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美国文学概论
- Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction work. What was the name of the novel she wrote, that featured the life of a black woman who was abused by her father and husband? ( )
- ( ) is regarded as the towering figure in Southern Renaissance?
- Which book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson? ( )
- The year of 1837 saw the publication of Hawthorne’s ( ), a collection of short stories, which enjoyed critical attention.
- The Octopus is ( )’s best work.
- Read the following poem and choose the right one.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Who is the writer of the poem? ( ) - Which is the right form of the early African-American literature? ( )
- Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne ( ) in American literature.
- Edgar Allan Poe’s ( ) was an ingenious detective story and earned him the nickname “Father of the Detective Story.”
- O’ Neill’s father earned a considerable reputation for himself. In what field? ( )
- Tony Morrison was born ( ) .
- In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for ( ).
- Which of the following does not belong to this literary period? ( )
- Thomas Stearns Eliot’s first major poem ( ) has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.
- It is a critical commonplace now that American literature is based on a myth that is ( ).
- Hawthorne was convinced that ( ) was the predestined form of American narrative.
- What is Shug’s career? ( )
- In William Faulkner’s works, ( ) belongs to the counterpoint novels in which the separateness of the stories receives deliberate stress?
- Alice Walker writes many types of works including ( ) .
- In Yoknapatawpha Saga, William Faulkner traced the rise and downfall of the aristocratic families, such as ( ).
- Which writers have naturalist tendency? ( )
- Poe published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, a collection of short stories. It contained several of his most spine-tingling tales, including ( ).
- Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ( ) and ( ).
- Faulkner also helped usher in a whole new group of southern authors of the 1930s such as ( ).
- Which of these honors has Morrison won? ( )
- The American fiction after the 1960s is noted for ( ).
- The major character in Long Day’s Journey into Night are ( ).
- Which statements are right about Earnest Hemingway? ( )
- Which are Earnest Hemingway’s works? ( )
Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventure including ( )
- Which are O’Neill’s plays? ( )
- When we try to define African American literature, what elements should we take into consideration？ ( )
- Along with T. S. Eliot, ( ), ( ) and Hemingway, O’Neill has been regarded as one of the American authors writing in the Modernist tradition of the 1920s.
- John Steinbeck’s treatment of the social problems of his time, particularly the plight of the dispossessed farmer, earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and in 1962, a Nobel Prize for Literature. ( )
- Foreign influences added incentive to the growth of romanticism in America. ( )
- Transcendentalism exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. ( )
- Thoreau was an active Transcendentalist. He was by no means on “escapist” or a recluse, but was intensely involved in the life of his day. ( )
- Transcendentalists spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. ( )
- The origin of African-American literature is based on myth and Bible, which is patterned on that of deliverance from slavery. ( )
- Enlightenment Movement, which had flourished earlier in the century both in England and Europe, proved to be a decisive influence without which the upsurge of American romanticism would hardly have been possible. ( )
- Freneau was neo-classical by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit. ( )
- Sister Carrie is generally regarded as Dreiser’s masterpiece. ( )
- Henry James was a pioneer in utilizing psychological devices which communicated a more intense realization of character and situation. ( )
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame. ( )
- Thomas Stearns Eliot’s later poetry took a positive turn toward faith in life, in strong contrast with the desperation of The Waste Land. ( )
- In the years preceding World WarⅠ, nineteenth-century realism and naturalism remained vital forces in American literature. ( )
- The American puritans were meant to reestablish a commonwealth based on the teachings of the Bible, restore the lost paradise, and build the wilderness into a new Garden of Eden. ( )
- The Color Purple was made into film in 1980 by Steven Spielberg. ( )
- America, from the early 1800s to the Civil War, was a land of paradoxes, a land stirred by spiritual dreams and shaped by the realities of a growing materialism. ( )
- There are symbols presented in A Farewell to Arms like rain and ants in the novel. ( )
A:The Help B:The Color Purple C:To Kill a Mockingbird D:The Color Black
答案:The Color Purple
A:William Styron B:Ellen Glasgow C:William Faulkner D:Katherine Anne Porter
AI参考:正确答案是C：William Faulkner（威廉·福克纳）。William Faulkner（威廉·福克纳）是南方文艺复兴时期的重要人物，被誉为南方文学的代表人物之一。其他选项中，William Styron（威廉·斯泰伦）是一位非虚构作家，Ellen Glasgow（埃伦·格拉斯哥）是一位女作家，Katherine Anne Porter（凯瑟琳·安·波特）是一位短篇小说家，都与南方文艺复兴没有直接关系。因此，选项C是正确答案。'
A:Nature B:English Traits C:The Rhodora D:Representative Men
答案:The Rhodora
A:The Snow Image B:Mosses from an Old Manse C:Twice-Told Tales D:The Tell-Tale Heart
AI参考:正确答案是B:Mosses from an Old Manse。在题目中给出的四个选项中，只有B选项“Mosses from an Old Manse”是短篇小说集，符合题目要求。因此，正确答案是B。其他选项A（The Snow Image）、C（Twice-Told Tales）和D（The Tell-Tale Heart）都不是短篇小说集，因此不符合题目要求。'
A:Theodore Dreiser B:Stephen Crane C:Frank Norris D:Jack London
答案:Frank Norris
A:Walt Whitman B:Ezra Pound C:T. S. Eliot D:Robert Frost
AI参考:正确选项是D:Robert Frost。这首诗的文字简洁、富有哲理，与Robert Frost的诗歌风格相符。此外，诗中的“fire”和“ice”等词汇也与Robert Frost的诗歌主题相吻合。因此，可以确定这首诗的作者是Robert Frost。'
A:oral tradition B:poetry C:All of the other choices D:novel
AI参考:正确答案是D：novel。早期美国黑人文学的主要形式是小说，因为小说是一种叙事性文学形式，适合表现黑人生活和经历的复杂性和多样性。而口头传统、诗歌等其他形式可能更适合表现某些特定主题或情感，但不足以全面展现黑人文学的丰富性和多样性。因此，选项D是正确答案。'
A:the American scholar B:father of American poetry C:the transcendentalist D:the largest brain with the largest heart
答案:the largest brain with the largest heart
A:The Fall of the House of Usher B:The Purloined Letter C:The Murders in the Rue Morgue D:The Gold Bug
答案:VirginiaAI参考:正确选项是：B:The Purloined Letter。Edgar Allan Poe的代表作之一《失窃的信》(The Purloined Letter)是一部巧妙而巧妙的侦探小说，为他赢得了“侦探故事之父”的绰号。其他选项中，《幽宅之衰》(The Fall of the House of Usher)是他的另一部作品，但与侦探故事无关；《街头谋杀案》(The Murders in the Rue Morgue)也是一部著名的Poe作品，但与侦探故事风格有所不同；《黄金虫》(The Gold Bug)是一篇解密小说，与侦探故事无关。因此，正确答案是B。'
A:Medicine B:Law C:Acting D:Business
A:Antonia Chloe Morrison B:Chloe Wofford C:Chloe Anthony Wofford D:Antonia Wolfe
A:Able B:All of the other choices C:Adultery D:Angel
A:The American Crisis B:The Federalist C:The Waste Land D:Declaration of Independence
AI参考:正确答案是C:The Waste Land。本题考查文学时期，根据常识可知，A选项《美国危机》是独立战争时期的政治宣传品；B选项《联邦党人文集》是独立战争时期的重要文献；D选项《独立宣言》是美国独立战争的文献，属于这一时期；C选项《荒原》属于现代主义文学时期。因此，正确答案是C。'
A:Preludes B:The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock C:The Waste Land D:Four Quartets
AI参考:正确答案是D:Four Quartets 。根据题干中的信息，可以得知埃利奥特的第一首重要诗是被称为英语现代主义第一杰作的。根据选项可知，只有D项的“四四诗”符合要求，因此D项是正确答案。A项“前奏曲”、B项“阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌”、C项“荒原”都是现代主义的重要作品，但不是第一首重要诗。因此，本题选D。'
A:the Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden B:the ancient Greek myth of Zeus C:the British myth of the Saint Grail D:the Legend of the Sleepy Hollow
AI参考:答案为 B：the ancient Greek myth of Zeus根据题干中的句子结构可知，此处需要填入一个与“that”引导的宾语从句并列的同位语，解释说明“commonplace”的内容，而该同位语应该是一个名词，且与“myth”有关。根据常识可知，美国文学的基础是一个神话，而这个神话应该是古希腊神话中的宙斯神话，因此选项B“the ancient Greek myth of Zeus”为正确答案。其他选项与美国文学的基础神话不相关。'
A:novel B:romance C:fiction D:tale
AI参考:答案：A解析：题干中的句子出自美国作家霍桑（Hawthorne）的表述，说明他相信某事物是注定要成为美国叙事文的特定形式。从四个选项中，只有novel符合，novel意为长篇小说，是最常见的叙事文学形式。romance意为浪漫故事，与题干意思不符。fiction为虚构的故事，但过于宽泛，而tale为传说，虽然也是一个较为具体的文学形式，但显然与题干表述的“特定形式”不符。因此，正确答案是A。'
A:Seamstress B:Grocery owner C:Prostitute D:Singer
AI参考:单选题]What& Shug’s career? [答案]D:Singer。从剧中的描述可以得知，Shug是一名成功的乡村歌手，她常常在舞台上唱歌，并且有很多观众喜欢她的表演。因此，正确答案是D，即她的职业是歌手。其他选项都不符合剧中的描述。'
A:The Sound and the Fury B:The Unvanquished C:Light in August D:Go Down, Moses
AI参考:正确答案是C:Light in August。在威廉·福克纳的作品中，《八月之光》属于反衬小说，其中故事的分离得到了故意强调。其他选项都不是反衬小说。因此，答案为C。'
A:short stories B:essays C:novels D:fiction and non-fiction
AI参考:正确选项为D：Alice Walker writes many types of works including fiction and non-fiction. Alice Walker是一位著名的美国作家，她的作品类型多样，包括小说、散文、短篇小说等，但在这道题目中，选项D fiction and non-fiction 涵盖了所有类型，因此是最合适的选项。'
A:the Sartorises B:the Compsons C:the Hightowers D:the McCaslins
AI参考:正确答案是C：the Hightowers。在《约克纳帕塔法》这部小说中，威廉·福克纳描写了诸如豪特家族这样的贵族家庭的兴衰，根据问题中提到的家族名可以确定正确答案是C，因为问题中只提到一个这样的家族名，而且与其他三个选项相比较更具有特点，符合小说的描写对象。其他三个选项也都是家族名，但在描述小说具体情节时没有提到过。因此，正确答案是C：the Hightowers。'
A:Stephen Crane B:Frank Norris C:Mark Twain D:Theodore Dreiser
AI参考:正确答案是B:Frank Norris。自然主义倾向的作家有：Frank Norris（弗兰克·诺里斯）、Theodore Dreiser（西奥多·德莱塞）等。而Stephen Crane（斯蒂芬·克莱恩）、Mark Twain（马克·吐温）并不具有自然主义倾向。因此，本题正确答案为B。'
A:“Ligeia” B:“The Fall of the House of Usher” C:“The Black Cat” D:“William Wilson”
A:Emerson B:Jefferson C:Thoreau D:Freneau
A:Percy Walker B:Katherine Anne Porter C:Carson McCullers D:Eudora Welty
A:The National book award B:The IMPAC Dublin literary award C:The Pulitzer prize D:The Nobel Prize for literature
A:black and absurd humor B:None of the other choices C:nonfiction D:science fiction
A:Edmund Tyrone B:James Tyrone C:Anne Tyrone D:Mary Tyrone
AI参考:正确答案是D:Mary Tyrone。在《长日留痕》中，主要角色是Mary Tyrone，她是一个性格坚强、有决断力的女性，是Edmund和James的母亲，对剧情的推进和发展起到重要作用。其他选项的人物都是该剧中相对次要的人物。'
A:He once worked as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross. B:Hemingway likes boxing and football. C:Hemingway won Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. D:He has no war experiences.
AI参考:正确选项是 C:Hemingway won Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.。根据题目中的描述，关于 Ernest Hemingway 的正确陈述应该是与他的文学成就相关的，而选项 C 符合这个要求。Ernest Hemingway 于 1954 年获得了诺贝尔文学奖，因此选项 C 是正确的。其他选项 A、B、D 都与 Ernest Hemingway 的生平或爱好有关，但都不是与他的文学成就直接相关的。A 选项关于他在红十字会担任救护车司机的说法没有直接证据支持；B 选项关于他喜欢拳击和足球的说法也缺乏证据支持；D 选项说他没有战争经验，这与事实不符，因为 Ernest Hemingway 在一战期间曾参军并参与了战斗。'
A:The Sun Also Rises B:A Farewell to Arms C:The Great Gatsby D:For Whom the Bell Tolls
AI参考:正确答案是D:For Whom the Bell Tolls。Earnest Hemingway是海明威的笔名，他的作品包括《太阳照常升起》（The Sun Also Rises）、《永别了，武器》（A Farewell to Arms）、《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）等，但题目中问的是海明威的哪些作品，因此答案应该是D:For Whom the Bell Tolls。这个短篇小说以第一次世界大战为背景，描述了一个战壕中的生活和战斗经历。该小说在描写战争和死亡的同时，也强调了个人精神的重要性。这是海明威早期的代表作之一，也是他最有代表性的作品之一。其他选项提到的作品也是海明威的作品，但不是多选题中提到的。'
A:Omoo B:The Old Man and Sea C:Typee D:Moby-Dick
A:The Emperor Jones B:Beyond the Horizon C:The Strange Interlude D:The Iceman Cometh
A:people of African descent living in the United States B:the role of African Americans within the American society C:the issues on freedom and equality D:the themes like African-American culture, racism, religion, slavery, segregation and more.
AI参考:正确选项是 D:the themes like African-American culture, racism, religion, slavery, segregation and more.。在定义非洲裔美国人文学时，需要考虑的主题包括非洲裔美国人的文化、种族主义、宗教、奴隶制、种族隔离等等，这些主题是非洲裔美国人文学的重要组成部分，反映了他们的历史、社会和文化的各个方面。因此，选项D是正确的。而选项A、B、C虽然也是相关的，但不如选项D全面。'
A:Jack London B:Faulkner C:Mark Twain D:Ezra Pound
AI参考:正确选项是【B:Faulkner】。 根据问题中的句子“Along with T. S. Eliot, ( ), and Hemingway, O’Neill has been regarded as one of the American authors writing in the Modernist tradition of the 1920s.”可以得知，与T. S. Eliot、Hemingway并列的作家是ONeill，而选项中只有B:Faulkner符合这个描述，因此B是正确答案。Jack London、Mark Twain和Ezra Pound虽然也是重要的作家，但与ONeill的并列关系并不明显。"
A:对 B:错
A:对 B:错
AI参考:正确答案是【B:错】。浪漫主义在美国的发展受到了多种因素的影响，包括本土文化、历史背景、社会环境等，而外来影响只是其中的一个方面，不能单独成为推动浪漫主义发展的主要因素。因此，选项B是正确的。'
A:对 B:错
A:对 B:错
A:对 B:错
A:错 B:对
A:对 B:错
AI参考:正确答案是B：错。原文中提到Enlightenment Movement（启蒙运动）在世纪初在英国和欧洲盛行，但并没有提到它对美国浪漫主义的影响，因此选项A是错误的。根据上下文可以推断，这句话是在讨论启蒙运动对美国浪漫主义的影响，但是文中并没有明确指出没有启蒙运动就没有美国浪漫主义的兴起，因此选项B也是错误的。所以正确答案是B。'
A:对 B:错
A:错 B:对
A:对 B:错
AI参考:答案：A。根据题干中的描述，亨利·詹姆斯是一位在运用心理技巧方面具有开创性的人物，这些技巧能够更深入地展现人物和情境的真实性。因此，该句是对亨利·詹姆斯的正面评价，所以答案是A。'
A:错 B:对
A:错 B:对
A:错 B:对
AI参考:答案：B:对。根据题目中的描述，十九世纪现实主义和自然主义在第一次世界大战前的几年里仍然是美国文学中的重要力量。因此，答案是B，表示这个说法是正确的。'
A:错 B:对
A:错 B:对
A:错 B:对
A:错 B:对
AI参考:A: 对。在小说《战地钟声》中提到了雨和蚂蚁的象征意义。在题目所给出的陈述中，明显提到书中存在雨和蚂蚁这两个符号，因此选择A作为正确答案。'
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