2024年9月10日发(作者：路承安)
PART TWO： AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chapter 2 The Realistic Period
I. Choose the right answer：
1. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of speech of death and in one of her poems she wrote
about the______of death， the title of the poem is "I heard a Fly buzz when I died".
A. moment
B. suffering
C. happiness
D. meaning
Answer： A （P518）
2. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important
deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.
A. naturalism
B. realism
C. determinism
D. humanism
Answer： A （P524）
3. More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature， in which her general _____about the
relationship between man and nature is well expressed.
A. scepticism
B. eulogy
C. happiness
D. denial
Answer： A （P518）
4. "This is my letter to the World" is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson's _____about her communication with the
outside world.
A. happiness
B. anger
C. anxiety
D. sorrow
Answer： C （P520）
5. Though secluded herself in her own house， Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world， as
could be seen in her poems such as "I like to see it lap the Miles"， which describes a（n） ______， an embodiment of
modern civilization.
A. snake
B. animal
C. the road
D. train
Answer： D （P521）
6. After "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer"， Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book
called_____， and the book from which "all modern American literature comes".
A. Life on the Mississippi River
B. The Gilded Age
C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. The Sun Also Rises
Answer： C （P479——480）
7. Winterbourne is used as a ______in Henry James's "Daisy Miller".
A. Protagonist
B. Narrator of the events
C. A character of central consciousness
D. Persona
Answer： C （P499）
8. Emily Dickinson's verse is most aptly characterized as ___________.
A. exposing the evils of the society
B. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets
C. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman
D. exhibiting sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience， such as love， death， immortality and etc.
Answer： D （P518）
9. The author of "The Portrait of a Lady" is best at_______.
A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human life
B. a truthful delineation of the motives， the impulses， the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women.
C. a dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on an international scene
D. disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War.
Answer： C （P496）
10. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____________.
A. the Age of Realism
B. the Age of Modernism
C. the Age of Romanticism
D. the Age of Colonicalism
Answer： A （P471）
11. Who exerts the simple most important influence on literary naturalism？
A. Emerson
B. Jack London
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. Darwin
Answer： D （P475）
12. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human "______".
A. bestiality
B. goodness
C. compassion
D. greed
Answer： A （P476）
13. ______is considered by H.L. Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."
A. Hemingway
B. Poe
C. Irving
D. Twain
Answer： D （P477）
14. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language.
A. grand
B. pompous
C. simple
D. vernacular
Answer： D （P481）
15. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with________.
A. international theme
B. national theme
C. European theme
D. Regional theme
Answer： A （P497）
16. In the following writers， who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "Stream-of-consciousness"
novels and the founder of psychological realism______________.
A. Henry James
B. Mark Twain
C. Emily Dickenson
D. Theodore Dreiser
Answer： A （P498）
17. In Henry James' "Daisy Miller"， the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ___________.
A. the corruption of the newly rich
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the force of convention
Answer： B （P499）
18. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's？
A. War and peace
B. Love and marriage
C. Life and death
D. Religion
Answer： A （P517）
19. The following titles are all related to the subject that escapes from the society and returns to nature
except__________.
A. Dreiser's Sister Carrie
B. Copper's Leather-Stocking Tales
C. Thoreau's Walden
D. Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Answer： A （P401 / P526）
20. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is__________.
A. Sister Carrie
B. An American Tragedy
C. The Financier
D. The Titan
Answer： B （P525）
21. Closely related to Emily Dickinson's religious poetry are her poems concerning ___________.
A. Childhood
B. Youth and happiness
C. Loneliness
D. Death and immortality
Answer： D （518）
22. 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
Answer： C （P474）
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions：
1. "It was a close place. I took it up， and held it in my hand. I was a trembling， because I'd got to decide， forever，
betwixt tow things， and I knowed it. I studied a minute， sort of holding my breath， and then says to my self：
"All right， then， I'll go to hell"——and tore it up.
It was awful thoughts， and awful words， but they was said. And I let them stay said； and never though no more
about reforming."
1） Who was the "I"， which book was the passage taken from？ And by whom？
2） Why did he think "it was awful thought"？ Analyze it.
3） Analyze the characteristic of the hero.
Answer：
1） The character is Huckleberry Finn， the passage is taken from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
（P489）
2） It is the climax of the Huck's inner struggle on the Mississippi， when Huck is conflicting whether or not he should
write a letter to tell Miss Watson where Jim is， and he is polarizing/contradicting by the two opposing forces between his
heart and his head， between his affection for Jim and the laws of the society against those who help slaves escape. Huck's
final decision -to follow his own good hearted moral impulse rather than conventional village morality. During his thinking
Huck thinks of the consequence of helping Jim （the runaway slave）， he might go to hell， "it was awful thought"， with
the eventual victory of his moral conscience over his social awareness， Huck grows. （P480）
3） Huck is an innocent and reluctant rebel， a typical American Boy with a "sound heart and deformed conscience".
Through the eyes of Huck， the Pre-Civil War American society is fully exposed and we are deeply impressed by Mark
Twain's thematic contrasts between innocence and experience， nature and culture， wildness and civilization. （P483）
2. "I should think it might be arranged，" Winterbourne was thus emboldened to reply. "Couldn't you get some one to
stay——for the afternoon——with Randolph？"
Miss Miller looked at him a moment； and then with all serenity， "I wish you'd stay with him！" she said.
Questions：
1） Please identify the work and the author.
2） Please analyze the character of Daisy Miller in literature.
参考答案：
1） It is taken from Henry James's "Daisy Miller". （P513）
2） She is the American Girl in Europe， a celebrated type who embodies the spirit of the New World. However，
innocence， the keynote of her character， turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social
taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures. （P499-500）
3. "We passed the School， where Children strove
At Recess——in the Ring——
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain——
We passed the Setting Sun——"
Questions：
1） Please identify the poem and the poet；
2） What does "the School， the Fields of Gazing Grain and the Setting Sun" stands for？
Answers：
2024年9月10日发(作者：路承安)
PART TWO： AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chapter 2 The Realistic Period
I. Choose the right answer：
1. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of speech of death and in one of her poems she wrote
about the______of death， the title of the poem is "I heard a Fly buzz when I died".
A. moment
B. suffering
C. happiness
D. meaning
Answer： A （P518）
2. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important
deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.
A. naturalism
B. realism
C. determinism
D. humanism
Answer： A （P524）
3. More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature， in which her general _____about the
relationship between man and nature is well expressed.
A. scepticism
B. eulogy
C. happiness
D. denial
Answer： A （P518）
4. "This is my letter to the World" is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson's _____about her communication with the
outside world.
A. happiness
B. anger
C. anxiety
D. sorrow
Answer： C （P520）
5. Though secluded herself in her own house， Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world， as
could be seen in her poems such as "I like to see it lap the Miles"， which describes a（n） ______， an embodiment of
modern civilization.
A. snake
B. animal
C. the road
D. train
Answer： D （P521）
6. After "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer"， Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book
called_____， and the book from which "all modern American literature comes".
A. Life on the Mississippi River
B. The Gilded Age
C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. The Sun Also Rises
Answer： C （P479——480）
7. Winterbourne is used as a ______in Henry James's "Daisy Miller".
A. Protagonist
B. Narrator of the events
C. A character of central consciousness
D. Persona
Answer： C （P499）
8. Emily Dickinson's verse is most aptly characterized as ___________.
A. exposing the evils of the society
B. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets
C. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman
D. exhibiting sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience， such as love， death， immortality and etc.
Answer： D （P518）
9. The author of "The Portrait of a Lady" is best at_______.
A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human life
B. a truthful delineation of the motives， the impulses， the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women.
C. a dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on an international scene
D. disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War.
Answer： C （P496）
10. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____________.
A. the Age of Realism
B. the Age of Modernism
C. the Age of Romanticism
D. the Age of Colonicalism
Answer： A （P471）
11. Who exerts the simple most important influence on literary naturalism？
A. Emerson
B. Jack London
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. Darwin
Answer： D （P475）
12. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human "______".
A. bestiality
B. goodness
C. compassion
D. greed
Answer： A （P476）
13. ______is considered by H.L. Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."
A. Hemingway
B. Poe
C. Irving
D. Twain
Answer： D （P477）
14. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language.
A. grand
B. pompous
C. simple
D. vernacular
Answer： D （P481）
15. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with________.
A. international theme
B. national theme
C. European theme
D. Regional theme
Answer： A （P497）
16. In the following writers， who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "Stream-of-consciousness"
novels and the founder of psychological realism______________.
A. Henry James
B. Mark Twain
C. Emily Dickenson
D. Theodore Dreiser
Answer： A （P498）
17. In Henry James' "Daisy Miller"， the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ___________.
A. the corruption of the newly rich
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the force of convention
Answer： B （P499）
18. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's？
A. War and peace
B. Love and marriage
C. Life and death
D. Religion
Answer： A （P517）
19. The following titles are all related to the subject that escapes from the society and returns to nature
except__________.
A. Dreiser's Sister Carrie
B. Copper's Leather-Stocking Tales
C. Thoreau's Walden
D. Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Answer： A （P401 / P526）
20. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is__________.
A. Sister Carrie
B. An American Tragedy
C. The Financier
D. The Titan
Answer： B （P525）
21. Closely related to Emily Dickinson's religious poetry are her poems concerning ___________.
A. Childhood
B. Youth and happiness
C. Loneliness
D. Death and immortality
Answer： D （518）
22. 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
Answer： C （P474）
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions：
1. "It was a close place. I took it up， and held it in my hand. I was a trembling， because I'd got to decide， forever，
betwixt tow things， and I knowed it. I studied a minute， sort of holding my breath， and then says to my self：
"All right， then， I'll go to hell"——and tore it up.
It was awful thoughts， and awful words， but they was said. And I let them stay said； and never though no more
about reforming."
1） Who was the "I"， which book was the passage taken from？ And by whom？
2） Why did he think "it was awful thought"？ Analyze it.
3） Analyze the characteristic of the hero.
Answer：
1） The character is Huckleberry Finn， the passage is taken from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
（P489）
2） It is the climax of the Huck's inner struggle on the Mississippi， when Huck is conflicting whether or not he should
write a letter to tell Miss Watson where Jim is， and he is polarizing/contradicting by the two opposing forces between his
heart and his head， between his affection for Jim and the laws of the society against those who help slaves escape. Huck's
final decision -to follow his own good hearted moral impulse rather than conventional village morality. During his thinking
Huck thinks of the consequence of helping Jim （the runaway slave）， he might go to hell， "it was awful thought"， with
the eventual victory of his moral conscience over his social awareness， Huck grows. （P480）
3） Huck is an innocent and reluctant rebel， a typical American Boy with a "sound heart and deformed conscience".
Through the eyes of Huck， the Pre-Civil War American society is fully exposed and we are deeply impressed by Mark
Twain's thematic contrasts between innocence and experience， nature and culture， wildness and civilization. （P483）
2. "I should think it might be arranged，" Winterbourne was thus emboldened to reply. "Couldn't you get some one to
stay——for the afternoon——with Randolph？"
Miss Miller looked at him a moment； and then with all serenity， "I wish you'd stay with him！" she said.
Questions：
1） Please identify the work and the author.
2） Please analyze the character of Daisy Miller in literature.
参考答案：
1） It is taken from Henry James's "Daisy Miller". （P513）
2） She is the American Girl in Europe， a celebrated type who embodies the spirit of the New World. However，
innocence， the keynote of her character， turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social
taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures. （P499-500）
3. "We passed the School， where Children strove
At Recess——in the Ring——
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain——
We passed the Setting Sun——"
Questions：
1） Please identify the poem and the poet；
2） What does "the School， the Fields of Gazing Grain and the Setting Sun" stands for？
Answers：