New-England ’s Plantation was published in 1630 by ________
A.Francis Higginson
B.William Bradford
C.John Smith
D.Mi
答案是：B
Of all the books written by Michael Wigglesworth the beat known is______
A.The Flesh and the Spirit
B.The True Travels
答案是：C
Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.
A.American Enlightenment
B.Sugar Act
C.Chartist movement
D.Romantic
答案是：A
In the first section of Autobiography the writer addressed to ________
A.his son
B.his friends
C.his wife
D.himself
答案是：A
_________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.
A. Washington Irving
B. Ralph Waldo Emerso
答案是：D
Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?
A.After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leavi
答案是：D
The realistic period is referred to as“ the Gilded Age” by _______.
A.Mark Twain
B.Henry James
C.Emily Dickinson
D.T
答案是：A
Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?
A.The Old Man and Sea
B.A Farewell to Arms
C.Sound and Fury
答案是：C
Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?
A.Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-r
答案是：D
In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment.______ was the dominant.
A.humanism
B.rationalis
答案是：B
The short story “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ” is taken from Irving ’ s work named ______.
A.The Leatherstocking Tales
答案是：B
Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?
A.Rationalism
B.inner self
C.personal feeli
答案是：A
The short story “aRnip W Vinkle ” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.
A.optimistic
B.pessimistic
C.conservative
答案是：C
Stylistically, Henry James ’ fiction is characterized by. __
A.short, clear sentences
B.abundance of local images
C.o
答案是：D
Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____and Thoreau.
A.Jefferson
B.Emerson
C.Fren
答案是：B
____ is considered Mark Twain ’ s greatest achievement.
A.The Gilded Age
B.Innocent Abroad
C.The Adventures of Tom Sa
答案是：D
_____ is not among those greatest figures in “ Lost Generation ”.
A.Ezra Pound
B.Robert Frost
C.Walt Whitman
D.Hemin
答案是：C
Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author ’ts one in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more
答案是：D
________ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.
A.T. S Eliot
B.Robert Frost
答案是：C
_____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.
A.“Ripa Vn Winkle ”
B.“The Pi
答案是：A
_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Clu
A.Thoreau
B.Emerson
C.Hawthorne
D.Whitman
答案是：B
Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain ’ s language?
A.vernacular
B.colloquial
C.elegant
D.humoro
答案是：C
From Thoreau ’ s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his co
答案是：C
Which is regarded as the “ Declaration of Intellectual Independence ”?
A.The American Scholar
B.English Traits
C.Over
答案是：A
Most of the poems in Whitman ’s Leaves of Grass sing of th-em ass” an“d en the ____ as well.
A.nature
B.self-reliance
答案是：C
What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
A.The Roaring 20s
B.The Gay 20s
C.The Jazz Age
D.The Lost Generation
答案是：C
Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author ’tso ne in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more
答案是：D
For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the
答案是：C
The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us.
A.Native Son
B.Uncle T
答案是：C
The main conflict of the play is the protagonist ’s false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cr
答案是：D
It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.
A. Long Day ’s Journey into N
答案是：A
The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder.
A
答案是：A
________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.
A.A Farewell to Arms
B.The Catche
答案是：D
______ is the father of American Literature.
A.Benjamin Franklin
B.Philip Freneau
C.Paine
D.Washington Irving
答案是：D
Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his predecessor, ______, but his style and method are very dif
答案是：B
Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature
答案是：B
Mark Twain’s ______ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.
A.
答案是：B
Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and impressionisti
A.romantic
B.naturalistic
C.classical
D.i
答案是：B
_____ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
A.New York
B.Chicago
C.California
D.Washington
答案是：B
Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
A.Nature
B.Walden
C.On Beauty
D.Self-Reli
答案是：A
Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed accou
答案是：B
Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literatur
答案是：A
American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.
A.Anne Bradstreet
B.Jane
答案是：C
With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, ______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of
答案是：C
Leaves of Grass has _______ editions.
A.nine
B.five
C.six
D.seven
答案是：A
_______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing.
A.The use of the poetic “I”
B.Free verse
C.Musicalit
答案是：D
Melville’s _______ is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors.
A
答案是：B
______ is not among the writing features of Melville’s works.
A.symbolism
B.allgory
C.psychological analyses
D.Drama
答案是：D
Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.
A.Leaves of Grass
B.The Scarlet Letter
C.“Hymn to The Night”
答案是：A
_______ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of American national literature.”
A.Emily Dickinson
B.Henry Ja
答案是：C
_______, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, is Mark Twain’s most representative book.
A.Roughing It
答案是：B
Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.
A.the love and marriage theme
B.the them
答案是：D
Within Dickinson’s little lyrics, she addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which exclude ________
答案是：B
______was the first colony in American history.
A. Massachusetts
B. New Jersey
C. Virginia
D.Georgia
答案是：C
______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lie
答案是：B
Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.
A. common sense
B. imagination
C. intuition
D. individualism
答案是：A
The Raven was written in 1844 by ________
A.Philip Freneau
B.Edgar Allan Poe
C.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D.Emily Di
答案是：B
The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlanti In December of 16
答案是：C
Melville ’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whal
答案是：D
As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A.Modernism
答案是：D
The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.
A.The Scarlet Letter
B.Sister Carrie
C.The Great Gatsby
D
答案是：A
In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, th
答案是：B
Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved
答案是：B
The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _______.
A.Mark Twain
B.Henry James
C.Emily Dickinson
D.T
答案是：A
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