美国文学史期末复习资料.doc

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. ______ was the dominant.
A. humanism B. rationalism
C. romanticism D. evolution
2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ______.
A. The Leatherstocking Tales
B. The Sketch Book
C. The Autobiography
D. The History of New York
3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?
A. Rationalism B. inner self
C. personal feelings D. individualism
4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.
A. optimistic B. pessimistic
C. conservative D. ironic
5. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _____.
A. short, clear sentences
B. abundance of local images
C. ordinary American speech
D. highly refined language
6. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.
A. Jefferson B. Emerson
C. Freneau D. Mark Twain
7. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
A. The American Scholar B. English Traits
C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance
8. ____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.
A. The Gilded Age
B. Innocent Abroad
C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. _____ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.
A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost
C. Walt Whitman D. Hemingway
10. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.
A. rational B. humorous
C. optimistic D. pessimistic

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11. ______ is the father of American Literature.
A. Benjamin Franklin B. Philip Freneau
C. Paine D. Washington Irving
12. _____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.
A. “Rip Van Winkle”
B. “The Pioneers”
C. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
D. “The Fall of the House of Usher”
13. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A. Thoreau B. Emerson
C. Hawthorne D. Whitman
14. Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language?
A. vernacular B. colloquial
C. elegant D. humorous
15. From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense
16. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
A. The American Scholar B. English Traits
C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance
17. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.
A. nature B. self-reliance
C. self D. life
18. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
A. The Roaring 20s B. The Gay 20s
C. The Jazz Age D. The Lost Generation
19. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.
A. rational B. humorous
C. optimistic D. pessimistic
20. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A. Ahab B. Stubb
C. Ishmael D. Starbuck

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II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):

1. The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us.
a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
2. The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.
a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Day’s Journey into Night
d. Death of Salesman
3. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.
a. Long Day’s Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain King
c. The Hairy Ape d. The Glass Menageries
4. The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder.
a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
5. _________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.
a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage
d. The Naked and the Dead
6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.
a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Rises
c.The Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead
7. The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.
a. The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.
c.Babbitt d. The Adventures of Augie March

8. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.
a. Babbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of Wrath
9. It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Fury
c.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
a. Walden b. Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d. The American Scholar

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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 ____________.
a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic
2._________ 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._________ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.
a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway
4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.
a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau
5._______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._________ 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; ______ 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?
a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser
9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is______.
a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain
10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is ______.
a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain
11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters.
a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger
12._________ 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
13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulkner c. Eugene O’Neill d. Arthur Miller
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. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison
15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas ________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.
a.William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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 ______and the______.
a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery
2._____________was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.
a. Anne Bradstreet b. Edward Taylor
c. Thomas Paine d. Philip Freneau
3.Mark Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature.
a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism
4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.
a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau
5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________.
a. Washington Irving b.Ezra Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson
6._________ 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.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.
a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. William Dean Howells
8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?
a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser
9. ________’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.
a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain
10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. .
a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain
11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters.
a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger
12._________ 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
13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulkner
c. Eugene O’Neill d. Arthur Miller
14. _______ 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. ________ 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
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II. Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):
6. The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognized by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.
a. The Hairy Ape b. Henderson the Rain King
c. Long Day’s Journey into Night d. The Glass Menageries
7. The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.
a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Day’s Journey into Night
d.The Glass Menageries
8. The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his name is unknown.
a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.
a. Long Day’s Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain King
c. The Hairy Ape d. The Glass Menageries
5. The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.
a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
6. _________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.
a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage
d. The Naked and the Dead
6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.
a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Rises
c.The Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead
10. The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.
b. The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.
c.Babbitt d. The Adventures of Augie March

11. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.
b. Babbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of Wrath
12. It is a novel