21秋西南大学0171 美国文学史及选读在线作业资料
0171 美国文学史及选读1.[单选题] Which of the following can not be said about the main principles of the Imagist Movement?
A.Rhythmical composition in the sequence of the musical phrase rather than in the sequence of a metronome
B.Direct treatment of poetic subjects
C.The treatment of the medium of poetry in agreement with Romanticism
D.Elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous words
2.[单选题] Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.
A.individualism
B.imagination
C.intuition
D.common sense
3.[单选题] The three most prominent figures in the period of Realism of American are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and_________.
A.William James
B.James Joyce
C.D, H. Lawrence
D.Henry James
4.[单选题] Within Dickinson’s little lyrics, she addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which exclude ________.
A.Love
B.Friendship
C.Religion
D.Immortality
5.[单选题] As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A.C.Sentimentalism
B.D.Modernism
C.Rationalism
D.Transcendentalism
6.[单选题] _________ is widely credited with coining the term, first using it in his 1922 short story collection titled Tales of the Jazz Age.
A.John Steinbeck
B.Ernest Hemingway
C.Sawer Bellow
D.F. Scott Fitzgerald
7.[单选题] Who drafted the Declaration of Independence?
A.John Winthrop
B.Thomas Jefferson
C.John Adams
D.Thomas Paine
8.[单选题] ________ is a popular poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
A."Chicago"
B."A Psalm of Lifee"
C."The Ravern"
D."The Waste Land"
9.[单选题] Who had been called as the Tenth Muse lately Sprung Up inAmerica?
A.Anne Bradstreet
B.John Winthrop
C.John Smith
D.William Bradford
10.[单选题] Lenore is the name of the lost lover in _________.
A."The Wasteland"
B."The Ravern"
C."To Hellen"
D."The Indian Burying Ground"
11.[单选题] The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American ______. qq 761 296 021
A.Transcendentalism
B.Romanticism
C.Modernism
D.Naturalism
12.[单选题] Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud's theory of psychology, particularly in one book______.
A.Winesburg, Ohio
B.Babbit
C.The Grapes of Wrath
D.The Cather in the Rye
13.[单选题] "________"is a short story by William Dean Howells, which has been put into film twice.
A.Christmas Every Day
B.Christmas Carol
C.Christmas Eve
D.Christmas Coming to Town
14.[单选题] The New England Transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in New England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _______ in Boston.
A.Unitarianism
B.Classicism
C.Carlvinism
D.Puritanism
15.[单选题] Washington Irving’s_________ became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the 19th century.
A.Christopher Columbus
B.Charles the Second
C.Sketch Book
D.George Washington
16.[单选题] The Call of the Wildis written by _______.
A.Mark Twain
B.Henry James
C.Jack London
D.Ernest Hemingway
17.[单选题] It is widely believed that ______ contributed a lot to the American readers' concern of the cruelty of slavery in U. S before the Civil War.
A.Thomas Jefferson
B.Harriet Beecher Stowe
C.William Carlos Williams
D.Hart Crane
18.[单选题] _____ was regrarded as a poet of the American revolution
A.Edgar Allen Poe
B.Emily Dickinson
C.Walt Whitman
D.Philip Freneau
19.[单选题] Leaves of Grass is written by_______.
A.F.Walt Whitman
B.O. Henry
C.Mark Twain
D.Emily Dickinson
20.[单选题] Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain's style of language?
A.His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.
B.His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.
C.His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition and anti-climax.
D.His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.
21.[单选题] "________" is the 1st part of T. S. Eliot's masterpiece, "The Waste Land".
A.Anecdote of A Jar
B.I Heard a Funeral in My Brain
C.The River Merchant's Wife
D.The Burial of the Dead
22.[单选题] William Faulkner is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional _________ County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.
A.E.Winesburg
B.Natakete
C.Mississippi
D.Yoknapatawpha
23.[单选题] "Sunshine patriots" and "summer soldiers"are coined to refer to those deserters during the American Revolutionary War by Thomas Paine in his famous pamphlet, "_________".
A.Autobiography
B.The American Crisis
C.Nature
D.George Washington
24.[单选题] The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement ofAmericain the early 17th century through the end of ________ century.
A.the 19th
B.the 20th
C.the 21th
D.the 18th
25.[单选题] Typee was written by ________.
A.Washington Irving
B.Herman Melville
C.James Cooper
D.Jack London
26.[单选题] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the first American to translate the famous masterpiece of ______, The Devine Comedy.
A.Cervantes
B.Petriach
C.Dante
D.Boccaccio
27.[单选题] Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.
A.the international theme
B.the adventures
C.the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism
D.the theme of humor and satire on life
28.[单选题] Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?
A.Modernists believe that human nature is kind.
B.The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century
C.Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.
D.Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.
29.[单选题] In _______, Walt Whitman wrote down the famous poem Song of Myself.
A.1856
B.1878
C.1890
D.1835
30.[单选题] Nature is one oftherepresentative writings of the American philosopher, _______.
A.Benjamin Franklin
B.Thomas Jefferson
C.Ralph Waldo Emerson
D.William Bradford
31.[单选题] _____ had appeared inEnglandin the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came toAmericaearly in the 19th century.
A.Naturalism
B.Realism
C.Modernism
D.Romanticism
32.[单选题] Walt Whitman's poetry is characteristic of_________.
A.free verse
B.blank verse
C.alliteration
D.end rhyme
33.[单选题] Who is called “the Singer” of the Lost Generation?
A.William Faulkner
B.Ernest Hemingway
C.F. Scott Fitzgerald
D.Dos Passos
34.[单选题] Allen Ginsberg is the representative poet of ________.
A.The Lake Poets
B.The Lost Generation
C.The Beat Generation
D.The Imagist
35.[单选题] Which of the following works is belonged to Nathaniel Hawthorne?
A.The Bedburn Romance
B.Pudd’nhead Wilson
C.The Marble Faun
D.Moby Dick
36.[单选题] ______ is a collection of the translated Chinese ancient poems into English by Ezra Pound.
A.Cathay
B.The Four Quartets
C.Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
D.The Cantos
37.[单选题] ________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.
A.An American Tragedy
B.The Financier
C.Sister Carrie
D.The Titan
38.[单选题] ___________ served many years as the editor of The Atlantic Monthlyand was called as "the dean of letters".
A.Theodore Dreisser
B.Henry James
C.Mark Twain
D.William Dean Howells
39.[单选题] American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.
A.Jane Austen
B.Emily Dickinson
C.Anne Bradstreet
D.Harriet Beecher Stowe
40.[单选题] Washington Irving's Rip Van Winke was inspired by a (an) _______.
A.German legens
B.French legend
C.Greek legend
D.English legend
41.[单选题] Which of the following poems was written by William Cullen Bryant?
A."To Hellen"
B.“The Wild Honey Suckle”
C.“My Lost Youth”
D.“June”
42.[单选题] In the latter half of the 19th century, ______ became the nation's dominant culture force in U.S.
A.Afro-Americans
B.Asian Americans
C.women
D.Indians
43.[单选题] ______ wrote The Last of Mohicans.
A.Washington Irving
B.Edgar Allen Poe
C.James Cooper
D.Nathaniel Hawthorne
44.[单选题] “Because I could not stop for Death”is a poem by ________.
A.Edgar Allan Poe
B.Emi;ly Dickinson
C.Willian bryant
D.Anne Bradstreet
45.[单选题] Because his bleak view about human nature and society, Herman Melville is considered as ont of the "________"
A.Pilgrims
B.Modernists
C.Tanscendeentalists
D.Dark Romanticists
46.[单选题] ___________ is one of the dramatic works by the famous modernist author, T. S. Eliot .
A.A.Islands in the Stream
B.The Tell-Tale Heart
C.Death in the Woods
D.Murder in the Cathedral
47.[单选题] ________ is one of the core doctrines of Transcendentalist beliefs.
A.Oversoul
B.Evil nature
C.Beauty
D.Doomsday
48.[单选题] The service experience in _____ has a significant impact on the writings of James Fenimore Cooper
A.U.S. Army
B.U.S. Navy
C.U.S. government
D.U.S. Airforce
49.[判断题] Each of Emily Dickinson's poems has a well-chosen title.
A.正确
B.错误
50.[判断题] Ezra Pound's reputation as a forerunner of the 20th-century American fiction can never be depreciated.
A.正确
B.错误
51.[判断题] Faith in Christianity is one of the main ideas advocated by Raph Waldo Emerson, the chief spokesman of American Romanticism.
A.正确
B.错误
52.[判断题] Langston Hughes is often entitled “New England Poet”.
A.正确
B.错误
53.[判断题] Chinese poetry and philosophy had exerted great influence on Ezra Pound.
A.正确
B.错误
54.[判断题] The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story
A.正确
B.错误
55.[判断题] The Autobiography was the masterpiece of Benjamin Franklin.
A.正确
B.错误
56.[判断题] Anne Bradstreet wrote quite a few novels about her hometown Boston.
A.正确
B.错误
57.[判断题] F. S. Fitzgerald was the spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A.正确
B.错误
58.[判断题] Benjamin Franklin was a symbol of the American dream.
A.正确
B.错误
59.[问答题] 霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne）的小说《红字》表现了怎样的宗教思想观念？
A.
60.[问答题] 菲茨杰拉德（F. Scott Fitzgerald）的小说《了不起的盖茨比》表现了怎样的科技和消费伦理思想？
A.
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