2020 知到智慧树美国文学概论答案

知到网课，美国文学概论单元测试答案

绪论 单元测试
1、We can define literature as language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages.（ ）
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

2、Hopefully, there are three very helpful approaches to the study of it: namely ( ), ( ), ( ).
A:None of the other choices
B:historical approach
C:analytical approach
D:thematic approach
答案: 【historical approach;
analytical approach;
thematic approach 】

第一章 单元测试
1、The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was( ).
A:Idealism
B:Enlightenment
C:Transcendentalism
D:American Puritanism
答案: 【American Puritanism】

2、The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the( ).
A:individualism
B:reason
C:rationalism
D:revolutionism
答案: 【individualism】

3、During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ( ).
A:Enlightenment Movement
B:Modernist Movement
C:Chartist Movement
D:Romanticist Movement
答案: 【Enlightenment Movement 】

4、Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call ( ).
A:Age of Reason
B:Age of Romanticism
C:Age of Regionalism
D:Age of Evolution
答案: 【Age of Reason 】

5、The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in the early part of the 16th century.( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】

6、Benjamin Franklin seemed to represent the age of reason and revolution in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change.（ ）
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

7、Common Sense boldly advocated a Declaration of Independence.（ ）
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

8、Philip Freneau was the most important writer in American poetry of the 18th century.（ ）
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】

9、Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American Republic?( )
A:The Autobiography
B:The Federalist
C:Declaration of Independence
D:The American Crisis
答案: 【The Federalist ;
Declaration of Independence;
The American Crisis】

10、Who are not considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?( )
A:Anne Bradstreet
B:Philip Freneau
C:Walt Whitman
D:Edward Taylor
答案: 【Anne Bradstreet;
Walt Whitman;
Edward Taylor】

第二章 单元测试
1、In （ ）, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secrets.
A:The Birthmark
B:Young Goodman Brown
C:Earth’s Holocaust
D:The Minister’s Black Veil
答案: 【Young Goodman Brown】

2、The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in ( ).
A:Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
B:Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
C:Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The American Scholar
D:Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
答案: 【Henry David Thoreau’s Walden】

3、The masterpiece of Walt Whitman is ( ).
A:Leaves of Grass
B:O, Captain, My Captain
C:Drum-Taps
D:Song of Myself
答案: 【Leaves of Grass】

4、Edgar Allan Poe was the first American artist in the American Literature, who influenced the European, especially the ( ) writers of the following generations.
A:Italian
B:French
C:English
D:German
答案: 【French 】

5、Democracy and political equality became the ideals of the romantic period in America. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】

6、Emily Dickinson is good at the charm of something but dropping the thing itself. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】

7、Romantic values were prominent in American politics, art, and philosophy until the Civil War.（ ）
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

8、As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

9、Led by ( ) and ( ) , there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.
A:Ralph Waldo Emerson
B:Henry David Thoreau
C:Walt Whitman
D:Herman Melville
答案: 【Ralph Waldo Emerson;
Henry David Thoreau】

10、Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature. ( )
A:Ralph Waldo Emerson
B:Benjamin Franklin
C:Nathaniel Hawthorne
D:Henry David Thoreau
答案: 【Ralph Waldo Emerson;
Nathaniel Hawthorne;
Henry David Thoreau 】

第三章 单元测试
1、The appearance of ( )’s The Luck of Roaring Camp in 1868 marked a significant development in the brief history of local color fiction.
A:Harriet Beecher Stowe
B:Kate Chopin
C:Hamlin Garland
D:Bret Harte
答案: 【Bret Harte】
2、With William Dean Howells, Henry James and Mark Twain active on the scene, ( ) became the major trend in the 1870s and 1980s.
A:Romanticism
B:Sentimentalism
C:Naturalism
D:Realism
答案: 【Realism 】

3、Mark Twain created, in ( ), a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
A:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B:The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
C:The Gilded Age
D:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
答案: 【The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn】

4、( ), one of the greatest war novels comes from Stephen Crane.
A:Open Boat
B:The Red Badge of Courage
C:The Blue Hotel
D:Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
答案: 【The Red Badge of Courage】

5、Generally speaking, London was much more interested in ideas than Crane and less sentimental than Norris. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】

6、The ultimate aim of the local colorists is to create the illusion of an indigenous little world with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

7、Jack London was usually considered as a naturalist by literary historians. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

8、After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

9、There are some important influences of American literature of Realism including ( ).
A:capitalism
B:the Civil War
C:mechanization
D:industrialization
答案: 【capitalism;
the Civil War;
mechanization ;
industrialization】

10、Choose the three staunch advocates of nineteenth-century American realism ( ).
A:William Dean Howells
B:Henry James
C:Mark Twain
D:Jack London
答案: 【William Dean Howells ;
Henry James;
Mark Twain】

第四章 单元测试
1、“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by ( ).
A:Thomas Stearns Eliot
B:Ezra Pound
C:Robert Frost
D:E. E. Cummings
答案: 【Ezra Pound】

2、The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the ( ).
A:First World War
B:Second World War
C:War of Independence
D:Civil War
答案: 【Second World War 】

3、Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost ? ( )
A:In the Clearing
B:Tilbury Town
C:A Witness Tree
D:Steeple Bush
答案: 【Tilbury Town 】

4、The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name was ( ).
A:Thomas Stearns Eliot
B:William Faulkner
C:Ernest Hemingway
D:Sinclair Lewis
答案: 【Sinclair Lewis】

5、The form and direction of modern American literature had clearly begun to emerge in the first decade of the 20th century. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

6、Three American writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature during the years between the two world wars. ( )
A:对
B:错
答案: 【错】

7、Although shore-lived, the Imagist movement had a tremendous influence on modern poetry. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】

8、Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life. ( )
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】

9、Early in the 20th century, ( ) and ( ) published works that would change the nature of American poetry.
A:Robert Frost
B:Walt Whitman
C:Ezra Pound
D:T. S. Eliot
答案: 【Ezra Pound;
T. S. Eliot】

10、The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are ( ).
A:clear rhythm
B:None of the other choices
C:direct treatment
D:economy of expression
答案: 【clear rhythm;
direct treatment;
economy of expression 】

第五章 单元测试
1、What was Ralph Ellison’s novel that was the story of an unnamed African man who could not be seen because people chose not to see him? ( )
A:Shadow and Act
B:Three Days Before the Shooting
C:Invisible Man
D:Flying Home