美国文学史期末复习题

美国文学史期末复习题内容摘要：

est woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. S. Buck Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitman is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism. a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe 7. William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life。 ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality. a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. Henry James 8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway Dreiser is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. . d. Emily Dickinson 14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he? a. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison 15. Hemingway wrote about American patriots in Europe whereas ________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society. 6 a. William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald 15 bbccc I. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (115 %): 2. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______. a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, AntiSlavery 3. Mark Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature. a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism 5. The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ___________. a. Washington Irving Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson 14. _______ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. a. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison 15. _______ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short stories a. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. Ernest Hemingway 7 II. Match the following (120%) A. Match Works with Their Authors 1. Hugh Selwyn Mauberly 2. Walden 3. Autobiography 4. The Scarlet Letter 5. Leaves of Grass 6. The Raven 7. The Rise of Silas Lapham 8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 9. Long Day’s Journey into Night 10. The Old Man and the Sea a. Mark Twain。