第十二章测试1.
In the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following items.
A:adoration for the natural world B: faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception C: other options are correct
D:moral enthusiasm
答案:C
2.
Poe is the father of the detective story.
A:错 B:对 3.
The Transcendentalism includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ____________.
A:Henry David Thoreau B:Walt Whitman C:Nathaniel Hawthorne D: Washington Irving 4.
Which of the following is NOT one of the three dominant figures of the Realistic Period?
A: Mark Twain B:Henry James C: William Faulkner D:William D. Howells 5.
Which of the following novel is written by William Dean Howells?
A:The Wings of the Dove B:The Ambassadors C:The Golden Bowl D:The Rise of Silas Lapham 6.
the book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to __________.
A: The Sun Also Rises B: Moby Dick C:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D: The Great Gatsby 7.
With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _________ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of 19th century.
A:sentimentalism B: naturalism C:romanticism D:realism 8.
_______-is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A:F. Scott Fitzgerald B:Ezra Pound C:Ernest Hemingway D:William Faulkner 9.
______is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama in the modernistic period.
A:Tennessee Williams B:Eugene O’Neill C:Sinclair Lewis D:Arthur Miller 10.
In 1954, ___was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
A:John Steinbeck B: Ernest Hemingway C:T.S. Eliot D:William Faulkner
