美国文学史与选读试卷(B卷)包含评分标准与答案.doc

美国文学史及选读考试试题(卷)
B卷
院系: 专业: 考试科目:美国文学史及选读
考试形式:闭   卷                      考试时间:  100 分钟
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Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.
a. Leaves of Grass b. The Scarlet Letter
c. “Hymn to The Night” d. “The Secret of the Sea”
Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his predecessor, ______, but his style and method are very different.
a. Mark Twain b. Stephen Crane
c. Henry James d. Emerson
Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature.
a. Sinclair Lewis b. Theodore Dreiser
c. F. Scott Fitagerald d.
Mark Twain’s ______ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to e a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.
Roughing It
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Life on the Mississippi
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5. Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and impressionistic.
a. romantic b. naturalistic
c. classical d. imagining
______ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
a. New York b. Chicago
c. California d. Washington
Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
a. Nature b. Walden
c. On Beauty d. Self-Reliance
8. Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
a. The Old Man and the Sea b. Moby Dick
c. White Jacket d. Billy Budd
9. Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
a. Huckleberry Finn
b. Tom Sawyer
c. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
d. The Gilded Age
American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th ce