美国文学期末考试范围

General Knowledge of American Literature

1. After Ezra Pound abandoned the Imagist group, _____ became its leader and dominant force.

A. H.D. B. Amy Lowell C. William Carlos Williams D. John Gould Fletcher

2. T.S.Eliot, Robert Frost and _____ are often considered as the most important American poets in the 20th century movement of modernism.

A. Ezra Pound B. Wallace Stevens

C. William Carlos Williams D. Allen Ginsberg

3. William Carlos Williams, of all imagist poets, is best known for his use of juxtaposition of concrete, concise and clear _____ in his poems.

A. symbols B. images C. metaphors D. allusions

4. Emperor Jones is a drama written by the modern American playwright _____.

A. Clifford Odets B. Eugene O’Neill

C. Tennessee Williams D. Arthur Miller

5. All of the following dramas except _____ are written by Eugene O’Neill.

A. Emperor Jones B. Desire Under the Elms

C. Long Day’s Journey into Night D. A Streetcar Named Desire

6. Which one of the following women writers is not from the South?

A. Kate Chopin B. Katherine Ann Porter

C. Flannery O’Connor D. Edith Wharton

7. The representative novel of the Beat Generation On the Road is written by _____.

A. Jack Kerouac B. Allen Ginsberg

C. Joseph Heller D. Thomas Pynchon

8. Writers such as Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe create a new kind of novel, the “Non-fiction” novel, which is also called the _____.

A. Black Humor novel B. New Jounalism novel

C. Beat Generation novel D. Naturalistic novel

9. Alice Walker is famous for her novel _____ which represents the double oppression and struggle of African American women.

A. Beloved B. The Song of Soloman

C. The Color Purple D. The Bluest Eye

10. Modern literature is often difficult to understand because of its many uses of some of the following devices except _____.

A. allusion B. ambiguity C. fragmentation D. rhyme

11. During the last part of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century, ______ enjoyed considerable popularity among writers in the English speaking world.

A. realism B. modernism C. symbolism D. classicism

12. Willa Cather was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, works such as _______, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark.

A. O Pioneers! B. The Pioneers C. The Prairie D. The Age of Innocence

13. In such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, _______ employed both humor and profound empathy to describe the lives of New York's upper-class and the vanishing of their world in the early years of the 20th century.

A. Kate Chopin B. Edith Wharton C. Gertrude Stein D. Willa Cather

14. Ezra Pound was the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Vorticism and _______.

A. Imagism B. Dadaism C. Futurism D. Impressionism

15. With the publication of The Waste Land in 1922,_______ achieved the status as the most influential poet and critic writing in English for the next two decades.

A. Wallace Stevens B. William Carlos Williams

C. Robert Frost D. T. S. Eliot

16. _______ made his name as a leading American writer of early 20th century with his masterpiece, Winesburg, Ohio, a picture of life in a typical small Midwestern town.

A. John Steinbeck B. Upton Sinclair C. Sherwood Anderson D. Frank Norris

17. American poet _______ was greatly influenced by Chinese poetry and philosophy.

A. Robert Frost B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Ezra Pound D. Emily Dickinson

18. _______’s poems are mainly concerned with the rural life in New England. “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” are two of his most popular poems.

A. Robert Frost B. Walt Whitman C Emily Dickinson D. E.E. Cummings

19. Robert Frost is well-known for his idyllic depictions of _______ and his command of American colloquial speech.

A. the urban life B. the exotic life C. the frontier life D. the rural life

20. The poem “The Road Not Taken” originates from the author _______’s contact with a friend who repeatedly regrets for not having shown the author to another road to see some rarer plants there.

A. Robert Frost B. Ezra Pound C. Wallace Stevens D. T.S. Eliot

21. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos are usually regarded as the most representative writers of _______.

A. the Beat Generation B. the Lost Generation

C. the Old Generation D. the New Generation

22. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water,” this is the writing principle of _______.

A. Jack London B. William Faulkner

C. Ernest Hemingway D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

23. “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” is one of Hemingway’s most frequently discussed stories. One of the most important themes of the story is _______, or nada.

A. death B. alienation C. nothingness D. loneliness

24. Which of the following is NOT written by Ernest Hemingway?

A. The Sun Also Rises B. A Farewell to Arms

C. Light in August D. The Old Man and the Sea

25. John Steinbeck’s classic tale of the 1930’s depression _______ moved numerous readers all over the world.

A. All the King’s Men B. The Grapes of Wrath C. The Jungle D. Octopus

26. Which of the following novel is NOT written by William Faulkner who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949?

A. The Sound and the Fury B. Absalom, Absalom!

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