第十章测试1.
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:
vernacularism
B:modernism
C:local colorism
D:naturalism
答案:D
2.
Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of the world literature.
A:
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
B:The Prince and the Pauper
C:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Gilded Age
3.______ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
A:
Washington
B:California
C:New York
D:Chicago
4. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _____.
A:
humorous
B:optimistic
C:pessimistic
D:rational
5.In ______, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and impotence of men.
A:
Sister Carrie
B:The Genius
C:Jennie Gerhardt
D:The American Tragedy
6.Mark Twain is regarded as one of the forerunners of _____ in American literature.
A:
realism
B:romanticism
C:modernism
D:naturalism
7. At the heart of Mark Twain’s achievement is his creation of the characters like ______.
A:
Santiago
B:Daisy Miller
C:Tom Sawyer
D:Huckleberry Finn
8. Which of the followings are included in Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire” concerning the ruthlessness of capitalists?
A:
The Genius
B:The Stoic
C:The Financier
D:The Titan
9.It is not surprising to find in Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law
A:错 B:对 10.
As a literary movement realism came in the first half of the nineteenth century as a reaction against “the lie” of romanticism and sentimentalism.
A:错 B:对
