美国文学常识练习题

2024年3月15日发(作者：洪恩gogo学英语)

美国文学练习题

1. William Faulknerw(福克纳)is the author of ______.

a. Far From the Madding Crowd

b. Sound and Fury

（喧嚣与骚动）

c. For Whom the Bell Tolls

d. Scarlet Letter

a远离尘嚣Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代

c.丧钟为谁而鸣（海明威的著作）

d红字

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纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne）

2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.

a. novelist 小说家 b. playwright 剧作家

c. poet 诗人 d. literary critic文学评论家

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.

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______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance

and reality.

a. Allegory 寓言 b. Conflict 冲突，矛盾；斗争；争执

c. Irony

讽刺；反语

d. Flashback 倒叙；闪回

5. The great transcendental 超验的work by Henry David Thoreau

is______.

a. Nature b. Walden

瓦尔登湖

c. Experience d. Essays

B亨利·大卫·梭罗（美国作家及自然主义者）

6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a

combination of _____and rious literature(严肃文学杨).

a. American folk humor

美国民间幽默

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b. funny jokes

c. English folklore英国民俗

d. American values

7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary

reputation after the Revolutionary War?

谁是第一个人在独立战争之后美国实现国际文学声誉在独立战争之后

a. Fennimore Cooper. b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.

c. Walt Whitman. d. Washington Irving.

D.华盛顿·欧文（美国文学史上最早的著名作家）

8. I Have a Dream is addresd by _____.

a. Abraham Lincoln b. John F. Kennedy

c. Martin Luther King d. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

a. This is my letter to the world 这是我给世界的信

b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died我听到苍蝇的嗡嗡声——当我死时

c. This is just to say

d. Becau I could not stop for

death因为我不能停下来等待死神

C. "This Is Just To Say" (1934) is a famous imagist poem (意象派诗)by

William Carlos Williams（威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯）

10. Eugene O’Neil尤金·奥尼尔is an American ______.

a. novelist b. playwright

剧作家

c. poet d. essayist

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11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the

literary history of the United States.

a. Age of Realism

现实主义

b. Age of Classicalism

c. Age of Romanticism d. Age of Renaissance

12. With “Collected Poems(诗歌精选)”, ______won the cond Pulitzer

Prize.

a. Ezra Pond b. e. e. cummings

c. Robert Frost d. William Cullen Bryant

罗伯特·弗罗斯特4次获得普利策奖

15. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.

a. novels b. poems

c. short stories 短篇小说 d. dramas

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16. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

菲茨杰拉德；费兹杰罗

a. Tender Is the Night 夜色温柔

b. Anna Christie

c. The Beautiful and Dammed 漂亮的入地狱者

d. The Great Gatsby 伟大的盖茨比

b.

Oneill, Eugene

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

19. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______for his

“mastery of the art of modern narration”.精通现在叙事艺术

a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck

c. Saul Bellow d. Earnest Hemingway

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20. Sister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹is a masterpiece of _______work.

a. romantic b. classic

c. neo-classic d. naturalistic

自然主义

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 ______.

a. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock b. A Boy’s Will

c. The Waste Land d. The Golden Bough

27. Daisy Miller is a great work by _____.

a. Henry James b. Mark Twain

c. Dreir d. Stowe

28. Hester is a character in ______.

a. Gone with the Wind b. The Fall of the Hou of

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Usher

c. Babbitt d. Scarlet Letter

29. Jack London’s ______is his patently autobiographical novel.

a. The Call of the Wild b. The Sea Wolf

c. Martin Eden d. The Iron Heel

30. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s _______.

a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer b. The Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn

c. Life on the Mississippi d. The Prince and the Pauper

31. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _______.

a. Walt Whitman b. Benjamin Franklin

c. Abraham Lincoln d. Martin Luther King

32. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.

a. John Steinbeck b. John Cheever

c. John Updike d. John Dos Passos

33. ______is NOT a play written by Tenne Williams.

a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof b. The Glass Menagerie

c. Light in August d. A Streetcar Named Desire

34. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.

a. Flannery O’Conner b. Saul Bellow

c. Ralph Ellison d. Sherwood Anderson

35. ______is NOT among the postwar poets in modern American

literature.

a. Robert Lowell b. Gary Synder

c. Allen Ginsberg d. e. e. cummings

36. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by_____.

a. Washington Irving b. Fennimore Cooper

c. Edith Wharton d. William Dean Howells

37. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be______.

a. O’Neil b. Pound

c. Robert Frost d. Scott Fitzgerald

38. _____was the most important person of the transcendental club.

a. Hawthorn b. Whitman

c. Emerson d. Thoreau

39. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_______.

a. religion b. love and marriage

c. life and death d. war and peace

40. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its

predecessors. It is referred to as ______.

a. Imagism b. black humor

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c. new fiction d. the Beat Generation

41．Stephen Crane is famous for ________and other stories.

a. An American Tragedy b. The Ambassadors

c. Main Street d. The Red Badge of Courage

42．______has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and one Nobel Prize.

a. Earnest Hemingway b. John Steinbeck

c. Eugene O’Neil d. William Faulkner

43．Beloved is the masterpiece of _______.

a. Tony Morrison b. Ralph Ellison

c. John Dos Passos d. Willa Cather

44．Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

a. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.

b. To put the stress on traditional values.

c. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man

and his environment.

d. To advocate a conscious break with the past.

45．Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features

EXCEPT_____.

a. a strict poetic form

b. a simple and conversational language

c. a free and natural rhythmic pattern

d. an easy flow of feelings

46．Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?

a. Hemingway b. Fitzgerald

c. Gertrude Stein d. William Faulkner

47．The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around

______.

a. 1820 b. 1850

c. 1880 d. 1920

48．The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most

eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.

a. Nature b. Self-Reliance

c. The Over-Soul d. The American Scholar

49．Chine poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over

____.

a. Ezra Pound b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Robert Frost d. Emily Dickinson

50．_______is the reprentative work of the Beat Generation.

a. The Great Gatsby b. On the Road

c. Look Back in Anger d. The Sun Also Ris

51．Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by______.

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a. Willa Cather b. Doris Lessing

c. William Faulkner d. Nathaniel Hawthorn

52．Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as

well as a _______writer.

a. classical b. transcendental

c. postmodernist d. realistic

53．Who is considered the father of American poetry?

a. Philip Freneau b. William Cullen Bryant

c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow d. Henry David Thoreau

54．In America, “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Harriet Beecher Stowe

c. Edith Wharton d. Catharine Anne Porter

55．______is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.

a. The Raven b. Annabel Lee

c. The Fall of the Hou of Usher d. Song to Celia

56．Arthur Miller is an American _____.

a. novelist b. poet

c. playwright d. essayist

57．Iceberg Theory is a writing principle propod and cloly followed

by _____.

a. Jack London b. Sinclair Lewis

c. William Faulkner d. Ernest Hemingway

58．________is featured by black humor.

a. Caricature b. Catch-22

c. The Catcher in the Rye c. Death of a Salesman

59．Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and

Nobel Prize?

a. Pearl Buck b. Virginia Woolf

c. Tony Morrison d. Katharine Mansfield

1 . b 2. c 3. d 4. c 5. b 6. a 7. d 8. c 9. c

b

11. a 12. c 13. b 14. b 15. c 16. b 17. d 18. c 19. d

21. a 22. c 23. c 24. a 25. a 26. c 27. a 28. d 29. c

31. c 32. a 33. c 34. b 35. d 36. a 37. d 38. c 39. d

41. d 42. c 43. a 44. b 45. a 46. c 47. a 48. a 49. a

51. c 52. c 53. a 54. b 55. d 56. c 57. d 58. b 59. a

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20. d

30. b

40. c

50. b

60.

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