1. At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ____ Enlightenment Movement ____.

A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement

2. Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin? __ He was a pious puritan __

A. He was born in a poor family.

B. He was a pious puritan.

C. He was phrased as “Jack of all trades”.

D. He was a master of diplomacy.

3. Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT __ American Dream ____.

A. Lost Generation

B. Iceberg theory

C. American Dream

D. Code Heroes

4. Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? __ Captain Ahab __

A. Hester Prynne

B. Roger Chillingworth

C. Captain Ahab

D. Pearl

5. Jack London’s semi-biographical novel _ Martin Eden __ well presents the disillusionment of American Dream.

A. The American Tragedy

B. The Call of the Wild

C. Martin Eden

D. The Grapes of Wrath

1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ___ Ishmael ______, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

A. Ahab B. Ishmael

C. Stubb D. Starbuck

2. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more____ pessimistic _________.

A. rational B. humorous

C. optimistic D. pessimistic

3. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and__ The Stoic ___ .

A. The Genius B. The Tycoon

C. The Stoic D. The Giant

4. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American____ naturalism _______ .

A. local colorism B. vernacularism

C. modernism D. naturalism

5. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of New England _farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A. Southern B. Western

C. New Hampshire D. New England

6. As an autobiographical play, O’Neill’s _ Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1956) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.

A. The Iceman Cometh B. Long Day’s Journey Into Night

C. The Hairy Ape D. Desire Under the Elms

7. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ___multiple points of view __, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A. impressionism B. expressionism

C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view

8. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _highly refined language

A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images

C. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language

9. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____ vernacular ______

A. vernacular B. interior monologue

C. point of view D. photographic description

10. It is on his__ tales about America __ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested.

A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European tours

C. early poetry D. tales about America

11. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “the American Renaissance”.

　　A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance

　　C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance

12. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning _ nature, man and the universe _.

　　A. nature, man and the universe

　　B. the relationship between man and woman

　　C. the development of Romanticism in American literature

　　D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

13. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is NOT right?

　　A. It’s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.

　　B. It’s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.

　　C. It’s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.

　 D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.

14. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered____________.

　　A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.

　　B. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with nature

　　C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure

D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty

15. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”

　　A. free verse B. blank verse

　　C. alliteration D. end rhyming

16. After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.

A. an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society

B. an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality

C. a poor and backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society

D. an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society

17. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?

A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.

B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.

C. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh environment.

D. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.

18. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language?

A. His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.

B. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.

C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration， repetition and anti-climax.

D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.

19. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American ______.

　　A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism

C. Realism D. Naturalism

20. Which of the following is not written by Henry James?

　　A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans.

　　B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors.

　　C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians.

D. The Genius and The Gilded Age.

21. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed.

　　A. man and man B. men and women

C. man and nature D. men and God

22. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson’s poems about nature?

　　A. In them, she expressed her general affirmation about the relationship between man and nature.

　　B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature.

　　C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.

　　D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature’s inscrutability and indifference to the life and interests of human beings.

23. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called free verse, that is _________.

　　A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains

　　B. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme

　　C. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat

D. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings

24. In the first part of the 20th century，apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers -______， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.

　　A. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud

　　B. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud

　　C. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James

D. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud

25. Which of the following can be said about Eugene O’Neill plays?

　　A. Most of his plays are concerned about the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrations.

　　B. His tragic view of life is reflected in many of his works.

　　C. His plays are concerned about the relationship between man and nature as well as man and woman.

D. Both A and B.

26. Most of O’Neill’s plays are concerned about the following except______.

　　A. success and failure in man’s literary career

　　B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality

　　C. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration

D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament

27. Which of the following can be said about a typical modern literary work?

　　A. It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.

　　B. It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory.

　　C. It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience.

D. Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public.

28. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following is not right?

　　A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions.

　　B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.

　　C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.

　　D. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.

29. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poetic expression.

　　A. England B. New England

C. Plymouth D. Boston

30. Which of the following statements is right about Robert Frost’s poetry?

A. He combined traditional verse forms with the difficult and highly ornamental language.

B. He combined traditional verse forms with the pastoral language of the Southern area.

C. He combined traditional verse forms with a simple spoken language-the speech of New England farmers.

D. He combined traditional verse forms with the experimental.

31. Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?

A. Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment.

B. They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern world.

C. They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces.

D. They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.

32. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century?

　　A. The Sun Also Rises. B. The Old Man and the Sea.

C. Mosses From the Old Manse. D. The Green Hills of Africa.

33. Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms?

　　A. The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’s design or his beneficence.

　　B. The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930s.

　　C. The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.

　　D. It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian nurse.

34. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?

　　A. Cambridge. B. Oxford.

C. Mississippi. D. Yoknapatawpha.

35. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.

　　A. observe with no judgment whatsoever.

　　B. reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum.

　　C. observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the events.

D. both A and B.

36. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?

　　A. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic field.

　　B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose works were set against the Jewish experience and tradition.

　　C. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.

　　D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its predecessors.

37. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?

A. The House of the Seven Gables. B. The Blithedale Romance.

C. The Marble Faun. D. White Jacket.

38. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as ______________.

A. commentators B. observers

C. villains D. saviors

39. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.

A. poetic theory B. French art

C. history of New York D. life of George Washington

40. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.

A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper class

C. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age

41. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _________.

A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie

C. Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales

D. Thoreau’s Walden

42. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?

A. The Sound and the Fury B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

C. Daisy Miller. D. The Gilded Age.

43. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?

A. Religion. B. Life and death.

C. Love and marriage. D. War and peace.

44. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."

A. "Nature" B. "Self-Reliance"

C. "Divinity School Address" D. "The American Scholar"

45. Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.

C. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.

D. Most writers were politically radical.

46. In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame

on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is_______________.

A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman

47. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his“black vision．”The

Term “black vision” refers to______________.

A. Hawthorne's observation that every man faces a black Wall

B. Hawthorne's belief that all men are by nature evil

C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story

D. that Puritans of Hawthorne's time usually wore black clothes

48. Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his____________ in Style，but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.

A. crudeness B. elegance

C. conciseness D. subtlety

49. Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because_____________.

A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South

B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and Social institutions

C. most of them were prisoners of the past

D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable

50. Yank, the protagonist of Eugene O’Neill’s play The Hairy Ape, talked to the gorilla and set it free because____.

A. he was mad，mistaking a beast for a human

B. he was told by the white young lady that he was like a beast and he wanted to

see how closely he resembled the gorilla

C. he was caged with the gorilla after he insulted an aristocratic stroller

D. he could feel the kinship only with the beast

51. In__________, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.

A. “After Apple-Picking”

B. “The Road NOt Taken”

C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

D. “Fire and Ice”

52. Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas

Whitman likes to keep his eye on human Society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as_______, immortality, religion, love and nature.

A. progress B. freedom

C. beauty D. death

53. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the_______

in the American literary history．

A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest

C. strong imagination D. return to nature

54. Generally speaking，all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality

tend to be_____________.

A. transcendentalists B. optimists

C. pessimists D. idealists

55. 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. Realism D. Naturalism

56. American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)

“_______,” devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization．

A. Lost Generation B. Beat Generation

C. Sons of Liberty D. Angry Young Men

57. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_______.

A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers

58. In his realistic fiction, Henry James's primary concern is to present the_________.

A. inner life of human beings B. American Civil War and its effects

C. life on the Mississippi River D. Calvinistic view of original Sin

59. Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's

Story “A Rose for Emily,” is NOT true?

A. She has a distorted personality.

B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.

C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.

D. She is the victim of the past glory.

60. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography?

A. Temperance B. Humanity (Humility)

C. Frugality D. Immoderation

61. American Romanticism stretches from the end of the ________ century through the outbreak of ______.

A. 18th, the Civil War B. 18th, the War of Independence

C. 19th, WWI D. 19th, WWII

62. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”

A. Walt Whitman B. Edgar Allen Poe

C. Anne Bradstreet D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. In Emily Dickinson’s Because I Could Not Stop for Death, ______________.

A. death is personified as a devil

B. death is described as the tragic end of a person’s life

C. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortality

D. death is described as a beautiful girl who couldn’t find her final destination

64. Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism?

A. Thoreau’s Walden B. Emerson’s Nature

C. Poe’s Poetic Principle D. Thoreau’s Nature

65. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.

A. Walden B. The Pioneers

C. Nature D. "Song of Myself"

66. ‘Leaves of Grass’ commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.

A. the democratic ideals B. the romantic ideals

C. the self-reliance spirits D. the religious ideals

67. ________is the author of the work “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.

A. Washington Irving B. James Joyce

C. Walt Whitman D. William Butler Yeats

68. After "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer", Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book called_________, and the book from which "all modern American literature comes".

A. Life on the Mississippi River B. The Gilded Age

C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. The Sun Also Rises

69. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is__________.

A. Sister Carrie B. An American Tragedy

C. The Financier D. The Titan

70. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______________.

A. conversational and crude

B. lyrical and well-structured

C. simple and rather crude

D. free-flowing

71. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?

A. Freud B. Darwin.

C. W. D. Howells. D. Emerson

72. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.

A. international theme B. waste-land imagery

C. local color D. symbolism

73. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ____________.

A. is a wealth lady B. has good taste

C. is a prisoner of the past D. is a conservative aristocrat

74. Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case?

A. Typee. B. Moby-Dick.

C. Omoo. D. The Confidence-Man

75. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______________.

A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New World

C. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich

76. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both ..."

In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.

A. a travel experience B. a marriage decision

C. a middle-age crisis D. one’s course of life

77. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is ____________.

A. insignificant B. vicious by nature

C. divine D. forward-looking

78. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.

A. Nature B. Self-Reliance

C. The American Scholar D. The Over-Soul

79. In Robert Frost’s famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to______.

A. die B. calm down

C. fall into sleep D. stop walking

In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant.

The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ______.

Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?

The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.

Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _____.

Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.

Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.

_____ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.

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

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I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)

______ is the father of American Literature.

_____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.

_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.

Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language?

From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.

A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense

Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.

What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?

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

For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):

1. The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us.

a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

2. The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.

a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Day’s Journey into Night

d. Death of Salesman

3. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.

a. Long Day’s Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain King

c. The Hairy Ape d. The Glass Menageries

4. The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder.

a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

5. _________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.

a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage

d. The Naked and the Dead

6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.

a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Rises

c.The Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead

7. The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.

a. The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.

c.Babbitt d. The Adventures of Augie March

8. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.

a. Babbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of Wrath

9. It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Fury

c.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby

10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.

a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.

a. Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn d.The Portrait of a Lady

12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War.

a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie

c.The Red Badge of Courage d. McTeague

13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.

a.Cantos b. The Raven c. Song of Myself d.Chicago

14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.

a.The Octopus b. Moby-Dick c. The Rise of Silas Lapham d. Leaves of Grass

15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned with the four uses of nature.

a. Walden b. Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d. The American Scholar

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I. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):

1. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.

a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic

2._________ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.

a. Tennessee Williams b. Eugene O’Neill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice

3._________ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway

4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.

a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving

c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau

5._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.

a. Pearl S. Buck b.Harriet Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitman

6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.

a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe

7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.

a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. Henry James

8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?

a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser

9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is______.

a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain

10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is ______.

a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain

11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters.

a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger

12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. H.D. d. Emily Dickinson

13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.

a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulkner c. Eugene O’Neill d. Arthur Miller

14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he?

a. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison

15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas ________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.

a.William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):

2. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______.

a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery

2._____________was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Edward Taylor

c. Thomas Paine d. Philip Freneau

3.Mark Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature.

a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism

4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.

a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving

c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau

5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________.

a. Washington Irving b.Ezra Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson

6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.

a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe

7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.

a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. William Dean Howells

8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?

a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser

9. ________’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.

a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain

10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. .

a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain

11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters.

a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger

12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. H.D. d. Emily Dickinson

13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.

a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulkner

c. Eugene O’Neill d. Arthur Miller

14. _______ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.

b. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe

c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison

15. ________ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short stories

a. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. Ernest Hemingway

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II. Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):

6. The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognized by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.

a. The Hairy Ape b. Henderson the Rain King

c. Long Day’s Journey into Night d. The Glass Menageries

7. The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.

a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Day’s Journey into Night

d.The Glass Menageries

8. The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his name is unknown.

a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.

a. Long Day’s Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain King

c. The Hairy Ape d. The Glass Menageries

5. The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.

a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

6. _________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.

a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage

d. The Naked and the Dead

6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.

a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Rises

c.The Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead

10. The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.

b. The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.

c.Babbitt d. The Adventures of Augie March

11. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.

b. Babbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of Wrath

12. It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Fury

c.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby

10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes with Hurstwood and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.

a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

11. It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but they themselves are killed by the whale in the end, except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.

b. Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

c. Moby Dick d. The Portrait of a Lady

12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War, in which wound is called the red badge which symbolizes courage.

a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie

c.The Red Badge of Courage d. McTeague

13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.

a.Cantos b. The Raven c. Song of Myself d.Chicago

14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially but who rises morally because he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.

a.The Octopus b. The Rise of Silas Lapham c. Moby-Dick d. Leaves of Grass

15. It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailed as the “declaration of intellectual independence” in America.

a. The American Scholar b. Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d. Walden

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II. Match the following (1×20%)

A. Match Works with Their Authors

1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly

2.Walden

3. Autobiography

4. The Scarlet Letter

5.Leaves of Grass

6.The Raven

7. The Rise of Silas Lapham

8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

9. Long Day’s Journey into Night

10. The Old Man and the Sea

a.Mark Twain b . Ernest Hemingway

c. Eugene O’Neill d. William Dean Howells

e. Edgar Allan Poe f. Walt Whitman

g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin Franklin

i.Henry David Thoreau j. Ezra Pound

k.Thomas Jefferson l. T.S. Eliot

B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.

1. Hester Prynne 2.Mrs. Touchett

3.Frederick Henry 4.Benjy Compson

5.the Joads 6.General Edward Cummings

7.Holden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas

8.Yank 9.Happy

a.The Portrait of a Lady b. The Scarlet Letter

c. The Hairy Ape d. A Farewell to Arms

e.The Sound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrath

g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye

i. Native Son j. Death of a Salesman

k.Invisible Man l.Catch-22

A. Match Works with Their Authors

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B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.

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III. Match the following (1’×20=20’)

A. Match works with their authors

1.Nature

2.Rip Van Winkle

3. Nature

4. The Scarlet Letter

5.Leaves of Grass

6.The Raven

7. The Rise of Silas Lapham

8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

9. Cantos

10. The Old Man and the Sea

a.Ezra Pound b. Ernest Hemingway

c. Mark Twain d. William Dean Howells

e. Edgar Allan Poe f. Walt Whitman

g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emerson

i.Washington Irving j. Waldo Emerson

k.T.S. Eliot l. Robert Frost

B. Match characters with the works in which they appear.

2. Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer

3.Frederic Henry and Catherine 4.Benjy Compson

5.the Joads 6.General Edward Cummings

7.Holden Caulfield 8.Bigger Thomas

9.The Tyrones 10.Willy Loman

a.The Portrait of a Lady b. Moby-Dick

c. Death of a Salesman d. A Farewell to Arms

e.The Sound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrath

g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye

i. Native Son j. Long Day’s Journey into Night

k.Absalom, Absalom l. The Old Man and the Sea

A. Match Works with Their Authors

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B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.

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1. C______was the first colony in American history.

A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey C. Virginia D.Georgia

2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One

of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on

this young nation.”

A. John Smith B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D.Thomas Paine

3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____.

A. common sense B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism

4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______

A. Philip Freneau B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson

5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat

its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at

Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Titanic

6. Melville’s novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in

pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

A. Typee B. Omoo C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick

7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England

from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A.Modernism B.Rationalism C.Sentimentalism D.Transcendentalism

8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______.

A. The Scarlet Letter B. Sister Carrie

C. The Great Gatsby D. The Old Man and Sea

9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is

not determined economically.

　 A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious

10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.

A. Rationalism    B. Romanticism   C. Neoclassicism        D. Enlightenment

11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.

A. T. S Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. Walt Whitman

12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?D

A. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing

close friends.

B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.

C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.

D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.

13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by __A_____.

A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore Dreiser

14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?C

A. The Old Man and Sea B. A Farewell to Arms

C. Sound and Fury D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?D

A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.

B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.

C. The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.

D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.

I. Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)

Column A Column B

( c ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost

( e) 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain

( i ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter

( a ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson

( h ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick

(b ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway

( d) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau

( g ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson

( j) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie

( f ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott Fitzgerald

1. 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



2. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?



A. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress



B. Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen



C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels



D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones



3. The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____.



A. J. D. Salinger B. Jack London



C. Flannery O'Connor D. Saul Bellow



4. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____



A. Washington Irving B. Fennimore Cooper



C. Edith Wharton D. William Dean Howells



5. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often thought to be ____.



A. Eugene O'Neill B. Ezra Pound C. Robert Frost D. Scott Fitzgerald



6. ____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.



A. Hawthorn B. Whitman C. Emerson D. Hemingway



7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____.



A. fridendship B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace



8. Robert Frost is a famous ____



A. novelist B. playwright C. poet D. literary critic



9. Dover Beach is written by ____



A. Robert Browning B. Alfred Tennyson



C. Mathew Arnold D. Dylan Thomas



10. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.



A. Age of Realism B. Age of Clasicalism



C. Age of Romanticism D. Age of Renaissance



练习题答案及题解:



1. D. 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。



2. C. Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels（《格列弗游记》）中yahoo暗指人类，集人类丑陋面于一身，服务于动物的一类生物。



3. A. The Catcher in the Rye（《麦田里的守望者》）是J. D. Salinger（J. D. 赛琳格）的名著。



4. A. henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”，改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。



5. D. 二十世纪出现Jazz Age，这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀，沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征，对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。



6. C. Emerson是超验主义的重要代表，所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲学观。



7. D. Emily Dickinson（1709-1784），美国女诗人，终生未嫁。主要诗歌包括：I Could Not Sto for Death还有，I'm Nobody. Who Are You? 诗歌主题为：爱情，自然，友谊，死亡与不朽。



8. C. Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人，后因父亲过世已经英国，在新英格兰享有很高名望。主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。



9. C. Dover Beach（《多弗的海滩》）是Mathew Arnold 的作品。



10. A. 1865-1914，也就是美国内战结束之后，第一次世界大战爆发之前。这个时候涌现的作家，比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题，包括“Gold Rush”。

1. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment.           was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution

2. Which statement about Franklin is not true?

A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer. B. He was a scientist.

C. He was a master of diplomacy. D. He was a Puritan.

3. Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.

A. Nature B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden D. Moby-Dick

4. The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's          and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveler C. The Alhambra D. A history of New York

5. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for         .

A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above

6. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as               .

A. the Naturalist Period B. the Modern Period C. the Romantic Period D. the Realistic Period

7. The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from      to      .

A. 1861 – 1914 B. 1863 – 1918 C. 1865 – 1914 D. 1865 – 1918

8. Who 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

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

A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism

10. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American              .

A. modernism B. naturalism C. vernacularism D. local colorism

11. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named              .

A. The son of the Wolf B. The Sea Wolf C. The Law of Life D. White Fang

12. In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?

A. The Green Hills of Africa. B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

C. To Have and Have Not. D. Death in the Afternoon.

13. Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?

A. Ezra Pound B. William Carlos Williams C. Robert Frost D. Theodore Dreiser

14. Who is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?

A. Sinclair Levis B. Eugene O'Neil C. Arthur Miller D. Tennessee Williams

15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except           .

A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway

16. In 1954,            was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".

A. T.S. Eliot B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faulkner

17. Who is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?

A. John Steinbeck B. Eugene O'Neil C. F. Scott Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser

18. In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in              .

A. Main Street B. An American Tragedy C. Winesburg, Ohio D. Sister Carrie

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Test 1

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1. _____is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A .The Pilgrim’s Progress

B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

C. The Life and Death of Mr.Badman

D. The Holy War

2. It is____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, present to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole galley of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Martin Luther C. William Langland D. John Gower

3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?

A. The American Crisis B. The Federalist

C. Declaration of Independence D. The Age of Reason

4. ______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

A. Twice-told Tales B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun

5. Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?

A. Language is a system.

B. Language is symbolic.

C. Animals also have language.

D. Language is arbitrary.

6. ____is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides for their description, classification and transcription.

A. Phonetics B. Phonology C. Semantics D. Pragmatics

7. ____is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content.

A. Word B. Morpheme C. Allomorph D. Root

8. The official name of England is ____.

A. the United Kingdom and North Ireland

B. the United Kingdom of Britain and North Ireland

C. the United Kingdom of Great Britain And Ireland

D. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland

9. The real center of power in the British parliament is____ .

A. the king or the Queen

B. the Cabinet

C. the House of Lords

D. the House of Commons

10. The British established 13 colonies along____ between 1607 and 1733.

A. the west coast of North American

B. the west coast of South American

C. the east coast of North American

D. the east coast of South American

Key to Test 1

1. A A C B C 6. ABDDC

Test 2

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1. The U.S. President can do the following except ____.

A. appointing federal court judges

B. interpreting the Constitution

C. presiding over the government

D. vetoing laws passed by the Congress

2. President Jefferson bought____ from France and doubled the country’s territory.

A. Ohio B. Florida C. New Mexico D. the Louisiana Territory

3. ‘The Beatles’ is____ .

A. a classical music group B. a popular music group

C. a drama organization D. a football team

4. A word with several meanings is called____ word.

A. a polysemous B. a synonymous

C. an abnormal D. a multiple

5. The part of the grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is called ____.

A. lexicon B. morphology C. syntax D. semantics

6. Who put forward distinction between Language and Parole?

A. Saussure B. Chomsky C. Halliday D. Anonymous

7. Who is the author of the work “The Grape of Wrath”?

A. John Steinbeck B. Eugene O’Neil C. F.Scott Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser

8. ___is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. F.Scoot Fitzgerald

C. William Faulkner

D. Ezra Pound

9. Generally speaking the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is ____

A. science B. philosophy C. Arts D. Humanism

10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on ___

A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence

B. the struggle of the shipwrecked person for security

C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth

D. the desire of the criminal for property

Key to Test 2

1. BDBAC 6. AABDB

Test 3

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1. All of the following four except____ (A) are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.

A. Francis Bacon B Christospher Marlowe C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Jonson

2. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ____(A)

A. nature (B) B. transcendentalist ideas

C. human beings D. celestial beings

3. ____is a phrase which can only be understood as a unit, not as a summation of the meaning of each constituent word.

A. Collocation B. Idiom C. Semantic component D. Synonym

4. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman? (A)

A. lyrical and well-structured B. free-flowing

C. simple and rather crude D. conversational and casual

5. What is the most important function of language?(C)

A. Interpersonal B. Phatic C. Informative D. Metalingual

6. General linguistics is the scientific study of ____(C)

A. language of a certain individual

B. the German language

C. human languages in general

D. the system of a particular language

7. Where is the primary stress of the word phonology?(B)

A. pho B. no C. lo D. gy

8. The English people are __, and the Scots, Wales and Irish are __. (A)

A. Anglo-Saxons, Celts B. Anglos, Saxons

C. Celts, Anglo-Saxons D. Celts, Saxons

9.The religious leader of Church of English is (C).

A. Presbyterian B. Anglican C. Archbishop of Canterbury D. Queen

10. The Gettysburg victory was the turning point of_____ (B).

A. the War of Independence

B. the Civil War

C. the War between the U.S. and Britain in 1812

D. the Indian Wars

Key to Test 3

1. AABAC 6. CBACB

Test 4

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1. _____, a famous leader of black movements in the U.S. in the 60s, advocated non-violent Civil Rights Movement.

A. Malcolm X. B. Martin Luther KING, Jr.

C. Douglass D. Garrison

2. Dickens’ works are characterized by mingling of ___ and pathos.

A. metaphor B. passion C. satire D. humor

3. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?

A. Julius Caesar. B. The Marry Wives of Windsor.

C. Henry IV. C. King Lear.

4. ____ is regarded as the first American prose epic.

A. Nature B. The Scarlet Letter

C. Walden D. Moby-Dick

2. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as ____

A. The thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory, which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.

B. The thought that designates man as a social animal.

C. The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common.

D. The modes of thinking.

3. ____ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.

A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie

C. The Financier D. The Titan

4. What is the dual structure of language?

A. Sounds and letters.

B. Sounds and meaning.

C. Letters and meaning.

D. Sounds and symbols.

5. Which of the following sounds is a back vowel?

A. [i] B. [w] C. [e] D. [u]

6. In the word conceive, the morpheme-ceive is a ____

A. free root B. bound root C. suffix D. prefix

7. The Norman Conquests happened in ____

A. 55 B.C. B. 1066. C. 700. D. the 9th century

Key to Test 4

1. BDCDA 6. ABDBB

Test 5

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1._____ has the power to interpret the Constitution.

A. The President B. The House of Representatives

C. The Supreme Court D. The Senate

2. The longest war in the U.S. history is ____.

A. the Vietnam B. the Civil War

C. the Gulf War D. the War of Independence

3. Eton is a famous_____ of UK.

A. comprehensive school B. publish school C. college D. university

4. The Hundred Years’ War is the intermittent conflicts between ___and ___that lasted from 1337 to 1453.

A. France, England B. England, Ireland C. England, Rome D. England, Scotland

5. “Big” and “Small” are a pair of____ opposites.

A. complementary B. gradable C. complete D. converse

6. The relationship between “fruit ” and “apple” is____.

A. homonymy B. hyponymy C.polysemy D. synonymy

7. ____ stems form the ambiguity of the speakers’ choice between safety and the unknown.

a) Mending the Wall

b) Home Burial

c) The Road Not Taken

d) Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

8. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”

A. J.D.Salinger. B. Ezra Pound C. Richard Wright D. Ralph Ellison

9. Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles Dickens?

A. A Tale of Two Cities. B. Hard Times.

C. Oliver Twist. D. Sons and Lovers.

10. ____is a typical feature of Swift’s writing.

A. Elegant style B. Casual narration

C. Bitter satire D. Complicated sentence structure

Key to Test 5

1. CABAB 6. BDBDC

Test 6

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1. Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true?

A. Childhood is central to Blake’s concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

B. Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity.

C. The Book of Loss is his masterpiece.

D. Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry.

2．Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets”?

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Robert Southy C. William Wordsworth D. William Shakespeare

3. I n American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution

4. Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, _____.

A. “The legend of Sleepy Hollow”. B. “Rip Van Winkle”.

C. “The Custom-House”. D. “The Birthmark”.

5. Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited____.

A. up-class mind B. middle-class mind

C. proletarian D. ordinary people

6. Which of the following modes of study emphasizes on the “standards” of language?

A. Prescriptive B. Descriptive C. Synchronic D. Diachronic

7. The distinction between competence and performance is proposed by____.

A. Saussure B. Halliday C. Chomsky D. the Prague School

8. Which of the following words is created through the process of acronym?

A. ad B. edit C. AIDS D. Bobo

9. ____ defeated the Danes and came to an agreement with them in 879.

A. King Alfred B. King Egbert

C. Edward the Confessor D. King Harold

10. The largest state of US is ___.

A. Florida B. Texas C. Massachusetts D. Nevada

Key to Test 6

1. CDBBB 6. ACCAB

Test 7

1. ____were originally called Yankees, which came to stand for all Americans.

A. People living by the Mississippi River

B. People living in New England

C. People living in the age of ‘gold rush’

D. People living in Florida

2. ____forced Nixon to resign in 1973.

A. The Watergate Scandal B. The Little Rock Incident

C. the Montgomery bus boycott D. The New Right

3. Christianity was first brought to England by ___.

A. the Normans B. the Danes C. the Romans D. the Anglo-Saxons

4. Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?

A. gender B. number C. case D. voice

5. Usually, suprasegmental features include____ , length and pitch.

A. phoneme B. speech sounds C. syllables D. stress

6. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ____, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.

A. stream of consciousness B. imagism C. symbolism D. naturalism

7. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to ____.

A. The Great Gatsby

B. The Sun Also Rises

C. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn

D. Moby-Dick

8. Stylistically, Henry James is characterized by____

A. highly refined language B. ordinary American speech

C. short, clear sentences D. abundance of local images

9. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?

A. Poems 1909-1925.

B. The Hollow Men.

C. Prufrock and Other Observations.

D. The Waste Land.

10. Alexander Pope strongly advocated ____, emphasized that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

A. idealism B. neoclassicism C. romanticism D. Sentimentalism

Key to Test 7

1. BACDD 6. ACACB

Test 8

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1. Francis Bacon is the best known for his ____ which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.

A. essay B. poem C. works D. Plays

2. In the following descriptions of the Neoclassical Period, Which is wrong?

A. The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.

B. Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical Period.

C. The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.

D. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.

3. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except ____.

A. religion B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace

4. ____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

5. Vibration of the vocal cords results in ____.

A. aspiration B. nasality C. obstruction D. voicing

6. In 1588 when the English navy defeated the Spanish Armada, England is under the rule of___ .

A. Henry VIII B. Elizabeth I C. Queen Victoria D. James II

7. The first immigrants in American history came from_____ .

A. England and the Netherlands B. England and Australia

C. England and Ireland D. England and France

8. ‘Baby boom’ refers to the great increase of birth rate between ____.

A. 1946 and 1964 B.1860 and 1890

C. 1920 and 1935 D.1845 and 1854

9. In the Civil War, Lincoln issued the famous ____.

A. the Bill of Rights B. the Federalist Papers

C. the Emancipation Proclamation D. the Declaration of Independence

10. The maxim of___ requires that a participant’s contribution be relevant to the conversation.

A. quantity B. quality C. manner D. relation

Key to Test 8

1. ADDBD 6. BAACD

Test 9

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1. ___ was the beginning of a long economic depression in the late 1920s and 1930s.

A. The stock markets crash B. Roosevelt’s New Deal

C. The first World War D. Wilson’s policy of New Freedom

2. ___ is considered American’s unique contribution to music.

A. Rock and Roll B. Country Music

C. Jazz D. Western Music

3. The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as ___.

A. +animate, +male, +human,-adult

B. +animate, +male, +human, +adult

C. +animate, -male, +human, -adult

D. +animate, -male, +human, +adult

4. Chomsky holds that the major task of linguistics is to___ .

A. study real ‘facts’ in daily settings

B. tell people how to speak appropriately

C. look for ‘the universal grammar’

D. tell people what is right in language use

5. Minimal pairs are used to___.

A. find the distinctive features of a language

B. find the phonemes of a language

C. compare two words

D. find the allophones of a language

6. Who is the author of the work “The Grape of Wrath”?

A. John Steinbeck B. Eugene O’Neil C. F.Scott Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser

7. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers American has produced so far, Emerson and____.

A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington Irving

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman

8. _____ 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

9. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of ___.

A. John Milton B. John Donne C. John Keats D. John Bunyan

10. Of the following writings by James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in literature?

A. Ulysses.

B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

C. Dubliners.

D. Finnegans Wake

Key to Test 9

1. ACBCB 6. ADABA

Test 10

IV. Choose the best to complete the sentence (10 points)

1. Which of the following is used for oppositeness of meaning ?

A. Homonymy B. Polysemy C. Antonymy D. Synonymy

2. Which of the following is a compound word?

A. conversation B. comparable C. entertaining D. Sunflower

3. Saussure drew a distinction between ___ and descriptive studies.

A. historical B. structural C. synchronic D. prescriptive

4. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the ___poetry.

A. pagan B. religious C. romantic D. sentimental

5. What is Thackeray’s masterpiece?

A. The Virginians B. Vanity Fair C. The Books of Snobs

D. The Newcoomers

6 Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poem was not written by Frost?

A. After Apple-Picking B. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

C. The Road Not Taken D. Richard Cory

7. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by____.

A. T.S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. e. e. cummings

8. ____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.

A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson C. Alexander Pope D. John Dryden

9. Which of the following odes was not written by Keats?

A. Ode to the West Wind B. Ode to a Nightingale

C. Ode to Autumn D. Ode to a Grecian Urn.

10. A____ consists of a vowel sound, either on its own or in the company of one or more consonant sounds.

A. syllable B. phone C. phoneme D. morpheme

Key to Test 10

1. C D D C B 6. D C B A A

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