C. the Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden D.the legend of the Sleepy Hollow
57. Romanticism in American literature stretches from_____to the break forth of American Civil War.
A. early 17th C B. early 19th C C. early 18th C D. Spanish-American War
58. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s________is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”.
A. Nature B. The Conduct of Life C. Representative Men D. The American Scholar 59. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of____.
A. blank verse B. free verse C. sonnet D. quatrain 60. William Faulkner is NOT the writer of_____.
A. Herzog B. A Rose for Emily C. As I Lay Dying D. Go Down, Moses
61. James Fennimore Cooper?s novel_____is the first to reveal the west and Native Americans? life in a passionate way.
A. Do Down, Moses B. The Last of the Mohicans C. Winesburg, Ohio D. O’Pioneers!
62. “The Lost Generation” refers to the writers who relocated to Paris in the post WWI years to reject the values of American materialism. All the following but____are involved in this group.
A. F.S Fitzgerald B. Ernest Hemingway C. Theodore Dreiser D. John dos Passos
63. Realism in American literature stretches from _____to the end of 19th.C.
A. early 17th C. B. early 18thC. C. American Civil War D. Spanish-American War 64. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____.
A. Jack London B. Charles Dickens C. Samuel Coleridge D. Ernest Hemingway 65. The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____.
A. J. D. Salinger B. Jack London C. Flannery O'Connor D. Saul Bellow
66. The image of the famous \
A. Washington Irving B. Fennimore Cooper C. Edith Wharton D. William Dean Howells
67. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often thought to be ____.
A. Eugene O'Neill B. Ezra Pound C. Robert Frost D. Scott Fitzgerald 68. ____ is the most important person of the transcendentalist club.
A. Hawthorn B. Whitman C. Emerson D. Hemingway
69. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____.
A. friendship B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace 70. Robert Frost is a famous ____
A. novelist B. playwright C. poet D. literary critic
71. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the
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United States.
A. Age of Realism B. Age of Classism C. Age of Romanticism D. Age of Renaissance 72. Irving?s Rip Van Winkle got ideas from______legends.
A. British B. Italian C. German D. French
73. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as______.
A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby Dick
B. Life of Goldsmith Brown and Rip Van Winkle C. Rip Van Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow D. Young Goodman Brown and Rip Van Winkle
74. Strong affinity to the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of____.
A. Mark Twain B. Emily Dickinson C. Arthur Miller D. Ezra Pound 75. In Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for____.
A. Angel B. Adultery C. Able D. all the above
76. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A. Ahab B. Ishmael C. Stubb D. Starbuck
77. In a Station of the Metro is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of____.
A. the romantic poetry B. the imagist poetry
C. the absurd poetry D. the transcendental poetry
78. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author?s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.
A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic
79. Dreiser?s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ .
A. The Genius B. The Tycoon C. The Stoic D. The Giant
80. The impact of Darwin?s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ .
A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism
81. Robert Frost combined 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
82. As an autobiographical play, O?Neill?s ___________(1956) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.
A. The Iceman Cometh B. Long Day?s Journey Into Night
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C. The Hairy Ape D. Desire Under the Elms
83. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
A. impressionism B. expressionism
C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 84. Stylistically, Henry James? fiction is characterized by____________.
A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images C. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language
85. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ .
A. vernacular B. interior monologue C. point of view D. photographic description 86. It is on his____________ that Washington Irving?s fame mainly rested.
A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European tours C. early poetry D. tales about America
87. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “____________________”.
A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance
88. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________. A. nature, man and the universe
B. the relationship between man and woman
C. the development of Romanticism in American literature D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism
89. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is NOT right? A. It?s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.
B. It?s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.
C. It?s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main
characters and the people in general.
D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.
90. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered____________.
A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe. B. an adventurous exploration into man?s relationship with nature C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure
D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty
91. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”
A. free verse B. blank verse C. alliteration D. end rhyming
92. After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.
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A. an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society B. an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality
C. a poor and backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society
D. an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society 93. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?
A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories. B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.
C. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh
environment.
D. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes,
their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.
94. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain?s style of language? A. His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read. B. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.
C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration， repetition
and anti-climax.
D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.
95. The impact of Darwin?s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American ______.
A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism
C. Realism D. Naturalism
96. Which of the following is not written by Henry James? A. The Portrait of a Lady and The Europeans. B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors. C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians.
D. The Genius and The Gilded Age.
97. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed. A. man and man B. men and women
C. man and nature D. men and God
98. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson?s poems about nature?
A. In them, she expressed her general affirmation about the relationship between man and
nature.
B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man and
nature.
C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.
D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature?s inscrutability and indifference to the life and
interests of human beings.
99. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an
unconventional style which is now called free verse, that is _________. A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains
B. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
C. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat
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D. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
100. In the first part of the 20th century，apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers ______， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.
A. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud B. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud C. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James
D. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud
101. Which of the following can be said about Eugene O?Neill plays?
A. Most of his plays are concerned about the root, the truth of human desires and human
frustrations.
B. His tragic view of life is reflected in many of his works.
C. His plays are concerned about the relationship between man and nature as well as man and
woman. D. Both A and B.
102. Most of O?Neill?s plays are concerned about the following except______. A. success and failure in man?s literary career
B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality
C. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration
D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament
103. Which of the following can be said about a typical modern literary work? A. It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.
B. It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory. C. It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience.
D. Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public. 104. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following is not right?
A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with
personal, literary, and historical allusions.
B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.
C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in
concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.
D. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his
literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.
105. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poetic expression. A. England B. New England C. Plymouth D. Boston 106. Which of the following statements is right about Robert Frost?s poetry?
A. He combined traditional verse forms with the difficult and highly ornamental language. B. He combined traditional verse forms with the pastoral language of the Southern area.
C. He combined traditional verse forms with a simple spoken language-the speech of New
England farmers.
D. He combined traditional verse forms with the experimental.
107. Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?
A. Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the
unending American dream of fulfillment.
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