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 'asdilneg 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
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' 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 l w'roNteilare ______________________ .
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' smasterpiece, 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 shopD. 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,
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through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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A. evil B. virtue C. kindn ess D. tragedy
18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new
feeli ngs is ____________ . A. bla nk verse B. free verse C. heroic couplet D. sonnet 19. Mark Twain shaped the world ' s view of America and made a comb in ati on of serious literature and _______ A. America n folk humor B. En glish folklore C. America n traditi onal values D. funny jokes 20. Altogether, Emily Dick inson wrote ____ poems, of which only sever n had appeared duri ng her lifetime. A. 1145 B. 1775 C. 897 D. 785 21. Theodore Dreiser is gen erally ack no wledged as one of America A. realists B. n aturalists C. roma ntists D. modernists
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22. In Frost ' s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from ___________________ A. the simple country life B. the urba n life C. the life on the sea D. the adve ntures and trips 23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the A. America n Dream
B. ruli ng classes B. America n Capitalists D.America n bourgeoisie
24. Eugene O' Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________ . A. poetry B. drama C. ficti on D. literature
25. _________________ is Hemingway ' s masterpiece, which tells a story about the tragic love of a woundec 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 Faulk ner was born in a family of a ______________________ . A. mercha nt B. colonel C. man ager D. doctor
27. In his essays, ______ put forward his philosophy of the over soul, the importa nt of the In dividual and Nature.
A. Natha niel Hawthorne B. Washi ngton Irving C. Mark Twai n D. Ralph Waldo Emers on 28. The chief spokesma n of New En gla nd Transcenden talism is _______ A. Natha niel Hawthorne B. Ralph Waldo Emers on C. Henry David Thoreau D. Wash ington Irvi ng
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. Herma n Melville's B. Washi ngton Irvi ng'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 Bost on D. The Can tos 31. In ____ , Whitma n airs his sorrow at Preside nt Lin colnsdeath. A. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
B. A Pact”
D. There was a Child Went Forth”
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