英美文学练习题库及答案.doc

《英美文学》练习测试题库及答案 本科 I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement: Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small _____________. A. Landlord B. merchant C. lawyer D. clergyman Ralph Waldo Emerson’s leading reputation began with the publication of_____________. A. Essays B. Nature C. Oversoul D. Self-Relience Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _____________________. A. dramatist B. essayist C actor D. fiction writer. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates in __________________. A. Puritanism B. Socialism C. Transcendentalism D. naturalism Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________. A. Peasant B. carpenter C. captain D. printer Mark Twain’s first successful literary work is _____________________________. A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County B. Life on the Mississippi C. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning _______________. A. Childhood B.youth and happiness C. loneliness D. death and immortality Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _________________. A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. Th Financier D. The Titan Robert Frost’s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________________. A. the West B. American South C. New England D. Mississippi Most of the plays Eugene O’Neill wrote are _______________________. A. comedies B. . romances C. historical plays D tragedies Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________. A. modern time B. young Americans C. Jazz Age D. Guilded Age _______________________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which is about the old fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin. A. Farewell to Arms B. For whom the Bell T