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华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库(2)及满分答案

华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库（2）及满分答案内容摘要：As a literary movement, American Realism came in the latter half of the nineteeth century, as a reaction against the lie of romanticism.答案:正...As a literary movement, American Realism came in the latter half of t he nineteeth century, as a reaction against the lie of romanticism.答案:正确The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman. 答案:错误A Shakespearean Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed ababcdcdefefgg.答案:正确thoreau was an active transcendentalist who was an escapist ｏr a rec luse detached ｆrom the life of his day.答案:错误The Great Gatsby was a novel written by Fitzgerald partially based on his own life experience.答案:正确american naturalism, like romanticism, had come ｆrom germany.答案:错误“The Purloined Letter” is a detective story.答案:正确Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticea ble.答案:正确Henry David Thoreau once built a cabin beside the lake of Walden on t he land of his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson.答案:正确Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doy le.答案:正确The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”.答案:错误Leatherstocking Tales is a novel of the series The Last of Mohicans w ritten by James Fenimore Cooper.答案:错误John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic wi th the working class people.答案:错误Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nat ion.答案:正确The short story writer O.Henry was once put into prison because he wa s a Nazi.答案:错误Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never been a major theme in her poetry.答案:错误"Declaration of Independence" was drafted by Benjamin Franklin alone. 答案:错误The poet Robert Frost wrote in traditional rhyme schemes, but his the mes are very modern.答案:正确An Italian Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed abbaabbacdecde.答案:正确The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disil lusionment, breeding what is called modernism.答案:错误“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe.答案:错误The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists.答案:正确Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Trans cendentalism.答案:正确The Puritan style of writing is characterized by simplicity, which le ft an indelible imprint on American writings.答案:正确Stream of Consciousness is a minor technique that William Faulkner em ployed in his novels.答案:错误Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin ａnd veil, ne ver showed a positive part of the life.答案:错误As a novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by Puritanis m.答案:正确Emerson’s prose style was sometimes as highly individualistic as his dramas.答案:错误The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' brother.答案:正确Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.答案:正确life ａnd death is a major theme in emily dickinson’s poems.答案:正确Henry James’s greatest influence was exerted not on his own age but on the one that followed.答案:正确Jack London was usually considered as a romanticist for his portrayal of superman heroes.答案:错误Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was about the Spanish Civil War.答案:正确benjamin franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the rom antic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity ａnd balance.答案:错误The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry.答案:正确The detective created by Poe was named Dubin.答案:正确Longfellow’s poems belong to the darker aspect of the Romantic Movem ent.答案:错误emerson always applied the term transcendentalist to himself ｏr to h is beliefs, fｏr he was the acknowledged leader of the movement.答案:错误The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthor ne based on his experience in the Brook Farm.答案:错误"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound. 答案:正确"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".答案:正确"A Rose for Emily" is a Gothic short story written by William Faulkne r.答案:正确Immediately after their arrival in america, the american puritans bec ame more preoccupied with business ａnd profits, as they had to be in the grim struggle for survival.答案:正确Many of Poe’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia.答案:正确"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".答案:正确By the end of the nineteenth century, the realists rejected the portr ayal of idealized characters ａnd events.答案:正确。

英美文学(美国文学)Quiz2

Quiz of American LiteratureI. Fill in the blanks with missing information (29%)1. The American Romanticism is also called the __________________________.2. In 1828, Noah Webster published his An American Dictionary of the English Language, while in England in 1755, ___________________ published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language.3. The American Romanticism actually started with publication of _____________________’s The Sketch Book in 1820.4. The Civil War lasted from ________~__________ ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of ______________.5. _____________ won election of 1828, is seen as a triumph for the democratization of America.6. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith (1840), and the other is _______________________________________________. (1840)7. A short story generally contains the six elements of fiction, they are ___________________, setting, ______________, _____________, point of view and _____________.8. Cooper’s novel _____________ was a tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.9. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel _____________________.10. After his death, ________________________ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.11. The Leatherstocking Series contains 5 stories. They are _________________, The Last of Mohicans, __________________, _______________ and _______________.12. The central figure of the Leatherstocking Tales is ____________________, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deeslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.13. Ralph Waldo _________ was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England.14. In 1854, Henry David __________ began a two year residence at _______________ Pond.15. Melville is best known as the author of one book named ________________, which is, critics have agreed, one of the world’s greatest masterpieces.16. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, which has ________ editions,__________________ gave America its first genuine epic poem.17. President Abraham Lincoln praised ______________ highly for her masterpiece _________________________ that caused the Great War.18. There is no doubt that the solitary __________________ of Amherst, Massachusetts, is a poet of great power and beauty.II. Decide whether the statements are True or False (11%).( ) 1. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called the Transcendental Club.( ) 2. Washington Irving was regarded as the 1st great prose stylist of American romanticism.( ) 3. Andrew Jackson masterminded the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which doubled the U. S. territory.( ) 4. The early nineteenth century saw the new nation experiencing an industrial transformation. The economic boom resulted in a general good feeling.( ) 5. By the 1830s Irving was judged the nation’s greatest writer, a lofty position he later shared with James Fennimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant.( ) 6. Emerson was one of the most influential of American thinkers, yet he had no elaborate, formal system of thought.( ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Poe’s poems.( ) 8. “Young Goodman Brown” seems to prove everyone possesses some evil secrets.( ) 9. All through his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.( ) 10. No other American poet ever surpassed Edgar Allen Poe’s ability in the use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty.( ) 11. Herman Melville was popular for his adventure stories during his life time, known as “a man who lived with cannibals”.III. Multiple Choice (17%)1. These new and unique experiences cried for literary expression. These experiences are ______.A. early Puritan settlementB. The confrontation with the IndiansC. the wild westD. the frontiersmen’s life2. Irving is the writer of _______________________.A. Rip Van WinkleB. The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. To a WaterfowlD. History of New York3.The characteristics of American Romanticism are ________________:A. uniquenessB. Puritan influenceC. newnessD. both imitative and independent4. “[He], was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, which ever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.” This is a description of __________.A. Rip Van WinkleB. WolfC. Dame Van WinkleD. Van Bummel5. “…a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use” describes _________.A. Rip Van WinkleB. WolfC. Dame Van WinkleD. Nicolas Vedder6. ___________, was a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun, and keep in the shade of a large tree; so that neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sun dial.A. Brom DutcherB. Nicolas VedderC. Jonathan DoolittleD. Van Winkle7. The first important and successful American novelist was ___________.A. Washington IrvingB. William Cullen BryantC. James Fennimore CooperD. Edgar Allen Poe8. The best of Cooper’s sea novel is _________.A. The SpyB. The PilotC. The PioneersD. The Prairie.9. From his Concord jail experience, Thoreau wrote his famous essay ________________.A. Representative ManB. Civil DisobedienceC. Society and SolitudeD. Walden10.Longfellow’s first collection of poems entitled ___________ appeared in 1838(9).A. V oices of NightB. To HelenC. Annabel LeeD. Al Aaraaf11. Emerson’s essay _______________ has been regarded as “America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence.” It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.A. The American ScholarB. NatureC. Self-RelianceD. The Conduct of Life12.Although Hawthorne is ambiguous and his tales are often capable of more than one interpretation, he is certainly at his best when writing about __________.A. evilB. terrorC. romanceD. goodness13. Poe’s first collection of short stories is ___________.A. Tales of a TravelerB. Leatherstocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque14.The book _________________is NOT written by Emerson.A. Representative MenB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The Rhodora15.The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest16. Which of the following is NOT true of Edgar Allen Poe? __________A. father of modern short detective storyB. father of psychoanalytical criticismC. singer of French Symbolist MovementD. advocate “art for art’s sake”17. Of her 1775 poems, only _________ were published in her lifetime in newspapers.A. 5B. 7C. 9D. 11IV. Identification of Fragments and Reading Comprehension (43%)1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loaf and invite my soul,I learn and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.Questions (10%):1) This is the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled ______________________________.2) The name of the poet is _____________________.3) Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2~3 also include in the celebration?4) What is the verse structure?5) Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write ou t the names of the poet’s completed collections of poems?2. Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real—life is earnest—And the grave is not its goal:Dust thou art, to dust resturnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Questions (6%):1) Who is the writer of these lines?2) What is the title of the whole poem from which the two stanzas are taken?3) Summarize the poet’s advi ce for living.3. “A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream. On the Sabbath-day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen, because an anthem o f sin rushed loudly upon his ear, and drowned all the blessed strain.” (8%)1). Where is this quotation from?2). Who is the writer of this story?3). Whom does “he” in the quotation refer to?4). Why is he such a changed man?4. Read Emily Dickinson’s poem “A DAY” (p.303~304) and answer the questions (11%)1). What is associated with a day?2). What do we experience with the sunrise and the sunset?3). What does “flock” in the final line mean here?4). What images and colors does the writer use to describe the beginning and the ending of “a day”?5). The tone of the whole poem is intimate and meditative. (T or F)5. Read “FABLE” by Emerson (p. 263) and answer the questions (8%)1). Is “the mountain” contemptuous in calling “the squirrel” “Little Prig”?2). Is the squirrel ashamed of being little in the world? How did he justify himself?3). Which line(s) tells you that the little squirrel admires the mountain without being overpowered by its size?4). What does the writer try to say of our talents and place in the world?。

美国文学考试资料(英文版)(doc 10页)

Part one:Answer: 1—60A,B,D,D,C/ D,A,B,A,D/ A,A,D,D,B/ C,C,B,D,CD A B D B/ A C B C D/ C D C D A/ B,A,C,A,DB,C,C,B,A/ D,A,B,D,D/ A,A,D,D,B/ C,C,A,D,C11.Hawthorne’s masterpiece, one of the greatest novels of the world is The Scarlet Letter.2.Emerson’s first startling book is Nature.3.Ralph Waldo Emerson is the chief spokesman of this spiritual movement ofTranscendentalism.4.Washington Irving is worth the honor of being “for his literary craftsmanship for his literarycraftsmanship.5.The colonial influence over American Romanticism made American Romantic writers moremoralize than their English counter-parts.6.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American Naturalism.7.In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers theGerman Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud, whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.8. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial New England speech into a poetic expression.The theme of returning to nature could be read in Leather-Stocking Tales by Cooper.10. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not true? DA. It's very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.B. It's a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.C. It's mainlyabout the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.11. Ezra Pound showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Bai into English.12. Eli ot’s first major poem (1917 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock , has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.13. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as The Roaring Twenties,The Jazz age andThe Dollar Decade.14. Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel A Farewell to Arms15. The Grapes of Wrath tells the Joad family’s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.16. Faulkner wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who laboured for both of them.17. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called stream of consciousness , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of four characters.18. Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.19. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should observe with no judgment whatsoever and reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum.20. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic field.1. The Beat Generation is a large group including San Francisco writers, the name referred simultaneously_______, through drugs, and alcohol.• A. to their sense that society was worn out• B. to their interest in new forms of experience• C. to the rhythm of jazz2. In the Depression Age, John Steinbeck is the famous leftist for his sympathetic story about drifting farm laborers and factory workers.3. The 1940s saw the flourishing of a new contingent of writers, including R. P. Warren, A. Miller, T. Williams, K. A. Porter and E. Welty. All but Miller were from the South4. The Great God Brown fuses symbolism, poetry, and the affirmation of a pagan idealism to show how materialistic civilization denies the life—giving impulses to and destruction of the genuine art.5. The realistic schools led by Mark Twain and Henry James differ in their understanding of the truth6. Eliot’s first major poem (1917) has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. The Waste LandC. Four QuartetsD. Preludes7. Which story is William Dean Howells’ masterpiece on the American spirit of the self-made man?A. A Modern InstanceB. The Luck of Roaring CampC. The Rise of Silas LaphamD. A Woman’s Reason8. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner'snovels?A. Cambridge.B. YoknapatawphaC. Mississippi.D.Tagliamento9. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.”This line is the shortest poem written by ______.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD.E. E. Cummings10. Which couple of the following are not written by Henry James?A. The Portrait of A Lady and The EuropeansB. The Wings of the Dove and The AmbassadorsC. What Maisie Knows and The BostoniansD. The Genius and The Gilded Age11. __________ is said to be a “historical novel”by Faulkner.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. Absalom, AbsalomD. The Sound and the Fury12. Which of the following is said of the American naturalists?A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of thestories.B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.C. Human should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changingharsh environment.D. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations ofinherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.13. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered______.A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beautyB. an adventurous exploration into man's relationship with natureC. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universeD. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure14. The American 30s lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression,until the outbreak of the 2nd World War 1939. This was a period of _______.A. a new social consciousnessB. bleaknessC. important social movementsD. All above15. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following statements is not true?A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry isdense with personal, literary, and historical allusions.B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poeticlanguage in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.D. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in thewartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.16. Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited ______.A. up-class mindB. middle-class mindC. proletarianD. ordinary people17. In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of ______ devices in narration.A. romanticB. realisticC. gothicD. modernist18. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from itspredecessors. It is always referred to as “_______”.A. ImagismB. black humorC. new fictionD. the Beat Generation19. As an autobiographical play, O’Neill’s ______ (1951) has gained its status as aworld classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.A.Long Day’s Journey into NightB. The Hairy ApeC. Desire under the ElmsD. The Iceman Cometh20. Tender Is the Night is a ______ by Fitzgerald.A. short storyB. novellaC. poemD. novel1. Which of the following notions is not of literature?A. local colorB. sub-consciousnessC. stream of consciousnessD. naturalism2. As Fitzgerald’s writing style is concerned, which of the following is true?A. The author dropped off the device of having events observed by a “centralconsciousness”.B. His intervening passages of narration leave the tedious process of transition tothe author’s imagination.C. His diction and metaphors are partially original and details accurate.D. The scenic methods are employed, each of which consists of one or moredramatic scenes.3. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the U. S. refers to the period from______ to ______.A. 1861—1914B. 1863—1918C. 1865—1914D. 1865—19454. ______ is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary historyof the U.S.A. Henry JamesB. Emily DickinsonC. William Dean HowellsD. Mark Twain5. ______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculationand unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the postCivil War era.A. Innocents AbroadB. The Gilded AgeC. Roughing ItD. The Middle Year s6. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and theinfluence of the 19th century French literature and the American men of letters gave rise to another powerful school of realism of American literature: American ______.A. RomanticismB. TranscendentalismC. The Lost GenerationD. Naturalism7. In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, there were two importantthinkers, ______, whose ideas had the greatest impact on the writing of American modernist period.A. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund FreudB. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund FreudC. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William JamesD. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud8. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poeticexpression.A. EnglandB. New EnglandC. PlymouthD. Boston9. As the theme of New England Transcendentalism, returning to nature could be read in Walden by ______.A. CooperB. TwainC. IrvingD. Thoreau10. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not true?A. It’s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.B. It’s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.C. It’s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.11. ________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Bai into English.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD.E. E. Cummings12.Psychological realists take the psychologist view that _______ shapes up the social life.A. subconscious instinctB. intuitive and self-reliantC. evil in human heartD. the circumstance of no freedom of choice13. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money thanFitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It is this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as .A. The Roaring TwentiesB. The Jazz ageC. The Dollar DecadeD. All of above14. Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell inlove with a nurse. They later became the characters of his novel .A. The Old Man and the SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms15. ______ tells the Joad family’s life from the time they were evicted from their farmin Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls16. In the first half of the 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering period which is called “_____”.A. the English RenaissanceB. the Second RenaissanceC. the American RenaissanceD. the Salem Renaissance17. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called , inwhich the whole story was told through the thoughts of four characters.A. symbolismB. imagismC. the stream of consciousnessD. naturalism18. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______.A. nature, man and the universeB. the relationship between man and womanC. the development of Romanticism in American literatureD. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism19. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer is to explore and represent the infinitepossibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.A. observe with no judgment whatsoeverB. reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimumC. observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the eventsD. both A and B20. Which of the following just depicts the American fiction in the field of literaturefrom 1945 onwards?A. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose workswere set against the Jewish experience and tradition.C. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals, seekingvitality in more widely popular material.D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derivedfrom its predecessors.Answer: 1—60A,B,D,D,C/ D,A,B,A,D/ A,A,D,D,B/ C,C,B,D,CD A B D B/ A C B C D/ C D C D A/ B,A,C,A,DB,C,C,B,A/ D,A,B,D,D/ A,A,D,D,B/ C,C,A,D,CPart Two1. Leather-stocking Tales F. Cooper frontier literature2. The Portrait of a Woman H. James psychological realism3. The Sketch Book W. Irving American short stories4. The 22 Catch J. Heller fiction of black humour5. Leaves of Grass W. Whitman free verse6. The Sound and the Fury W. Faulkner the stream of consciousness7. The Call of Wild J. London leftist and muckraker8. Nature R. W. Emerson transcendentalism9. The Great Gatsby F. S. Fitzgerald T he Jazz Age10. The Grapes of Wrath J. Steinbeck Depression literature and mild leftist1. Howl A. Ginsberg the beat generation2. The Zoo Story E. Albee absurdist theatre3. The Purloined Letter E. A. Poe detective stories4. The Native Son R. Wright H arlem Renaissance and black novels5. The Scarlet Letter N. Hawthorne black vision6. The Sun also Rises E. Hemingway the lost generation and war novels7. Autobiography B. Franklin individualism8. The Waste Land T. S. Eliot imagist poetry9. Sister Carrie T. Dreiser naturalism10. Adventures of Huckleberry Fin M. Twain local colorismPart Three1. Who are the forerunners of American naturalism?2. Who is considered the representative of the American literary school of last century: the Lost Generation and what did these men of letters call themselves?3. Which four fictional schools successively came into being in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 60s of the 20th century?4. Who is the most outstanding novelist of the 30th decade of last century and what are his earliest best seller and his greatest book?5. Which names are always associated with the stream-of-consciousness?6. As the following naturalists’example, which two novels are Stephen Crane’s main works ?7. What four literary branches consist of the American realism?8. What skills of literary creation does the 20th century stream-of-consciousness of American literature often include?9. Which three periods consist of the main development of American literature?10. What special names are given to the 20s, 30s, and 50s of the 20th century?11. Who are the forerunners of the first three main branches of American realism?12. By what historical events are the three main periods of American literature briefly divided?13. What renaissances successively appeared in the development of American literature?14. What expressive forms does post-modernism have?15. During the South Renaissance, what literary schools was formed one after another by nearly the same key members?16. What are the three main branches of knowledge covered by the Course of American Literature?17. Which main literary schools played the role in American early modernism of the 20s to 30s of the 20th century?18. What features does romanticism have in its style?19. What are the features of expression of American Romanticism?20.Part Three answer1. A. Stephen Crane, B. Frank Norris C. Theodore Dreiser2. A. Ernest Hemingway, B. exiles/expatriates3. A. the Lost Generation fiction, B. the leftist fiction,C. the south fiction,D. the Beat Generation fiction4. A. John Steinbeck B. Of Mice and Men , C. The Grapes of Wrath5. A. William James, B. Henry James, C. Sigmund Freud,D. Carl G. Jung,E. James Joyce,F. T.S. Eliot,6. A.《Maggie: A Girl of the Streets》 B.《The Red Badge of Courage》7. A. social realism, B. psychological realism, C. regionalism, D. naturalism8. A. interior monologue, B. free-association, C. multi-level structure9. A. the period of Romanticism, B. the period of Realism, C. the period of Modernism10. A. The Jazz Age, B. The Red Decade, C. The Timid Decade11. A. W.D. Howells for social realism, B. Mark Twain for regionalism,C. H. James for psychological realism12. A. the War of Independence—the Civil War, B. the Civil War—World War I,C. World War I—World War II—the end of last century13. A. the 1st American Renaissance in romantic period,B. the 2nd American Renaissance during the 20s—30s of the 20th century,C. the Harlem Renaissance during the 30s of the 20th century,D. the South Renaissance during the 40s of the 20th century14. A. black humor, B. fiction of absurdity,C. meta-fiction,D. avant-garde fiction15. A. Fugitives B. Agrarians C. The New Criticism16. A. the history of literature, B. reading of literary works, C. the criticismof literature17. A. the Lost Generation, B. muckraking realism, C. leftist naturalism18. A. imaginative fiction B. ideal emotion C. heroism D. musicality in lines E. gothic and supernatural atmosphere19. A. attention to mental states B. escaping from society and return to natureC. celebration of the landscape with its virginD. influence of puritan strict moral lawsPart FourThe source of New England Transcendentalism is both ________ and ____________.Transcendentalism advocates ________ and _______ of man and nature. Emerson’s _______ is honored as the declaration of transcendentalism and of independence of literature while The American Scholar as the ______ of Intellectual independence.Washington Irving is well known as a writer of ______ and his best ones collected in _______ are Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.James Cooper is well known as the early novelist whose famous stories are collected in his collection of novels: _________. The five collected long stories are his masterpieces that are good examples of the pioneering _______ of American literature.The early sprouting period of American literature is often divided into two halves of _______ and __________The puritans from England came to the new world on purpose to seek for freedom _______, freedom of speech and freedom _________. of religionTwo books by Franklin which is the most widely read are ________ and _________. Melville’s outlook on life was influenced by Hawthorne’s _______, Shakespearean tragic vision and Emersonian ________.Edgar Allen Poe was honored as a _______ of the new style of poetry and American ________, such as The Purloined Letter.Part Four answerAmericans Puritanism European romanticismharmony unityNature manifestoshort stories The Sketch BookThe Leather-stocking Tales west fictionliterature of colonial America literature of reason and revolution.of religion from wantPoor Richard’s Almanac Autobiography of Franklinblack vision Transcendentalismpioneer analyzing novel。

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Fill in the best answer on the Answer Sheet according to the knowledge you have learned.1.The first American literature was neither ____ nor really____.2.Of the immigrants who came to America in the first threequarters of the seventeenth century, the overwhelmingmajority was _____.3.The English immigrants who settled on America’s northernseacoast were called _____, so named after those who wishedto “purify” the Church of England.4.Washington Irving, the Father of American literature,developed the _____ as a genre in American literature.5.Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece _____.6.The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was_____.7.In the early 19th century, “Rip V an Winkle”had established_____’s reputation at home and abroad, and designated thebeginning of American Romanticism.8._____ has sometimes been considered the father of themodern short story.9.In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece_____, the story of a triangular love affair in colonialAmerica.II.Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly fromthe settlement of America in the early 17th century throughthe end of ________ century.A. the 18thB. the 19thC. the 20thD. 21th2. New-England’s Plantation was published in 1630 by ________A. Francis HigginsonB. William BradfordC. John SmithD. Michael Wigglesworth3. Of all the books written by Michael Wigglesworth the beat known is ________A. The Flesh and the SpiritB. The True TravelsC. The Day of DoomD. Christopher Columbus4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. In the first section of Autobiography the writer addressed to________A. his sonB. his friendsC. his wifeD. himself6. During 1807-1808, Washington Irving wrote for his brother’s newspaper called ________A. New Y ork TimesB. Washington PostC. SalmagundiD. Daily News7. History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of ________A. Washington IrvingB. Diedrich KnickerbokerC. James Fenimore CooperD. John Whittier8. Rip Van Winkle was written by ________A. James Fenimore CooperB. Benjamin FranklinC. Washington IrvingD. Walt Whitman9. The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is anovel about ________A. American Civil WarB. American RevolutionC. American West ExpansionD. The First World War10. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________A. The PrecautionB. The SpyC. The Gleanings in EuropeD. Leatherstocking Tales11. ________ was regarded as a poet of the American RevolutionA. Philip FreneauB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Cal Sandburg12. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson13. The Minister’s Black Veil was written by ________A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry David ThoreauD. Ralph Waldo Emerson14. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the ______ who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best Muse15. The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it putthe Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Titanic16. A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.A. RealismB. Critical realismC. RomanticismD. Naturalism17. Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, Rip VanWinkle, from a ________A. Greek legendB. German legendC. French legendD. English legend18. Rip Van Winkle is found in Irving’s longer work, ________A. The Sketch BookB. History of New Y orkC. Tales of a TravelerD. The Precaution19. ________ was often regarded as America’s first man of letters,devoting much of his career to literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. Washington IrvingD. James Fenimore Cooper20. All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Talesexcept ________A. The PioneersB. The PrairieC. The DeerslayerIII.Identification (20 points, 1 point for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty titles. Judgethe authors of these works and fill them on the Answer Sheet.1.Gleanings in Europe2.Oliver Goldsmith3.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America4.“The Day of Doom”5.A History of New Y ork6.The Last of the Mohicans7.The House of the Night8.A Forest Hymn9.“The Raven”10.“The Cask of Amontillado”11.Mosses from an Old Manse12.“Israfel”13.“The Flesh and the Spirit”14.Life of George Washington15.The Pathfinder16.“the Wild Honey Suckle”17.The Flood of Y ears18.“The Poetic Principle”19.The Blithedale Romance20.“The Indian Burying Ground”Directions: In this part of the test, there are five terms. Please give the definition for these terms. Scores will be given for the related contents. Four individual contents will be enough for four points.1. Knickerbocker2. Poor Richard’s Almanac3. Leatherstocking Tales4. Puritanism5. Benjamin Franklin标准答案AI.Blanks: (10%)(每题1分，共10分，答错不给分)1. American literature2. English3. Puritans4. short story5. Autobiography6. Philip Freneau7. Washington Irving8. Edgar Allan Poe9. The Scarlet LetterII.Multiple Choice: ( 20%)(每题1分，共20分，答错不给分)1. A2. B3. C4. A5. A6. C7. B8. C9. B 10. D11. A 12. B 13. B 14. B 15. C16.C 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. D III.Identification (20%)（每题1分，共20分，答错不给分）1.James Fenimore Cooper2.Washington Irving3.Anne Bradstreet4.Michael Wigglesworth5.Washington Irving6.James Fenimore Cooper7.Philip Freneau8.William Cullen Bryant9.Edgar Allan Poe10.Edgar Allan Poe11.Nathaniel Hawthorne12.Edgar Allan Poe13.Anne Bradstreet14.Washington Irving15.James Fenimore Cooper16.Philip Freneau17.William Cullen Bryant18.Edgar Allan Poe19.Nathaniel Hawthorne20.Philip FreneauIV.Terms (20%)（每题4分，共20分。

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Early in the 20th century, _____ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T.S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. both A and B11._____ is the founder of “Imagist” movement.A. Ezra PoundB. HemingwayC. Robert FrostD. Steinbeck12. Mark Twain’s works are characterized by_____A. NaturalismB. TranscendentalismC. Local ColorismD. Imagism13. ________ is said to be the father of American poetryA. T.S. EliotB. E.D. RobinsonC. Philip FreneauD. Dreiser14. Hawthorne is regarded as a _______.C. realistD. romanticist15. ______ represents the most leading spirit of American Transcendentalism.A. EmersonB. FranklinC. Mark TwainD. Whitman16.“The Art of Fiction” was written by_____A. LongfellowB. Henry JamesC. FitzgeraldD. Faulkner17. Imagination plays the most important part in________.A. realismB. romanticismC. naturalismD. classicism18. ______ is considered to be the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.A. Mending WallB. Dry SeptemberC. A Farewell to ArmsD. The Grapes of Wrath19. Uncle Tom in the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a(n)______A. Negro slaveB. salesmanC. industrialistD. officer20. Mark Twain’s works are characterized by______A. NaturalismB. TranscendentalismC. Local ColorismD. Imagism21. “The Great Gatsby” is the masterpiece of_____C. DickinsonD. Hemingway22. The United States of America was founded in______.A. 1776B. 1876C. 1789D.168923. The ancestors of American Indians were______A. AsiansB. AfricansC. EuropeansD. Australians24. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was written by______.A. H.B. Stowe B. John SteinbeckC. HawthorneD. Mark Twain25. ______ does not belong to the lost generation.A. DreiserB. T.S. EliotC. FaulknerD. Hemingway26. ______ was well known for his story “Rip Van Winkle.”A. BryantB. Washington IrvingC. Allan PoeD. Philip Freneau27. “Farewell to Arms” is the master pieced produced by______A. FaulknerB. DreiserC. HemingwayD. Longfellow28. It was ______ who wrote the formal declaration of independence.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Benjamin FranklinC. WashingtonD. Washington Irving29. _____has been exerting a great and enduring influence upon world literature, especially that of France and European symbolism.A. FranklinB. BradstreetC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Philip Freneau30. The masterpiece of Hawthorne is _________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. Richard CoryD. A Psalm of Life31. Engene O’Neill is a _______.A. novelistB. poetC. puritanD. dramatist32.Hemingway’s style of writing is characterized by______.A. high-sounding wordsB. simple dictionC. complicated sentencesD. mix metaphor33. T.S. Eliot is not only a poet but also a ______.A. criticB. statesmanC. churchmanD. novelists34. “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” was written by_____.A. T.S. EliotB. O’NeillC. Stephen CraneD. Saul Bellow35. “The Grape of Wrath” is one of the remarkable novels of_____.A. the Civil WarB. DepressionC. SuppressionD. Aggression36. Theodore Dreiser showed the_____ tendency in his novels.A. PuritanismB. classicismC. romanticismD. naturalism37. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading figure of________.A. TranscendentalismB. RomanticismC. RationalismD. Naturalism38. “The Sound and the Fury” was the masterpiece of ______A. Robert Lee FrostB. T.S. EliotC. FaulknerD. Steinbeck39. Emily Dickinson is an American________.A. dramatistB. novelistC. female poetD. male poet40. “Th Emily Dickinson is an American ark Twain’s______A. materialismB. classicismC. socialismD. colorism41. “The Portrait of a Lady” is one of best novels of_________.A. Henry JamesB. John SteinbeckC. William FaulknerD. Walt Whitman42. What Whitman is famous for his_________.A. “Leaves of Grass”B. “Mending Wall”C. “Richard Cory”D. “The Burial of the Dead”43. “Catch-22” is the masterpiece of______A. Saul BellowB. Joseph HellerC. DreiserD. Fitzgerald44. The English settlement in America began in_________A.1507B.1607C.1707D.180745. The first World War broke out in______.A.1614B.1714C.1814D.191446. The jazz age refers to the decade ofA.1950’sB.1980’sC.1920’sD.1820’s47. Franklin was a _____.A. PuritanB. romanticistC. classicistD. imagist48. “Rip Van Winkle” was written by_______.A. FreneauB. Allan PoeC. Washington IrvingD. Thomas Jefferson49.“The Scarlet Letter” is the masterpiece of______.C. BradstreetD. Allan Poe50.It was______who wrote “The Age of Reason”A. WashingtonB. JeffersonC. Benjamin FranklinD. Thomas Paine51.“Song of Myself” is a ______written by Whitman.A. novelB. poemC. dramaD. essay52.Tom in Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a _____.A. Negro slaveB. American IndianC. School masterD. industrialist53. Mark Twain belongs to the literary school of_____.A. transcendentalismB. realismC. romanticismD. naturalism54._______is a famous American female poet.A. Allan PoeB. FreneauC. Emily DickinsonD. Robinson55. “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” is the masterpiece of_____.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Stephen CraneD. Robert Lee Frost56. It was____ who wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken.”C. Robert Lee FrostD. T.S.EliotⅡ Define the literary terms briefly in English1. American Transcendentalism2. Romanticism3. The Puritans4. Realism5. Enlightenment6. Transcendentalism7. EnlightenmentIII Explain the following quotations in your own words.1. Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed.2. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference.3. Let us, then, be up and doing, With heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.4. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked.5. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!_____6. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.7. But still he fluttered pulses when he said,“Good morning”, and he glittered when he walked.8. something there is that doesn’t love a wall,He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”9. Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat10. But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today11. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Ⅳ Answer the following questions in English1. Why is American literature important for you?2. What is the theme of “The Waste Land”?3. Whose novel (or which novel) do you enjoy most?Why?4. What is the style of Hemingway’s novel?5. What is the significance of American literature?6. Do you like American literature? Why?7. What is the real theme in “Sister Carrie”?8. What is the central subject and primary significance of Hawthorne’s major works?9. Which American writer do you like best? Why?10. What is the theme of “Catch-22”?11. What are the features of Emily Dickinson’s poems?12. Why should we learn American literature?13. Which poem do you enjoy most? Why?《美国⽂学》作业参考答案I.Multiple Choice1.C2.A3.B4.A5.D6.C7.A8.C9.B 10.D11.A 12.C 13.C 14.D 15.A 16.B 17.B 18.D 19.A 20.C21.B 22.C 23.A 24.D 25.A 26.B 27.C 28.A 29.C 30.A31.D 32.B 33.A 34.B 35.B 36.D 37.A 38.C 39.C 40.D41.A 42.A 43.B 44.B 45.D 46.C 47.A 48.B 49. A 50.D51.B 52.A 53.B 54.C 55. A 56. CII.Define the literary terms briefly in English1.American transcendentalism was a philosophical dissent from Unitarianism. Transcendentalists rejected the materialistic psychology in favor of the idealism of Kant who asserted that intuition could surpass reason as a guide to the truth. To transcendentalists, spirit is inherent and pervading and is the only reality in the universe in which nature stood as a symbol of Spirit. Transcendentalismemphasized the divinity of man, the significance and right of the individual, and the possibility of the self-perfection of the individual.2. Romanticism is characterized by the pursuit of freedom, emphasis of individualism, a reliance upon the good of nature and “natural” man, and an abiding faith in the boundless resources of the human spirit and imagination.3.The Puritans were members of the church of England who at first wished to reform or “Purify its doctrines. They kept in common with all advocates o f strict Christian orthodox, insisting on man’s original sin and depravity.4. Realism is a literary school. The American realist William Dean Howells refered to the method of realistic literary creation as “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material. The realists tended to be highly selective in their choice of material, focusing upon what seemed real to their largely middle-class readers.5. Enlightenment in America was a progressive “intellectual movement which contributed to free the Americans from the limitation of Puritanism which had been prevailing in American society, and stimulate them to strive for the establishment of their independent and democratic nation. The enlighteners were confident in the proqress by education and appealed to Reason.6．American transcendentalism was a political dissent from Unitarianism. Transcendentalists rejected the materialistic psychology in favour of the idealism of kant who asserted that intuition could surpass reason as a guide to the truth. To transcendentalists, spirit is inherent and pervading and is the only reality in the universe in which nature stood as a symbol of Spirit. Transcendentalists emphasized the divinity of man, the significance and right of the individual, and the possibility of the self-perfection of the individual.7. Enlightenment in America was a progressive intellectual movement which contributed to free the Americans fromthe limitations of Purtanism which had been prevailing in American society, and stimulate them to strive for their independent and democratic nation. The enlighteners were confident in the proqress of education and appealed to reason.III Explain the following quotations in your own words.1. Those who have never succeeded before will enjoy the sweetness o success most.2. In my life and literary creation, I did not follow others’ footsteps (or footprints). SometimesI chose a different way. That was the reason why I was unique and different from them both in life and poetic writing.3. Let us rise up and take actionTo meet any challenge in our life.We should learn to work and to be patientAnd persevere in pursuing our goalTill we reap the fruit of achievement one after another.4. He always dressed himself properly and elegantly And he showed his kindness and considerateness when talked with others.5. Don’t tell me in sad voice that life is nothing but an meaningless and empty dream.6. Only when you feel thirstiest and bitterest, can you really understand and enjoy the holy sweet drink.7. He stirred the pulses of the persons he was greeting with “Good morning”. While he was walking, his manners appeared to be so brilliant and attractive that he drow much public attention.8. Wall, as a barrier for communication or mutual understanding, is not good at all. Sometimes, it is necessary to remove the wall.Wall, as a boundary or limitation or border, is needed sometimes, so that good relations can be kept among different strata of people, or different countries.Wall is a paradox, which is both good and bad in haman life9.The honeysuckle qrows so agreeably and beautifully.However the beautiful flower hid its beauty in the quiet and lonely place.10.We had better take action every day, not remain idle and inactive so that we can make progress each day.11.I have a lot of obligations and duties to fulfill, so there is still a long way for me to go beforeI can relax or leave this world.Ⅳ Answer the following questions in English1. Key points:① the significance of American literature in the world literature ② the manifestation of American life and culture③the requirement of improving English2. The theme of the poem is modern spiritual barrenness, the despair and depression that followed the first world war, the sterility and turbulence of the modern world, and the decline and breakdown of Western culture.3. The answer depends on individual student’s inclination.4. His style of writing is characterized by short and terse sentences, simple diction filled with emotion, vivid colloquialisms, and particularly the simplicity of his laconic statements.5. Key points: ① its place in the world literature② the manifestation of American life and culture③ the requirement of professional knowledge and skills as English majon.6. The answer is flexible. It de pends on an individual Student’s inclination.7. The real theme in Sister Carrie is the purposelessness of life. While looking at individuals with warm, human sympathy, he also sees the disorder and cruelty of life in general.8. The central subject of Haw thorne’s major works was the human soul. His exploration of the soul resulted from his skeptical attitude toward the social reality that was characterized by a rapid change in almost all aspects of social life, and from his ambition to probe into the nature of man. The primary significance of his major works dwells in the interect and the consistend vitality of his criticism of life.9. The answer is flexible, depending on students’ inclination, logic and language skills.10. Its real theme is to expose the dehumanization of all contemporary institutions, the absurd and corrupt bureancracy and the alienation of individuals existing in a systemized chaotic condition, such as war.punctuation and capitalization. Her mode of expression is characterized by clear-cut and delicately original imagery, precise diction, and fragmentary and enigmatic metrical pattern.12. Key points: ①the significance of American literature in the world literature ② the manifestation of American life and culture ③ the requirement of improving English.13. The answer is flexible and depends on student’s inclination.。

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Test Two(Chapter3-4 with answers）I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose theone that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets。

1.____ was American’s first man of letters and he was usually called “the Fatherof American Literature。

”A. Philip FreneauB. Thomas PaineC。

Washington Irving D。

William Cullen Bryant2.____ enduring fame rests on his frontier stories。

A. Irving’sB. Cooper’sC。

Poe’s D。

Melville's3.The period before the American Civil War is Commonly referred to as ____A。

the Romantic Period B。

the Realistic PeriodC。

the Naturalist Period D. the Modern Period4.It is on his ____ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested.A.childhood recollectionsB.sketches about his European toursC.early poetryD.tales about America5.Which of the following is NOT a theme revealed in Washington Irving's Rip VanWinkle？A. Escape from one’s responsibilities and even one’s history.B。

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Saul Bellow’s perceptions center around the black people, the big city, and the spirit ofAmerican life in the second half of the 20th century.(T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hester’s illegitimate daughter.(T ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound’s Cantos the best long poem in modern literature.(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street, which exerted great influence on Theodore Dreiser’s realism.( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s.(F ) 13. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the romantic period.(F ) 14. William Faulkner’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral in theAmerican North.(F ) 15. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, in which thewhole story was told through the thoughts of one character.(T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman of the lost generation.(T ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love.(F ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life” was written by Edgar Allen Poe.(F ) 19. “The Raven” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.(F ) 20. T oni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel The Bluest Eye.II.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( g ) 1. Benjamin Franklin Works:a.Ars Poetica( d ) 2. T oni Morrison ( f ) 3. William Faulkner ( a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( c ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne( e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( b ) 7. Stephen Crane ( j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter( h ) 9. William Carlos Williams( i ) 10. Saul Bellowb.Maggie: A Girl of the Streetsc.Twice-told Talesd.Belovede. A Psalm of Lifef.Barn Burningg.Poor Richard’s Almanach.Patersoni.Anderson the Rain King j.The Flowering JudasIII.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owethe mentioned happiness of my past life to his kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done, the complexion of my future fortune being known to him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had Igiven Fortunato cause to doubtmy good will. I continued as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at the thought of his immolation.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C.The Cask of Amontillado3.Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man_and_ his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, -- as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonWork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4.The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared, in the first place, like ablack shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer inits final and closest application to the offender.Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting onewave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slatey wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6.Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forked greenvein danced and made her eyelids t witch. “Now, now, be a good girl, and we’ll have you up in no time.”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7.But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. I found myself on Gatsby’s side,and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me. At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8. The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy,crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver c urve of fish…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9.It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow theleaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk,and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted PlaceC. Recitatif10.CABOT--Thunder 'n' lightnin', Abbie! I hain't slept this late in fifty year! Looks 's if thesun was full riz a'most. Must've been the dancin' an' likker. Must be gittin' old. I hope Eben's t' wuk. Ye might've tuk the trouble t' rouse me, Abbie. (He turns--sees no one there--surprised) Waal--whar air she? Gittin' vittles, I calc'late. (He tiptoes to the cradle and peers down--proudly) Mornin', sonny. Putty's a picter! Sleepin' sound. He don't beller all night like most o' 'em. (He goes quietly out the door in rear--a few moments later enters kitchen--sees Abbie--with satisfaction) So thar ye be. Ye got any vittles cooked?Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul BellowWork:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1.I shot an __ arrow ___ into the air.It fell to __ earth ___ I knew not ___ where __;For so swiftly it __ flew ___ the sightCould not __ follow ___ it in its __ flight ___. (6%)2.Life is __ real ___! Life is __ earnest ___!And the grave is not its __ goal ___;__ Dust __ thou art, to ___ dust __ returnest,Was not spoken of the __ soul ___. (6%)3.Helen, thy ___ beauty __ is to meLike those Nicean barks of yoreThat gently, o’er a __ perfumed ___ sea,The weary, way-worn ___ wanderer __ boreTo his own native _ shore ____. (4%)4.My captain does not answer, his lips are __ pale ___ and __ still ___,My father does not feel my arm, he has no ___ pulse __ nor __ will ___ (4%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Of physiology from top to toe I sing,Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say theForm complete is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,The Modern Man I sing.I sing for physiology from top to toe. Neither looks alone nor intelligence is worthy for the praise. I say the form is far worthier.I also sing for the equality betweenthe sexes. I sing for the modern man of their life full of passion, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed under the divine laws./doc/9aad4da05a0216fc700abb68a98 271fe910eaf96.html ment: 20%1.The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the verydefinitiveness with which it was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.Answer the following questions:(1) Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? (5%)(2) What kind of person do you think the narrator is according to the above passage? (5%)2.On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. Answer the following questions:(1)What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of the letter A so elaborate?(5%)(2)How does this tell us about her character? (5%)____________________________________________美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二IV.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression.(F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates inJefferson and Thoreau.(T ) 3. Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles.(F ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms.(T ) 5. The quotation—“Whatsoever thy hand f indeth to do, do it with thy might…” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.(T ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.(T ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells thestory of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses toname the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.(F ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about his life, he istaking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past.(F ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar” symbolizes social regulation.(F ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to use Montresor’s fondnessfor wine against him.(T ) 11. Stephen Cra ne’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates astory of a good woman’s downfall and destruction in a slum environment.(T ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of human reality.(T ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. (F ) 14. The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is considered as therepresentative of his short story.(T ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat.(T ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation.(T ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms—the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.(F ) 18. In “Sonnet—To Science”, Poe praised science for it emancipated the poet’simagination.(T ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson’s poems.(T ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize. V.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( j ) 1. Walt Whiteman( b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( h ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald( a ) 5. Wallace Stevens( i ) 6. Joseph Heller( c ) 7. Eugene Glastone O’Neill ( d ) 8. Ernest Hemingway ( g ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( e ) 10. Langston Hughes Works:a.The Man with the Blue Guitarb.The Ravenc.Desire under the Elmsd.For Whom the Bell Tollse.Fine Clothes to the Jewf.Natureg.The Leaning Towerh.The Side of Paradisei.God Knowsj.Leaves of GrassVI.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of myancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook。

《美国文学》试卷及答案 American Literature for English major

《美国文学》试卷班级学号姓名I. Choose the best answer for each blank or question. (50%)1. _______ was usually regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith2. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the _______ values that dominated much of the early American writing.A. RomanticismB. PuritanC. EnlightenmentD. Realist3. The 18th-century American Enlightenment was a movement marked by anemphasis on _______.A. rationality rather than traditionB. belief in human perfection through educationC. opposition to old colonial order and religious obscurantism（蒙昧主义）D. all of above4 Which of the following is not a writer of American literature of reason andrevolution?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas PaineC. Washington IrvingD. Thomas Jefferson5. Which is of the following works is not written by Thomas Paine?A. Common SenseB. The American CrisisC. The Rights of ManD. The Autobiography6. _______ was regarded as Father of the American short stories.A. James Fenimore CooperB. Thomas PaineC. Washington IrvingD. William Bradford7. _______ was regarded as the first American novelist.A. James Fenimore CooperB. Edger Allan PoeC. Washington IrvingD. Nathaniel Hawthorne8. The general characteristics of American Romanticism are following except_____.A. the celebration of natural beauty and the simple lifeB. stress on reason rather than emotionC. interest in the picturesque past and remote placesD. individualism and historical romance9. _______ is a literary and philosophical movement which flourished in NewEngland from the 1830s to 1860s, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. RomanticismD. Symbolism10. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant Americanwriters, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _______.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman11. Which of the following is not a principle of Transcendentalism?A. The importance of a direct relationship with GodB. An individual is the spiritual center of the universeC. The need to pursue unity with natureD. The use of scientific reason as the basis for truth12. What term do Transcendentalists use to describe the unity that exists betweenman, nature, and God?A. NirvanaB. OversoulC. OnenessD. Intuition13. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard,which was praised by Oliver Wendell H olmes as “Our intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar14.A book _______ came out of Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden Pond.A. WaldenB. Self-RelianceC. Civil DisobedienceD. English Traits15. Which of the following works is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne?A. The House of the Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Scarlet Letter16. In The Scarlet Letter, what does Pearl best represent throughout the novel?A. The living embodiment of Hester's sinB. A young innocent childC. The unifying force that will bring Hester and Dimmesdale together at the endD. A form of punishment for Hester17. As time goes by, Hester’s scarlet letter eventually comes to stand for _______.A. AdmirableB. AloneC. AbleD. Adultery18. Who is the greatest sinner in The Scarlet Letter?A. Roger ChillingworthB. Hester PrynneC. Arthur DimmesdaleD. Pearl19. ____ can be broadly defined as “the faithful representation of reality” or “verisimilitude（逼真）”. It includes the period of time from the Civil War to the turn of the century.A. American RealismB. American TranscendentalismC. American SentimentalismD. American Romanticism20. Who is not a writer of American Realism?A. William Dean HowellsB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. Herman Melville21. _______ is poetry that has no fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. Free verseB. Blank verseC. BalladD. Lyric22. The poetry in Leaves of Grass clearly demonstrates Whitm an’s faith in _______.A. capitalismB. federalismC. democracyD. socialism23. Whitman believed that poetry should be _______.A. spoken, not writtenB. read, not spokenC. created, not quotedD. personal, not public24. The themes of Leaves of Grass are_______.A. celebration of the freedom and dignity of individualB. death as a process of lifeC. universal brotherhood of manD. all of above25. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is not true?A. In most of her life she had an isolated life, not leaving her house and seeing closefriends.B. She knew such famous writers as Shakespeare and Bronte sisters.C. The American Civil War affected her thinking and writing a lot.D. She took no interest in having her poems published.26. Which of the following is not true to the characteristics of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?A. Her poems are innovative.B. Her poems are highly compact.C. Her poems are very long.D. Her poems are highly subjective.27. In the line “We slowly dr ove — He knew no haste / And I had put away / My labor andmy leisure too, / For His Civility —”, the word “civility” means ______.A. abilityB. politenessC. kindnessD. pleasure28. Mark Twain is regarded as one of the forerunners of American _______ literature.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. modernism29. Which of the following is not true?A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is considered one of the best books about anAmerican boy’s life in the eighteen hundreds.B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is largely based on the author’s personal memories ofgrowing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is written in the third person point of view.D. The setting of the novel, St. Petersburg, is a town where the author grew up.30. In 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “All modern American literature comes from onebook by Mark Twain called _______.A. Innocent AbroadB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi31. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a_______.A. Modern GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Lost GenerationD. Last Generation32. Which of the following works is not written by F. Scott Fitzgerald?A. Tender is the NightB. This Side of ParadiseC. The Last TycoonD. The Waste Land33. Which university did F. Scott Fitzgerald enter but drop before graduation?A. Yale UniversityB. Harvard UniversityC. Boston UniversityD. Princeton University34. The term _______ is often applied to the 1920’s.A. Blue Age B Jazz AgeC. Roaring AgeD. Gilded Age35. Which of these details is true about Gatsby’s past?A. He fought in the warB. He’s the son of wealthy people from the MidwestC. He received a degree from OxfordD. All of above36. Which of the following is not symbolized by the green light in The Great Gatsby?A. moneyB. the American DreamC. natureD. optimism37. The road between West Egg and East egg is _______.A. A “valley of ashes”B. A literary illusion to the mythological River Styx（冥河）C. A literary illusion to the Waste Land by T.S. EliotD. All of these38. Why is Nick Carraway the perfect choice to narrate the novel?A. Because he is not a character in the story he tells.B. Because he can narrate not only what he see s but also what he doesn’t see.C. Because he is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, as a result, otherstend to talk to him and tell him their secrets.D. Because he regards Gatsby as a great man.39. In 1950 _______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for the year 1949.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John Steinbeck C. Henry James40. Who coined the expression “lost generation”？A. Gertrude SteinB. Ernest HemingwayC. Ezra PoundD. T. S. Eliot41. In 1954 _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his powerful, style-formingmastery of the art of modern narration”.A. Ernest HemingwayB. William FaulknerC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. Henry James42. The code of Hemingway heroes may be summed up in his phrase _______.A. dignity in despairB. truth in simplicityC. rebels against traditionD. grace under pressure43. Who said the following: “the dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only oneeighth of it being above water”?A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John Steinbeck C. Henry James44. Which war serves as the background for A Farwell to Arms?A. Spanish civil warB. World War IC. World War IID. Mexican-American War45. What dose rain symbolize in A Farewell to Arms?A. LoveB. DeathC. WarD. Hope46. What is not depicted in A Farewell to Arms?A. war and loveB. illness and injuryC. death and disillusionmentD. military glory and heroism47. Which of the following works is not written by William Faulkner?A. The Sound and the FuryB. Light in AugustC. The Grape of WrathD. As I Lay Dying48. Most of Faulkner’s major works are set in an imaginary place called _______.A. OxfordB. MississippiC. Yoknapatawpha CountyD. New Albany49. Emily Dickinson’s poetry covers a wide range of themes. Which of the following is notthe theme of her poetry?A. love and natureB. success and failureC. mortality and immortalityD. war and peace50. Mark Twain is famous for his _______ writing style.A. humorousB. romanticC. pessimisticD. freeColumn A Column B1. Walden A. Emily Dickinson2. The American Crisis B. Nathaniel Hawthorne3. The Scarlet Letter C. Thomas Jefferson4. The Last of the Mohicans D. F. Scott Fitzgerald5. Song of Myself E. Ernest Hemingway6. Because I could not stop for death F. Henry David Thoreau7. The Declaration of Independence G .. Ralph Waldo Emerson8. The Great Gatsby H. James Fenimore Cooper9. A Farewell to Arms I. Walt Whitman10. Nature J. Thomas PaineIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false. (10%)1. Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems written mainly in blank verse.2. In the poem “Because I could not stop for death ”, the speaker personifies death as a polite gentleman in order to show that death is horrible and terrifying.3. The Lost Generation is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetics of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism.4. East Egg where Gatsby lives symbolizes the emergence of the new rich of the 1920s while West Egg where Tom and Daisy live symbolizes the old upper class that continued to dominate the American society.5. The tragic ending of A Farewell to Arms sums up the writer’s theme about the horrific world that the violence and chaos of war would eventually destroy people’s love and life.IV . Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.（30%）1. We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess — in the Ring —We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain —We passed the Setting Sun —Questions:1) Who wrote these lines?2) In which poem do you read it?3) What dose “we ” refer to?4) In this stanza, what does “the School ”, “the Fields of Gazing Grain ”, and “the Setting Sun ” respectively （分别地）symbolize?2. Vacation was approaching. The schoolmaster, always severe, grewseverer and more exacting than ever, for he wanted the school to make a goodshowing on Examination Day. His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now —at least among the smaller pupils. Only the big boys, and young ladies ofeighteen and twenty, escaped lashing.Questions:5) From which novel is this section taken?6) Who is the author of the novel?7) Give a brief analysis of the major character in the novel.3. There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights.In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplane（滑木板）over cataracts（大瀑布）of foam. Questions:8) From which novel is this section taken?9) Who is the author of this novel?10) What does this section describe?11) Give a brief analysis of the major themes of the novel.4. “Are you all right, Cat?”“I’ve been having some pains, darling.”“Regularly?”“No, not very.”“If you have them at all regularly we’ll go to the hospital.”Questions:12) Who wrote this dialogue?13) In which novel do you read it?14) Who are the two speakers in this dialogue?15) Give a brief analysis of the writer’s writing style.《美国文学》试卷答题卷班级学号姓名I. Choose the best answer for each blank or question. (50%)1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.II. Match the work from column A for the writer in column B. (10%)1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false. (10%)1. 2. 3. 4. 5.IV . Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.（30%）1. 1)2)3)4)2. 5) 6) 7)3. 8) 9)10)11)4. 12) 13)14)15)《美国文学》答案I. Choose the best answer for each blank or question. (50%)1. D2. B3. D4. C5. D6. C7. A8. B9. B 10. A 11. D 12. B 13. D 14. A 15. B 16. A 17. C 18. A 19. A 20. D 21. A 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. C 26. C 27. B 28. C 29. D 30. B 31. C 32. D 33. D 34. B 35. A 36. C 37. D 38. C 39. A 40. A 41. A 42. D 43. B 44. B 45. B 46. D 47. C 48. C 49. D 50. AII. Match the work from column A for the writer in column B.1. F2. J3. B4. H5. I6. A7. C8. D9. E 10. GIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false. (20%)1. F2. F3. T4. F5. TIV. Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.（30%）1. 1) Emily Dickinson 2) Because I could not stop for death3) “We” refers to the speaker and Death.4) “the School” represents the early part of life, childhood.“the Fields of Gazing Grains” represents adulthood. Grain also symbolizes fertility, and since adulthood is when people have children.“the Setting Sun” represents old age, the end of the life.2. 5) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 6) Mark Twain7) Tom is a mischievous boy with an active imagination, untiring energy and thirst foradventure, has a good heart and a strong moral conscience. When the novel begins, Tom is a mischievous child who envies Huck Finn’s lazy lifestyle and freedom. As Tom’s adventures proceed, Tom moves away from his childhood concerns and makes mature, responsible decisions. By the end of the novel, He is no longer a disobedient character, but a defender of responsibility. In the end, growing up for Tom means embracing social custom and sacrificing the freedoms of childhood.3. 8) The Great Gatsby 9) F. Scott Fitzgerald10) In this section Gatsby is holding a luxurious party to which all kinds of guestswhether invited or not come to enjoy music, drinks, food and sunshine on the beach.It’s a grand and splendid party.11) The themes of the novel include the following points: first, it reveals the decline ofthe American Dream in the 1920s. As Fitzgerald saw it, the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s depicted in the novel, however, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast. Second, it describes the hollowness of the upper class. Third, the novel also reflects the ignorance of the characters who have little self-knowledge and even less knowledge of each other.4. 12) A Farewell to Arms 13) Ernest Hemingway14) Frederic Henry & Catherine Barkley15) His prose style is simple, clear, direct, and precise. His diction is fundamental,favoring plain words. His sentences are short and declarative, often connected by “and”, “then”, and sometimes “so.” His much celebrated technique of the repetition of words, phrases, and sentence structure has the effect of substantiating detail or building up emotional intensity. Dialogue is a distinguishing feature of his style.His fictional world is full of disorder violence, and misery. Without hope, his heroes face it with honor, courage, and endurance. Their code may be summed up in his phrase “grace under pressure.”11。

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（完整版）美国⽂学史练习Exercises of Chapter 2I. Multiple Choice1. Which of the following is NOT one part of The LeatherStocking Tales by Cooper?A. The SpyB. The PathfinderC. The PioneersD. The Deerslayer2. Which statement about Thoreau was NOT right?A. He was a lover of nature.B. He was a particular kind of romantic.C. He was a polemicist.D. He was a thorough transcendentalist.3. Which of the following has been called “the manifesto of American transcendentalism?”A. Divinity School AddressB. Self-RelianceC. NatureD. The American Scholar4. As a philosophical and literary movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. sentimentalismB. transcendentalismC. modernismD. rationalism5. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .A. the Modern PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Naturalist Period6. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT .A. The Marble FaunB. TypeeC. The Scarlet LetterD. Mosses form an Old Manse7. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson’s?A. I Heard a Fly Buzz When I DiedC. This is My Letter to the WorldD. I Like to See it Lap the Miles8. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT.A. the strict poetic formB. the free and natural rhythmC. the easy flow of feelingsD. the simple and conversational language9. Poe’s first collection of stories is .A. Tales of a TravelerB. Leather Stocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque10. Which book is not written by Emerson?A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. NatureD. Civil Disobedience11. The first example of Hawthorn’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in .A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest12. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is .A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Henry David ThoreauD. Washington Irving13. Transcendentalists recognized as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking14. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men15. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustinC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher16. Captain, My Captain is written for .A. LincolnB. WhitmanC. WashingtonD. Heminway17. Which of the following books is a tremendous chronicle of an appalling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale?A. The Scarlet LetterB. Moby DickC. The Marble FaunD. Moses from an Old Manse18. was the first man of letters from the United States to win and international reputation.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. James Fenimore CooperD. Longfellow19. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most outstanding of all the writers in literature.A. transcendental/ EnglishB. transcendental/ AmericanC. realistic/ EnglishD. realistic/ American20. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a .A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translator21. In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Henry David ThoreauD. Herman Melville22. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is in .A. England during World War IIB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. the Middle Ages in ItalyD. Puritan America23. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes .A. the microcosm of human societyB. a search for truthC. the unknown worldD. nature24. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with .A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings25. tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.A. Twice-told TalesB. The Scarlet LetterC. The House of the Seven GablesD. The Marble Faun26. is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick27. Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, .A. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”B. “Rip Van Winkle”C. “The Custom-House”D. “The Birthmark”28. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the Great NatureD. evil of the world29. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. all the above30. For Melville, as well as for the reader and , the narrator, Moby-Dick is stilla mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. StarbuckB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Arab31. was a romanticized account of Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville become known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.A. Moby-DickB. TypeeC. OmooD. Billy Budd32. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except .A. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace33. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except .A. brevityB. directnessC. plainest wordsD. obscure34. is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Walt WhitmanC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain35. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear .A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers36. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as .A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experienceB. the thought that designates man as a social animalC. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD. the modes of thinking37. In the poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of .A. the theory of universalityB. singularity and equality of all beings in valueC. both A and BD. none above38. Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and theas well.A. natureB. lifeC. selfD. self-reliance39. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. Lyrical and well-structuredB. Free-flowingC. Simple and rather crudeD. Conversational and casual40. In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death .A. passionatelyB. pessimisticallyC. in despairD. peacefullyII. Bland Filling1. The Romantic period in the American literary history covers the time between the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war . It started with the publication of Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass . This period is also called Romanticism .2. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and the other is The Life of George Washington .3. In Song of Myself , Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.4. Typee by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.5. From Thoreau’s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay Civil Disobedience .6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter .7. Published in 1823, The Pioneer , the first of The Leatherstocking Tales, in their publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.8. Edgar Allan Poe can somewhat be called “the Father of the American detective story”.。

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第二章模拟练习与答案Blank Filling1. The War of Independence lasted eight years till .2. Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of .3. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Paine was entitled .4. Franklin's best writing is found in his masterpiece .5. Franklin was the epitome of the , the versatile, practical embodiment of national man in the 18th century.6. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was .7. was considered as the "poet of the American Revolution."8. Except Common Sense, Paine's the other two famous works were and .9. Eighteen-century America experienced an age of. , of ,and like England and Europe.10. Franklin's claim to a place in literature rests chiefly on his and . Multiple Choice1. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlighten-ment. was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. "God help them that help themselves" is found in work.A. PaineB. FranklinC. FreneauD. Jefferson3. Which statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.4. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?A. The American Crisis.B. The Federalist.C. Declaration of Independence.D. The Age of Reason.5. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common Sense.B. The American Crisis.C. The Rights of Man.D. The Autobiography.6. "These are the times that try men's souls", these words were once read to Washington's troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin Franklin.B. Thomas Paine.C. Thomas Jefferson.D. George Washington.7. Which statement about Freneau is true?A. He was a satirist.B. He was a pamphleteer.C. He was a poet.D. He was a bitter polemicist.8. Which work is written by Freneau?A. The Rights of Man.B. The Wild Honey Suckle.C. Poor Richard's Almanac.D. The Day of Doom.9. Who was considered as the "Poet of American Revolution"?A. Anne Bradstreet.B. Edward Taylor.C. Michael Wigglesworth.D. Philip Freneau.10. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the .A. Charitist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist MovementIII. Identification of FragmentsPassage 1These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the services of their country; but he that stands if now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: "Tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;"Questions:1. Which book is this passage taken from?2. Who is the author?3. Whom is the author praising? Whom is the author criticizing?4. Give a brief comment on this short passage.Passage 2From morning suns and evening dewsAt first thy little being came:If nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same:The space between, is but an hour,The frail duration of a flower.Questions:1. Who is the writer of these verses?2. What is the title of this poem?3. Give a brief comment on this poem.。

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Part I. The Literature of Colonial AmericaI. Fill in the following Blanks.1.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was______.2.Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was _____, an English soldier offortune, whose reports fo exploratin, publiseed in the early 1600s, have been described as thefirst distinct American literaature written in English.3.Almost a hundred years earlier the Caribbean Islands, Mexicl, and other parts of Central andSouth America were occupied by the _____.4.The term "Puritan" was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of theChurch of _____.5._____ College was established in 1636, with a printing press set up nearly in 1639.6.Among all the settlers in the New Continent, _____ settlers were the most influential.7.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at _____, Virginia.8._____ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established Jamestown.9.In the book _____ John Smith wrote that "here nature and liberty afford us that freely which inEngland we want, or it costs us dearly."10.Genearl History of Virginia contains Smith's most famous tale of how the Indian princessnamed _____ saved him from the wrath of her father.11.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _____ values that dominated much of theearly American writing.12.The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century adapted the style of establishedEuropean poets to the subject matter comfronled in a slrang, new environment. __________Bradstreet was one such poet.13.William Bradford himself used a word " ________ " to describe the community ofbelievers who sailed from Southampton, England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth,Massachusetts in 1620.14.In 1620,____________ was elected Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts.15.From 1621 until his death, ___________ probably possessed more power than any othercolonial governor.16.William Bradford's work ___________ consists of two books. The first bookdeals with the persecutions of the SeptuaEiate m Scrooby, England, and ihesecond book dcscribes the signing of the "Compact".17.The History- of New England is a priceless gift left us by_______.18.__________ wrote his most impressive wort The Magnalia Ckristi America.19.The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period was_______20.The Puritan philosophy known as ________ was important in New England during colonialtime, and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations.21.Many Puritans wrote verse, but the work of two writers, Anne BradsLitel and_________ , roselo Jhe level of real poetry.22.A representative sermon A True Stgki of Sin is____________ 's main work.23.Before his death, _________ had gained a position as America;s first systematicphilosopher.24.Jonathan Edwards' s masterpiece is ____________ .25.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composedby__________ .26._________ 's best verse is to be found in a juries called "Preparatory Meditations" .27.The Day of Doom, a long-standing best-seller both in Ameriea and in England, written by________ .28.Charles Biuckden Brown's first novel______________ , or ___________ has been regarded asthe first American novel.29.With his elaborate metaphors, __________ was reminiscent of Richaid Crashaw and GeorgeHerbert in England.III. Make multiple choices.1. English literature in the America is only about more than ________ years old.A. 500B. 400C. 200D. 1002. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist ____________ .A. John WinthropB. John SmithC. William BradfordD. John Goodwin3. The Puritan dominating values were___________ .A. hard workB. thriftC. pietyD. sobriety4. The early history of___________ Colony was the history of Bradford' s leader ship.A. PlymouthB. JamestownC. New EnglandD. Mayflower5. Choose those names that were named after English monarch or land.A. GeorgiaB. New YorkC. CarolinaD. New Hampshire6. __________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith7. Which statement about Cotton Mather is not true?A. He was a great Puritan historian.B. He was an inexhaustible writer.C. He was a skillful preacher and an eminent theologian.D. He was a graduate of Oxford College.8. Jonathan Edwards' best and most representative sermon was ____ .A. A True Sight of SinB. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodC. A Model of Christian CharityD. God's Determinations9. Which writer is not a poet?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Anne BradstreetC. Edward TaylorD. Thomas Hooker10. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the__________ .A. RevolutionismB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. Rationalism11. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the " ________ " who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse12. The ship "__________ " carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. PequodKeys to Part I.I. Fill in the blanks:1.American Puritanism2.Captain John Smith3.Spanish4.England5.Harvard6.English7.Jamestown8.Captain John Smith9. A Description of New England10.Pocahontas11.Puritan12.Anne13.Pilgrims14.William Bradford15.William Bradford16.Mayflower17.John Winthrop18.Cotton Mather19.John Winthrop20.Puritanism21.Edward Taylor22.Thomas Hooker23.Jonathan Edwards24.Freedom of the Will25.Anne Bradstreet26.Edward Taylor27.Michael Wiggleworth28.Wieland, The Transformation; An American Tale29.Edward TaylorIII. Make multiple choices：1. C2. B3.ABCD4. A5.ABCD6. D7. D8. B9. D10.C11.B12.C•Part II. The Literature of Reason and RevolutionI. Fill in the blanks.1.The War of Independence lasted eight years till_____.2.The United States of America was founded in _____.3.Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called _____.4.Benjamin Franklin' s best writing is found in his masterpiece ________ .5.Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately borninto an age of____________ .6.On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet ________ appeared.7. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled _____________ .8.Thomas Paine's second most important work_____________ was an impassioned pleaagainst hereditary monarchy.9.The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was _____________ .10.Philip Freneau' s famous poem____________ was written about his imprisoned experience.11.___________ was considered as the " poet of the American Revolution. "12._________ has been called the "Father of American Poetry. "13.In 1791, probably with Thomas Jefferson's support, ___________ established inPhiladelphia the National Gazette.14.In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of _________ and Revolution.15.The Calvinist beliefs brought about the Great Awakening during the 1730s and 1740s._________ was the most influential among the believers.16.Jonathan Edwards' work Images or Shadows of Divine Things anticipated the naturesymbolism of___________ in the 19th century. we say Jonathan Edwards represents theupper levels of the American mind, _________ represents the lower levels.III. Make multiple choices.1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. _________ wasA. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. In American literature, the Enlighteners were opposed to ________ .A. the colonial orderB. religious obscurantismC. the Puritan traditionD. the secular literature3. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted____________ in 1776.A. the Declaration of IndependenceB. the Sugar ActC. the Stamp ActD. the Mayflower Compact4. Which statement about Benjamin Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.5. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and careerof___________ .A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington6. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?A. The American CrisisB. The FederalistC. Declaration of IndependenceD. The Waste Land7. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the____________ .A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist8. From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous __________ , an annal collection of proverbs.B. Poor Richard's AlmanacC. Common SenseD. The General Magazine9. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common SenseB. The American CrisisC. Pennsylvania MagazineD. The Autobiography10. Choose the works written by Thomas Paine.A. Rights of ManB. The Age of ReasonC. Agrarian JusticeD. Common SenseE. The American Crisis1l. The first pamphlet published in America to urge immediate independence from Britainis__________ .A. The Rights of ManB. Common SenseC. The American CrisisD. Declaration of Independence12. "These are the times that try men' s souls", these words were once read to George Washington' s troops and did much to shore up the spirits of the revolutionary soldiers. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas JeffersonC. Thomas PaineD. George Washington13. Which statement about Philip Freneau is true?A. He was a satirist.B. He was a pamphleteer.C. He was a poet.D. He was a bitter polemicist.14. Which poem is not written by Philip Freneau?A. The British Prison ShipB. The Wild Honey SuckleC. The Indian Burying GroundD. The Day of Doom15. Who was considered as the "Poet of American Revolution"?B. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau16. It was not until January 1776 that a widely heard public voice demanded complete separation from England. The voice was that of________ , whose pamphlet Common Sense, with its heated language, increased the growing demand for separation.A. Thomas PaineB. Thomas JeffersonC. George WashingtonD. Patrick Henry17. During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the____________ .A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement18. 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 EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Regionalism19. __________ 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 SenseB. The American CrisisC. Declaration of IndependenceD. Defence of the English People20. Benjamin Franklin shaped his writing after the______________ of the English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.A. Spectator PapersB. WaldenC. NatureD. The Sacred WoodKeys to Part II.I. Fill in the blanks1.17832.17833.the General Magazine4.Autobiography5.revolutionmon Sense7.The American crisis8.The Rights of Man9.Philip Freneau10.The British Prison Ship11.Philip Freneau12.Philip Freneau13.Philip Freneau14.Reason15.Jonathan Edwards16.Transcendentalism17.Benjamin Franklin III. Make multiple choices.1. B2.ABC3. A4. D5. B6.ABC7. A8. B9. D10.ABCDE11.B12.C13.ABCD14.D15.D16.A17.C18.B19.C20.APart III. The Literature of RomanticismI. Fill in the blanks?1.In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote ________ which be came the firstwork by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.2.In 1828, __________ published his An American Dictionary of the English Language.3.In 1755, __________ published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage.4.The Civil War of 1861—1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolitionof___________ .5.The American Transcendentalists formed a club called _________ .6.The Transcendental Club often met at____________ ' s Concord home.7.______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.8.At nineteen___________ published in his brother' s newspaper, his "Jonathan Oldstyle"satires of New York life.9.In Washington Irving' s work___________ appeared the first modern short stories and thefirst great American juvenile literature.10.In Paris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor,with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy______________ , or The MerryMonarch.11.The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving' s worknamed _______.12._________ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after theRevolutionary War.13.Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled _____________ .14.Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold smith, and theother is____________ .15.The first important American novelist was____________ .16.James Fenimore Cooper' s novel ___________ was a rousing tale about espionage againstthe British during the Revolutionary War.17.The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was_____________ . The hero of thenovel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.18.The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is____________ , who goes by the variousnames of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.19."To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of_______________ ' s work, it has been called by aneminent English critic " the most perfect brief poem in the language. "20.__________ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature.21.Among William Cullen Bryant's most important later works are his translations of the Iliadand the____________ into English blank verse.22.Edgar Allan Poe' s poem____________ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in theEnglish language.23.Edgar Allan Poe's poem____________ was published in 1845 as the title poem of acollection.24.Ralph___________ Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to NewEngland.25.Ralph Waldo Emerson's truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson'stheories, was____________ .26.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at _________________ Pond.27.A superb book entitled____________ came out of Henry David Thoreau' s two-yearexperiment at Walden Pond.28.From Henry David Thoreau' s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay ______.29.Hester Prynne is the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel _____________ .30.Herman Melville' s novel____________ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage inpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.31.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first collection of poems entitled ______________ appearedin 1838.32.The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' s writings is his translation of Dante' s______.33.Besides lyrics and longer poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote dramatic works,among which____________ is the most conspicuous.34.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and _____________ are the only two American poetscommemorated in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.35.After his death, __________ became the only American to be honored with a bust in thePoet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.36.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century through theoutburst of the___________ .37.The English author named___________ was, in a way, responsible for the romanticdescription of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverley novels were models for American historical romances.38.Published in 1823, __________ was the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, in their order ofpublication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.39.In The Pioneers, __________ represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life inGod' s world.40.In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life ofAmerica. It was entitled Nature by______________ .41.Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration ofIntellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.42.Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was_____________ , a friend of RalphWaldo Emerson' s and his junior by some fourteen years.43.The way in which___________ wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that AmericanRomanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.44.Herman Melville's world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to____________ , anovelist.45.It is said that in his late years, Herman Melville stopped writing novels and stories andturned to poetry, ___________ is his most famous poetic work.46.Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named______________ , whichis, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.II. Make multiple choices.1. In 1837, the first college-level institution for women, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, was established in____________ to serve the "muslin sex".A. New EnglandB. VirginiaC. MassachusettsD. New York2. Transcendentalism took their ideas from___________ .A. the romantic literature in EuropeB. neo-PlatonismC. German idealistic philosophyD. the revelations of oriental mysticism3. As a philosophical and literary movement, ____________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___________and Henry David Thoreau.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Philip FreneauD. Oversoul5. Who were regarded as the "School-room Poets"?A. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowB. LowellC. Oliver Russel HolmesD. John Greenleaf Whittier6. American statesmen such as__________ slowly won for their country the respectof European powers.A. WashingtonB. JeffersonC. MadisonD. Monroe7. _________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Walt Whitman8. Transcendentalists recognized__________ as the "highest power of the soul. "A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking9. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _______________ , there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry David ThoreauC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser10. Transcendentalism appealed to those who disdained the harsh God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New EnglandA. TranscendentalismB. HumanismC. NaturalismD. Unitarianism11. In the early 19th century America, statesmen such as _________ , came to dominate American politics not with their prose but with the emotional force of their oratory.A. Daniel WebsterB. Daniel DefoeC. Philip FreneauD. Thomas Paine12. A new___________ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century.A. realismB. critical realismC. romanticismD. naturalism13. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in _________ .A. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking TalesB. Henry David Thoreau' s V/aldenC. Mark Twain' s Huckleberry FinnD. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter14. A preoccupation with the demonic and the mystery of evil marked the works of _________ , and a host of lesser writers.B. Edgar Allan PoeC. Herman MelvilleD. Mark Twain15. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by_____A. Samuel JohnsonB. Noah WebsterC. Daniel WebsterD. Daniel Defoe16. In the nineteenth century America, Romantics often shared certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following.A. moral enthusiasmB. faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perceptionC. adoration for the natural worldD. presumption about the corrosive effect of human society17. Choose Washington Irving' s works from the following.A. The Sketch BookB. Bracebridge HallC. Tales of a TravellerD. A History of New York18. In James Fenimore Cooper's novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal , come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following.A. the Mohican Chief ChingachgookB. UncasC. Tom JonesD. Kubla Khan19. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet___________ to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. Philip FreneauC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allan Poe20. Choose William Cullen Bryant's poems from the following.A. To a Caty-DidB. To a WaterfowlC. ThanatopsisD. The Wild Honey Suckle21. From the following, choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. To HelenB. The RavenC. Annabel LeeD. The Bells22. In his post on the Messenger, Edgar Allan Poe showed his true talents asA. an editorB. a poetC. a literary criticD. a fiction writer23. Edgar Allan Poe's first collection of short stories is___________ .A. Tales of a TravellerB. Leatherstocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque24. From the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry.A. being highly individualB. harsh rhythmsC. lack of form and polishD. striking images25. Which book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Representative MenB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The Rhodora26. Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Of StudiesB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Divinity School Address27. From Henry David Thoreau' s jail experience, came his famous essay, ___________ , which states Thoreau's belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense28. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne' s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in__________ .A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest29. The House of Seven Gables is a famous mystery-haunted novel written by_________A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Nathaniel HathorneC. Nathanal HawthorneD. Nathanial Hathorne30. Nathaniel Hawthorne's ability to create vivid and symbolic images that embody great moral questions also appears strongly in his short stories. Choose his short stories from the following.A. Young Goodman BrownB. The Great Stone FaceC. The Ambitious GuestD. Ethan BrandE. The Pearl31. Which is not Nathaniel Hawthorne's long novel?A. The Scarlet LetterB. The Marble FaunC. The Blithedale RomanceD. The House of Seven GablesE. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment32. Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne_____________ in American literature.A. the largest brain with the largest heartB. father of American poetryC. the transcendentalistD. the American scholar33. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter.A. Hester PrynneB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Pearl34. __________ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville's stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville well known as the " man who lived among cannibals".A. Moby DickB. TypeeC. OmooD. Billy Budd35. With the appearance of ______________ in 1855, which is about American Indians, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetical reputation was established.A. EvangelineB. The Courtship of Miles StandishC. Song of HiawathaD. Michael Angelo36. Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature.A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Henry David ThoreauC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Herman MelvilleE. Walt Whitman37. In the early nineteenth century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did__________ .A. PuritanismB. RomanticismC. RationalismD. Sentimentalism38. American romanticist writers,like Washington Irving and especially the group of New England poets such as____________ , __________ ,__________ ,_____ and Lowell, tried to model their works upon English and European masters.A. William Cullen BryantB. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowC. Oliver Russel HolmesD. John Greenleaf WhittierE. Thomas Gray39. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as____________and____________ .A. Rip Van WinkleB. The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington40. "The universe is composed of Nature and the soul... Spirit is present everywhere". This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England______A. RomanticismB. TranscendentalismC. NaturalismD. Symbolism41. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually _________ on the Puritan soil.A. RomanticismB. PuritanismC. Mysticism。

英语专业美国文学试题exercise 2

Exercise TwoⅠ. Write the names of the authors.(10%)1. The Prince and the Pauper2. The Red Badge of Courage3. “A Clean, Well Lighted Room”4. Call of the Wild5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”6. “A Station at the Metro”7. “Fire and Ice”8. The Autobiography 9. “One’s Self I sing” 10. The Scarlet Letter. Fill in the following blanks . (10%) 1. In the novel , Hemingway described the dignity and courage of the commonpeople during the Spanish Civil War.2. was a great inventor, diplomat, and founding father of the United States ofAmerica.3. , the earliest well-known American naturalist writer, wrote a novel about theAmerican Civil War.4. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises , Hemingway became the spokesman for whatGertrude Stein had called “ ”.5. ____________________, writing well before the Modern Poetry movements of the 20thcentury, is often considered the “father of modern poetry.” . Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer.1. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true? A It is an early expression of naturalist writing. B It is full of symbolism.C It is argues the distinction between “sins of passion” and “sins of principle”D It is considered a “romance” by its writer because it shows fantastic events and does not limit itself to strict, literal reality.2. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.A International themeB Waste-land imageryC Local colorD Symbolism3. _____ was known as the founder of the American short story.A Washington IrvingB Mark TwainC Jack LondonD O. Henry4. Ezra Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______.A French symbolismB The Beat GenerationC confessional poetryD Imagism5. 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 sentimentalismB romanticismC realismD naturalism6. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme.A blank verseB heroic coupleC free verseD iambic pentameter7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______.A The Jazz AgeB The Gilded AgeC The Roaring AgeD The Beat Age8. ___ wrote a series of historical novels set in the American Midwest and was known as “the American Sir Walter Scot.”A Nathaniel HawthorneB Mary RenaltD James Fenimore Cooper9. Hemi ngway’s ideal hero, who faced life, fate and death courageously, can be called the__ .A “lost generation” manB modern manC natural manD true individual10. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau.A JeffersonB EmersonC FreneauD Over-soul11. Which of the following writers influenced the development of French symbolist poetry?A Walt WhitmanB Edgar Allen PoeC Ezra PoundD Robert Frost12. Which famous graduation speech turned Transcendentalism into a major intellectual and literary movement?A The American ScholarB The Divinity School AddressC The Conduct of LifeD Representative Men13. Although her poems were never published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a major impact on 20th century poetry.A Anne BradstreetB Gertrude SteinC Emily DickinsonD Amy Lowell14. Which of the following fiction writers wanted to always live an active, masculine life and committed suicide in 1961, when he was too old to do so any more?A Mark TwainB Ernest HemingwayC Stephen CraneD Jack London15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?B Amy LowellC Edgar Allan PoeD Robert Frost(10%) 1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life. 2. Transcendentalism, in exalting feeling over reason and individual expression over therestraints of law and custom, very much reflects the spirit of Romanticism.3. The sound of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell over readers. His tone isawesome, sad and melancholy.4. Ezra Pound was famous not only for his own poetry but also as a translator of Chinesepoetry and other classical Chinese literature.5. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about the New England countryside.6. Ezra Pound’s poetry evoked the deeply personal world of a man who withdrew from theworld around him and spent most of his time in his room.7. In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of modernnarration.”8. Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing is death with dignityand courage.9. Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such as his pamphletCommon Sense , which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution. 10. William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy , written in 1789, is often call ed “the firstAmerican novel”. (20%) Passage OneThe woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? _______________2. What is the title of this poem? _______________3. Why does the writer repeat the last line?4.What kind of feeling does this stanza show? How does the writer show it in the poem as a whole?5.Why do people say that this writer’s poems show traditional form and content combinedwith modern theme and feeling?Passage 2The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness of belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication.Questions:1.This passage is from , written by .2.Who is the woman being described? What does this description tell about change inculture over a period of time?答案I．Write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Mark Twain2.Stephen Crane3.Ernest Hemingway4.Jack London5.Washington Irving6.Ezra Pound7.Robert Frost8.Benjamin Franklin9.Walt Whitman10.Nathaniel HawthorneII．Fill in the following blanks. (2*5=10%)1.For Whom the Bell Tolls2.Benjamin Franklin3.Stephen Crane4.the lost generation5.Walt WhitmanⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriateanswer. (1*15=15%)IV. Decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Identify the following fragments and then answer questions. (20%)Passage 11.The writer of the poem is Robert Frost. (1)2.The poem is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1)3.Doing so emphasizes the writer’s “modern” theme of urgency; it also completes the form,which is a quatrain or four line per verse poem. (2)4.Discuss loneliness, urgency and the sense of a “tame” nature that is somehow far fromfriendly and easy to control. (4)5.Discuss the contrast between the traditional use of rhyme and meter, pastoral setting etc.and how Frost transforms these forms with modern feelings and themes. (4)Passage 21.This part if from the novel The Scarlet Letter, (1分) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.(1分)2.The woman is Hester. The answer relates to the writer’s use of historical perspective,and his theory that the ideal of a “lady” has changed over time, from the strong, earthyideal of the Elizabethan period and shortly after to a weaker, more ethereal ideal by thetime he wrote. (6分)VI. Write about 150 words to comment on Mark Twain, his style, content, and contributions to American Literature. (20%)∙Pay special attention to his place in realism, his humor, his use of local color and role in regional literature and how he helped to create a genuinely “American” literary language.VII. Write about 120 words to comment on Ezra Pound’s contribution to American Poetry of twenty century. (15%)∙Ezra Pound is regarded, and rightly, as the father of modern American poetry. Impatient with the fetters of English traditional poetics, he led the experiment in revolutionizingpoetry. It was he who first discovered T. S. Eliot and blue-penciled the latter’s famouspoem, The Waste Land. It was he who helped William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, D. H.Lawrence, and William Carlos Williams in their literary careers. And he survived themall, writing continually right up to his death. Pound’s contribution to the development of modern poetry is very great.。

英美文学考试试题(二)

英美文学选读试卷（二）本试题分两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。

选择题40分，非选择题60分，满分100分。

考试时间120分钟。

请将答案写在答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。

PART ONEⅠ. Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each）Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet.1. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “___A___”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A．Father of the English Novel B．Father of the English PoetryC．Father of the English Drama D．Father of the English Short Story2.T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem ___B___has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A．The Hollow Man B．The Waste Land C．Murder in the Cathedral D．Ash Wednesday3. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is___B____, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A．youthhood B．Childhood C．happiness D．sorrow4.Among the works by Charles Dickens ___D___ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A．Bleak House B．Pickwick Paper C．Great Expectations D．Hard Times5. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his ___B___.A．simple vocabulary B．bitter and sharp criticism C．character-portrayal D．pictures of happiness6. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, __B__ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.A．Charlotte BrontëB．Jane Austen C．Emily BrontëD．Ann Radcliffe7. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ___D___.A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B．“An Evening Walk”C．“Tintern Abbey”D．“The Solitary Reaper”8. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ___C___.A．Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletB．Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC．Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD．Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet9. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, __B__ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”. A．Henry Fielding B．Jonathan Swift C．Samuel Johnson D．Alexander Pope10. Among the three major works by John Milton __D__ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A．Paradise Regained B．Samson Agonistes C．Lycidas D．Paradise Lost11. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with __A__.A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC．the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste LandD．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament12. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of __A__.A．the common English people B．the upper class C．the rising bourgeoisie D．the enterprising landlords13. The major concern of ___C___ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A．John Galsworthy’s B．Thomas Hardy’s C．D．H．Lawrence’s D．Charles Dickens’14. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised __B__ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern fiction.A．Ezra Pound B．Ernest Hemingway C．Robert Frost D．Theodore Dreiser15. In 1950,__A__ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A．William Faulkner B．Robert Frost C．Ezra Pound D．Ernest Hemingway16. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ___C___ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ________ in a European cultural environment.A．Henry Adams’…widow B．William James’…girlC．Henry James’…girl D．Theodore Dreiser’s…widow17. Hawthorne intended to __D__ in The Scarlet Letter.A．tell a story of parental loveB．tell a story of sin and bloody violenceC．call the readers back to the plantation way of livingD．reveal the human psyche after they sinned18. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ___D___.A．Mark Twain B．Ezra Pound C．William Faulkner D．Ernest Hemingway19. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes ___B___ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A．society B．Nature C．ocean animals D．both A and C20. After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of __A__.A．Realism B．Reason and Revolution C．Romanticism D．Modernism21. H．L．Mencken considered ___B___ “the true father of our national literature”.A．Bret Harte B．Mark Twain C．Washington Irving D．Walt Whitman22. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only __C__ had appeared during her lifetime.A．three B．Five C．seven D．nine23. The ___B___ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. A．Lost B．Jazz C．Reason D．Gilded24. Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___D___.A．the west B．the south C．Alaska D．New England25. As __C__ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule.A．Wordsworth Longfellow B．William Bryant C．Walt Whitman D．Robert Frost26. Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, ___D___.A．The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock B．The Waste LandC．Murder in the Cathedral D．Leaves of Grass27. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to __A__.A．Modernism B．Scientism C．Post-Modernism D．Feminism28. Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of ___C___ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”. A．standard English B．Afro-American English C．colloquialism D．urbanism29. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ___B___.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare30.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ___A___.A. self - esteemB. self – relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work31. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ___D___.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson32. As a representative of the Enlightenment,___C___ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift33. Charles Dickens' novel ___B___ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby34. Hemingway's second big success is __B__ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea35. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream -of-consciousness”novels and the founder of __B__.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism36. Realism was a reaction against ___A___ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism37. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “___D___ ,”that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse38. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by __B__ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville39. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of __C__ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age40. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depicti on of the life of ___A___ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - classPART TWOⅡ. Reading Comprehension（16 points, 8 points for each）Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”我能不能把你比作夏天？但你比夏天更可爱更温和，狂风摇撼着心爱的五月的蓓蕾，和夏天的租期实在是太短。

美国文学试题及答案

美国文学试题及答案美国文学试题：1. 请描述美国文学的起源和发展过程。

2. 简要介绍美国文学中的几位重要作家及其代表作品。

3. 分析美国文学对社会和文化的影响。

4. 探讨美国文学在世界文学中的地位和影响力。

5. 比较美国文学与其他国家文学的异同之处。

6. 讨论美国文学中的主题和风格变化。

7. 探究美国文学与历史事件的关联。

美国文学答案：1. 美国文学的起源可以追溯到17世纪，当时美洲殖民地的英国移民开始写作并记录他们在新大陆的生活。

这些作品以宗教、开拓和探索为题材，如《普利茅斯的劝导师》(1620)等。

美国文学的发展经历了启蒙时代、浪漫主义运动、现实主义时期等阶段，并逐渐形成了独特的美国文学风格。

2. 以下是几位重要的美国作家及其代表作品：- 马克·吐温：《哈克贝里·费恩历险记》、《汤姆·索亚历险记》 - 菲利普·罗斯：《美国牧歌》、《喧哗与骚动》- 艾米丽·狄金森：《狄金森诗选》- 弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德：《了不起的盖茨比》- 威廉·福克纳：《喧哗与骚动》、《把狗放了吧》3. 美国文学对社会和文化具有重要影响。

例如，哈莱姆复兴时期的作家们为非洲裔美国人争取了平等的机会，并反映了种族和身份认同的问题。

此外，20世纪美国现实主义文学通过揭示社会问题和不公正现象，推动了社会改革运动。

美国文学也塑造了美国人的国家意识和身份认同。

4. 美国文学在世界文学中占据重要地位，被广泛翻译和阅读。

美国作家的作品对世界文学发展产生了巨大影响，例如海明威、福克纳、杰克·伦敦等作家的作品具有全球影响力。

美国文学代表了美国独特的价值观和文化传统，吸引着世界各地读者的关注。

5. 美国文学与其他国家文学相比具有明显的不同。

美国文学更加关注个人主义、自由和追求幸福的主题。

与欧洲文学相比，美国文学较少涉及庄重的古典主题，更倾向于写实和现实主义的描写方式。

《美国文学II》试题库(带解答)

Part V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWIIPart V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWIII. Fill in the blanks.1.__________ stands as a great dividing line between thenineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.2.American writers of the first postwar era self-consciouslyacknowledged that they were a "__________ " , devoid of faithand alienated from a civilization.3.The most significant American poem of the twentieth centurywas_____________ .4.The publication of The Waste Land, written by____________ ,helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich withlearning and allusive thought.5.In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation ofAmerican small-town provincialism in___________ .6.F. Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes ofthe 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel___________ .7.The__________ of the 1930s greatly weakened the Americannation's self-confidence.8.An American woman writer named ____________ who had livedin Paris since 1903, welcomed the young expatriates to herliterary salon, and gave them a name "the Lost Generation".9._____ wrote about the disintegration of the old social system inthe American Southern States, and its effect on the lives ofmodern people, both black and white.10.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which hecalled the "__________ " movement.11.Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poemcalled______________ .12."After Apple-Picking" is a well-known poem written by_______ .13.______ was successful in two fields of activity which did notseem compatible with one another; he was a very successfulbusinessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at thesame time.14.In 1915, __________ published his Prufrock and OtherObservations.15.In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot began to write hismasterpiece_______________ , one of the major works ofmodern literature.16.As Thomas Stearns Eliot declared, he followed strictly the adviceof his close friend___________ in cutting and concentrating TheWaste Land.17.In his work___________ , Thomas Stearns Eliot satirized thestraw men, the Guy Fawkles men, whose world would end "not with a bang, but a whimper. "18.Few men of letters have been more fully honored in their own daythan_____________ , and even those who strongly disagree with him seemed content with his selection for the Nobel Prize in1948.19.Thomas Stearns Eliot's last important work was____________ , aprofound meditation on time and timelessness, written in fourparts.20.F. Scott Fitzgerald' s first novel____________ , with its portrayalof casual dissipations of "flaming youth" , was an immediatecommercial success.21.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his best novel_____________ .It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.22.F. Scott Fitzgerald' s second novel______________ describes ahandsome young man and his beautiful wife, undoubtedlymodelled after himself and Zelda.23.The hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel_____________ is apsychiatrist who marries a rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth.24.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, _____________became the spokes man for what Gertrude Stein had called "aLost Generation".25.Emest Hemingway' s stature as a writer was confirmed with thepublication of his novel___________ in 1929. The novelportrayed a farewell both to war and to love.26.Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel_____________stated again Hemingway ' s view of love found and lost, anddescribed the indomitable spirit of the common people.27.In the story The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingwayportrayed an old fisherman named___________ , who showstriumphant even in defeat.28.In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a_______________ forhis "mastery of the art of modem narration".29.In 1952, Ernest Hemingway published a successful novelentitled_____________ , which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954.30.In the same way that F. Scott Fitzgerald' s Tales of the Jazz Agebecame the symbol for an age, Ernest Hemingway' s novel______ painted the image of a whole generation, the LostGeneration.31.___________ was the foremost novelist of the AmericanDepression of the 1930s.32.In the short novel___________ , John Steinbeck portrayed thetragic friendship between two migrant workers.33.__________ is generally regarded as John Steinbeck' smasterpiece.34.Quentin is a character in William Faulkner'snovel____________ .35.The works written by___________ may be viewed as aculmination of the development of twentieth-century southernfiction.II. Make multiple choices.1. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were__________ .A. traveling booksB. commercial booksC. historical romancesD. news reports2. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B3. 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 WarB. Second World WarC. Civil WarD. War of Independence4. The American "Thirties", lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period of__________ .A. povertyB. bleaknessC. important social movementsD. a new social consciousnessE. all of the above5. In the pre-war period, such writers as______________ , pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced.A. Mark TwainB. Jack LondonC. Stephen CraneD. Theodore DreiserE. all of the above6. In the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote compassionately about common people, workers and farmers.A. Emily DickinsonB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD. Langston Hughes7.The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are _________ .A. direct treatmentB. economy of expressionC. clear rhythmD. blank verse8. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. " This is the shortest poem written by____________ .A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. E. E. Cummings9. __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings10. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab11. "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy" are good examples of Edwin Arlington Robinson' s ______ attitude.A. romanticB. fantasticC. realisticD. materialistic12. "Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford", this poem was written by Edwin Arlington Robinson. It is a brilliant commentary on _____________'s character.A. Ben JonsonB. William ShakespeareC. John MiltonD. Samuel Johnson13. In his long works Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote the most extensive poems based on_____________ since Tennyson.A. the Arthurian LegendsB. the Biblical StoriesC. the Greek MythologiesD. Indian Legends14. When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President__________ .A. Thomas JeffersonB. Theodore RooseveltC. Abraham LincolnD. John F. Kennedy15. Choose the books written by Robert Frost.A. Mountain IntervalB. New HampshireC. West-Running BookD. A Further Range16. Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost?A. "Tilbury Town"B. "A Witness Tree"C. "Steeple Bush"D. "In the Clearing"17. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poems was not written by Robert Frost?A. "Birches"B. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"C. "After Apple-Picking"D. "The Road Not Taken"E. "Richard Cory"18. The poems that made Carl Sandburg famous appeared in four volumes. Choose them from the following.A. Chicago PoemsB. Comhuskers<, /F, , ONT>C. Smoke and SteelD. Slabs of the Sunburn WestE. Design19. As a poet, Carl Sandburg was associated with the, Imagists and wrote well-known Imagist poems such asA. "Fog"B. "Lost"C. "Monotone"D. "The Harbor"E. all of the above20. Carl Sandburg had also taken interest in folk songs which he tried to collect and sing during his travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well-known___________ .A. Good Morning, AmericaB. The People, YesC. In Reckless EcstasyD. The American Songbag21. Thomas Sutpen is a character in William Faulkner's novel_______________ .A. Absalom, Absalom!B. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. The Sound and the Fury22. Wallace Stevens' s poetry is primarily motivated by the belief that true ideas correspond with an innate order in nature. Many of his good poems derive their emotional power from reasoned revelation. This philosophical intention is supported by the titles Wallace Stevens gave to his volumes such as_____________ .A. HarmoniumB. Ideas of OrderC. Parts of a WorldD. all of the above23. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticism were___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the failures of American societyC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New Land24. Choose the poems written by Wallace Stevens.A. "Anecdote of the Jar"B. "The Emperor of Ice-Cream"C. "Peter Quince at the Clavier"D. "Departmental"25. __________ , one of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of Thomas Stearns Eliot' s aesthetics, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism.A. "Sweeny Agonistes"B. "Tradition and the Individual Talent"C. " A Primer of Modern Heresy"D. "Gerontion"26. Thomas Stearns Eliot used a form, that is, the orchestration of related themes in successive movements, in such works as __________ .A. The Waste LandB. 77k? Hollow MenC. Ash-WednesdayD. Four Quartets27. Thomas Stearns Eliot' s second volume of criticism_____________ (1914) was much admired for its critical method.A. The Function of CriticismB. The Metaphysical PoetsC. Homage to John DrydenD. The Sacred Wood28. __________ , a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas a Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power.A. "The Confidential Clerk"B. "The Cocktail Party"C. "The Family Reunion"D. "Murder in the Cathedral"29. The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name was_________________ .A. Sinclair LewisB. Thomas Stearns EliotC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner30. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a _____.A. poetB. playwrightC. literary criticD. novelist31. Thomas Stearns Eliot's first major poem____________ (1917), has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. The Waste LandC. Four QuartetsD. Preludes32. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______.A. The Roaring TwentiesB. The Jazz AgeC. The Dollar DecadeD. all of the above33. Choose the collections of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.A. Flappers and PhilosophersB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Young MenD. Taps at Reveille34. Choose the novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.A. The Great GatsbyB. Tender Is the NightC. This Side of ParadiseD. The Beautiful and the Damned35. Point out the three poets who opened the way to Modern poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. Thomas Stearns EliotC. E. E. CummingsD. Robert Frost36. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. Thomas Stearns EliotD. James JoyceE. all of the above37. In 1954,___________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner38. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel__________ .A. The Old Man and the SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms39. During the Depression, Ernest Hemingway first went to Spain and then , to the American West and to Africa on hunting expeditions. In the novels written in this period such as___________ , he wrote about bullfighting, hunting and his personal anecdote.A. Death in the AfternoonB. The Green Hills of AfricaC. Men without WomenD. The Old Man and the Sea40. Which authors committed suicide?A. Ernest HemingwayB. Jack LondonC. Robert FrostD. Mrs. Stowe41. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls42. wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which re presented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who la bored for both of them.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. John Steinbeck43. In William 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 consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalism44. William Faulkner's novel___________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, toid from four different points of view.A. The Sound and the FuryB. StartorisC. The UnvanquishedD. The Town45. William Faulkner's novel___________ is about a poor white family' s journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown, Yoknapatawpha.A. Intruder in the DustB. As I Lay DyingC. Absalom, Absalom!D. Light in August46. Which three novels form a trilogy which tells the saga of the unscrupuloussnopes family?A. The HamletB. The TownC. The MansionD. The Unvanquished47. William Faulkner wrote altogether 18 novels and three volumes of short stories. Of these three novels, ___________ , _________ and___________ are master pieces by any literary standards.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Absalom, Absalom]C. Go Down, MosesD. The Wrath of the Grapes48. William Faulkner wrote about the histories of a number of Southern aristocratic families such as the___________ , the___________ , the__________ and the McCaslins, and traces them back to the very beginning when Chickasaw Indians were still lawful owners of the land.A. CompsonsB. SartorisesC. SutpensD. Joads49. Most of the important twentieth-century American poets were related with Imagist movement, including___________ .A. Ezra PoundB. Wallace StevensC. E. E. CummingsD. Carl SandburgE. Thomas Stearns EliotKeys to Part V.Keys to Part V.I. Fill in the following blanks?1.The First World War2.Lost Generation3.The Waste Land4.Thomas Stearns Eliot5.Main Street6.The Great Gatsby7.Great Depression8.Gertrude Stein9.William Faulkner10.Imagist11.The Cantos12.Robert Frost13.Wallace Stevens14.Thomas Stearns Eliot15.The Waste Land16.Ezra Pound17.The Hollow Men18.Thomas Stearns Eliot19.Four Quartets20.This Side of Paradise21.The Great Gatsby22.The Beautiful and the Damned23.Tender is the Night24.Ernest Hemingway25.A Farewell to Arms26.For Whom the Bell Tolls27.Santiago28.Nobel Prize29.The Old Man and the Sea30.The Sun also Rises31.John Steinbeck32.Of Mice and Men33.The Grapes of Wrath34.The Sound and the Fury35.William FaulknerII. Make multiple choice:1.C2.D3.B4.E5.E6.C7.ABC8.C9.A10.B11.C12.B13.A14.D15.ABCD16.A17.E18.ABCD19.E20.D21.A22.D23.AB24.ABC25.B26.ABCD27.C28.D29.A30.ABC31.A32.D33.ABCD34.ABCD35.ABC36.E37.B38.D39.ABC40.AB41.B42.A43.A44.A45.B46.ABC47.ABC48.ABC49.ABCDEPart VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWIIPart VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWIII. Fill in the blanks.1.The publication of Robert Lowell' s Life Studies marked thecoming of the age of _________ , which represents a new modeof perception and a way of writing.2.In poetry, Postmodernism strives to go against the vogueof______________ poem and its parent style, __________ of theprevious decades.3.One distinct group of poets in the postwar periodis_____________ , whose poetry seems to share common features such as ruthless, excruciating self-analysis of one's ownbackground and heritage, one's own most private desires andfantasies etc. , and the urgent " I'll-tell-it-all-to-you" impulse.4.__________ is the spokesman of postwar Beat Generation inAmerican literary history.5.Gary Snyder has been placed next to Allen Ginsberg among theBeat Generation. He seems to think that the job of the poet is tocatch sight of__________________ , which resides nowhere butin___________ .6.Gary Snyder may be didactic, but he has a______________vision.7.One of the things that the New York School did, for a while in the1960s, was their experiment with___________ .8.______ was noted for the " I do this I do that" types of poems. Inthese poems , he tells in a flat tone the little things he did on justone or any of the days in his life. The readers feel bored throughmost of the reading process, but feel well rewarded often by asurprise in wait for them, one that is not, however, alwaysapparent.9.The Black Mountain Poets are so called because these poets areassociated with ______, or with___________ .10.Charles Olson, the leading figure of the Black Mountain Poets, iswell-known for his essay___________ .11.Robert Duncan's ideas on poetry include his views of poetryas________________ and of language with its regenerativepossibilities to____________ .12.Ihab Hassan has noticed the variety of postwar fiction. Hiscategories include ______, ________ , __________ ,__________ , __________ , and satire and novel of manner.13.J. D. Salinger is probably best known for his novel ___________ .14.John Cheever has written some of the finest short stories, and hewrote mainly about the___________ people.15.Two of the best-known southern writers during the 1950sare_____________ and ______.16._________ by William Styron is a true story told in the form offiction.17.In the 1960s and 1970s, traditional novels were inadequate inpresenting life. _________ was the first to announce the death oftraditional novel, and that traditional novelistic resources havebeen exhausted.18.After the 1960s, the new experience gave a vigorous impetus to_______________ writing. Postmodernism made a huge strideforward.19.Joseph Heller's_________ is one of the most famous novelsdealing with the subject of absurdity in typical "obscure"techniques.20.Kurt Vonnegut's__________ focuses particularly on the absurdityof life and man' s modern diseases of schizophrenia.21.Gravity's Rainbow by_________ has won the National BookAward.22.The American writers of the 1950s often used the psychologicalinsights taken from the writing of Sigmund_____________ andhis followers.23.The 1950s American writers often used the narrative techniquesderived from William___________ .II. Make multiple choices.1. One major characteristic of postwar poetry is its diversity. Which of the following terms belong to this period?A. the Black Mountain PoetsB. Waste Land PaintersC. Poets of the Beat GenerationD. Poets of the San Francisco RenaissanceE. Poets of the New York School2. Robert Lowell's famous "Skunk Hour" was written in response to "Armadillo" , which was written by____________ .A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Richard WilburC. Elizabeth BishopD. Marianne Moore3. Among these poets, choose the ones belonging to the Confessional School.A. Theodore RoethkeB. John BerrymanC. Ann SextonD. Sylvia PlathE. Robert Lowell4. Choose the books of verse written by Silvia Plath.A. A Winter ShipB. The Colossus and Other PoemsC. ArielD. Crystal Gazer and Other PoemsE. Life Studies5. The so-called New York School includes the poets_____________ .A. Robert BlyB. Frank O'HaraC. Kenneth KochD. John AshberryE. James Schuyler6. __________ is probably the most obscure of contemporary American poets. The reader can understand the surface meaning quite well; it is the undercurrent of meaning that his verbal structure embodies.A. John AshberryB. Fran O'HaraC. Robert BlyD. Kenneth Koch7. A. R. Ammons belongs to_____________ .A. the New York SchoolB. the Meditative PoetsC. the Black Mountain PoetsD. the Confessional Poets8. Which of the following poetic works were written by Denise Levertov?A. Here and NowB. The Jacob's LadderC. The Double ImageD. With the Eyes and the Back of Our HeadsE. The Sorrow Dance9. The American fiction after the 1960s is noted for____________ .A. nonfictionB. science fictionC. black and absurd humorD. parody and popE. experimental novelistic techniques10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Saul Bellow?A. The Dangling ManB. HerzogC. The Naked and the DeadD. Mr. Sammler' s Planet11. Which of the following novels are written by Norman Mailer?A. The Naked and the DeadB. The Armies of the NightC. Ancient EveningD. Tough Guys Don't DanceE. Harlot's Ghost12. The title of J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye comes from___________ poem " if a body catch a body coming from the rye".A. William WordsworthB. William BlackC. Alfred TennysonD. Robert Burns13. Another Jewish novelist besides Saul Bellow is Bernard Malamud. His novels include__________ .A. The NaturalB. The AssistantC. The Dangling ManD. A New LifeE. The Fixer14. John Updike is best known for his "Rabbit" pentalogy, namely___ .A. Rabbit, RunB. Rabbit RedeuxC. Rabbit Is RichD. Rabbit at RestE. Licks of Love15. There are a Gothic element and an obvious absurdist tendency in Flannery O'Connor's works. These include____________ .A. Wise BloodB. A Good Man Is Hard to FindC. Lie Down in DarknessD. The Violent Bear It Away16. The novel of postmodernism after the 1960s includes _____ .A. the absurdB. metafictionC. avant-gardismD. the sentimental17. The characteristics of avant-garde novels are___________ .A. a breakaway from the normal novelistic conventionsB. having little or no story interestC. dull, not satisfyingD. offensive to middlebrow tasteE. often not readable18. Choose among the following novels written by John Barth.A. The Sot-Weed FactorB. Giles Goat-BoyC. One Flew over the Cuckoo' s NestD. Slaughterhouse-Five19. William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac belong toA. the Confessional SchoolB. the Black Mountain PoetsC. novelists of absurdityD. the Beat WritersKeys to Part VIKeys to Part VII. Fill in the blanks.1.Postmodernism2.the New Critical, the High Modernism3.the Confessional School4.Allen Ginsberg5.the poetic, the natural world6.political7.Surrealism8.Frank O' Hara9.Black Mountain College, Black Mountain Review10."Protective Verse"11.life-generating, renew and reorder12.the war novel, the southern novel, the Jewish novel, the Beatnovel, the Black novel13.The Catcher in the Rye14.suburban middle class15.Flannery O' Connor, William Styron16.The Confessions of Nat Turner17.John Barth18.experimental19.Catch-2220.Slaughterhouse-Five21.Thomas Pynchon22.Freud23.FaulknerII. Make multiple choices.1.ACDE2.C3.ABCDE4.ABCD5.BCDE6.A7.B8.ABCDL9.ABCDE10.D11.ABCDE12.D13.ABDE14.ABCDE15.ABD16.ABC17.ABCDE18.AB19.DPart VII. American DramaPart VII. American DramaI. Fill in the blanks.1.__________ is the first master in the American history of drama.2.In 1916, Eugene O' Neill's first play__________ was put on bythe Province-town Players, which was significant not only for him but for American Drama.3.If Eugene O' Neill dominated the theater in the 1920s, then it issafe to say that _______ did so in the post-war years.4.With the passage of time, there has appeared the increasinglymore obvious tendency to "decentralize" from Broadway withmore and more plays staged______________ and___________ .5.Eugene O' Neill received the_____________ Prize for his Beyondthe Horizon and Anna Christie between 1920 and 1922, and______________ Prize in 1936.6.The magic of Eugene O' Neill' s power lies in his never ceasingattempt to improve his art in step with the spirit of the times. Hebegan writing in a______________ vein, then, he moved on andbecame obsessed with devices such as_____ and ________.During the 1940s, he turned back to what he had started with.Thus, his career came full circle.7.The early 1920s saw the upsurge of the women's liberationmovement. ______________ was a well-known feminist authorof the time.8.__________ is the one who dares to deal with themes such asviolence, sex, and homosexuality on the stage in the postwarperiod.9.__________ ' s famous Bus Stop is an adequate expression of thespirit of the 1950s.10.__________ in the 1950s and 1960s refers to some plays, some ofwhich center on the meaninglessness of life with its pain andsuffering that seems funny, even ridiculous. __________ is one of the representatives.II. Make multiple choices.1. During the renaissance of drama in the 1920s, the plays which were put on include: _____.A. The Adding Machine by Elmer RiceB. Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O' NeillC. What Price Glory1? by Maxwell AndersonD. The Show-off by George Kelly。

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Exercise 1:I. Fill in the blanks.1. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literaturewas ___American Puritanism_______.2. Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was __JohnSmith_______________, an English soldiers of fortune, whose reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinct American literature written in English.3. Almost a hundred years earlier the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and other parts ofCentral and South American were occupied by the _Spanish___________.4. The term “Puritan”was applied to those settlers who originally were devoutmembers of the Church of ___England_____________.5. __Harvard_______________ College was established in 1636, with a printing pressset up nearly in 1639.6. Among all the settlers in the New Continent, ____English___________ settlers werethe most influential.7. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at__Jamestown__________, Virginia.8. _John Smith____ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established Jamestown.9. In the book __A Description of New England John Smith wrote that “here nature andliberty afford us that freely which in England we want, or it costs up dearly.”10.General History of Virginia contains Smith‟s most famous tale of how the Indianprincess named __Pochahontas saved him from the wrath of her father.11.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the __Puritan________ values thatdominated much of the early American writing.12.The American poets who emerged in the 17th century adapted the style ofestablished European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strange, new environment. ___Anne_______________ Bradstreet was one such poet.13.William Bradford himself used a word “__Pilgrims__”to describe the communityof believers who sailed from Southampton, England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.14. In 1620, ___William Bradford__ was elected Governor of Plymouth,Massachusetts.15.From 1621 until his death, ___William Bradford_____________________ probablypossessed more power than any other colonial governor.16. William Bradford‟s work ___Mayflower___ consists of two books. The first bookdeals with the persecutions of the Separatists in Scrooby, England, and the second book describes the signing of the “Compact”.17.The History of New England is a priceless gift left us by __John Winthrop_.18.__Cotton Mather wrote his most impressive work The Magnalia Christi America.19. The Puritan philosophy known as __Puritanism__ was important in New Englandduring colonial time, and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations.20. Many Puritans wrote verse, but the work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and__Edward Taylor_ , rose to the level of real poetry.21.Before his death, __ Edward Taylor had gained a position as America‟s firstsystematic philosopher.22.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by__Anne Bradstreet.23. ____ Edward Taylor …s best verse is to be found in a series called “PreparatoryMeditations”.24. Literature in the period of American Revolution was predominantly_public_________ and _utilitarian_.25. The more characteristic forms of writing in the period of American Revolutionincluded _essays_, __pamphlets_, and __political documents_.26. __Philip Freneau____ was perhaps the best poet of the period of AmericanRevolution.27. Benjamin Franklin‟s best writing is found in his masterpiece _Autobiography__. 29. Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, wasappropriately born into an age of __revolution__.30. On January 10. 1776, Thomas Paine‟s famous pamphlet ___Common Sense appeared.31. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled _The American Crisis__.32. Thomas Paine‟s second most important work ___The Rights of Man__ was animpassioned plea against hereditary monarchy.33. _Philip Freneau__ has been called the “Father of the American Poetry”.34. In 1791, probably with Thomas Jefferson‟s support, Freneau established inPhiladelphia “_the National Gazette_”.35. The Calvinist beliefs brought about the Great Awakening during the 1730s and 1740s.___Jonathan Edward____was the most influential among the believers.II. Make multiple choices.1. English literature in the America is only about more than ___________ years old.A. 500B. 400C. 200D. 1002. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist ________.A. John WinthropB. John SmithC. William BradfordD. John Goodwin3. The puritan dominating values were _______________.A. hard workB. thriftC. pietyD. sobriety4. Choose those that were named after English monarch of land.A. GeorgiaB. New Y orkC. CarolinaD. New Hampshire5. Which statement about Cotton Mather is not true?A. He was a great Puritan historian.B. He was an inexhaustible writer.C. He was a skillful preacher and an eminent theologian.D. He was a graduate of Oxford College.6. Jonathan Edwards‟ best and most representative sermon was ____________.A. A True Sight of SinB. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodC. A Model of Christian CharityD. God‟s Determinations7. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the_________.A. RevolutionismB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. Rationalism8. From 1622 until his death, ____________, one of the greatest of colonial American,was reelected thirty times as governor.A. Anne BradstreetB. William BradfordC. Edward TaylorD. Thomas Paine9. _____________ carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people. It ismore than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution.A. Common SenseB. The American CrisisC. Declaration of IndependenceD. Defense of the English people10. ______________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith11. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that shebecame known as the “__________” who appeared in AmericaA. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse12. The ship “__________” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beatits way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Pequod13. From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous __________,an annual collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richards’ AlmanacC. Common SenseD. The General Magazine14. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common SenseB. The American CrisisC. The Rights of ManD. The Autobiography15. “These are the times that try men‟s souls”, these words were once read toWashington‟s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confident. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas PaineC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington16. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Anne BradstreetB. Edward TaylorC. Michael WigglesworthD. Philip Freneau17. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life of andcareer of ____________.A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington18. It was not until January 1776 that a widely heard public voice demanded completeseparation from England. The voice was that of ____________, whose pamphlet Common Sense, with its heated language, increased the growing demand for seperation.A. Thomas PaineB. Thomas JeffersonC. George WashingtonD. Patrick Henry19. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment and______________ was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution20. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the Europeanmovement called the _____________.A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticism MovementC. EnlightenmentD. Modernist Movement21. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country andthe Continental Congress adopted ____________ in 1776.A. The Declaration of IndependenceB. the Sugar ActC. th Stamp ActD. the Mayflower CompactIII. Literary terms1. American Puritanism2. American DreamIV. Questions:1. What kind of book is Poor Richard’s Almanac? What qualities in this book areliterary? How did Franklin transform some of the well-known proverbs?2. Read the following passage and answer the questions:These are the times that try men‟s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly –This dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put proper price upon its goods.1) Which book is this passage taken from?2) Who is the author of this book?3) Whom is the author praising? Whom is the author criticizing?4) What do you think of the language?V. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.A B1. ( j ) John Smith a. The Declaration of Independence2. ( d ) John Winthrop b. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America3. ( f ) William Bradford c. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God4. ( b ) Ann Bradstreet d. The History of New England5. ( h ) Edward Taylor e. Common Sense6. ( c ) Jonathan Edwards f. Of Plymouth Plantation7. ( i ) Benjamin Franklin g. The Rising Glory of America8. ( e ) Thomas Paine h. Preparatory Meditations9. ( g ) Philip Freneau i. Poor Richard’s Almanac10.( a ) Thomas Jefferson j. A Description of New EnglandExercise 2I. Fill in the blanks:1.Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper and William Bryant are regarded aspioneers of American romanticism. Their works and the works of others constituted what is called “early romanticism”. P692.American romanticism did not achieve its most powerful articulations until EdgarAllan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. P683.Washington Irving was the first American writer to achieve internationalrecognition. P774.“Rip V an Winkle”and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”are two of Irving‟s bestknown stories. Both are included in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., a collection of sketches and stories. p775.The story of Rip V an Winkle came from a German folktale. Irving made itAmerican by translating it into the American historical context and by giving it American features. P756.In his imaginative and historical works, Irving has established a literary styleknown for his humor, his vivid characterization, his sense of irony, his finished style, and the definiteness of American location. P777.Irving‟s major works may be divided into such categories as essays and sketches,tales or short stories, historical and biographical accounts. P798.In James Fenimore Cooper‟s Leather-stocking Tales, the importance of the frontierand the wilderness in American literature was for the first time well illustrated and was to remain a major concern for many later authors.9.The ideas of transcendentalism were most eloquently expressed by Ralph WaldoEmerson in such essays as Nature, and Self-Reliance and by Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden.10.The Transcendental Club sponsored two major activities: The Dial, quarterly,between 1840 and 1844, and Brook Farm in 1841. p9011.Emerson‟s famous essay The American Scholar has been called “American‟sDeclaration of Intellectual Independence” because he called on American writers to write about America in an American way instead of imitating things foreign. This essay was first delivered to the faculty and students at Harvard in 1837, and soon became an influence across America.12.Thoreau‟s ideas have a direct and significant influence on world events. His firstmajor influence is nonviolent struggle as expressed in his Civil Disobedience.His second major influence is his call of “ Back to Nature ”.13.American romanticism reached its peak with the appearance of the major authors ofthe 19th century such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe in poetry, and Nathanial Hawthorne and Herman Melville in fiction.14.In her life, Emily Dickinson wrote about 1755 poems, but only 7-11 werepublished in her lifetime. Her first volume of 115 poems, Poems by Emily Dickinson, appeared in 1890. Dickinson is well known for her poetic meditations on ___dying and death. P13215.In 1850, Hawthorne‟s masterpiece _____The Scarlet Letter___________ waspublished. It was a literary sensation. The background of this novel is set in the _17th century Boston______.16.In addition to his greatest novel __ The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne wrote three othernovels: ____________ The House of the Seven Gables, ______ the Blithedale Romance, and ____ The Marble Faun.17.In 1846, ___Herman Melville_____________ published Typee, an exitingadventure story, autobiographical of a young man who leaves the whaling ship he works on, and finds himself living with the natives on the South Sea island.18.Moby Dick uses the pattern of ___ an adventure story of the sea _______________,but its much more, it probes much deeper into ___ the truth of human life __________________. In the story, Moby Dick is a symbol to represent ________ cruel, brutal, malicious powers of nature p113_________________________ .19.Edgar Allan Poe is a critic, poet and short story writer, and he is important in allthree aspects p11720.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‟s first collection of poems entitled Voices of theNight appeared in 1838.21.The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‟s writings is his translation ofDante‟s Divine Comedy.22.Published in 1823, The Pioneers was the first of the Leather-stocking Tales, in theirorder of publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.23. Harriet Beecher Stowe‟s masterpiece is _Uncle Tom’s Cabin.II. Make multiple choices.1. Transcendentalists took their ideas from __________.A. the romantic literature in EuropeB. neo-PlatonismC. German idealistic philosophyD. the revelations of oriental mysticism2. As a philosophical and literary movement, __________ flourished in New Englandfrom the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism3. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _________ andHenry David Thoreau.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Philip FreneauD. Thomas Paine4. Transcendentalists recognized _________ as the “highest power of the soul.”A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking5. In the 19th century America, Romantics often shared certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following:A. moral enthusiasmB. faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perceptionC. adoration for the natural worldD. presumption about the corrosive effect of human society6. From the following, choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. To HelenB. The RavenC. Annabel LeeD. The Bells7. Edgar Allan Poe‟s first collection of short stories is __________.A. Tales of a TravelerB. Leather-stocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque8. From Henry David Thoreau‟s jail experience, came his famous essay, _________, which states Thoreau‟s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense9. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne‟s symbolism is the recreation of PuritanBoston in ________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest10. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Lette r.A. Hester PrynneB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Pearl11. __________ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville‟s stay among thePolynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville well known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.A. Moby DickB. TypeeC. Omoo C. Billy Budd12. With the appearance of __________ in 1855, which is about AmericanIndians, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‟s poetical reputation wasestablished.A. EvangelineB. The Courtship of Miles StandishC. Song of Hiawatha C. Michael Angelo13. Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature.A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Henry David ThoreauC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Herman MelvilleE. Walt Whitman14. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as_____ and ___________.A. Rip Van WinkleB. The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington15. “he universe is composed of Nature and the soul…Spirit is presenteverywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson,which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of NewEngland _____________.A. RomanticismB. TranscendentalismC. MysticismD. Symbolism16. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism wasactually ________ on the Puritan soil.A. RomanticismB. PuritanismC. MysticismD. Unitarianism17. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New EnglandTranscendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance18. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men19. ________ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne‟s beliefthat “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones”and that evil will come out of evil though it may take many generations to happen.A. The Marble FaunB. The House of Seven GablesC. The Blithedale RomanceD. Young Goodman Brown20. Herman 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 the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd21. The importance of the frontier and the wilderness in American literature isfor the first time well illustrated in the following works____________________.A. Benjamin Franklin' s The AutobiographyB. Washington Irving' s The Sketch BookC. James Fenimore Cooper' s The Leather-stocking TalesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson' s Nature22. There is the famous ___________, in which there is the memorable eventof an apparently headless horseman throwing his head at his rival in love,and the memorable character of Ichabod Crane with his mixture ofshrewdness, credulity, self-assertiveness, and cowardice.A. Rip V an WinkleB. The Legend of Sleep Hollow*C. The PioneersD. The American Scholar23. Edgar Allan Poe' s __________ was an ingenious detective story and became theancestor of the genre, influencing, among others, Conan Doyle.A. The Fall of the House of UsherB. The Gold BugC. The Murders in the Rue Morgue *D. The Purloined Letter24. The publication of ______________established Ralph Waldo Emerson as the mosteloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. Nature*B. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Divinity School Address25.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT _____________.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whale*C. power of the Great NatureD. evil of the worldIII. Define the following terms:1.Transcendentalism2. IndividualismIV. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.A B( d )1. Herman Melville a. The Raven( e )2. Nathaniel Hawthorne b. Nature( f )3. Washington Irving c. Walden( h)4. Walt Whitman d. Moby Dick( b )5. Ralph Waldo Emerson e. The Scarlet Letter( c )6. Henry David Thoreau f. The Sleepy Hollow( g )7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow g. Song of Hiawatha( i )8. James Fenimore Cooper h. Leaves of Grass( j )9. William Bryant i. Leather stocking Tales( a )10. Edgar Ellan Poe j. Thanatopsis( k )11. Emily Dickinson k. I heard a fly buzz - when I diedV. Answer the following questions:1. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -Only this, and nothing more.'Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -Nameless here for evermore.Questions:1)Who is the writer of these lines?2)What is the title of this poem from which the selection is selected?3)Recognize the sound devices in the following lines.L1 alliteration, internal rhymeL4 onomatopoeiaL7 assonance, internal rhymeL10 assonance4)Make a brief comment on this poem.2．Hester Prynne‟s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. Perhps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison. Than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamu, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger. Then, she was supported by an unnatural tensiono f the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph.Questions:1)Which novel is this selection taken from?2)What is the name the novelist?3)What are the symbolic meanings of the scarlet letter on Hester‟sbreast?4)Analyze this novel.Exercise 3 Realism1. Realism had originated in the country ___France__________ as a literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life.2. The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in American was William Dean Howells___________.3. __Henry James_________ probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.4. __Mark Twain_________________, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.5. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name Mark Twain.6. One of Samuel Langhorne Clemens‟best books Life on the Mississippi is built around his experiences as a steamboat pilot.7. The result of Mark Twain‟s European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called Innocents Abroad.8. Mark Twin‟s work The Mysterious Stranger tells of the visits of an angel to the village Eseldorf in Austria in 1590.9. William Sidney Porter, whose pen name was O. Henry, was the author of The Cop and the Anthem.10. Many of O. Henry‟s stories tell about the life of poor people in New Y ork.11. It is said that O. Henry imitated a French author named De Maupassant.(莫泊桑)12. The title of one of O. Henry‟s books The Four Million indicates that he considered all the people of New Y ork City worth writing about, instead of only the upper class.13. Henry James‟first novel is Watch and Ward, which failed to make himfamous.14. The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is Henry James‟ Daisy Miller.15. Henry James is considered the founder of Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator. 16. Henry James‟ first important fiction was A passionate Pilgrim, in which he took up for the first time the theme of “ The American in Europe”.17. In 1881, Henry James published his novel The Portrait of a Lady, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.18. The name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is Isbel Archer.19. In 1902 Jack London published his first novel A Daughter of the Snows.20. Martin Eden is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.21. The first novel of Theodore Dreiser is Sister Carrie.22. Theodore Dreiser‟s novel Sister Carrie, a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim, naturalistic portrayal of American society.23. Mark Twain‟s first novel, The Gilded Age was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.24. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was Mark Twain‟s masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes.”25. The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was a success from its first publication in 1884, and has always been regarded as one of the great books of western literature and western civilization.26. Stephen Crane is the pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic tradition.27. Stephen Crane‟s novel Maggi: A Girl of the Streets relates the story of agood woman‟s downfall and destruction in a slum environment.28. War in the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a plainslaughter-house. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run from danger.29. Benjamin Frank Norris‟s novel McTeague has been called “the firstfull-bodied naturalistic American novel”and “a consciously naturalistic manifesto”.30. Jack London‟s masterwork Martin Eden is somewhat autobiographical.31. O. Henry‟s The Gift of the Magi is a very moving story of a young couplewho sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.32. The protagonist of Theodore Dreiser‟s Trilogy of Desire is FrankCowperwood.II. Make multiple choices.1. In the late 19th century, a host of new writers appeared, among them were_________.A. Bret HarteB. William Dean HowellsC. Hamlin GarlandD. Mark Twain2. Influenced by such Europeans as ____________, America‟s most noteworthynew authors established a literature of realism.A. ZolaB. FlaubertC. BalzacD. Tolstoy （托尔斯泰）A，B，C French3. William Dean Howells defined realism as “nothing more and nothing lessthan the truthful treatment of material”, and he best exemplified his theories in three novels. 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《美国文学II》试题库（带解答）Part V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWIIPart V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWIII. Fill in the blanks.1.__________ stands as a great dividing line between thenineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.2.American writers of the first postwar era self-consciouslyacknowledged that they were a "__________ " , devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.3.The most significant American poem of the twentieth centurywas_____________ .4.The publication of The Waste Land, written by____________ ,helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.5.In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation ofAmerican small-town provincialism in___________ .6.F. Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes ofthe 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel___________ .7.The__________ of the 1930s greatly weakened the Americannation's self-confidence.8.An American woman writer named ____________ who had livedin Paris since 1903, welcomed the young expatriates to her literary salon, and gave them a name "the Lost Generation".9._____ wrote about the disintegration of the old socialsystem inthe American Southern States, and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black and white.10.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which hecalled the "__________ " movement.11.Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poemcalled______________ .12."After Apple-Picking" is a well-known poem written by_______ .13.______ was successful in two fields of activity which did notseem compatible with one another; he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at thesame time.14.In 1915, __________ published his Prufrock and OtherObservations.15.In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot began to write hismasterpiece_______________ , one of the major works ofmodern literature.16.As Thomas Stearns Eliot declared, he followed strictly the adviceof his close friend___________ in cutting and concentrating The Waste Land.17.In his work___________ , Thomas Stearns Eliot satirized thestraw men, the Guy Fawkles men, whose world would end "not with a bang, but a whimper. "18.Few men of letters have been more fully honored in their own daythan_____________ , and even those who strongly disagreewith him seemed content with his selection for the Nobel Prize in1948.19.Thomas Stearns Eliot's last important work was____________ , aprofound meditation on time and timelessness, written in fourparts.20.F. Scott Fitzgerald' s first novel____________ , with its portrayalof casual dissipations of "flaming youth" , was an immediate commercial success.21.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his best novel_____________ .It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.22.F. Scott Fitzgerald' s second novel______________ describes ahandsome young man and his beautiful wife, undoubtedly modelled after himself and Zelda.23.The hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel_____________ is apsychiatrist who marries a rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth.24.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, _____________became the spokes man for what Gertrude Stein had called "aLost Generation".25.Emest Hemingway' s stature as a writer was confirmed with thepublication of his novel___________ in 1929. The novelportrayed a farewell both to war and to love.26.Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel_____________stated again Hemingway ' s view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common people.27.In the story The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingwayportrayed an old fisherman named___________ , who shows triumphant even in defeat.28.In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a_______________ forhis "mastery of the art of modem narration".29.In 1952, Ernest Hemingway published a successful novelentitled_____________ , which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954.30.In the same way that F. Scott Fitzgerald' s Tales of the Jazz Agebecame the symbol for an age, Ernest Hemingway' s novel ______ painted the image of a whole generation, the LostGeneration.31.___________ was the foremost novelist of the AmericanDepression of the 1930s.32.In the short novel___________ , John Steinbeck portrayed thetragic friendship between two migrant workers.33.__________ is generally regarded as John Steinbeck' smasterpiece.34.Quentin is a character in William Faulkner'snovel____________ .35.The works written by___________ may be viewed as aculmination of the development of twentieth-century southernfiction.II. Make multiple choices.1. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were__________ .A. traveling booksB. commercial booksC. historical romancesD. news reports2. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B3. 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 WarB. Second World WarC. Civil WarD. War of Independence4. The American "Thirties", lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period of__________ .A. povertyB. bleaknessC. important social movementsD. a new social consciousnessE. all of the above5. In the pre-war period, such writers as______________ ,pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced.A. Mark TwainB. Jack LondonC. Stephen CraneD. Theodore DreiserE. all of the above6. In the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote compassionately about common people, workers and farmers.A. Emily DickinsonB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD. Langston Hughes7.The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are _________ .A. direct treatmentB. economy of expressionC. clear rhythmD. blank verse8. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. " This is the shortest poem written by____________ .A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. E. E. Cummings9. __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings10. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab11. "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy" are good examples of Edwin Arlington Robinson' s ______ attitude.A. romanticB. fantasticC. realisticD. materialistic12. "Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford", this poem was written by Edwin Arlington Robinson. It is a brilliant commentary on _____________'s character.A. Ben JonsonB. William ShakespeareC. John MiltonD. Samuel Johnson13. In his long works Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote the most extensive poems based on_____________ since Tennyson.A. the Arthurian LegendsB. the Biblical StoriesC. the Greek MythologiesD. Indian Legends14. When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetryat the inauguration of President__________ .A. Thomas JeffersonB. Theodore RooseveltC. Abraham LincolnD. John F. Kennedy15. Choose the books written by Robert Frost.A. Mountain IntervalB. New HampshireC. West-Running BookD. A Further Range16. Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost?A. "Tilbury T own"B. "A Witness Tree"C. "Steeple Bush"D. "In the Clearing"17. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poems was not written by Robert Frost?A. "Birches"B. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"C. "After Apple-Picking"D. "The Road Not T aken"E. "Richard Cory"18. The poems that made Carl Sandburg famous appeared in four volumes. Choose them from the following.A. Chicago PoemsB. Comhuskers<, /F, , ONT>C. Smoke and SteelD. Slabs of the Sunburn WestE. Design19. As a poet, Carl Sandburg was associated with the,Imagists and wrote well-known Imagist poems such asA. "Fog"B. "Lost"C. "Monotone"D. "The Harbor"E. all of the above20. Carl Sandburg had also taken interest in folk songs which he tried to collect and sing during his travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well-known___________ .A. Good Morning, AmericaB. The People, YesC. In Reckless EcstasyD. The American Songbag21. Thomas Sutpen is a character in William Faulkner's novel_______________ .A. Absalom, Absalom!B. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. The Sound and the Fury22. Wallace Stevens' s poetry is primarily motivated by the belief that true ideas correspond with an innate order in nature. Many of his good poems derive their emotional power from reasoned revelation. This philosophical intention is supported by the titles Wallace Stevens gave to his volumes such as_____________ .A. HarmoniumB. Ideas of OrderC. Parts of a WorldD. all of the above23. The two areas on which the modem American writersconcentrated their criticism were___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the failures of American societyC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New Land24. Choose the poems written by Wallace Stevens.A. "Anecdote of the Jar"B. "The Emperor of Ice-Cream"C. "Peter Quince at the Clavier"D. "Departmental"25. __________ , one of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of Thomas Stearns Eliot' s aesthetics, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism.A. "Sweeny Agonistes"B. "Tradition and the Individual Talent"C. " A Primer of Modern Heresy"D. "Gerontion"26. Thomas Stearns Eliot used a form, that is, the orchestration of related themes in successive movements, in such works as __________ .A. The Waste LandB. 77k? Hollow MenC. Ash-WednesdayD. Four Quartets27. Thomas Stearns Eliot' s second volume of criticism_____________ (1914) was much admired for its critical method.A. The Function of CriticismB. The Metaphysical PoetsC. Homage to John DrydenD. The Sacred Wood28. __________ , a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas a Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power.A. "The Confidential Clerk"B. "The Cocktail Party"C. "The Family Reunion"D. "Murder in the Cathedral"29. The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name was_________________ .A. Sinclair LewisB. Thomas Stearns EliotC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner30. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a _____.A. poetB. playwrightC. literary criticD. novelist31. Thomas Stearns Eliot's first major poem____________ (1917), has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. The Waste LandC. Four QuartetsD. Preludes32. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______.A. The Roaring TwentiesB. The Jazz AgeC. The Dollar DecadeD. all of the above33. Choose the collections of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.A. Flappers and PhilosophersB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Young MenD. Taps at Reveille34. Choose the novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.A. The Great GatsbyB. Tender Is the NightC. This Side of ParadiseD. The Beautiful and the Damned35. Point out the three poets who opened the way to Modern poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. Thomas Stearns EliotC. E. E. CummingsD. Robert Frost36. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. Thomas Stearns EliotD. James JoyceE. all of the above37. In 1954,___________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner38. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel__________ .A. The Old Man and the SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms39. During the Depression, Ernest Hemingway first went to Spain and then , to the American West and to Africa on hunting expeditions. In the novels written in this period such as___________ , he wrote about bullfighting, hunting and his personal anecdote.A. Death in the AfternoonB. The Green Hills of AfricaC. Men without WomenD. The Old Man and the Sea40. Which authors committed suicide?A. Ernest HemingwayB. Jack LondonC. Robert FrostD. Mrs. Stowe41. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls42. wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which re presented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who la bored for both of them.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. John Steinbeck43. In William 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 consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalism44. William Faulkner's novel___________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, toid from four different points of view.A. The Sound and the FuryB. StartorisC. The UnvanquishedD. The Town45. William Faulkner's novel___________ is about a poor white family' s journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown, Yoknapatawpha.A. Intruder in the DustB. As I Lay DyingC. Absalom, Absalom!D. Light in August46. Which three novels form a trilogy which tells the saga ofthe unscrupuloussnopes family?A. The HamletB. The T ownC. The MansionD. The Unvanquished47. William Faulkner wrote altogether 18 novels and three volumes of short stories. Of these three novels, ___________ , _________ and___________ are master pieces by any literary standards.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Absalom, Absalom]C. Go Down, MosesD. The Wrath of the Grapes48. William Faulkner wrote about the histories of a number of Southern aristocratic families such as the___________ , the___________ , the__________ and the McCaslins, and traces them back to the very beginning when Chickasaw Indians were still lawful owners of the land.A. CompsonsB. SartorisesC. SutpensD. Joads49. Most of the important twentieth-century American poets were related with Imagist movement, including___________ .A. Ezra PoundB. Wallace StevensC. E. E. CummingsD. Carl SandburgE. Thomas Stearns EliotKeys to Part V.Keys to Part V.I. Fill in the following blanks?1.The First World War2.Lost Generation3.The Waste Land4.Thomas Stearns Eliot5.Main Street6.The Great Gatsby7.Great Depression8.Gertrude Stein9.William Faulkner10.Imagist11.The Cantos12.Robert Frost13.Wallace Stevens14.Thomas Stearns Eliot15.The Waste Land16.Ezra Pound17.The Hollow Men18.Thomas Stearns Eliot19.Four Quartets20.This Side of Paradise21.The Great Gatsby22.The Beautiful and the Damned23.Tender is the Night24.Ernest Hemingway25.A Farewell to Arms26.For Whom the Bell Tolls27.Santiago28.Nobel Prize29.The Old Man and the Sea30.The Sun also Rises31.John Steinbeck32.Of Mice and Men33.The Grapes of Wrath34.The Sound and the Fury35.William FaulknerII. Make multiple choice:1.C2.D3.B4.E5.E6.C7.ABC8.C9.A10.B11.C12.B13.A14.D15.ABCD16.A17.E18.ABCD19.E20.D21.A22.D23.AB24.ABC25.B26.ABCD27.C28.D29.A30.ABC31.A32.D33.ABCD34.ABCD35.ABC36.E37.B38.D39.ABC40.AB41.B42.A43.A44.A45.B46.ABC47.ABC48.ABC49.ABCDEPart VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWII Part VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWIII. Fill in the blanks.1.The publication of Robert Lowell' s Life Studies marked thecoming of the age of _________ , which represents a new mode of perception and a way of writing.2.In poetry, Postmodernism strives to go against the vogueof______________ poem and its parent style, __________ of theprevious decades.3.One distinct group of poets in the postwar periodis_____________ , whose poetry seems to share common features such as ruthless, excruciating self-analysis of one's own background and heritage, one's own most private desires andfantasies etc. , and the urgent " I'll-tell-it-all-to-you" impulse.4.__________ is the spokesman of postwar Beat Generation inAmerican literary history.5.Gary Snyder has been placed next to Allen Ginsberg among theBeat Generation. He seems to think that the job of the poet is tocatch sight of__________________ , which resides nowhere but in___________ .6.Gary Snyder may be didactic, but he has a______________vision.7.One of the things that the New York School did, for a while in the1960s, was their experiment with___________ .8.______ was noted for the " I do this I do that" types of poems. Inthese poems , he tells in a flat tone the little things he did on justone or any of the days in his life. The readers feel bored throughmost of the reading process, but feel well rewarded often by asurprise in wait for them, one that is not, however, alwaysapparent.9.The Black Mountain Poets are so called because these poets areassociated with ______, or with___________ .10.Charles Olson, the leading figure of the Black Mountain Poets, iswell-known for his essay___________ .11.Robert Duncan's ideas on poetry include his views of poetryas________________ and of language with its regenerativepossibilities to____________ .12.Ihab Hassan has noticed the variety of postwar fiction. Hiscategories include ______, ________ , __________ ,__________ , __________ , and satire and novel of manner.13.J. D. Salinger is probably best known for his novel ___________ .14.John Cheever has written some of the finest short stories, and hewrote mainly about the___________ people.15.Two of the best-known southern writers during the 1950sare_____________ and ______.16._________ by William Styron is a true story told in the form offiction.17.In the 1960s and 1970s, traditional novels wereinadequate inpresenting life. _________ was the first to announce the death oftraditional novel, and that traditional novelistic resources havebeen exhausted.18.After the 1960s, the new experience gave a vigorous impetus to_______________ writing. Postmodernism made a huge stride forward.19.Joseph Heller's_________ is one of the most famous novelsdealing with the subject of absurdity in typical "obscure"techniques.20.Kurt Vonnegut's__________ focuses particularly on the absurdityof life and man' s modern diseases of schizophrenia.21.Gravity's Rainbow by_________ has won the National BookAward.22.The American writers of the 1950s often used the psychologicalinsights taken from the writing of Sigmund_____________ and his followers.23.The 1950s American writers often used the narrative techniquesderived from William___________ .II. Make multiple choices.1. One major characteristic of postwar poetry is its diversity. Which of the following terms belong to this period?A. the Black Mountain PoetsB. Waste Land PaintersC. Poets of the Beat GenerationD. Poets of the San Francisco RenaissanceE. Poets of the New York School2. Robert Lowell's famous "Skunk Hour" was written in response to "Armadillo" , which was written by____________ .A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Richard WilburC. Elizabeth BishopD. Marianne Moore3. Among these poets, choose the ones belonging to the Confessional School.A. Theodore RoethkeB. John BerrymanC. Ann SextonD. Sylvia PlathE. Robert Lowell4. Choose the books of verse written by Silvia Plath.A. A Winter ShipB. The Colossus and Other PoemsC. ArielD. Crystal Gazer and Other PoemsE. Life Studies5. The so-called New York School includes the poets_____________ .A. Robert BlyB. Frank O'HaraC. Kenneth KochD. John AshberryE. James Schuyler6. __________ is probably the most obscure of contemporaryAmerican poets. The reader can understand the surface meaning quite well; it is the undercurrent of meaning that his verbal structure embodies.A. John AshberryB. Fran O'HaraC. Robert BlyD. Kenneth Koch7. A. R. Ammons belongs to_____________ .A. the New York SchoolB. the Meditative PoetsC. the Black Mountain PoetsD. the Confessional Poets8. Which of the following poetic works were written by Denise Levertov?A. Here and NowB. The Jacob's LadderC. The Double ImageD. With the Eyes and the Back of Our HeadsE. The Sorrow Dance9. The American fiction after the 1960s is noted for____________ .A. nonfictionB. science fictionC. black and absurd humorD. parody and popE. experimental novelistic techniques10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Saul Bellow?A. The Dangling ManB. HerzogC. The Naked and the DeadD. Mr. Sammler' s Planet11. Which of the following novels are written by Norman Mailer?A. The Naked and the DeadB. The Armies of the NightC. Ancient EveningD. Tough Guys Don't DanceE. Harlot's Ghost12. The title of J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye comes from___________ poem " if a body catch a body coming from the rye".A. William WordsworthB. William BlackC. Alfred TennysonD. Robert Burns13. Another Jewish novelist besides Saul Bellow is Bernard Malamud. His novels include__________ .A. The NaturalB. The AssistantC. The Dangling ManD. A New LifeE. The Fixer14. John Updike is best known for his "Rabbit" pentalogy, namely___ .A. Rabbit, RunB. Rabbit RedeuxC. Rabbit Is RichD. Rabbit at RestE. Licks of Love15. There are a Gothic element and an obvious absurdist tendency in Flannery O'Connor's works. These include____________ .A. Wise BloodB. A Good Man Is Hard to FindC. Lie Down in DarknessD. The Violent Bear It Away16. The novel of postmodernism after the 1960s includes _____ .A. the absurdB. metafictionC. avant-gardismD. the sentimental17. The characteristics of avant-garde novels are___________ .A. a breakaway from the normal novelistic conventionsB. having little or no story interestC. dull, not satisfyingD. offensive to middlebrow tasteE. often not readable18. Choose among the following novels written by John Barth.A. The Sot-Weed FactorB. Giles Goat-BoyC. One Flew over the Cuckoo' s NestD. Slaughterhouse-Five19. William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac belong toA. the Confessional SchoolB. the Black Mountain PoetsC. novelists of absurdityD. the Beat WritersKeys to Part VIKeys to Part VII. Fill in the blanks.1.Postmodernism2.the New Critical, the High Modernism3.the Confessional School4.Allen Ginsberg5.the poetic, the natural world6.political7.Surrealism8.Frank O' Hara9.Black Mountain College, Black Mountain Review10."Protective Verse"11.life-generating, renew and reorder12.the war novel, the southern novel, the Jewish novel, the Beatnovel, the Black novel13.The Catcher in the Rye14.suburban middle class15.Flannery O' Connor, William Styron16.The Confessions of Nat Turner17.John Barth18.experimental19.Catch-2220.Slaughterhouse-Five21.Thomas Pynchon22.Freud23.FaulknerII. Make multiple choices.1.ACDE2.C3.ABCDE4.ABCD5.BCDE6.A7.B8.ABCDL9.ABCDE10.D11.ABCDE12.D13.ABDE14.ABCDE15.ABD16.ABC17.ABCDE18.AB19.D。

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Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’snovel .13.Henry James’ major fictional theme is .14. brought the Romantic period to an end. So theage of Realism came into existence.15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called .16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is writtenby .17. The term The Gilded Age is given by todescribe the post-civil war years.18. Theodore Dreiser’s first novelis .19. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is .20. is the spokesman for Lost Generation.II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answersor completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was .A. Bret HarteB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. William Dean Howells2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?A. The Gilded AgeB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. Jumping Frog3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?A. Mark TwainB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Frank Norris4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in andThoreau.A.JeffersonB. EmersonC.FreneauD. Oversoul5. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”?A. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The StoicD. An American Tragedy6. Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?A. Hester PrynneB. Mr. HooperC. AhabD. Pearl7. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD. Daisy Miller8. “”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola.A.realismB. naturalismC.transcendentalismD. veritism9. Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism.A. The Sea WolfB. To Build a FireC. The Call of the WildD. Martin Eden10. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. 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Hawthorne18. is famous for psychological realism.A. Mark TwainB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman19. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance20. Whi ch is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Nature21. Santiago is the character in Hemingway’s novel .A. In Our TimeB. The Old Man and the SeaC. For Whom the Bell TollsD.The Sun Also Rises22. Which of the following is a much harsher realism?A. local colorismB. naturalismC. romanticismD. imagism23. Who is the arbiter of 19th century literary realism inAmerica?A. Mark TwainB. Bret HarteC. William Dean HowellsD. Henry James24. F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the author of .A. The Great GatsbyB. Tender is the NightC. A Farewell to the ArmsD. This Side of Paradise25. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works ofsuch American writers as .A. Mark TwainB. F. S. FitzgeraldC. Walt WhitmanD. Stephen Crane26. Charles Drouet is a character in the novel of______.A. The AmericanB. The Portrait of a LadyC. Sister CarrieD. The Gift of the Magi27. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century.She was .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher28. read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F.Kennedy.A. Robert FrostB. T. S. EliotC. Carl SandburgD. Ezra Pound29. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene, becamethe major trend in the 70s and 80s of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC.realismD. naturalism。

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