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题目如下：

1. The great transcendental work Written by Henry David Thoreau is______.

A. Nature

B. Walden

C. “One’s-self I Sing”

D. Essays

答案: Walden

2. Which statement about Benjamin Franklin is not true?

A. He was a Puritan.

B. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.

C. He was a scientist.

D. He was a master of diplomacy.

答案: He was a Puritan.

3. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted____________ in 1776.

A. ”The Sugar Act”

B. ”The Stamp Act”

C. ”The Mayflower Compact”

D. ”The Declaration of Independence”

答案: ”The Declaration of Independence”

4. Which one does not belong to Whitman’s poetic style?

A. The use of certain “I”

B. Writing in free verse

C. Long list of names, long poem sentences

D. Frequent use of hyphen

答案: Frequent use of hyphen

5. During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the____________ .

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

D. Modernist Movement

答案: Enlightenment Movement

6. From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous __________, an annual collection of proverbs.

A. The Autobiography

B. Poor Richard's Almanac

C. C 渝粤文库 ommon Sense

D. The General Magazine

答案: Poor Richard's Almanac

7. The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.

A. Nature

B. Self-Reliance

C. The Over-soul

D. The American Scholar

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8. Which of the following poems was written by Edgar Allan Poe?

A. “To Helen”

B. “The Raven”

C. “Annabel Lee”

D. All of the above

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9. As a philosophical and literary movement, ____________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A. modernism

B. rationalism

C. sentimentalism

D. Transcendentalism

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10. The main themes of Emily Dickinson’s poetry are the following EXCEPT_______.

A. religion

B. love and marriage

C. life and death

D. war and peace

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11. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ___________.

A. rational

B. humorous

C. optimistic

D. pessimistic

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12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is best known for Mark Twain’s wonderful characterization of “_________”, a typical American boy.

A. Jim

B. Tom

C. Huck

D. Miss Watson

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13. Charles Drouet is a character in the novel of ______.

A. The American

B. The Portrait of a Lady

C. Sister Carrie

D. “The Gift of the Magi”

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14. The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following EXCEPT ____________.

A. spiritual freedom

B. escape from different sorts of social oppression

C. mobility and instability

D. a small society where people of different color can live like brothers

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15. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well-known for his ___________.

A. international theme

B. waste-land imager

C. local color

D. symbolism

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16. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ___________ which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

A. realism

B. determinism

C. naturalism

D. humanism

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17. 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. naturalism

D. realism

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18. Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?

A. Herman Melville

B. William Dean Howells

C. Henry James

D. Mark Twain

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19. _____________is famous for psychological realism.

A. Mark Twain

B. William Dean Howells

C. Henry James

D. Walt Whitman

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20. Which statement is NOT true in describing American naturalistic writers?

A. They were deeply influenced by Darwinism.

B. They were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola.

C. They chose their subject from the lower ranks of society.

D. They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists did.

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21. Nick Carraway is both a character and a narrator in the novel entitled __________.

A. This Side of Paradise

B. The Sun Also Rises

C. The Great Gatsby

D. Tender Is the Night

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22. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________.

A. Jack London

B. Charles Dickens

C. Samuel Coleridge

D. Ernest Hemingway

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23. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.

A. Ezra Pound

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Robert Frost

D. Emily Dickinson

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24. Who is the person that used the term “the lost generation” for the first time to refer to writers like Hemingway?

A. Ezra Pound

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Gertrude Stein

D. Sherwood Anderson

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25. Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT _____________.

A. Lost Generation

B. iceberg theory

C. American Dream

D. grace under pressure

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26. “The Road Not Taken” is a poem written by ______.

A. Robert Frost

B. Longfellow

C. Ezra Pound

D. Carl Sandburg

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27. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of ______________.

A. blank verse

B. free verse

C. sonnet

D. quatrain

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28. William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American ________.

A. New England

B. Mid West

C. West

D. South

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29. Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by______.

A. Willa Cather

B. Doris Lessing

C. William Faulkner

D. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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30. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often thought to be______.

A. Eugene O’Neill

B. Ezra Pound

C. Robert Frost

D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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31. Thomas Pyncho 广东开放大学 n can be categorized as a Black Humor w 国家开放大学 riter, as well as a _______writer.

A. classical

B. transcendental

C. postmodernist

D. realistic

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32. “In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _________.

A. the Romantic poetry

B. the Imagist poetry

C. the Absurd poetry

D. the Transcendental poetry

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33. Faulkner’s works have been termed the __________________ saga, in which he invented the geography, history, and people of an imaginary county in the Deep South.

A. Winesberg

B. Yoknapatawpha

C. Forsyte

D. Olinger

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34. “I Have a Dream” is addressed by _____.

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. John F. Kennedy

C. Martin Luther King

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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35. All the f 渝粤教育 ollowing writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except _________.

A. William Faulkner

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. John Steinbeck

D. Ernest Hemingway

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36. _________________ is best known for his “Rabbit” series. “Rabbit” is the nickname for the main character, Harry Angstrom, a person of no importance in American middle-class society.

A. Sinclair Lewis

B. John Steinbeck

C. J. D. Salinger

D. John Updike

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37. ________is featured by black humor.

A. Caricature

B. Catch-22

C. The Catcher in the Rye

D. Death of a Salesman

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38. All the following are African American writers EXCEPT ___________.

A. Ralph Ellison

B. Toni Morrison

C. Alice Walker

D. Amy Tan

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39. The three greatest American dramatists include all the following EXCEPT ________.

A. Saul Bellow

B. Eugene O’Neill

C. Tennessee Williams

D. Arthur Miller

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40. Which of the following is NOT the major theme of Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior?

A. The role of women in Chinese society

B. Silence and voice

C. Growing-up Chinese-American

D. Return to nature

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