华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库（1）

A poetic line of two feet is called ___________.
A.monometer
B.dimeter
C.trimeter
D.tetrameter
答案:B
"The Spectre Bridegroom" was written by the American author ---.
A.Washington Irving
B.Nathaniel Hawthorne
C.James Feminore Cooper
答案:A
The poem “Thanatopsis” was written by __________.
A.Emily Dickinson
B.William Cullen Bryant
C.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
答案:B
Among the following philosophers, only one did not have an influence over the writings of Jack London. He is________.
A.Karl Marx B.Nietzsche
C.Spencer D.Foucault
答案:D
Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---.
A. John Steinbeck
B.Sherwood Anderson
C.Sinklair Lewis
答案:A
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
Nathaniel Hawthorne gave a definition to the term "romance" in his Preface to the novel ---.
A.The House of the Seven Gables
B.The Scarlet Letter
C.The Marble Faun
答案:A
the sound ａnd the fury is a novel written by __________.
A.Stephen Crane B.Theodore Dreiser
C.Macbeth D.William Faulkner
答案:D
After the success of ____, Herman Melville became known as a man who lived among cannibals.
A.Typee
B.White Jacket
C.Omoo
D.Moby Dick
答案:A
Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.
A.old values
B.rigid ideas of social status
C.bigotry ａnd eccentricity
D.harmony ａnd integrity
答案:D
___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga.
A.deerslayer
B.pathfinder
C.hawkeye
D.Mohican
答案:D
Twice-told Tales is a collection of stories written by ___.
A.Nathaniel Howthorne
B.Edgar Ellan Poe
C.Washington Irving
答案:A
The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________.
A.Henry David Thoreau
B.Ralph Waldo Emerson
C.Henry James
答案:B
the village near boston in which both emerson ａnd thoreau lived was called _________.
A.Boston
B.Concord
C.Jamestown
答案:B
Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---.
A.Henry James
B.William Faulkner
C.Ernest Hemingway
答案:C
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
The first American writer to win an international fame is ___.
A. Henry James
B.James Fenimore Cooper
C.Washington Irving
答案:C
“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie” is a comment made by james russell lowell on the female characters in novels written by______.
A.Washington Irving
B.James Fenimore Cooper
C.Philip Freneau
D.George Washington
答案:B
Among the following authors, there is one sometimes referred to as the American Goldsmith. He is __________.
A.James Fenimore Cooper
B.Washington Irving
C.Daniel Webster
答案:B
The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.
A.Nathaniel Hawthorne
B.Edgar Allan Poe
C.Melville
D.Longfellow
答案:B
______ is not a character in the novel The Scarlet Letter.
A.Arthur Dimmesdale
B.Roger Chillingworth
C.Goodman Brown
D.Pearl
答案:C
“The Black Cat” written by Poe is a _________.
A.gothic Story
B.love Story
C.detective story
D.lyrical poem
答案:A
"The Apparition of these faces in the crowd" is a line in a famous short poem written by ---.
A.Ezra Pound
B. Carl Sandburg
C.Walt Whitman
答案:A
Tales of a Traveller was written by the American author__________.
A.James Fenimore Cooper
B.Washington Irving
C.Nathaniel Hawthorne
答案:B
the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ ａnd the grａndeur that was rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________.
A.The Raven
B.To Helen
C.Annabel Lee
答案:B
The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________.
A.Henry James
B.Fitzgerald
C.Ernest Hemingway
D.William Faulkner
答案:A
The writer who once said that all american literature came ｆrom Mark Twain’s Huck Finn is ___.
A.William Faulkner
B.Stephen Crane
C.Ernest Hemingway
D.Chairman
答案:C
in 1836, a small book was published in the united states ａnd has hence been called the manifesto of the american transcendentalism. its author was ___.
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Walt Whitman
C.Ralph Waldo Emerson
答案:C
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
The “green light” in The Great Gatsby symbolizes __________.
A.sex
B.money
C.power
D.the American dream
答案:D
“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
“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
“Civil Disobedience” is a famous essay written by ___________.
A.Ralph Waldo Emerson
B.Henry David Thoreau
C.E. B. White
答案:B
Among the following 3 authors the one who did not win a Nobel Prize is ---.
A.William Faulkner
B. F. S. Fitzgerald
C. John Steinbeck
答案:B
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
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
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
The School Room Poets did not include _____.
A.Longfellow  B.Lowell
C.Holmes  D.Poe
答案:D
"The American Scholar" is an essay written by the famous philosopher ---.
A.Thomas Carlyle
B.William James
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
答案:C
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
The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.
A.Ralph Waldo Emerson
B.Philip Freneau
C.Henry David Thoreau
答案:C
The short poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was written by _________.
A.Tennessee Williams
B.William Carlos Williams
C.Wallace Stevens
D.Hilda Doolittle
答案:B
In Poe’s tale “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the major female character Madeline is the titular hero Usher’s _____________.
A.wife  B.governess
C.cousin  D.sister
答案:D
_____was the only American of his generation who could chide the British with humor.
A.Cooper
B.Washington Irving
C.Thoreau
D.Edgar Allan Poe
答案:B
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
答案:D
___ wrote Rights of Man in 1792 to suggest the overthrow of the British monarchy.
A.Thomas Paine
B.Benjamin Franklin
C.George Washington
D.Jefferson
答案:A
The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by _____________.
A.Thomas Jefferson
B.Thomas Paine
C.Benjamine Franklin
答案:B
The most quoted among Franklin’s writings could be ___, an annual collection of proverbs.
A.The Autobiography
B.Poor Richard’s Almanac
C.Spectator
D.. Nature
答案:B
Among the following novelists, the only one who had the working experience as a seal hunter is__________.
A.Henry James
B. Mark Twain
C.Fitzgerald
D.Jack London
答案:D
The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---.
A. O. Henry
B. Mark Twain
C.Jack London
答案:A
Among the following, only one is not a feature of Mark Twain’s style. It is __________.
A.his ｕｓｅ of vernacular language
B.local color
C.the influence of the Tall Tale
D.Puritanism
答案:D
mong the following novels, only one was not written by Herman Melville. It is _____________.
A.The Confidence-Man
B.The PIlot
C.Moby Dick
答案:B
________ was the first writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.
A.Mark Twain
B.Harriet Stowe
C.Bret Harte
D.Henry James
答案:C
Tales of the Grotesque ａnd Arabesque is a collection of stories written by ---.
A.Washington Irving
B. Edgar Allen Poe
C.Nathaniel Hawthorne
答案:B
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
William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.
A.Mark Twain  B.O’ Henry
C.Jack London  D.William Dean Howells
答案:B
william faulkner once declared that ___ was the first truly american writer ｆrom whom we are descended.
A.Washington Irving
B.Cooper
C.Hawthorne
D.Mark Twain
答案:D
_______, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of the The Sea Wolf, best realizes the ideal of the “Superman.”
A.Hurstwood  B.Wolf Larsen
C.Prufrock  D.Santiago
答案:B
According to Mathew Arnold, one poem written by William Cullen Bryant was the “most perfect brief poem in the language”. The title of the poem is __________.
A.“Thanatopsis”
B.“To a Waterfowl”
C.“The Wild Honey Suckle”
D.“The Indian Burying Ground”
答案:B
The scarlet letter “A” in the novel The Scarlet Letter at first stands for _____________.
A.angel  B.adultery
C.able  D.africa
答案:B
The Blithedale Romance is a novel about the Brook Farm experiment written by __________.
A.Henry James
B.Nathaniel Hawthorne
C.James Fenimore Cooper
答案:B
The central character Huckleberry Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn also appears in Twain’s novel ________.
A.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
C.An American Tragedy
D.Life On Mississippi
答案:A
Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?
A.Stowe’s Uncle Ton’s Cabin
B.James’s The Portrait of a Lady.
C.Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms ？
D.Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
答案:D