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美国文学复习提纲
第一部分 连线题（1*10=10’）
1. Thomas Jefferson 2. Walt Whitman 3. Mark Twain 4. Robert Frost 5. Ezra Pound 6. Carl Sandburg 7. Saul Bellow 8. Ernest Hemingway 9. John Steinbeck 10. Jack London 11. Sinclair Lewis 12. Flannery O’ Connor 13. O. Henry 14. Jerome David Salinger 15. William Falkner
第二部分 单项选择 (1.5*20=30’)
1. 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. Tenth Muse
B. Ninth Muse
C. Best Muse
D. First Muse
The Declaration of Independence O’ Captain, My Captain Jumping Frog Mending Wall
In a Station of the Metro Chicago
The Adventure of Augie March Men without Women The Grape of Wrath The Call of the Wild Babbit
A Good Man Is Hard to Find The Last Leaf
The Catcher in the Rye The Sound and the Fury
2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic? A. The American Crisis
B. The Federalist
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C. Declaration of Independence D. The Age of Reason
4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________. A. Chartist Movement
B. Romanticist Movement D. Modernist Movement
C. Enlightenment Movement
5. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ________. A. nature
B. transcendentalist ideas D. celestial beings
C. human beings
6. ________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways. A. Twice-Told Tales B. The Scarlet Letter D. The Marble Faun C. The House of the Seven Gables 7. Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, ________. A. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow C. The Custom-house
B. Rip Van Winkle D. The Birthmark 8. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ________. A. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
B. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter D. Irving’s Rip Van Winkle
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9. As a philosophical and literary movement, ________ flourished in New England from 1830s to the Civil War. A. modernism
B. rationalism D. transcendentalism C. sentimentalism
10. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes __________. A. poems B. literary critic theories
C. short stories D. dramas
11. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for ________ . A. Adultery
B. Angel
C. Amiable
D. All the above
12. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ________ . A. the Naturalist Period C. the Romantic Period
B. the Modern Period D. the Realistic Period
13. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature? A. The Sketch Book
B. Leaves of Grass
C. Leatherstocking Tales D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 14. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except ________. A. war and peace
B. love and marriage
C. life and death D. religion
15. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except ________. A. brevity
B. directness
C. plainest words
D. obscure
16. The publication of ________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. A. Nature
B. Self-Reliance D. The Over-Soul
C. The American Scholar
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17. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from ________ to ________. A. 1861…1914
B. 1863…1918
C. 1865…1914
D. 1865…1918
18. ________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work. A. An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. The Financier D. The Titan 19. ________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time. A. The American C. Daisy Miller
B. The Europeans D. The Portrait of a Lady 20. ________ is described by Mark twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience”. A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. Jim
D. Tony
21. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ________ language. A. grand
B. pompous
C. simple
D. vernacular
22. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to ________. A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Moby-Dick
23. In which of the following works Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy? A. Death in the Afternoon C. To Have and Have Not
B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro D. The Green Hills of Africa
24. ________ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The
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Lost Generation”. A. The Sun Also Rises C. In Our Time
B. A Farewell to Arms D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
25. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ________ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. A. Southern
B. Western
C. New Hampshire
D. New England
26. ________, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”. A. J. D. Salinger
B. Ezra Pound C. Richard Wright D. Ralph Ellison
27. “Tender Is the Night” is a ________ by Fitzgerald. A. short story
B. novella
C. poem
D. novel
28. ________ is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner. A. Go Down, Moses
B. Light in August C. The Sound and the Fury D. Absalom 29. ________ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safety and the unknown.
A. Mending the wall
B Home Burial
C. The Road not Taken Evening
D. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
30. Hemingway’s writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences ________.
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美国文学复习题(有答案版)
