美国文学常识练习题
美国文学练习题
1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.
a. Far From the Madding Crowd
b. Sound and Fury
c. For Whom the Bell Tolls
d. Scarlet Letter
2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.
a. novelist
b. playwright
c. poet
d. literary critic
3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________.
a. Jack London
b. Charles Dickens
c. Samuel Coleridge
d. Earnest Hemingway
4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
a. Allegory
b. Conflict
c. Irony
d. Flashback
5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______.
a. Nature
b. Walden
c. Experience
d. Essays
6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of
_____and rious literature.
a. American folk humor
b. funny jokes
c. English folklore
d. American values
7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the
Revolutionary War?
a. Fennimore Cooper.
b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.
c. Walt Whitman.
d. Washington Irving.
8. I Have a Dream is addresd by _____.
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Martin Luther King
d. Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?
a. This is my letter to the world
b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
c. This is just to say
d. Becau I could not stop for death
10. Eugene O’Neil is an American ______.
a. novelist
b. playwright
c. poet
d. essayist
11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the literary history of the United States.
a. Age of Realism
b. Age of Classicalism
c. Age of Romanticism
d. Age of Renaissance
12. With “Collected Poems”, ______won the cond Pulitzer Prize.
a. Ezra Pond
b. e. e. cummings
c. Robert Frost
d. William Cullen Bryant
13. Grass is a poem written by _______.
a. Walt Whitman
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Langston Hughes
d. Allen Ginsberg
14. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.
a. Jack London
b. Herman Melville
c. Sinclair Lewis
d. Ralph Ellison
15. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.
a. novels
b. poems
c. short stories
d. dramas
16. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
a. Tender Is the Night
b. Anna Christie
c. The Beautiful and Dammed
d. The Great Gatsby
17. The American literature in modern period is divided into two parts by the event of ______.
a. the expatriate movement
b. the Great Depression
c. the First World War
d. the Second World War
18. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreir’s Trilogy of Desire?
a. The Titan
b. The Financier
c. The “Genius”
d. The Stoic
19. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
a. William Faulkner
b. John Steinbeck
c. Saul Bellow
d. Earnest Hemingway
20. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _______work.
a. romantic
b. classic
c. neo-classic
d. naturalistic
21. The Octopus is written by ________.
a. Frank Norris
b. Sherwood Anderson
c. Willa Cather
d. Stephen Crane
22. James Baldwin’s most famous short story is _______.
a. A Ro for Emily
b. The Story of an Hour
c. Sonny’s Blues
d. A Clean, Well-lighted Place
23. ________wrote veral novels with the name of “Rabbit”.
a. Arthur Miller
b. Thomas Pynchon
c. John Updike
d. Wallace Stevens
24. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.
a. Robert Frost
b. Longfellow
c. Ezra Pond
d. Carl Sandburg
25. “God help them that help themlves” is found in ______’s work.
a. Franklin
b. Freneau
c. Jefferson
d. Paine
26. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is ______.
