绪论 单元测试
1、判断题：We can define literature as language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages.（ ）
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
2、多选题：Hopefully, there are three very helpful approaches to the study of it: namely ( ), ( ), ( ).
A:historical approach
B:None of the other choices
C:thematic approach
D:analytical approach
正确答案:【historical approach;thematic approach ;analytical approach】
第一章 单元测试
1、单选题：The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was( ).
A:American Puritanism
B:Idealism
C:Transcendentalism
D:Enlightenment
正确答案:【American Puritanism】
2、单选题：The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the( ).
A:revolutionism
B:rationalism
C:reason
D:individualism
正确答案:【individualism】
3、单选题：During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ( ).
A:Romanticist Movement
B:Modernist Movement
C:Chartist Movement
D:Enlightenment Movement
正确答案:【Enlightenment Movement 】
4、单选题：Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call ( ).
A:Age of Evolution
B:Age of Reason
C:Age of Romanticism
D:Age of Regionalism
正确答案:【Age of Reason 】
5、判断题：The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in the early part of the 16th century.( )
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【错】
6、判断题：Benjamin Franklin seemed to represent the age of reason and revolution in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change.（ ）
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
7、判断题：Common Sense boldly advocated a Declaration of Independence.（ ）
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【对】
8、判断题：Philip Freneau was the most important writer in American poetry of the 18th century.（ ）
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
9、多选题：Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American Republic?( )
A:The Federalist
B:The Autobiography
C:Declaration of Independence
D:The American Crisis
正确答案:【The Federalist ;Declaration of Independence;The American Crisis】
10、多选题：Who are not considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?( )
A:Anne Bradstreet
B:Edward Taylor
C:Philip Freneau
D:Walt Whitman
正确答案:【Anne Bradstreet;Edward Taylor;Walt Whitman】
第二章 单元测试
1、单选题：In （ ）, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secrets.
A:The Birthmark
B:Earth’s Holocaust
C:The Minister’s Black Veil
D:Young Goodman Brown
正确答案:【Young Goodman Brown】
2、单选题：The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in ( ).
A:Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
B:Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The American Scholar
C:Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
D:Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
正确答案:【Henry David Thoreau’s Walden】
3、单选题：The masterpiece of Walt Whitman is ( ).
A:Leaves of Grass
B:Drum-Taps
C:O, Captain, My Captain
D:Song of Myself
正确答案:【Leaves of Grass】
4、单选题：Edgar Allan Poe was the first American artist in the American Literature, who influenced the European, especially the ( ) writers of the following generations.
A:Italian
B:English
C:German
D:French
正确答案:【French 】
5、判断题：Democracy and political equality became the ideals of the romantic period in America. ( )
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
6、判断题：Emily Dickinson is good at the charm of something but dropping the thing itself. ( )
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【对】
7、判断题：Romantic values were prominent in American politics, art, and philosophy until the Civil War.（ ）
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【对】
8、判断题：As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. ( )
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【对】
9、多选题：Led by ( ) and ( ) , there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.
A:Walt Whitman
B:Henry David Thoreau
C:Ralph Waldo Emerson
D:Herman Melville
正确答案:【Henry David Thoreau;Ralph Waldo Emerson】
10、多选题：Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature. ( )
A:Nathaniel Hawthorne
B:Benjamin Franklin
C:Henry David Thoreau
D:Ralph Waldo Emerson
正确答案:【Nathaniel Hawthorne;Henry David Thoreau ;Ralph Waldo Emerson】
第三章 单元测试
1、单选题：The appearance of ( )’s The Luck of Roaring Camp in 1868 marked a significant development in the brief history of local color fiction.
A:Hamlin Garland
B:Kate Chopin
C:Bret Harte
D:Harriet Beecher Stowe
正确答案:【Bret Harte】
2、单选题：With William Dean Howells, Henry James and Mark Twain active on the scene, ( ) became the major trend in the 1870s and 1980s.
A:Romanticism
B:Sentimentalism
C:Naturalism
D:Realism
正确答案:【Realism 】
3、单选题：Mark Twain created, in ( ), a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
A:The Gilded Age
B:The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
C:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
正确答案:【The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn】
4、单选题：( ), one of the greatest war novels comes from Stephen Crane.
A:The Blue Hotel
B:Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
C:The Red Badge of Courage
D:Open Boat
正确答案:【The Red Badge of Courage】
5、判断题：Generally speaking, London was much more interested in ideas than Crane and less sentimental than Norris. ( )
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【对】
6、判断题：The ultimate aim of the local colorists is to create the illusion of an indigenous little world with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside. ( )
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
7、判断题：Jack London was usually considered as a naturalist by literary historians. ( )
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【对】
8、判断题：After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one. ( )
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
9、多选题：There are some important influences of American literature of Realism including ( ).
A:the Civil War
B:capitalism
C:mechanization
D:industrialization
正确答案:【the Civil War;capitalism;mechanization ;industrialization】
10、多选题：Choose the three staunch advocates of nineteenth-century American realism ( ).
A:Henry James
B:Jack London
C:William Dean Howells
D:Mark Twain
正确答案:【Henry James;William Dean Howells ;Mark Twain】
第四章 单元测试
1、单选题：“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by ( ).
A:Ezra Pound
B:Thomas Stearns Eliot
C:E. E. Cummings
D:Robert Frost
正确答案:【Ezra Pound】
2、单选题：The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the ( ).
A:War of Independence
B:Civil War
C:Second World War
D:First World War
正确答案:【Second World War 】
3、单选题：Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost ? ( )
A:A Witness Tree
B:Steeple Bush
C:Tilbury Town
D:In the Clearing
正确答案:【Tilbury Town 】
4、单选题：The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name was ( ).
A:Ernest Hemingway
B:Sinclair Lewis
C:William Faulkner
D:Thomas Stearns Eliot
正确答案:【Sinclair Lewis】
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