美国文学期末试卷

美国文学期末试卷

美国文学选读试题及答案 试题一 I. Multiple Choice (1'×15=15')

1. C______was the first colony in American history. A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey C. Virginia D.Georgia

2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, "His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on this young nation." A. John Smith B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D.Thomas Paine

3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. A. common sense B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism

4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ A. Philip Freneau B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson

5. The ship __C____ 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

6. Melville's novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. A. Typee B. Omoo C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick

7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. A.Modernism B.Rationalism C.Sentimentalism D.Transcendentalism

8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Sister Carrie C. The Great Gatsby D. The Old Man and Sea

9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is第2页not determined economically. A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious

10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism D. Enlightenment

11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture. A. T. S Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. Walt Whitman 12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?D A. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing close friends. B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson. C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure. D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.

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