美国文学题-答案.doc

ⅠWriting the names of the authors.(20%)
1. Twice Told Tale 故事新编
2. An American Tragedy
3. Maggie: A Girl of the Street
4. The Prince and the Pauper 
5. The Autobiography
6. Nature 
7. Moby-Dick
8. Daisy Miller
9. The Call of the Wild 
10. Song of Myself
II Defining the following literary terms (20%)
Transcendentalism
American Dream
the Lost Generation
Free verse
III Multiple choice (20%)
1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became known as the “______” who appeared in America.
A Ninth Muse
B Tenth Muse
C Best Muse
D First Muse
2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature.
A purple prose
B waste-land imagery
C local color
D symbolism
3. 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 Glorious Age
D The Beat Age
4. ___________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.
A Romanticism
B Realism
C Naturalism
D Modernism
5. Although only few of her poems were published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s,  _____ had a major impact on 20th century poetry.
A Anne Bradstreet
B Gertrude Stein
C Emily Dickinson
D Amy Lowell
6. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?
A Henry Wordsworth Longsfellow
B Amy Lowell
C Ezra Pound
D Robert Frost
7.  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
8.  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
9. 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 19thcentury.
A sentimentalism
B romanticism
C realism
D naturalism
10. ___ 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
11. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau.
A Jefferson
B Emerson
C Freneau
D Over-soul
12. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of ________ century.
A the 18th
B the 19th
C the 20th
D 21th
13. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.
A. American Enlightenment
B. Sugar Act
C. Chartist movement
D. Romanticist
14. Rip Van Winkle was written by ________
A. James Fenimore Cooper
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Washington Irving
D. Walt Whitman
15. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________
A. The Precaution
B. The Spy
C. The Gleanings in Europe
D. Leatherstocking Tales 
16. ________ was regarded as a poet of the American Revolution
A. Philip Freneau
B. Walt Whitman
C. Robert Frost
D. Cal Sandburg
17. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________
A. Philip Freneau
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D. Emily Dickinson
18. The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A. Sunflower
B. Armada
C. Mayflower
D. Titanic
19. A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.
A. Realism
B. Critical realism
C. Romanticism
D. Naturalism
20. All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales except ________
A. The Pioneers
B. The Prairie
C. The Deerslayer
D. The Spy
IV Blank filling (20%)
1. In the novel                , Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named Santiago who shows triumphant even in defeat.
2. When it was first published, Walt Whitman’s collection of poems ___________, failed to gain acceptance from either the majority of critics or the general public.
3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _______ values that dominated much of the early American writing.
4. In the early 19th century Rip Van Winkle had established _______’s reputation at home and abroad, and designated the beginning of American Romanticism.
5. Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories, was Henry _______ Thoreau.
6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel _______.
7. After his death, _______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
8. Ernest Hemingway, whose own style is based on Twain’s, once said, “All modern American literature comes from_______.”
9. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel _______.
10. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece _______.
V Discuss the themes of The Scarlet Letter (20%)

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ⅠWriting the names of the authors.(20%)
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Theodore Dreiser
3. Stephen Crane
4. Mark Twain
5. Benjamin Franklin
6. Emerson
7. Herman Melville
8. Henry James
9. Jack London
10. Walt Whitman
II Defining the following literary terms (20%)
Transcendentalism
American Dream
the Lost Generation
Free verse

III. Multiple choice (20%)
1. B 2.C 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. C 8. D 9. C 10. D 11. B 12. A
13. A 14. C 15. D 16.A 17. B 18. C 19. C 20. D
IV Blank filling
1. The Old Man and the Sea
2. Leaves of Grass
3. puritan
4. Washington Irving
5. David
6. The Scarlet Letter
7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. The Great Gatsby\
10. Autobiography
V Discuss the themes of The Scarlet Letter (20%)
1. sin, knowledge, and the huaman condition
2. the nature of evil
3. identity and society