2014秋华师作业《美国文学》.docVIP

美国文学作业 选择： 1．The scarlet letter “A” in the novel The Scarlet Letter at first stands for _____________. B.adultery 2．Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___. A.The Purloined Letter 3．The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by _____________. B.Thomas Paine 4．the sound ａnd the fury is a novel written by __________. D.William Faulkner 5．The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---. C. T. S. Eliot 6．the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ ａnd the grａndeur that was rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________. B.To Helen 7．Among the following titles, only one is not among the Leather-Stoking Tales series. It is______.D.Moby Dick 8．“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of the universal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay __________. B.Nature 9．The short poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was written by _________. B.William Carlos Williams 10．The Author of the short story A Gift for Maggie is ---. A. O. Henry 11． “by nature’s self in white arrayed\ she bade thee shun the vulgar eye,\ ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\ ａnd sent soft waters murmuring by; \ thus quietly thy summer goes,\ thy days declining to repose.” the rhyme scheme of the lines above is ______________. B.ababcc 12．In Poe’s tale “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the major female character Madeline is the titular hero Usher’s _____________. D.sister 13．Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---. A. John Steinbeck 14．The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________. B.Natty Bumpo 15．Puritans emphasized a ____God. B.wrathful 16． In 1881, Henry James published his novel____, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.