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1、 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. rationalismC. romanticism D. evolution2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving

2、s work named _.A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A. Rationalism B. inner selfC. personal feelings D. individualism4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the _ at

3、titude of its author.A. optimistic B. pessimisticC. conservative D. ironic5. Stylistically, Henry James fiction is characterized by _.A. short, clear sentencesB. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD. highly refined language6. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary

4、 advocates in _ and Thoreau.A. Jefferson B. EmersonC. Freneau D. Mark Twain7. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. Oversoul D. Self-reliance8. _ is considered Mark Twains greatest achievement.A. The Gilded AgeB. Innocent Abro

5、adC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. _ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.A. Ezra Pound B. Robert FrostC. Walt Whitman D. Hemingway10. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic b

6、ut more ironic and more _.A. rational B. humorousC. optimistic D. pessimistic1-5，BBACD 6-10 BADCDII. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1= 10)11. _ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin Franklin B. Philip FreneauC. Paine D. Washington Irving12. _ is

7、 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. EmersonC. Hawthorne D. Whitman14. Which of

8、 following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twains language?A. vernacular B. colloquialC. elegant D. humorous 15. From Thoreaus 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 Diso

9、bedience D. Common Sense 16. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. Oversoul D. Self-reliance17. Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the _ as well.A. nature B. self-relianceC. self D. life18.

10、 What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?A. The Roaring 20s B. The Gay 20sC. The Jazz Age D. The Lost Generation19. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _.A. rational B. humorousC. optimistic D. pessimistic2

11、0. 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. StubbC. Ishmael D. Starbuck1-5 D A B C C 6-10 A C C D C II. Identify Works as Described Below (115 =15): 1. The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells hi

12、s own story but whose name in unknown to us. a.Native Son b.Uncle Toms Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains 2. The main conflict of the play is the protagonists false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything

13、.a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Days 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 Days Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain King c. The Hairy Ape d. The Glass Menageries4. The nove

14、l 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 Toms Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains5. _ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War. a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catc

15、her in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage d. The Naked and the Dead6. 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 Dead7. The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma

16、 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 March8. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye. a. Ba

17、bbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of Wrath9. It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeares Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Fury c.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how

18、 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 Streets11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the

19、 local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.a. Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn d.The Portrait of a Lady12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)s reactions in the Civil War.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Ca

20、rrie 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.Chicago14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a

21、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. Natur

22、e c. The Scarlet Letter d. The American Scholar1-5.cdaad6-10.aacbb 11-15.cccbbI. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (115=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

23、. 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 ONeill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice3._ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature. a. An

24、ne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway4. _ 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 p

25、oems 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 Poe7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle c

26、lass 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 James8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser9.

27、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 Twain10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is _. a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbec

28、k c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain11. _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 Salinger12._ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poem

29、s 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 ONeill d. Arthur Miller14. He was the first black American to write a book about black li

30、fe 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 Ellison15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas _ wrote about the

31、Jazz age, life in American society.a.William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald1-5 bbccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcadI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (115 %):2. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South st

32、ates, 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 Taylorc. Thomas Paine d. Philip Freneau3.Mark Twain was a representat

33、ive of _ in American literature. a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism4. _ 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 i

34、s _. 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 Poe7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; _ writes about the middle

35、 class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality. a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. William Dean Howells8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser9. _s writings are characteri

36、zed by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain10. _ 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 Twain11. _is

37、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 Salinger12._ 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. R

38、obert 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 ONeill d. Arthur Miller14. _ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of

39、 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 Ellison15. _ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short storiesa. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck

40、d. Ernest Hemingway 1-5.caccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcbaII. Identify Works as Described Below (115 %): 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.

41、 The Hairy Ape b. Henderson the Rain King c. Long Days Journey into Night d. The Glass Menageries7. The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Days Journey into Night d.The Glass Menageries8. The hero of this novel tells about his

42、 own story to us but his name is unknown. a.Native Son b.Uncle Toms 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 Days Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain King c. The Hairy Ape d. The Glas

43、s Menageries5. 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 Toms Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains6. _ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World

44、 War. a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage d. The Naked and the Dead6. 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 Dead10. The novel is about how a family

45、 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 March11. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biogr

46、aphies, newsreels and camera eye. b. Babbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of Wrath12. It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeares Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Fury c.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsb

47、y10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes with Hurstwood and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11. It is a novel with

48、135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but they themselves are killed by the whale in the end, except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.b. Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. Moby Dick d. The Portrait of a Lady12.T

49、he novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)s reactions in the Civil War, in which wound is called the red badge which symbolizes courage.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

50、of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantos b. The Raven c. Song of Myself d.Chicago14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially but who rises morally because he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would

51、otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate. a.The Octopus b. The Rise of Silas Lapham c. Moby-Dick d. Leaves of Grass 15. It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailed as the “declaration of intellectual independence” in America. a. The American Scholar b. Nature c. The Scarlet Let

52、ter d. Walden 1-5.adcad6-10.aacbb 11-15.cccbaII. Match the following (120%)A. Match Works with Their Authors1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly2.Walden 3. Autobiography 4. The Scarlet Letter5.Leaves of Grass6.The Raven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham 8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer9. Long Days Journey into Night 10.

53、The Old Man and the Sea a.Mark Twain b . Ernest Hemingway c. Eugene ONeill d. William Dean Howells e. Edgar Allan Poe f. Walt Whitman g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin Franklin i.Henry David Thoreau j. Ezra Pound k.Thomas Jefferson l. T.S. EliotB. Match the Characters with the works in which they a

54、ppear.1. Hester Prynne 2.Mrs. Touchett 3.Frederick Henry 4.Benjy Compson5.the Joads 6.General Edward Cummings7.Holden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas8.Yank 9.Happya.The Portrait of a Lady b. The Scarlet Letter c. The Hairy Ape d. A Farewell to Arms e.The Sound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrath g. The Na

55、ked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye i. Native Son j. Death of a Salesman k.Invisible Man l.Catch-22A. Match Works with Their Authors1-5.jihgf 6-10.edccbB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1-5.badef 6-10.ghicj III. Match the following (120=20)A. Match works with their a

56、uthors1.Nature 2.Rip Van Winkle 3. Nature 4. The Scarlet Letter5.Leaves of Grass6.The Raven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. Cantos 10. The Old Man and the Sea a.Ezra Pound b. Ernest Hemingway c. Mark Twain d. William Dean Howells e. Edgar Allan Poe f. Walt Whitman

57、g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emerson i.Washington Irving j. Waldo Emerson k.T.S. Eliot l. Robert FrostB. Match characters with the works in which they appear.2. Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer3.Frederic Henry and Catherine 4.Benjy Compson5.the Joads 6.General Edward Cummings7.Hold

58、en Caulfield 8.Bigger Thomas9.The Tyrones 10.Willy Lomana.The Portrait of a Lady b. Moby-Dick c. Death of a Salesman d. A Farewell to Arms e.The Sound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrath g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye i. Native Son j. Long Days Journey into Night k.Absalom, Absa

59、lom l. The Old Man and the Sea A. Match Works with Their Authors1-5.jihgf 6-10.edcabB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1-5.badef 6-10.edcab V. Essay Questions (30%; choose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 200 words. Note: 1Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.2 You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to