非常全的美国文学习题

111. 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 112. Wallace Steven?s “poetry is primarily motivated by the belief that true ideas correspond with an innate order in nature. Many of his good poems derive their emotional power from reasoned revelation. This philosophical intention is supported by the titles Stevens gave to his volumes such as ______________.

A. Harmonium B. Ideas of Order C. Parts of a World D. All of the above

113. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than 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

114. 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 Faulkner

115. ____________wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper

class; the rising ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labourned for both of them.

A. Faulkner B. Fitzgerald C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck

116.In 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 117. Most of the writers in the modern period were able to probe into the inner world of human reality on the base of ____________-. A. William James? “stream of consciousness”

B. Carl Jung?s “collective unconscious” and “archetypal symbol” C. Sigmund Freud?s “interpretation of dreams” D. All of the above

118. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged than they were ______________.

A. a Lost Generation B. a Beat Generation C. a Jazz Generation D. none of the above

119. Who is the author of the work: “The Grapes of Wrath”?

A. John Steibeck B. Eugene O?Neill C. F. Scott Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser

120. In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in _____________.

A. Main Street B. An American Tragedy C. Winesburg. Ohio D. Sister Carrie