I. Write the Names of the Authors.
1. Poor Richard’s Almanac
2. Common Sen
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
5. The Waste Land
6. Sister Carrie
7. The Hou of the Seven Gables
8. The Great Gatsby
9. The Bluest Eye
10. A Farewell to Arms
与母亲的二十年
11. Rip Van Winkle
12. Raven
13. The Call of the Wild
14. The Marble Faun
15. Moby Dick 你心里最后一个
16. The Wing of the Dove
蓝丝带的故事17. Of Mice and Men
18. The Bluest Eye
19. The Great Gatsby
20. The Bluest Eye
21. The Sound and the Fury
II. Multiple Choices(Choo the best answer from the four choices).
1. From 1622 until his death, , one of the greatest of colonial American, was reelected thirty times as governor.
A. Anne Bradstreet B. William Bradford C. Edward Taylor D. Thomas Pain
2. carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people. It is more than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution.
A. Common Sen B. The American Crisis
平板太阳能热水器C. Declaration of Independence D. Defen of the English People
3. usually was regarded as the first American writer.
A. William Bradford B. Anne Bradstreet C. Emily Dickinson D. Captain John Smith
4. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the "林那北 "who appeared in America.
A. Ninth Mu B. Tenth Mu C. Best Mu D. First Mu
5. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A. Henry David Thoreau B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Nathanial Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman
6. Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby Dick C. White Jacket D. Billy Budd
7. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _______.
A. Walt Whitman B. Benjamin Franklin C. Abraham Lincoln D. Martin Luther King
8. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_______.
A. religion B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace
9. “The apparition of the faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _________.
A.T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E. E. Cummings
10. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______.
A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism
11. Which of the following is not written by Henry James?
A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans
B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors
C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians
D. 花千骨电视剧吧The Genius and The Gilded Age
12. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ______.
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A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott. Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway
13. Dreir’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and __________________.
A. The Stoic B. The Giant C. The Tycoon D. The Genius
14. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury巴卫图片, he ud 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
15. The Road Not Taken is a long poem written by ______.
A. Edwin Arlington Robinson B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. T.S. Eliot
16. ____, one of America’s greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor. Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night.
A. Arthur Miller B. Tenne Williams C. Bernard Malamud D. Eugene O’Neill
17. The Catcher in the Rye is a story of a 16 year old boy written by _____.
A. J.D. Salinger B. Saul Bellow C. Norman Mailer D. Ralph Ellison
