英语专业八级人文知识题--美国文学部分

1. _______ usually was regarded as the first American writer. a. Willian Bradford b. Anne Bradstreet

c. Emily Dickinson d. Captain John Smith

2. “God help those who help themselves” is a citation from the work of _______ .

a. Paine b. Franklin c. Freneau d. Jefferson 3. Which poem is not written by Freneau?

a. The British Prison Ship b. The Wild Honey Suckle

c. The Indian Burying Ground d. The Flood of Years 4. Thomas Jefferson?s atitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call _______ .

a. Age of Evolution b. Age of Reason

c. Age of romanticism d. Age of Regionalism

5. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19 th century. This was______.

a. Anne Bradsteet b. Jane Austen c. Emily Dickinson d. Harriet Beecher

6. In early 19 th century,Washington Irving wrote _______which became the first work by an Amcrican writer to earn an intenational reputation.

a. Nature b. The Sketch Book c. The Scarlet Letter d. Harriet Beecher

7. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called “_______”.

a. the Transcendental Club b. the Sentimental Club c. the Romantic Club d. the Symbolic Club 8. _____and other Transcendentalists believed that there should

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be an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “oversoul”.

a. Haethorne b. Melville c. Whitman d. Emerson 9. _______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways. a. You Goodman Brown b. Moby Dick c. The Scarlet Letter d. Daisy Miller 10. In his essay, ______ clearly expresses the main principles of his Transcendentalist pursuit and his love for nature.

a. Hawthorne b. Melville c. Whitman d. Emerson 11. Irviing was best known for his famous short stories such as________.

a. Legends of the Alhambra b. Life of Goldsmith c. Life of Washington d. Rip Van Winkle 12. _______ was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation.

a. Washington Irving b. Mark Twain c. Ezzra Pound d. Walt Whitman 13. Hester Prynne is the heroine _______?s novel The Scarlet Letter.

a. Fitgerald b. Hemingway c. Ezzra Pound d. Walt Whitman 14. ________?s famous metaphor of “a transparent eyeball” is employed to illustrate his philosophical discussions.

a. Hawthorne b. Hemingway c. Emerson d. Melville 15. _______ has always been considered a monunental work which commands great attention because of its unique poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals. a. Leaves of Grass b. Nature

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c. “In a Station of the Metro” d. “After Apple-Picking” 16. Which of the following is NOT one part of The Leather Stocking Tales by Cooper?

a. The Spy b. The Pathfinder c. The Pioneers d. The Deerslayer

17. Which of the following has been called “the manifesto of American transcendentalism”?

a. Divinity School Address b. Self-Reliance

c. Nature d. The American Scholar

18. The period before the American Civil War is geneally referred to as_________.

a. the Modern Period b. the Realistic Period

c. the Romantic Period d. the Naturalist Period 19. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson?s? a. I Hear a Fly Buzz When I Died b. The Raven

c. This is My Letter to the world d. I Like to See it Lap the Miles

20. Which book is not written by Emerson?

a. The American Scholar b. Self-Reliance c. Nature d. Civil Disobedience 21. Captain, My Captain is written for ________.

a. Lincoln b. Whitman c. Washington d. Hemingway

22.Whih of the following books is a tremendous of an appalling

voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale? a. The Scarlet Letter b. Moby Dick

c. The Marble Faun d. Moses from an old Manse

23. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a_______.

a. short story writer b. novelist c. dramatist d. translator

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24. The Last of the Mohicans written by ________by in 1826 is

quite bloody but full of images of the beauty of nature. a. James Cooper b. Washington Irving c. William Cullen Bryant d. Nathaniel Hawthorne 25. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name____________.

a. Theodore Dreiser b. Herman Melville

c. Eugene O? Neill d. Mark Twain

26. While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized

European manners at times, _______ was an admirer of ancient European civilization.

a. O? Henry b. Heny James c. Walt Whitman d.

Jack London

27. “The Way of the Beaten:A Harp in the Wind”, this is the title

of one chapter in Dreiser?s novel_______. a. An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie

c. Dreiser Looks at Russia d. Jannie Gerhardt

28. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to

as ______ in the literary histroy of the United States.

a. the Age of Realism b. the Age of Romanticism

c. the Age of Renaissance d. the Age of Transcendentalism

29._______ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20 th

century “stream-of-consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.

a. Henry James b. Mark Twain c. Theodore Dreiser d. Walt Whitman

30. Mark Twain?s full literacy career began to blossom in 1869

with a travel book ________, an account of American tourists in Europe.

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