American Literature the Contemporary Period

Test for American Realism and Modernism

1、单选题:
‏One of the most noticeable elements of Harlem Renaissance writing is its use of dialect and folklore and its identification with the spirit of _______.‏‏       .‏‏‏
选项:
A: Blues
B: Jazz
C: R & B
D: Rap
答案: 【 Jazz

2、单选题:
‏Henry James is mostly concerned with________ in his fiction.‍
选项:
A: the inner life of human beings
B: violent events in history
C: small-town life in backward regions
D: sufferings of the aged
答案: 【 the inner life of human beings

3、单选题:
‍_______ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of  Li Po ( Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.‌
选项:
A:  T. S.  Eliot
B: Robert Frost
C: E. E. Cummings
D: Ezra Pound 
答案: 【 Ezra Pound 

4、单选题:
‏The central character J. Alfred Prufrock in T. S. Eliot' s famous poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is ________.‏
选项:
A: an old man
B:  a restless young man
C: a godlike figure
D: a muse 
答案: 【  a restless young man

5、单选题:
​The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following EXCEPT________.‍
选项:
A: spiritual freedom
B: escape from different sorts of social oppression
C: mobility and instability
D: a small society where people of different color can live like brothers
答案: 【 mobility and instability

6、填空题:
‌Sherwood Anderson has published quite a few novels, including Windy McPherson’s Son, Marching Man, Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark laughter. But he is generally famous for his short stories. Among his collections of short stories, ____is the most widely-read one.‌
答案: 【 Winesburg, Ohio

7、填空题:
‍________, by Ezra Pound, employs the complex association of scholarly lore, anthropology, modern history and personages, private history and Witticism, along with obscure literary interpolations in various languages.  ‎
答案: 【 The Cantos

8、填空题:
‌        The Burial of The Dead‎‌‎‌April is the cruelest month, breeding‎‌Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing‎‌Memory and desire, stirring‎‌Dull roots with spring rain.‎‌Winter kept us warm, covering‎‌Earth in forgetful snow, feeding‎‌A little life with dried tubers...‎‌‎‌These lines is taken from a long poem by the name of ______, a milestone work of modern poetry.  ‎
答案: 【 The Waste Land

9、填空题:
‍The Financier, The Titan and The Stole together is referrred to as Theodore Dreiser's  _______. ‌
答案: 【 Trilogy of Desire

10、填空题:
​The most famous of the Asian American writers is ______ , whose The Women Warrior: Memories of a Childhood among Ghosts won the National Books Critics Circle Award for nonfiction for 1976 and established her as a preeminent contemporary American writer.‎
答案: 【 Maxine Hong Kingston

Emily Dickinson

Quiz for American Romanticism

1、单选题:
‎Which is NOT a main focus of the American Romantic Movement in general?‏
选项:
A: A return to eastern philosophy.
B: A deep and spiritual respect for nature and natural laws.
C: The introduction of self-salvation as opposed to salvation through Christ.&nbs

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