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Unit10MarkTwain
文章目录
- Unit10MarkTwain
- Unit11HenryJames
- Unit12StephenCrane
- Unit13WillaCather
- Unit14SherwoodAnderson
- Unit15F.ScottFitzgerald
- Unit16WilliamFaulkner
- Unit17ErnestHemingway
- Unit18EzraPound
- Unit19WilliamCarlosWilliams
- Unit1BenjaminFranklin
- Unit20RobertFrost
- Unit21LangstonHughes
- Unit22EugeneGlastoneO'Neill
- Unit23TennesseeWilliams
- Unit24RalphWaldoEllison
- Unit25RobertLowell
- Unit26AllenGinsberg
- Unit27MayaAngelou
- Unit28ArthurMiller
- Unit29SaulBellow
- Unit2RalphWaldoEmerson
- Unit30JosephHeller
- Unit31ToniMorrison
- Unit3NathanielHawthorne
- Unit4HermanMelville
- Unit5HenryDavidThoreau
- Unit6HenryWadsworthLongfellow
- Unit7EdgarAllanPoe
- Unit8WaltWhitman
- Unit9EmilyDickinson
MarkTwainQuiz
1、单选题：
Who is among the very few authors who have made their fame with the pen name?
选项：
A: William Faulkner
B: Henry James
C: Charles Dickens
D: Samuel Clemens
答案: 【 Samuel Clemens】
2、单选题：
Mark Twain has been crowned as __________ by William Faulkner.
选项：
A: The father of Literature
B: The forerunner of Western Literature
C: The Father of American Literature
D: The father of humor
答案: 【 The Father of American Literature】
3、单选题：
What is true of Adventure of Huckleberry Finn?
选项：
A: It is a book which people praise and don’t read.
B: It is a book which people read and don’t praise.
C: It is a classic that is both praised and still read.
D: It is not a classic but it is praised and read by people.
答案: 【 It is a classic that is both praised and still read.】
4、单选题：
Which of the following has a crucial influence on Twain’s very best fictions?
选项：
A: His job as a reporter.
B: His civil war experience.
C: His Hannibal boyhood.
D: His experience in New York.
答案: 【 His Hannibal boyhood.】
5、单选题：
What is Mark Twain’s first literary success?
选项：
A: The Gilded Age
B: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
D: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
答案: 【 “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”】
6、单选题：
Which of the following books of Mark Twain was thought to be an artistic failure?
选项：
A: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C: The Gilded Age
D: Life on the Mississippi
答案: 【 The Gilded Age】
7、单选题：
Mark Twain likes going on book tour wearing __________.
选项：
A: A white suit
B: A black suit
C: A white sweater
D: A red suit
答案: 【 A white suit】
8、单选题：
________________ contains bitter attacks on the human race.
选项：
A: Life on the Mississippi
B: The Mysterious Stranger
C: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
答案: 【 The Mysterious Stranger】
9、单选题：
The basic reason for Twain’s later literary change lies in ____________.
选项：
A: the death of his daughters
B: his poor health
C: the darkening social life
D: his failed investment
答案: 【 the darkening social life】
10、单选题：
In terms of realism, Mark Twain deals largely with the ___________ of society.
选项：
A: upper class
B: the privileged
C: middle class
D: lower class
答案: 【 lower class】
11、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT the features of Twain’s literary language?
选项：
A: Concrete
B: Colloquial
C: Direct
D: Sophisticated
答案: 【 Sophisticated】
12、单选题：
____________ almost always comes first and foremost whenever Twain’s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is discussed.
选项：
A: Humor
B: Satire
C: Local colorism
D: Realism
答案: 【 Humor】
13、单选题：
Which kind of humor can NOT be found in Twain’s famous frog story?
选项：
A: wild exaggeration
B: digression
C: satire
D: understatement
答案: 【 understatement】
14、单选题：
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was published when the _______________ ended.
选项：
A: American Independent War
B: First World War
C: Second World War
D: American Civil War
答案: 【 American Civil War 】
15、单选题：
The frog story is a comic sketch which is set in the ________ of America.
选项：
A: East
B: North
C: West
D: South
答案: 【 West】
16、单选题：
Readers’ unexpected reversal of expectations are triggered by Twain’s use of ___________ in the frog story.
选项：
A: colloquial expressions
B: humor
C: exaggeration
D: digression
答案: 【 digression】
17、单选题：
____________ is typical of the way in Twain’s best humor works.
选项：
A: Comic indeterminacy
B: Critical tone
C: Miniature stories
D: First-person narrative
答案: 【 Comic indeterminacy】
18、单选题：
The whole story of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was derived from the __________ Twain heard in the mining camp.
选项：
A: Tall tales
B: Legends
C: Folk stories
D: Jokes
答案: 【 Tall tales】
19、单选题：
According to Mark Twain, the most valuable capital in the building of novels is ______________.
选项：
A: narrative structure
B: personal experience
C: geographical setting
D: figurative speech
答案: 【 personal experience】
20、单选题：
______________, popular in the late 19th century, is a unique variation of American literary realism.
选项：
A: Feminism
B: Mannerism
C: Local colorism
D: Colloquialism
答案: 【 Local colorism】
Unit11HenryJames
HenryJamesQuiz
1、单选题：
As a passionate pilgrim in search of experience, Henry James was born in ___________.
选项：
A: a poor family
B: England
C: a wealthy family
D: France
答案: 【 a wealthy family】
2、单选题：
Which of the following influential thinkers was not connected with the father of Henry James?
选项：
A: Henry David Thoreau
B: Ernest Miller Hemingway
C: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D: Nathaniel Hawthorne
答案: 【 Ernest Miller Hemingway】
3、单选题：
The brother of Henry James is ______________.
选项：
A: William James, a noted philosopher and psychologist
B: William James, a wealthy businessman
C: Steven James, a noted psychologist
D: Steven James, a famous literary writer
答案: 【 William James, a noted philosopher and psychologist】
4、单选题：
Henry James shares a life-long friendship with __________, who later becomes his “moral police”.
选项：
A: Gustave Flaubert
B: Honoré de Balzac
C: Henry David Thoreau
D: William Dean Howells
答案: 【 William Dean Howells】
5、单选题：
As an author working for realism, Henry James ______________.
选项：
A: deals with the middle class
B: deals with the lower class
C: deals with the working class
D: deals with the upper class
答案: 【 deals with the upper class】
6、单选题：
Which of the following is James’ major fictional theme?
选项：
A: The international theme
B: The inevitable fate of the humans
C: The evils existing in the society
D: The equal rights of women
答案: 【 The international theme】
7、单选题：
Henry James’s literary life can be divided into _______________.
选项：
A: two distinctive periods
B: three distinctive periods
C: four distinctive periods
D: five distinctive periods
答案: 【 three distinctive periods】
8、单选题：
The American (1877) deals with the stories of the __________ American who confront the ___________ of European life.
选项：
A: sophisticated; innocence
B: traditionless; sophistication
C: complex; superiority
D: traditionless; innocence
答案: 【 traditionless; sophistication】
9、单选题：
Which of the following novels brought James his first international fame?
选项：
A: The Ambassadors
B: The Portrait of a Lady
C: The American
D: Daisy Miller
答案: 【 Daisy Miller】
10、单选题：
James’s reputation is founded on his versatile studies of ____________, who insists upon American standards in European society.
选项：
A: “The American entrepreneur”
B: “The American girl”
C: “The European girl”
D: “The European aristocrat”
答案: 【 “The American girl”】
11、单选题：
Which of the following does NOT fit the description of Henry James?
选项：
A: the forerunner of the “stream-of-consciousness” movement
B: the first of the “modern psychological novelists”
C: “a realist of the inner life”
D: the first of the “postmodern novelists”
答案: 【 the first of the “postmodern novelists”】
12、单选题：
During 1882-1895, ____________ were public failures as were James’s attempts to write for the stage.
选项：
A: His novels of inter-personal relationships
B: His novels of international theme
C: His novels of the American girl
D: His novels of psychological realism
答案: 【 His novels of inter-personal relationships】
13、单选题：
Which literary period of James’s creative life is praised as “The Major Phase”?
选项：
A: the first period
B: the second period
C: the third period
D: the fourth period
答案: 【 the third period】
14、单选题：
To Henry James, _______ is important in its own ways, and it must be related to life.
选项：
A: history
B: art
C: everyday life
D: psychology
答案: 【 art】
15、单选题：
Which of the following fits the description of Henry James’s reputation?
选项：
A: His greatest influence was exerted on his own age.
B: At the time of his death, his audience was big and impact huge.
C: His literary significance has been gradually recognized with the development of the modern novel and the Freudian approach.
D: He was influential and well-accepted all through his life.
答案: 【 His literary significance has been gradually recognized with the development of the modern novel and the Freudian approach.】
16、单选题：
In The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer is presented as a _________ American girl who comes into a great deal of money and confront her destiny.
选项：
A: sophisticated
B: complex
C: free-spirited
D: hypocritical
答案: 【 free-spirited】
17、单选题：
Gilbert Osmond, the man Isabel finally marries, is ______________.
选项：
A: a man of social standing and wealth
B: fundamentally cold and cruel
C: the finest gentleman in Europe
D: cultivated both outwardly and inwardly
答案: 【 fundamentally cold and cruel】
18、单选题：
The Portrait of a Lady stands as a perfect example in addressing _____________.
选项：
A: the difference between the “old world” and the “new world”
B: the similarities between the European values and the American values
C: the fine traditions of the European culture
D: the sophistication of the American culture
答案: 【 the difference between the “old world” and the “new world”】
19、单选题：
By the time The Portrait of a Lady was written though, the literary tradition associated with the Old World was in a state of ______________.
选项：
A: booming prosperity
B: growth
C: popularity
D: decadence
答案: 【 decadence】
20、单选题：
As a great psychological realist, many of James’s stories can be considered as ______________.
选项：
A: psychological thought-experiments
B: an abstract philosophical consideration
C: product of philosophical consideration
D: vivid example of social experiments
答案: 【 psychological thought-experiments】
Unit12StephenCrane
StephenCraneQuiz
1、单选题：
The most prominent American naturalist writers include_____.
选项：
A: Stephen Crane, Henry James, Jack London and a few others
B: Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris and a few others
C: Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, William Dean Howells and a few others
D: Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser and a few others
答案: 【 Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris and a few others】
2、单选题：
According to Theodore Dreiser, absent from the media then are_____.
选项：
A: the coarse and the cruel
B: the beauty and peace
C: the charm and discrepancy
D: the terrible and the current
答案: 【 the coarse and the cruel】
3、单选题：
To put in very simple terms, naturalism is about_____.
选项：
A: the imagination of nature and man
B: nature and scientific enquiry
C: adaptation of man to his natural environment
D: application of principles of scientific determinism to fiction and drama
答案: 【 application of principles of scientific determinism to fiction and drama】
4、单选题：
According to Emile Zola, the naturalist novel is_____.
选项：
A: a work of genius
B: a work of pure imagination
C: a work of craftsmanship
D: a work of observation and experiment
答案: 【 a work of observation and experiment】
5、单选题：
As remarked by Howells in terms of what literature should do, the “smiling aspects of life” most probably refers to_____.
选项：
A: the extreme end of life
B: the pleasant side of life
C: the true aspect of life
D: the harsh side of life
答案: 【 the pleasant side of life】
6、单选题：
With environment and heredity as two keywords in their writing, the naturalist writers generally regard the world as_____.
选项：
A: moral
B: immoral
C: amoral
D: morally-oriented
答案: 【 amoral】
7、单选题：
The concept “survival of the fittest” was put forward by_____.
选项：
A: Charles Darwin
B: Emile Zola
C: Stephen Crane
D: Herbert Spencer
答案: 【 Herbert Spencer】
8、单选题：
It is suggested that Stephen Crane’s first novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was initially rejected by editors and publishers for its description of_____.
选项：
A: women
B: slums
C: war
D: gentry class
答案: 【 slums】
9、单选题：
Supposedly, Henry Fleming, the protagonist in The Red Badge of Courage, chooses to go to the war partly for_____.
选项：
A: glory
B: justice
C: hatred
D: revenge
答案: 【 glory】
10、单选题：
To the naturalist writers, the universe is all but_____.
选项：
A: benevolent
B: malevolent
C: indifferent
D: pantheistic
答案: 【 benevolent】
11、单选题：
“The Open Boat”, one of Crane’s best-known short stories, is initially based on_____.
选项：
A: the author’s ingenious imagination
B: the author’s real-life experience
C: the author’s artistic creation
D: the author’s naturalist position
答案: 【 the author’s real-life experience】
12、单选题：
In the story “The Open Boat”, the phrase “many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat” is used to emphasize_____.
选项：
A: the courage of the four men in the boat
B: the irony of the story
C: the intensity of the situation
D: the indifference of the sea
答案: 【 the intensity of the situation】
13、单选题：
Of the four men in the boat, only the oiler’s name “Billie” is mentioned. The reason is probably that_____.
选项：
A: the other three don’t have a name
B: thematically those names are insignificant
C: naturalist writers are unwilling to give names
D: they are not the same type
答案: 【 thematically those names are insignificant】
14、单选题：
The anthropocentric view of man refers to the view of_____.
选项：
A: man as the center of universe
B: the universe as being indifferent
C: all beings as the center of universe
D: equality among all beings
答案: 【 man as the center of universe】
15、单选题：
As is pointed out by the narrator “It would be difficult to describe the subtle brotherhood of men that was here established on the seas.” This is supposed to mean that_____.
选项：
A: the four men are all friendly people
B: the four men have developed deep attachment to each other
C: the four men have only themselves to rely on
D: the four men treasure the time spent together
答案: 【 the four men have only themselves to rely on】
16、单选题：
The complaint “If she has decided to drown me, why did she not do it in the beginning and save me all this trouble. The whole affair is absurd…” implies that_____.
选项：
A: fate cannot possibly harm me
B: drowning is inevitable
C: existence itself is absurd
D: efforts will be rewarded
答案: 【 efforts will be rewarded】
17、单选题：
Of the four men in the boat, only_____dies in the end.
选项：
A: the captain
B: the oiler
C: the cook
D: the correspondent
答案: 【 the oiler】
18、单选题：
One very important stylistic feature of the story is_____.
选项：
A: the extensive use of various colors
B: the description of the hill-like waves
C: the description of the glamorous scene of the sea
D: the light-house on the shore
答案: 【 the extensive use of various colors】
19、单选题：
It is suggested that in this story the reader sees experience only through_____.
选项：
A: the eyes of the narrator
B: the eyes of the hero
C: the mind’s eye
D: the eyes of the correspondent
答案: 【 the eyes of the hero】
20、单选题：
Stephen Crane is referred to by critics as “an impressionist” mostly because of_____.
选项：
A: his impression of the sea
B: his impression of the universe
C: his use of nameless characters
D: his extensive use of colors
答案: 【 his extensive use of colors】
Unit13WillaCather
WillaCatherQuiz
1、单选题：
Willa Cather was the first modern novelist to find in the soil of the ______ and Southwest the rich cultural inheritance.
选项：
A: West
B: South
C: North
D: East
答案: 【 West】
2、单选题：
In 1883, Willa Cather’s family left ______ for ______.
选项：
A: Nebraska, Virginia
B: Virginia, Nebraska
C: Nebraska, California
D: California, Nebraska
答案: 【 Virginia, Nebraska】
3、单选题：
There are three famous towns in America that belong both to fact and to fiction: William Faulkner’s _____, Mississippi; _____’s Hannibal, Missouri; and Willa Cather’s _____ , Nebraska.
选项：
A: Red Cloud, Mark Twain, Oxford
B: Red Cloud, Henry James, Oxford
C: Oxford, Henry James, Red Cloud
D: Oxford, Mark Twain, Red Cloud
答案: 【 Oxford, Mark Twain, Red Cloud】
4、单选题：
_______ is Willa Cather’s first novel.
选项：
A: O Pioneers!
B: Alexander’s Bridge
C: The Song of the Lark
D: My Ántonia
答案: 【 Alexander’s Bridge】
5、单选题：
Alexandra is the main character of the novel __________.
选项：
A: O Pioneers!
B: Alexander’s Bridge
C: The Song of the Lark
D: One of Ours
答案: 【 O Pioneers!】
6、单选题：
In Willa Cather’s works, the town/east is __________.
选项：
A: morally higher
B: simple and meaningful
C: effete and corrupting
D: sophisticated and meaningful
答案: 【 effete and corrupting】
7、单选题：
__________ in most of Willa Cather’s novels is the center of moral reference against which modern existence is measured.
选项：
A: Old East
B: Old West
C: Old North
D: Old South
答案: 【 Old West】
8、单选题：
“The best days are the first to flee” is from _________.
选项：
A: My Ántonia
B: The Song of the Lark
C: One of Ours
D: O Pioneers!
答案: 【 My Ántonia】
9、单选题：
_________ gained Willa Cather the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
选项：
A: My Ántonia
B: The Song of the Lark
C: One of Ours
D: O Pioneers!
答案: 【 One of Ours】
10、单选题：
________ once said “On or about December 1910 human nature changed.”
选项：
A: Virginia Woolf
B: Willa Cather
C: Henry James
D: Sherwood Anderson
答案: 【 Virginia Woolf】
11、单选题：
Which of the following statement is NOT true about Willa Cather?
选项：
A: Willa Cather once claimed that “in 1922 or thereabouts, the world broke into two.”
B: Willa Cather was one of the few “uneasy survivors of the nineteenth century.”
C: Willa Cather lived in between the worlds, rejecting the modern and trying to escape into the refuge of the past.
D: Willa Cather tried her every effort to adapt to the times she lived in.
答案: 【 Willa Cather tried her every effort to adapt to the times she lived in.】
12、单选题：
Which of the following statement is NOT true about Willa Cather’s writing?
选项：
A: She wanted to stand midway between the journalists whose omniscient objectivity and the psychological novelist whose use of subjective point of view.
B: In Willa Cather’s writing, some experimental techniques are adopted, such as stream of consciousness.
C: Willa Cather’s greatest achievement remained her portrayals, with fine simplicity and what she called “the gift of sympathy”.
D: In Willa Cather’s writing, simple men and women struggled to find meaningful lives in the midst of adversity.
答案: 【 In Willa Cather’s writing, some experimental techniques are adopted, such as stream of consciousness.】
13、单选题：
Which of the following statements is NOT true about toward the end of the 19th century?
选项：
A: American economy was developing at a quick rate.
B: Old moral codes were breaking down.
C: Men improved their own lives in the pursuit of morality.
D: Possession of money became the standard of success.
答案: 【 Men improved their own lives in the pursuit of morality.】
14、单选题：
Willa Cather claimed _____________ : “Our present is ruined — but we had a beautiful past”.
选项：
A: in her old age
B: when she got Pulitzer Prize
C: after the Second World War broke out
D: after the First World War broke out
答案: 【 after the First World War broke out】
15、单选题：
Cather began to write ________ during the First World War.
选项：
A: One of Ours
B: O Pioneers!
C: The Song of the Lark
D: My Ántonia
答案: 【 My Ántonia】
16、单选题：
In My Ántonia, the memories related to Ántonia is narrated by ________.
选项：
A: Ántonia’s husband
B: Jim Burden
C: The author
D: Ántonia’s female friends
答案: 【 Jim Burden】
17、单选题：
Ántonia ___________.
选项：
A: is directed by the social standards
B: an ideal of the wonderful past
C: always tries to imitate other people
D: is sad when she works like men
答案: 【 an ideal of the wonderful past】
18、单选题：
In My Ántonia, ______________.
选项：
A: the male characters and female characters are equal
B: the male characters are nice, responsible and strong-minded
C: the female characters defy the male-dominated Victorian culture
D: the female characters are sheltered and fragile
答案: 【 the female characters defy the male-dominated Victorian culture】
19、单选题：
__________ is regarded as Cather’s greatest.
选项：
A: Alexander’s Bridge
B: O Pioneers!
C: The Song of the Lark
D: My Ántonia
答案: 【 My Ántonia】
20、单选题：
Which of the following statements is NOT true about My Ántonia?
选项：
A: The prototype of most characters can be found in Cather’s childhood life.
B: For Cather, writing the novel is the process of reviewing the wonderful past.
C: My Ántonia is the second of Cather's “prairie trilogy” of novels.
D: After publication, My Ántonia brought attention to the hardships of immigrant life in the United States.
答案: 【 My Ántonia is the second of Cather's “prairie trilogy” of novels.】
Unit14SherwoodAnderson
SherwoodAndersonQuiz
1、单选题：
Sherwood Anderson’s works ___________.
选项：
A: are objective
B: focus on the rural and small-town life
C: focus on the urban and city life
D: portray the beauty of life
答案: 【 focus on the rural and small-town life】
2、单选题：
Sherwood Anderson’s sketches and tales drew upon his own experiences in the American _________ at the end of the nineteenth century.
选项：
A: Midwest
B: West
C: East
D: Southwest
答案: 【 Midwest】
3、单选题：
Sherwood Anderson _____________.
选项：
A: grew up in Winesburg, Ohio
B: was born in a wealthy family
C: got little formal education
D: served in the army for many years
答案: 【 got little formal education】
4、单选题：
When he was twenty Anderson left home for __________.
选项：
A: New York
B: Chicago
C: Seattle
D: Elyria
答案: 【 Chicago】
5、单选题：
At the age of ________, Anderson began his life as a writer, asserting, “I will be a servant to words alone.”
选项：
A: thirty
B: thirty-six
C: twenty-two
D: forty-two
答案: 【 thirty-six】
6、单选题：
By the turn of the century, the “little renaissance” in ________ provided a favorable avant-garde climate.
选项：
A: New York
B: Chicago
C: Philadelphia
D: Washington
答案: 【 Chicago】
7、单选题：
In 1919 Anderson’s fourth book and his masterpiece, _______________ , won international attention.
选项：
A: Winesburg, Ohio
B: Windy McPherson’s Son
C: Marching Men
D: Many Marriages
答案: 【 Winesburg, Ohio】
8、单选题：
Anderson’s works put emphasis on __________ figures.
选项：
A: lower class
B: middle class
C: upper class
D: the privileged class
答案: 【 lower class】
9、单选题：
Anderson’s works reflect the important period in American history, that is, __________.
选项：
A: a rural society
B: from a rural to a predominantly industrial society
C: an industrialized society
D: from an industrialized to a highly industrialized society
答案: 【 from a rural to a predominantly industrial society】
10、单选题：
In the times Anderson lived in, ________________ are the distinct features of America’s small-town life.
选项：
A: thwarted emotions
B: repressed drives and frustrated lives
C: distorted natures
D: all of the above
答案: 【 all of the above】
11、单选题：
Anderson was _____________.
选项：
A: among the earliest to reflect the reality
B: the first to write in colloquial style
C: among the earliest to respond to the new Freudian psychology
D: the first to try brief and simple sentences
答案: 【 among the earliest to respond to the new Freudian psychology】
12、单选题：
_________ acknowledged Anderson as “the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing which our successors will carry on”.
选项：
A: Ernest Hemingway
B: William Faulkner
C: F. Scott Fitzgerald
D: Ezra Pound
答案: 【 William Faulkner】
13、单选题：
The Triumph of the Egg, one of Anderson’s best works, was published in _____.
选项：
A: 1920
B: 1921
C: 1931
D: 1933
答案: 【 1921】
14、单选题：
The main theme of Sherwood Anderson’s most works is __________.
选项：
A: the conflicts between the lower and upper class
B: the conflicts between the lower and the privileged
C: the conflicts between the industrialization in the East and the closed culture and customs in the Midwest
D: the conflicts between the Midwest with closed culture and the subconscious instincts of the individual
答案: 【 the conflicts between the industrialization in the East and the closed culture and customs in the Midwest】
15、单选题：
The Triumph of the Egg is about a _________ family.
选项：
A: three-person
B: four-person
C: happy
D: special
答案: 【 three-person】
16、单选题：
__________ is the driving force of the family.
选项：
A: The grandfather
B: The mother
C: The father
D: The son
答案: 【 The mother】
17、单选题：
__________ is the focus of most of this story.
选项：
A: The grandfather
B: The mother
C: The father
D: The son
答案: 【 The father】
18、单选题：
Anderson relates the story from _________ view point.
选项：
A: the grandfather’s
B: the mother’s
C: the father’s
D: the son’s
答案: 【 the son’s】
19、单选题：
Which of the following statements is true about the plot of The Triumph of the Egg?
选项：
A: The parents start “getting up in the world” shortly after their son’s birth.
B: The father earns respect of the visitor.
C: The family makes a fortune by running a restaurant.
D: In the end, the family successfully gets up in the world.
答案: 【 The parents start “getting up in the world” shortly after their son’s birth.】
20、单选题：
What theme was first enunciated by Anderson and could be seen as his significant contribution to American literature?
选项：
A: Lower class figures with lonely and deformed souls who were never given attention by the society.
B: Lower class figures with healthy and positive souls who were never given attention by the society.
C: Upper class figures with healthy and positive souls who were never given attention by the society.
D: Upper class figures with lonely and deformed souls who were never given attention by the society.
答案: 【 Lower class figures with lonely and deformed souls who were never given attention by the society.】
Unit15F.ScottFitzgerald
F.ScottFitzgeraldQuiz
1、单选题：
________ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
选项：
A: Ernest Hemingway
B: F. Scott Fitzgerald
C: Ezra Pound
D: William Faulkner
答案: 【 F. Scott Fitzgerald 】
2、单选题：
Which of the following works does NOT belong to Fitzgerald?
选项：
A: This Side of Paradise
B: The Beautiful and Damned
C: Tender Is the Night
D: The Sound and the Fury
答案: 【 The Sound and the Fury】
3、单选题：
Fitzgerald’s formative years in Buffalo revealed him to be a boy of unusual intelligence with a keen early interest in _________
选项：
A: literature
B: law
C: history
D: philosophy
答案: 【 literature 】
4、单选题：
What war did Fitzgerald participate in?
选项：
A: World War I
B: World War II
C: Vietnam War
D: Spanish War
答案: 【 World War I 】
5、单选题：
During the winter of 1917, Fitzgerald was stationed at Fort Leavenworth and was a student of future United States President _________.
选项：
A: Harry Truman
B: Franklin Roosevelt
C: Dwight Eisenhower
D: John Kennedy
答案: 【 Dwight Eisenhower】
6、单选题：
What university did Fitzgerald go to?
选项：
A: Yale University
B: Harvard University
C: Princeton University
D: Cornell University
答案: 【 Princeton University 】
7、单选题：
What was Fitzgerald’s first novel?
选项：
A: This Side of Paradise
B: The Beautiful and Damned
C: Tender Is the Night
D: The Great Gatsby
答案: 【 This Side of Paradise】
8、单选题：
When Fitzgerald proposed to Zelda, she accepted but later broke it off. Why?
选项：
A: Because her father wouldn’t let her marry him.
B: Because he cheated on her.
C: Because his job couldn’t support her lifestyle.
D: Because he put her in a psychiatric hospital.
答案: 【 Because his job couldn’t support her lifestyle. 】
9、单选题：
When did Sayre and Fitzgerald marry?
选项：
A: 1925
B: 1924
C: 1922
D: 1920
答案: 【 1920】
10、单选题：
Who claimed that Zelda “encouraged her husband to drink so as to distract Fitzgerald from his work on his novel”?
选项：
A: Ezra Pound
B: Robert Frost
C: Ernest Hemingway
D: William Faulkner
答案: 【 Ernest Hemingway 】
11、单选题：
Fitzgerald died of __________ at the age of 44.
选项：
A: stroke
B: heart attack
C: hypertension
D: tuberculosis
答案: 【 heart attack 】
12、单选题：
The Great Gatsby is a story about _______________.
选项：
A: true love
B: success
C: redemption of sin
D: disillusionment
答案: 【 disillusionment 】
13、单选题：
When we say the words “Roaring Twenties” , which of the following might NOT pop into your head?
选项：
A: Flappers.
B: Cool cars
C: The Beat Generation
D: Parties
答案: 【 The Beat Generation 】
14、单选题：
The Great Gatsby was published in ________.
选项：
A: 1925
B: 1924
C: 1922
D: 1920
答案: 【 1925 】
15、单选题：
The narrator of The Great Gatsby is __________
选项：
A: Jay Gatsby
B: Nick Carraway
C: Daisy Buchanan
D: Tom Buchanan
答案: 【 Nick Carraway 】
16、单选题：
Gatsby made his fortune in ________.
选项：
A: organized crime and bootlegging
B: real estate
C: steel
D: the garment industry
答案: 【 organized crime and bootlegging 】
17、单选题：
Gatsby is motivated by ________.
选项：
A: social status
B: wealth
C: love
D: fame
答案: 【 love 】
18、单选题：
Why does Gatsby throw extravagant parties?
选项：
A: He wants to live a lavish life.
B: He hopes to make many friends.
C: He believes that Daisy may come to a party some night.
D: It diverts some attention away from his notorious crime-laden life.
答案: 【 He believes that Daisy may come to a party some night.】
19、单选题：
How does Myrtle Wilson die?
选项：
A: She is struck by Gatsby driving Tom’s car.
B: She is struck by Daisy driving Gatsby’s car.
C: She is struck by Daisy driving Tom’s car.
D: She is struck by her husband driving Tom’s car.
答案: 【 She is struck by Daisy driving Gatsby’s car. 】
20、单选题：
Gatsby is killed by ___________.
选项：
A: George Wilson
B: Meyer Wolfsheim
C: Nick Carraway
D: Tom Buchanan
答案: 【 George Wilson】
Unit16WilliamFaulkner
WilliamFaulknerQuiz
1、单选题：
William Faulkner was awarded the _______ Nobel Prize for Literature.
选项：
A: 1949
B: 1950
C: 1948
D: 1951
答案: 【 1949】
2、单选题：
William Faulkner’s first novel is _______________.
选项：
A: Mosquitoes
B: Soldiers’ Pay
C: The Sound and the Fury
D: As I Lay Dying
答案: 【 Soldiers’ Pay】
3、单选题：
Most of Faulkner’s novels and stories are based on the imagined world of _________ County.
选项：
A: Winesburg
B: Forsyte
C: Yoknapatawpha
D: Wessex
答案: 【 Yoknapatawpha】
4、单选题：
What technical experimentation did Faulkner make in The Sound and the Fury?
选项：
A: Polyphony
B: Imagism
C: Symbolism
D: Stream-of-consciousness
答案: 【 Stream-of-consciousness】
5、单选题：
Who is NOT one of the major characters in The Sound and the Fury?
选项：
A: Sutpen
B: Benjy
C: Quentin
D: Jason
答案: 【 Sutpen】
6、单选题：
As I Lay Dying is centered upon the conflicts within the “poor white” _____ family.
选项：
A: Snopes
B: Compson
C: Bundren
D: Sutpen
答案: 【 Bundren 】
7、单选题：
Faulkner’s greater prominence came with the financially successful publication of ____________.
选项：
A: As I Lay Dying
B: Sanctuary
C: The Sound and the Fury
D: Light in August
答案: 【 Sanctuary】
8、单选题：
_________ is about racing and barnstorming pilots that Faulkner published in 1935
选项：
A: The Wild Palms
B: Absalom, Absalom!
C: Pylon
D: The Hamlet
答案: 【 Pylon】
9、单选题：
Which of the following works does not belong to the Snopes trilogy?
选项：
A: The Hamlet
B: The Town
C: The Mansion
D: The Unvanquished
答案: 【 The Unvanquished】
10、单选题：
In_________, Faulkner conducted an intense exploration of the linked themes of racial, sexual, and environmental exploitation.
选项：
A: Go Down, Moses
B: Intruder in the Dust
C: A Fable
D: Requiem for a Nun
答案: 【 Go Down, Moses】
11、单选题：
Faulkner in 1957 and 1958 accepted semester-long appointments as writer-in-residence at the_________.
选项：
A: University of Minnesota
B: University of Mississippi
C: University of Virginia
D: University of Pennsylvania
答案: 【 University of Virginia】
12、单选题：
“Barn Burning” was first published in ________ in June of 1939.
选项：
A: Collier’s
B: Harpers
C: Saturday Evening Post
D: Daily Crescent
答案: 【 Harpers 】
13、单选题：
Which of the following is not one of the major themes in “Barn Burning”?
选项：
A: courage
B: choices
C: family
D: nostalgia
答案: 【 nostalgia 】
14、单选题：
The hero of “Barn Burning” is __________.
选项：
A: Sarty Snopes
B: Abner Snopes
C: Major de Spain
D: Flem Snopes
答案: 【 Sarty Snopes 】
15、单选题：
Which of the following words does NOT describe Abner Snopes correctly?
选项：
A: Terrifying
B: Tyrannical
C: Loving
D: Violent
答案: 【 Loving 】
16、单选题：
The family situation in “Barn Burning” is _________.
选项：
A: atrocious
B: sweet
C: loving
D: supportive
答案: 【 atrocious 】
17、单选题：
__________ is often cited as William Faulkner’s best short story.
选项：
A: “Barn Burning”
B: “A Rose for Emily”
C: “Dry September”
D: “Red Leaves”
答案: 【 “A Rose for Emily” 】
18、单选题：
Which of the following words best describes Emily herself?
选项：
A: Rosy
B: Lively.
C: Creepy.
D: Cheerful.
答案: 【 Creepy. 】
19、单选题：
“A Rose for Emily” is a story about the extremes of _________.
选项：
A: memory
B: racism
C: technology
D: isolation
答案: 【 isolation 】
20、单选题：
“A Rose for Emily” is a call for _________.
选项：
A: Love
B: Romance
C: Understanding
D: Hatred
答案: 【 Understanding 】
Unit17ErnestHemingway
ErnestHemingwayQuiz
1、单选题：
Generally speaking, Hemingway’s childhood was_____.
选项：
A: a painful one
B: a happy one
C: a busy one
D: a tough one
答案: 【 a happy one】
2、单选题：
The two life-long hobbies Hemingway took from his father were_____.
选项：
A: writing and exercising
B: hunting and boxing
C: sports and writing
D: hunting and fishing
答案: 【 hunting and fishing】
3、单选题：
As an ambulance driver during World War I, Hemingway also became a war hero mostly because_____.
选项：
A: he was the first American wounded on the Italian front
B: he set a fine example for many others
C: of his volunteer service for the American Red Cross
D: of his combat experience
答案: 【 he was the first American wounded on the Italian front】
4、单选题：
Hemingway’s first published work is_____.
选项：
A: Three Stories and Ten Poems
B: The Sun Also Rises
C: For Whom the Bell Tolls
D: The Fifth Column
答案: 【 Three Stories and Ten Poems】
5、单选题：
As a stylist, Hemingway tried as much as possible to avoid the use of_____.
选项：
A: verbs
B: nouns
C: adjectives
D: articles
答案: 【 adjectives】
6、单选题：
Hemingway’s style of writing can be described as_____.
选项：
A: simple but vigorous
B: elaborate but powerful
C: economic but direct
D: lively and effective
答案: 【 economic but direct】
7、单选题：
For Ernest Hemingway, the “authentic emotions” might include the negative feelings such as_____.
选项：
A: loss of love, sadness and sincerity
B: meaninglessness, passion and disillusionment
C: loyalty, faithfulness and despair
D: grief, sadness and frustration
答案: 【 grief, sadness and frustration】
8、单选题：
Following the principle of the iceberg, Hemingway “shows’ but does not “tell”. This probably means that Hemingway_____.
选项：
A: says more than is commonly necessary
B: says less than is commonly necessary
C: cuts out all the details
D: provides all the details
答案: 【 says less than is commonly necessary】
9、单选题：
The phrase “grace under pressure” mostly emphasizes_____.
选项：
A: the physical prowess
B: the moral virtue
C: the ethical consideration
D: the spiritual quality
答案: 【 the spiritual quality】
10、单选题：
It is believed that Hemingway’s heroes possess what is known as “despairing courage”, which generally refers to the situation in which the Hemingway hero_____.
选项：
A: stands fearlessly against his opponent
B: fights with the will of victory
C: fights a losing battle
D: acts with dignity
答案: 【 fights a losing battle】
11、单选题：
In the remark “a man is not made for defeat….A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”, the major distinction between the two words “destroy” and “defeat” is_____.
选项：
A: the focus on life
B: the emphasis of unyielding spirit
C: the significance of action
D: the prominence of dignity
答案: 【 the emphasis of unyielding spirit】
12、单选题：
As is suggested, the novel The Sun Also Rises depicts the image_____.
选项：
A: of the relationship between man and nature
B: of the generation involved in the Spanish Civil War
C: of the war-time people
D: of the Lost Generation
答案: 【 of the Lost Generation】
13、单选题：
The story “A Clean Well-lighted Place” is mostly about_____.
选项：
A: the deaf, old man
B: the middle-aged waiter
C: the young waiter
D: all the three
答案: 【 all the three】
14、单选题：
The phrase “an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light” probably tells the reader that the old man_____.
选项：
A: has a problem
B: likes to sit in the dark
C: has a dark view of the world
D: is under the pressure of fear
答案: 【 has a problem】
15、单选题：
The fact that the story is filled with dialogues demonstrates_____.
选项：
A: the author’s technique to arouse the reader’s curiosity
B: the author’s technique of “showing”
C: the author’s art of “telling”
D: the author’s willingness to communicate with the reader
答案: 【