- Ernest Hemingway is noted for ____________.（ ）
- In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote _______ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.（ ）
- ________ is a great movement in the cultural and intellectual history of the African Americans.（ ）
- In 1859, Darwin published ___________, which exerted great influence on American Naturalism.（ ）
- Mark the novelist whose major works are characterized by the elements of the “grotesque”.（ ）
- _______’s unique gift was for the creation of strongly symbolic stories which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.（ ）
- The author of Lolita is ________.（ ）
- Herman Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc., in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry. （ ）
- _______ was the first great belletrist, writing always for pleasure, and to produce pleasure.（ ）
- Which One of the following is written by Maine Hong Kingston?（ ）
- ________’s publication of House Made of Dawn led to “The Native American Renaissance” around the end of the 1960s.（ ）
- The following drew from Herman Melville’s adventures among the people of the South Pacific islands except _______.（ ）
- The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is _____, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.（ ）
- Invisible Man, which has a universality of theme, is a work by Ralph Ellison.（ ）
- In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering innocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.（ ）
- In his masterpiece Moby Dick, Herman Melville tells a story of a whaling voyage which is set a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate.（ ）
- Love Medicine is one of Louise Erdrich’s major works.（ ）
- Ralph Waldo Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories, was Henry David Thoreau.（ ）
- F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.（ ）
- Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.（ ）
- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself gained the most attention, establishing Frederick Douglass as the leading African American man of letters of his time.（ ）
- Sister Carrie embodies Theodore Dreiser’s naturalistic belief that men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance.（ ）
- Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.（ ）
- Chinese American writers include ________.（ ）
- The features of puritanism include ________.（ ）
- ________ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.（ ）
- American writers after World War I self—consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “____”, devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization. （ ）
- Amy Tan’s first novel, ________, made quite a stir on the contemporary American literary scene and brought Asian American literature to the intense security of readers and critics alike.（ ）
- The jazz age refers to the decade of ________.（ ）
- Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except ____.（ ）
- When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream， we are probably discussing ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing. （ ）
- It was ________ who wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken”.（ ）
- All his literary life, _______ seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.（ ）
- ______ is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.（ ）
- Catch-22 is the masterpiece of ________.（ ）
- The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit.（ ）
- Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner？（ ）
- Point out the work that was written by Henry David Thoreau. __________.（ ）
- With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.（ ）
- The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the _____ War.（ ）
- Which of the following is not written by Philip Roth?（ ）
- Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.（ ）
- Which ONE of the following is generally believed to be the main idea of American Transcendentalism? （ ）
- Among the works attacking the“American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.（ ）
- ______________ divides the 19th century into the age of romanticism and realism in American literature.（ ）
- Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Renaissance Period.（ ）
- Shadeism, also known as colorism, means discriminating one’s own race in the names of dark-skinned and light-skinned. （ ）
- James Fenimore Cooper is famous for writing stories about the sea and the islands of the Southern Pacific.（ ）
- One of the most noticeable elements of Harlem Renaissance is its use of dialect and folklore and its identification with the spirit of jazz.（ ）
- Ralph Ellison is a Jewish American writer.（ ）
- As a reflection of Hester Prynne’s moral development, the scarlet letter A symbolically undergoes a gradual and imperceptible change from “adultery” to “able” and last to “angel”.（ ）
- Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”.（ ）
- African American writer W. E. B. Dubois helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the organization which fought more than any other for civil rights.（ ）
- In The Color Purple, the protagonist Celie, with the help of Sofia and Shug, finally awakens to her new life.（ ）
- Celeste Ng is regarded as “the next Amy Tan”and called “the novelist of the moment”.（ ）
- Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Thomas Jefferson and Henry David Thoreau.（ ）
- Stephen Crane is a pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic tradition.（ ）
- In The Color Purple, the protagonist Celie goes through oppressions from her stepfather, husband and poverty.（ ）
- American naturalism was a new and harsher realism. It evolved from realism but went a step further than it in portraying social reality.（ ）
- Darwinism had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.（ ）
- Langston Hughes was one of the most talented and original black writers in the 20th century.（ ）
- The author of The Color Purple is ________.（ ）
- Toni Morrison is the first African American novelist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature.（ ）
- Ethnic American literature can be divided into _________. （ ）
- Louise Erdrich's Tetralogy include ________.（ ）
- Toni Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her God Help the Child.（ ）
- Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You is a novel beyond nation, race, gender and age.（ ）
- Which ONE of the following is known as the masterpiece of Richard Wright?（ ）
- The Color Purple is an epistolary novel that depicted rape, incest, bisexuality, and lesbian love among African Americans.（ ）
- N. Scott Momaday is a _______ American writer.（ ）
- Black humor rose in America in the1980s and 1990s.（ ）
- Catch-22, a novel accounting a frantic bombardier's desperate efforts to survive, was written by Joseph Heller.（ ）
- Postmodernist fictions is a continuation of modernism's alienated mood, daring experimentation and disorienting techniques.（ ）
- Avant-pop Art is an artistic genre based on the combination of avant-garde and pop art.（ ）
- Vladimir Nabokov is a representative of Black humor.（ ）
- Fitzgerald was once praised “the poet laureate of the Jazz Age”. （ ）
- The Road Not taken is written by T. S. Eliot. （ ）
- Who is considered to be the first Imagist theorist? （ ）
- What are the artistic features of Modernism? （ ）
- What are the masterpieces of Hemingway? （ ）.
- Ezra pound laid down three Imagist poetic principles. （ ）
- Which poem doesn’t belong to Imagist poems? （ ）
- All the following concepts can be found in American naturalistic fiction EXCEPT ___________. （ ）
- Which ONE of the following concepts is related to the understanding of literary realism? （ ）
- In The Octopus written by Stephen Crane, wheat farmers struggle to grow crops and send them to market for a profit, while being beleaguered by the inflated prices of the giant railroad conglomeration.（ ）
- Where Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, ________ was an admirer. （ ）
- Sister Carrie tells about a country girl coming to Chicago to look for a better life and to pursue the American Dream.（ ）
- “_______________” was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola. （ ）
- ______________’s stories still had many unrealistic qualities: “tall tales” and unlikely coincidences. He is never a pure realist. （ ）
- ______________ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself. （ ）
- 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 another school of realism: American naturalism.（ ）
- Realism in American literature stretches from _____________ to the end of 19th Century. （ ）
- No other American poet ever surpassed Edgar Allan Poe's ability in the use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty.（ ）
- There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually _____ on the Puritan soil.（ ）
- ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.（ ）
- James Fenimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale, and the frontier saga.（ ）
- The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called blank verse, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（ ）
- A superb book Nature came out of Henry David Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.（ ）
- American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ___________.（ ）
- The following writers belong to the Romantic group in American literature except _____.（ ）
- After his death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.（ ）
- The House of Seven Gables is a famous mystery-haunted novel written by _____.（ ）
- Which of the following works is written by Philip Freneau?（ ）
- The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted ________.（ ）
- The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the _______.（ ）
- Which of the following works is not connected with Thomas Paine?（ ）
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin can be divided into four parts.（ ）
- Poor Richard''s Almanac was written by Philip Freneau.（ ）
- The ship “________”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.（ ）
- Philip Freneau is called the“Father of American Poetry”.（ ）
- The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of _______. （ ）
- The English began to settle down in the early 17th century.（ ）
答案:grace under pressure###iceberg theory###Lost Generation
答案:The Sketch Book
答案:Harlem Renaissance
答案:The Origin of the Species
答案:Edgar Allan Poe
答案:Nathaniel Hawthorne
答案:Vladimir Nabokov
答案:Moby Dick
答案:Washington Irving
答案:The Woman Warrior
答案:N. Scott Momaday
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