美国文学期末复习资料3

Part I Identification

Directions: Decide whether the following statements are true or false.

1.( T ) Hurstwood is a character in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie.

2.( F )In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the a rt of

modern narration.”

3.( T )Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing his

death with dignity and courage.

4.( T )Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literary

realism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.” The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.

5.( F )Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the

school of “Beat Generation”.

6.( F )William Faulkner's woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral

in the American North.

7.( F ) Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the

romantic period.

8.( T )The narrator in T he Great Gatsby is a minor character named Nick Carraway,

who is also a participant in the event.

9.( T ) Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole

generation, the lost generation.

10.( F )In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, in

which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.

Part II Multiple choice:

Directions: Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry

of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.

A. Ezra Pound

B. Robert Frost

C. T. S. Eliot

D.

E. E. Cummings

2. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems

loosely connected.

A. The Waste Land

B. The Cantos

C. Don Juan

D. Queen Mab

3. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a

revolution in literary style and language.

A. Gertrude Stein

B. Ezra Pound

C. James Joyce

D. all of the above

4. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money

than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and

traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as

_______.

A The Jazz Age

B The Gilded Age

C The Roaring Age

D The Beat Age

5. The “green light”in The Great Gatsby symbolizes __________.

A. Sex

B. Money

C. Power

D. The American Dream

6. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?

A Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

B Amy Lowell

C Ezra Pound

D Robert Frost

7. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?

a. Nature

b. Walden

c. On Beauty

d. Self-Reliance

8. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from

their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.

A. Of Mice and Men

B. The Grapes of Wrath

C. The Great Gatsby

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

9. The realistic period is referred to as "the Gilded Age" by _______.

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Theodore Dreiser

10. The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________.

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Ezra Pound

C T. S. Eliot D. William Carlos Williams

Part III Match the following writers and their works: Writers:

( j ) 1. Walt Whitman

( a ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe

( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson

( h ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald

( i ) 5. Wallace Stevens

( b ) 6. William Faulkner

( g) 7. Arthur Miller

( c ) 8. John Steinbeck

( d ) 9. Ernest Hemingway

( e ) 10. Robert Frost

Works:

a.The Raven

b.Go Down, Moses

c.The Grapes of Wrath

d.The Sun Also Rises

e.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

f.Nature

g.Death of a Salesman