大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题

大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题：

1.选择/对错60分（40道选择，20个对错）

2.名词解释10分（5个）

3.选段配对10分（5个）

4.问答20分（10/2）

1．历史：Father / poetess…

2. 名作家：Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson

3．作品：The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter

1.a)选择题（40个，40分）

1. At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________.

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

D. Modernist Movement

2. 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 Generation

B. Iceberg theory

C. American Dream

D. Code Heroes

4. Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? ________

A. Hester Prynne

B. Roger Chillingworth

C. Captain Ahab

D. Pearl

5. Jack London’s semi-biographical novel ________well presents the disillusionment of American Dream.

A. The American Tragedy

B. The Call of the Wild

C. Martin Eden

D. The Grapes of Wrath

b)判断对错题（20个，20分）

1. Poe’s masterpiece “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 to the 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)

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 “purify” or simplify the religious ritual of the Church of England. They believed in the original sin and the harsh Day of Doom, although some good people --- the chosen people or “the Elect”--- may be saved. (Puritanism)

2. A literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life．

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, on horseback, 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. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable 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 over the restraints of law and custom. & believed in the transcendence of the“oversoul”{2}A literary movement flourishing in New England from the 1830s to the Civil war. It stresses intuitive understanding of God, without the help of the church and advocated independence of the mind. The representative writers are Emerson and Thoreau.

{b}The significance of Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism exerted a dominating notion onto the major wirers of the Romantic period and its essence has been permanently absorbed into the main stream of American thought. As a moral philosophy, Transcendentalists took their ideas from the romantic literature of Europe, from neo-Platonism, from German idealistic philosophy and from the revelations of Oriental mysticism. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. They believed in the transcendence of the “Oversoul”, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things are a part. As a philosophical and literary