| 1．第6题 |
| The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job. A.New York B.Beijing C.Boston D.Chicago 答案:D |
| 2．第7题 |
| Among the following titles, only one is not among the Leather-Stoking Tales series. It is__________. A.The Last of the Mohicans B.The Prairie C.The Pathfinder D.Moby Dick 答案:D |
| 3．第8题 |
| The last finished novel written by Fitzgerald is __________. A.This Side of Paradise B.All the Sad Young Men C.The Great Gatsby D.Tender Is the Night 答案:D |
| 4．第9题 |
| "Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---. A.T. S. Eliot B.Wallace Stevens C.Robert Frost 答案:C |
| 5．第10题 |
| In Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the central character Hester Prynne had a secret affair with _____________. A.Chillingworth B.Pearl C.Dimmesdale D.Hester Prynne 答案:C |
| 6．第11题 |
| The arbiter of nineteen-century literary realism in America was ______. A.Mark Twain B.Henry James C.O’Henry D.William Dean Howells 答案:D |
| 7．第12题 |
| Puritans emphasized a ____God. A.merciful B.wrathful C.benevolent D.learned 答案:B |
| 8．第13题 |
| The best of Cooper’s sea romances was ____. A.The prairie B.The Pilot C.The Poineers D.the pathfinder 答案:B |
| 9．第15题 |
| The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___. A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B.Herman Melville C.Edgar Ellan Poe 答案:C |
| 10．第16题 |
| Among the following 3 authors the one who later became a naturalized British citizen was ---. A.Mark Twain B. Fitzgerald C.Henry James 答案:C |
| 11．第17题 |
| among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___. A. Edgar Ellan Poe B.Herman Melville C.Emily Dickinson 答案:C |
| 12．第20题 |
| “I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of the universal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay __________. A.The American Scholar B.Nature C.Self-Reliance 答案:B |
| 13．第21题 |
| The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______. A.Martin Eden B.The Iron Heel C.The Sea Wolf D.The Call of the Wild 答案:C |
| 14．第22题 |
| Among the following 3 poets the one who was once imprisoned for political reasons is ---. A.Carl Sandburg B.Edwin Arlington Robinson C.Ezra Pound 答案:C |
| 15．第23题 |
| Among the following novels, only one is not written by William Faulkner. It is _____________. A.Light in Augusts B.As I Lay Dying C.The Golden Bowl D.Go Down, Moses 答案:C |
| 16．第26题 |
| Eugene O’Neil did not write ______. A.The Emperor Jones B.Anna Christie C.The Hairy Ape D.The Saloon 答案:D |
| 17．第27题 |
| ____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old. A.To a Waterfowl B.Thanatopsis C.To Helen D.Annabel Lee 答案:B |
| 18．第28题 |
| . the jazz age, characterized by frivolity ａnd carelessness, refers to ________. A.1910s B.1920s C.1930s D.1960s 答案:B |
| 19．第29题 |
| “Two roads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a poem written by Robert Frost entitled __________. A.The Road Not Taken B.Mending Wall C.Two Yellow Roads D.After Apple Picking 答案:A |
| 20．第30题 |
| Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________. A.The Scarlet Letter B.The Blithedale Romance C.The Marble Faun D.The Fall of the House of Usher 答案:D |
| 21．第31题 |
| The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________. A.Henry David Thoreau B.Ralph Waldo Emerson C.Henry James 答案:B |
| 22．第32题 |
| As a Modernist poet, Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______ A.cubist school of modern painting B.Imagist Movement C.stream-of-consciousness technique D.German Expressionism 答案:B |
| 23．第33题 |
| _______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history. A.Stephen Crane B.Frank Norris C.Jack London D.Walt Whitman 答案:D |
| 24．第34题 |
| Jack London did not write ______. A.The Sea Wolf B.The Call of the Wild C.The Ambassadors D.White Fang 答案:C |
| 25．第35题 |
| "The Spectre Bridegroom" was written by the American author ---. A.Washington Irving B.Nathaniel Hawthorne C.James Feminore Cooper 答案:A |
| 26．第36题 |
| Ernest Hemingway's Last important literary work is ---. A.the old man ａnd the sea B.The Sun Also Rises C. For Whom the Bell Tolls 答案:A |
| 27．第37题 |
| “by nature’s self in white arrayed\\ she bade thee shun the vulgar eye,\\ ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\\ ａnd sent soft waters murmuring by; \\ thus quietly thy summer goes,\\ thy days declining to repose.” the rhyme scheme of the lines above is ______________. A.ababab B.ababcc C.aabbcc 答案:B |
| 28．第38题 |
| The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---. A. Ezra Pound B. Sylvia Plath C. T. S. Eliot 答案:C |
| 29．第39题 |
| The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________. A.Ernest Hemingway B.Ezra Pound C.T. S. Eliot D.William Carlos Williams 答案:B |
| 30．第40题 |
| Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---. A. John Steinbeck B.Sherwood Anderson C.Sinklair Lewis 答案:A |
| 31．第46题 |
| The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by _____________. A.Thomas Jefferson B.Thomas Paine C.Benjamine Franklin 答案:B |
| 32．第52题 |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was written by _______. A.Henry James B.Mark Twain C.Jack London D.Theodore Dreiser 答案:B |
| 33．第53题 |
| The Iceberg style is most thoroughly reflected in the writings of the American novelist _____________. A.Jack London B.Ernest Hemingway C.Mark Twain 答案:B |
| 34．第54题 |
| The salesman whom Sister Carrie met with on her way to Chicago was named _____________. A.Charles Drouet B.Hurstwood C.Stephen Crane D.Frank Norris 答案:A |
| 35．第55题 |
| Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---. A.Henry James B.William Faulkner C.Ernest Hemingway 答案:C |
| 36．第56题 |
| A poetic line of two feet is called ___________. A.monometer B.dimeter C.trimeter D.tetrameter 答案:B |
| 37．第57题 |
| when we say that a poor young man ｆrom the west tried to make his fortune in the east but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing. A.Henry James B.Scott Fitzgerald C.Hemingway D.William Faulkner 答案:B |
| 38．第58题 |
| _______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history. A.Stephen Crane B.Frank Norris C.Jack London D.Walt Whitman 答案:D |
| 39．第59题 |
| “ I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,/The black-clad cricket bear a second part” These lines written by ____________. A.Roger Williams B.John Eliot C.Anne Bradstreet D.Washington Irving 答案:C |
| 40．第60题 |
| Among the following fictions written by John Steinbeck, only one is about the Second World War. It is ______________. A. “The Snake” B. The Grapes of Wrath C. “The Moon Is Down” D.“The Pearl” 答案:C |
| 41．第1题 |
| By the end of the nineteenth century, the realists rejected the portrayal of idealized characters ａnd events. 答案:正确 |
| 42．第2题 |
| "Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life". 答案:正确 |
| 43．第3题 |
| Many of Poe’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia. 答案:正确 |
| 44．第4题 |
| The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”. 答案:错误 |
| 45．第5题 |
| The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne based on his experience in the Brook Farm. 答案:错误 |
| 46．第14题 |
| benjamin franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the romantic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity ａnd balance. 答案:错误 |
| 47．第18题 |
| John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic with the working class people. 答案:错误 |
| 48．第19题 |
| Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was about the Spanish Civil War. 答案:正确 |
| 49．第24题 |
| The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry. 答案:正确 |
| 50．第25题 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Transcendentalism. 答案:正确 |
| 51．第41题 |
| Jack London was usually considered as a romanticist for his portrayal of superman heroes. 答案:错误 |
| 52．第42题 |
| Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels. 答案:正确 |
| 53．第43题 |
| As a novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by Puritanism. 答案:正确 |
| 54．第44题 |
| “The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe. 答案:错误 |
| 55．第45题 |
| Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never been a major theme in her poetry. 答案:错误 |
| 56．第47题 |
| Longfellow’s poems belong to the darker aspect of the Romantic Movement. 答案:错误 |
| 57．第48题 |
| The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' brother. 答案:正确 |
| 58．第49题 |
| “The Purloined Letter” is a detective story. 答案:正确 |
| 59．第50题 |
| Stream of Consciousness is a minor technique that William Faulkner employed in his novels. 答案:错误 |
| 60．第51题 |
| "In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound. 答案:正确 |
