湖南城市学院美国文学史期末复习题

第1 题：The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of（ ）century.

A. the 18th

B. the 19th

C. the 20th

D. 21th

第2 题：New-England’s Plantation was published in 1630 by （ ）

A. Francis Higginson

B. William Bradford

C. John Smith

D. Michael Wigglesworth

第3 题：Of all the books written by Michael Wigglesworth the beat known is（ ）

A. The Flesh and the Spirit

B. The True Travels

C. The Day of Doom

D. Christopher Columbus

第4 题：Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the（ ）.

A. American Enlightenment

B. Sugar Act

C. Chartist movement

D. Romanticist

第5 题：During 1807-1808, Washington Irving wrote for his brother’s newspaper called （ ）

A. New York Times

B. B. Washington Post

C. Salmagundi

D. Daily News

第6 题：Rip Van Winkle was written by（ ）

A. James Fenimore Cooper

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Washington Irving

D. Walt Whitman

第7 题：The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is a novel about （ ）

A. American Civil War

B. American Revolution

C. American West Expansion

D. The First World War

第8 题：Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s （ ）

A. The Precaution

B. The Spy

C. The Gleanings in Europe

D. Leatherstocking Tales

第9 题：（ ）was regarded as a poet of the American Revolution

A. Philip Freneau

B. Walt Whitman

C. Robert Frost

D. Cal Sandburg

第10 题：The Raven was written in 1844 by（ ）

A. Philip Freneau

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Emily Dickinson

第11 题：The Minister’s Black Veil was written by（ ）

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

第12 题：Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the（ ）who appeared in America.

A. Ninth Muse

B. Tenth Muse

C. Best Muse

D. First Muse

第13 题：The ship（ ） 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

第14 题：Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, Rip Van Winkle, from a（ ）

A. Greek legend

B. German legend

C. French legend

D. English legend

第15 题：Rip Van Winkle is found in Irving’s longer work, （ ）

A. The Sketch Book

B. History of New York

C. Tales of a Traveler

D. The Precaution

第16 题：（ ）was often regarded as America’s first man of letters, devoting much of his career to literature.

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Philip Freneau

C. Washington Irving

D. James Fenimore Cooper

第17 题：All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales except （ ）

A. The Pioneers

B. The Prairie

C. The Deerslayer

D. The Spy

第18 题：In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. （ ）was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Revolution

D. Evolution

第19 题：Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story,（ ）.

A. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

B. Rip Van Winkle

C. The Custom-house

D. The Birthmark

第20 题：As a philosophical and literary movement,（ ）flourished in New England from 1830s to the Civil War.

A. modernism

B. rationalism

C. sentimentalism

D. transcendentalism

第21 题： Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes（ ）.

A. . poems   

B.  literary critic theories

C.  short stories

D.  dramas

第22 题：The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as（ ）.

A. the Naturalist Period

B. the Modern Period

C. the Romantic Period

D. the Realistic Period

第23 题：The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except（ ）.

A. war and peace

B. love and marriage

C. life and death

D. religion

第24 题：Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except（ ）.

A. brevity

B. directness

C. plainest words

D. obscure

第25 题：Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a（ ） language.

A. grand

B. pompous

C. simple

D. vernacular

第26 题：In which of the following works Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?（ ）

A. Death in the Afternoon

B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

C. To Have and Have Not

D. The Green Hills of Africa

第27 题：（ ）is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”.

A. The Sun Also Rises

B. A Farewell to Arms

C. In Our Time

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

第28 题：Robert Frost bined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of （ ） farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A. Southern

B. Western

C. New Hampshire

D. New England

第29 题：（ ） , one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”.

A. J. D. Salinger

B. Ezra Pound

C. Richard Wright

D. Ralph Ellison

第30 题：“Tender Is the Night” is a （ ）by Fitzgerald.

A. short story

B. novella

C. poem

D. novel