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1、. z.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items.(10 * 1= 10)In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. _ was the dominant.A. humanismB. rationalismC. romanticismD. evolutionThe short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Irvings work name

2、d _.A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New YorkWhich of the following is not the characteristic of American RomanticismA. RationalismB. inner selfC. personal feelings D. individualismThe short story Rip Van Winkle reveals the _ attitude of its author.

3、A. optimistic B. pessimisticC. conservativeD. ironicStylistically, Henry James fiction is characterized by _.A. short, clear sentencesB. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD. highly refined languageTranscendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _ and Thoreau.

4、A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Mark TwainWhich is regarded as the Declaration of Intellectual IndependenceA. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. Oversoul D. Self-reliance_ is considered Mark Twains greatest achievement.A. The Gilded AgeB. Innocent AbroadC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adv

5、entures of Huckleberry Finn_ is not among those greatest figures in Lost Generation.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. Walt WhitmanD. HemingwayNaturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing bees less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _.A. rationalB. humorousC. op

6、timisticD. pessimisticMultiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items.(10 * 1= 10)_ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. PaineD. Washington Irving_ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.A. Rip Van

7、 WinkleB. The PioneersC. The Legend of Sleepy HollowD. The Fall of the House of Usher_ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. WhitmanWhich of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twains languageA. vernacular B. colloquialC. elegantD. humorous

8、From Thoreaus jail e*perience, came his famous essay, _ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the mand of a government.A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. mon Sense Which is regarded as the Declaration of Intellectual IndependenceA. The American Scholar B. Eng

9、lish TraitsC. Oversoul D. Self-relianceMost of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the en-mass and the _ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. lifeWhat did Fitzgerald call the 1920sA. The Roaring 20s B. The Gay 20sC. The Jazz Age D. The Lost GenerationNaturalism is evolved from realis

10、m when the authors tone in writing bees less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _.A. rationalB. humorousC. optimisticD. pessimisticFor Melville, as well as for the reader and _, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. AhabB. StubbC. Ishma

11、elD. StarbuckII. Identify Works as Described Below (115=15):The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us. a.Native Son b.Uncle Toms Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains The main conflict of the play is the protagonists false value of

12、fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Days Journey into Nightd. Death of Salesman It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Lon

13、g Days Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Ape d. The Glass MenageriesThe novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder.a.Native Son b.Uncle Toms Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains_ is one of t

14、he best works in American literature about the Second World War. a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage d. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Rises c.The Old Man and the Sea d

15、. The Naked and the DeadThe novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.c.Babbitt d. The Adventures of Augie MarchIt is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919,

16、and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye. Babbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of WrathIt is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeares Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Fur

17、yc.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she bees a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally mits suicide.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c.McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11.The novel is

18、 set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn d.The Portrait of a Lady12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fle

19、ming)s reactions in the Civil War.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c.The Red Badge of Courage d.McTeague 13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantos b. The Raven c.Song of Myself d.Chicago14.

20、The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopus b. Moby-Dick c.The Rise of Silas Lapham d. Leaves of Grass 15.It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction

21、mainly concerned with the four uses of nature.a. Walden b. Nature c.The Scarlet Letter d. The American ScholarChoose the Best Answer for Each of the Following(115=15):An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on Nov

22、ember 21 in the same year. This ship was named _.a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic 2._ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays. a. Tennessee Williams b. Eugene ONeill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice3._ was the first American writer to write entirely A

23、merican literature. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway4. _ was the leader of American transcendentalism. a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau5._was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote a

24、bout 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Pearl S. Buck b.Harriet Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitman 6._ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe7.William Dean Howells is con

25、cerned with the middle class life; _ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality. a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. Henry James8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingwa

26、y d.Theodore Dreiser9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is_. a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is _. a. William Fa

27、ulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain11. _is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters. a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger12._ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over

28、 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. H.D. d. Emily Dickinson 13._ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulkner c. Eugene ONeill d. Arthur Miller14. He was the first black American to write

29、 a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison15. Hemingway wrote about American patriots in Europe whereas _ w

30、rote about the Jazz age, life in American society.a.William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott FitzgeraldI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following(115 %):The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known

31、 respectively as the _and the_.a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery 2._was praised by the British as the Tenth Muse in America.Anne Bradstreet b. Edward Taylorc. Thomas Paine d. Philip Freneau3.Mark Twain was a representative of _ in American liter

32、ature. a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism4. _ was the leader of American transcendentalism. a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is _. a. Washington Irving b

33、.Ezra Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson 6._ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; _ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Tw

34、ain deals with the lower class reality. a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. William Dean Howells8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser9. _s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial la

35、nguage and deep thoughts. a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain10. _ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. . a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain11. _is Jewish in origin and in many

36、 of his novels the American Jews are major characters. a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger12._ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. H.D. d. Emily

37、 Dickinson 13._ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulkner c. Eugene ONeill d. Arthur Miller14. _ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpie

38、ce is one of the three classics about black Americans. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison15. _ first used the Jazz age as the title of a collection of short storiesa. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. Ernest Hemingway II. Identify W

39、orks as Described Below (115 %):The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognized by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.a. The Hairy Ape b. Henderson the Rain Kingc. Long Days Journey into Nig

40、ht d. The Glass MenageriesThe protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Days Journey into Night d.The Glass MenageriesThe hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his name is unknown. a.Native Son b.Uncle Toms Cabin c.I

41、nvisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains 4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Days Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Ape d. The Glass MenageriesThe novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident

42、 and how he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.a.Native Son b.Uncle Toms Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains_ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War. a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage d. The

43、 Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Rises c.The Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the DeadThe novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how

44、they suffer hunger in California.The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.c.Babbitt d. The Adventures of Augie MarchIt is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye. Babbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of WrathIt

45、is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeares Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Furyc.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes with Hurstwood and how she

46、 bees a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally mits suicide.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c.McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11.It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but they themselves ar

47、e killed by the whale in the end, e*cept Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc.Moby Dick d. The Portrait of a Lady12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)s reactions in the Civil War, in which wound is called

48、 the red badge which symbolizes courage.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c.The Red Badge of Courage d.McTeague 13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantos b. The Raven c.Song of Myself d.Chica

49、go14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially but who rises morally because he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate. a.The Octopus b. The Rise of Silas Lapham c. Moby-Dick d. Leaves of Grass 15.

50、It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailed as the declaration of intellectual independence in America. a. The American Scholar b. Nature c.The Scarlet Letter d. Walden II. Match the following(120%)A. Match Works with Their Authors1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly2.Walden 3. Autobiograph

51、y 4. The Scarlet Letter5.Leaves of Grass6.The Raven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer9. Long Days Journey into Night 10. The Old Man and the Seaa.Mark Twainb. Ernest Hemingwayc. Eugene ONeill d. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitman g. Nathaniel Hawthorneh. Be

52、njamin Franklini.Henry David Thoreauj. Ezra Pound k.Thomas Jefferson l. T.S. EliotB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.Hester Prynne 2.Mrs. Touchett 3.Frederick Henry 4.Benjy pson5.the Joads 6.General Edward Cummings7.Holden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas8.Yank 9.Happya.The Portrai

53、t of a Lady b. The Scarlet Letter c. The Hairy Ape d. A Farewell to Arms e.The Sound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrath g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye i. Native Son j. Death of a Salesman k.Invisible Man l.Catch-22III. Match the following(120=20)A. Match works with their author

54、s1.Nature2.Rip Van Winkle 3. Nature4. The Scarlet Letter5.Leaves of Grass6.The Raven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. Cantos10. The Old Man and the Seaa.Ezra Poundb. Ernest Hemingwayc. Mark Twaind. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitman g. Nathaniel Ha

55、wthorneh. Ralph Waldo Emersoni.Washington Irvingj. Waldo Emerson k.T.S. Eliot l. Robert FrostB. Match characters with the works in which they appear.Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer3.Frederic Henry and Catherine 4.Benjy pson5.the Joads 6.General Edward Cummings7.Holden Caulfield 8.Bigger Th

56、omas9.The Tyrones 10.Willy Lomana.The Portrait of a Lady b. Moby-Dick c. Death of a Salesman d. A Farewell to Arms e.The Sound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrath g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye i. Native Son j. Long Days Journey into Night k.Absalom, Absalom l. The Old Man and t

57、he Sea V. Essay Questions (30%; choose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: 1Your essay should have at least 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.2 You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of

58、 the 3 topics it belongs to. 3You are not to write on a topic of your own.To the best of your knowledge, analyze and make ments onEmersons Naturement on any American poet you like. Analyze and/or ment on any one of the American novels or plays you have read.V. Essay Questions (30%; choose only ONE o

59、f the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: 1Your essay should have at least 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.2 You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. 3You are not to writ

60、e on a topic of your own.)Make ments on an American novel we have discussed in this course.ment on an American poet.Describe how your knowledge of American literature is improved after taking this course.IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 * 10 = 20)Why do people think Franklin is