《英美文学》练习题库及答案
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《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 B.youth 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
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《英美文学》练习题库及标准答案
