1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____
A Jack London B Charles Dickens C Samuel Coleridge D Ernest Hemingway
2.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?
A John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
B Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen
C Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
D Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____
A J.D. Salinger B Jack London C Flannery O’Connor D Saul Bellow
4.The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____
A Washington Irving B Fennimore Cooper C Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells
5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____
A O’Neil B Pound C Robert Frost DScott Fitzgerald
6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.
A Hawthorn B Whitman C Emerson D Hemingway
7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____
A fridendship B love and marriage C life and death D war and peace
8.Robert Frost is a famous ____
A novelist B playwright C poet D literary critic
9.Dover Beach is written by ____
A Robert Browning B Alfred Tennyson C Mathew Arnold D Dylan Thomas
10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.
A Age of Realism B Age of Clasicalism C Age of Romanticism D Age of Renaissance
答案详解： 1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。
来源：考试大 2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver’s Travels(《格列弗游记》)中yahoo暗指人类，集人类丑陋面于一身，服务于动物的一类生物。
3.A The Catcher in the Rye(《麦田里的守望者》)是J.D. Salinger(J.D. 赛琳格)的名著。
4.A henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”，改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。
5.D 二十世纪出现Jazz Age，这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀，沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征，对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。
6.C Emerson是超验主义的重要代表，所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲学观。
7.D Emily Dickinson(1709-1784)，美国女诗人，终生未嫁。主要诗歌包括：I Could Not Sto for Death还有，I’m Nobody. Who Are You?
诗歌主题为：爱情，自然，友谊，死亡与不朽。
8.C Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人，后因父亲过世已经英国，在新英格兰享有很高名望。主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。
9.C Dover Beach(《多弗的海滩》)是Mathew Arnold 的作品。
10.A 1865-1914，也就是美国内战结束之后，第一次世界大战爆发之前。这个时候涌现的作家，比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题，包括“Gold Rush”。
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