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 Sen B. The American Crisis
C. The Rights of Man D. The Autobiography
2. “The are the times that try men’s souls”, the 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 the words?天蝎座男
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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 cular literature
5. The English colonies in North America ro 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 Mu B. Tenth Mu C. Best Mu D. First Mu
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
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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 univer is compod of Nature and the soul… Spirit is prent everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new pha, the pha 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弓弩 C. 康乃馨代表什么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. 大学生压力Life on the Mississippi D. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
15. Choo 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 tho writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _________.
A. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionists
自由领导着人民17. Ezra Pound’s long poem _________ contained more than one hundred poems looly connected.
A. The Waste Land B. The Cantos红苕尖 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 nt to a hospital where he fell in love with a nur. The two persons later became the characters of his novel _________.
