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I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)
1. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. b______ was the
dominant. A. humanism B. rationalism A. The Leatherstocking Tales C. The Autobiography A. Rationalism B. inner self A. optimistic B. pessimistic A. short, clear sentences C. ordinary American speech A. Jefferson B. Emerson A. The American Scholar B. English Traits A. The Gilded Age C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost C. romanticism D. evolution B. The Sketch Book D. The History of New York C. personal feelings D. individualism C. conservative保守，传统 D. ironic B. abundance of local images D. highly refined精炼 language C. Freneau D. Mark Twain C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance B. Innocent Abroad D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. Walt Whitman D. Hemingway 2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ____b__. 3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?a 4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the __c__ attitude of its author. 5. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by __d___. 6. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in __b___ and Thoreau. 7. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? a 8. _d___ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement. 9. __c___ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”. 10. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and
less sympathetic but more ironic and more _d___. A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic
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11. ___d___ is the father of American Literature. A. Benjamin Franklin B. Philip Freneau A. “Rip Van Winkle” C. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” A. Thoreau B. Emerson z
C. Paine D. Washington Irving B. “The Pioneers” D. “The Fall of the House of Usher” C. Hawthorne D. Whitman 12. ___a__ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life. 13. ___b__ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club. 14. Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language? c
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man should violate his conscience at the command of a government. A. Walden B. Nature
C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense
C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance C. self D. life C. The Jazz Age D. The Lost Generation 16. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? a A. The American Scholar B. English Traits A. nature B. self-reliance 18. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s? c A. The Roaring 20s B. The Gay 20s 19. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and
less sympathetic but more ironic and more __d__. A. rational B. humorous ultimate mystery of the universe. A. Ahab B. Stubb
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II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):
10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous
actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide. b
a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets 11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It
is a representative work of local colorism. c
a. Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn d.The Portrait of a Lady
12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War. c
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. c
a.Cantos b. The Raven c. Song of Myself d.Chicago
14. 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. b
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 mainly concerned with the four uses
of nature. b
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17. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the _c___ as well. C. optimistic D. pessimistic 20. For Melville, as well as for the reader and __c__, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an
C. Ishmael D. Starbuck D A B C C 6-10 A C C D C
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I. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):
1. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____b________.
a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic
2.______b___ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays. a. Tennessee Williams b. Eugene O’Neill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice 3.______c___ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway 4. ____c___ was the leader of American transcendentalism. a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau
5.____c___was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric
poems in her life time.
a. Pearl S. Buck b.Harriet Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitman 6.____d_____ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.
a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe
7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ___d___ 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 James 8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? d
a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser 12._______d__ 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 Dickinson
14. He was the first black American to write 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? a
a. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison 15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas _d_______ wrote about the
Jazz age, life in American society.
a.William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald 1-5 bbccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcad
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I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):
2. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ___c___and the______.
a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery 3.Mark Twain was a representative of ____c____ in American literature. a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism 5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____c________. a. Washington Irving b.Ezra Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson
14. ___b____ was the first black American to write 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.
b. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison
15. __a______ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short stories
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. Ernest Hemingway 1-5.caccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcba
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II. Match the following (1×20%)
A. Match Works with Their Authors 1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly 2.Walden 3. Autobiography 4. The Scarlet Letter 5.Leaves of Grass 6.The Raven
7. The Rise of Silas Lapham 8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 9. Long Day’s Journey into Night 10. The Old Man and the Sea
a.Mark Twain b . Ernest Hemingway c. Eugene O’Neill d. William Dean Howells e. Edgar Allan Poe f. Walt Whitman g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin Franklin i.Henry David Thoreau j. Ezra Pound
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B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear. 1. Hester Prynne 2.Mrs. Touchett 3.Frederick Henry 4.Benjy Compson
5.the Joads 6.General Edward Cummings 7.Holden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas 8.Yank 9.Happy
a.The Portrait 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-22
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III. Match the following (1’×20=20’)
A. Match works with their authors 1.Nature 2.Rip Van Winkle 3. Nature 4. The Scarlet Letter 5.Leaves of Grass 6.The Raven
7. The Rise of Silas Lapham 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 9. Cantos
10. The Old Man and the Sea
a.Ezra Pound b. Ernest Hemingway c. Mark Twain d. William Dean Howells e. Edgar Allan Poe f. Walt Whitman g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emerson i.Washington Irving j. Waldo Emerson k.T.S. Eliot l. Robert Frost
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