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1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.
A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic
impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ .
A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism 3. ____________were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth.
A. Calvinists B. Puritans
C. Romanticists D. Transcendentalists 4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____.
A. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices
B. looking upon themselves as a chosen people
C. tolerating others’ beliefs and sought for a happy and an easy life
D. wishing to restore simplicity to church serves and emphasized the image of a wrathful God
5. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_______.
A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Scarlet Letter C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers 6. American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)
“_______,” devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization．
A. Lost Generation B. Beat Generation C. Sons of Liberty D. Angry Young Men
7. In James Fenimore Cooper’s novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal, come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following items.
A. The Mohican Chief Chingachgook B. Uncas C. Tome Jones D. Both A and B
8. The “Father of American Poetry” is ____.
A. William Cullen Bryant B. Philip Freneau
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Edgar Allan Poe
9. Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby Dick C. White Jacket D. Billy Budd
10. In addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil.
A. Henry David Thoreau B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Herman Melville
11. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet,
rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A. Southern B. Western C. New Hampshire D. New England 12. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _____ in the American literary history.
A. individual feelings
B. idea of survival of the fittest C. strong imagination D. return to nature
13. Cooper’s story of the “frontier saga” is made up of 5 famous novels that comprise the ________ Tales, in which the main character is Natty Bumppo.
A. Leather stocking tales B. The Deer Slayer C. Sea Adventure D. The Romantic
14. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed.
A. man and man B. men and women
C. man and nature D. men and God
15. From Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience came his famous essay, ______ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A.
Walden B. Nature
C.
Civil
Disobedience D. Common Sense
16. Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature.
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Herman Melville
E .Walt Whitman F. All of the above
17 The desire for an escape form society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in ____.
A. James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales B. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden C. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn D. All of the above
18. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________.
A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images
C. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language
19. Emerson based his religion on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called ________.
A. the Spirit B. the Over-lord C. the oversoul D. the Self
20. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ .
A. vernacular B. interior monologue C. point of view D. photographic description IV. Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions. 1 “We passed the School, where Children strove/ At Recess—in the Ring—/We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—/We passed the Setting Sun—”
1) What is the title of the poem? 2) Who does “we” refer to?
3) What does “the School”, “the Fields of Gazing Grain”, and “the Setting Sun” imply respectively? 4) Where are “we” going?
2．Read the passage and answer questions.
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perceptual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe
and adore: and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
Questions:
Where is this passage taken and who is the author? What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years? 3. Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act—act in the glorious Present! Heart within, and God o’er head! 1) Who is the poet?
2) What is the title of the poem?
3) What does the poet want to tell in these lines? 4. “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence：Two roads diverged in a wood，and I—I took the one less traveled by，And that has made all the difference.” 1) Identify the poem and the poet.
2) What does the phrase “ages and ages hence” mean? 3) Why does the poet say “that has made all the difference”?
4) What idea does the quoted passage express?
5 “But I have promises to keep,/ And many miles to go before I sleep,/And many miles to go before I sleep.” 1) What is the title of the poem?
2) What does “promises” mean in this poem?
3) Why does the poet say “And many miles to go before I sleep,/And many miles to go before I sleep.”?
4) What does “And many miles to go before I sleep,/And many miles to go before I sleep” mean?
6. Read a passage and answer questions (10”)
Hester Prynne’s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into sunshine which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger. Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph. Questions;
Which novel is this selection taken from? What is the name of the novelist? What do you think is the symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter on Hester’s breast?
VI. Topic discussions or brief answers.
1 Why is it said that New England from the beginning had a
literature of ideas?
13. The following poem was written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life Study it carefully, then analyze the poem stanza by stanza and comment the theme of the poem.
3. What symbols does the writer use in the story of The Scarlet
Letter and what do they each symbolize, including the names of the main characters?
4. What are the artistic achievements of Edgar Allan Poe?.(10”)
5. What are the thematic concerns and the artistic characteristics of Emily Dickenson’s poetry? .(10”)
6. What is the theme of Rip Van Wrinkle? List the major works of Washington Irving and discuss the artistic characteristics of his works.(10”)
7. What is American Romanticism? (Your answer should include
such aspects as the time, characteristics, representatives, and influences, etc)? 8. What is Transcendentalism? 9. What is American realism? 10. What is American naturalism?
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