西南大学 培训与继续教育学院课程代码： 0171 学年学季：20202窗体顶端单项选择题1、Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freuds theory of psychology, particularly in one book_.1. E. Winesburg, Ohio2. Babbit3. The Grapes of Wrath4. The Cather in the Rye2、_ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.1. Washing Irving2. Henry James3. Ezra Pound4. T. S. Eliot3、Leaves of Grassis written by_.1. B. Walt Whitman2. F. O. Henry3. Mark Twain4. Emily Dickinson4、_ is called by Hemingway the one from which all modern American literature comes.1. A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn2. The Gilded Age3. Life on the Mississippi4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer5、Walt Whitmans poetry is characteristic of_.1. free verse2. blank verse3. alliteration4. end rhyme6、“Ripeness was all” in the chapter 41 ofCatch-22by Joseph Heller is quoted from Shakespeares play_.1. The Merchant of Venice2. Othello3. Romeo and Juliet4. King Lear7、Whocould be regarded as the founder of detective fiction?1. William Faulkner2. Edgar Allan Poe3. Washington Irving4. Emily Dickinson8、The time setting of Looking for Mr. Green by Saul Bellow is_.1. spring2. summer3. autumn4. winter9、What is Ralp W. Ellisons attitude toward Booker T. Washingtons philosophy of race relations inInvisible Man?1. He embraces it wholeheartedly.2. He advocates it with some reservations.3. He regards it with ambivalence.4. He rejects it fiercely and repeatedly.10、What is the essayOnce More to the Lakeby E.B. White about?1. the writer and his sons camping experience on the lake2. the great changes that took place on the lake3. the natural beauty of the lake4. the writers pilgrimage back to a lakefront resort he visited as a child11、Who is called “the Singer” of the Lost Generation?1. William Faulkner2. Ernest Hemingway3. F. Scott Fitzgerald4. Dos Passos12、Which statement is fit to describeWilliam Faulkners works?1. The language is biblical.2. Quite a few of Faulkners protagonists are mentally diseased.3. There is little of stream of consciousness in Faulkners works.4. Faulkner liked writing about the northerners of America.13、Which literary school does F. Scot Fitzgerald belong to?1. modernism2. realism3. romanticism4. post-modernism14、_was the leader of a new movement in poetry whichwas called the “Imagist” movement.1. T. S. Eliot2. Robert Frost3. Ezra Pound4. Emily Dickinson15、Allen Ginsberg is the representative poet of _.1. The Lake Poets2. The Lost Generation3. The Beat Generation4. The Imagist16、_ was Sherwood Andersons most important work.1. Windy McPhersons Son2. Beyond Desire3. The triumph of the Egg4. Winesburg, Ohio17、Transcendentalists recognizedas the “highest power of the soul”.1. intuition2. logic3. data of the senses4. thinking18、Ralph Waldo Emersonsis regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”.1. Nature2. The Conduct of Life3. Representative Men4. The American Scholar19、Which mayNOTbe one of the causes for the rise of American Romantic Movement?1. The westward territorial expansion2. The great increase in population3. The victory of the settlers in the Indian war4. The rapid economic transformation20、Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a.1. short story writer2. novelist3. dramatist4. translator21、The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation weremainly.1. Quakers2. Anglicans3. atholics4. Puritans22、William Faulkner set many of his short stories and novels in_.1. Mississippi2. Oxford3. Yoknapatawpha County4. Massachusetts23、_ is considered to be Theodore Dreisers greatest work.1. D. An American Tragedy2. The Financier3. Sister Carrie4. The Titan24、_, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used i instead of I to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.1. C. E. E. Cummings2. Robert Frost3. Wallace Stevens4. William Carlos Williams25、Which of the following writers is famous for the humorous writing style?1. Stephen Crane2. Mark Twain3. Emily Dickinson4. Toni Morrison26、_ is the spokesman forthe imagistmovement.1. T. S. Eliot2. Saul Bellow3. Ezra Pound4. William Faulkner判断题27、The defining characteristics of the modernist works are discontinuity an