美國(guó)文學(xué)常識(shí)練習(xí)題

2024年3月15日發(fā)(作者：洪恩gogo學(xué)英語(yǔ))

美國(guó)文學(xué)練習(xí)題

1. William Faulknerw(福克納)is the author of ______.

a. Far From the Madding Crowd

b. Sound and Fury

（喧囂與騷動(dòng)）

c. For Whom the Bell Tolls

d. Scarlet Letter

a遠(yuǎn)離塵囂Thomas Hardy 托馬斯·哈代

c.喪鐘為誰(shuí)而鳴（海明威的著作）

d紅字

:

納撒尼爾·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne）

2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.

a. novelist 小說(shuō)家 b. playwright 劇作家

c. poet 詩(shī)人 d. literary critic文學(xué)評(píng)論家

3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________.

a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens

c. Samuel Coleridge d. Earnest Hemingway

4.

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______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance

and reality.

a. Allegory 寓言 b. Conflict 沖突，矛盾；斗爭(zhēng)；爭(zhēng)執(zhí)

c. Irony

諷刺；反語(yǔ)

d. Flashback 倒敘；閃回

5. The great transcendental 超驗(yàn)的work by Henry David Thoreau

is______.

a. Nature b. Walden

瓦爾登湖

c. Experience d. Essays

B亨利·大衛(wèi)·梭羅（美國(guó)作家及自然主義者）

6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a

combination of _____and rious literature(嚴(yán)肅文學(xué)楊).

a. American folk humor

美國(guó)民間幽默

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b. funny jokes

c. English folklore英國(guó)民俗

d. American values

7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary

reputation after the Revolutionary War?

誰(shuí)是第一個(gè)人在獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)之后美國(guó)實(shí)現(xiàn)國(guó)際文學(xué)聲譽(yù)在獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)之后

a. Fennimore Cooper. b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.

c. Walt Whitman. d. Washington Irving.

D.華盛頓·歐文（美國(guó)文學(xué)史上最早的著名作家）

8. I Have a Dream is addresd by _____.

a. Abraham Lincoln b. John F. Kennedy

c. Martin Luther King d. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

a. This is my letter to the world 這是我給世界的信

b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died我聽(tīng)到蒼蠅的嗡嗡聲——當(dāng)我死時(shí)

c. This is just to say

d. Becau I could not stop for

death因?yàn)槲也荒芡Ｏ聛?lái)等待死神

C. "This Is Just To Say" (1934) is a famous imagist poem (意象派詩(shī))by

William Carlos Williams（威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯）

10. Eugene O’Neil尤金·奧尼爾is an American ______.

a. novelist b. playwright

劇作家

c. poet d. essayist

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11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the

literary history of the United States.

a. Age of Realism

現(xiàn)實(shí)主義

b. Age of Classicalism

c. Age of Romanticism d. Age of Renaissance

12. With “Collected Poems(詩(shī)歌精選)”, ______won the cond Pulitzer

Prize.

a. Ezra Pond b. e. e. cummings

c. Robert Frost d. William Cullen Bryant

羅伯特·弗羅斯特4次獲得普利策獎(jiǎng)

15. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.

a. novels b. poems

c. short stories 短篇小說(shuō) d. dramas

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16. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

菲茨杰拉德；費(fèi)茲杰羅

a. Tender Is the Night 夜色溫柔

b. Anna Christie

c. The Beautiful and Dammed 漂亮的入地獄者

d. The Great Gatsby 偉大的蓋茨比

b.

Oneill, Eugene

17. The American literature in modern period is divided into two parts by

the event of ______.

a. the expatriate movement b. the Great Depression

c. the First World War d. the Second World War

19. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______for his

“mastery of the art of modern narration”.精通現(xiàn)在敘事藝術(shù)

a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck

c. Saul Bellow d. Earnest Hemingway

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20. Sister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹is a masterpiece of _______work.

a. romantic b. classic

c. neo-classic d. naturalistic

自然主義

21. The Octopus is written by ________.

a. Frank Norris b. Sherwood Anderson

c. Willa Cather d. Stephen Crane

22. James Baldwin’s most famous short story is _______.

a. A Ro for Emily b. The Story of an Hour

c. Sonny’s Blues d. A Clean, Well-lighted Place

23. ________wrote veral novels with the name of “Rabbit”.

a. Arthur Miller b. Thomas Pynchon

c. John Updike d. Wallace Stevens

24. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.

a. Robert Frost b. Longfellow

c. Ezra Pond d. Carl Sandburg

25. “God help them that help themlves” is found in ______’s work.

a. Franklin b. Freneau

c. Jefferson d. Paine

26. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is ______.

a. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock b. A Boy’s Will

c. The Waste Land d. The Golden Bough

27. Daisy Miller is a great work by _____.

a. Henry James b. Mark Twain

c. Dreir d. Stowe

28. Hester is a character in ______.

a. Gone with the Wind b. The Fall of the Hou of

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Usher

c. Babbitt d. Scarlet Letter

29. Jack London’s ______is his patently autobiographical novel.

a. The Call of the Wild b. The Sea Wolf

c. Martin Eden d. The Iron Heel

30. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s _______.

a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer b. The Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn

c. Life on the Mississippi d. The Prince and the Pauper

31. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _______.

a. Walt Whitman b. Benjamin Franklin

c. Abraham Lincoln d. Martin Luther King

32. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.

a. John Steinbeck b. John Cheever

c. John Updike d. John Dos Passos

33. ______is NOT a play written by Tenne Williams.

a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof b. The Glass Menagerie

c. Light in August d. A Streetcar Named Desire

34. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.

a. Flannery O’Conner b. Saul Bellow

c. Ralph Ellison d. Sherwood Anderson

35. ______is NOT among the postwar poets in modern American

literature.

a. Robert Lowell b. Gary Synder

c. Allen Ginsberg d. e. e. cummings

36. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by_____.

a. Washington Irving b. Fennimore Cooper

c. Edith Wharton d. William Dean Howells

37. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be______.

a. O’Neil b. Pound

c. Robert Frost d. Scott Fitzgerald

38. _____was the most important person of the transcendental club.

a. Hawthorn b. Whitman

c. Emerson d. Thoreau

39. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_______.

a. religion b. love and marriage

c. life and death d. war and peace

40. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its

predecessors. It is referred to as ______.

a. Imagism b. black humor

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c. new fiction d. the Beat Generation

41．Stephen Crane is famous for ________and other stories.

a. An American Tragedy b. The Ambassadors

c. Main Street d. The Red Badge of Courage

42．______has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and one Nobel Prize.

a. Earnest Hemingway b. John Steinbeck

c. Eugene O’Neil d. William Faulkner

43．Beloved is the masterpiece of _______.

a. Tony Morrison b. Ralph Ellison

c. John Dos Passos d. Willa Cather

44．Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

a. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.

b. To put the stress on traditional values.

c. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man

and his environment.

d. To advocate a conscious break with the past.

45．Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features

EXCEPT_____.

a. a strict poetic form

b. a simple and conversational language

c. a free and natural rhythmic pattern

d. an easy flow of feelings

46．Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?

a. Hemingway b. Fitzgerald

c. Gertrude Stein d. William Faulkner

47．The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around

______.

a. 1820 b. 1850

c. 1880 d. 1920

48．The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most

eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.

a. Nature b. Self-Reliance

c. The Over-Soul d. The American Scholar

49．Chine poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over

____.

a. Ezra Pound b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Robert Frost d. Emily Dickinson

50．_______is the reprentative work of the Beat Generation.

a. The Great Gatsby b. On the Road

c. Look Back in Anger d. The Sun Also Ris

51．Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by______.

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a. Willa Cather b. Doris Lessing

c. William Faulkner d. Nathaniel Hawthorn

52．Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as

well as a _______writer.

a. classical b. transcendental

c. postmodernist d. realistic

53．Who is considered the father of American poetry?

a. Philip Freneau b. William Cullen Bryant

c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow d. Henry David Thoreau

54．In America, “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Harriet Beecher Stowe

c. Edith Wharton d. Catharine Anne Porter

55．______is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.

a. The Raven b. Annabel Lee

c. The Fall of the Hou of Usher d. Song to Celia

56．Arthur Miller is an American _____.

a. novelist b. poet

c. playwright d. essayist

57．Iceberg Theory is a writing principle propod and cloly followed

by _____.

a. Jack London b. Sinclair Lewis

c. William Faulkner d. Ernest Hemingway

58．________is featured by black humor.

a. Caricature b. Catch-22

c. The Catcher in the Rye c. Death of a Salesman

59．Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and

Nobel Prize?

a. Pearl Buck b. Virginia Woolf

c. Tony Morrison d. Katharine Mansfield

1 . b 2. c 3. d 4. c 5. b 6. a 7. d 8. c 9. c

b

11. a 12. c 13. b 14. b 15. c 16. b 17. d 18. c 19. d

21. a 22. c 23. c 24. a 25. a 26. c 27. a 28. d 29. c

31. c 32. a 33. c 34. b 35. d 36. a 37. d 38. c 39. d

41. d 42. c 43. a 44. b 45. a 46. c 47. a 48. a 49. a

51. c 52. c 53. a 54. b 55. d 56. c 57. d 58. b 59. a

10.

20. d

30. b

40. c

50. b

60.

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