微信小程序绪论 单元测试
1、单选题：
How many periods can be divided in American literary history?
选项：
A:2
B:3
C:1
D:6
答案: 【6】
2、单选题：
Who is a writer in the American colonial period?
选项：
A:Hawthorne
B:Pound
C:Melville
D:Edwards
答案: 【Edwards】
3、单选题：
The representative of American local colorism is
选项：
A:Eliot
B:Williams
C:Cooper
D:Mark Twain
答案: 【Mark Twain】
4、判断题：
T.S.Eliot is an American author.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
5、判断题：
American Romanticism stretches from 1800 to 1865.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
第一章 单元测试
1、单选题：
The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them_____.
选项：
A:Quakers
B:Catholics
C:Puritans
D:Anglicans
答案: 【Puritans】
2、单选题：
It is a critical commonplace now that American literature is based on a myth, that is, ________.
选项：
A:The Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden
B:The legend of the sleepy Hollow
C:The ancient Greek myth of Zeus
D:The British myth of the Saint Grail
答案: 【The Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden】
3、判断题：
Puritans 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.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
4、判断题：
American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
5、判断题：
The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in the early part of 18 century.
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】
第二章 单元测试
1、单选题：
The first symbol of self-made American man is___
选项：
A:Irving
B:Jefferson
C:Washington
D:Franklin
答案: 【Franklin】
2、单选题：
In 18th century, ____was the last great voice of theCalvinist stance.
选项：
A:Benjamin Franklin
B:Bradstreet
C:Edward
D:Cooper
答案: 【Benjamin Franklin】
3、单选题：
In“the Great Awakening”, ____was the last great voice toreannounce the Calvinist stance
选项：
A:Edward
B:Bradstreet
C:BenjaminFranklin
D:Cooper
答案: 【BenjaminFranklin】
4、判断题：
Eighteenth-century American thinking was dominated, by and large, by 2 patterns of thought.
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
5、判断题：
American Romanticism stretches from 1800 to 1865.
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
第三章 单元测试
1、单选题：
The Romantic Period in the history of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s _________ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
选项：
A:Drum Taps
B:Walden
C:Song of Myself
D:The Sketch Book
答案: 【The Sketch Book】
2、单选题：
Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of American literature is NOT true?
选项：
A:There was a strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man.
B:In most of the American writings of this period there was a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature.
C:The writers of this period placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.
D:Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of reason and nationality.
答案: 【Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of reason and nationality.】
3、单选题：
The New England Transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in New England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _________ in Boston. （ ）
选项：
A:Unitarianism
B:Calvinism
C:Puritanism
D:Classicism
答案: 【Puritanism】
4、单选题：
As one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales, Young Goodman Brown is written in the manner of its concern with_________. （ ）
选项：
A:moral and corruption
B:good and bad
C:guilt and evil
D:destruction and hope
答案: 【guilt and evil】
5、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing?（ ）
选项：
A:Allegory
B:Free verse
C:Musicality and rhythm
D:The use of the poetic“I”
答案: 【Allegory】
第四章 单元测试
1、单选题：
Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________.
选项：
A:highly refined language
B:ordinary American speech
C:abundance of local images
D:short, clear sentences
答案: 【highly refined language】
2、单选题：
One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ .
选项：
A:vernacular
B:photographic description
C:interior monologue
D:point of view
答案: 【vernacular】
3、单选题：
Which of the following is right about Mark Twain’s language?
选项：
A:His sentence structures are short, ungrammatical and difficult to read.
B:His style of language hadn’t exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.
C:His words are fomal.
D:His seldom use humor.
答案: 【His sentence structures are short, ungrammatical and difficult to read.】
4、单选题：
Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language?
选项：
A:His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.
B:His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration，repetition and anti-climax.
C:His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.
D:His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.
答案: 【His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.】
5、单选题：
With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______becamethe major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury．
选项：
A:Realism
B:Romanticism
C:Sentimentalism
D:Naturalism
答案: 【Realism】
第五章 单元测试
1、单选题：
Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
选项：
A:expressionism
B:first person point of view
C:mutiple points of view
D:impressionism
答案: 【mutiple points of view】
2、单选题：
In the first part of the 20th century，apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers -______， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.
选项：
A:the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud
B:the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud
C:the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud
D:the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James
答案: 【the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud】
3、单选题：
Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?
选项：
A:They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.
B:They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces.
C:They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern world.
D:Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment.
答案: 【They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern world.】
4、单选题：
Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms?
选项：
A:The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.
B:It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian nurse.
C:The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’s design or his beneficence.
D:The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930s.
答案: 【The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.】
5、单选题：
To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.
选项：
A:both A and B.
B:observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the events.
C:reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum.
D:observe with no judgment whatsoever.
答案: 【both A and B.】
第六章 单元测试
1、判断题：
The Cold War happened in 1950s.
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
2、判断题：
One of the most ambitious writers of this period is J.D.Salinger.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
3、判断题：
J.D.Salinger only wrote one novel and became famous for it.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
4、判断题：
Salinger was born into a Jewish middle class family.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
5、判断题：
The Catcher in the Rye ralates the painful story of a high-school boy growing up in the world of decadent New York.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
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