《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷)
美国文学期末考试试卷
2012-2013学年第二学期《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）专业：英语年级：2010级考试方式：闭卷学分：2 考试时间：110分钟I．Multiple Choices(每小题 1分，共20分)Directions: Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question.II．Explain the Following Literary Terms Briefly (每小题7分，共14分) Directions: Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.Local ColorismTranscendentalismIII．Identification of Fragments (每小题7分，共21分)Directions: Please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly comment on it in English. Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.23. “…That‟s right.‟ He said; …I‟m no good now. I was all right. I had money. I‟m going to quit this,‟ and, with death in his heart, he started down toward the Bowery. People had turned on the gas before and died; why shouldn‟t he? He remembered a lodging house where there were little, close rooms, with gas-jet in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents. Then he remembered that he had no fifteen cents.”25. “Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why that would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.24. “…Mr. Gatz, I thought you might want to take the body West.‟He shook his head. …Jimmy always liked it better down East. He rose up to his position in the East. Were you a friend of my boy‟s, Mr. -?‟…We were close friends.‟…He had a big future before him, you know. He was only a young man, but he had a lot of brain power here.”25. “Two were lying open-eyed in sawdust; a third pumped blood down the dress of the main one- the woman schoolteacher bragged about, the one he said made fine ink, damn good soup, pressed his collars they way he liked besides having at least ten breeding years left.IV. Short Essay Questions(每小题10分，共 30 分)Directions: Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.V．Appreciating a Literary Work(计 15 分)Directions: In this part, you are required to write a commentary paper in no less than 100 words.Please write it on the Answer Sheet.。
美国文学期末考试复习
美国文学期末考试复习Part one: Multiple choices. (25题，每题2分，共50分)1 "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote from __D__’s writings.A. Walt WhitmanB. Henry David ThoreauC. Herman MelvilleD. Ralph Waldo Emerson2 Which of Hemingway’s novels describes the drifting漂流life of American exiles流亡者in Europe? BA. The Sun Also Rises.B. A Farewell to Arms.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls.D. The Old Man and the Sea.3 The theme of ___C____ may be well stated as "It sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self inrelation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death."A. Edgar Allan Poe’s "To Helen"B. Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken"C. Walt Whitman’s "Song of Myself" 惠特曼〔1819-1892，美国诗人〕。
D. Emily Dickenson’s "Because I could not stop for Death"4 The American Puritanism清教as a cultural heritage遗产benefited the Americans in ___A____.A. strengthening their moral valuesB. weakening their religious faithC. knowing truth intuitivelyD. developing their science and technology5 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ___C___.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism6 "Strange names were over the doors -strange faces at the windows -every thing was strange. His mindnow began to misgive使害怕him, that both he and the world around him were bewitched. Surely this was his native village, which he had left but the day before." The above passage is taken from __A____.A. Irving’s "Rip Van Winkle"B. Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown"C. James’ "Daisy Miller"D. Hemingway’s "Indian Camp"7 According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "___A____" finally obtainedthe meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester’s efforts.A. adulteryB. arroganceC. accomplishmentD. agony8 As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by ___B____.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson9 In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated荒废, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious豪华的hotel room before she boards a ship for ___B____.A. New YorkB. LondonC. ParisD, Geneva10 Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain? CA. The Call of the WildB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. Jumping Frog11 “”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola. BA. RealismB. NaturalismC. TranscendentalismD. Impressionism12 The Cop and the Anthem is written by . AA. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain13 An American Dictionary of the English Language waspublished in 1828 by . BA. Samuel JohnsonB. Noah WebsterC. Daniel WebsterD. Daniel Defoe14 Walden is written by . BA. EmersonB. ThoreauC. PoeD. Hawthorne15 American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid缺乏of faith and alienated疏远from the 。
美国文学期末考试问答题及答案
1.What is Emerson’s attitude towards charity? Why does he holdsuch an attitude?The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.Not all charity mean goodness.One must explore if it be goodness.If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy,that shall not pass,One’s goodness must have some edge to it,else it is none.2.According to the poem “A Psalm of Life”, how should our lives beled to overcome the fact that each day brings us nearer to death? According to these sentences“Be not like dumb, driven cattle!Be a hero in the strife!”“Act, -act in the living Present!Heart within, and God o'er head!”we can see the speaker is a man of action, always optimistic and cheerful, trying to achieve as much as possible in the short span of life.We should work harder and live happier.Llife is not a dream, but very real, and urges us to live it to the fullest. The purpose of life is to do something. Our own individual time on earth is limited and will pass very quickly, we should try to achieve sth on earth and leave behind something.3.Do you think the narrator and his listener ever suspect thepresence of the humor of the story in “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”? Why? How do you interpret their interactions?The narrator and his listener never noticed or suspected the presence of humor.During the intercourse the narrator went vigorously on his monotonous narrative without a little smiling talking about the animals and the things like while the listener felt rather puzzled or bothered by his stories.It seemed to be kind of coarse things. So the two different scenes go on separately without a intersection.And their interaction was a complete failure according toour common sense about communication.But it in this sense produced the effect of humor which can be tasted by our readers due to the skills adopted by Mark Twain .4.What does the title of the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” standfor?"Desire" is in fact a streetcar's name in America,but in this drama,it alludes the life of Blanche who indulging herself in desire and lies.There is an actual streetcar named “Desire” that Blanche takes on her way to the Kowalskis’. Which brings us nicely into our discussion of the metaphorical meaning of the title .Blanche is literally brought to the Kowalski place by “Desire,” but she is also brought there by desire; her sexual escapeds in Laurel ruined her reputation and drove her out of town.Desire.then Cemeterird , then Elysian Fields.Sex,death,afterlife.It’s like a linear progression.Sec leads to death,or at least some heavy-duty wreckage. Blanche herself seems to recognize some sort of connection here with this line, one that is key to understanding the role that desire plays in Streetcar: “Death, death was as close as you are. The opposite is desire” . Blanche is somehow under the impression that sex is her escape from death. She turned to sex to comfort herself after her husband died, and after her relatives passedaway one by one.5.In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, the old waiter said to theyounger waiter: “We are of two different kinds.” In what way do you think they are different?The two waiters represent two contrasting attitudes towards life. The young waiter tends to be selfish and confident. He is fully confident of his marriage and work, but he does not know that all these are based on his youth, which is not reliable since it is temporary. He lives in nada, of which he is not aware at all. He lives in a state of ignorance, muddling along. We can say that he is physically alive but spiritually dead. The old waiter tends to be sympathetic and less confident. He wants to help other lonely people who have lost their beliefs, although the only thing he can offer them is a decent place as a refuge from the disorderly, dark, and meaningless world. He is fully aware of the nihilistic life of modern men, therefore, he faces such a meaningless life with courage, endurance, and dignity by seeking order, code, and meaning of life in his heart.6.What is speaker’s reaction to modern America in “ASupermarket in California”?"A Supermarket in California" doesn't use the word "America" until the end of the poem, but that doesn't mean this one's not all about our fair nation. Ginsberg imagines an America that fits a very 1950s ideal: blue automobiles in driveways of suburban homes, whole families shopping together. The speaker feels like an outsider in this America, which is all about the things you can buy; he conjures up Whitman who, he hopes, represents a "lost America of love," which was more about love than about things. But in the last line of the poem, the speaker calls all this into question: was there really ever an "America of love"? Or, like Walt Whitman, is this all a fantasy? 7.How is the egg in “The Triumph of the Egg”used to unify thenarrative elements?In the whole story of the article,the checked destiny of eggs,surly,is the main clue of all the episodes of the whole story,also,eggs reflect changes of father,mother and I.Chicken raising represents father’s starting pursuing his dream.Then chickens become sick and die constantly,making father meet troubles and can not control his own life.Grotesques somewhat equals to distorted concept. The dreadful circle ,shows the abnormal relations between egg and chicken, people and their generation.Egg trick reveals father’s desire to be respected, but the failure finally break his dream .In the end,father lay the egg, close the restaurant and go to bed ,shows that he finally decides to give up.。
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answerson the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1.The publication of ______ established Emersonas the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.2.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were thePuritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.3.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inaugurationof President John F. Kennedy.4.Jack London’s masterwork _________ issomewhat autobiographical.5.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burningwith a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a newmovement in poetry which he called the “________”movement.7.“The Custom House” is an introductory note tothe novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “AmericanDream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure ofAmerican poetry. His innovation first of all lies inhis use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10.In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literaturefor his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.11.In American literary history, ________ is called “theRecluse of Amherst” since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short storywritten by _______.13._______ launched two kinds of immensely popularstories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14.The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, themost significant American poem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short storywritten by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____,the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves ofGrass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life3.Which of the following is Not one of themain ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Reliance4.In Hawthorne’s novel s and short stories,intellectuals usually appear as _____.A.saviorsB. villainsC.commentatorsD. observers5.In American literature, escaping from thesociety and returning to nature is a commonsubject. 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 ofHuckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leatherstocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden6.Which of the following is Not optimisticabout human nature? .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7.Washington Irving was best known for hisfamous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of SleepyHollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip VanWinkle8.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poemson various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A.ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9.Henry James is mostly concerned with ______in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10.______ is called by Hemingway the one fromwhich “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern theAmerican _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12.One of Mark Twain’s contributions toAmerican literature is that he made ______ an accepted standard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only____ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound gothis inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Notwon the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense thathis poems are mainly concerned about the _____.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17.The works of _______ reveal the misery of themigrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “Soyou are the little woman who wrote the book that start ed this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction aworld of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“Let’s portray man and w oman in a way thatwe meet them in our real life.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1.Local color fiction2.Captain John Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1.What’s the differ ence between Walt Whitmanand Emily Dickinson?2.What’s the symbolic significance of TheScarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. 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 without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2.The publication of Nature established ______ asthe most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were thePuritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder ofpsychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.5.Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ putmost of himself.6.The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliothelped to establish 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 poem written by _____.8.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises,________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory noteto the novel _______.10.Among the works attacking the “AmericanDream”, __________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 abaleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literaryindependence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________,acollection of essays, sketches and tales, marks the beginning of American romanticism.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short storywritten by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one thatwould best complete the statement. Put youranswers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point foreach)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concernedWhitman.A.individualismB. freedomC.democracyD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speechentitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “O ur Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar4.The Transcendentalists believe that, first,nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is ______.A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories,intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers6.In American literature, escaping from thesociety 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 ofHuckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leather-Stocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden7.“I celebrate myse lf, 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. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8.Which of the following is Not optimisticabout human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9.Which of the following statements aboutThe Scarlet Letter is Not true? _____.A.It explores man’s never-ending search forthe satisfaction of materialistic desires.B.It relates the conflicts between the societyand the individual.C.It presents a psychological analysis of theinward tensions of the characters.D.It is about the effect of sin on the peopleinvolved and the society as a whole.10.Washington Irving was best known for hisfamous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of SleepyHollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip VanWinkle11.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems onvarious aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A.ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary workswith a ____ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 hasbeen referred to as _____.A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14.______ is called by Hemingway the one fromwhich “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15.The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fictionreveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction aworld of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James17.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter “A”which originally stands for “_____”, finally obtainsthe meaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester’s efforts.A.arroganceB. adulteryC.agonyD. accomplishment18.During the period after the Civil War, theAmerican society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as _____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19.Robert Frost is generally considered to be aregional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _____.A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20.William Faulkner’s works mainly concernthe American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize forLiterature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner22.“In a Station of the Metro” is regarded bycritics as a classic specimen of _____.A. the imagist poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the transcendental poetry23.Fitzgerald’s fictional w orld is the bestembodiment of the spirit of ______.A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical PeriodC. the Jazz AgeD. the Romantic Period24._____ usually was regarded as the first Americanwriter.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25.The works of _______ reveal the misery of themigrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26._______ is NOT a fictional character in The ScarletLetter.A.PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inaugurationof President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way thatwe meet them in our real life.” This may be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “Soyou are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen30.All his novels reveal that, as time went on,Mark Twain became increasingly ______.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth”(by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1.American Romanticism.2.Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis”introduced the best poet, ______, to appear in America up to that time.2.James Fennimore Cooper launched two kindsof immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and ______.3.Ralph Emerson was recognized throughouthis life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4.Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendouschronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.5.In the early 19th century, Washington Irvingwrote ______ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond.7.After his death, ______ became the only Americanto be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.8.The American Romantic period stretchesfrom the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the ______.9.The arbiter of 19th century literary realism inAmerica was ______.10.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is nowcalled ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.11.______ is considered the founder of psychologicalrealism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.12.______ is the novel into which Jack London putmost of himself.13.O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a youngcouple who sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other. 14.______ was the leader of a new movement in poetrywhich he called the “Imagist” movement.15.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his bestnovel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16.Ernest Hemingway’s stature as a writer wasconfirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17.______ was the foremost novelist of the AmericanDepression of the 1930s.18.William Faulkner considered __________ to be “thefirst truly A merican writer”.19.As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Painewas entitled ______.II. 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.Moby Dick was dedicated to ____.A. RalphEmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. HenryThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2.____ was Mark Twain’s masterpiece fromwhich, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3.____ usually was regarded as the first Americanwriter.A. EmilyBradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. EmilyDickinsonD. John Smith4.Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.A. AmericanEnlightenment B. Sugar ActC. ChartistmovementD. Romanticist5.Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that is, a fir mbelief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call ____.A. Age ofEvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age ofRomanticism D.Age of Regionalism6.As a literary and philosophical movement, ____flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A.modernismB. rationalismC.sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7.____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The AmericanScholar B. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity SchoolAddress D. Civil Disobedience8.There is a good reason to state that NewEngland Transcendentalism was actually ____ on the Puritan soil.A.RomanticismB. SymbolismC.MysticismD. Rationalism9.American literature produced only onefemale poet during the 19th century. This was ____.A. AnneBradstreetB. Jane AustenC. EmilyDickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10.Which of the following statements about O.Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slangand colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11.The main theme of ____’s The Art of Fictionreveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. HenryJamesB. WilliamHowellsC. MarkTwainD. O. Henry12.Which of the following does NOT have anaturalist tendency?A. StephanCraneB. Frank NorrisC. JackLondonD. Walt Whitman13.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, thenarrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14.Which of the following is NOT optimistic abouthuman nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems onvarious aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16.Of the following American writers, _____ had wonthe Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So youare the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” The book refers to ____.A.The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn B. BelovedB.Pride andPrejudiceD. Uncle Tom’s Cabin18.The works of _____ reveals the misery of themigrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concernedWhitman.A.individualismB. freedomC.democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction aworld of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21.During the period after the Civil War, theAmerican society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as ____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22.“The Custom-House” is an introductory note to_____.A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC.The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23.When we say that a poor young man from theWest tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably dis cussing ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “____”, devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25.Which one of the following statements is NOTtrue of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers26.The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in____.A. England during World WarIB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. PuritanAmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27.Which statement is NOT true of the Americannaturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such assex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of humanwill.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28.____ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesmanof the Jazz Age.A. ErnestHemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. WilliamFaulknerD. John Steinbeck29.____, one of America’s greatest playwrights, wonthe Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor. Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Lon g Day’s Journey into Night.A. ArthurMillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. BernardMalamudD. Eugene O’Neill30.Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important positionin American literature as a poet and a ____.A. short storywriterB. novelistC.dramatistD. translatorIII. 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 bestknown writers of local color.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin,Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier become successful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案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. Howells10. free verse11.Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. American CrisisII: Each of the following statements below isfollowed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1point for each)1 --- 5: B B D AB 6 --- 10: D D AC D11 ---15: A D B CD 16 --- 20:B D B D C21 --- 25: C B B AC 26 --- 30:C B BD AIII. 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 peakof 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 environment, 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 novelsreflecting his mechanistic view of life, a concept that held humanity as the victim of such ungovernable forces as economics, biology, society, and evenchance. In his works, conventional morality isunimportant, 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 andthat 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.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the following statements withproper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.Ralph Emerson’s truest disciple was ______,who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories.2.On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’sfamous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.3.______ has been called the “Father of AmericanPoetry”.4.“To a Waterfowl” is perhaps the peak of ______’swork, which has been called by an English。
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湖州师范学院外国语学院2008— 2009 学年第二学期《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）适用班级050511-13 考试时间120 分钟学院班级学号姓名题号一二三四五六七八九十总分分数得分I. Write the names of the authors.(10%)1.Leaves of Grass ( )2.Raven ( )3.Anecdote of the Jar ( )4.The Octopus ( )5.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )6. A Rose for Emily ( )7.Arrowsmith ( )8.Of Mice and Men ( )9.The Weary Blues ( )10.The Streetcar Named Desire ( )得分II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%）1.Emily Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual and paysattention to only one region “____________”. Her poetry characterizeswith the concise, direct and simple diction and syntax.2.Simply ______________ means the use of regional detail in a literaryor artistic work.The name is given especially to a kind of Americanliterature that in its most characteristic form made its appearance justafter the Civil War and for nearly three decades was the single mostpopular form of American literature.3.Martin Eden, one of London's most important books, is this __________account of a young sailor who struggles to improve himself and achieveseventual success as a writer, but grows disenchanted with fame andwealth. It represents both an indictment of the American dream and animportant reflection on London's own background and career.4.Modernism in literature is not easily summarized, but the key elementsare experimentation, __________, individualism and a stress on thecerebral rather than emotive aspects.5.The __________ manifesto came out in 1912 showed three poeticprinciples: direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）,exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）,the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of ametronome（free verse form and music）.6.In The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells us a story of anold Cuban fisherman, __________, who is a perfectionist when it comesto fishing.7.William Faulkner wrote works of psychological drama and emotionaldepth, typically with long serpentine prose and high,meticulously-chosen diction, also using groundbreaking literary devicessuch as stream of consciousness, ______________, and time-shiftswithin narrative.8.Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literaturein __________ for his vigorous and graphic art of description and hisability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.9.____________ was more than just a literary movement: it includedracial consciousness, "the back to Africa" movement led by MarcusGarvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz,spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others. It was a hugeleap for black liberation and culture.10.____________ received the Pulitzer Prize four times and received theNobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for the power, honesty and deep-feltemotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept oftragedy, making him the first US dramatist to do so.得分III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the mostappropriate answer. （20%）1. Mark Twain created, in____________, a masterpiece of Americanrealism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SawyerC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD. The Gilded Age2. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham3. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism4. 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 Independence5. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab6. __________, 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"7. 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 above8. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished arevolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. Thomas Stearns EliotD. James JoyceE. all of the above9. __________ tells the Joad family's life from the time they were evictedfrom 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 Tolls10. _________ wrote about the society in the South by inventing familieswhich represented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. John Steinbeck得分IV. Identify the author and the title of the work from which each ofthe following excerpts is taken. And then answer the question aftereach excerpt. (20%)Passage 1"I celebrate myself, and sing myself.And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. "The authorThe title of the workQuestion: What is the author celebrating?Passage 2CABOT:The farm needs a son.ABBIE:I need a son.CABOT:Ay-eh. Sometimes ye air the farm an’ sometimes the farm be yew.That’s why I clove t’ ye in my lonesomeness. (A pause. He poundshis knee with his fist.) Me an’ the farm has got t’ beget a son! ABBIE:Ye’d best go t’ sleep. Ye’re gittin’ thin’s all mixed.CABOT:(with an impatient gesture) No, I hain’t. My mind’s clear’s a well.Ye don’t know me, that’s it. (He stares hopelessly at the floor.) ABBIE:(indifferently) Mebbe.…………ABBIE:(at last—painfully) Ye shouldn’t, Eben—ye shouldn’t—I’d make ye happy!EBEN:(harshly) I don’t want t’ be happy—from yew!ABBIE:(helplessly) Ye do, Eben! Ye do! Why d’ye lie?EBEN:(viciously) I don’t take t’ ye, I tell ye! I hate the sight o’ ye! ABBIE:(with an uncertain troubled laugh) Waal, I kissed ye anyways—an’ye kissed back—yer lips was burnin’—ye can’t lie’bout that!(intensely) If ye don’t care, why did ye kiss me back—why was yerlips burnin’?The authorThe title of the workQuestion: The second conversation in the above excerpt takes place immediately after the first one. What do you think is Abbie’s real intention of showing affection to Eben?Passage 3“Since then-- ’tis Centuries--and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses’ HeadsWere toward Eternity—”The authorThe title of the workQuestion: What is the implication of this final stanza?Passage 4They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . .The authorThe title of the workQuestion: What is the author' s attitude toward such persons as Tom andDaisy?Passage 5Lo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!The authorThe title of the workQuestion: Comment on the beauty of this poem.得分V. Answer the following questions briefly.（20%）1. Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”:（1）What realistic elements can you find in this story? (5%)（2）What role does language play in the story? (5%)2.What is the Lost Generation? (10%)得分VI. Answer ONE of the following questions.（20%）1.Analyze An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.2. Analyze William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.。
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Mid-term Examination of AmericanLiterature满分：100分考试时间：2小时ⅠFind out the match from column B for each item in column A. (1*10=10%)1. Edgar Allan Poe a. A Forest Hymn2. Walt Whitman b. Walden3. Nathaniel Hawthorne c. Journey from Philadelphia to New Y ork4. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Nature.5. Henry David Thoreau e. Leaves of Grass6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellows f. The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended7. William Cullen Bryant g. Poor Richard‟s Almanac8. Jonathan Edwards h. V oice of the Night9. Benjamin Franklin i. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque10. Philip Freneau j. The Scarlet LetterⅡDecide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). (1*10=10=10%)( ) 1.The Calvinist doctrine of "original sin" exerted great influence up Hawthorne.( ) 2.To Hawthorne sin will get punished, one way or another.( ) 3.Emily Dickinson didn't like using capital letters where small ones are needed.( ) 4.Walt Whitman was regarded as the Zenith in American romantic poetry.( ) 5.Dickinson was original. She never imitated others.( ) 6.Allan Poe defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.( ) 7.According to Dickinson, death means immortality.( ) 8.Emily Dickinson was regarded as the forerunner of symbolism.( ) 9.Allan Poe advocated "pure" poetry.( ) 10. Nathaniel.Hawthorne was a symbolic writer in some sense.ⅢChoose the best answer. (1*20=20%)1. It is on his____________ that Washington Irving‟s fame mainly rested.A. childhood recollectionsB. sketches about his European toursC. early poetryD.tales about America2. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “____________________”.A. the English RenaissanceB. the Second RenaissanceC. the American RenaissanceD. the Salem Renaissance3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________.A. nature, man and the universeB. the relationship between man and womanC. the development of Romanticism in American literatureD. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism4. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is NOT right?A. It‟s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.B. It‟s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.C. It‟s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the maincharacters and the people in general.D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.5. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered____________.A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.B. an adventurous exploration into man‟s relationship with natureC. a simple whaling tale or sea adventureD. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty6. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”A. free verseB. blank verseC. alliterationD. end rhyming7. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson‟s poems about nature?A. In them, she expressed her general affirmation about the relationship between man andnature.B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man andnature.C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature‟s inscrutability and indifference to the life andinterests of human beings.8. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventionalstyle which is now called free verse, that is _________.A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrainsB. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme schemeC. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beatD. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings9. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne‟s?A. The House of the Seven Gables.B. The Blithedale Romance.C. The Marble Faun.D. White Jacket.10. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. Religion.B. Life and death.C. Love and marriage.D. War and peace.11. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."A. "Nature"B. "Self-Reliance"C. "Divinity School Address"D. "The American Scholar"12. In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fameon both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is_______________.A. Washington IrvingB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman13. Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereasWhitman likes to keep his eye on human Society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as_______, immortality, religion, love and nature.A. progressB. freedomC. beautyD. death14. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography?A. TemperanceB. Humanity (Humility)C. FrugalityD. Immoderation15. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”A. Walt WhitmanB. Edgar Allen PoeC. Anne BradstreetD. Ralph Waldo Emerson16. In Emily Dickinson‟s Because I Could Not Stop for Death, ______________.A. death is personified as a devilB. death is described as the tragic end of a person‟s lifeC. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortalityD. death is described as a beautiful girl who couldn‟t find her final destination17. Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism?A. Thoreau‟s WaldenB. Emerson‟s NatureC. Poe‟s Poetic PrincipleD. Thoreau‟s Nature18. Henry David Thoreau‟s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the NewEngland Transcendental Movement.A. WaldenB. The PioneersC. NatureD. "Song of Myself"19. …Leaves of Grass‟ commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodimentof________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.A. the democratic idealsB. the romantic idealsC. the self-reliance spiritsD. the religious ideals20. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over-SoulⅣ Choose the right author and work from column A and column B. (10%)A. The Declaration of Independence To Helen The Wild Honey Suckle A Psalm of Life To a WaterfowlB. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Cullen Bryant Thomas Jefferson Philip Edgar Allen Poe Freneau1. By Nature's self in white arrayed,She bade thee shun the vulger eye,And planted here the guardian shade,And sent soft waters murmuring by;Thus quietly thy summer goes,Thy days declining to repose. ___________________ __________________2. There is a power whose careTeaches thy way along that pathless coast,The desert and illimitable air,Lone wandering, but not lost. ___________________ __________________3. Lo！In you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee standThe agate lamp within thy hand,Ah！Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy Land ___________________ __________________4. Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest! ___________________ __________________5. We hold these truths to be self-evident,that all men are created equal, that theyare endowed by their Creator with certainunalienable Rights, that among these are Life,Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ___________________ __________________ⅤDefine one of the literary terms for each column. (4*3=12%)Writers 1. Benjamin Franklin 2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3. Walt WhitmanWorks 1. Leaves of Grass 2. The legend of Sleepy Hollow 3. The autobiographySchool of literature 1. Romanticism 2. Transcendentalism 3. RealismⅥRead and answer the following questions. (18%)It 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 thought than to love and be loved b y me.She was a child and i was a child,In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a love that was more than love -- I and my Annabel Lee -- with a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me.And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud by night,Chilling my Annabel Lee,So that her high-born kinsman came and bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulcher.In this kingdom by the sea.The Angels, not half so happy in heaven,Went envying her and me --Y es! That was the reason (as all men know, in this kingdom by the sea).That the wind came out of a cloud,Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.But our love it was stronger by far than the love of these who were older than we -- of many for wiser than we --And neigher the angels in Heaven above,Nor the demons down under the Sea,Can ever disserver my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee.For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee, And the stars never rise but i see the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee,And so, all the night - tide, i lie down by the side of my darling,My darling, my life and my bride,In her sepulchre, there by the Sea --In her tomb by the side of the Sea.1. What‟s the title of this literary work? Who is the writer? (2%)2. What did the writer want to express in this work? (4%)3. Please analyze the structures and features of this work.(14%)ⅦT alk about one of your favorite literature work(20%)。
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美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. The publication of _____ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.2. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.3. At 87, ______ read his poetry at the in augurati on of Preside nt Joh n F. Kenn edy.4. Jack London ' s masterwork __________ i s somewhat autobiographical.5. _____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new moveme nt in poetry which he called the “______ ”7. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ________ .8. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, _____________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of_______ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10. In 1954, ______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his mastery of the art of modern nar11. In American literary history, _______ i s called AmhersttheReclusinee”f she isolated herself fromthe outside almost for life.12. The Fall of the House of Usher ” is a short story written by _______ .13. _____ laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the sea adve nture and the fron tier saga,represe nted byThe Leatherstock ing Tales.th14. The publication of T. S. Eliot ' s in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20 century, helped to establish amodern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by ______ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the stateme nt. Then put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____ , the n arrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the uni verse.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2. Most of the poems in Whitman L eaves of Grasssing of the -mass en ” and the _____ a s well.A. n atureB. self-relia neeC. selfD. life3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importa nce of the In dividualB. Faith in Christia nityC. TheOver-Soul D. Self-Relia nce4. In Hawthor ne ' no vels and short stories, i ntellectuals usually appear as ______ .A. saviorsB. villai nsC. comme ntatorsD. observers5. In America n literature, escap ing from the society and retur ning to n ature is a com mon subject. Thefollowing titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except ____ .A. Dreiser L ister CarrierB. Mark Twain T hes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper T eatherstocking Tales ___D. Thoreau TValdens6. Which of the followi ng is Not optimistic about huma n n ature? .C. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9. Henry James is mostly concerned with _____ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11. William Faulkner 's works mainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12. One of Mark Twain 's contributions to American literature is that he made ______ anacceptedstandard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ___ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014. In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from ___ .A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15. Of the following American writers, ____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the ____ .A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! Whois this woman referred to? _________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19. It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be kiA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20. “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. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. Local color fiction2. Captain John Smith3. “Annabel Lee ”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1. What ' the differenee between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2. What ' the symbolic significanee of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer 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 freeverse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2. The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.3. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.4. ________ i s considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in theimpressi ons made by life on the spectator.5. Marti n Ede n is the no vel into which ____ put most of himself.6. The publication of ______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature richwith lear ning and allusive thought.7. The appariti on of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. ” This is the shortest poemwritte n by ____ .8. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ b ecame the spokesman for what Gertrude Steinhad called a Lost Generation ”.9. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ______ .10. Among the works attacking 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 , bur ning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.13. As a poet, _________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of naturedisti nguished his treatme nt of in dige nous wild life and other n ative America n subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14. The publication of Washington Irving 's a collectio,n of essays, sketches and tales, marks thebeg inning of America n roma nticism.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by _____ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. In Leaves of Grass, ______ is all that concerned Whitma n.A. i ndividualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2. _____ i s the n arrator ofMoby Dick.3. In 1837, Ralph Emers on made a speech en titled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wen dellHolmes as Our In tellectual Declarati on of In depe nden ce. ” C. Divin itySchool Address D.The America n Scholar4. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is _____A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5. In Hawthorne 's novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____ .6. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles areall related, in one way or another, to the subject except ___________________ .A. Dreiser 'Sister CarrierB. Mark Twain 'Thes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper 'Leathers-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau 'Waldens7. “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. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? ____ .A. It explores man 's-neverending 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 stories such as ______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle11. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ____ .A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15. The main theme of ______ 'Thes Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of lifeshould be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16. It is not surprising to find in ____A. Mark TwainC. Theodore Dreiser17. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter's fiction a world of jungle, whereB. Emily DickinsonD. Henry James“A”which originally stands forkill or to be kimeaning of “able ”or angel ”through Hester s efforts.A. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19. Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on thelandscape and people in _____________ .A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20. William Faulkner 'orkswmainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21. In 1954, ____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “masteryof the art of modernnarration. ” C. the Jazz Age D. the Romantic Period24. ___ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26. _____ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27. At 87, _____ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28. “Let 's portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. ”This may bthe characterization of ______ .A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! ”Whois this woman referred to? ____________________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. JaneAusten A. T. S. EliotC. John Steinbeck22. “In a Station of the Metro A.the imagist poetry C. the romanticpoetry B. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner ”is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ____ B. the absurd poetry D. the transcendental poetry23. Fitzgerald 's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ________A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical Period30. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ____ .A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth ”(by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1. American Romanticism.2. Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier .美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis ”introduced the best poet, ________ , to appear in Aup to that time.2. James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and3. Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of _____ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4. Herman Melville 'novels ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.th5. In the early 19 th century, Washington Irving wrote _____ which became the first work by anAmerican writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ____ Pond.7. After his death, _____ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poetth8. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18 th century through the outburst of the■th9. The arbiter of 19 th century literary realism in America was ______ .10. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ____ , which is poetry without a fixed beat orregular rhyme scheme.11. ____ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in theimpressions made by life on the spectator.12. ____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13. O. Henry 's ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order toget money for a Christmas present for each other.14. ____ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he calledthe “Imagist ”movement.15. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel _____ . It is the story of an idealist who wasdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16. Ernest Hemingway 's stature as a writer wasconfirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17. ____ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18. William Faulkner considered _________ to be truly “theAmericanfirst writer ”.19. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and _____ as important deterministic forces shapingindividualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ____ .II. 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. Moby Dick was dedicated to ___ .A. Ralph EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry ThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2. ____ was Mark Twain 's masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American litcomes. ”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3. __ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the __ .A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. Thomas Jefferson 's attitude, thats, ifirm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period wenow call ______________ .A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age ofRomanticism D. Age of Regionalism6. As a literary and philosophical movement, ___ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the CivilWar.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7. __ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience8. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ___ on the Puritansoil.A. RomanticismB. SymbolismC. MysticismD. Rationalismth9. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19 century. This was _ .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10. Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11. The main theme of ___ The 'sArt of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life shouldbe the main object of the novel.A. Henry JamesB. William HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry12. Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?A. Stephan CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Walt Whitman13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14. Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15. E mily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject ofher poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16. Of the following American writers, ___ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! The bookrefers to __________ .A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom 's Cabin18. The works of ____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, ____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22. “The Custom-House ”is an introductory note to ____ .A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in thequest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing ____________________ 's thematic concernin his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24. American writers after World War I self- consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “___ ”, devfaith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers26. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ___ .A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27. Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28. __ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. John Steinbeck29., one of America 's greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor.Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day 's Journey into Night.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. Bernard MalamudD. Eugene O 'Neill30. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ___ .A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translatorIII. 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.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier becomesuccessful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案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. Howells10. free verse11. Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. 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: BBDAB 6---10:DDACD11---15:ADBCD 16---20:BDBDC21---25:CBBAC 26---30:CBBDAIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 pointsfor 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,prese nti ng stories of western mining tow ns with colorful gamblers, outlaws, and sea ndalous wome n. Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chop in, Joel Chan dler Harris, and Mark Twain provided regi onal stories and tales of the life of America ' Wester ners, Souther ners, and Easter ners. Local color ficti on reached its pe popularity in the 1880s, but by the turn of the century it had begun to decline.2. I nstead of hav ing her puni shed for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroli ne Meeber i n Sister Carrierbecome successful. Can you tell why?This is due to a nu mber of reas ons:1) Theodore Dreiser based the novel on the life of his sister Emma. In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Can ada with a married man who had stole n money from his employer. Ano ther 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 n aturalistic beliefs. The n aturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and wome n had no free will, that their lives were con trolled by heredity andthe en vir onment, that religious t ruth ” were illusory, that the desti ny of huma nity was misery in life an oblivio n in death. As a pion eer of n aturalism in America n literature, Dreiser wrote no vels reflect ing his mecha ni stic view of life, a con cept that held huma nity as the victim of such un gover nable forces as econo mics, biology, society, and eve n cha nee. In his works, conven ti onal morality is uni mporta nt, con sciously virtuous behavior hav ing little to do with material success and happ in ess. So Sister Carrie is not to be blamed for her sin of life.4) His sympathy for Sister Carrie also shows the in flue nce of the teach ings 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.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the follow ing stateme nts with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. Ralph Emerson ' truest disciple was _______ , who put into practice many of Emerson ' s2. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine ' s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated aDeclaration for Independence ”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.3. _____ has been called the Father of American Poetry ”.4. Toa Waterfowl ”is perhaps the peak of _______ ' work, which has been called by an Englishprominent critic the most perfect brief poem in the Ian guage ”.5. In his cluster of poems calledLeaves of Grass, _____ gave America its first genuine epic poem.6. _____ probed deeply at the in dividual psychology of his characters, writi ng in a rich and in tricatestyle that supported his intense scruti ny of complex huma n experie nce.7. _____ ' s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctlyAmerican literature to be written in English.8. Benjamin Fran kli n ' s best writi ng is found in his masterpiece _____ .9. James Fennimore Cooper laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the fron tier saga and■。
大学课程《美国文学史》期末试卷及参考答案
大学课程《美国文学史》期末试卷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 Steinbeck 2. T.S. Eliot 3. Carl Sandburg 4. F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe 6. O ’ Henry 7. Thomas Paine 8. Ernest Hemingway 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. A Farewell to Arms b. Common Sense c. Uncle Tom’s Cabind. The Cop and the Antheme. The Grapes of Wrathf. Fogg. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock h. Naturei. The Great Gatsby j. 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. Nothi ng has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did_______. A.Puritanism B Romanticism C Rationalism D Sentimentalism2. Franklin wrote and published his famous__________, an annul collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard‘s AlmanackC. Common SenseD. The Genera l Magazine3. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. _______was the dominant spirit.A. Humanism B Rationalism C Revolution D Evolution 4.________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A.William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC.Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith 5..Which is not Irving‘s works in the following.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a Traveller C .A History of New York D To A Waterfowl 6. Choose Freneau‘s poem from the following.A. The RavenB. To a WaterfowlC. To HellenD. The wild Honey Suckle7. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet___to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. Philip FreneauC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allan Poe pared with his contemporaries, _________was no doubt the best in exploring the wildness and frontier in fiction.A. Washington IrvingB. James Fenimore CooperC. William Cullen Bryant D Philip Freaneau9. Washington Irving‘s ‘Rip Van Winkle‘ is famous for_________. A.Rip‘s escape into a mysterious valleyB.The story‘s German legendary source materialC. Rip‘s seeking for happinessD. Rip‘s 20-years sleep 10. Choose Poe‘s work from the followingA. The Day of DoomB.The Last of the MohicansC. The Indian Burying Ground D The Fall of the House of Usher 11.Choose Irving‘s work from the following .A. The Sketch BookB. ThanatopsisC. The SpyD.The British Prison Ship 12._______ is the most commonly used in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllabl e comes first followed by a stressed.A. the trochaic footB. an anapestic footC. a quatrainD. a iambic foot 13. The Indian Burying Ground by___________ is the earliest poem which romanticizes the Indian as a child of nature.A. Washington IrvingB. Adgar Alan PoeC.Philip FreneauD.Nathaniel Hawthorne 14._______ is a poetic device used to increase the musical quality and link the lines and stanzas of a poem.A. meterB. repetitionC. rhymeD.foot15.Poetry is aimed at conveying and enriching human experience which is formed throu gh sense impressions. _____ is the representation of sense experience through language. A . meter B. image C. theme D. assonance16. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant.院系： 专业班级： 姓名： 学号：装 订 线A. humanismB. rationalismC. romanticismD. evolution17. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ______.A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York18. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A. RationalismB. inner selfC. personal feelingsD. individualism19.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. conservativeD. ironic20. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___and ThoreauA. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Mark Twain21. Which is r egarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. OversoulD. Self-reliance22. ______ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. PaineD. Washington Irving23. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman24. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life25. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. AhabB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Starbuck26. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd. Chicago27. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopusb. Moby-Dickc. The Rise of Silas Laphamd. Leaves of Grass28. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.a. The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. Titanic29._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buckb. Harriet Bicher Stowec. Emily Dickensond. Walter Whitman30. ._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan Poe31. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. ——was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution 32.——Which statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.33.Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick34.The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's ——and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD.A history of New York35.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to asA. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic PeriodIV. Identification of Fragments（本大题共有7个诗歌或小说选段，请选5个选段并回答其后的问题，答题时请先注明选段, 再回答问题。
American Literature(美国文学考试试卷)
一、选择填空1. William Faulkner is the author of Sound and Fury.2．Robert Frost is a famous poet.3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by Earnest Hemingway.4．The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is Walden.5．I Have a Dream is addressed by Martin Luther King.6．Eugene O’Neil is an American playwright.7. Grass is a poem written by Walt Whitman.8．Moby Dick is the most important work by Herman Melville.9. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his short stories.10. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of naturalistic work.11. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by Robert Frost.12. “God help them that help themselves” is found in Franklin’s work.13. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is The Waste Land.14. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.15. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.16. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be Scott Fitzgerald.17. Emerson was the most important person of the transcendental club.18. Eugene O’Neil has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and one Nobel Prize.19. Gertrude Stein initiated the name of the Lost Generation.20. On the Road is the representative work of the Beat Generation.二、判断1．Hawthorne was a symbolic writer in some sense. （√）2．Mark Twain was the father of American language. （√）3．American literature is the oldest of all the national literitures. （×）4．O. Henry paid little attention to plot in writing. （×）5．Eugene O’Neil is an American poet.（×）6．Daisy Miller is a great work by Mark Twain. （×）7. Putting the stress on traditional values is a typical feature of modernism. （×）8. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over Ezra Pound. （√）9．Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology. （×）10. According to Henry James,the aim of the novel is to reflect life reality. （√）11．To Hawthorne sin will get punished,one way or another. （√）12．Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology. （×）13．Hawthorne only touched upon the problem of love in The Scarlet Letter. （×）14．Allan Poe advocated "pure" poetry. （√）15．Scarlet Letter is a great work by Mark Twain. （×）16. Mark Twain depicted the adventurous spirit of American people. （√）17. Grass is a poem written by Carl Sandburg. （×）三、选择连线1. The Sound and the Fury Wiliam Faulkner2. The American Scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson3. Walden Henry David Thoreau4. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne5. Moby Dick Herman Melville6. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman7. The Gilded Age Mark Twain8. The Call of the Wild Jack London9. Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser10. The Waste Land T—S—Eliot11. The Old Man and Sea Hemingway12. Nature Emerson13. The Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson14. The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald四、名词解释1.Realism：Realism is the theory of writing in which familiar aspects of contemporary life and everyday scenes are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner. This is the theory that authors try to use and guide them in their writing. It stresses truthful treatment of material. It is anti-romantic, anti-sentimental, and without abstract interest in nature, death, etc. Mark Twain laughed at people who were caught up in the world of illusions, who were not mature enough to see real situations. This is one example of the truthful treatment of material.2．Imagism: A literary movement that began in London and later spread to the US at the beginning of the 20th century. It underwent three major phases in its development, and T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell lead the movement respectively. It advocated “the use of one dominant image”. According to Ezra Pound, an image is “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time” and the three principles that he established were: a. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective; b. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation; c. As regarding rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.3.American Romanticism：Romanticism was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism. It wasa movement of conscious rebellion against being too objective. The romantic spirit was one of subjectivity of inward feelings that o ne could trust one’s subjective responses. Romantics placed a high premium upon the creative function of imagination, and saw art as a formulation of intuitive and imaginative perceptions that tend to speak a nobler truth than that of fact.4．Local Colorism As a literary trend, local colorism made its presence felt in the late 1860s to early 70s and lost its momentum at the end of the 19th century. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local characters of their religions. They tended to idealize and glorify, but they never forgot to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life. The ultimate aim of the local colorists is to create the illusion of an indigenous little world with qualities that tells it apart from the world outside. The representative works of local colorism include Bret Hart's "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and H. B. Stowe's Oldtown Folks.五、简答题1.Mark Twain presented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain’s art of fiction: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.A. Mark Twain uses the Mississippi alley as his fictional kingdom, writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and is therefore known as a local colorist.B. He creates life-like characters, especially the unconventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional village morality.C. He uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any precious literary language. It is the kind of colloquial belonging to the lower class, the living local American English.D. He has created a special humor to satirize and the decayed convention.2. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?A. They accept the negative implication of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and believe that society is a"jungle" where survival struggles go on.B. They believe that man’s instinct, the environment and other social and economic forces play anoverwhelming role and man’s fate is "determined" by such forces beyond his control.。
(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）。
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大四美国文学期末考型及例大四美国文学期末考型及例：1./60 分（ 40 道，20 个）2.名解10 分（5 个）3.段配10 分（5 个）4.答20 分（10/2）1．史： Father / poetess⋯2.名作家： Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson3．作品： The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter1.a)（ 40 个， 40 分）1.At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by theEuropean movement called the ________.A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement2.Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin? ________A.He was born in a poor family.B.He was a pious puritan.C.He was phrased as“Jack of all trades”.D.He was a master of diplomacy.3.Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT ________.A.Lost GenerationB.Iceberg theoryC.American DreamD.Code Heroes4.Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? ________A.Hester PrynneB.Roger ChillingworthC.Captain AhabD.Pearl5.Jack London’s semi-biographical novel ________well presents thedisillusionment of American Dream.A.The American TragedyB.The Call of the WildC.Martin EdenD.The Grapes of Wrathb)判断（ 20 个， 20 分）1.Poe’smasterpiece“To Helen”is written to memorize his deceased wife.(F)2.The tone of “Annabel Lee”is optimistic and hopeful. (F)3.Mark Twain's novel Jumping Frog was an artistic failure, but it gave its name tothe America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.(F)4.Sister Carrie ended up in tragedy because she could not control her fate(F).大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题2.名词解释题（5个，10分）1. It refers to t he religious beliefs held by the Puritans, who had intended to“ purif or simplify the religious ritual of the Church of England. They believed in the originalsin and the harsh Day of Doom, although some good people --- the chosen peopleor “ the Elect--- may” be saved. Puritanism)(2.A literary doctrine that called for “ realityand truth ”in the depiction of ordinarylife ．It had originated in France and was very popular in 19th century.Realism)(3.选段配对题（5个，10分）1.Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,Hid in this silent, dull retreat,Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow,Unseen thy little branches greet:No roving foot shall crush thee here,No busy hand provoke a tear.The Wild Honey Suckle (Philip Freneau)2.During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year,when the cloud hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, onhorseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself,as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. Iknow not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense ofinsufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.The Fall of the House of Usher(Edgar Allan Poe)4.问答题（ 10/2， 20 分）1. Transcendentalism(a) Transcendentalism (p56){1}As a moral philosophy, it exalted feeling over reason, individual expression overthe restraints of law and custom. & believed in the transcendence ofthe“oversoul ” {2}A literary movement flourishing in New England from the1830s to the Civil war. It stresses intuitive understanding of God, without the helpof the church and advocated independence of the mind. The representative writersare Emerson and Thoreau.{b} The significance of TranscendentalismTranscendentalism exerted a dominating notion onto the major wirers of the Romanticperiod and its essence has been permanently absorbed into the main stream ofAmerican thought. As a moral philosophy, Transcendentaliststook their ideas from theromantic literature of Europe, from neo-Platonism, from German idealistic philosophyand from the revelations of Oriental mysticism. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation andagainst the materialism of American society. They believed in the transcendence ofthe“Oversoul”, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come andof which all things are a part. As a philosophical and literarymovement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830’s to the Civil War. Its doctrines found their greatest literary advocated in Emerson, who believed that man was a part of absolute good, and in Thoreau who beheld divinityin the “unspotted innocence”of nature. It was a powerful expression of the intellectual mood of the age, and the ideas it represented have remained a strong influence on great American writers from the days of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman to the present.2. “The Road Not Taken”Symbolic meanings of The Road Not Taken:In this poem, the author uses two roads in the woods to symbolize the choices inthe real life. The author suggests us not being afraid to take a chance, not following the crowd and trying new things. Individualism is highlighted in the poem because the speaker chooses to go his own way, taking the“road less traveled”.Caution is also taken before deciding to take the“road less traveled”, for the speaker takes time to consider the other road.Commitment is symbolized in the poem because the speaker does not havesecond thoughts after making his decision.The last symbolized theme is accepting a challenge. It may be that the road the speaker chooses is less traveled because it represents trials or perils. Such challenges seem to appeal to the speaker.The Road Not TakenThis poem, as many of Frost ’ sbeginspoems,with the observation of nature, as if the poet is a traveler sightseeing in nature. By the end, all the simple words condense into a serious proposition: When anyone in life is confronted with making a choice, in order to possess something worthwhile, he has to give up something which seems as lovely and valuable as the chosen one. Then, whatever follows, he must accept the consequence of his choice for it is not possible for him to return to the beginning and have another chance to choose differently. Frost is asserting that nature is fair and honest to everyone. Thus all the varieties of human destiny result from each person spontaneous capability of making choices.Form : The poem is very regularly structured with 4 classic 5-line stanzas, withthe rhyme scheme “ abaab” and in conversational rhythm.3. The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby the parody (戏仿 )of American dreamThematically ，the novel is a parody of the American dream as represented by Gatsby’s pursuit for wealth and love ．(1)American Dream(derived the Puritanism) is a popular belief that people can achieve success，whether it is wealth，fame or love through honest hard working ina new world of liberty ，equality，chances and promises． (e.g. Franklin, Obama )(2) It is true that Gatsby had a huge wealth，but it was built up through illegal means —bootlegging. Daisy was the embodiment of love for Gatsby，but the Daisy in Gatsby s’illusion was not the Daisy in reality —— a mindless and spiritless woman only with a beautiful appearance，who retreated to her boring but secure way of life rather than accept the responsibility at the moment of crisis．(3)Like Franklin ， Gatsby also made a time table and a list of“do’s anddon'ts”． But unfortunately he did not know that the time had changed．(4)Therefore, G’s dream is tarnished by his material possessions, much like America is now with the obsession with wealth. In any case, Gatsby would have failed to his idealistic dream inevitably, namely disillusion of American dream.Together with Martin Eden, it well presents the disillusionment of American Dream. Main ideas :Nick Caraway, the narrator decided to leave his family in the Midwest to study bond business in New York．He took a small house at West Egg of Long Island and became a neighbor of Jay Gatsby，a mysterious man of great wealth．He resumed acquaintance with Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy at a dinner party in their home． There he also met Jordan Baker，an attractive but arrogant young lady．He soon learned that their marriage was not happy and Tom has a mistress，Myrtle ， wife of George Wilson ，a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes．A few days later he was invited to Gatsby’s party. From Gatsby and later from Jordan, Nick learned of the love affair between Daisy and Gatsby before she married Tom．Gatsby then made a request of Nick：to bring Daisy to tea and meet Gatsby． At the reunion Gatsby changed from nervousness to excitement and from excitement to a remote fantasy． At a party Gatsby gave to the Buchanans，Nick and Jordan，Gatsby and Tom had a fierce quarrel over Daisy and Daisy sided with both men in turns．Then Daisy and Gatsby left in Gatsbys car while’ the others followed in Tom’s． On the way Gatsby’s car knocked Myrtle dead and ran away ， but he later told Nick that Daisy was driving at the time of the accident．Myrtle ，thinking Tom was in the car，ran toward it and was hit．Meanwhile Mr ．Wilson traced Gatsby’s car and found Gatsby's house． A few hours later both of them were found dead．Apparently Wilson shot Gatsby and then himself． Although Nick tried to make Gatsby’s funeral respectable，none of his friends came．Only Gatsby’s father appeared，still thinking that his son was a great man． On another occasion Nick met Tom and Daisy and was reluctant to shake hands with them．He already knew that it was Tom who made Wilson believe that Myrtle was Gatsby s’ lover and was run over by Gatsby． Soon Nick went back to his people in the MiddleWest．。
《美国文学》期末考试试卷A卷答案暨评分标准
湖州师范学院 2009 — 2010 学年第一学期《美国文学》期末考试试卷A卷答案暨评分标准适用班级060511-3 考试时间120 分钟Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Frank Norris2.Stephen Crane3.Sinclair Lewis4.Jack London5.Washington Irving6.Willa Cather7.Robert Frost8.Benjamin Franklin9.William Faulkner10.Nathaniel Hawthorne11.Thomas Jefferson12.Washington Irving13.Ralph Waldo Emerson14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.Eugene O’NeillⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.John Smith2.Thomas Paine3.“founding fathers”4.Gothic Fiction5.Emily Dickenson6.John Smith7.Philip Freneau8.Washington Irving9.Edgar Allan Poe10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Ezra Pound (1)2.In A Station of the Metro (1)3.Answer should comment on the parallel between the “modern” im agery(description of urban crowds and transportation, loneliness) of the firstline and the traditional “Oriental” imagery (budding flowers on a tree,wetness) of the second line. (2)4.What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem?Describe the stylistic result of the parallel and the feelings it evokes (2)Passage 21.This part if from the short story “A Clean Well Light Room” written byErnest Hemingway. (2)2.Describe the old man’s character and relate it to the nihilist philosop hyexpressed in the story. (2)3.What does the young waiter think of the old man (and why) and howdoes he treat him? Describe the young man’s character, his lack ofunderstanding of the old man and the significance of how he treats theold man as described in the story. (3)Passage 31.Walden (1)2.Henry David Thoreau (1)3.Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(5)Passage 51.Annabel Lee.(1)2.Edgar Allan Poe. (1)3.repetition or refrains.(4)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (5) VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. (10%)•This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about thepoet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he shouldfollow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions whichone must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing inorder to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must acceptthe consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back andhave another chance to choose differently.•In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one whichseems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow anunusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become apoet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembersthe road which he might have taken, and which would have given him adifferent kind of life.2. Eugene O' Neill’s Long Day's Journey into Night. (10%)•Long Day's Journey into Night is somewhat autobiographical. The Tyrones of the play are in fact modeled on the Eugene O' Neill family.The four major characters include James Tyrone, the father, a famousactor, anxious to become rich at the expense of his own talent; MaryTyrone, the mother, a drug addict; Jamie Tyrone, their elder son, andEdmund Tyrone, their younger son. The Mother becomes mentally illbecause she is extremely unhappy with her married life. Young Jamieloses faith in life, while Edmund the wanderer comes back withtuberculosis. All the four suffer frustrations and wish to escape from theharsh reality, James and Jamie look for solace in their cups, while Maryand Edmund seek the protection of the fog which they hope wouldscreen them from the intrusion of the world outside. They meet in theliving room of the family' s summer home at 8:30 a. m. of a day inAugust, 1912, and torment one another and themselves until midnight.The father is angry with the mother for her drug addiction, the motherwith his sons for being good for nothing, and the sons with their parentsfor not being good parents. All are torn in a war between love and hate,and no one is sure which is the stronger emotion. Life is too painful forthem even to try and make sense of it. Edmund ' s desperate advice inface of the horrible burden of Time weighing on people ' s shoulders andcrushing them to the earth is to lose feeling in their cups and stay alwaysdrunk. Thus the long day journeys into night when the tragedy of thefamily is finally enacted. No relief is felt, no light is seen, and all ends inthe engulfing darkness.•In a figurative sense, Long Day' s Journey into Night is a metaphor for Eugene 0' Neill' s lifelong endeavor to find truth and the way toacceptance. The former he found, namely, the faithless, fragmentarynature of modern life, whereas the latter he did not; for him all passedinto night. In despair Eugene O' Neill thought of the old God of theCatholic church on which, it is ironical to not, he had turned his backlong before.3. Talk about Adgar Allan Poe's social outlook and writings （10%）●Poe admired aristocratic society，distrusted the leveling tendency ofdemocracy, and expressed contempt for uplift movements of progress（提高社会地位的进步运动）.He deplored America's increasing industrialization.In his more sardonic comments on democracy, he says that it amounts to the tyranny "of a mob." He could be associated with those literary men in the 1840's and 1850's，who became, in M elville's words , "isolates（孤僻者，与世隔绝者）, " who were (at least in theory)divorced from society. Yet Poe's criticism of contemporary America cut deeper than that of his contemporaries, causing an isolation more nearly absolute than theirs (see Hawthorne). He was more interested in redeeming and refining language.He was called the "great literary engineer."●Poe also dramatizes for us what has been called the demonic side of thenineteenth century. His tales are filled with assassination and non-escape ,with violence and death. Many of his characters are obsessed with a fear of death. Some of them strive to come back from the tomb;others are terrified of being buried alive or in fact are buried alive like Madeline in "The Fall of the House of Usher. "The two obsessions are part of a general fear of retaining consciousness in a world that is dead.●Poe was preoccupied with the disintegration of culture, with decadence. Hegives us a vision of "dehumanized man." Poe’s characters are dead to the world, machines of sensation and will. They are not willing to live in their own skins. For Poe's characters, the body is a mere machine. It refuses to be reconciled to the flesh and its mortal fate.●As a consequence , Poe's characters insist on living with an intensity andfear that has no relation to the limitations imposed by biological and physical laws. They do not seem to eat or drink ,they do not work.Occasionally they read or play on musical instruments. They are constantly musing about their lives. They speak to each other intensely and withpassion. They live only in their heads—all a matter of intellect and imagination.●Poe's typical heroines are usually afflicted with mysterious diseases. Theyvisibly waste away before their lovers’ eyes. Their lovers or husbands can see that they are perishing and the heroines themselves are thoroughly aware of it, but the process cannot be halted. But they are not willing to let go of their lovers.●His characters fear the final moment, which constantly threatens them whilethey are alive, since they have no contact with the world of nature or with religion, being just sheer intelligence which is not connected with anything providing life or spiritual fulfillment. One critic has written :"Poe is not interested in anything that is alive. Everything in Poe is dead —the houses, the rooms, the furniture." Death is a predominant theme of Poe's poetry.The setting of "The Raven," his most celebrated poem, is like that of his tales : the unhappy, unresolved lover sits in an elaborately furnished room, trying to find peace from sorrow in his books and conducting a curious dialogue with his midnight visitant ,a black, deathlike symbol—the raven.Death is also the theme of the curious poem, "Ulalume(尤拉鲁姆)" and "The City in the Sea. "Some literary critics suggest that Poe’s intention was to recognize the impulse,always kept hidden, to kill, even to do violence to one's own nature.●Yet if the world of Poe's imagination is haunted by death and if the tales inparticular seem morbid and obsessed, why did they appeal to the audience of Poe's day? And can they have anything to say to us? The answer would have to be that in spite of their fantastic character they do，at some level, reveal what was going on in the psyche of nineteenth century man.Something like a disintegration of personality was occurring in Poe's life time, and the strange horrors that Poe described produced some echoes in the thoughts of his contemporaries. His audience had a craving for the sensational and the shocking. Writers and sensitive thinkers saw man as spiritually gutted),being pushed into an insane, inhuman world created by the rapidly growing process of industrialization.●Strangely enough, however, Poe had a fascination with the power of reason,despite his emphasis on the irrational. In stories like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter , " reason is applied to the solution of a baffling crime. Even a few of Poe's tales of nightmare terror come to happy endings precisely because the hero can think his way through a problem. Though the hero of "The Pit and the Pendulum" cannot, by hisunaided efforts, save himself from the death intended for him, he uses his head to keep himself alive until help from the outside comes. In fact, one kind of Poe's characters must be those who are forced to fall back on the resources of one's mind.●Just as he was fascinated with the process of reason, Poe was interested inthe deviousness(曲折) of the human soul. He placed emphasis on how the unconscious motivates human beings, not unlike the Romantics of his day, but to a greater extent. Unlike the Romantics, Poe examined irrational drives; he wanted to bring reason to bear on areas which, in his time, were regarded as lying beyond its boundaries or else were ignored altogether. In other words, Poe used his reason to discover the source of the irrational.This is especially evident in "Tell-Tale Heart."●Poe's tragic life and his concentration on death were his extreme and poeticresponse to that which was elaborated upon, in naturalistic terms, fifty years later. He was unusually sensitive to the world of his own day, affected by it intensely ，causing his isolation. Though he wanted to find his place in a traditional society, his failure to do so may well have heightened his sense of lonely individualism. It is this sense of alienation which has carried itself through the greatest of literature in America.4. C omment on Hawthorne’s style.（10%）●His style is also noteworthy for his frequent use of images. Metaphors andsimiles abound, most of them stirringly fresh and effective. He makes skillful use of colors as a means for conveying mood. Black ,red and gray predominate.●Hawthorne's sentences, like his language, show the effects of his long yearsof study and practice in writing. There are few of the awkward sentences which may be found in Cooper. The sentences may appear, to a twentieth century reader, to be too consistently long. But they were not abnormally long for their day. In the most complex sentences ,however, grammatical subordination is employed with sufficient logic and variety to make the writing smooth and clear.●Another reflection of the times in which Hawthorne wrote is seen in hispunctuation. Many of his works are over-punctuated, by modern standards;there are superfluous commas, excessive dashes, and far too many exclamation points. In most cases his words are forceful enough to achievethe emphasis he desires, and the attempt to show such emphasis by using exclamation points is not necessary. But Hawthorne cannot be condemned for following the mechanical conventions of his day.●Hawthorne depends heavily on summarized historical narrative, but linksscenes dramatically. Occasionally, he will interrupt his works to address the reader directly, with some comment on the story, some piece of background information, or a brief moral essay.● A characteristic device of Hawthorne’s，which is employed several timesin The Scarlet Letter, is the "optional reading, " Hawthorne uses concrete objects as well as characters to serve as his symbols. He concentrates on a few main symbols repeated often in the story, and uses the fluidity of character development to illustrate the ways in which symbols grow and change based upon one's perception of them.。
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I.Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1point for each)1.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman ofNew England Transcendentalism.2.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated muchof the earliest American writing.3.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.4.Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical.5.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evilhimself in his thirst to destroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the“________” movement.7.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is apowerful piece.9.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first ofall lies in his use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10.In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art ofmodern narration”.11.In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst” since sheisolated herself from the outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.13._______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and thefrontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14.The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant Americanpoem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.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 best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick isstill a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life3.Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Reliance4.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers5.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is acommon 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 Leatherstocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden6.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such 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 Winkle8.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9.Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literaturecomes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12.One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ anaccepted standard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during herlife time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concernedabout the _____.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of theAmerican Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote thebook that started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill orto be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1.Local color fiction2.Captain John Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1.What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2.What’s the symbolic significance of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I.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 liesin his use of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. 2.The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of NewEngland Transcendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated muchof the earliest American writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believedthat 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 to establish a moderntradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.7.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This isthe shortest poem written by _____.8.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for whatGertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.10.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is apowerful piece.11.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during herlife time.12.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evilhimself in his thirst to destroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observationof nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________, a collection of essays, sketchesand tales, marks the beginning of American romanticism.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 best complete the statement. Put your answers on the AnswerSheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailedby Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar4.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, theindividual is ______.A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers6.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is acommon 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. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? _____.A.It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialisticdesires.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 stories such 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 of life. Which of thefollowing is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ____ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literaturecomes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15.The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill orto be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. 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. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what MarkTwain referred to as _____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19.Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that hissubject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _____.A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of theart of modern narration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner22.“In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _____.A. the imagist poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the transcendental poetry23.Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ______.A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical PeriodC. the Jazz AgeD. the Romantic Period24._____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of theAmerican Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26._______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” This maybe a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote thebook that started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen30.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ______.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII.Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2.“My Lost Youth” (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet.(20%, 10 points for each)1.American Romanticism.2.Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet, ______, toappear in America up to that time.2.James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the seaadventure and ______.3.Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement,yet he never applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4.Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage inpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.5.In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the firstwork by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond.7.After his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in thePoet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.8.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through theoutburst of the ______.9.The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______.10.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry withouta fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.11.______ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that realitylies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.12.______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13.O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their bestpossessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.14.______ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist”movement.15.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of anidealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16.Ernest Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of hisnovel ______ in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17.______ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18.William Faulkner considered __________ to be “the first truly American writer”.19.As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministicforces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20.A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ______.II. 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.Moby Dick was dedicated to ____.A. Ralph EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry ThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2.____ was Mark Twain’s masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modernAmerican literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3.____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith4.Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5.Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit ofhappiness, is typical of the period we now call ____.A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Regionalism6.As a literary and philosophical movement, ____ flourished in New England from the1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7.____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience8.There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually____ on the Puritan soil.A. RomanticismB. SymbolismC. MysticismD. Rationalism9.American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was____.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10.Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11.The main theme of ____’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry JamesB. William HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry12.Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?A. Stephan CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Walt Whitman13.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is stilla mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14.Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16.Of the following American writers, _____ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote thebook that started this great war!” The book refers to ____.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB.Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin18.The works of _____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of theAmerican Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or tobe killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what MarkTwain referred to as ____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22.“The Custom-House” is an introductory note to _____.A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in theEast but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were (a)“____”, devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers26.The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ____.A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27.Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28.____ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. John Steinbeck29.____, one of America’s greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the firstAmerican playwright to receive the honor. Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. Bernard MalamudD. Eugene O’Neill30.Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet anda ____.A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translatorIII. 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 localcolor.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber inSister Carrier become successful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案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. Howells10. free verse11.Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16.A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. 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. 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 environment, 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 novelsreflecting 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 sinof 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.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1point for each)1.Ralph Emerson’s truest disciple was ______, who put into practice many ofEmerson’s theories.2.On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldlyadvocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist to a crisis. 3.______ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.。
11美国文学A卷答案与评分标准
参考答案课程名称：美国文学名著选读适用专业班级：英语1101-1104班考试时间：90分钟 A √ B卷开闭√卷Part I. True or false statements. ( 10 points,1 point for each)1-5 FFTTT 6-10 TTTTTPart II. Multiple Choices. (30 points, 1 point for each)1-5 ABBBB 6-10 CBBBB11-15 ABBBB 16-20 CBBBB21-25 ABBBB 26-30 CBBBBPart III. Short easy questions. (20 points, 5 points for each)1.Their doctrine includes: original sin, total depravity, predestination and limited atonement.2.The daughter of a local farm Katrina, together with her boyfriend ,has made use of the “Headless horseman”legend, tricked the schoolteacher Crane into the cemetery and scared him away.3.The letter A may symbolize adultery, able, admiration, alienation, American, Adam and angel,etc.4.The use of the same initial consonant in a line is called alliteration, for example, Pride and Prejudice, with the same [s]sound.Part IV. Passage Identification. (10 points, 2 points for each)1.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer2.The Declaration of Independence3.The Last of the Mohicans4.The Raven5.Song of MyselfPart V. Appreciation. (10 points, 5 points for each)Part A1. Philip Freneau; The Wild Honey Suckle2. The rhyme scheme is ababcc.Part B1. Washington Irving; Rip Van Winkle2. Nicholas Vedder is the owner of the inn/ a patriarch of the village/ and landlord of the inn. He expressed his opinion by the way of smoking.Part VI. Essay writing. (20 points) omission.评分标准课程名称：美国文学名著选读适用专业班级：英语1101-1104班考试时间：90分钟 A √B卷开闭√卷Part I. True or false statements. ( 10 points,1 point for each)1-5 FFTTT 6-10 TTTTT每题1分，共10分，答错不得分。
美国文学期末考试试题
专 班 姓 学号……………………………密…………………………………………封……………………………………线…………………………………………2013级2016-2017-1学期美国文学试题Note: All the answers should be written on the ANSWER SHEET .I. Paraphrase the first TWO stanzas of Edgar AllenPoe’s “The Raven” (25 points).Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.”Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow —sorrow for the lost Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore —Nameless here for evermore.II. How do you understand the meaning of theword “Immortality” at the end of the 1st stanza and that of the word “Eternity” at the end of the last stanza of Dickson’s poem “Because I Could Not Stop For Death.” Discuss in the context of the whole poem. (25 points).–by Emily DickinsonBecause 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 haste And I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too, For His Civility –We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess – in the Ring –We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain – We passed the Setting Sun –Or rather – He passed Us –The Dews drew quivering and Chill – For only Gossamer, my Gown– My Tippet – only Tulle –We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground – The Roof was scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the Ground –Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity –Questions 3-4 refer to Fitzgerald’s story “Winter Dreams.”III. Near the end of the story (the 4th paragraph from the end), Dexter observes thatWhat does he means when he sa ys that “he knew that he had just lost something more”? Why do you think so? (25 points).He had thought that having nothing else to lose he was invulnerable at last--but he knew that he had just lost something more, as surely as if he had married Judy Jones and seen her fade away before his eyes.专 班 姓 学号……………………………密…………………………………………封……………………………………线…………………………………………IV. A critic says that “in his short story ‘Winter Dreams,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the transitory nature of the human ideals of beauty and love, and the way in which women are objectified by men.” Do you agree with his analysis of the story? Please try to elaborate the critic’s statement if you agree with him. Or if not, give reasons why you disagree with him. (25 points).。
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题(20201127093838)
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. The publication of _____ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.2. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.3. At 87, ______ read his poetry at the in augurati on of Preside nt Joh n F. Kenn edy.4. Jack London ' s masterwork __________ i s somewhat autobiographical.5. _____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new moveme nt in poetry which he called the “______ ”7. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ________ .8. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, _____________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of_______ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10. In 1954, ______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his mastery of the art of modern nar11. In American literary history, _______ i s called AmhersttheReclusinee”f she isolated herself fromthe outside almost for life.12. The Fall of the House of Usher ” is a short story written by _______ .13. _____ laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the sea adve nture and the fron tier saga,represe nted byThe Leatherstock ing Tales.th14. The publication of T. S. Eliot ' s in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20 century, helped to establish amodern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by ______ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the stateme nt. Then put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____ , the n arrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the uni verse.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2. Most of the poems in Whitman L eaves of Grasssing of the -mass en ” and the _____ a s well.A. n atureB. self-relia neeC. selfD. life3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importa nce of the In dividualB. Faith in Christia nityC. TheOver-Soul D. Self-Relia nce4. In Hawthor ne ' no vels and short stories, i ntellectuals usually appear as ______ .A. saviorsB. villai nsC. comme ntatorsD. observers5. In America n literature, escap ing from the society and retur ning to n ature is a com mon subject. Thefollowing titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except ____ .A. Dreiser L ister CarrierB. Mark Twain T hes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper T eatherstocking Tales ___D. Thoreau TValdens6. Which of the followi ng is Not optimistic about huma n n ature? .C. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9. Henry James is mostly concerned with _____ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11. William Faulkner 's works mainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12. One of Mark Twain 's contributions to American literature is that he made ______ anacceptedstandard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ___ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014. In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from ___ .A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15. Of the following American writers, ____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the ____ .A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! Whois this woman referred to? _________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19. It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be kiA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20. “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. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. Local color fiction2. Captain John Smith3. “Annabel Lee ”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1. What ' the differenee between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2. What ' the symbolic significanee of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer 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 freeverse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2. The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.3. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.4. ________ i s considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in theimpressi ons made by life on the spectator.5. Marti n Ede n is the no vel into which ____ put most of himself.6. The publication of ______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature richwith lear ning and allusive thought.7. The appariti on of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. ” This is the shortest poemwritte n by ____ .8. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ b ecame the spokesman for what Gertrude Steinhad called a Lost Generation ”.9. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ______ .10. Among the works attacking 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 , bur ning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.13. As a poet, _________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of naturedisti nguished his treatme nt of in dige nous wild life and other n ative America n subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14. The publication of Washington Irving 's a collectio,n of essays, sketches and tales, marks thebeg inning of America n roma nticism.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by _____ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. In Leaves of Grass, ______ is all that concerned Whitma n.A. i ndividualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2. _____ i s the n arrator ofMoby Dick.3. In 1837, Ralph Emers on made a speech en titled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wen dellHolmes as Our In tellectual Declarati on of In depe nden ce. ” C. Divin itySchool Address D.The America n Scholar4. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is _____A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5. In Hawthorne 's novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____ .6. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles areall related, in one way or another, to the subject except ___________________ .A. Dreiser 'Sister CarrierB. Mark Twain 'Thes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper 'Leathers-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau 'Waldens7. “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. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? ____ .A. It explores man 's-neverending 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 stories such as ______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle11. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ____ .A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15. The main theme of ______ 'Thes Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of lifeshould be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16. It is not surprising to find in ____A. Mark TwainC. Theodore Dreiser17. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter's fiction a world of jungle, whereB. Emily DickinsonD. Henry James“A”which originally stands forkill or to be kimeaning of “able ”or angel ”through Hester s efforts.A. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19. Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on thelandscape and people in _____________ .A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20. William Faulkner 'orkswmainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21. In 1954, ____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “masteryof the art of modernnarration. ” C. the Jazz Age D. the Romantic Period24. ___ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26. _____ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27. At 87, _____ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28. “Let 's portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. ”This may bthe characterization of ______ .A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! ”Whois this woman referred to? ____________________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. JaneAusten A. T. S. EliotC. John Steinbeck22. “In a Station of the Metro A.the imagist poetry C. the romanticpoetry B. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner ”is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ____ B. the absurd poetry D. the transcendental poetry23. Fitzgerald 's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ________A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical Period30. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ____ .A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth ”(by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1. American Romanticism.2. Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier .美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis ”introduced the best poet, ________ , to appear in Aup to that time.2. James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and3. Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of _____ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4. Herman Melville 'novels ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.th5. In the early 19 th century, Washington Irving wrote _____ which became the first work by anAmerican writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ____ Pond.7. After his death, _____ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poetth8. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18 th century through the outburst of the■th9. The arbiter of 19 th century literary realism in America was ______ .10. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ____ , which is poetry without a fixed beat orregular rhyme scheme.11. ____ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in theimpressions made by life on the spectator.12. ____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13. O. Henry 's ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order toget money for a Christmas present for each other.14. ____ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he calledthe “Imagist ”movement.15. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel _____ . It is the story of an idealist who wasdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16. Ernest Hemingway 's stature as a writer wasconfirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17. ____ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18. William Faulkner considered _________ to be truly “theAmericanfirst writer ”.19. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and _____ as important deterministic forces shapingindividualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ____ .II. 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. Moby Dick was dedicated to ___ .A. Ralph EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry ThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2. ____ was Mark Twain 's masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American litcomes. ”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3. __ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the __ .A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. Thomas Jefferson 's attitude, thats, ifirm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period wenow call ______________ .A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age ofRomanticism D. Age of Regionalism6. As a literary and philosophical movement, ___ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the CivilWar.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7. __ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience8. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ___ on the Puritansoil.A. RomanticismB. SymbolismC. MysticismD. Rationalismth9. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19 century. This was _ .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10. Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11. The main theme of ___ The 'sArt of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life shouldbe the main object of the novel.A. Henry JamesB. William HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry12. Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?A. Stephan CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Walt Whitman13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14. Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15. E mily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject ofher poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16. Of the following American writers, ___ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! The bookrefers to __________ .A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom 's Cabin18. The works of ____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, ____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22. “The Custom-House ”is an introductory note to ____ .A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in thequest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing ____________________ 's thematic concernin his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24. American writers after World War I self- consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “___ ”, devfaith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers26. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ___ .A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27. Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28. __ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. John Steinbeck29., one of America 's greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor.Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day 's Journey into Night.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. Bernard MalamudD. Eugene O 'Neill30. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ___ .A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translatorIII. 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.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier becomesuccessful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案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. Howells10. free verse11. Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. 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: BBDAB 6---10:DDACD11---15:ADBCD 16---20:BDBDC21---25:CBBAC 26---30:CBBDAIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 pointsfor 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,prese nti ng stories of western mining tow ns with colorful gamblers, outlaws, and sea ndalous wome n. Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chop in, Joel Chan dler Harris, and Mark Twain provided regi onal stories and tales of the life of America ' Wester ners, Souther ners, and Easter ners. Local color ficti on reached its pe popularity in the 1880s, but by the turn of the century it had begun to decline.2. I nstead of hav ing her puni shed for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroli ne Meeber i n Sister Carrierbecome successful. Can you tell why?This is due to a nu mber of reas ons:1) Theodore Dreiser based the novel on the life of his sister Emma. In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Can ada with a married man who had stole n money from his employer. Ano ther 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 n aturalistic beliefs. The n aturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and wome n had no free will, that their lives were con trolled by heredity andthe en vir onment, that religious t ruth ” were illusory, that the desti ny of huma nity was misery in life an oblivio n in death. As a pion eer of n aturalism in America n literature, Dreiser wrote no vels reflect ing his mecha ni stic view of life, a con cept that held huma nity as the victim of such un gover nable forces as econo mics, biology, society, and eve n cha nee. In his works, conven ti onal morality is uni mporta nt, con sciously virtuous behavior hav ing little to do with material success and happ in ess. So Sister Carrie is not to be blamed for her sin of life.4) His sympathy for Sister Carrie also shows the in flue nce of the teach ings 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.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the follow ing stateme nts with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. Ralph Emerson ' truest disciple was _______ , who put into practice many of Emerson ' s2. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine ' s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated aDeclaration for Independence ”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.3. _____ has been called the Father of American Poetry ”.4. Toa Waterfowl ”is perhaps the peak of _______ ' work, which has been called by an Englishprominent critic the most perfect brief poem in the Ian guage ”.5. In his cluster of poems calledLeaves of Grass, _____ gave America its first genuine epic poem.6. _____ probed deeply at the in dividual psychology of his characters, writi ng in a rich and in tricatestyle that supported his intense scruti ny of complex huma n experie nce.7. _____ ' s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctlyAmerican literature to be written in English.8. Benjamin Fran kli n ' s best writi ng is found in his masterpiece _____ .9. James Fennimore Cooper laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the fron tier saga and■。
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美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTranscendentalism.2.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.3.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.4.Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobi ographical.5.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “________” movement.7.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10.In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.11.In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst” since she isolated herself fromthe outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.13._______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga,represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14.The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20thcentury, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.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 best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2.Most of the p oems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life3.Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Reliance4.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers5.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. Thefollowing 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 Leatherstocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden6.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such 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 Winkle8.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not ausual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9.Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12.One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ an accepted standardliterary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _____.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started thisgreat war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1.Local color fiction2.Captain John Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1.What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2.What’s the symbolic signif icance of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. 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 freeverse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2.The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTranscendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in theimpressions 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 to establish a modern tradition of literature richwith learning and allusive thought.7.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poemwritten by _____.8.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Steinhad called “a Lost Generation”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.10.Among the works attacking 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 todestroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of naturedistinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________,a collection of essays, sketches and tales, marks thebeginning of American romanticism.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 best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver WendellHolmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar4.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is ______.A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers6.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. Thefollowing 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. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is 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 stories such 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 of life. Which of the following is Not ausual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ____ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15.The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of lifeshould be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. 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. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James17.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter “A” which originally stands for “_____”, finally obtains themeaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester’s efforts.A. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as_____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19.Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainlyfocus on the landscape and people in _____.A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20.William Faulkner’s w orks mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modernnarration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner22.“In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _____.A. the imagist poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the transcendental poetry23.Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ______.A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical PeriodC. the Jazz AgeD. the Romantic Period24._____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26._______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” This may be a principle forthe characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started thisgreat war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen30.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ______.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth” (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1.American Romanticism.2.Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet, ______, to appear in Americaup to that time.2.James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and______.3.Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4.Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.5.In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an Americanwriter to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond.7.After his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner ofWestminster Abbey.8.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the______.9.The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______.10.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat orregular rhyme scheme.11.______ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in theimpressions made by life on the spectator.12.______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13.O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order toget money for a Christmas present for each other.14.______ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist” movement.15.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who wasdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16.Ernest Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in 1929.The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17.______ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18.William Faulkner considered __________ to be “the first truly American writer”.19.As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shapingindividualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20.A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ______.II. 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.Moby Dick was dedicated to ____.A. Ralph EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry ThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2.____ was Mark Twain’s masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American literaturecomes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3.____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith4.Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5.Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that i s, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical ofthe period we now call ____.A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Regionalism6.As a literary and philosophical movement, ____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the CivilWar.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7.____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience8.There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ____ on the Puritansoil.A. RomanticismB. SymbolismC. MysticismD. Rationalism9.American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ____.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10.Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11.The main theme of ____’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life shouldbe the main object of the novel.A. Henry JamesB. William HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry12.Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?A. Stephan CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Walt Whitman13.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14.Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT ausual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16.Of the following American writers, _____ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started thisgreat war!” The book refers to ____.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB.Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin18.The works of _____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22.“The Custom-House” is an introductory note to _____.A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but wasdisillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are prob ably discussing ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “____”, devoid offaith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers26.The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ____.A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27.Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28.____ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. John Steinbeck29.____, one of America’s greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwrightto receive the honor. Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. Bernard MalamudD. Eugene O’Neill30.Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ____.A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translatorIII. 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.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier becomesuccessful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案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. Howells10. free verse11.Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. 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. 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 environment, 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.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.Ralph Emerson’s truest disciple was ______, who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories.2.On January 10, 1776, Thomas Pa ine’s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated a“Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.3.______ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.4.“To a Waterfowl” is perhaps the peak of ______’s work, which has been called by an Englishprominent critic “the most perfect brief poem in the language”.5.In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, ______ gave America its first genuine epic poem.6.______ probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricatestyle that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.7.______’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctlyAmerican literature to be written in English.8.Benjamin Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece ______.9.James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the frontier saga and______.10.Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.11.Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.12.In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by anAmerican writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.。
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湖州师范学院外国语学院2008— 2009 学年第二学期《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）适用班级050511-13 考试时间120 分钟学院班级学号姓名题号一二三四五六七八九十总分分数得分I. Write the names of the authors.(10%)1.Leaves of Grass ( )2.Raven ( )3.Anecdote of the Jar ( )4.The Octopus ( )5.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )6. A Rose for Emily ( )7.Arrowsmith ( )8.Of Mice and Men ( )9.The Weary Blues ( )10.The Streetcar Named Desire ( )得分II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%）1.Emily Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual and paysattention to only one region “____________”. Her poetry characterizeswith the concise, direct and simple diction and syntax.2.Simply ______________ means the use of regional detail in a literaryor artistic work.The name is given especially to a kind of Americanliterature that in its most characteristic form made its appearance justafter the Civil War and for nearly three decades was the single mostpopular form of American literature.3.Martin Eden, one of London's most important books, is this __________account of a young sailor who struggles to improve himself and achieveseventual success as a writer, but grows disenchanted with fame andwealth. It represents both an indictment of the American dream and animportant reflection on London's own background and career.4.Modernism in literature is not easily summarized, but the key elementsare experimentation, __________, individualism and a stress on thecerebral rather than emotive aspects.5.The __________ manifesto came out in 1912 showed three poeticprinciples: direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）,exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）,the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of ametronome（free verse form and music）.6.In The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells us a story of anold Cuban fisherman, __________, who is a perfectionist when it comesto fishing.7.William Faulkner wrote works of psychological drama and emotionaldepth, typically with long serpentine prose and high,meticulously-chosen diction, also using groundbreaking literary devicessuch as stream of consciousness, ______________, and time-shiftswithin narrative.8.Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literaturein __________ for his vigorous and graphic art of description and hisability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.9.____________ was more than just a literary movement: it includedracial consciousness, "the back to Africa" movement led by MarcusGarvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz,spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others. It was a hugeleap for black liberation and culture.10.____________ received the Pulitzer Prize four times and received theNobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for the power, honesty and deep-feltemotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept oftragedy, making him the first US dramatist to do so.得分III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the mostappropriate answer. （20%）1. Mark Twain created, in____________, a masterpiece of Americanrealism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SawyerC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD. The Gilded Age2. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham3. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism4. 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 Independence5. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab6. __________, 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"7. 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 above8. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished arevolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. Thomas Stearns EliotD. James JoyceE. all of the above9. __________ tells the Joad family's life from the time they were evictedfrom 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 Tolls10. _________ wrote about the society in the South by inventing familieswhich represented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. John Steinbeck得分IV. Identify the author and the title of the work from which each ofthe following excerpts is taken. And then answer the question aftereach excerpt. (20%)Passage 1"I celebrate myself, and sing myself.And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. "The authorThe title of the workQuestion: What is the author celebrating?Passage 2CABOT:The farm needs a son.ABBIE:I need a son.CABOT:Ay-eh. Sometimes ye air the farm an’ sometimes the farm be yew.That’s why I clove t’ ye in my lonesomeness. (A pause. He poundshis knee with his fist.) Me an’ the farm has got t’ beget a son! ABBIE:Ye’d best go t’ sleep. Ye’re gittin’ thin’s all mixed.CABOT:(with an impatient gesture) No, I hain’t. My mind’s clear’s a well.Ye don’t know me, that’s it. (He stares hopelessly at the floor.) ABBIE:(indifferently) Mebbe.…………ABBIE:(at last—painfully) Ye shouldn’t, Eben—ye shouldn’t—I’d make ye happy!EBEN:(harshly) I don’t want t’ be happy—from yew!ABBIE:(helplessly) Ye do, Eben! Ye do! Why d’ye lie?EBEN:(viciously) I don’t take t’ ye, I tell ye! I hate the sight o’ ye! ABBIE:(with an uncertain troubled laugh) Waal, I kissed ye anyways—an’ye kissed back—yer lips was burnin’—ye can’t lie’bout that!(intensely) If ye don’t care, why did ye kiss me back—why was yerlips burnin’?The authorThe title of the workQuestion: The second conversation in the above excerpt takes place immediately after the first one. What do you think is Abbie’s real intention of showing affection to Eben?Passage 3“Since then-- ’tis Centuries--and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses’ HeadsWere toward Eternity—”The authorThe title of the workQuestion: What is the implication of this final stanza?Passage 4They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . .The authorThe title of the workQuestion: What is the author' s attitude toward such persons as Tom andDaisy?Passage 5Lo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!The authorThe title of the workQuestion: Comment on the beauty of this poem.V. Answer the following questions briefly.（20%）得分1. Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”:（1）What realistic elements can you find in this story? (5%)（2）What role does language play in the story? (5%)2.What is the Lost Generation? (10%)得分VI. Answer ONE of the following questions.（20%）1.Analyze An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.2. Analyze William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.。