Exercise Two
Ⅰ. Write the names of the authors.(10%) The Prince and the Pauper 1. The Red Badge of Courage 2.
3. “A Clean, Well Lighted Room” Call of the Wild 4.
5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” 6. “A Station at the Metro” 7. “Fire and Ice” The Autobiography 8.9. “One's Self I sing” The Scarlet Letter 10.
得分Ⅱ. Fill in the following blanks. (10%) 1. In the novel , Hemingway described the
dignity and courage of the common people during the Spanish Civil War. 2. was a great inventor, diplomat, and
founding father of the United States of America. 3. , the earliest well-known American
naturalist writer, wrote a novel about the American Civil War. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway became the spokesman
With the publication of 4.for what Gertrude Stein had called “ ”.
5. ____________________, writing well before the Modern Poetry movements of
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the 20 century, is often considered the “father of modern poetry.”
得分Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (15%) The Scarlet Letter is NOT true? Which of the following statements about 1.
A It is an early expression of naturalist writing. B It is full of symbolism.
C It is argues the distinction between “sins of passion” and
“sins of principle”
D It is considered a “romance” by its writer because it shows fantastic events and does not limit itself to strict, literal reality.
2. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.
A International theme B Waste-land imagery C Local color D Symbolism
3. _____ was known as the founder of the American short story. A Washington Irving B Mark Twain C Jack London D O. Henry
4. Ezra Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______. A French symbolism B The Beat Generation C confessional poetry D Imagism
5. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became
the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the
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19century.
A sentimentalism B romanticism C realism D naturalism
6. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular
rhyme.
A blank verse B heroic couple C free verse D iambic pentameter
7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and
traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______. A The Jazz Age B The Gilded Age C The Roaring Age D The Beat Age
8. ___ wrote a series of historical novels set in the American Midwest and was known as “the American Sir Walter Scot.” A Nathaniel Hawthorne B Mary Renalt C Stephan Crane
D James Fenimore Cooper
9. Hemingway's ideal hero, who faced life, fate and death courageously, can be called the __ .
A “lost generation” man B modern man C natural man D true individual
10. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau. A Jefferson B Emerson C Freneau D Over-soul
11. Which of the following writers influenced the development of French symbolist poetry?
A Walt Whitman B Edgar Allen Poe C Ezra Pound D Robert Frost
12. Which famous graduation speech turned Transcendentalism into a major intellectual and literary movement?
The American Scholar A The Divinity School Address B The Conduct of Life C Representative Men D
13. Although her poems were never published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn't appear until the 1950's, _____ had a major impact on
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20 century poetry.
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