英美文学小史答案2023秋

第十一章测试

1.Ezra Pound believed that modern poetry should be built on the literature of the past and yet also _____. （ ）
A:haughty
B:unique
C:impeded
D:intimidated

答案:B
2.Much of the U.S. public was ________ to the conflict in Europe until the United States entered the war. （ ）
A:withered
B:ingenious
C:dutiful
D:indifferent
3.Many critics were unimpressed by the bold declarations and ________ of some of the Modernist writers. （ ）
A:snickers
B:brazenness
C:piety
D:hypocrisy
4.The writers of the Harlem Renaissance refused to ________ themselves to second-class citizenship. （ ）
A:jostle
B:jilt
C:exalt
D:resign
5.In their writing, Imagists often tried to transform elements from the ________, everyday world into something remarkable. （ ）
A:mundane
B:ominous
C:ingenious
D:withered
6.With the spread of jazz came a great deal of ________ and disapproval among older people, who felt it was corrupting the youth. （ ）
A:vanity
B:perturbation
C:piety
D:patronage
7.Many African Americans felt ________ and alienated from the mainstream culture in the United States. （ ）
A:detached
B:tactful
C:dutiful
D:withered
8.Frost relied largely on free verse, and his language is frequently colloquial. （ ）
A:对 B:错 9.American poet Gertrude Stein remarked to a new American expatriate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, that young people of the time were a “lost generation.” （ ）
A:对 B:错 10.

 ________ and ________ were central figures in the Imagist movement. （）

A: Amy Lowell B: E. E. Cummings C:H.D. D:Robert Frost