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I、Write the Names of the Authors、1、Poor Richard’s Almanac2、Common Sense3、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn4、A Streetcar Named Desire5、The Waste Land6、Sister Carrie7、The House of the Seven Gables8、The Great Gatsby9、The Bluest Eye10、 A Farewell to Arms11、R ip Van Winkle12、Raven13、The Call of the Wild14、The Marble Faun15、Moby Dick16、The Wing of the Dove17、Of Mice and Men18、The Bluest Eye19、The Great Gatsby20、The Bluest Eye21、The Sound and the FuryII、Multiple Choices(Choose the best answer from the four choices)、1、From 1622 until his death, , one of the greatest of colonial American, was reelected thirty times as governor、A、Anne BradstreetB、William BradfordC、Edward TaylorD、ThomasPain2、carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people、It is more than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution、A、Common SenseB、The American CrisisC、Declaration of IndependenceD、Defense of the English People3、usually was regarded as the first American writer、A、William BradfordB、Anne BradstreetC、Emily DickinsonD、Captain JohnSmith4、Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet、Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the " "who appeared in America、A、Ninth MuseB、Tenth MuseC、Best MuseD、First Muse5、_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club、A、Henry David ThoreauB、Ralph Waldo EmersonC、Nathanial HawthorneD、Walt Whitman6、Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addi tion to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry、A、The Old Man and the SeaB、Moby DickC、White JacketD、 Billy Budd7、O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _______、A、Walt WhitmanB、Benjamin FranklinC、Abraham LincolnD、Martin Luther King8、The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_______、A、religionB、love and marriageC、life and deathD、war and peace9、“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough、” This is the shortest poem written by _________、A、T、S、EliotB、Robert FrostC、Ezra PoundD、E、E、Cummings10、Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______、A、international themeB、waste-land imageryC、local colorD、symbolism11、Which of the following is not written by Henry James?A、The Portrait of A Lady and The EuropeansB、The Wings of the Dove and The AmbassadorsC、What Maisie Knows and The BostoniansD、The Genius and The Gilded Age12、The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ______、A、William FaulknerB、F、Scott、FitzgeraldC、John SteinbeckD、Ernest Hemingway13、Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels、They are The Financier, The Titan and __________________、A、The StoicB、The GiantC、The TycoonD、The Genius14、In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ________ in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character、A、stream of consciousnessB、imagismC、symbolismD、naturalism15、The Road Not Taken is a long poem written by ______、A、Edwin Arlington RobinsonB、Robert FrostC、Ezra PoundD、T、S、Eliot16、____, one of America’s greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor、Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night、A、Arthur MillerB、Tennessee WilliamsC、Bernard MalamudD、Eugene O’Neill17、The Catcher in the Rye is a story of a 16 year old boy written by _____、A、J、D、SalingerB、Saul BellowC、Norman MailerD、Ralph Ellison18、Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is a popular novel of black humor, the action of which takes placein the Air Force during _____、A、World War IB、World War IIC、Spanish War D The Civil War19、The Color Purple, written by _____, centers on the life of Celie, a black woman who has been raped by the man she believed to be her father、A、Toni MorrisonB、Thomas PynchonC、Flannery O’ConnorD、Alice Walker20、Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?A、Pearl BuckB、Virginia WoolfC、Tony MorrisonD、Katharine Mansfield21、“God help them that help themselves” is found in ______’s work、A、Franklin B Freneau C、Jefferson D、Paine22、Who is considered the father of American poetry?A、Philip FreneauB、William Cullen BryantC、Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD、Henry David Thoreau23、Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________A、The PrecautionB、Leatherstocking TalesC、The Gleanings in EuropeD、The Spy24、The publication of ________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism、A、NatureB、Self-relianceC、The American ScholarD、The Over-soul25、Whi ch is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A、The American ScholarB、English TraitsC、The Conduct of LifeD、Nature26、Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT_____、A、a strict poetic formB、a simple and conversational languageC、a free and natural rhythmic patternD、an easy flow of feelings27、______is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe、A、The RavenB、Annabel LeeC、The Fall of the House of UsherD、Song to Celia28、Hester is a character in ______、A、Gone with the WindB、The Fall of the House of UsherC、BabbittD、The Scarlet Letter29、The Portrait of A Lady is gen erally considered to be Jame’s masterpiece, which ____、A、incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an Americangirl in a European cultural environmentB、tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of theEuropean lifeC、is about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in RomeD、tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the Americanlife30、Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _____、A、international themeB、water-land imageryC、local colorD、symbolism31、In Henry James’s Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as anembodiment of _____、A、the force of conventionB、the free spirit of the New WorldC、the decline of aristocracyD、the corruption of the newly rich32、With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A、SentimentalismB、RomanticismC、RealismD、Naturalism33、Who, one of t he most import poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?A、J、D、SalingerB、Ezra PoundC、Richard WrightD、Ralph Ellison34、Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote _____ , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism、A、The Sea WolfB、To Build a FireC、The Call of the WildD、Martin Eden35、Eugene O’Neill’s_____ tells about the strong, proud, brutish coal-stoker in the engine room of a passenger ship、A、The Hairy ApeB、Long Day’s Journey Into NightC、Desire Under The ElmsD、The Iceman Cometh36、Beloved is the masterpiece of _______、A、Tony MorrisonB、Ralph EllisonC、John Dos PassosD、Willa Cather37、The Cop and the Anthem is written by ______、、A、O、HenryB、Henry JamesC、Jack LondonD、Mark Twain38、______is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States、A、Henry JamesB、Emily DickinsonC、William Dean HowellsD、Mark Twain39、William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____、A、 New EnglandB、 SouthC、 Mid WestD、 West40、Stephen Crane is famous for ________and other stories、A、An American TragedyB、The AmbassadorsC、Main StreetD、The Red Badge of CourageIII、Term Definition、(30 points)Explain the following terms briefly1、Free Verse2、Local Colorism3、Lost generation4、Dramatic Monologue5、Stream of consciousness6、American Transcendentalism7、Imagism8、The Old Man and the Sea9、Stream of Consciousness10、The Great GatsbyIV、Short Essay Construction、(40 points)Write a short essay of about 200 words on the following topics:1、Edgar Allen Poe and his unique Position in American Literature2、Major features of Hemingwa y’s writing style3、The differences and similarities between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson4、Faulkner’s theme, style and point of view。

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