美国文学试题库.doc

美国文学试题库
 
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1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing es less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.
A. rational B. humorous
C. optimistic D. pessimistic
impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the eenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ .
A. local colorism B. vernacularism
C. modernism D. naturalism
3. ____________were idealists, believing the church should be restored plete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth.
A. Calvinists B. Puritans
C. Romanticists D. Transcendentalists
4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____.
A. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices
B. looking upon themselves as a chosen people
C. tolerating others’ beliefs and sought for a happy and an easy life
D. wishing to restore simplicity to church serves and emphasized the image of a wrathful God
5. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_______.
A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers
6. American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)
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