B. They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in
the modern world.
C. They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces.
D. They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.
108. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century?
A. The Sun Also Rises. B. The Old Man and the Sea.
C. Mosses From the Old Manse. D. The Green Hills of Africa.
109. Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms?
A. The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god?s design or his
beneficence.
B. The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the
1930s.
C. The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and
suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.
D. It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian
nurse.
110. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner?s novels? A. Cambridge. B. Oxford. C. Mississippi. D. Yoknapatawpha.
111. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______. A. observe with no judgment whatsoever.
B. reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum.
C. observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the events.
D. both A and B.
112. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?
A. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic
field.
B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose works were set
against the Jewish experience and tradition.
C. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.
D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its
predecessors.
113. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne?s? A. The House of the Seven Gables. B. The Blithedale Romance. C. The Marble Faun. D. White Jacket.
114. In Hawthorne?s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as ______________. A. commentators B. observers C. villains D. saviors
115. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing. A. poetic theory B. French art
C. history of New York D. life of George Washington
116. In Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose
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of such descriptions is so show _______.
A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper class C. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age
117. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _________.
A. Mark Twain?s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Dreiser?s Sister Carrie
C. Copper?s Leather-Stocking Tales D. Thoreau?s Walden
118. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?
A. The Sound and the Fury B. Uncle Tom?s Cabin. C. Daisy Miller. D. The Gilded Age.
119. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A. Religion. B. Life and death. C. Love and marriage. D. War and peace.
120. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as \A. \ B. \
C. \ D. \
121. Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel. B. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. D. Most writers were politically radical.
122. In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is_______________. A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman
123. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his“black vision．”The Term “black vision” refers to______________.
A. Hawthorne's observation that every man faces a black Wall B. Hawthorne's belief that all men are by nature evil
C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story
D. that Puritans of Hawthorne's time usually wore black clothes
124. Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his____________ in Style，but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.
A. crudeness B. elegance C. conciseness D. subtlety
125. Almost all Faulkner?s heroes turned out to be tragic because_____________. A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South
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B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and Social institutions C. most of them were prisoners of the past
D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable
126. Yank, the protagonist of Eugene O?Neill?s play The Hairy Ape, talked to the gorilla and set it free because____.
A. he was mad，mistaking a beast for a human
B. he was told by the white young lady that he was like a beast and he wanted to see how closely he resembled the gorilla
C. he was caged with the gorilla after he insulted an aristocratic stroller D. he could feel the kinship only with the beast
127. In__________, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference. A. “After Apple-Picking” B. “The Road NOT Taken”
C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” D. “Fire and Ice”
128. Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and
technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas Whitman
likes to keep his eye on human Society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as_______, immortality, religion, love and nature.
A. progress B. freedom C. beauty D. death
129.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _______in the American literary history．
A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination D. return to nature
130. Generally speaking，all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be_____________.
A. transcendentalists B. optimists C. pessimists D. idealists
131. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century． A. Sentimentalism B. Romanticism C. Realism D. Naturalism
132. American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a) “_______,” devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization． A. Lost Generation B. Beat Generation C. Sons of Liberty D. Angry Young Men
133. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_______. A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Scarlet Letter C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers
134.In his realistic fiction, Henry James's primary concern is to present the_________. A. inner life of human beings B. American Civil War and its effects C. life on the Mississippi River D. Calvinistic view of original Sin
135. Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's Story “A Rose for Emily,” is NOT true?
A. She has a distorted personality.
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B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.
C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.
D. She is the victim of the past glory.
136. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography?
A. Temperance B. Humanity (Humility) C. Frugality D. Immoderation
137. American Romanticism stretches from the end of the ________ century through the outbreak of ______.
A. 18th, the Civil War B. 18th, the War of Independence C. 19th, WWI D. 19th, WWII
138. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
A. Walt Whitman B. Edgar Allen Poe
C. Anne Bradstreet D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
139. In Emily Dickinson?s Because I Could Not Stop for Death, ______________. A. death is personified as a devil
B. death is described as the tragic end of a person?s life
C. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortality D. death is described as a beautiful girl who couldn?t find her final destination
140. Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism? A. Thoreau?s Walden B. Emerson?s Nature C. Poe?s Poetic Principle D. Thoreau?s Nature
141. Henry David Thoreau?s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.
A. Walden B. The Pioneers
C. Nature D. \
142. ?Leaves of Grass? commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.
A. the democratic ideals B. the romantic ideals C. the self-reliance spirits D. the religious ideals 143. ________is the author of the work “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. A. Washington Irving B. James Joyce
C. Walt Whitman D. William Butler Yeats
144. After \The Adventure of Tom Sawyer\Huck in a book called_________, and the book from which \modern American literature comes\
A. Life on the Mississippi River B. The Gilded Age C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. The Sun Also Rises 145. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is__________.
A. Sister Carrie B. An American Tragedy C. The Financier D. The Titan
146. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman?s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______________.
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A. conversational and crude B. lyrical and well-structured C. simple and rather crude D. free-flowing
147. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers? A. Freud B. Darwin. C. W. D. Howells. D. Emerson
148. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism
149. At the beginning of Faulkner?s A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily?s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ____________. A. is a wealth lady B. has good taste
C. is a prisoner of the past D. is a conservative aristocrat
150. Most of Herman Melville?s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case?
A. Typee. B. Moby-Dick.
C. Omoo. D. The Confidence-Man
151. In Henry James? Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______________.
A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich 152. \
In the above two lines of Robert Frost?s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A. a travel experience B. a marriage decision C. a middle-age crisis D. one?s course of life
153. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is ____________.
A. insignificant B. vicious by nature C. divine D. forward-looking
154. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The American Scholar D. The Over-Soul
155. In Robert Frost?s famous poem \ there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to______. A. die B. calm down C. fall into sleep D. stop walking 156. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving?s ______ and ended with Whitman?s Leaves of Grass. A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveler C. A History of New York D. The Scarlet Letter
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