famous ____

A. novelist B. playwright C. poet D. literary critic

71. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the

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United States.

A. Age of Realism B. Age of Classism C. Age of Romanticism D. Age of Renaissance 72. Irving?s Rip Van Winkle got ideas from______legends.

A. British B. Italian C. German D. French

73. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as______.

A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby Dick

B. Life of Goldsmith Brown and Rip Van Winkle C. Rip Van Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow D. Young Goodman Brown and Rip Van Winkle

74. Strong affinity to the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of____.

A. Mark Twain B. Emily Dickinson C. Arthur Miller D. Ezra Pound 75. In Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for____.

A. Angel B. Adultery C. Able D. all the above

76. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

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

77. In a Station of the Metro is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of____.

A. the romantic poetry B. the imagist poetry

C. the absurd poetry D. the transcendental poetry

78. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author?s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.

A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic

79. Dreiser?s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ .

A. The Genius B. The Tycoon C. The Stoic D. The Giant

80. The impact of Darwin?s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ .

A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism

81. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A. Southern B. Western

C. New Hampshire D. New England

82. As an autobiographical play, O?Neill?s ___________(1956) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.

A. The Iceman Cometh B. Long Day?s Journey Into Night

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C. The Hairy Ape D. Desire Under the Elms

83. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A. impressionism B. expressionism

C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 84. Stylistically, Henry James? fiction is characterized by____________.

A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images C. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language

85. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ .

A. vernacular B. interior monologue C. point of view D. photographic description 86. It is on his____________ that Washington Irving?s fame mainly rested.

A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European tours C. early poetry D. tales about America

87. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “____________________”.

A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance

88. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________. A. nature, man and the universe

B. the relationship between man and woman

C. the development of Romanticism in American literature D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

89. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is NOT right? A. It?s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.

B. It?s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.

C. It?s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main

characters and the people in general.

D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.

90. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered____________.

A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe. B. an adventurous exploration into man?s relationship with nature C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure

D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty

91. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”

A. free verse B. blank verse C. alliteration D. end rhyming

92. After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.

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