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Week 1 Introduction and Early Romanticism

Quiz for Week 1

1、尔雅Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ________.
A、美国American Enlightenment
B、文学Sugar Act
C、导读答案Chartist Movement
D、学习Romanticist

2、通完Who was NOT regarded as the “School-room Poets?整答”
A、Edgar Allen Poe.
B、尔雅Henry W. Longfellow.
C、美国William Cullen Bryant.
D、文学John Greenleaf Whittier.

3、导读答案Which of the following is 学习a work by Washington Irving?
A、A History of New York
B、通完Self-reliance
C、整答The尔雅 Prairie
D、Walden

4、From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous ________, an annual collection of proverbs.
A、Poor Richard’s Almanac
B、The Autobiography
C、Common Sense
D、The General Magazine

5、Which of the following is a poem by William Cullen Bryant?
A、“Thanatopsis”
B、“Song of Myself”
C、“Annabel Lee”
D、“A Psalm of Life”

6、Which of the following is NOT a writer of American Romanticism?
A、Mark Twain
B、Walt Whitman
C、Nathaniel Hawthorn
D、Herman Melville

7、Washington Irving’s works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are _______ and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
A、“Rip Van Winkle”
B、A History of New York
C、Leatherstocking Tales
D、“The Cask of Amontillado”

8、Which of the following is a unique feature of American Romanticism?
A、American landscape as the subject matter.
B、A return to nature.
C、Stress on emotion and imagination.
D、A love to the past and abnormal.

9、________ is said to be the father of American short story and American Goldsmith.
A、Washington Irving
B、Benjamin Franklin
C、James Fennimore Cooper
D、William Cullen Bryant

10、The early settlers came to America for different reasons. They do NOT include ________.
A、climatic reason
B、economic reason
C、spiritual reason
D、religious reason

11、The American Puritans were mainly ________.
A、Calvinists
B、Protestants
C、Catholics
D、Judaist

12、“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” revealed the Calvinist belief of ________.
A、Jonathan Edwards
B、Benjamin Franklin
C、Thomas Jefferson
D、John Cotton

13、“God’s excellency … seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon and stars; in the clouds, and the blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees…” This is the quotation of ________.
A、Jonathan Edwards
B、Ralph Waldo Emerson
C、Washington Irving
D、Benjamin Franklin

14、The 13 virtues, which are temperance, silence, order, resolution…and chastity, are recorded in ________.
A、The Autobiography
B、“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
C、Poor Richard’s Almanac
D、A History of New York

15、A History of New York was supposed to be written by a Dutch historian named ________.
A、Diedrich Knickerbocker
B、Rip Van Winkle
C、Ichabod Crane
D、Geoffrey Crayon

16、Which of the following is a proper description of Rip’s personality?
A、He is an idler who refuses to labor in his own farm.
B、He is always ready to do his house work.
C、He will refuse to help a housewife if it is a hard work.
D、He refuses to work because it is too hard.

17、The first novel by James F. Cooper is ________.
A、Precaution.
B、The Spy.
C、The Pioneers.
D、The Pathfinder.

18、Which of the following is true about Cooper’s reputation?
A、By 1851, he was more criticized in the U. S. than in Europe.
B、By the time when he died in 1851, he was already forgotten by European readers.
C、By 1851, he was severely criticized in Europe.
D、By 1851, nobody talked about Cooper in America.

19、________ was the last of the Mohican tribe in The Last of the Mohicans.
A、Chingachgook
B、Magua
C、Uncas
D、Hawkeye

20、Fireside poets got the name mainly because ________.
A、their poems were read by people at fireside during the family reading hour
B、these poets wrote at fireside
C、these poets gathered at fireside to discuss their ideas of poem writing
D、these poets thought fire was a symbol of inspiration

Week 2 Transcendentalism and Romantic Poets

Quiz for Week 2

1、Who wrote the little book Nature, which is a long essay?
A、Henry David Thoreau
B、Walt Whitman
C、Ralph Waldo Emerson
D、Emily Dickinson

2、Which poem contains the lines, " And I had put away / My labor and my leisure too, / For His Civility-"?
A、“I’m Nobody”
B、“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
C、“I Hear America Singing”
D、“O Captain My Captain”

3、Who wrote Leaves of Grass?
A、Emily Dickinson
B、Henry W. Longfellow
C、Walt Whitman
D、James Cooper

4、In what century did Walt Whitman live?
A、eighteenth
B、nineteenth
C、twentieth
D、seventeenth

5、Who did Whitman memorialize in "O Captain My Captain"?
A、Captain John Smith
B、Captain America
C、George Washington
D、Abraham Lincoln

6、Other than singing, what are the good folks of the poem “I Hear America Singing” up to?
A、Eating
B、Researching time machines
C、Playing baseball
D、Working

7、What are the mechanics' voices in the poem “I Hear America Singing” like?
A、"deep and soulful"
B、"delicious"
C、"blithe and strong"
D、"weak sauce"

8、What does the carpenter do in the poem “I Hear America Singing”, besides singing?
A、"measures his plank or beam"
B、"builds a bird house"
C、"builds a home for his family"
D、"flirts with the seamstress"

9、Where is the boatman singing in the poem “I Hear America Singing”?
A、In his boat
B、On the deck
C、In the Bermuda Triangle
D、In the Pacific Ocean

10、How long does the ploughboy work in the poem “I Hear America Singing”?
A、From 12pm-3pm
B、From morning till sundown
C、Just Saturdays and Sundays
D、From 12am-8am

11、How do the workers in the poem “I Hear America Singing” feel about their songs?
A、They don't really care about them
B、They hate them
C、They're looking for recording industry contracts for them
D、They feel a sense of ownership about them

12、Who lived in the woods of Massachusetts and wrote a book called Walden about the experience?
A、Ralph Waldo Emerson
B、Henry David Thoreau
C、Washington Irving
D、Jonathan Edwards

13、Emily Dickinson lived the life of a recluse by the Pond Walden.

14、The Dial was the journal founded by the Transcendentalists.

15、Unlike Whitman, Dickinson didn’t extol an emergent America, its expansion, its individualism and its Americanness in her poems.

16、Among Dickinson’s 1775 poems, only a few were published after she died.

17、Death is personified as a gentleman caller or suitor in the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”.

18、Walt Whitman likes capitalizing many words and using dashes here and there in his poems.

19、Compared with Thoreau who was a great thinker, Emerson was a great experimentalist who put Transcendental doctrines into practice in the actual life.

20、The famous metaphor “transparent eye-ball” appears in the “Introduction” of Nature.

Week 3 Dark Romanticism

Assignment for Week 3

1、What is the symbolic meaning of the whale in?the?novel?Moby?Dick? Try to illustrate your points with examples from the novel.

Week 4 American Realism

Quiz for Week 4

1、Which of the following is NOT one of the three dominant figures of the Realistic Period?
A、William Faulkner
B、Mark Twain
C、Henry James
D、William D. Howells

2、Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _________.
A、local color
B、waste-land imagery
C、international theme
D、symbolism

3、The book that marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary creativity is _________.
A、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B、The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C、The Mysterious Strangers
D、Life on the Mississippi

4、___________ (1873) is one early example of Twain’s interest in politics. This book is a satire against corruption in Washington D.C.
A、The Gilded Age
B、Life on the Mississippi
C、The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

5、_______ is an artistically sophisticated novelist who is good at describing characters’ inner world, so he is often called the “father of psychological novel.”
A、Henry James
B、Mark Twain
C、Nathaniel Hawthorn
D、William Faulkner

6、Which of the following novel is not written by Henry James?
A、The Rise of Silas Lapham
B、The Ambassadors
C、The Wings of the Dove
D、The Bostonians

7、Stylistically, Henry James’s fictionis characterized by ________.
A、highly refined language
B、abundance of local images
C、short, clear sentences
D、ordinary American speech

8、________ presents Isabel Archer as the protagonist. She proves too young and inexpeirenced for the European capital of the 19th century.
A、The Portrait of a Lady
B、The Bostonians
C、Daisy Miller
D、The American

9、“But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.” Which novel are the the above sentences from?
A、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B、The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C、The Mysterious Strangers
D、Life on the Mississippi

10、Mark Twain’s choice of ________ as the narrative voice is one of the reasons why the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has become a masterpiece.
A、Huck Finn
B、Tom Sawyer
C、Joe Harper
D、Jim

11、One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century is his use of interior monlogue.

12、The main theme of Henry Jame’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary principle that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.

13、With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, sentimentalism became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteehth century.

14、The Portrait of a Lady written by William Dean Howells presents Isabel Archer as the protagoist.

15、Henry James shows sophisticated skills in manipulating the narrative point of view.

16、In American literature, the term realism covers the period of time from the Civil War to the turn of the century during which William Dean Howells, Rebecca Harding Davis, and others wrote fiction devoted to accurate representation and an exploration of American lives in various contexts.

17、William Dean Howells is known as the wild humorist of the Pacific slope and a representative of American local colorist.

18、Naturalism is a form of realistic writing with its fidelity to a particular geographical section and became dominant in the U.S. when various sectional divisions of America were “discovered.”

19、Being a realist, Henry James was an observer of the mind rather than a recorder of time. His realism was a special kind of psychological realism.

20、Henry James’s novels of “International theme” often deal with conflict between the sophisticated Europeans and innocent Americans.

Week 5 American Naturalism

Quiz for Week 5

1、Which of the following novels is regarded as an autobiographic novel of Jack London?
A、The Call of the Wild
B、White Fang
C、Martin Eden
D、The Sea Wolf

2、Jack London’s experience of ________ influenced the best of his short stories such as “The Love of Life” and “To Build a Fire.”
A、an Oyster Pirate
B、sea adventures
C、Klondike Gold Rush
D、working in a powerhouse

3、In The Call of the Wild, Buck was stolen and then ___________.
A、sold to a farmer
B、transported to California
C、murdered
D、sold to two government couriers

4、Buck in The Call of the Wild had to ____________after he left his original living place.
A、learn to adapt to the harsh environment
B、fight with wild dogs to survive
C、fight with the wolves
D、learn to get along with people

5、Buck in The Call of the Wild won a bet for his master Thornton by _________.
A、fighting and winning a strong dog
B、pulling a very heavy load
C、recognizing the right card in a game
D、finding a hidden gold mine

6、From which novel is the quotation "At last he admitted to himself that the game was up" taken from?
A、The Red Badge of Courage
B、The Call of the Wild
C、Sister Carrie
D、Martin Eden

7、Which of the following themes did naturalists like writing about?
A、Triumph
B、Survival
C、Melancholy
D、Morality

8、Which of the following is NOT a feature of naturalism?
A、Determinism
B、Extreme subjectivity
C、The universe’s indifference to man
D、Characters from the lower classes

9、Who is considered to be the father of naturalism?
A、Emile Zola
B、Stephen Crane
C、Frank Norris
D、Jack London

10、At the end of the novel Sister Carrie, Carrie is _____________.
A、dead
B、lonely
C、married
D、a happy star

11、What do water images suggest in Sister Carrie?
A、Life
B、Indecision
C、Trouble
D、Boredom

12、Who said, " People never gave me anything when I was hard up" in Sister Carrie?
A、Carrie
B、Drouet
C、Hurstwood
D、Lola

13、What is usually the tone of naturalist novels?
A、Cheerful
B、Humorous
C、Optimistic
D、Pessimistic

14、In which novel does a character say, " Give me a little something, will you, mister? For God's sake, do; I'm starving"?
A、Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
B、The Red Badge of Courage
C、The Call of the Wild
D、Sister Carrie

15、What does Carrie want in Sister Carrie?
A、World peace
B、Money
C、A baby
D、To connect with God

16、Theodore Dreiser is the first slum novelist in American literature.

17、In Chapter 7, The Red Badge of Courage, Henry meets a rotted corpse in the forest.

18、Before he wrote The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane had been a war correspondent for years, and that's why he could record the realities of battle so accurately.

19、Stephen Crane published The Red Badge of Courage under a pseudonym and at his own expense.

20、At the end of the novel The Red Badge of Courage, Henry fought savagely under the influence of his instincts and biological nature rather than heroism .

Week 6 American Modern Poets

Quiz for Week 6

1、Which one of the following poets are not among the most representative Modernist poets?
A、Edwin Robinson
B、Wallace Stephens
C、H.D
D、E. E. Cummings

2、Imagism refers to the poetic movement from 1912 to 1917 that advocated a return to the focus of details of the subject, a directness of presentation, the economy of language, and __________.
A、Victorian meter and rhymes
B、deprivation of traditional verse forms
C、restricted choices on its theme
D、no creation of rhymes

3、Which is not true about Ezra Pound?
A、He is considered the founder of Imagism.
B、He has done translation work on Chinese literature.
C、He was arrested and charged as guilty after returning to the United States.
D、He was much influenced by Greek Lyrics.

4、Which of the following is not a work by Ezra Pound
A、“In a Station of the Metro"
B、The Cantos
C、Tribute to Freud
D、Confucius

5、Who were not among the original group of Imagist poets?
A、H.D.
B、T. S. Eliot
C、Ezra Pound
D、William Carlos Williams

6、“The Cantos” is Ezra Pound’s life-long work. Which of the following is not true about this work?
A、It is a collection of over 100 poems, covering a wide range of topics, from economics to culture to literature.
B、It reflects Pound’s deep obsession to Chinese and Japanese literature.
C、It was not finished.
D、It was written in typical Imagist style.

7、Which piece of work was done in prison by Ezra Pound that helped him won the Bollingen Prize?
A、"The Spirit of Romance".
B、Confucius.
C、“In a Station of the Metro”.
D、The “Pisan Cantos”.

8、In the poem “In a Station of the Metro”, the two famous images are ____ and petal on a bough.
A、people’s faces in the crowd
B、flowers on a tree
C、human in a station
D、ghosts in a subway

9、1915 witnessed the first published book of poems by H.D., which she entitled _________.
A、Sea Garden
B、Hymen
C、Collected Poems (1925)
D、Helen in Egypt (1961)

10、________ is considered as William Carlos Williams’ best work of poetry.
A、Spring and All (1923)
B、The Waste land
C、The Tempers (1913)
D、Kora in Hell: Improvisations(1920)

11、In H.D.’s “Oread”, simple language brings out complicated emotions, as is demonstrated in the nymph ordering the sea to take dominant role.

12、The deliberate absence of punctuation and capitalization is one of the unique features of William Carlos William’s poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”.

13、Wallace Stevens was like a poet of the “Lost Generation” of poets, who sank deep into self-denial, frustration, anger or disappointment.

14、Robert Frost focused more on a simple elegance of language that convey a feeling of harmony with nature, and was much fascinated in the use of free verse, which broke away from the traditional forms of poetry, just like his peers

15、The 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning collection New Hampshire, created by Robert Frost, includes two of his famous poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Fire and Ice”.

16、Published in Poetry magazine in _______, the poem “In a Station of the Metro” which is in free verse, with only two lines, became Ezra Pound’s most famous poem and the manifesto of Imagist poetry.

17、In Wallace Stephen’s poem “Anecdote of the Jar”, The jar symbolizes human being’s artistic imagination, while the wilderness symbolizes_______.

18、In 1919, T.S. Eliot published his book Poems, a collection including “Gerontion,” a meditative interior monologue in ____ verse, another first in the history of poetry.

19、___________ is a modernist technique T.S. Eliot adopted in his “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, which breaks a direct narrative in the poem and drifts off elsewhere or switches topics quickly.

20、Metonym is a device that involves using only different parts of a thing to indicate the thing itself. In Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, the yellow fog for instance, in line 15, resembles so much of a ____.

Week 7 “The Lost Generation” and Southern Literature

Assignment for Week 7

1、What is Hemingway code hero? Illustrate Hemingwaycode hero by using A Farewell to Arms as an example.

Week 8 American Dramatists

Quiz for Week 8

1、Waiting for Lefty was written by __________.
A、Eugene O’Neill
B、Clifford Odets
C、Thornton Wilder
D、Tennessee Williams

2、Among the following plays, which is NOT written by Arthur Miller?
A、Death of a Salesman.
B、The Crucible.
C、A View from the Bridge.
D、The Glass Menagerie.

3、Before he became a successful dramatist, O’Neill had done a lot of other jobs EXCEPT ______.
A、a seaman
B、a prospector
C、a journalist
D、a famous actor

4、Among the following statements, which about O’Neill is NOT true?
A、He depicted the American society in a romantic form.
B、He depicted the people living in a particular cultural and social background—a capitalist society governed by Puritan principles that called for a demanding work and moral ethic.
C、He tried to reflect the tragic fate of the people at the bottom of the society.
D、His works dramatize the plight of people driven by primary passions and by an awareness of the forces threatening to overwhelm them which he called “forces behind.”

5、The first scene of The Emperor Jones is a(n) _________ scene.
A、realistic
B、expressionist
C、both realistic and expressionist
D、romantic

6、Jones tricks the natives into believing that he could only be killed by _________
A、a lead bullet
B、a silver bullet
C、a bronze bullet
D、a gold bullet

7、Which of the following statements about expressionism is NOT true?
A、Expressionism originated in the U.S.
B、Expressionism was a modernist movement that started at the beginning of the 20th century.
C、Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective.
D、Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.

8、Which is NOT the expressionist technique that has been adopted by O’Neill in The Emperor Jones?
A、Long and complicated scenes.
B、The flashbacks of the protagonist’s past.
C、The beating of the tom-tom plus other sounds like the wind, the shots of the revolver.
D、The setting in a nightmarish dark forest.

9、Which of the following words can NOT be used to describe the characters of Williams?
A、Outsiders.
B、Pitiable.
C、Tragic.
D、Adorable.

10、What of the following is the tragic ending of Blanche?
A、She died.
B、She was sent to a mental institution by Stanley.
C、She gave birth to a child.
D、She divorced.

11、Which of the following might NOT be the symbolic meaning of the raw meat that Stanley has thrown to Stella?
A、His primitiveness.
B、His love to his wife.
C、Sexuality.
D、Violence.

12、What is the name of the second streetcar that Blanche has taken?
A、Desire.
B、Cemeteries.
C、Elysian Fields.
D、The French Quarter.

13、In the 19th century, American drama was as popular and important as American fiction and poetry.

14、Eugene O’Neill had influenced some Chinese playwrights such as Cao Yu and Hong Sen.

15、Brutus Jones is a white American.

16、Through expressionist description of Jones’ psychological movements, the audience get to know that Jones has suffered severe inner conflict along his progression through the forest—fear, humiliation and psychological disintegration.

17、Most of Williams’ plays were inspired from his own experiences.

18、Most of Williams’ brutish and violent male characters are thought to be based up his father.

19、The French Quarter during the time was a “melting pot” of different races and classes.

20、The loss of Belle Reve symbolizes the deterioration of the Old South.

Final Examination

2021春季《美国文学导读》期末考试客观题

1、__________ is an artistically sophisticated novelist who is good at describing characters’ inner world, so he is often called the “father of psychological novel.”
A、Mark Twain
B、Nathaniel Hawthorn
C、Henry James
D、William Faulkner

2、Which of the following statement is NOT true about Henry James?
A、He probes the deepest reaches of the psychological nature of human beings.
B、He shows sophisticated skills in manipulating the narrative “point of view”.
C、He significantly develops the international dimensions of American literature.
D、He presents his concern about the sociological problems of industrial conflict and class struggle.

3、Which of the following is NOT one of the major features of realism?
A、It emphasizes on intuition, imagination and idealism.
B、It is a reaction against romanticism.
C、It seeks to portray life as faithfully and accurately as possible.
D、It attempts to depict ordinary people coping with realities.

4、Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary________which emphasized hereditary and environmental determinism.
A、naturalism
B、modernism
C、romanticism
D、classicism

5、Transcendentalists took their ideas from the following EXCEPT _________.
A、the romantic literature in Europe
B、neo-Platonism and German idealistic philosophy
C、European Enlightenment movement
D、the revelations of oriental mysticism

6、The book _______ relates a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.
A、Billy Budd
B、The Scarlet Letter
C、Life on the Mississippi
D、Moby Dick

7、Which of the following is NOT an influence on American literature from puritanism?
A、Literary symbolism.
B、The fresh, simple and direct style.
C、The description of the American landscape.
D、The values such as hard work, thrift, piety, sobriety promoted in literary works.

8、American Romanticism started in the early 19th century and lasted until _____.
A、the Independence War
B、the American Civil War
C、the First World War
D、the Indian War

9、Who is a Romantic writer?
A、Washington Irving
B、Mark Twain
C、Jack London
D、Earnest Hemingway

10、__________ means going beyond the limitation of senses, knowledge can be obtained through mental process apart from experiences, denoting “whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought.”
A、Puritanism
B、Romanticism
C、Transcendentalism
D、Naturalism

11、Walden illustrated that the essayist desired all the following EXCEPT __________.
A、a life of contemplation
B、a life of individual welfare
C、a life of being in harmony with nature
D、a life of acting on his own principles

12、For ________, human beings are evil-natured and sinful and this sin and evil is ever present to human heart and will pass on from one generation to another.
A、Nathaniel Hawthorne
B、Henry James
C、Jack London
D、Jonathan Edwards

13、________ describes the story of a sailor called Ishmael who narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on a white whale.
A、The Scarlet Letter
B、The Last of the Mohicans
C、Moby-Dick
D、The Call of the Wild

14、______ is NOT considered as the representative of Dark Romanticism in American literature.
A、Edgar Allan Poe
B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
C、Jonathan Edwards
D、Herman Melville

15、Which of the following is NOT one of the three dominant figures of the Realistic Period?
A、William Faulkner
B、Mark Twain
C、Henry James
D、William D. Howells

16、Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _________.
A、local color
B、waste-land imagery
C、international theme
D、symbolism

17、Which poet first promoted the idea that poetry requires a precise and economic use of language and that the poet should always use the “exact” word, stripping the writing down to the “barest essence”?
A、Ezra Pound
B、E. E. Cummings
C、H. D.
D、William C. Williams

18、In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche told her sister Stella that she had lost their __________.
A、father
B、ancestral home
C、clothes
D、money

19、______ is often thought to be the first American writer to win international recognition.
A、Washington Irving
B、Edgar Allan Poe
C、Nathaniel Hawthorn
D、William Cullen Bryant

20、Washington Irving tried to restore the waning Gothic romances in the United States, and one typical story to write for that purpose is ______.
A、“Rip Van Winkle”
B、“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
C、“Rural life in England”
D、“The Widow and her Son”

21、In “Rip Van Winkle,” Rip is described to be a person with the following characteristics Except being ______________.
A、a hen-pecked husband
B、a hard-working and thrift man
C、a man loved by the children of the neighborhood
D、a man who did not like to work on his own farm

22、Which of the following essays is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A、“Self-Reliance”
B、“Civil Disobedience”
C、“The American Scholar”
D、“The Over-soul”

23、Which of the following is NOT a poem about death?
A、“O Captain My Captain”
B、“Crossing the Bar”
C、“Annabel Lee”
D、“The Road Not Taken”

24、The first American Renaissance is the period of ______ in the history of American literature.
A、local colorism
B、realism
C、Transcendentalism
D、colonism

25、Which of the following are NOT the characteristics of Dark Romanticism?
A、Evil
B、Insanity
C、Melancholia
D、Optimism

26、The plot of the novel ________ follows from a run-away motif: the boy runs from his drunkard father while at the same time Jim, a slave, escapes from being sold.
A、Moby-Dick
B、The Last of the Mohicans
C、The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

27、________ tells the story of Hester Prynne, who struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
A、Moby-Dick
B、Sister Carrie
C、The Scarlet Letter
D、Maggie: A Girl of the Street

28、Which of the following statement about the novel The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?
A、Hypocrisy and secret sin are shaped and developed through the characters.
B、It is a novel that deals with the theme of sin.
C、It explores guilt, revenge, and redemption in World War I.
D、The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England.

29、Which of the following statement about the novel The Portrait of a Lady is NOT true?
A、It is considered literary realism because it captures how life really is instead of trying to romanticize it.
B、It is about an independent young woman who departs from America to explore the enchanting world of Europe.
C、Henry James develops the international theme in this book.
D、It explores the sociological problems of industrial conflict and class struggle.

30、Who was the first slum novelist in American literature?
A、Hamlin Garland.
B、Jack London.
C、Stephen Crane.
D、Frank Norris.

31、Which novel is NOT labeled as the naturalist novel in American literature?
A、An American Tragedy
B、The Call Of the Wild
C、Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
D、Walden

32、In the novel Sister Carrie, Hurstwood is the manager of a hotel in __________ but gradually becomes a beggar in the street in __________.
A、Chicago; his hometown
B、his hometown; Chicago
C、Chicago; New York City
D、New York City; Chicago

33、Which of the following statements is the true description of Theodore Dreiser?
A、Dreiser’s well-portrayed women characters are all in pursuit of American Dream and try their best to achieve success.
B、Dreiser often explored the role played by heredity and environment in shaping a character’s fate.
C、Dreiser’s diction is exquisite, exact and skillful.
D、Dreiser had a unique style characterized by short, uncomplicated sentences as well as simplicity and economy of expression.

34、Which of the following is NOT the background for American modernist poetry movement?
A、Industrialization.
B、American Civil War.
C、Freudian theory
D、Breakthrough in science.

35、What is an accurate description of Robert Frost?
A、He is one of the most read British poets of the 20th century.
B、He is famous for his elegant depiction of the country life of New England
C、He is good at using sophisticated vocabulary in his poems.
D、His works center on portraying life of the gods in Greek Mythology.

36、Which of the following is NOT a proper description to the principles of Imagism?
A、Direct treatment of the "thing," whether subjective or objective.
B、It follows the convention of traditional poetry writing of the Victorian times.
C、The poem is to present an Image itself, nothing else.
D、The economy of word use.

37、Which of the following statements best describes the writing styles of Wallace Stevens?
A、He is very skilled at creating philosophical poems with brilliant diction.
B、He is not a big fan of using symbols.
C、He resents using metaphors and insists on traditional rhymes.
D、His works are full of pessimism.

38、T. S. Eliot's poetry achieves everything mentioned below EXCEPT _____.
A、He is good at exposing the negative side of America.
B、His works are sometimes difficult to understand due to his sophisticated use of images and metaphors.
C、He sticks to traditional poetry style, in particular the formality of poetry.
D、He is very interested in exploring the psychological world of people.

39、Which of the following novel written by Hemingway is about a group of aimless expatriates in France and Spain after WWI?
A、A Farewell to Arms
B、The Sun Also Rises
C、For Whom the Bell Tolls
D、The Old Man and the Sea

40、At the end of A Farewell to Arms, _____________.
A、Frederic was accused to be a spy and shot to death
B、Frederic and Catherine ran to Switzerland and lived a happy life there
C、Frederic went back to the United States and married another woman
D、Catherine died after giving birth to a stillborn baby in Switzerland

41、Which of the following is NOT a southern American writer?
A、Henry James
B、William Faulkner
C、Katherine Anne Porter
D、Alice Walker

42、The first part of The Sound and the Fury is narrated by ___________.
A、Benjy
B、Quentin
C、Jason
D、Caddy

43、In 1916, Eugene O’Neill’s one-act play _____________ was performed in the Provincetown Players and it marked the beginning of the modern era of the American theater.
A、Bound East for Cardiff
B、The Emperor Jones
C、A. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
D、The Hairy Ape

44、One major theme of this play The Emperor Jones is ___________. It is presented through the conflict between the cunning, money-grabbing, exploitative whites and the oppressed, exploited and humiliated black race.
A、race and racism
B、violence
C、the dilemma of modern people
D、the relationship between man and nature

45、At the beginning of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, when Stanley comes back home, he yells at his wife and throws her ________, which symbolizes violence.
A、a package of raw meat
B、a golden necklace
C、a ring
D、a gun

46、In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, the conflict between Blanche and Stanley is the conflict between ______________.
A、the old and more genteel Southern culture and the new and more materialistic America
B、the white people and the colored people
C、the natives and the immigrants
D、the slaves and slave-owners

47、The influence of Puritan moral values on writing is a unique feature of American Romanticism.

48、The New England Poets include William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman.

49、The two most famous short stories in Sketch Book are “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

50、The Last of the Mohicans is a famous novel by Washington Irving.

51、Henry David Thoreau's Walden has always been regarded as a masterpiece of Transcendentalism.

52、"Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, / The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly." These lines are taken from “Because I Could not Stop for Death”.

53、Local colorism is a subdivision of American realism, and it refers to the fidelity in literature to a particular geographical area.

54、In the short story “Ligeia”, the narrator is so obsessed with the death of his first wife that he cannot see his second wife except in the disguise of his first.

55、The Great Gatsby portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and collapse of the American dream.

56、In The Emperor Jones, with the continuous beating of the tom-tom, Jones experiences the psychological change from confidence to despair along his escape.

57、Technically speaking, Whitman’s poetry is free verse in that the lack of meter and rhyme is known as his major technical innovation.

58、The Cantos is considered as “the intellectual diary since 1915” with intricate and obscure language.

59、Naturalism views human beings as animal in the natural world responding to environmental forces and internal desires.

60、American romanticism is very different from European romanticism and it does not share any common features with European romanticism.

61、Both Washington Irving and Edgar Allen Poe are called the writers of the frontier.

62、Ichabod Crane is the protagonist of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”.

63、Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau’s follower, friend and neighbor at Concord, was an American essayist, philosopher, and lecturer.

64、By making “carriage” a capitalized noun in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, Dickinson makes it more specific and more important.

65、The tone of “I Hear America Singing” is cheerful, happy, and optimistic.

66、The short story “Ligeia” could be read as a tale that exemplifies Poe’s famous saying from “The Philosophy of Composition” that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably the most poetic topic in the world.

67、The story “Ligeia” create the Gothic effect of terror and horror and involves the theme of death.

68、The poem “The Raven” written by Poe is the first person narrative poem.

69、In the poem “The Raven”, the use of internal rhyme makes the poem more musical.

70、n the poem “The Raven”, the black bird represents the narrator’s infinite memory of his lost Lenore, Poes’s ceaseless memory of those he loved and lost.

71、For Herman Melville, his writings are partly based on his sea-faring adventures.

72、Stephen Crane drew on his experience as war correspondent in writing The Red Badge of Courage.

73、The novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is about how Maggie Johnson, a pretty young woman of the streets, hungers for beauty, order and love.

74、When Henry Fleming throws the pine cone at the squirrel and finds in the squirrel’s response a sign, he sees it as “the law”, Newtonian law.

75、Imagists adapt free verse, moving away from fixed meters and rhymes, which means poems don’t have to follow the traditional rules of rhyme and meter.

76、“In a Station of the Metro” is the most represented work of the American poet and novelist Hilda Doolittle, better known as H.D.

77、Robert Frost is not a complete revolutionist in that he stayed with traditional poetic forms, yet his theme choices are very different from traditional poems.

78、F. Scott Fitzgerald gave the name to his age – the age of Jazz because of his work like This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

79、At the end of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Daisy were shot to death because Daisy killed a woman in a car accident and they were revenged by the woman’s husband.

80、Hemingway favored iceberg technique in his writing and never revealed the inner activities of his characters.

81、It was Eugene O’Neill who has transformed American theater from the crude melodrama of the late 19th century and the early 20th century into the current international mainstream of serious tragedy.

82、Walt Whitman is regarded as the father of _____________ and the poet of the common people in American literature.

83、As a philosophical and literary movement, __________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

84、Emerson’s __________ is acknowledged as the “manifesto of American Transcendentalism”.

85、____________is a literary movement which is defined as "the faithful representation of reality".

86、Melville’s novel _____________ tells the story of the Captain Ahab risking his life in search of a whale.

87、Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos all belong to the “_________” writers, a phrase coined by Gertrude Stein.

88、Hemingway’s ________ is a person who can keep his grace under pressure.

89、“The Road Not Taken” written by ________ describes how the speaker struggles to choose among two roads diverging in the woods on an autumn morning.

2021春季《美国文学导读》期末试卷主观题

1、Read the following poem written by Emily Dickinson, and answer the questions that follow: 1. Because I could not stop for Death- 2. He kindly stopped for me- 3. The Carriage held but just Ourselves- 4. And Immortality. 5. We slowly drove- He knew no haste 6. And I had put away 7. My labor and my leisure too, 8. For His Civility- 9. We passed the School, where Children strove 10. At Recess-in the Ring- 11. We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain- 12. We passed the Setting Sun- 13. Or rather-He passed Us- 14. The Dews drew quivering and chill- 15. For only Gossamer, my Gown- 16. My Tippet-only Tulle- 17. We paused before a House that seemed 18. A Swelling of the Ground- 19. The Roof was scarcely visible- 20. The Cornice-in the Ground- 21. Since then-'tis Centuries-and yet 22. Feels shorter than the Day 23. I first surmised the Horses' Heads 24. Were toward Eternity- Questions： 1. What is the image of death? In other words, how is death described?（5 points) 2. Interpret the second stanza in details.（5 points） 3. What is the theme of this poem? Analyze in details. （10 points）

2、Read the following excerpt of the novel and answer the questions: 1. After a time the sound of musketry grew faint and the cannon boomed in the distance. The sun, suddenly apparent, blazed among the trees. The insects were making rhythmical noises. They seemed to be grinding their teeth in unison. A woodpecker stuck his impudent head around the side of a tree. A bird flew on lighthearted wing. 2. Off was the rumble of death. It seemed now that Nature had no ears. 3. This landscape gave him assurance. A fair field holding life. It was the religion of peace. It would die if its timid eyes were compelled to see blood. He conceived Nature to be a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy. 4. He threw a pine cone at a jovial squirrel, and he ran with chattering fear. High in a treetop he stopped, and, poking his head cautiously from behind a branch, looked down with an air of trepidation. 5. The youth felt triumphant at this exhibition. There was the law, he said. Nature had given him a sign. The squirrel, immediately upon recognizing danger, had taken to his legs without ado. He did not stand stolidly baring his furry belly to the missile, and die with an upward glance at the sympathetic heavens. On the contrary, he had fled as fast as his legs could carry him; and he was but an ordinary squirrel, too—doubtless no philosopher of his race. The youth wended, feeling that Nature was of his mind. She re-enforced his argument with proofs that lived where the sun shone. 6. Once he found himself almost into a swamp. He was obliged to walk upon bog tufts and watch his feet to keep from the oily mire. Pausing at one time to look about him he saw, out at some black water, a small animal pounce in and emerge directly with a gleaming fish. 7. The youth went again into the deep thickets. The brushed branches made a noise that drowned the sounds of cannon. He walked on, going from obscurity into promises of a greater obscurity. 8. At length he reached a place where the high, arching boughs made a chapel. He softly pushed the green doors aside and entered. Pine needles were a gentle brown carpet. There was a religious half light. 9. Near the threshold he stopped, horror-stricken at the sight of a thing. 10. He was being looked at by a dead man who was seated with his back against a columnlike tree. The corpse was dressed in a uniform that had once been blue, but was now faded to a melancholy shade of green. The eyes, staring at the youth, had changed to the dull hue to be seen on the side of a dead fish. The mouth was open. Its red had changed to an appalling yellow. Over the gray skin of the face ran little ants. One was trundling some sort of bundle along the upper lip. Questions: 1. From which novel is the above excerpt taken? Who is the author? (2 points) 2. Crane writes "He threw a pinecone at a jovial squirrel, and he [the squirrel] ran with chattering fear." How did Henry feel when the squirrel ran up into the tree to escape the threat? How did he justify his behaviour? (8 points) 3. One of the most important themes of the novel is that nature is indifferent to human life. How does the excerpt convey this theme? Present your view clearly and cite at least 3 examples to support your view. (10 points)

学习通美国文学导读_1

美国文学是世界文学的重要组成部分，它不仅展现了美国人民的文化面貌，也反映了时代的变迁和社会的变革。而学习通美国文学导读_1，则是一门介绍美国文学的入门课程，通过该课程，学生可以了解到美国文学的基本知识和历史背景，了解美国文学的发展与演变，深入了解美国文学的精髓。

一、美国文学的历史背景

了解一个国家的文学，必须首先了解该国的历史背景。美国的文学发展历程可以分为以下几个阶段：

• 殖民时期（1607-1765）
• 独立战争时期（1765-1783）
• 建国初期（1783-1820）
• 浪漫主义时期（1820-1865）
• 现实主义时期（1865-1914）
• 现代主义时期（1914-1945）
• 后现代主义时期（1945-至今）

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二、美国文学的代表作品

美国文学有许多经典的代表作品，这些作品不仅在美国广为流传，也在全世界范围内有着广泛的影响。以下是学习通美国文学导读_1中介绍的一些代表作品：

• 《飘》：玛格丽特·米切尔的代表作品，描写了南北战争前后南方社会的历史背景和女主人公斯嘉丽·奥哈拉的情感经历。
• 《大地》：威廉·福克纳的代表作品，描写了南方社会的黑暗面和人性的扭曲。
• 《傲慢与偏见》：简·奥斯汀的代表作品，描写了英国贵族社会的种种风俗与习惯，以及女主人公伊丽莎白·班纳特与达西先生的爱情故事。
• 《老人与海》：海明威的代表作品，描写了老渔夫桑提亚哥与他的小船对抗巨大的马林鱼的故事。
• 《了不起的盖茨比》：菲茨杰拉德的代表作品，描写了上世纪20年代美国社会的繁荣与虚荣，以及主人公盖茨比追求爱情和财富的故事。

通过学习这些代表作品，学生可以更好地了解美国文学的精髓和美国社会的历史背景。

三、美国文学的特点

了解美国文学，必须了解其独特的文学特点。美国文学的特点主要有以下几个方面：

• 民主性：美国文学强调个体自由和民主精神，这种精神贯穿于美国文学的各个时期和各个类型。
• 实用性：美国文学强调实用主义和实用价值，强调文学作品对于社会生活的实际意义和实际作用。
• 多样性：美国文学体裁多样，内容丰富，涵盖了小说、诗歌、剧本、散文和报告文学等多个方面。
• 重视个性：美国文学强调个性和自我意识，强调作者的独特性和个性特点。
• 重视写实：美国文学强调写实主义和真实性，对于社会现实和人性特点进行深入剖析。

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四、美国文学的影响

美国文学不仅对于美国社会产生了深远的影响，也对于全世界的文学发展产生了重要的影响。美国文学中的许多经典作品已经成为全球文化的共同遗产。

美国文学对于世界文学的影响主要有以下几个方面：

• 推动了文学现代化：美国文学对于文学现代化的推动起到了重要的作用，使得文学从传统的叙事模式转向了现代的多样化表现方式。
• 推广了文学自由：美国文学强调个体自由和民主精神，推广了文学自由的理念，对于世界文学的思想解放产生了深刻影响。
• 传播了美国文化：美国文学作为美国文化的代表，传播了美国文化的精髓和价值观念，对于全球文化的交流和融合产生了积极的影响。

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