Test 5

1、单选题：
‌In _____, Whitman’s own early experience might be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.‌
选项：
A: “A Pact”
B: “Song of Myself” 
C: “There was a Child Went Forth”
D: “Mending the Wall”
答案: 【 “There was a Child Went Forth”】

2、单选题：
‌Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional way which is now called free verse,  that is _____.‏
选项：
A: lyrical poetry with chanting refrains
B: poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
C: poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat
D: poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
答案: 【 poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme】

3、单选题：
‏Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855. ‎
选项：
A: “The of Secret  Sea”
B: The Scarlet Letter
C: “Hymn to the Night”
D: Leaves of Grass
答案: 【 Leaves of Grass】

4、单选题：
‎“I HearAmericaSinging” was written by ____.‌
选项：
A: Mark Twain
B: Walt Whitman
C: Emily Dickinson
D: Ezra Pound
答案: 【 Walt Whitman】

5、单选题：
‌Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _____.‏
选项：
A: blank verse
B: free verse
C: heroic couplet
D: sonnet
答案: 【 free verse】

6、单选题：
‎By means of “free verse,” _____ believes that he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.‎
选项：
A: Emily Dickinson
B: Ezra Pound
C: Robert Frost
D: Walt Whitman
答案: 【 Walt Whitman】

7、单选题：
‏Which one is NOT written by Walt Whitman?‍
选项：
A: “Song of of Myself”
B: “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
C: “I Hear America Singing”
D: “Because I Could not Stop for Death”
答案: 【 “Because I Could not Stop for Death”】

8、单选题：
‏Emily Dickinson was considered as one of two giants of American poetry in the _____ century.‍
选项：
A: 17th
B: 18th
C: 19th
D: 20th
答案: 【 19th】

9、单选题：
‍What does “setting sun” symbolize in the poem of “Because I could not stop for Death”?‏
选项：
A: childhood
B: youth
C: maturity
D: old age
答案: 【 old age】

10、单选题：
‍Which of the following is NOT the recurring theme in Dickinson’s poetry?‌
选项：
A: religion
B: nature
C: war
D: death
答案: 【 war】

11、判断题：
‍Walt Whitman used parallelism and refrain in his poems.‌
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】

12、判断题：
‎In “O Captain! My Captain!”, Walt Whitman used symbols. ‏
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】

13、判断题：
‏Whitman brought the hard-working farmers and laborers into American literature. He attacked the slavery system and racial discrimination.‏
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】

14、判断题：
‏Whitman’s poetry is filled with pessimistic views about new things and new epoch. ​
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】

15、判断题：
‍Whitman’s writings were also influenced by his experiences in the American Civil War. ‎
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】

16、判断题：
‍Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published when she was alive. ​
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】

17、判断题：
‏Emily Dickinson’s poetry is well-known for her thought-provoking themes and innovative use of form and syntax.‌
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】

18、判断题：
‍Emily Dickinson’s nature poems are rich in subject matter.​
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】

19、判断题：
‍Emily Dickinson made no final acceptance or rejection on the question of religious belief throughout her life. ​
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】

20、判断题：
‎Emily Dickinson began her period of reclusion in the early 1860s.‏
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】

Test 6

1、单选题：
‏With  James Howells and Mark Twain active on the scene, ______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century. ‍
选项：
A: Rationalism
B: Sentimentalism
C: Realism
D: Romanticism
答案: 【 Realism】

2、单选题：
‏‍‏The Portrait of a Lady is generally considered to be the masterpiece of _____, which describes the life journey of an American _____ in Europe. ‍‏‍
选项：
A: Theodore Dreiser, girl 
B: William James, widow 
C: Henry James,
girl
D: Theodore Dreiser, widow
答案: 【 Henry James,
girl】

3、单选题：
‌_____ is the forerunner of the “stream of consciousness”.‌
选项：
A: Henry James
B: Walt Whitman
C: Mark Twain
D: O’ Henry
答案: 【 Henry James】

4、单选题：
‏ Which of the following is written by Henry James?   ​
选项：
A: The Awakening
B: The Ambassadors
C: The Marble Faun
D: Moby Dick
答案: 【 The Ambassadors】

5、单选题：
​_____ in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.​
选项：
A: Mark Twain 
B: William Dean Howells
C: Bret Harte
D: Harriet Beecher Stowe
答案: 【 Mark Twain  】

6、单选题：
‎Mark Twain created, in _____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature. ‎
选项：
A: Huckleberry Finn
B: Tom Sawyer
C: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
D: The Gilded Age
答案: 【 Huckleberry Finn】

7、单选题：
‌_____ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of American national literature.”‏
选项：
A: Emily Dickinson
B: Henry James
C: Mark Twain
D: Theodore Dreiser
答案: 【 Mark Twain】

8、单选题：
‍_____, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, is Mark Twain’s most representative book.‌
选项：
A: Roughing It
B: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C: Life on the Mississippi
D: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
答案: 【 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn】

9、单选题：
‍​_____ earned his very first national literary reputation with “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”.​‍​
选项：
A: Henry James
B: Mark Twain‍
C: William Dean Howells
D: Stephen Crane
答案: 【 Mark Twain‍】

10、单选题：
With the end of Civil War, ____ replaced romanticism to be the leading trend of American literature in the 19th century.​
选项：
A: modernism
B: realism
C: local colorism
D: naturalism