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美国文学史考试样卷默认分类 2011-02-22 15:58:17 阅读10 评论0 字号：大中小 订阅 卷号：（B） 　（2009年7月）　绝密 湖北师范学院文理学院本科期末考试试卷 美国文学史 I. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %): 1. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______. a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery 2._____________was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Edward Taylor c. Thomas Paine d. Philip Freneau 3.Mark Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature. a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism 4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism. a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau 5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________. a. Washington Irving b.Ezra Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson 6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism. a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe 7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality. a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. William Dean Howells 8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser 9. ________’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain 10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. . a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain 11. _____