美国文学试题
2011-06-23 11:39阅读：
1.The term “Puritan” was applied
to those settlers who originally
were devout members of the
Church of ___________.
2. The
first permanent English settlement
in North American was
established at __________, Virginia.
3.
__________________ was a famous
explorer and colonist. He
established Jamestown.
4. General
History of Virginia contains
Smith’s most famous tale of
how the Indian princess
named______________.
5. Hard
work, thrift, piety and
sobriety, these were the
______________________
values that dominated much of
the early American
writing.
6. In
1620, _______________ was elected
Governor of Plymouth, Massachussetts.
7. From
1620 until his death,
___________________ probably possessed
more power than any other
colonial governor.
8.The History of New England
is a priceless gift left
us by _______________________.
9The writer who best expressed
the Puritan faith in the
colonial period was ___________.
10 Many Puritans wrote verse,
but the work of two
writers, Anne Bradstreet and
Edward _________________, rose
to the level of real poetry.
11_______________’s best verse is to
be found in a series
called “Preparatory Meditations”.
1. The
War of Independence lasted eight
years till _________.
2. Franklin
also edited the first colonial
magazine, which he called
__________.
3.
Thomas Paine, with his natural
gift for pamphleteering and
rebellion, was appropriately born
into an age of _______.
4. Paine’s
second most important work
_______ was an impassioned plea
against hereditary monarchy.
5. On
January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous
pamphlet _________ appeared.
6. The
most outstanding poet in America
of the 18th century was
__________.
7.
____________ was considered as
the “poet of the American
Revolution”.
8. _________
has been called the “Father
of American Poetry.”
9.
In 1791, probably with
Jefferson’s support, _________
established in Philadelphia the
National Gazette.
1. In
the early nineteenth century,
Washington Irving wrote
_____________which became the first
work by an American writer
to win financial success on
both sides of an Atlantic.
2.
In 1755, _____________
published his remarkable dictionary
named Dictionary of the English
Language.
3. The
American Transcendentalists formed a
club called _____________________.
4. ____________ was
regarded as the first great
prose stylist of American
romanticism.
5.
In Irving’s work ______________________
appeared the first modern short
stories and the first great
American juvenile literature.
6.
The short story The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow is
taken from Irving’s work named
__________.
7. Irving’s
first book appeared in 1809.
It was entitled
______________________.
8. The
first important American novelist
was ______________________.
9.
The best of Cooper’s sea
romances was ____________. The
hero of the novel represents
John Paul Jones, the great
naval fighter of the
Revolutionary War.
10. ___________
was the first American to
gain the stature of a
major poet in the world
literature.
11. Poe’s poem
_____________ is perhaps the
best example of onomatopoeia in
the English language.
12. Ralph
________________ Emerson was
responsible for bringing
Transcendentalism to New England.
13. In 1845, Thoreau
began a two-year residence at
______________ Pond.
14. From
Thoreau’s Concord jail experience,
came his famous
essay______________________.
15. Melville’s
novel _______________ is a
tremendous chronicle of a
whaling voyage in pursuit of
a seemingly supernatural white
whale.
16. The most
scholarly of Longfellow’s writings
is his translation of Dante’s
_______________.
17. The
American Romantic period stretches
from the end of the
eighteenth century through the
outburst of the
________________________.
18. In The
Pioneers, ________________ represents
the ideal American, living a
virtuous and free life in
God’s world.
19. Melville’s
world classic novel Moby Dick
was dedicated to __________________,
a novelist.
1.
Realism had originated in
the country _________________ as
realism, a literary doctrine
that called for “reality and
truth” in the depiction of
ordinary life.
2.
Henry ____________ probed
deeply at the individual
psychology of his characters,
writing in a rich and
intricate style that supported
his intense scrutiny of complex
human experience.
3.
_____________________ had an
evident influence on naturalism.
It seemed to stress the
animality of man, to suggest
that he was dominated by
the irresistible forces of
evolution.
4.
There was only one female
prose writer in the nineteenth
century. This was ______________.
5. Mrs.
Stowe’s masterpiece is
__________________________.
6.
___________________ was the first
literary giant born West of
the Mississippi.
7.
Many of O. Henry’s
stories tell about the lives
of poor people in
_______________________.
8. Henry
James’ first novel is
___________________, which failed to
make him famous.
9. The
name of the heroine in
The Portrait if a Lady is
______________________.
10. The first novel of
Theodore Dreiser was
______________________.
11. Dreiser
visited the Soviet Union in
1927 and published
_______________________ the following
year.
12. Mark Twain’s
first novel, _________________________
was an artistic failure, but
it gave its name to the
America of the postbellum period
which it attempts to
satirize.
13. Jack London’s masterwork
_________________ is somewhat
autobiographical.
14. O. Henry’s
_____________________ is a very
moving story of a young
couple who sell their best
possessions in order
to get money for a
Christmas present for each
other.
1.
_____________ stands as
a great dividing line between
the nineteenth century and the
contemporary American literature.
2.
In 1920, Sinclair Lewis
published his memorable denunciation
of American small-town provincialism
in ________.
3.
Fitzgerald summarized the
experiences and attitudes of the
1920s decade in his masterpiece
novel _________.
4.
The 1950s American writers
often used the narrative
techniques derived from William
_________.
6.
Pound was the leader
of a new movement in
poetry which he called the
“_________” movement.
7.
One of Robinson’s early
books, _______________, once came
to the attention of President
Theodore Roosevelt.
8.
Robert Frost’s first book
___________brought him to the
attention of influential critics,
such as Ezra Pound, who
praised him as an authentic
poet.
9.
For the publication of
his Collected Poems, ___________
received the National Book Award
and the Pulitzer Prize.
10. In 1915, ____________
published his Prufrock and other
Observations.
11. As T.
S. Eliot declared, he followed
strictly the advice of his
close friend ____________ in
cutting and concentrating the
Waste Land.
12. In the
novel The Old Man and the
Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old
fisherman named ________, who
shows triumphant even in
defeat.
13. In the
short novel ________________, Steinbeck
portrayed the tragic friendship
between two migrant workers.
15. The works
written by ____________ may be
viewed as a culmination of
the development of twentieth-century
southern fiction.
