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1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at    
Jamestown, Virginia in  1607      。 
2。    John Smith       became the first American writer。 
3. Hard work， thrift, piety and sobriety were the  Puritan     values that dominated much
of the early American writing。
4。 In American literature, the 18th century was an age of Reason     and Revolution。
5。 Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece  The Autobiography      .
6. On January 10， 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet       appeared.  
7。 The signing of          symbolized the birth of an independent American nation。
8。 The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was          。
9. Washington Irving’s             became the first work by an American writer to win international fame。
10。               is the summit of American Romanticism。  
11. With the publication of Emerson’s          in 1836, American Romanticism reached its summit。
12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel                .
13。 Henry James’ major fictional theme is               。
14。                brought the Romantic period to an end。 So the age of Realism came into existence。
15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called              。
16.  “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by              。
17. The term The Gilded Age is given by                to describe the post—civil war years.
18.  Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is                     。
19.  The leader of the literary movement Imagism is             。
20.           is the spokesman for Lost Generation.   

1。 The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was      。
  A. Bret Harte                                             B. Mark Twain
  C. Henry James                                      D. William Dean Howells
2。 Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?
  A. The Gilded Age                                  
B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer     
  C。 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn         
D. Jumping Frog
3。 Which writer has no naturalist tendency?               
  A. Mark Twain                                    B. Jack London
  C。 Theodore Dreiser                               D. Frank Norris
4。 Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in     and      
Thoreau.
A。 Jefferson                                                B. Emerson                
C。 Freneau                                                 D. Oversoul
5. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”?
A。 The Financier                                       B。 The Titan
C. The Stoic                                               D。 An American Tragedy
6. Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?
  A。 Hester Prynne                                        B。 Mr。 Hooper
  C. Ahab                                                     D。 Pearl
7.          written by Henry James brought him first international fame.
  A。 The Golden Bowl                                  B. The American 
  C。 The Tragic Muse                                   D。 Daisy Miller
8. “     ”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola.
A. realism                                                   B. naturalism    
C. transcendentalism                                   D. veritism
9。 Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote       , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism.   
  A. The Sea Wolf                                        B。 To Build a Fire 
  C. The Call of the Wild                             D。 Martin Eden
10。 The Cop and the Anthem is written by     .
   A. O。 Henry                                             B. Henry James  
   C。 Jack London                                        D. Mark Twain
11. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poem The River-Merchant’s Wife： A Letter written by      .
   A. T。 S。 Eliot                                         B。 Robert Frost  
   C. Ezra Pound                                D。 Carl Sandburg
12。 The imagist poets followed three principles， they are      , direct treatment and economy of expression.
   A。 blank verse              B. rhythm           C。 free verse                D。 common speech
13。 Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?     
   A. Ernest Hemingway                               B. Ezra Pound
 C。 F. S. Fitzgerald                             D。 Emily Dickinson
14。 Who was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s?
   A. Ernest Hemingway                               B。 Ezra Pound
 C。 John Steinbeck                                    D. F. S。 Fitzgerald
15。 The first writings that we call American were the narratives and     of the early settlements.
   A。 journals         B。 poetry                     C。 drama                 D. folklores
16. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by      .
   A. Samuel Johnson                            B。 Noah Webster    
   C。 Daniel Webster                       D. Daniel Defoe
17. Walden is written by       .  
   A。 Emerson                                              B。 Thoreau  
   C. Poe                                   D。 Hawthorne
18.        is famous for psychological realism.
   A. Mark Twain                                       B。 William Dean Howells  
C。 Henry James                                    D。 Walt Whitman
19。  Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
   A。 Nature                                                B。 Walden
C。 On Beauty                                D. Self—Reliance
20。 Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
   A. The American Scholar                        B. English Traits
   C。 The Conduct of Life                           D。 Nature
21. Santiago is the character in Hemingway’s novel        。
   A。 In Our Time                                        B. The Old Man and the Sea  
   C。 For Whom the Bell Tolls                     D。 The Sun Also Rises
22. Which of the following is a much harsher realism？
   A。 local colorism                                       B. naturalism　　　
   C。 romanticism                                         D。 imagism
23。 Who is the arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America？
   A. Mark Twain                                         B. Bret Harte       
C。 William Dean Howells                          D. Henry James
24。 F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the author of           。
   A. The Great Gatsby                                      B。 Tender is the Night  　
   C. A Farewell to the Arms                             D. This Side of Paradise
25. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such American writers as         .  
   A。 Mark Twain                                                B. F. S. Fitzgerald  
   C。 Walt Whitman                                             D. Stephen Crane
26. Charles Drouet is a character in the novel of ______。
   A。 The American                                     B。 The Portrait of a Lady
   C。 Sister Carrie                                        D。 The Gift of the Magi
27. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century。 She    was        。
   A. Anne Bradstreet                                         B。 Jane Austen
 C. Emily Dickinson                                    D。 Harriet Beecher
28。         read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
     A. Robert Frost                                   B。 T. S. Eliot   
   C. Carl Sandburg                                    D。 Ezra Pound     
29。 With Howells， James and Mark Twain active on the scene,       became the major trend in the 70s and 80s of the 19th century。  
   A。 sentimentalism                                    B。 romanticism
C。 realism                                                D。 naturalism
30.  “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet， black bough". This is the shortest poem written by       .              
   A. T。 S。 Eliot                                                 B。 Robert Frost   
C. Ezra Pound                                             D. Wallace Stevens
答案
  1。 1607       2。 John Smith   3。 Puritan   4。 Reason 
  5。 The Autobiography    6. Common Sense   7. The Declaration of Independence  
8. Philip Freneau       9. Sketch Book        10。 Transcendentalism
 11。 Nature     12. The Scarlet Letter  13。 international theme  14。 The civil war  
 15. free verse     16. Emily Dickinson         17. Mark Twain
 18. Sister Carrie     19. Ezra Pound            20。 Ernest Hemingway                    
II。 Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%， 1 point for each）
   1 —-- 5： A C A B D   6 ——— 10: C D B C A
11 -—-15:C B D C A  16 —-— 20: B B C A A
21 ---25: B B C C D  26 —-- 30： C C A C C

1.      In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet， ______, to appear in America up to that time.
2。      James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories： the sea adventure and ______。
3.      Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he never applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.
4.      Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale。
5。      In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.
6.      In 1845， Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond。
7。      After his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey。
8。      The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the ______.
9。      The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______。
10。  The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
11.  ______ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator。
12。  ______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself。
13。  O。 Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.
14.  ______ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist” movement。
15.  In 1925, F。 Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______。 It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy， pleasure—seeking people around him。
16。  Ernest Hemingway's stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love。
17。  ______ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.
18。  William Faulkner considered __________ to be “the first truly American writer".
19。  As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.
20。  A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ______.

1.      Moby Dick was dedicated to ____.
A. Ralph Emerson                             B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Henry Thoreau                                     D。 Henry Longfellow
2.      ____ was Mark Twain's masterpiece from which， as Hemingway noted， “all modern American literature comes.”
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B。 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. Life on the Mississippi
D. The Gilded Age
3。      ____ usually was regarded as the first American writer。
A. Emily Bradford                             B. Ann Bradstreet
C. Emily Dickinson                                   D. John Smith
4。      Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.
A. American Enlightenment                B. Sugar Act
C。 Chartist movement                               D。 Romanticist
5。      Thomas Jefferson’s attitude， that is, a firm belief in progress， and the pursuit of happiness， is typical of the period we now call ____.
A。 Age of Evolution                                  B。 Age of Reason
C. Age of Romanticism                      D. Age of Regionalism
6。      As a literary and philosophical movement, ____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A. modernism                                    B。 rationalism
C。 sentimentalism                                      D。 transcendentalism
7。      ____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A. The American Scholar                        B. Self—Reliance
C。 The Divinity School Address              D. Civil Disobedience
8.      There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ____ on the Puritan soil。
A. Romanticism                                        B. Symbolism
C. Mysticism                                            D. Rationalism
9.      American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century。 This was ____。
A。 Anne Bradstreet                                   B. Jane Austen            
C. Emily Dickinson                                   D. Harriet Beecher
10.  Which of the following statements about O。 Henry is NOT right?
A. He wrote about the poor people。
B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.
C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.
D. The plots are usually clumsy.
11。  The main theme of ____’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel。
A。 Henry James                                        B. William Howells            
C. Mark Twain                                         D。 O. Henry
12.  Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?
A。 Stephan Crane                                     B. Frank Norris
C。 Jack London                                        D. Walt Whitman
13.  For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.
A。 Stubb                     B。 Ishmael            C。 Ahab               D。 Starbuck
14。  Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?
A. Ralph Emerson                                   B. Walt Whitman 
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne                          D。 Henry Thore