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I. Write the Names of the Authors.

1. Poor Richard’s Almanac 2. Common Sense

3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4. A Streetcar Named Desire 5. The Waste Land 6. Sister Carrie 7. The House of the Seven Gables 8. The Great Gatsby 9. The Bluest Eye 10. A Farewell to Arms 11. Rip Van Winkle 12. Raven

13. The Call of the Wild 14. The Marble Faun 15. Moby Dick 16. The Wing of the Dove 17. Of Mice and Men 18. The Bluest Eye 19. The Great Gatsby 20. The Bluest Eye 21. The Sound and the Fury

II. Multiple Choices(Choose the best answer from the four choices).

1. From 1622 until his death, , one of the greatest of colonial American, was reelected thirty times as governor.

A. Anne Bradstreet B. William Bradford C. Edward Taylor D. Thomas Pain 2. carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people. It is more than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution.

A. Common Sense B. The American Crisis

C. Declaration of Independence D. Defense of the English People 3. usually was regarded as the first American writer.

A. William Bradford B. Anne Bradstreet C. Emily Dickinson D. Captain John Smith 4. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the \ \

A. Ninth Muse B. Tenth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse 5. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club. A. Henry David Thoreau B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathanial Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman

6. Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.

A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby Dick C. White Jacket D. Billy Budd 7. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _______.

A. Walt Whitman B. Benjamin Franklin C. Abraham Lincoln D. Martin Luther King 8. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_______.

A. religion B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace 9. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _________. A.T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E. E. Cummings 10. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism 11. Which of the following is not written by Henry James? A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians D. The Genius and The Gilded Age

12. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ______.

A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott. Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway 13. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and __________________.

A. The Stoic B. The Giant C. The Tycoon D. The Genius

14. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ________ in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. A. stream of consciousness B. imagism C. symbolism D. naturalism 15. The Road Not Taken is a long poem written by ______.

A. Edwin Arlington Robinson B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. T.S. Eliot 16. ____, one of America’s greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor. Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night.

A. Arthur Miller B. Tennessee Williams C. Bernard Malamud D. Eugene O’Neill 17. The Catcher in the Rye is a story of a 16 year old boy written by _____.

A. J.D. Salinger B. Saul Bellow C. Norman Mailer D. Ralph Ellison

18. Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is a popular novel of black humor, the action of which takes place in

the Air Force during _____.

A. World War I B. World War II C. Spanish War D The Civil War

19.The Color Purple, written by _____, centers on the life of Celie, a black woman who has been raped by the man she believed to be her father.

A. Toni Morrison B. Thomas Pynchon C. Flannery O’Connor D. Alice Walker 20. Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?

A. Pearl Buck B. Virginia Woolf C. Tony Morrison D. Katharine Mansfield 21. “God help them that help themselves” is found in ______’s work.

A. Franklin B Freneau C. Jefferson D. Paine 22. Who is considered the father of American poetry?

A. Philip Freneau B. William Cullen Bryant C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Henry David Thoreau 23. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________

A. The Precaution B. Leatherstocking Tales C. The Gleanings in Europe D. The Spy

24. The publication of ________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. A. Nature B. Self-reliance C. The American Scholar D. The Over-soul 25. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

A. The American Scholar B. English Traits C. The Conduct of Life D. Nature 26. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT_____. A. a strict poetic form

B. a simple and conversational language C. a free and natural rhythmic pattern D. an easy flow of feelings

27. ______is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.

A. The Raven B. Annabel Lee C. The Fall of the House of Usher D. Song to Celia 28. Hester is a character in ______.

A. Gone with the Wind B. The Fall of the House of Usher C. Babbitt D. The Scarlet Letter

29. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be Jame’s masterpiece, which ____.

A. incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American

girl in a European cultural environment

B. tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the

European life

C. is about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome

D. tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American

life

30. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _____. A. international theme B. water-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism 31. In Henry James’s Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment

of _____.

A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich

32. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century．

A. Sentimentalism B. Romanticism C. Realism D. Naturalism

33. Who, one of the most import poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?

A. J. D. Salinger B. Ezra Pound C. Richard Wright D. Ralph Ellison

34. Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote _____ , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism.

A. The Sea Wolf B. To Build a Fire C. The Call of the Wild D. Martin Eden

35. Eugene O’Neill’s_____ tells about the strong, proud, brutish coal-stoker in the engine room of a passenger ship.

A. The Hairy Ape B. Long Day’s Journey Into Night C. Desire Under The Elms D. The Iceman Cometh 36. Beloved is the masterpiece of _______.

A. Tony Morrison B. Ralph Ellison C. John Dos Passos D. Willa Cather