【正文】 s primary concern is to present the_________. A. inner life of human beings B. American Civil War and its effects C. life on the Mississippi River D. Calvinistic view of original Sin59. Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner39。s belief that all men are by nature evil C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his storyD. that Puritans of Hawthorne39。美國文學(xué)選擇題題庫1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. Ahab B. IshmaelC. Stubb D. Starbuck2. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing bees less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.A. rational B. humorousC. optimistic D. pessimistic3. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ .A. The Genius B. The TycoonC. The Stoic D. The Giant4. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenthcentury French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ .A. local colorism B. vernacularismC. modernism D. naturalism5. Robert Frost bined 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. WesternC. New Hampshire D. New England6. As an autobiographical play, O’Neill’s ___________(1956) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the ing of age of American drama.A. The Iceman Cometh B. Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. The Hairy Ape D. Desire Under the Elms7. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern streamofconsciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.A. impressionism B. expressionismC. multiple points of view D. first person point of view8. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________.A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language9. 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 description10. It is on his____________ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European toursC. early poetry D. tales about America11. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “____________________”.　　A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance　　C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance12. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________.　　A. nature, man and the universe　　B. the relationship between man and woman　　C. the development of Romanticism in American literature　　D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism13. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is NOT right?　　A. It’s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.　　B. It’s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.　　C. It’s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.　 D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.14. The great sea adventure story MobyDick is usually considered____________.　　A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.　　B. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with nature　　C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventureD. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty15. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”　　A. free verse B. blank verse　　C. alliteration D. end rhyming16. After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.A. an agrarian munity … an industrialized and mercialized societyB. an agrarian munity … a society of freedom and equalityC. a poor and backward society … an industrialized and mercialized societyD. an industrialized and mercialized society … a highly developed society17. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.C. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh environment.D. Their characters were conceived more or less plex binations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.18. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language?A. His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.B. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straightfaced exaggeration， repetition and anticlimax.D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.19. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influe