美国文学试题(2)
16秋华师《外国文学(2)》在线作业
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3.感伤主义文学，是18世纪中后期产生于英国并影响到欧洲其他国家的一种文学思潮，由英国感伤主义代表作家斯泰恩的小说《感伤旅行》而得名。
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4.狄德罗最出色的戏剧作品是费加罗三部曲。
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5.所谓“启蒙运动”，是18世纪西方资产阶级继文艺复兴运动后所掀起的一场更为激烈、广泛的反封建的、反教会、具有全欧性的思想文化运动。
华师《外国文学（2）》在线作业
二、多选题（共10道试题，共40分。）
1.启蒙文学的基本特征是（）。
A.鲜明的政治倾向性和强烈的战斗性。
B.以资产阶级和平民为主人公，描写普通人的命运。
C.摈弃古典主义的清规戒律，寻求新的文学形式，创作体裁多样化。
D.继承古典主义的清规戒律，沿用旧的文学形式。
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A.对资产阶级法律的揭露，对人民苦难生活的同情，都是基于他的宽恕、仁慈、博爱的人道主义思想，这是贯穿全书的思想主线。
B.《悲惨世界》是一部现实主义和浪漫主义相结合的作品。
C.作者是在浓郁的主观抒情之中描写奇特的人物和事件，以收到“理想”和“现实”结合的强烈效果。
D.小说在人物、环境的描写中，坚持运用对照原则。
B.《大伟人江奈生-魏尔德传》
C.《约瑟夫-安德鲁斯》
D.《阿米利亚》
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9.《格列佛游记》称得上是讽刺手法的“大全”，作者成功运用了( )等多种技巧，使作品妙趣横生。
A.象征影射
B.直接谴责
C.反语
D.夸张对比
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10.实许多启蒙思想家同时也是启蒙文学家，如法国的( )等。
A.孟德斯鸠
华南农业大学美国文学史期末考试题
华南农业大学美国文学史期末考Ⅰ。
Explain the following literary terms。
（本大题共2小题，每小题5分，共10分)1.Darwinism2.Lost generation3。
Imagism4.Free VerseⅡ. Matching（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）1.John Steinbeck2.T。
S。
Eliot3.Carl Sandburg4.F。
Scott Fitzgerald5.Harriet Beecher Stowe6.O’ Henry7.Thomas Paine8.Ernest Hemingway9.Ralph Waldo Emerson10.Nathaniel Hawthornea. A Farewell to Armsb. Common Sensec。
Uncle Tom’s Cabind. The Cop and the Antheme。
The Grapes of Wrathf. Fogg。
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockh. Naturei。
The Great Gatsbyj. The Scarlet Letter.Ⅲ. Multiple choice。
（本大题共35 小题,每小题1 分，共35 分）1。
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 tha n did_______。
A.Puritanism B Romanticism C Rationalism D Sentimentalism2. Franklin wrote and published his famous__________， an annul collection of pr overbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard‘s Almanack C。
吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》模拟试题及详解(二)【圣才出品】
第二章吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》模拟试题及详解（二）I. Fill in the blanks1. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s masterpiece is ______.【答案】Uncle Tom’s Cabin【解析】比彻·斯托夫人（Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896）的名作长篇小说《汤姆叔叔的小屋》（Uncle Tom’s Cabin）是19世纪最畅销的小说（以及第二畅销的书，仅次于最畅销的书《圣经》）并被认为是刺激废奴主义于1850年代兴起的一大原因。
2. The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “_______”.【答案】The Gilded Age【解析】现实主义时期被马克吐温看作“镀金时代”。
3. Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “______”movement.【答案】imagism【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote ______, which has been called “the Manifesto ofA merican Transcendentalism,”and ______, which has been regarded as A merica’s “Declaration of Intellectual Independence.”【答案】Nature；“The A merican Scholar”【解析】爱默生的《论自然》被称为“美国超验主义的宣言”，其《美国学者》则被誉为美国知识分子的独立宣言。
5. William Bradford’s work ______ consists of two books. The first book deals with the persecutions of the Separatists in Scrooby, England, and the second book describes the signing of the “Compact”.【答案】MayflowerII. Multiple Choice1. Which ONE of the following is the author of The Leather-Stocking Tales?A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Edgar Allan PoeD. James Fennimore Cooper【答案】D【解析】James Fenimore Cooper（库柏），美国早期作家，The Leather-Stocking Tales （《皮裹腿故事集》）是他的经典之作。
《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）
《美国⽂学》期末考试试卷（A卷）适⽤班级060511-3 考试时间 120 分钟学院班级学号姓名Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (10%)1. Octopus ( )2. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( )3. Babbitt ( )4. White Fang ( )5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( )6. My Antonia ( )7. “Birches” ( )8. Poor Richard’s Almanac ( )9. Light in August ( )10. Twice Told Tales ( )11. The Declaration of Independence ( )12. “Rip Van Winkle ”( )13. Nature ( )14. The Song of Hiawatha ( )15. Uncle Tom ’s Cabin ( )16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( )17. Sister Carrie( )18. The Waste Land( )19. For Whom the Bell Tolls ( )20. The Emperor Jones ( )(10%)1._________________________was one of the founders of theJamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies.2.__________________________was a determined revolutionary whosework helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, but who lost his popularity long before his death.3.The term refers to the group of people, some of themimportant to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic.4.________________________was an early form of horror fiction thatoriginated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period.5._____________________________, known for her deeply personalpoems and radically different poetic themes and form, didn’t achieve fame as a poet until long after her death.6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.7. _________________ has been entitled the “Father of AmericanPoetry.8._______________________was the first great prose stylist ofAmerican romanticism, author of the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the history of American literature.9._____________________is the first American professional writer andthe first writer of the detective story in the world.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it stringsthe incidents on the line of the hero’s travel.Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as themost appropriate answer. (30%)1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became know as the “______” who appeared in America.A Ninth MuseB Tenth MuseC Best MuseD First Muse2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature.A purple proseB waste-land imageryC local colorD symbolism3. The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to a relatively large literate Black readership wasknown as_____.A The HolocaustB The Harlem RenaissanceC AbolitionismD The Civil Rights Movement4. _______ was a leading 19th century feminist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement.A Margaret FullerB Sylvia PlathC Hilda DoolittleD Gloria Stein5. Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry?A gushing sentimentalism and comfortable imagesB abandonment of earlier verse formsC use of free verseD an effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing world6. Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20th century American poets?A Ezra PoundB Walt WhitmanC Robert FrostD Allen Ginsburg7. 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. Which is true of the “Fireside Poets”?A They were generally strongly in favor of abolishing slavery.B They were deeply involved in the Transcendentalist movement.C They were a group of 19th century New England poets who weretremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote.D They opposed to tradition and were in favor of radical change.9. 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 Arms10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to _______.A The highest ranking of the Hindu castes.B A movement that emerged from rebellion against Puritan religious ideas and systems.C A group of New England writers known for their scholarship and/or conservative philosophy.D A school of imaginative writing.11. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous proverbs?A “A stitch in time saves nine”B “God helps those who help themselves”C “A Friend in need is a friend indeed”D “Ask not who the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee”12. ___________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.A RomanticismB RealismC NaturalismD Modernism13. Although few of her poems were 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 writers died a natural death in his old age?A Jack LondonB Ernest HemingwayC Stephen CraneD Mark Twain15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?A Henry Wordsworth LongfellowB Amy LowellC Ezra PoundD Robert FrostIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether thestatements are true or false. (10%)1.Hawthorne was a firm believer in Puritan principles and mourned theirpassing in his works.2.Frederick Douglas was a major 19th century black writer.3.The sou nd of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell overreaders. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy.4.Haiku, a form of traditional Japanese poetry, greatly influenced theImagist movement.5.Leaves of Grass is Whitman’s life work.6.Thanks in part to the efforts of Ezra Pound, Robert Frost was publishedin England and quickly became recognized as a major American poet. 7.In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of theart of modern narration.”8.Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing hisdeath with dignity and courage.9.Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such ashis pamphlet Common Sense, which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution.10.William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy, written in 1789, is oftencalled “the first American novel”.11.The literary movement of American romanticism was generally dividedinto two stages: pre-romanticism and post-romanticism.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. Theromanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.The Scarlet Letter is called an economical novel because there are onlythree chief characters-or four if we include the child Pearl.14.President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman whowrote the book that made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literaryrealism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.”The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong tothe school of “Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Agewho wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.20.“Thanatopsis”is a word Bryant borrowed from Latin meaning“meditation on death”.the questions. (20%)Passage 1The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1.Who is the writer of this poem? _______________(1%)2.What is the title of this poem? _______________(1%)3.What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are“modern”? (2%)4.What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem?And what feeling and meaning does the poem express to you? (2%)Passage 2It was late and everyone had left the caféexcept an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves 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.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by .(2%)2.Why does the old man get drunk every night and why did he commitsuicide? (2%)3.What does the young waiter think of the old man and how does he treathim? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the es-sential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.Questions:1.This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2.The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going tolive in the woods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（⼊⼝），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by .(2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion?(5%)Passage 5It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know.By the name of Annabel Lee; —And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem________________?(1%)2.The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)3.What is the most obvious rhetorical device the author uses for effect?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem__________________________by____________.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them.(20%)1.Robert Frost' s The Road Not Taken.（10%）2.Eugene O' Neill’s Long Day's Journey into Night.（10%）3.Talk about Adgar Allan Poe's social outlook and writings （10%）/doc/76a448b9fd0a79563c1e726f.html ment on Hawthorne’s style. （10%）。
美国文学试题(2)
美国文学（本科）试题5I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases andput your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established atJamestown, Virginia in .2. became the first American writer.3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated muchof the early American writing.4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of and Revolution.5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece .6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared.7. The signing of symbolized the birth of an independent American nation.8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was .9. Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win international fame.10. is the summit of American Romanticism.11. With the publication of Emerson’s in 1836,American Romanticism reached its summit.12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel .13.Henry James’ major fictional theme is .14. brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into existence.15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called .16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by .17. The term The Gilded Age is given by to describe the post-civil war years.18. Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is .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. Mark Twain11. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poem The River-Merchant’sWife: A Letter written by .A. T. S. EliotB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD. Carl Sandburg12. The imagist poets followed three principles, they are , direct treatment and economy ofexpression.A. blank verseB. rhythmC. free verseD. common speech13. Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?A. Ernest HemingwayB. Ezra PoundC. F. S. FitzgeraldD. Emily Dickinson14. Who was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s?A. Ernest HemingwayB. Ezra PoundC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald15. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and of the early settlements.A. journalsB. poetryC. dramaD. folklores16. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by .A. Samuel JohnsonB. Noah WebsterC. Daniel WebsterD. Daniel Defoe17. Walden is written by .A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. PoeD. 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. Which 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 in America?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 of such Americanwriters 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, became the major trend in the 70sand 80s of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism30. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortestpoem written by .A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD. Wallace StevensIII. Comment on the following poems. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningby: Robert FrostWhose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The 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.1. I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died—by: Emily DickinsonI heard a Fly buzz —when I died —The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air —Between the Heaves of Storm —The Eyes around — had wrung them dry —And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset —when the King Be witnessed —in the Room —I willed my Keepsakes —Signed away What portion of me beAssignable —and then it was There interposed a Fly —With Blue —uncertain stumbling Buzz —Between the light —and me —And then the Windows failed — and thenI could not see to see —IV. Give brief answers to the following and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the Romantic Period is called “the American Renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are.2. How does Sister Carrie embody Dreiser’I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases andput your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. 16072. John Smith3. Puritan4. Reason5. The Autobiography6. Common Sense7. The Declaration of Independence8. Philip Freneau 9. Sketch Book 10. Transcendentalism11. Nature 12. The Scarlet Letter 13. international theme 14. The civil war15. free verse 16. Emily Dickinson 17. Mark Twain18. Sister Carrie 19. Ezra Pound 20. Ernest HemingwayII. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or 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 --- 5: A C A B D 6 --- 10: C D B C A11 ---15:C B D C A 16 --- 20: B B C A A21 ---25: B B C C D 26 --- 30: C C A C CIII. Comment on the following poems. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was Frost's favorite of his own poems and Frost ina letter to Louis Untermeyer called it "my best bid for remembrance."This poem illustrates many of the qualities most characteristic of Frost, including the attention to natural detail, the relationship between humans and nature, and the strong theme suggested by individual lines. The speaker in the poem, a traveler by horse on the darkest night of the year, stops to watch a woods filling up with snow. He thinks the owner of the woods is someone who lives in the village and will not see him stopping there. While he is attracted by the beauty of the woods and nature, he is reminded by his little horse and realizes that he has obligations which pull him away from the lure of nature. The speaker describes the beauty and temptation of the woods as “lovely, dark and deep,” but reminds himself that he must not remain there, because he has “promises to keep,” and a long journey ahead of him. He has to complete his obligations and then make his aspirations to be realized. Through the symbolic woods and horse, we also get to know that the speaker has strong self-awareness and self-discipline.In another way, the poem can be analyzed from the perspective of aspiration and realization. Aspiration is something to be worked at. We enjoy the fruit of our realization only when we reach our destination. But from the spiritual point of view, we notice something else that is the transformation of aspiration and realization. Today's aspiration transforms itself into tomorrow's realization. Again, tomorrow's realization is the pathfinder of a higher and deeper goal. There is no end to our realization, and there is no end of our aspiration as long as you are alive. Our journey is eternal, and the road that we are taking on is also eternal. All aspirations become realization till the end of one’s life.The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward Fitzgerald. Each verse (save the last) follows an a-a-b-a rhyming scheme, with the following verse's a's rhyming with that verse's b, which is a chain rhyme. Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD.2. The poetess is watching her own death and recording the process. Instead of seeing God and hearing the songs of angels yearned for by Puritans upon death she heard a fly buzz, which is really ironic.Fly: sets off the stillness in the room;blocks off the light (from heaven);suggests a coming decadence→ the speaker loses the opportunity of gaining immortality after deathThe fly plays an important role in the speaker’s experience of death. The poem is, in part, about “the conflict between preconception and perception.” The person on his or her deathbed shifts perspective from “the ritual of dying” to “the fact of death.” The fly, by interrupting the dying speaker with its “Blue — uncertain stumbling Buzz —” obliterates his or her false notions of death. The sound of the fly represents “the last conscious link with reality.” The poem lacks any hint of a life after death.IV. Give brief answers to the following and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1.(1) The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, giving birthto the spectacular outburst of romantic feeling.(2) The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation.(3) Taking foreign influence in consideration, the great works of American writers still carriedtypically American romantic color.(4) The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy. Transcendentalism stresses man’scapacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses.2.(1) In this novel, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness oflife and attacking the conventional moral standards.(2) The novel best embodies his naturalistic belief that while men are controlled by heredity,instinct and chance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence.(3) To Sister Carrie, the world is cold and harsh. Alone, helpless, she moves along like amechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities first offered by Drouet, and then by Hurstwood. A feather in the wind, she was totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend, still less to say control. The famous picture of Carrie sitting in a rocking chair in her room in the evening, rocking back and forth, is a picture of Carrie’s drifting with the tide. She has no control, no freedom of will. 2007—2008学年度第二期《美国文学史及作品选读》考试A卷参考答案命题人：王琪、丁华良I: Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.Bryant2. frontier saga3. transcendentalist4. Moby Dick5. Sketch Book6.Walden7. Longfellow8. Civil War9. Howells 10. free verse11.Henry James 12. Martin Eden 13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound 15. The Great Gatsby 16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck 18. Mark Twain19. Environment 20. American CrisisII: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1 --- 5: B B D A B 6 --- 10: D D A C D11 ---15: A D B C D 16 --- 20: B D B D C21 --- 25: C B B A C 26 --- 30: C B B D AIII. Read the poems and answer the questions that follow. (20%)Poem 11.1 Who wrote this poem? (1%)Emily Dickinson.1.2 What is the poet or the speaker in the poem watching and recording? (1%)Apparently the woman tells the story of how she is busily going about her day when a polite gentleman by the name of Death arrives in his carriage to take her out for a ride, but, in reality, the speaker is watching and recording her own funeral.1.3 What is death compared to in the poem? (1%)Death is compared to a polite gentleman or polite wooer.1.4 What is depicted in the 3rd stanza? How is it related to the whole poem? (2%)Death takes the woman on a leisurely ride to the grave and beyond, passing playing children, wheat fields, and the setting sun, which indicate the three periods of a day, morning, noon and evening and symbolize the three stages of human life — childhood, middle age and old age.1.5 What is depicted in the 4th stanza? (1%)In this stanza, the speaker describes her dead body and what is wearing. She feels cold because it is evening now and dew drops are forming and she is not wearing much, but more probably it is because she is dead and blood circulation in her body has stopped.1.6 What does the poet or the speaker in the poem think of eternity? (2%)The speaker is not quite sure whether there will be eternity after death since she just surmises that “the Horses’ Heads / wer e toward Eternity —”.1.7 What is the attitude of the poet or the speaker in the poem towards death? (2%)The woman describes their journey with the casual ease one might use to recount a typical Sunday drive. She treats death light-heartedly for she believes that death is a necessary step towards eternity or immortality. Poem 22.1 Who wrote this poem? (1%)Edgar Allan Poe.2.2 What is the theme of the poem? (2%)In the poem, Poe examines a theme which he examines in many of his works: the death of a beautiful woman. It is a poem written in memory of his deceased young wife Virginia Clemm.2.3 What is the mood of the poem? (1%)The poem is permeated with melancholy.2.4 How does the poem coincide with Poe’s poetics or theory of poetry writing? (3%)The poem coincides with Poe’s poetics. It is readable at one sitting. In the poem, Poe examines a theme which he examines in many of his works: the death of a beautiful woman, which, according to him, is “unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” The poem is permeated with melancholy as he believes “melancholy is the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.” And it is rhythmic.2.5What makes you think the poem reads like a fairy tale? (3%)The poem has got the elements of a fairy tale.1)It has the beginning of a fairy tale (1st stanza).2)The couple's love originated from their childhood.3)Annabel Lee died because "the angels" envied the couple's great love and, with a cold wind, they killedAnnabel Lee, who was then carried away and buried in a sepulchre in the kingdom by the sea.4)However, unlike The Raven, in which the narrator believes he will "nevermore" be reunited with his love,Annabel Lee says the two will be together again.And neither the angels in heaven above，Nor the demons down under the sea，Can ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee.5)On moonlit nights, the speaker will go and lie down by the side of his deceased young wifeIn the sepulchre there by the sea，In her tomb by the side of the sea.The poem reads like a fairy tale.IV. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of local color, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things was immediately observable; the dialects, customs, sights, and sounds of regional America. Bret Harte was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity, presenting stories of western mining towns with colorful gamblers, outlaws, and scandalous women. Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mark Twain provided regional stories and tales of the life of America’s Westerners, Southerners, and Easterners. Local color fiction reached its peak of popularity in the 1880s, but by the turn of the century it had begun to decline.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier become successful. Can you tell why?This is due to a number of reasons:1) Theodore Dreiser based the novel on the life of his sister Emma. In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Canada with a married man who had stolen money from his employer. Another sister of his was a prostitute.2) Like Sister Carrie who went to Chicago at the age of 18, Dreiser himself left home at age 15 for Chicago and started to support himself, doing menial jobs. He understood perfectly well how hard life was for a girl like Sister Carrie in a big city.3) His sympathy for Sister Carrie is related to his naturalistic beliefs. The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the envir onment, that religious “truth” were illusory, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion in death. As a pioneer of naturalism in American literature, Dreiser wrote novels reflecting his mechanistic view of life, a concept that held humanity as the victim of such ungovernable forces as economics, biology, society, and even chance. In his works, conventional morality is unimportant, consciously virtuous behavior having little to do with material success and happiness. So Sister Carrie is not to be blamed for her sin of life.4) His sympathy for Sister Carrie also shows the influence of the teachings of Charles Darwin----natural selection and the survival of the fittest and that of the teachings of Herbert Spencer----social Darwinism. In this novel, Sister Carrie is portrayed as an example of the survival of the fittest in an indifferent world.。
美国文学试题库
美国文学试题库
一、选择题
1. 下列哪位作家被誉为“美国短篇小说之父”？
A.马克·吐温
B.爱默生
C.莎士比亚
D.海明威
2. 著名小说《傲慢与偏见》的作者是？
A.查尔斯·狄更斯
B.简·奥斯汀
C.夏洛蒂·勃朗特
D.莫言
3. 哪位作家被称为“美国现代诗歌之母”？
A.西莉亚·普拉斯
B.艾米丽·狄金森
C.露易丝·格莱兹
D.玛丽·奥利弗
4. 林肯总统的“葬礼演说”是由哪位作家完成的？
A.埃德加·爱伦·坡
B.拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生
C.赫尔曼·梅尔维尔
D.爱米莉·狄金森
5. 下列哪部作品是由海明威创作的？
A.《傲慢与偏见》
B.《老人与海》
C.《威尼斯商人》
D.《包法利夫人》
二、简答题
1. 请简要介绍一下美国文学的发展历程以及其代表作品。
2. 谈谈你对马克·吐温作品的理解以及他在美国文学史上的地位。
3. 分析简·奥斯汀小说《傲慢与偏见》中人物形象和情节发展。
4. 通过阅读爱默生的论文，你认为他对美国文学和文化的影响是什么？
5. 谈谈海明威的小说创作风格及其代表作品对世界文学的影响。
三、论述题
请结合你对美国文学史上的经典作品和作家进行深入分析，论述美国文学对世界文学的影响以及其独特之处。
常耀信《美国文学简史》(第3版)模拟试题及详解(一)和(二)【圣才出品】
第二部分模拟试题第1章常耀信《美国文学简史》（第3版）模拟试题及详解（一）I.Fill in the blanks1.Thomas Paine’s second most important work_____was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy.【答案】The Rights of Man【解析】1791年3月，托马斯·潘恩在伦敦出版《人权论》，激烈抨击埃德蒙·伯克（Edmund Burke，1729—1797）的《法国革命感言录》（Reflections on the Revolution in France）（1790）。
《人权论》的可贵之处还在于，它冲破了当时笼罩于整个西方思想界对英国君主立宪政体的迷信，深入骨髓地批判了这一政体，给当时还处于摸索状态的法国革命指明了共和主义的崭新方向。
2._____was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.【答案】Washington Irving【解析】华盛顿·欧文是美国著名作家，他被誉为美国第一位浪漫主义散文文体作家。
3.In_____,Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.【答案】Song of Myself【解析】在惠特曼的《自我之歌》中他将自己早期的经历同一个正在成长中的美国等同起来。
4.The great work_____not only demonstrates Emersonian ideas of self-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreau’s own transcendental philosophy.【答案】Self-Reliance【解析】富兰克林的《论自立》不仅表现了爱默生关于自立的思想，同时也表达了他的超验主义思想。
英美文学史考试试题
英美文学史考试试题一、选择题（每题 3 分，共 30 分）1、以下哪部作品是英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯的代表作？（）A 《唐璜》B 《抒情歌谣集》C 《恰尔德·哈洛尔德游记》D 《西风颂》2、美国作家海明威的作品常常体现出“冰山理论”，以下哪部作品最能体现这一理论？（）A 《永别了，武器》B 《老人与海》C 《太阳照样升起》D 《丧钟为谁而鸣》3、英国作家简·奥斯汀的小说以细腻的人物刻画和对婚姻爱情的探讨著称，她的哪部作品被多次改编成电影？（）A 《爱玛》B 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》C 《傲慢与偏见》D 《理智与情感》4、以下哪一位是美国浪漫主义时期的重要作家？（）A 马克·吐温B 爱伦·坡C 惠特曼D 以上都是5、英国诗人 TS艾略特的《荒原》属于哪种文学流派？（）A 象征主义B 表现主义C 意识流D 荒诞派6、以下哪部作品是英国批判现实主义作家狄更斯的代表作？（）A 《大卫·科波菲尔》B 《呼啸山庄》C 《简·爱》D 《名利场》7、美国作家福克纳的作品多以南方为背景，他的哪部作品讲述了一个家族的兴衰？（）A 《喧哗与骚动》B 《我弥留之际》C 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》D 以上都是8、英国诗人约翰·弥尔顿的哪部作品取材于《圣经》？（）A 《失乐园》B 《复乐园》C 《力士参孙》D 以上都是9、以下哪一位是美国现代主义作家？（）A 菲茨杰拉德B 德莱塞C 斯坦贝克D 以上都是10、英国女作家勃朗特姐妹的作品包括（）A 《简·爱》和《呼啸山庄》B 《爱玛》和《傲慢与偏见》C 《理智与情感》和《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D 《名利场》和《大卫·科波菲尔》二、简答题（每题 10 分，共 30 分）1、请简要分析莎士比亚悲剧作品的艺术特色。
2、简述美国文学中“黑色幽默”的特点。
3、比较英国浪漫主义文学和美国浪漫主义文学的异同。
自考美国文学选读试题_浙江省4月自考试卷
自考美国文学选读试题_浙江省2009年4月自考试卷浙江省2009年4月自考美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A( )1. James F. Cooper( )2. Washington Irving( )3. Herman Melville( )4. Emily Dickinson( )5. Mark TwainGroup 2Column A( )6. Charles Drouet( )7. Homer Barron( )8. Yank( )9. Mrs. Phelps( )10. Tom BuchananPart Ⅱ: Select from the four choices A, B, C and D of each itemthe one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)11. Being a period of the flowering of American literature, the Romantic period is also called “_____”.( )A. the American RenaissanceB. the English RenaissanceC. the Harlem RenaissanceD. the Second Renaissance12. With a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good” of the whole nation, a spectacular outburst of _____ was brought about in the first half of the 19th century in the history of America.( )A. classic feelingB. romantic feelingC. nationalistic feelingD. realistic feeling13. With such a surge of exalting the individual and the common man throughout the United States in the middle of the 19th century, Freneau showed a great interest in external nature in his works. The literary use of the more colorful aspects of the past could be found in Philip Freneau’s use of the “_____”.( )A. ruins of human beingsB. ruins of AmericansC. ruins of empireD. ruins of common people14. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage had exertedgreat influences over American Romanticism. One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to _____ than their English and European counterparts.( )A. idealizeB. moralizeC. classicizeD. realize15. In the period of Romanticism in the history of American literature, Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far. The two writers are( )A. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt WhitmanB. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David ThoreauC. James F. Cooper and Henry David ThoreauD. James F. Cooper and Walt Whitman16. New England Transcendentalism is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature. And the chief spokesman of this spiritual movement is( )A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow17. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature ofWashington Irving?( )A. He was regarded as Father of the American short stories.B. His taste was essentially conservative.C. He had the honor of “the American O’ Henry”.D. He has been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style tha t American Literature ever produced”.18. In his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne fully displayed all the following EXCEPT( )A. his remarkable sense of the Puritan past.B. his understanding of the colonial history in Deep South.C. his apparent preoccupation with the moral issues of sin and guilt.D. his keen psychological analysis of people.19. Herman Melville had written many sea adventure stories, among which _____ proves to be the best.( )A. TypeeB. OmooC. RedburnD. Moby-Dick20. Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of _____, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.( )A. the democratic idealsB. the religious idealsC. the romantic idealsD. the self-reliance spirits21. Which of the following statements about the three dominant figures in the history of American literature is right? ( ) A. Henry James had laid a great emphasis on the “inner world” of man.B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Europeans.C. Howells focused his discussion on the lower class and the way they lived.D. Twain preferred to have the other regions and people at the forefront of his stories.22. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language? ( )A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct.B. His sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical.C. His characters speak with a strong accent, which is true of his local colorism.D. His style of language was later exerted little influence on his descendants.23. Mark Twain’s late works unmistakably shaved his change from an optimist and _____ to an almost despairingdeterminister.( )A. realistB. romanticistC. humoristD. pessimist24. “I confess I do not care to judge any work of the imagination without first applying this test to it. We must ask ourselves before anything else, Is it true?—true to the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the life of actual men and women?” This principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life comes from ( )A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. William Dean HowellsD. Theodore Dreiser25. In which of the following novels can you find the proper names “Winterbourne”, “Giovanelli”, and “Randolph”?( )A. Daisy MillerB. The Turn of the ScrewC. The Middle YearsD. The Death of a Lion26. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of Henry James’ literary techniques?( )A. stream-of-consciousnessB. narrative “point of view”C. psychological realismD. local colorism27. The little poem I like to see it lap the Miles— is generally regarded as an interesting study of how Dickinson makes the train part of _____ by animalizing it.( )A. natureB. manC. loveD. death28. Sigmund Freud’s inter pretation of dreams and the theories of _____ have infused modern American literature and made it possible for most of the writers in the modern period to probe into the inner world of human reality. ( )A. William James’ “stream of consciousness” and Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious”B. Carl Jung’s “stream of consciousness” and William James’ “collective unconscious”C. William James’ “archetypal symbol” and Carl Jung’s “individual consciousness”D. Carl Jung’s “archetypal symbol” and William James’ “individual consciousness”29. Chinese poetry and philosophy had exerted great influence on ( )A. Robert FrostB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Ralph Waldo Emerson30. O’Neill’s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when _____ was in full swing.( )A. SymbolismB. RealismC. ExpressionismD. Surrealism31. In Robert Frost’s famous poem “After Apple-Picking”, there are four lines like these: “Were he no t gone, /The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his, /Long sleep, as I describe its coming on. /Or just some human sleep.” The human sleep refers to ( )A. deathB. calmness of the spiritC. fall into sleepD. memory of experience32. Among Faulkner’s four masterpieces, _____ is a story of “lost innocence,” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.( )A. Go Down, MosesB. Absalom, Absalom!C. Light in AugustD. The Sound and the Fury33. Which of the following statements can be said about the writing styles of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a most representative figure of the 1920s?( )A. His style is complex and warm.B. His dialogue is subtle and quite difficult to grasp.C. His observation of mannerism, models and attitudes provide the reader with a vivid sense of unreality.D. He follows the Jamesian tradition in using the scenic methodin his chapters.34. Compared with earlier writings, especially those of the 19th century, modern American writings are notable for what they omit. A typical modern work will NO longer one of the following as its trademark, that is, a ( )A. record of sequence and coherence.B. book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience.C. juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory.D. book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and without solution.35. _____ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero——Nick Adams.( )A. The Sun Also RisesB. The Old Man and the SeaC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. In Our TimePart Ⅲ. InterpretationRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)36. “In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, —no disgrace, no calamity,(leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, —my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, —all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. In this quoted part the author used the remarkable image of a transparent eyeba ll and a powerful analogy between “I”. Please make a brief comment on the symbolic relationship between “eyeball” and “I”.37. “Terrible!” said that little lady, joining her. “I hope it snows enough to go sleigh riding.”“Oh, dear,” said Carrie, with whom the sufferings of Father Goriot were still keen. “That’s all you think of. Aren’t you sorry for the people who haven’t anything tonight?”“Of course I am,” said Lola; “but what can I do? I haven’t anything.”Carrie smiled.Questions:A. Identify the author and the novel.B. Briefly interpret the contrast of the feelings of the two ladies towards the poor.38. “The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.The paired butterflies are already yellow with August,Over the grass in the West garden;They hurt me. I grow older.If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang, Please let me know beforehand,And I will come out to meet youAs far as Cho-fu-Sa.”Questions:A. This stanza comes from Ezra Pound’s The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter. From which Chinese poet is this poem translated?B. How does the speaker communicate with her husband?39. “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 aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Roll-Royce became an omnibus, bearing partiesto and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.”Questions:A. Identify the narrator and the novel from which this passage is taken.B. “Moths” in the second line is metaphorically used. What does it refer to?Part Ⅳ. Topic DiscussionGive brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding space. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)40. How does Huck, a boy with rebellious spirit, come to be a real hero in the reader’s mind? Please give a brief analysis of the character Huckleberry Finn.41. In Hemingway’s Indian Camp, the hero Nick witnessed the birth of a baby and the simultaneous suicide of the infant’s father. For Nick, the night journey to the camp has all the possibilities of a learning experience. How important is Nick’sexperience at the Indian Camp to his initiation into the world?。
英美文学自考试题及答案
英美文学自考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 《哈姆雷特》是哪位英国剧作家的作品？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 奥斯卡·王尔德C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 托马斯·哈代答案：A2. 美国作家海明威的代表作是哪部小说？A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《老人与海》C. 《白鲸》D. 《红字》答案：B3. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《理智与情感》B. 《傲慢与偏见》C. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D. 《简·爱》答案：D4. 谁是“美国现代主义文学之父”？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 华尔特·惠特曼C. 艾米莉·狄金森D. 马克·吐温答案：A5. 《动物农场》是哪位英国作家的政治讽刺小说？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫C. 约翰·弥尔顿D. 丹尼尔·笛福答案：A6. 《白鲸》的作者是谁？A. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔B. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑C. 埃德加·爱伦·坡D. 华盛顿·欧文答案：A7. 《简·爱》的作者是谁？A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁答案：A8. 下列哪部作品是威廉·福克纳的代表作？A. 《喧哗与骚动》B. 《熊》C. 《老人与海》D. 《永别了，武器》答案：B9. 《乌托邦》是哪位英国作家的政治哲学著作？A. 托马斯·莫尔B. 约翰·洛克C. 托马斯·霍布斯D. 约翰·弥尔顿答案：A10. 美国文学中的“迷失的一代”是指哪些作家？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德C. 马克·吐温D. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑答案：B二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）11. 《麦克白》是莎士比亚的四大悲剧之一，其他三部分别是________、《奥赛罗》和《李尔王》。
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。
(完整word版)美国文学史及选读试卷(A卷)包含评分标准及答案
美国文学史及选读考试试题（卷）A卷院系：考试形式：闭卷专业试时间：100 分钟姓名：学号考试科目：美国文学史及选读考I. Blanks: ( 10points, 1 point for each blank)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 9 items and 10 blanks. 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 three quarters ofthe seventeenth century, the overwhelming majority was _______ .3. The English immigrants who settled on America 'n s orthern seacoast werecalled _______ , so named after those who wished to “purify ” theChurch of England.4. Washington Irving, the Father of American literature, developed the as agenre in American literature.5. Franklin 's best writing is found in his masterpiece ____ .6. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18 th century was ____ .th7. In the early 19 century, “Rip Van Winkle ”had established _______ 'sreputation at home and abroad, and designated the beginning ofAmerican Romanticism.8. __ has sometimes been considered the father of the modern shortstory.9. In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece ___ , thestory of a triangular love affair in colonial America.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 from the settlementof America in the early 17th century through the end of century.A. the 18thB. the 19ththC. 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 isA. 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 calledA. New York 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 a novel aboutA. 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 MuseD. First Muse15. The ship ____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days tobeat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Titanic16. A new ___ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18 th 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 Van Winkle ,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 YorkC. Tales of a TravelerD. The Precaution19. _____ was often regarded as America 's first man of letters, devotingmuch of his career to literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. Washington IrvingD. James Fenimore Cooper20. All the following novels are in Cooper 's Leatherstocking Tales exceptA. The PioneersB. The PrairieC. The DeerslayerD. The SpyIII. Identification (20 points, 1 point for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty titles. Judge the 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 York6. 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 Years18. “The Poetic Principle ”19. The Blithedale Romance20. “The Indian Burying Ground ”IV. Terms (20 points, 4 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are f0ur 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. Poor Richard 's Almanac2. Leatherstocking Tales3. Puritanism4. Benjamin FranklinV. Appreciation (10 points, 5 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are two excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by three questions. Read the excerpts and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.Part AFrom 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.1. Who is the poet of the poem and what is the title of the poem? (2 points)2. Tell the metrical structure and rhyme scheme of the poem. (1 point)3. What does the “little being ”refer to? What meaning is suggested by the phrase “but an hour”? (2 points)Part BThe opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, 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 the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sundial. It is true he was rarely heard to speak, but smoked his pipe incessantly. His adherents, however (for every great man has his adherents), perfectly understood him, and knew how to gather his opinions. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed tosmoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation.From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquility of the assemblage and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.1. Who was the writer of this story? What is the title of this story? (2 points)2. Who was Nicholas Vedder? (1 point)3. How did he express his opinions on public matters? (2 points)VI. Comment. (20 points, 10 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, you are given five topics. Choose TWO of them and give a comment on the Answer Sheet. Scores will be given according to the content, grammar and the completeness of the related knowledge.1. What are the features of literature in Colonial America?2. Comment on Benjamin Franklin 's Autobiography .3. Comment on Nathaniel Hawthorne 's writing techniques.4. What philosophical meaning is implied in Philip Freneau's “The Wild HoneySuckle ”?5. What are the artistic achievements of Edgar Allan Poe?美国文学史及选读考试试题（卷）评分标准及标准答案A卷院系：专业：考试科目：美国文学史及选读考试形式：闭卷考试时间：100 分钟I. 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. DIII. 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）1. Poor Richard 's Almanackey words: Benjamin Franklin, sayings, hard work, thrift, Puritan, quotes, printed himself, etc.2. Leatherstocking TalesKey words: Cooper, five novels, Natty Bumppo, frontier, frontiersman, life from youth to old age, The Pioneer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, etc.3. Puritanismkey words: Calvin, purify, hard work, thrift, predestination, salvation, sin, God, from England to America, immigration, etc.4. Benjamin Franklinkey words: statesman, scientist and writer, Autobiography, Poor Richard 's Almanac, puritan, hard work and thrift, successful, contributions, printer, etc.V. Appreciation （10%）（每题5 分，共10 分）Part Aa） Philip Freneau 's（1 分）The Wild Honey Suckle （1分）b） It is written in iambic tetrameter, the rhyme scheme is ababcc. （1 分）c）“Little being ” refers to the wild honey suckle. （1 分）“Butanhour ” means the lifespan of a flower is very short. （ 1 分）Part B1. Washington Irving 's（1 分）Rip Van Wingkle （1分）2. Nicholas Vedder is the owner of the inn/ a patriarch of the village/ and landlord of the inn, （ 1 分）3. He expressed his opinion by the way of smoking. / When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. （ 2 分）VI. Comment. （20%）（每题10 分，此题共20 分）答案：（略）。
英美文学简史单元测试题及答案
英美文学简史单元测试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚是哪个时期的英国剧作家？A. 伊丽莎白时代B. 维多利亚时代C. 乔治时代D. 现代2. 以下哪部作品是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作？A. 《简·爱》B. 《傲慢与偏见》C. 《大卫·科波菲尔》D. 《呼啸山庄》3. 美国文学中的“失落的一代”主要指的是哪个时期的作家？A. 19世纪B. 20世纪初C. 第二次世界大战后D. 冷战时期4. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 马克·吐温B. 欧内斯特·海明威C. 爱德加·爱伦·坡D. 亨利·詹姆斯5. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的哪部作品被认为是现代主义文学的经典之作？A. 《到灯塔去》B. 《了不起的盖茨比》C. 《太阳照常升起》D. 《尤利西斯》二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与_______和塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治共同创作了《_______》。
7. 19世纪英国诗人阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生被誉为_______的代表。
8. 美国文学中的“自然写作”流派的代表人物是_______。
9. 20世纪美国文学中，被称为“黑色幽默”的文学流派的代表作是_______的《第二十二条军规》。
10. 英国作家乔治·奥威尔的代表作《1984》和《_______》被认为是反乌托邦文学的典范。
三、简答题（每题15分，共30分）11. 简述美国文学中的“现实主义”与“自然主义”的区别。
12. 描述一下现代主义文学的特点，并举例说明。
四、论述题（30分）13. 论述弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫在现代主义文学中的地位及其作品对后世的影响。
答案一、选择题1. A2. C3. B4. B5. A二、填空题6. 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治，《抒情歌谣集》7. 维多利亚时代8. 亨利·戴维·梭罗9. 约瑟夫·海勒10. 《动物农场》三、简答题11. 美国文学中的“现实主义”强调对现实生活的真实反映，注重社会问题和人性的探讨，而“自然主义”则更强调环境和遗传对人的影响，倾向于悲观主义。
美国文学本科试题
美国文学（本科）试题2I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1._____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the free verse, poetry withou t a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2.The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.5.Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.6.The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped toestablish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.7.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet,black bough.” This is the shortest poe m written by _____.8.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ becamethe spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generati on”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.10.Among the works att acking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.11.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.12.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: hisclose observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indige nous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The WildHoney Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________, a collectionof essays, sketches and tales, marks the beginning of American rom anticism.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would be st completethe statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet.(30%, 1 point for each)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A.i n d i v i d u a l i s mB. freedomC.d e m o c r a c yD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. Ishmae lC.F l a s kD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our Intellect ual Declaration of Independence.”A.D e c l a r a t i o n o f I n d e p e n d e n c eB. Self-RelianceC.D i v i n i t y S c h o o l A d d r e s sD. The American Scholar4.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is ______.A.v i c i o u s b y n a t u r eB. insignificantC.f o r w a r d-l o o k i n gD. divine5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villain sC.c o m m e n t a t o r sD. observers6.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A.Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leather-Stocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden7.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”Who could have written these lines? _____.A.E d g a r A l l a n P o eB. Ralph EmersonC.W a l t W h i t m a nD. Henry Thoreau8.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A.R a l p h E m e r s o nB. Walt WhitmanC.N a t h a n i e l H a w t h o r n eD. Henry Thoreau9.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letteris Not true? _____.A.It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B.It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C.It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.D.It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.10.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short storiessuch as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle11.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects oflife. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A.R e l i g i o nB.L i f e a n d d e a t hC.L o v e a n d m a r r i a g eD. War and peace12.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ____ language.A. grandB. pompou sC. vernacularD. simp le13.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.A.t h e A g e o f R o m a n t i c i s mB. the Age of RealismC.t h e A g e o f M o d e r n i s mD. the Age of Colonialism14.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modernAmerican literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Lif e on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded A ge15.The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main objec t of the novel.A.M a r k T w a i nB.H e n r y J a m e sC.T h e o d o r e D r e i s e rD. William Dean Howells16.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A.M a r k T w a i nB. Emily DickinsonC.T h e o d o r e D r e i s e rD. Henry James17.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter “A” which originally stands for “_____”, finally obtains the meaning of “able”or “angel” through Hester’s efforts.A.a r r o g a n c eB. adulteryC.a g o n yD. accomplishment18.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as _____.A.t h e G o l d e n A g eB. the Modern AgeC.t h e G i l d e d A g eD. the Puritan Age19.Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet inthe sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _____.A.N e w Y o r kB.t h e W e s tC. New EnglandD. Mid West20.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the A merican _____.A.N e w E n g l a n dB.S o u t hC.M i d W e s tD. West21.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature forhis “mastery of the art of modern narration.”A.T.S.E l i o tB. Ernest HemingwayC.J o h n S t e i n b e c kD. William Faulkner22.“In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _____.A.t h e i m a g i s t p o e t r yB. the absurd poetryC.t h e r o m a n t i c p o e t r yD. the tran scendental poetry23.Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ______.A.t h e R e n a i s s a n c e P e r i o dB. the Ne oclassical PeriodC.t h e J a z z A g eD. the Romantic Period24._____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A.W i l l i a m B r a d f o r dB. Anne BradstreetC.E m i l y D i c k i n s o nD. Captain John Smith25.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workersbecause of the American Depression.A.F.S.F i t z g e r a l dB. John SteinbeckC.E r n e s t H e m i n g w a yD. William Howells26._______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A.P e a r lB. Arthur DimmesdaleC.R o g e r C h i l l i n g w o r t hD. Santiago27.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy.A.E d w i n R o b i n s o nB. Wallace StevensC.C a r l S a n d b u r gD. Robert Frost28.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” This may be a principle for the characterization of _______.A.r o m a n t i c i s mB.r e a l i s mC. naturalismD. modernis m29.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the littlewoman who wrote the book that started this great war!” Who is thi s woman referred to? ______.A.M r s.S t o w eB. Emily DickinsonC.G e o r g e E l i o tD. Jane Austen30.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain becameincreasingly ______.A. optimisticB. pessimisticD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers onthe Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth” (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Read the poems carefully and answer the questions that follow. Put your answers on the Answer Shee t. (20%, 10 pointsfor each poem)1. I Sit and Look OutI sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;I see in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate;I see the wife misused by her husband — see the treacherous seducer of young women;I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid,I see these sights on the earth;I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny — I see martyrs andprisoners;I observe a famine at sea — I observe the sailors casting lots who shallbe kill’d to preserve the lives of the rest;I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;All these — all the meanness and agony without, end, I sitting, look out upon,See, hear, and am silent.Questions:1.1 Who wrote this poem? (1%)1.2 What kind of poetical style is employed in the poem? (1%)1.3 What is the function of the line “All these — all the meannessand agony without, end, I sitting, look out upon”? (2%)1.4 What is the theme of the poem? (3%)1.5 Why is the poem entitled “I Sit and Look Out” instead of “I Walk Around and See”, and the like? (3%)2. I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air —Between the Heaves of Storm —The Eyes around — had wrung them dry —And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset — when the KingBe witnessed — in the Room —I willed my Keepsakes — Signed awayWhat portion of me beAssignable — and then it wasThere interposed a Fly —With Blue — uncertain stumbling Buzz —Between the light — and me —And then the Windows failed — and thenI could not see to see —Questions:2.1 Who wrote this poem? (1%)2.2 What is the poet or the speaker in the poem watching and recordin g? (1%)2.3 What does “that Onset” in the 2nd stanza refer to? What kind ofonset is that? (1%)2.4 What do “uncertain stumbling Buzz” and “And then the Windows failed” in the last stanza suggest respectively? (1%)2.5 Where do es the “light” in the last stanza come from? (1%)2.6 What does the “Fly” in the poem suggest? (2%)2.7 What is the theme of the poem? (3%)V. Make a brief comment on the following and putyour answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1.American Romanticism.2.Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier.。
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一Fill in the blanks1.In 1845,Henry DavidThoreau began a two-year residenceat Walden Pond.2.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of eighteenth century through the outburst of the civil war .3.In 1836,a little book came out which made tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by Emerson .4. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay The American scholar has been regardedas”America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence”. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.5. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was Thoreau , afriend of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s and his junior by some fourteen years.二.Make multiple choices1. Transcendentalists took their ideas from ABCD .A.the romantic literature in EuropeB.neo-PlatonismC.German idealistic philosophyD.The revelations of oriental mysticism2. B was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A.Henry David ThoreauB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Nathaniel HawthorneD.Walt Whitman3. Transcendentalists recognized A as the “highest power of the soul.”A.intuitionB.logicC.date of the sensesD.thinking4.From Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, C ,which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense5. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually A on the Puritan soil.A.RomanticismB.PuritanismC.MysticismD.Unitarianism三.Identify the fragments1.To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as such from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is write me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might thing the atmosphere was made transparent with his design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.Questions:1)This paragraph is taken from a famous essay. What is the nameof the essay?2)Who is the author?3)What does the author say would happen if the stars appearedone night in a thousand years?4)Give a peculiar term to cover the author’s belief.Key1 Nature2 Ralph Walden Emerson3 Then the men cannot believe and adore the God, cannot preserve the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown4 Transcendentalism。
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浙江省2019年7月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.(10%)Section AColumn A Column B1. Henry James a. The Hairy Ape2. William Faulkner b. Daisy Miller3. F.S.Fitzgerald c. The House of the Seven Gables4. Eugene O'Neill d. The Great Gatsby5. Nathaniel Hawthorne e. Light in AugustSection BColumn A Column B1. Nick a. Sister Carrie2. G.Hurstwood b. A Rose for Emily3. Ishmael c. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer4. Huck d. Indian Camp5. Emily Grierson e. Moby DickⅡ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(10%)1.The Romantic Period in American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of ______.2.Ralph W.Emerson’s first little book ______ established him as the most eloquent spokesman of Transcendentalism.3.Realism was a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions. It paved the way to ______ of the twentieth century.4.American ______,another school of realism, resulted mainly from the impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory and the influence of the 19th century French literature.5.Altogether,Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only had appeared during her lifetime.6.During the first part of the ______ century, despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.7.The ______ Age of the 1920s was characterized by frivolity and carelessness and brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.8.Eugene O’Neill is unquestionably America’s greatest ______ of the modern period, and he was the only one ever to win a Nobel Prize for dramas.19.During his life, Pound published several volumes of translations, from which we can see his strenuous effort in the study of ______ literature.10.Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writingstyle, together with his theme and hero. His heroes mirrored a vivid portrait of “______.”Ⅲ.Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(50%)1.Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features…______,with the English Romanticists.A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotionsB. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their charactersC. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to natureD. both A and B2.As a philosophical and literary movement, transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War, whose most important representatives are ______.A. Emerson and ThoreauB. Emerson and WhitmanC. Hawthorne and MelvilleD. Edgar Poe and James Cooper3.Washington Irving’s ______ became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of 19th century.A. Sketch BookB. Charles the SecondC. The Scarlet LetterD. Moby Dick4.Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of ______ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.A. symbolic storiesB. romantic storiesC. gothic storiesD. humorous stories5.Which of the following is not written by Herman Melville?______A. Typee and OmooB. Mardi and White JacketC. Moby-Dick and PierreD. The Bostonians and Billy Budd6.The novel Moby Dick shows the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against ______.A. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forcesB. the gliding great demon of the seas of lifeC. the white whaleD. the savage harpooners and the motley crew7.The American realists approached the harsh realities and pressures in the post-Civil war society by ______.A. a comprehensive picture of modern life in its various occupations, class stratifications and2mannersB. a psychological exploration of man’s subconsciousnessC. a disillusion of heroism resulting from the dark memories of the Civil WarD. both A and B8.By the turn of the century, with the publication of The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Mysterious Stranger, the change in Mark Twain from ______ to ______ could be felt.A. an optimist...an almost despairing pessimistB. an almost despairing pessimist...an optimistC. a local colorist...a naturalistD. a naturalist...a local colorist9.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be Jame’s masterpiece, which ______.A. incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an Americangirl in a European cultural environmentB. tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the EuropeanlifeC. is about a young American girl who gets “killed”by the winter in RomeD. tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life10.About the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller, which of the following is not right?______A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.B. She comes from the new world but remains traditional and conservative.C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new worldD. The author’s sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome waseasily felt.11.Which of the following is not right about Emily Dickinson’s poems about love?______A. Her love poems show people’s feelings of rapture and happiness coming from their loveexperience.B. Some of her love poems treats the suffering and frustration love can cause.C. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain ofseparation, and the futility of finding happiness.D. Some of them emphasizes the power of physical attraction and expresses a mixture of fearand fascination for the mysterious magnetism between sexes.12.In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of ______.A. a happy and active lifeB. adventurous experiencesC. a single household and an inactive lifeD. a hard and suffering life13.About Henry James’ literary criticism, which of the following is not right?______A. It is both concerned with form and devoted to human values.B. He indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life in every possible form.C. He advocates the freedom of the artist to write about anything that concerns him.D. He believes that the artist can’t feel the life, but he can understand human nature in their own3way.14.The characters presented by the naturalist writers were ______A. more often than not dominated by their environment and heredityB. usually idealized heroes or heroines of unspotted virtue and dazzling accomplishmentsC. in most cases examples of human experienceD. people who were simply all good or all bad15.About the first few decades of the 20th century, which of the following is right?______A. There was a rise in moral standard and it was best described as a spiritual land of promise.B. Individual power and hope became part of the American experience as a result of the FirstWorld War.C. There was a decline in social standard and it was described as a spiritual wasteland.D. all of the above.16.In his novels, Faulkner creates his own kingdom that mirrors not only ______ but also ______.A. the decline of the Southern society...the spiritual wasteland of the whole American societyB. the spiritual wasteland of the Southern society...the decline of the whole American societyC. the sense of loss and despair among the post-war generation...the decline of the wholeAmerican societyD. the frivolity and carelessness of the young generation...the sense of loss and despair of thewhole society.17.In general terms, much serious American literature written from 1912 onwards attempted toconvey ______.A. a vision of social breakdown and moral decayB. a vision of social continuity and harmonyC. the continuity and discontinuity between the past and the modern timeD. all of the above18.Which of the following is not said about the main principles of the Imagist Movement?______A. a direct treatment of poetic subjectsB. the elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous wordsC. the rhythmical composition in the sequence of the musical phrase rather than in the sequenceof a metronomeD. the treatment of the medium of poetry in agreement with Romanticism19.Robert Frost rejected ______ choosing ______ instead.A. the conventional poetic principles …the revolutionary wayB. he revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries —the old-fashioned way to be newC. the revolutionary principles …the romantic wayD. the romantic way—the revolutionary principles20.Which of the following is not written by Eugene O’Neill?______A. Beyond the Horizon and Anna ChristieB. The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape4C. Desire Under the Elms and The Great God DownD. Long Day’s Journey into Night and The Great Gatsby21.In the play The Hairy Ape, the major character Yank ______.A. has a sense of belonging nowhere, hence homelessness and rootlessnessB. is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early twentieth century in the UnitedStates onlyC. reflects the problem of modern man’s identityD. both A and C22.In his writings, Fitzgerald could present a panorama of the Jazz Age with a deep sight because______.A. He is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision.B. He joined the big party in the 1920s,partaking of the wealth, frivolity, temptations of the time.C. He stood aloof and kept a cold eye on the performance of his contemporaries.D. He stayed sober enough to see the corruptive nature of the society and the vanity fair.23.To Hemingway, man’s greatest achievement is to show ______.A. bravery before dangerB. grace under pressureC. encouragement under pressureD. optimism under pressure24.Which of the following is said of Hemingway’s heroes?______A. He is a lonely individual struggling against nature and the environment.B. He can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.C. In a world of chaos, he is doomed to a losing battle and failure in the end.D. both A and B25.A Rose for Emily is difficult to read because ______.A. the chronology of narration is displaced alternativelyB. there are too many characters whose relations are too complicatedC. its language is too symbolic and the dialogues are fragmentedD. none of the aboveⅣ.Interpretation(16%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answers on the Answer SheetPassage 1To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance off the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their5admonishing smile.The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are alsways inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort all her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy or a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected all the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.1.Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?2.According to the author, what relationship lies between man and nature?Passage 2In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.3.Who’s the writer of this poem? Of what school of poetry has the poem been regarded as the specimen?4.What object is treated in the poem? How does the poet bring it out?Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(14%)1.Give a brief analysis of the differences between the three realists: William D.Howells, Henry James and Mark Twain.2.Please give a brief comment on Hemingway’s heroes.6。
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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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英美文学试题答案KeysPart I Part I Explain the following terms briefly (30 points)1.classicism: a term used in literary criticism to describe critical doctrines that havetheir roots in ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and art. Works associated with Classicism typically exhibit restraint on the part of the author, unity of design and purpose, clarity, simplicity, logical organization, and respect for tradition.2.Imagism: An English and American poetry movement that flourished between1908 and 1907. The Imagists used precise, clearly presented images in their works.They also used common, every day speech and aimed for conciseness, concrete imagery, and the creation of new rhythms.3.Lost Generation: a term first used by Gertrude Stein to describe the post WorldWar I generation of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war.4.Metaphor: a figure of speech that expresses an idea through the image of anotherobject. Metaphors suggest the essence of the first object by identifying it with certain qualities of the second object.5.Realism: A nineteenth century European literary movement that sought to portrayfamiliar characters, situations, and settings in a realistic manner. This was done primarily by using an objective narrative point of view and through the buildup of accurate detail. The standard for success of any realistic work depends on how faithfully it transfers common experience into fictional form.6.Symbolism: the term refers to the use of one object to represent another.7. Renaissance: in the Renaissance Period, scholars began to emphasize thecapacities of human mind and the achievements of human culture. So humanism became the keynote of English Renaissance.8. Enlightenment: The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movementthroughout Western Europe in the 18th century. It was an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism. The enlighteners thought the chief means for bettering the society is enlightenment or education for the people.9. It is used to show the literary art possessing outstanding characteristics inconception, feeling, form and style after the First World War. It means cutting off history and sense of despair and loss. It refused to accept the traditional concept of value and all traditional ideological influences.10. Free verse: Free verse has no regular rhythm or line length and depends onnatural speech rhythms and the counterpoint of stressed and unstressed syllables.Part II Identify the following authors and give the title of the masterpiece by each. (20points)11. Christopher Marlowe: was the greatest playwright before Shakespeare and mostgifted of “University Wits”. <The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus>12. John Milton: the greatest writer of the seventeenth century. <Paradise Lost>,<Paradise Regained>, <Samson Agonistes>13. Henry Fielding: the greatest novelist of the 18th century. <The History of TomJones, a Foundling>14. George Gordon Byron: the representative of the second generation Romanticpoets. <Don Juan>, <Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage>.15. Charles Dickens: <Pickwick Papers>, <Oliver Twist>, <Dombey and Son>,<David Copperfield>, <Great Expectations>, <A T ale of Two Cities>16. Thomas Hardy: one of the greatest English novelist in Victoria period. <Tessof the D’Urbervilles>, <Jude the Obscure>.17. Thomas Jefferson: He was the drafter of <The Declaration of Independence>18. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mrs Stowe was an great American anti-slavery writerwho wrote <Uncle Tom’s Cabin>19. Mark Twain: one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists. <The Adventures of Tom Sawyer>, <The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn>20. Earnest Hemingway: American great writer in the early 20th century. <The Sun Also Rises>, <A Farewell to Arms>, <For Whom the Bell Tolls>, <The Old Man and the Sea>Part III Answer the following question briefly. (30 points)21. Give a brief account of the features of RomanticismIt has six prominent characteristics, which distinguish it from the so-called classic literature.a. the Romantic Movement is marked by a strong reaction and protest against the bondage of rule and custom.b. Romanticism returns to nature and to plain humanity for its material.c. It is marked by renewed interest in medieval ideals and literature.d. Its is marked by intense human sympathy and by a consequent understanding of the human heart.e. The Romantic Movement is the expression of indidual genius rather than established rules.f. Spencer, Shakespeare and Milton are inspiration of the Romantic Movement.22.Give a brief account of The Bronte Sisters.Outline: all talented and died young.Charlotte Bronte’s Masterpiece <Jane Eyre>Emily Bronte’s Masterpiece <Wuthering Heights>Anne Bronte’s <Agnes Grey>23.State the life, works and significance of Walt Whitman.Outline: Born on a farm in Long Island, New York. In 1838 he began editing his own weekly newspaper, the Long Islander. The publication of <Leaves of Grass> in 1855 marked the birth of truly American poetry, making him American’s greatest and original poets.Part IV essay-type question （20 points）Direcrtion: choose one of the following questions to answer24. Give a brief account of the literary trend at the end of the 19th century.a. Naturalism: which is developed out of realism and prevailed in Europeanliterature in the second half of the 19th century. Representatives were EmileZola, George Gissing.b. New-Romanticism: oppose the idea that life reflects life reality.Stevenson is the representative in novel writing.c. Aestheticism: fundamentally expresses the point os view that art isself-sufficient and has no reference life. Oscar Wilde is the representative.d. Decadence: opposes the democratic and socialist ideals with a slogan “artfor art’s sake”. Oscar Wilde is the representative.25. Set Shakespear’s plays in an chronological order and state the process ofdevelopment in his work.Outline:。
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美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一I.Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)1.C______was the first colony in American history.A. MassachusettsB. New JerseyC. VirginiaD.Georgia2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. Oneof his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD.Thomas Paine3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days tobeatits way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore atPlymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Titanic6. Melville’s novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyageinpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in NewEnglandfrom the 1830s to the Civil War.A.ModernismB.RationalismC.SentimentalismD.Transcendentalism8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status isnot determined economically.A. PuritanB. materialisticC. psychologicalD. religious10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towardsromance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influenceby eastern culture.A. T. S EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?DA. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeingclose friends.B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married agedminister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by __A_____.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Emily DickinsonD. Theodore Dreiser14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?CA. The Old Man and SeaB. A Farewell to ArmsC. Sound and FuryD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?DA. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism,individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.C. The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodoxreligious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.II.Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)Column A Column B( c ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost( e) 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain( i ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter( a ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson( h ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick(b ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway( d) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau( g ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson( j) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie( f ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott FitzgeraldIII.Define the following words within one phrase(2’×5=10’)1. free verse2. Ralph Waldo Emerson3. Mark Twain4. Benjamin Franklin5. Ezra PoundIV.Simple questions (5’×4=20’)1.What are Puritan thoughts?2.What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures?3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A” in The Scarlet Letter.4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry.V.Interpreting the following texts (45’)Text 1When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things.Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumesthe cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediatebalance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has itscunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter.There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.Questions1.Please use one phrase to summarize the above paragraph (2’)2.What are the two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving her home?(2’)3.Please find out the figures of speech (2’)4.What are the attractive forces mentioned in a big city? (4’)5.How are naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph? Illustrate yourpoints with examples (5’)Text 2Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me --The Carriage held but just Ourselves --And Immortality.We slowly drove -- He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility –We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess -- in the Ring --We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --We passed the Setting Sun –…Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses' HeadsWere toward Eternity –Questions:1.Identify the poet and the title of this poem? (2’)2.Explain the underlined words (4’)3.What are the implications of “the School”, “the fields of Gazing Grain”, “the SettingSun”? (3’)4.How do you understand “Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet / Feelsshorter than the Day” ? (3’)5.What are the speaker’s opinions about death? (3’)Text 3Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth.Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Questions:1.Please examine the poetic form (rhyme and meter) (2’)2.Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one does thespeaker take? (3’)3.How do you understand the word “sigh”? (4’)4.What might the two roads stand for in the speaker’s mind? (4’)5.What is the theme of this poem? (2’)参考答案I.Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)1. _C___2._B__3.__A__4.__B__5.__C___6.__D_7.__D__8._A__9.__B__ 10.__B___11._C__ 12.__D__ 13._A_ 14._C __ 15._D__II.Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)1.( c )2.( e )3.( i )4.( a )5.( h )6.( b )7.( d )8.( g )9.(j ) 10.( f )III.Define the following words within one phrase (2’×5=10’)(Any related information can be given marks)1. poetry without a fived beat or regular rhyme scheme, produced by Walt Whitman2. is the representative of transcedentalists, who believes in individualism and self-reliance and brings transcendentalism to New England3．is a humorist and satirist, who uses broad humor and biting social satire4．is one of Thoreau’s masterpieces, which is the result of the author’s two years ofliving near Walden lake.5. is regarded as the classical poem of imagist poetry by Ezra Pound, conveying thetheme of the speaker’s sudden pleasure of finding some beautiful faces in the subwayIV.Simple Questions (5’×4=20’) (Answers should be to the points. 1 score for time, 2 scores for features and 1 score for representative figures when defining theliterary terms)a)Puritan thoughts: to make pure their religious beliefs and practices, to restoresimplicity, to live a hard and disciplined life and oppose pleasure and arts.b)Transcendentalism is the climax of American Romanticism.First, the Transcendentalist placed emphasis on spirit, or the oversoul, as the mostimportant thing in the universe.Secondly, Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual.Thirdly, the Transcendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic ofthe spirit.3. a. The letter’s meaning shifts as time passes. Originally intended to mark Hester asan adulterer, the “A”eventually comes to stand for “Able”or“Angel”.b. Besides Hester, Dimmesdale also ironed the letter A on his body, which provokedhis self-consciousness and showed his repent for what he did.c. Pearl, their baby, wore a green letter a in a piece of seaweed while playing on thebeach. This green letter A symbolizes vitality or new life, and also suggests herinheritance from her mother.4. a. direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）,b. exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）,c. the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）.V.Interpreting the following texts (45’)Text 11. The attraction of big city (2’)2. One is to fall into the saving hands and becomes better; secondly, she may admit the moral value of big city and becomes worse. (2’)3. Simile, metaphor and synecdoche (2’)4. The gleam of lights, a blare of sound, a roar of life, and a vast array of humanhives (4’)5. Naturalist attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presentingcharacters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity. In this novel, the major female character Carrie Meeber is deeply influenced by the present environment and heredity, which leads to the result of her dynamic character.(5’) (the features of naturalism 3 scores, examples2 scores)Text 21. Emily Dickinson and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”(2’)2. He: death; civility: politeness; Recess: break Surmised: guessed (4’)3. They represent three stages of life. The school is the childhood and young age; the fields of gazing grain refers to the mature period and the setting sun the old age, that is the end of one’s life. (3’)4. Because this day is towards death, immortal and eternal (3’)5. Death is immortality (3’)Text 31. It is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymed abaab.(2’)2. Similarities: both of the roads are beautiful (fair)Differences: one is quiet and grassy, less-traveled; the other is trodden by many people and flatHe took the less-travelled road (3’)3. The word “sigh”is a tricky word. Because sigh can be interpreted into nostalgic relief or regret. If it is the relief sigh, then the difference means the speaker feels glad with the road he took. If it is the regret sigh, then the difference would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. Hence, sigh is ambigous here for the speaker is not showing whether his choice is right or wrong. (4’)4. The real road; the life road and the road in career (4’)5.Choice is inevitable but you never know what your choice will mean until you havelived it. This is also the theme of the poem. (2’)。
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美国文学（本科）试题5I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases andput your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established atJamestown, Virginia in .2. became the first American writer.3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated muchof the early American writing.4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of and Revolution.5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece .6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared.7. The signing of symbolized the birth of an independent American nation.8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was .9. Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win international fame.10. is the summit of American Romanticism.11. With the publication of Emerson’s in 1836,American Romanticism reached its summit.12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel .13.Henry James’ major fictional theme is .14. brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into existence.15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called .16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by .17. The term The Gilded Age is given by to describe the post-civil war years.18. Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is .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. Mark Twain11. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poem The River-Merchant’sWife: A Letter written by .A. T. S. EliotB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD. Carl Sandburg12. The imagist poets followed three principles, they are , direct treatment and economy ofexpression.A. blank verseB. rhythmC. free verseD. common speech13. Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?A. Ernest HemingwayB. Ezra PoundC. F. S. FitzgeraldD. Emily Dickinson14. Who was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s?A. Ernest HemingwayB. Ezra PoundC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald15. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and of the early settlements.A. journalsB. poetryC. dramaD. folklores16. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by .A. Samuel JohnsonB. Noah WebsterC. Daniel WebsterD. Daniel Defoe17. Walden is written by .A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. PoeD. 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. Which 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 in America?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 of such Americanwriters 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, became the major trend in the 70sand 80s of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism30. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortestpoem written by .A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD. Wallace StevensIII. Comment on the following poems. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningby: Robert FrostWhose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The 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.1. I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died—by: Emily DickinsonI heard a Fly buzz —when I died —The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air —Between the Heaves of Storm —The Eyes around — had wrung them dry —And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset —when the King Be witnessed —in the Room —I willed my Keepsakes —Signed away What portion of me beAssignable —and then it was There interposed a Fly —With Blue —uncertain stumbling Buzz —Between the light —and me —And then the Windows failed — and thenI could not see to see —IV. Give brief answers to the following and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the Romantic Period is called “the American Renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are.2. How does Sister Carrie embody Dreiser’I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases andput your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. 16072. John Smith3. Puritan4. Reason5. The Autobiography6. Common Sense7. The Declaration of Independence8. Philip Freneau 9. Sketch Book 10. Transcendentalism11. Nature 12. The Scarlet Letter 13. international theme 14. The civil war15. free verse 16. Emily Dickinson 17. Mark Twain18. Sister Carrie 19. Ezra Pound 20. Ernest HemingwayII. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or 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 --- 5: A C A B D 6 --- 10: C D B C A11 ---15:C B D C A 16 --- 20: B B C A A21 ---25: B B C C D 26 --- 30: C C A C CIII. Comment on the following poems. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was Frost's favorite of his own poems and Frost in a letter to Louis Untermeyer called it "my best bid for remembrance."This poem illustrates many of the qualities most characteristic of Frost, including the attention to natural detail, the relationship between humans and nature, and the strong theme suggested by individual lines. The speaker in the poem, a traveler by horse on the darkest night of the year, stops to watch a woods filling up with snow. He thinks the owner of the woods is someone who lives in the village and will not see him stopping there. While he is attracted by the beauty of the woods and nature, he is reminded by his little horse and realizes that he has obligations which pull him away from the lure of nature. The speaker describes the beauty and temptation of the woods as “lovely, dark and deep,” but reminds himself that he must not remain there, because he has “promises to keep,” and a long journey ahead of him. He has to complete his obligations and then make his aspirations to be realized. Through the symbolic woods and horse, we also get to know that the speaker has strong self-awareness and self-discipline.In another way, the poem can be analyzed from the perspective of aspiration and realization. Aspiration is something to be worked at. We enjoy the fruit of our realization only when we reach our destination. But from the spiritual point of view, we notice something else that is the transformation of aspiration and realization. Today's aspiration transforms itself into tomorrow's realization. Again, tomorrow's realization is the pathfinder of a higher and deeper goal. There is no end to our realization, and there is no end of our aspiration as long as you are alive. Our journey is eternal, and the road that we are taking on is also eternal. All aspirations become realization till the end of one’s life.The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward Fitzgerald. Each verse (save the last) follows an a-a-b-a rhyming scheme, with the following verse's a's rhyming with that verse's b, which is a chain rhyme. Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD.2. The poetess is watching her own death and recording the process. Instead of seeing God and hearing the songs of angels yearned for by Puritans upon death she heard a fly buzz, which is really ironic.Fly: sets off the stillness in the room;blocks off the light (from heaven);suggests a coming decadence→ the speaker loses the opportunity of gaining immortality after deathThe fly plays an important role in the speaker’s experience of death. The poem is, in part, about “the conflict between preconception and perception.” The person on his or her deathbed shifts perspective from “the ritual of dying” to “the fact of death.” The fly, by interrupting the dying speaker with its “Blue — uncertain stumbling Buzz —” obliterates his or her false notions of death. The sound of the fly represents “the last conscious link with reality.” The poem lacks any hint of a life after death.IV. Give brief answers to the following and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1.(1) The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, giving birthto the spectacular outburst of romantic feeling.(2) The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation.(3) Taking foreign influence in consideration, the great works of American writers still carriedtypically American romantic color.(4) The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy. Transcendentalism stresses man’scapacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses.2.(1) In this novel, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness oflife and attacking the conventional moral standards.(2) The novel best embodies his naturalistic belief that while men are controlled by heredity,instinct and chance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence.(3) To Sister Carrie, the world is cold and harsh. Alone, helpless, she moves along like amechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities first offered by Drouet, and then by Hurstwood. A feather in the wind, she was totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend, still less to say control. The famous picture of Carrie sitting in a rocking chair in her room in the evening, rocking back and forth, is a picture of Carrie’s drifting with the tide. She has no control, no freedom of will. 2007—2008学年度第二期《美国文学史及作品选读》考试A卷参考答案命题人：王琪、丁华良I: Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.Bryant2. frontier saga3. transcendentalist4. Moby Dick5. Sketch Book6.Walden7. Longfellow8. Civil War9. Howells 10. free verse11.Henry James 12. Martin Eden 13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound 15. The Great Gatsby 16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck 18. Mark Twain19. Environment 20. American CrisisII: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1 --- 5: B B D A B 6 --- 10: D D A C D11 ---15: A D B C D 16 --- 20: B D B D C21 --- 25: C B B A C 26 --- 30: C B B D AIII. Read the poems and answer the questions that follow. (20%)Poem 11.1 Who wrote this poem? (1%)Emily Dickinson.1.2 What is the poet or the speaker in the poem watching and recording? (1%)Apparently the woman tells the story of how she is busily going about her day when a polite gentleman by the name of Death arrives in his carriage to take her out for a ride, but, in reality, the speaker is watching and recording her own funeral.1.3 What is death compared to in the poem? (1%)Death is compared to a polite gentleman or polite wooer.1.4 What is depicted in the 3rd stanza? How is it related to the whole poem? (2%)Death takes the woman on a leisurely ride to the grave and beyond, passing playing children, wheat fields, and the setting sun, which indicate the three periods of a day, morning, noon and evening and symbolize the three stages of human life — childhood, middle age and old age.1.5 What is depicted in the 4th stanza? (1%)In this stanza, the speaker describes her dead body and what is wearing. She feels cold because it is evening now and dew drops are forming and she is not wearing much, but more probably it is because she is dead and blood circulation in her body has stopped.1.6 What does the poet or the speaker in the poem think of eternity? (2%)The speaker is not quite sure whether there will be eternity after death since she just surmises that “the Horses’ Heads / wer e toward Eternity —”.1.7 What is the attitude of the poet or the speaker in the poem towards death? (2%)The woman describes their journey with the casual ease one might use to recount a typical Sunday drive. She treats death light-heartedly for she believes that death is a necessary step towards eternity or immortality. Poem 22.1 Who wrote this poem? (1%)Edgar Allan Poe.2.2 What is the theme of the poem? (2%)In the poem, Poe examines a theme which he examines in many of his works: the death of a beautiful woman. It is a poem written in memory of his deceased young wife Virginia Clemm.2.3 What is the mood of the poem? (1%)The poem is permeated with melancholy.2.4 How doe s the poem coincide with Poe’s poetics or theory of poetry writing? (3%)The poem coincides with Poe’s poetics. It is readable at one sitting. In the poem, Poe examines a theme which he examines in many of his works: the death of a beautiful woman, which, according to him, is “unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” The poem is permeated with melancholy as he believes “melancholy is the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.” And it is rhythmic.2.5What makes you think the poem reads like a fairy tale? (3%)The poem has got the elements of a fairy tale.1)It has the beginning of a fairy tale (1st stanza).2)The couple's love originated from their childhood.3)Annabel Lee died because "the angels" envied the couple's great love and, with a cold wind, they killedAnnabel Lee, who was then carried away and buried in a sepulchre in the kingdom by the sea.4)However, unlike The Raven, in which the narrator believes he will "nevermore" be reunited with his love,Annabel Lee says the two will be together again.And neither the angels in heaven above，Nor the demons down under the sea，Can ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee.5)On moonlit nights, the speaker will go and lie down by the side of his deceased young wifeIn the sepulchre there by the sea，In her tomb by the side of the sea.The poem reads like a fairy tale.IV. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of local color, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things was immediately observable; the dialects, customs, sights, and sounds of regional America. Bret Harte was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity, presenting stories of western mining towns with colorful gamblers, outlaws, and scandalous women. Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mark Twain provided regional stories andtales of the life of America’s Westerners, Southerners, and Easterners. Local color fiction reached its peak of popularity in the 1880s, but by the turn of the century it had begun to decline.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier become successful. Can you tell why?This is due to a number of reasons:1) Theodore Dreiser based the novel on the life of his sister Emma. In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Canada with a married man who had stolen money from his employer. Another sister of his was a prostitute.2) Like Sister Carrie who went to Chicago at the age of 18, Dreiser himself left home at age 15 for Chicago and started to support himself, doing menial jobs. He understood perfectly well how hard life was for a girl like Sister Carrie in a big city.3) His sympathy for Sister Carrie is related to his naturalistic beliefs. The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the envir onment, that religious “truth” were illusory, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion in death. As a pioneer of naturalism in American literature, Dreiser wrote novels reflecting his mechanistic view of life, a concept that held humanity as the victim of such ungovernable forces as economics, biology, society, and even chance. In his works, conventional morality is unimportant, consciously virtuous behavior having little to do with material success and happiness. So Sister Carrie is not to be blamed for her sin of life.4) His sympathy for Sister Carrie also shows the influence of the teachings of Charles Darwin----natural selection and the survival of the fittest and that of the teachings of Herbert Spencer----social Darwinism. In this novel, Sister Carrie is portrayed as an example of the survival of the fittest in an indifferent world.。