《英美文学》练习测试题库及答案 本科
I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:
1. Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small _____________. A. Landlord B. merchant C. lawyer D. clergyman
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s leading reputation began with the publication of_____________. A. Essays B. Nature C. Oversoul D. Self-Relience 3. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _____________________. A. dramatist B. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates in __________________. A. Puritanism B. Socialism C. Transcendentalism D. naturalism 5. Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________. A. Peasant B. carpenter C. captain D. printer
6. Mark Twain’s first successful literary work is _____________________________. A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County B. Life on the Mississippi C. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning _______________.
A. Childhood and happiness C. loneliness D. death and immortality
8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _________________. A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. Th Financier D. The Titan
9. Robert Frost’s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________________. A. the West B. American South C. New England D. Mississippi 10.Most of the plays Eugene O’Neill wrote are _______________________. A. comedies B. . romances C. historical plays D tragedies
11.Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________. A. modern time B. young Americans C. Jazz Age D. Guilded Age
12. _______________________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which is about the old fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.
A. Farewell to Arms B. For whom the Bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and The Sea
13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the __________________________. A. American West B. New England in America C. American South D. American North
14.When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a __________________. A. printing house B. store C. Tailor’s shop D. factory
15.Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a _____________________. A. merchant B. businessman C. clergyman D. writer
16.Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing ___________________; A. short stories B. plays C. essays D. poems
17.According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is _________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. A. evil B. virtue C. kindness D. tragedy
18.Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _____________.
A. blank verse B. free verse C. heroic couplet D. sonnet
19.Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of serious literature and _______.
A. American folk humor B. English folklore C. American traditional values D. funny jokes
20.Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime.
A. 1145 B. 1775 C. 897 D. 785
21.Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary ________________.
A. realists B. naturalists C. romantists D. modernists
22.In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from _________________. A. the simple country life B. the urban life
C. the life on the sea D. the adventures and trips
23.Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the _______________________________.
A. American Dream B. ruling classes B. American Capitalists bourgeoisie
24.Eugene O’Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________. A. poetry B. drama C. fiction D. literature
25.___________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which tells a story about the tragic love of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse. A. A Farewell to Arms B. The Sun Also Rises
C. For Whom the Bell Tolls D. In Our Time
26.William Faulkner was born in a family of a _______________________. A. merchant B. colonel C. manager D. doctor
27. In his essays, ______ put forward his philosophy of the over soul, the important of the Individual and Nature.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Washington Irving C. Mark Twain D. Ralph Waldo Emerson 28.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is __________ A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Henry David Thoreau D. Washington Irving
29.______ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his “black” vision of life and human beings. A. Herman Melville’s B. Washington Irving’s C. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s D. Walt Whitman’s
30.Most of the poems in _____ sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well. A. Leaves of Grass B. Drum Taps C. North of Boston D. The Cantos
英美文学练习题库及答案
