美国文学模拟试题四

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四

学院:外语学院专业:英语年级：________ 班次: 学号：姓名：

考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150 分钟试卷编号( 卷)

I.

( ) 1. Modern poetry is “the poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice.” This is the opinion of Walt Whitman.

( ) 2. Robert Frost experimented with form, as many poets did in the 1920s.

( ) 3. Emperor Jones represents one of O’Neil’s attempts to place plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting.

( ) 4. “Looking for Mr. Green” is a story of Mosby’s Memories and other Stories. ( ) 5. Bellow will be remembered for the biting social criticism of his novels, and of course, for his riotous sense of humor.

( ) 6. Hester’s letter “A” eventually come s to represent “Angel” and “Able” to the townspeople.

( ) 7. Poe stresses rhythm, defines true poetry as “the rhythmical creation of beauty,”

and declares that “music is the perfection of the soul, or idea, of poetry.”

( ) 8.All three parts of Franklin's autobiography were published and released together in English for the first time in 1868.

( ) 9. New England Transcendentalism was important to American literature. It inspired a whole new generation of famous authors such as Thoreau, Melville,

Whitman, and Dickinson.

( ) 10. The setting of “Looking for Mr. Green” is Depression Columbus.

( ) 11. There are four survivors in The Open Boat: the captain, the oiler, the cook and the correspondent.

( ) 12. In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Porter narrated the story sometimes in chronological order and sometimes in flashback, and the chronological time

is more important than the psychological time.

( ) 13. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in The Roaring Twenties.

( ) 14. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.

( ) 15. The point of view in Barn Burning is the third person narration and the narrator is omniscient.

( ) 16. “The dignity of movement of iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water” is put forward by Fitzgerald.

( ) 17. In “A Psalm of Life”, the poet sings a song for the everlasting friendship. ( ) 18. In “To Helen”, Poe employed a lot similes, metaphors and allusions to portray Helen’s beauty.

( ) 19. Walt Whiteman’s poems are noted for the free verse.

( ) 20. Ralph Waldo Ellison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953.

II.following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)

Writers:

( ) 1. Edgar Allan Poe

( ) 2. Walt Whiteman

( ) 3. F·Scott Fitzgerald

( ) 4. William Carlos Williams

( ) 5. Toni Morrison

( ) 6. Ralph Waldo Ellison

( ) 7. Langston Hughes

( ) 8. Ezra Pound

( ) 9. Stephen Crane

( ) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Works:

a.O Captain! My Captain!

b.The Bluest Eye

c.In a Station of the Metro

d.The House of the Seven Gables

e.The Fall of the House of Usher

f.The Red Wheelbarrow

g.The Open Boat

h.Dreams

i.The Great Gatsby

j.Shadow and Act

III.’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)

1.Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking

of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves