美国文学概论（吉林师范大学）智慧树知到网课章节测试答案

绪论 单元测试
1、判断题：We can define literature as language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages.（ ）
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
2、多选题：Hopefully, there are three very helpful approaches to the study of it: namely ( ), ( ), ( ).
A:historical approach
B:None of the other choices
C:thematic approach
D:analytical approach
答案: 【historical approach;thematic approach ;analytical approach】
第一章 单元测试
1、单选题：The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was( ).
A:American Puritanism
B:Idealism
C:Transcendentalism
D:Enlightenment
答案: 【American Puritanism】
2、单选题：The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the( ).
A:revolutionism
B:rationalism
C:reason
D:individualism
答案: 【individualism】
3、单选题：During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ( ).
A:Romanticist Movement
B:Modernist Movement
C:Chartist Movement
D:Enlightenment Movement
答案: 【Enlightenment Movement 】
4、单选题：Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call ( ).
A:Age of Evolution
B:Age of Reason
C:Age of Romanticism
D:Age of Regionalism
答案: 【Age of Reason 】
5、判断题：The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in the early part of the 16th century.( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【错】
6、判断题：Benjamin Franklin seemed to represent the age of reason and revolution in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change.（ ）
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
7、判断题：Common Sense boldly advocated a Declaration of Independence.（ ）
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
8、判断题：Philip Freneau was the most important writer in American poetry of the 18th century.（ ）
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
9、多选题：Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American Republic?( )
A:The Federalist
B:The Autobiography
C:Declaration of Independence
D:The American Crisis
答案: 【The Federalist ;Declaration of Independence;The American Crisis】
10、多选题：Who are not considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?( )
A:Anne Bradstreet
B:Edward Taylor
C:Philip Freneau
D:Walt Whitman
答案: 【Anne Bradstreet;Edward Taylor;Walt Whitman】
第二章 单元测试
1、单选题：In （ ）, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secrets.
A:The Birthmark
B:Earth’s Holocaust
C:The Minister’s Black Veil
D:Young Goodman Brown
答案: 【Young Goodman Brown】
2、单选题：The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in ( ).
A:Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
B:Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The American Scholar
C:Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
D:Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
答案: 【Henry David Thoreau’s Walden】
3、单选题：The masterpiece of Walt Whitman is ( ).
A:Leaves of Grass
B:Drum-Taps
C:O, Captain, My Captain
D:Song of Myself
答案: 【Leaves of Grass】
4、单选题：Edgar Allan Poe was the first American artist in the American Literature, who influenced the European, especially the ( ) writers of the following generations.
A:Italian
B:English
C:German
D:French
答案: 【French 】
5、判断题：Democracy and political equality became the ideals of the romantic period in America. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
6、判断题：Emily Dickinson is good at the charm of something but dropping the thing itself. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
7、判断题：Romantic values were prominent in American politics, art, and philosophy until the Civil War.（ ）
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
8、判断题：As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
9、多选题：Led by ( ) and ( ) , there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.
A:Walt Whitman
B:Henry David Thoreau
C:Ralph Waldo Emerson
D:Herman Melville
答案: 【Henry David Thoreau;Ralph Waldo Emerson】
10、多选题：Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature. ( )
A:Nathaniel Hawthorne
B:Benjamin Franklin
C:Henry David Thoreau
D:Ralph Waldo Emerson
答案: 【Nathaniel Hawthorne;Henry David Thoreau ;Ralph Waldo Emerson】
第三章 单元测试
1、单选题：The appearance of ( )’s The Luck of Roaring Camp in 1868 marked a significant development in the brief history of local color fiction.
A:Hamlin Garland
B:Kate Chopin
C:Bret Harte
D:Harriet Beecher Stowe
答案: 【Bret Harte】
2、单选题：With William Dean Howells, Henry James and Mark Twain active on the scene, ( ) became the major trend in the 1870s and 1980s.
A:Romanticism
B:Sentimentalism
C:Naturalism
D:Realism
答案: 【Realism 】
3、单选题：Mark Twain created, in ( ), a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
A:The Gilded Age
B:The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
C:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
答案: 【The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn】
4、单选题：( ), one of the greatest war novels comes from Stephen Crane.
A:The Blue Hotel
B:Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
C:The Red Badge of Courage
D:Open Boat
答案: 【The Red Badge of Courage】
5、判断题：Generally speaking, London was much more interested in ideas than Crane and less sentimental than Norris. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
6、判断题：The ultimate aim of the local colorists is to create the illusion of an indigenous little world with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
7、判断题：Jack London was usually considered as a naturalist by literary historians. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
8、判断题：After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
9、多选题：There are some important influences of American literature of Realism including ( ).
A:the Civil War
B:capitalism
C:mechanization
D:industrialization
答案: 【the Civil War;capitalism;mechanization ;industrialization】
10、多选题：Choose the three staunch advocates of nineteenth-century American realism ( ).
A:Henry James
B:Jack London
C:William Dean Howells
D:Mark Twain
答案: 【Henry James;William Dean Howells ;Mark Twain】
第四章 单元测试
1、单选题：“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by ( ).
A:Ezra Pound
B:Thomas Stearns Eliot
C:E. E. Cummings
D:Robert Frost
答案: 【Ezra Pound】
2、单选题：The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the ( ).
A:War of Independence
B:Civil War
C:Second World War
D:First World War
答案: 【Second World War 】
3、单选题：Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost ? ( )
A:A Witness Tree
B:Steeple Bush
C:Tilbury Town
D:In the Clearing
答案: 【Tilbury Town 】
4、单选题：The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name was ( ).
A:Ernest Hemingway
B:Sinclair Lewis
C:William Faulkner
D:Thomas Stearns Eliot
答案: 【Sinclair Lewis】
5、判断题：The form and direction of modern American literature had clearly begun to emerge in the first decade of the 20th century. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
6、判断题：Three American writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature during the years between the two world wars. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】
7、判断题：Although short-lived, the Imagist movement had a tremendous influence on modern poetry. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
8、判断题：Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【错】
9、多选题：Early in the 20th century, ( ) and ( ) published works that would change the nature of American poetry.
A:Robert Frost
B:T. S. Eliot
C:Ezra Pound
D:Walt Whitman
答案: 【T. S. Eliot;Ezra Pound】
10、多选题：The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are ( ).
A:clear rhythm
B:None of the other choices
C:direct treatment
D:economy of expression
答案: 【clear rhythm;direct treatment;economy of expression 】
第五章 单元测试
1、单选题：The novel of postmodernism after the 1960s includes ( ).
A:both A and C
B:the sentimental
C:the absurd
D:metafiction
答案: 【both A and C 】
2、单选题：William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac belong to ( ).
A:the Black Mountain Poets
B:the Confessional School
C:novelists of absurdity
D:the Beat Writers
答案: 【the Beat Writers】
3、单选题：The first confessional poem is ( ) written by Robert Lowell, a famous American poet.
A:Life Studies
B:Skunk Hour
C:None of the other choices
D:Waking in the Blue
答案: 【Life Studies】
4、单选题：( ) was the first to announce that the traditional novel is dead, and that traditional novelistic resources have been exhausted.
A:Saul Bellow
B:Ralph Ellison
C:Norman Mailer
D:John Barth
答案: 【John Barth】
5、判断题：The life of the 1950s was poisoned at the root by McCarthyism. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
6、判断题：Like modernism, postmodernism rejects all boundaries. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
7、判断题：The Black Mountain School emerged in 1960s and consisted of a group of writers, professors and artists in Black Mountain College, a school of literature and art in North Carolina which established in 1933 and suspended in 1956. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】
8、判断题：The work of the San Francisco School — which includes most West Coast poetry in general — owes much to Eastern philosophy and religion, as well as to Japanese and Chinese poetry. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
9、多选题：One major characteristic of postwar poetry is its diversity. Which of the following terms belong to this period？( )
A:Waste Land Painters
B:Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance
C:the Black Mountain Poets
D:Poets of the Beat Generation
答案: 【Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance;the Black Mountain Poets;Poets of the Beat Generation】
10、多选题：The so－called New York School includes the poets ( ).
A:Frank O’Hara
B:James Schuyler
C:John Ashberry
D:Kenneth Koch
答案: 【Frank O’Hara;James Schuyler;John Ashberry ;Kenneth Koch】
第六章 单元测试
1、单选题：What was Ralph Ellison’s novel that was the story of an unnamed African man who could not be seen because people chose not to see him? ( )
A:Three Days Before the Shooting
B:Invisible Man
C:Shadow and Act
D:Flying Home
答案: 【Invisible Man】
2、单选题：This lady was a record breaker for the literature and women writers! She was a slave that learned to read and write from her masters, who also encouraged her to write poetry. Her work was praised by the British and Americans alike during the American Revolutionary War. Who was the first African American lady poet to publish a book in the United States? ( )
A:Maya Angelou
B:Sojourner Truth
C:Phillis Wheatley
D:Alice Walker
答案: 【Phillis Wheatley】
3、单选题：Where is Morrison’s 1992 novel Jazz set? ( )
A:Soho in the 1950s
B:Harlem in the 1920s
C:Chicago in the 1940s
D:New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century
答案: 【Harlem in the 1920s】
4、单选题：Alphonso (Celie’s stepfather) never revealed that Celie and Nettie were not his biological children because ( ).
A:he promised their mother he would never reveal the truth.
B:he did not want to hurt them.
C:he thought he was indeed their father.
D:he wanted their inheritance rights.
答案: 【he wanted their inheritance rights.】
5、判断题：Several African Americans became famous for their autobiographies about their lives as slaves, including Frederick Douglass, who became a leading figure in the abolitionist movement. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
6、判断题：After the end of slavery and the American civil war, a number of African-American authors wrote nonfiction works about the condition of African Americans in the United States. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
7、判断题：Morrison’s novels are mostly set in a black community in the thirties or forties, but they do not merely tell stories about a particular community during a particular period. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
8、判断题：Mister is Celie’s husband who originally tries to seek a relationship with Nettie but settles for Celie. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
9、多选题：About the fourth development stage of American Jewish literature, which are right? ( )
A:American Jewish writers dominated the American literary world and became outstanding writers in this period.
B:During this period, the economy of the United States developed rapidly.
C:In politics, in the 1950s, the United States was full of closed and conservative ideas.
D:The fourth period was from 1945 to 1973.
答案: 【American Jewish writers dominated the American literary world and became outstanding writers in this period.;During this period, the economy of the United States developed rapidly.;In politics, in the 1950s, the United States was full of closed and conservative ideas.;The fourth period was from 1945 to 1973.】
10、多选题：Choose the Chinses American writers. ( )
A:Amy Tan
B:Maxine Hong Kingston
C:Frank Chin
D:Sui Sin Far
答案: 【Amy Tan;Maxine Hong Kingston;Frank Chin;Sui Sin Far】
第七章 单元测试
1、单选题：When did Eugene O’Neill get Nobel Prize for literature? ( )
A:1948
B:1952
C:1936
D:1955
答案: 【1936】
2、单选题：“American Shakespeare” refers to ( ).
A:Tennessee Williams
B:Edward Albee
C:Elmer Rice
D:Eugene O’Neill
答案: 【Eugene O’Neill】
3、单选题：Death of a Salesman is written by ( ).
A:Tennessee Williams
B:Elmer Rice
C:Arthur Miller
D:Clifford Odets
答案: 【Arthur Miller】
4、单选题：Waiting for Lefty, written by ( ) a short play about a New York taxi-drivers’ strike, with its famous agitprop ending and its influential use of European expressionist methods proved to be a very brilliant and impressive performance on Broadway.
A:Clifford Odets
B:Tennessee Williams
C:Elmer Rice
D:Eugene O’Neill
答案: 【Clifford Odets】
5、判断题：Long Day’s Journey into Night is set in the summer home of the Tyrone family, August 1912. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
6、判断题：The American dramatic tradition began with Ye Bare and Ye Cubb (1665) by William Darby and other two author-performers. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
7、判断题：The first American tragedy to be staged was The Contrast written by Royall Tyler (1757-1826), and first played in New York City in 1787. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】
8、判断题：Poetic plays were very popular in the first half of the 19th century. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
9、多选题：Choose the playwrights who belong to the 1940s? ( )
A:Arthur Miller
B:William Inge
C:David Mamet
D:Tennessee Williams
答案: 【Arthur Miller;William Inge;Tennessee Williams】
10、多选题：Choose the playwrights who belong to the 1960s? ( )
A:David Mamet
B:August Wilson
C:Sam Shepard
D:Edward Albee
答案: 【David Mamet;Sam Shepard;Edward Albee】