A. politic B. economy C. culture D. religion
75. The following poems were written by Phillip Freneau EXCEPT _____.
A. Thanatopsis
B. The Wild Honey Suckle C. The Raven
D. The Indian Burying Ground E. To a Caty-Did
76. American enlightenment to some extent is different from other countries‘ in that one of the task of the Americans was _______. A. to disseminate knowledge among the people B. to advocate revolutionary ideas
C. to aim at bring to life secular education and literature
D. to make the English language in America more invigorating 77. Transcendentalism took their ideas from ___.
A. neo-Platonism
B. romantic literature of Europe C. oversoul
D. German idealistic philosophy E. oriental mysticism F. Darwinism
78. Which of the following is/are written by Arlington Robinson?
A. The Hollow Man B. Richard Cory C. Miniver Chevy
D. The Wild Honey Suckle
79. Death, love, nature, human emotions are the favorite subject of the two poets ______ and _____, though the treatment in attitude and form is entirely different. A. Frost
B. Whitman C. Dickinson D. T. S. Eliot E. Allan Poe
80. Which of the following terms belong to modernism?
A. expressionism B. surrealism C. naturalism D. realism E. dadaism
F. individualism
81. American naturalism was shaped by ______，beside the influence of French naturalism.
A. American Civil War
B. American social upheavals C. the teachings of Charles Darwin D. the blind forces of nature
82. Which of the following writers DONOT belong to naturalism?
A. Jack London B. Theodore Dreiser C. T. S. Eliot D. Frank Norris E. Henry James F. Stephen Crane
III. Match the following into pairs.
83. T. S. Eliot A. The Golden Bowel 84. John Steinbeck B. Of Mice and Men 85. Henry James C. Tales of the Jazz Age 86. Jack London D. For Whom the Bell Tolls 87. William Faulkner E. Light in August 88. F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Billy Budd
89. Theodore Dreiser G. The Gift of Magi 90. Ernest Hemingway H. The Law of Life
91. Herman Melville I. An American Tragedy 92. O. Henry J. The Hollow Man
93. T. S. Eliot A. The Wings of Dove 94. John Steinbeck B. The Four Million
95. Henry James C. This Side of Paradise 96. Jack London D. The Green Hills of Africa 97. William Faulkner E. As I lay Dying 98. F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Main Street
99. Theodore Dreiser G. Of Mice and Men 100. Ernest Hemingway H. The Sea Wolf 101. Sinclair Lewis I. The Financier 102. O. Henry J. Four Quartets
IV. Reading comprehension: Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions
103. ―We passed the School, where Children strove/ At Recess—in the Ring—/ We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—/ We passed the Setting Sun—‖ 1) What is the title of the poem? 2) Who does ―we‖ refer to?
3) What does ―the School‖, ―the Fields of Gazing Grain‖, and ―the Setting Sun‖ imply respectively? 4) Where are ―we‖ going?
104. Trust no Future, howe‘er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act—act in the glorious Present! Heart within, and God o‘er head! 1) Who is the poet?
2) What is the title of the poem?
3) What does the poet want to tell in these lines?
105. ―The apparition of those faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.‖ 1) Who is the writer?
2) What does ―apparition‖ mean?
3) What is the relation between ―those faces‖ and ―Petals‖?
106. ―I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence：Two roads diverged in a wood，and I—I took the one less traveled by，And that has made all the difference.‖ Questions:
1) Identify the poem and the poet.
2) What does the phrase ―ages and ages hence‖ mean? 3) Why does the poet say ―that has made all the difference‖? 4) What idea does the quoted passage express?
107. ―But I have promises to keep,/ And many miles to go before I sleep,/ And many miles to go before I sleep.‖
1) What is the title of the poem?
2) What does ―promises‖ mean in this poem?
3) Why does the poet say ―And many miles to go before I sleep,/ And many miles to go before I sleep.‖?
4) What does ―And many miles to go before I sleep,/ And many miles to go before I sleep‖ mean?
108. Lo! In yon brilliant window-niche/ How statue-like I see thee stand,/ The agate lamp within thy hand!/ Ah, Psyche, from the regions which/ Are Holy-Land！ 1) Who is the writer of the poet?
2) What does ―Psyche‖ imply in the poem? 3) What does ―Holy-Land‖ refer to?
109. To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome.
110. I heard a Flay buzz—when I died— The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air— Between the Heaves of Storm—
111. There is music from my neighbor‘s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of
foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before...
V. Fill in the blanks with the proper information, or decide whether the following statement is true or false.
112. Individualism profoundly colors the work of all the great 19th century American writers. The 4 writers who first developed and represented 3 major strains individualism— ______, ______, and ______ —were respectively ______, Cooper, and Emerson and his close associate Thoreau.
113. ―Common Sense‖ is the famous pamphlet written by _____.
114. Cooper created two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tales and ____. The latter is made up of 5 famous novels that comprise the _____ Tales, in which the main character is ____.
115. The ―Father of American poetry‖ refers to ______.
116. The Sketchbook is the collection of short stories written by ____.
117. Moby Dick was written by _____. The central character of the novel is _____, the Captain.
118. Nature is the representative work written by the famous transcendentalist _____. 119. ―The Raven‖ and ―To Helen‖ are the famous poems written by _____.
120. The narrator in ―The Fall of the House of Usher‖ is _____, which is written by _____.
121. Walt Whitman‘s cluster of poems is called _____. The poetic style devised by him now is called _____.
122. In Emily Dickinson‘s ―Because I could not stop for Death‖, ―a house‖ and ―A Swelling of the Ground‖ refer to _____.
123. The arbiter of the 19th century American realism is _____.
124. The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic comprise the ―Trilogy of _____‖. The author is _____.
125. _____ summarized the experiences and attitude of the decade in his short stories and famous novel The Great Gatsby. And this decade refers to ___ (time) in America, which is also called the Jazz Age, the Lost Generation.
126. ―the old-fashioned way to be new‖ is used to describe the poetic creation of ____ , one of his famous poem is ―After Apple-picking‖.
127. Nick Carraway, the main character in The Great Gatsby from the Middle West to the East, is also the narrator and observer in the story.
128. In vivid and graceful prose, Fitzgerald at the same time portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor, and fulfilled desires.
129. The main characters in A Farewell to Arms are Lieutenant Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, and setting is in Italian front.
130. For Whom the Bell Tolls, set in Spain during the Civil War, restated the writer‘s view of love found and lost and described the indomitable spirit of common people. The same judgment was reflected in his portrayal of the old fisherman, Santiago, triumphant even in defeat, in The Old Man and the Sea.
131. Hemingway‘s primary concern was individual‘s ―moment of truth,‖ and his fascination with the threat physical emotional, or psychic death is reflected in his lifelong preoccupation with stories of war. To him, man‘s greatest achievement is to show grace under pressure. And he had rejected the romantic ideal of the ultimate unity of lovers, suggesting instead that all relationships must end in death.
132. Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and impersonal, dramatic tone.
133. Edwin Arlington Robinson‘s approach to characterization, and his diction and themes, reflected the new movements in poetry, and his poems sometimes appear to be simple, yet the surface simplicity often serves to conceal an intricacy and subtlety of thought.
134. As one who undertook as a spokesman for the common people to inscribe ―public speech‖, Carl Sandburg was proud late in his career to ―favor simple poems for simple people.‖
135. Like much of his later work, Eliot‘s ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖ concerns various aspects of the frustration and enfeeblement of individual character as seen in perspective with the decay of states, peoples, and religious faith.
136. The title of ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖ suggests an ironic contrast between a ―love song‖ and a poem that proves to be about the absence of love. 137. T.S. Eliot‘s ―Ash-Wednesday‖ is a poem of mystical conflicts between faith and doubt, beautiful in its language if difficult in its symbolism. 138. In ―The Hollow Man‖, T.S. Eliot satirized the straw men, the Guy Fawks men, whose world would end ―not with a bang, but a whimper‖.
139. Using his own cosmos to express his universal theme of ―the problems of he human heart‖, Faulkner created the novels for which he is now best known.
140. The first writings in the colonial America were the narratives and journals of the settlements.
141. New England had from the beginning a literature of ideas and was the center of culture, religion, and politics before the Civil War.
142. The first intention of the Puritans in Massachusetts was to found a theocracy—a society in which God would govern through the church and the church thus became the supreme political body.
143. In addition to other aspects, freedom before The War for Independence was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine‘s Common Sense and the eloquence of the Declaration of Independence as by the weapons of Washington or Lafayette.
144. Before the War for Independence, the conflicts between the colony and the