华中师大《英美文学》练习测试题库及答案
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I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:
1. Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small _____________. A. Landlord B. merchant C. lawyer D. clergyman
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s leading reputation began with the publication of_____________.
A. Essays B. Nature C. Oversoul D. Self-Relience 3. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _____________________. A. dramatist B. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s view of man and human history originates in __________________.
A. Puritanism B. Socialism C. Transcendentalism D. naturalism
5. Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________. A. Peasant B. carpenter C. captain D. printer 6. Mark Twain‘s first successful literary work is _____________________________.
A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County B. Life on the Mississippi
C. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. Closely related to Emily Dickinson‘s religious poetry are her poems concerning _______________.
A. Childhood B.youth and happiness C. loneliness D. death and immortality 8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _________________.
A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. Th Financier D. The Titan
9. Robert Frost‘s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________________.
A. the West B. American South C. New England D. Mississippi 10. Most of the plays Eugene O‘Neill wrote are _______________________. A. comedies B. . romances C. historical plays D tragedies
11. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________.
A. modern time B. young Americans C. Jazz Age D. Guilded Age
12. _______________________________ is Hemingway‘s masterpiece, which is about the old fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.
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A. Farewell to Arms B. For whom the Bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and The Sea
13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the __________________________. A. American West B. New England in America C. American South D. American North
14. When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a __________________.
A. printing house B. store C. Tailor‘s shop D. factory
15. Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a _____________________. A. merchant B. businessman C. clergyman D. writer
16. Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing ___________________; A. short stories B. plays C. essays D. poems
17. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is _________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
A. evil B. virtue C. kindness D. tragedy
18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _____________.
A. blank verse B. free verse C. heroic couplet D. sonnet
19. Mark Twain shaped the world‘s view of America and made a combination of serious literature and _______.
A. American folk humor B. English folklore C. American traditional values D. funny jokes
20. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime.
A. 1145 B. 1775 C. 897 D. 785
21. Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America‘s literary ________________.
A. realists B. naturalists C. romantists D. modernists
22. In Frost‘s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from _________________.
A. the simple country life B. the urban life
C. the life on the sea D. the adventures and trips
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23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the _______________________________. A. American Dream B. ruling classes
B. American Capitalists D.American bourgeoisie
24. Eugene O‘Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________. A. poetry B. drama C. fiction D. literature
25. ___________________ is Hemingway‘s masterpiece, which tells a story about the tragic love of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse. A. A Farewell to Arms B. The Sun Also Rises C. For Whom the Bell Tolls D. In Our Time
26. William Faulkner was born in a family of a _______________________. A. merchant B. colonel C. manager D. doctor
27. In his essays, ______ put forward his philosophy of the over soul, the important of the Individual and Nature.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Washington Irving C. Mark Twain D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is __________ A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Henry David Thoreau D. Washington Irving
29. ______ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his ―black‖ vision of life and human beings.
A. Herman Melville‘s B. Washington Irving‘s C. Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s D. Walt Whitman‘s
30. Most of the poems in _____ sing of the ―en-masse‖ and the self as well.
A. Leaves of Grass B. Drum Taps C. North of Boston D. The Cantos 31. In _____, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln‘s death. A. ―Cavalry Crossing a Ford‖ B. ―A Pact‖
C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom‘d D. There was a Child Went Forth‖
32. In _____, Whitman‘s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.
A. ―A Pact‖ B. ―Song of Myself‖
C. ―There was a Child Went Forth‖ D. ―Cavalry Crossing a Ford‖
33. In ______, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret. A. ―The Custom-House” B. ―Young Goodman Brown‖ C. ―Rappaccini’s Daughter‖ D. ―The Birthmark\
34.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which ―all modern American literature comes.‖
A. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C. The Gilded Age D. Life on the Mississippi
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35. Theodore Dreiser‘s forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ______ also draws heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.
A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carrie D. The Genius 36. _______ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers ―the true father of our national literature.‖
A. Henry James B. Washington Irving C. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser
37. _______ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. Innocents Abroad D. Life on the Mississippi
38. _______ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with ―a sound heart and a deformed conscience.‖
A. Tom Sawyer B. Huckleberry Finn C. Jim D.Tony
39. _________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser‘s greatest work.
A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. The Financier D. The Titan
40. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _______
A. Arthur Miller B. Tennessee William C. George Bernard Shaw D. Eugene O‘Neil
41. The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet ―To be , or not to be‘ shows his
A. hatred for his uncle B. love for life C. resolution of revenge D. inner- strife
42. ________ is a play that concerns the problem of modern man‘s identity. A. The Hairy Ape B. Long Day’s Journey Into Night C. The Iceman Cometh D. The Emperor Jones
43. In a tragic sense, _______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. In Our Time C. The Old Man and the Sea D. A Farewell to Arms
44. Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of ― lost innocence,‘ which proves itself to be and intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.
A. The Sound and the Fury B. Light in August C. Go Down, Moses D. Absalom, Absalom!
45. In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _______ devices in narration. A. Romantic B. Realistic C. Gothic D. Modernist 46. _______ is Hemingway‘s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of ―The lost Generation.‖
A. The Sun Also Rises B. A Farewell to Arms C. In Our Time D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
47. The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was ___________.
A. Bernard Shaw B. Eugene O‘Neil C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan D. William
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Shakespeare
48. By means of ―free verse,‖ _______ believes that he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.
A. Emily Dickinson B. Walt Whitman C. Robert Frost D. Ezra Pound 49. An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it may probably refer to _______. A. Irene in The Man of Property B. Emily in A Rose for Emily
C. Catherine in Wuthering Heights D. the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
50. One source of evil that Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect. Which of the following stories is one of this kind?
A. Rappaccini’s Daughter B. Young Goodman Brown C. The Minister’s Black Veil D. The Birthmark
51. ― In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.‖ This is the last sentence of _______ .
A. Sister Carrie B. An American Tragedy C. The Genius D. Jane Eyre 52. In Walt Whitman‘s ―There was a Child Went Forth,‖ the child refers to ________. A. the poet himself as a child B. any American child
C. the young America D. one of the poet‘s neighbor
53. The _______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O‘Neil‘s plays to highlight the theatrical effect of the rupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.
A. naturalistic B. expressionistic C. stream-of-consciousness D. metaphysical
54. Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinson‘s poetry is concerned? A. She seldom uses dashes.
B. All her poems are about death or immorality. C. Her poems are very personal and meditative D. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles. 55. In his poems, Whitman tends to use ______.
A. oral English B. the King‘s English C. American English D. old English
56. As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s art is concerned, which of the following statement is true?
A. His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.
B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself. C. Young Goodman Brown is a story about superstition. D. Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art. 57. ―I like to see it lap the Miles— And lick the Valleys up —
And stop to feed itself at Tanks—
And then —?‖ (Emily Dickinson, ―I like to see it lap the Miles—―) Here ―it‖ refers to ______ .
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