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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

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 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, 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 fromwhi ch “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, Presi dent 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 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 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. contented。

美国文学试题及答案

美国文学试题及答案

美国文学试题及答案一、单项选择题(每题2分,共20分)1. 马克·吐温的代表作是以下哪一部?A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《哈克贝利·芬历险记》C. 《白鲸》D. 《老人与海》答案:B2. 爱伦·坡的《乌鸦》属于什么文学流派?A. 浪漫主义B. 现实主义C. 哥特式D. 现代主义答案:C3. 《飘》的作者是谁?A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫B. 玛格丽特·米切尔C. 简·奥斯汀D. 乔治·艾略特答案:B4. 以下哪部作品不是亨利·詹姆斯的作品?A. 《贵妇人的画像》B. 《使节》C. 《简·爱》D. 《贵妇人的画像》答案:C5. 以下哪部作品是威廉·福克纳的代表作?A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《喧哗与骚动》C. 《老人与海》D. 《白鲸》答案:B二、填空题(每题2分,共10分)1. 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》的作者是________。

答案:哈丽叶特·比彻·斯托2. 《红字》的作者是________。

答案:纳撒尼尔·霍桑3. 《草叶集》的作者是________。

答案:沃尔特·惠特曼4. 《愤怒的葡萄》的作者是________。

答案:约翰·斯坦贝克5. 《太阳照样升起》的作者是________。

答案:欧内斯特·海明威三、简答题(每题5分,共20分)1. 简述《白鲸》中主人公艾哈布船长的形象。

答案:艾哈布船长是《白鲸》中的主人公,他是一个对捕鲸有着极端执着的船长,他的复仇心理和对白鲸的执念几乎占据了他整个人生。

他的形象代表了人类对自然的挑战和对未知的恐惧。

2. 描述《了不起的盖茨比》中盖茨比的美国梦。

答案:《了不起的盖茨比》中的盖茨比代表了20世纪20年代的美国梦,他通过自己的努力从贫穷中崛起,追求财富和社会地位,但最终因为追求一个无法实现的爱情和对过去的执着而走向悲剧。

美国文学分章试题4

美国文学分章试题4

Exercises for American LiteraturePart ⅣⅠ. Multiple choice:1.The end of _____ marked the beginning of what Mark Twain called The Gilded Age.A. The American War of IndependenceB. World War OneC. World War TwoD. The Civil War2. “A Psalm of Life” is a famous poem written by _____.A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Walt WhitmanC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson3. By the 1870s _____ had waned.A. PuritanismB. the New England RenaissanceC. RealismD. Classicism4. By the end of the Civil War, _____ became the nation’s literary center.A. New Y orkB. BostonC. JamestownD. Los Angeles5. _____ had originated in France, a literary doctrine that called for reality and truth in the depiction of ordinary life.A. PuritanismB. New England RenaissanceC. RealismD. Classicism6. Local color began to decline _____ .A. after 1920B. by the turn of 19th centuryC. after 1910D. in the 1870s7. The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was _____ .A. William Dean HowellsB. Mark TwainC. Bret HarteD. Hamlin Garland8. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called _____, that is, poetry without fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. free verseB. blank verseC. lyricsD. sonnet9. “Song of myself” is a famous poem written by _____ .A. Emily DickinsonB. Walt WhitmanC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Edgar Allan Poe10. _____ was the first book of Mark Twain.A. Jumping frogB. Innocents AbroadC. Roughing ItD. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn11. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is the masterpiece of _____ .A. Henry JamesB. William Dean HowellsC. Mark TwainD. Nathaniel Hawthorne12. In “The Cop and the Anthem” the main reason for Soapy to deliberately commitone crime after another is that _____ .A. he hates the wealthy peopleB. he just wants to revenge himselfC. winter is coming and Soapy has no refuge except the prisonD. he just does that for no reasons13. The Gift of the Magi is one of the best stories by _____ .A. O. HenryB. Mark TwainC. Harriet Beecher StoweD. Jack London14. Jack wrote the following except _____ .A. The Four MillionB. The People of the AbyssC. The Iron HeelD. The Call of the wild15. Which of the following novels is written by Jack London? _____ .A. The Portrait of a LadyB. The wings of the DoveC. The Scarlet LetterD. The Sea Wolf16. Theodore Dreiser’s masterpiece of Naturalism is _____ .A. An American TragedyB. The FinancierC. The TitanD. The StoicⅡ.Complete the following statements:1. Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of ________ .2. James probed deeply at the individual ________ of his characters.American naturalist writers attempted to achieve extreme ________ and frankness.3. The naturalists emphasized that the world was ________ .4. Darwinism seemed to stress the ________ of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.5. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about man and ________ .6. Many of Dickinson’s poems were based on single ________ or symbols.7. O. Henry imitated ________ as a model.8. Jack London was influenced by the teaching of Marx, Nietzsche and ________ .1.Dreiser’s ________ consists of The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic.2.Dreiser’s greatest and most successful novel was ________ .Ⅲ.Define the literary terms listed below:1. The Gilded Age2. International Theme3. Realism4. NaturalismPart ⅤⅠ. Multiple choice:1. Writer of the first postwar era self=consciously acknowledged that they were _____ .A. a Lost GenerationB. a Beat GenerationC. a Jazz GenerationD. None of the above2. During the 1920s William Faulkner published one of the influential Americannovels of the age, _____ .A. The Sound and the FuryB. An American TragedyC. Winesburg, OhioD. The Waste Land3. After _____ a group of new American dramatists emerged, and the Americantheater ceased to be dependent on the dramatic traditions of Europe.A. the War of IndependenceB. the Civil WarC. World WarⅠD. World WarⅡ4. _____ came as a burst of literary achievement in the 1920s by Negro playwrights,poets and novelists who prepared the way for the emergence of numerous black writers after mid-century.A. The Lost GenerationB. The Beat GenerationC. The Harlem RenaissanceD. The New American Theater5. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.”These lines were written by _____ .A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Carl Sandberg6. Edwin Arlington Robinson was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for _____ .A. three timesB. twiceC. onceD. four times7. The central image of Frost’s “Design” is _____ .A. a flyB. a mothC. a spiderD. a bird8. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the writing atyle of CarlSandburg ? _____ .A. He avoided regular stanza pattern and traditional blank verseB. He wrote an utterly free verseC. He developed Whitman’s long line but moderated its rhetorical impact andintensityD. His poems are often difficult to understand and rich in allusions9. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature in _____ .A. 1948B. 1949C. 1950D. 195110. T. S. Eliot deserves the following titles except _____ .A. a great poetB. a dramatistC. a literary criticD. a great novelist11. In 1954 _____ was awarded a Nobel Prize for his mastery of the art of modernnarration.A. John SteinbeckB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemingwayD. T. S. Eliot12. The central theme of Faulkner’s works focuses on _____ .A. the county of Y oknapatawphaB. the universal theme of the problems of the human heart in conflict with itselfC. the AmericansD. Oxford13. _____ received the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. T. S.Eliot14. “A Rose for Emily” is a famous short story written by _____ .A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. Sherwood Anderson15. Which of the following works of Hemingway is NOT about the war? _____ .A. Death in the AfternoonB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. For Whom the Bell TollsⅡ.Complete the following statements:1. ________ stands as a great dividing line between the 19th century andcontemporary America.2. The Lost Generation writers were devoid of faith and ________ from acivilization.3. In the 1920s the most prominent American playwright was ________ .4. In “A Pact”, the poet makes a pack with ________ .5. Robinson was interested in the ________ legends.6. The later works of Stevens became increasingly meditative and ________ .7. The first of Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot is ________ .8. The Waste Land introduces a poetic form---- the ________ of related themes insuccessive movement.9. In his best novels, Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering______.10. ________ was the spokesman for the “Lost Generation”.11. For Whom the Bell Tolls was set in Spain during the ________ .12. A farewell to Arms portrayed a farewell both to war and ________ .13. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art ofmodern ________”.14. John Steinbeck was the foremost novelist of the American ________ in the1930s.15. Faulkner’s Snopse Trilogy consists of ________ , The Town and The MansionⅢ.Define the literary terms listed below:1.Avant-garde2. The Lost Generation3. The New American Theater4. Stream of ConsciousnessⅣ.Answer the following question:1. Discuss the thematic concerns of A Farewell to Arms.2. Discuss the themes of William Faulkner.。

当代美国文学选读模拟试题

当代美国文学选读模拟试题

《当代美国文学选读》模拟试题I.Fill in the bla nks with correct an swers. (30%)1,When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” was a poem written by WaltWhitma n in memory of __________________ .2,O Captain! My Captain!” was a poem written by ______________________ in memory of the America n Preside nt Abraham Li ncol n.3, A Noiseless Patient Spider was a short poem written by _______________________ .4,Out of the Cradle, En dlessly Rock in g' is a poem writte n by _________________ .5,In Dickinson' poem Because I could not stop for Death”,the image of theSchool” n the third sta nza sta nds for ___________________ .6,This is my letter to the World ” is the opening line in a poem written by7,The central characters name in Henry James noveThe Portrait of a Lady is8,The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel is that it be interesting” is a famous statement made by Henry James in his long essay9,The Cop and the An then”' is a short story writte n by_________________ .II. Choose the one answer that completes the following sentences correctly. (30%)1,The short poem The Red Wheelbarrow" was writte n by ______________________ .A, Tenn esseeWilliams; B, William Carlos Williams; C, Wallace Steve ns; D, Hilda Doolittle2,Robert Frost once said that a poem should beg in with delight and end inA, pleasure; B, ugli ness; C, death; D, wisdom3,Two roads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a poem written byRobert Frost en titled _______________ .A, The Road Not Taken; B, Mending Wall; C, Two Yellow Roads; D, After Apple Picki ng4,Among the following works written by T. S. Eliot, only one is not a poem. It isA, The Waste Land; B, The Hollow Men; C, Ash Wednesday D, Murder in the Cathedral5,The Waste Lan dwas dedicated to ano ther poet who was ________________________ .A, Ernest Hemi ngway; B, Ezra Pou nd; C, T. S. Eliot; D, William Carlos Williams6,The gree n light "in The Great Gatsby symbolizes __________ .A, sex; B, mon ey; C, power; D, The America n dream7,The author who claimed that only f he smiling aspects' of American life should bedepicted in literary writi ngs was ________________ .A, William Dean Howells; B, Henry James; C, Bret Harte; D, Mark Twain8,Among the following novels, only one was written by Mark Twain. It isA, The Rise of Silas Lapham; B, The Portrait of A Lady ; C, A Modern Instanee; D, The Mysterious Stra nger9,The American author who defined Realism as nothing more and nothing less thanthe truthful treatment of materia' is ________________ .A, Mark Twain; B, F. Scott Fitzgerald; C, William Dean Howells; D, Henry James10,I ndia n Summeris a no vel writte n by the America n realist _______________ .A, Mark Twain; B, Henry James; C, William Dean Howells; D, Willa CatherIII.1,Retell the story of The Grapes of Wrath in your ow n words. (20%)2,Define the term American Naturalism” briefly. (20%)参考答案:I.1, Abraham Lincoln; 2, Walt Whitma n; 3, Walt Whitma n; 4, Walt Whitma n; 5, youth;6, Emily Dickinson; 7, Isabel Archer; 8, The Art of Fiction; 9, O. Henry; 10, Anne Bradstreet11,1, B; 2, D; 3, A; 4, D; 5, B; 6, D; 7, A; 8, D; 9, C; 10, CIII.1,参见教材259页内容简介。

专业英语八级英美文学知识分类模拟题4

专业英语八级英美文学知识分类模拟题4

专业英语八级英美文学知识分类模拟题4专业英语八级英美文学知识分类模拟题4单项选择题1. ______ was the only female American prose writer in the 19th century.A.Emily DickinsonB.Jane AustinC.George EliotD.Harriet Beecher Stowe答案:D美国19世纪唯一的女散文作家是Harriet Beecher Stowe(哈利特·比彻·斯托)。

Emily Dickirson(艾米丽·迪金森)是女诗人。

另外两位是英国女作家。

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe's works mainly focus on ______.A.romanticismB.local colourismC.naturalismD.transcendentalism答案:BHarriet Beecher Stowe(哈利特·比彻·斯托)的作品充满了乡土气息。

3. Which of the following is the masterpiece by Harriet Beecher Stowe?A.Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal SwampB.Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories'C.Uncle Tom "s CabinD.The Gilded Age答案:CSwamp(《德雷德:阴暗大沼地的故事》)和Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories(《山姆·罗森的炉边故事》)也是她的作品,但没有前者有名。

The Gilded Age(《镀金时代》)是Mark Twain(马克·吐温)的作品。

4. ______ is the masterpiece written by William Dean Howells.A.The Rise of Silas LaphamB.The Innocents AbroadC.The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WisonD.The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg答案:AThe Rise of Silas Lapham(《塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹》)是威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯的名作。

(完整版)英语专业美国文学试题exercise 4

(完整版)英语专业美国文学试题exercise 4

Exercise Four美国文学自测题及参考答案 II. ( 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 of the seventeenth century,the overwhelming majority was _____.3.The English immigrants who settled on America’s northern seacoast were called _____, sonamed after those who wished to “purify" the Church of England.4.Washington Irving, the Father of American literature, developed the _____ as a genre inAmerican literature.5.Franklin's best writing is found in his masterpiece _____。

6.The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was _____.7.In the early 19th century,“Rip Van Winkle” had established _____’s reputation at homeand abroad, and designated the beginning of American Romanticism.8._____ has sometimes been considered the father of the modern short story.9.In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece _____, the story of a triangularlove affair in colonial America.II.(20 points, 1 point for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items。

全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷4(题后含答案及解析)

全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷4(题后含答案及解析)

全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷4(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 2. 阅读理解 3. 简答题 4. 论述题阅读理解1.For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Questions:A. Identify the author and the title.B. What does the phrase “inward eye” mean?C. Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.正确答案:A. Wordsworth, I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud.B. Human soul.C. The poet expresses his love for the daffodils. 涉及知识点:阅读理解2.“ I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence;Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. “Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What additional meaning do the two roads have?C. What dilemma is the speaker facing?正确答案:A. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken.B. Life is here compared to a journey. The two roads stand for the choice one has to make at a critical moment in his life.C. Since where the road leads to is uncertain, one has to wait to see the result of the choice until one’ s life is coming to an end. Then it will be too late. The speaker acknowledges the limits of life, yet he indulges himself in the notion that we could be really different from what we have become, because life is unpredictable. 涉及知识点:阅读理解简答题3.Briefly discuss the features of Fielding’ s writings.正确答案:Fielding’ s language is easy, unlaboured and familiar, but extremely vivid and vigorous. His sentences are always distinguished by logic and rhythm, and his structure carefully planned towards an inevitable ending. His works are also noted for lively, dramatic dialogues and other theatrical devices such as suspense, coincidence and unexpectedness. 涉及知识点:简答题4.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of ‘the system’, that, during the period of his solitary incarceration , Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation. “What do you thinkCharles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?正确答案:A. The sentence is a typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to say is just the opposite of the sentence’ s literal meaning.B. For the “benefit” of exercise, Oliver was whipped every morning in a stone yard; for the “pleasure”of society, he was carried every other day into the dining hall and flogged as a public warning and example to the boys; and as for the “advantages”of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer time and listened to the boys’ prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices.C. The ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal, inhuman treatment of the poor orphan by the workhouse authority. 涉及知识点:简答题5.Please analyze The Waste Land by Eliot.正确答案:A. With bold technical innovations in versification and style, the poem not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation.B. The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. The poem has developed a whole set of historical, cultural and religious themes; but it is often regarded as being primarily a reflection of the 20th-century people’s disillusionment and frustration in a sterile and futile society. 涉及知识点:简答题6.Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature. How is Mark Twain’ s realism different from James’ s realism?正确答案:A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James’ s realism is concerned with the “inner world” of man.C. James’ s realism is also concerned with the international theme.D. Mark Twain’ s language is simple and colloquial.E. Mark Twain employs humor in his writing.F. James ‘s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses. 涉及知识点:简答题论述题7.What are the differences between the Neoclassical period and the Romantic period?正确答案:A. Neo-classicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity, and thus, literary expressions should be of proportion, unity , harmony and grace. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism advocates grace, wit (usually through satire/humour) , and simplicity in language (and the poem itself is ademonstration of those ideals, too) ; Fielding’ s Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel; Gray’ s “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” displays elegance in style, unified structure, serious tone and moral instruction.B. Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience, including art, and thus, literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings” , and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were ( Wordsworth’ s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” , or “The Solitary Reaper” , or Coleridge’ s “Kubla Khan” ) , the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.C. In a word, Neo-classicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to die individual’ s mind ( emotion, imagination, temporary experience...). 涉及知识点:论述题8.Please mark a brief comment on Hawthorne’ s Young Goodman Brown.正确答案:A. Goodman Brown, a Puritan who lives in the village of Salem, leaves his wife Faith, who pleads him not to go, to attend a witches’ Sabbath in the woods. There, he astonishingly finds lots of prominent people of the village and the church. When he is about to be confirmed into the group, he finds his wife Faith is also there beside him. He immediately cries out “look up to Heaven and resist the wicked one” , only to find he is alone in the forest. He returns to his home, but since then lives a dismal and gloomy life because he is never able to believe in goodness or piety again.B. Young Goodman Brown is one of Hawthorne’ s most profound tales. In the manner of its concern with guilt and evil, it exemplifies what Melville called the “ power of blackness” in Hawthorne’ s work. Its hero, a naive young man who accepts both society in general and his fellow men as individuals worth his regard, is confronted with the vision of human evil in one terrible night, and becomes thereafter distrustful and doubtful. Allegorically, our protagonist becomes an Everyman named Brown, a “young” man, who will be aged in one night by an adventure that makes everyone in this world a fallen idol. However, the story is manipulated in such a way that we as readers feel that Hawthorne poses the question of Good and Evil in man but withholds his answer, and he does not permit himself to determine whether the events of the night of trial are real or the mere figment of a dream. 涉及知识点:论述题9.Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symbolism is used in Faulkner’ s story A Rose for Emily.正确答案:A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament “we”shows for Emily.C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.D. Discuss in relation to the story. 涉及知识点:论述题。

《英美文学选读》模拟试题(4)答案

《英美文学选读》模拟试题(4)答案

《英美文学选读》模拟试题(四)一、Multiple Choice1.Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. GreekD. primitive2.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very face that _______.A. man is confined to timeB. he tried to join Africa to SpainC. he became a man without soul after he sold itD. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very course of the Trojan War Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus The Passionate Sheperd to His Love3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movements?A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C. The Glorious revolution.D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _______.A .the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiencesB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.D. the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from _______.A.Spensers The Faerie QueeneB.John Donnes “The Sun Rising”C.Shakespeares “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowes “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”6.You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _______.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human WishesC. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsD. Henry Fielding’s tom Jones7.The ture subject of John Donnes poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to _______.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the suns intrusion into the lovers private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie.8."Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candour" are most likely the names of the characters in _______.A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s ProfessionB. Sheridan’s The School for ScandalC. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s LostD. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers Travels are _______.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.What does Wordsworth’s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.C. Romanticist are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme.D. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.11.The phrase 搕o urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils?may well sum up the implied meaning of _______.A. Gullivers TravelsB. The Rape of the LockC. Robinson CrusoeD. The pilgrims Progress12. Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for _______.A. planning a revolt to dethrone GodB. misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and natureC. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter seasonD. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.”C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.14."My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s _______.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as _______.A. being hereditarily either good or badB. being self-sufficientC. having no control over his own fateD. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion17.The typical feature of Robet Brownings poetry is the _______.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The term tone in literature means _______.A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical deviceB. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given contextC. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subjectD. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light19._______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch20.In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?A. "Sailing to Byzantium"B. " Leda and the Swan"C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".D. " Sown by the Sally Garden"21._______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except _______.A. DublinersB. Jude the Obscure --HardyC. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. Ulysses内容简介托马斯·哈代(1840-1928),英国小说大师,著名诗人。

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

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)publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical., the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.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 _______.the works attacki ng the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.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.1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst” since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most 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 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)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. Starbuckof the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. lifeof the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph EmersonA. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-RelianceHawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A.saviorsB. villainsC.commentatorsD. observersAmerican literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.’s Sister CarrierTwain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’s Leatherstocking Tales’s Waldenof the following is Not optimistic about human nature .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry ThoreauIrving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.Van Winkle and Moby DickVan Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowGoodman Brown and Moby DickFall of the House of Usher and Rip Van WinkleDickinson wrote many of her poems on 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 peaceJames 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 historyis 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 AgeFaulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. Westof Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ an accepted standard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speechDickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B.8 C.9 D. 10writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. Frenchthe following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. FitzgeraldFrost 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 Riverworks of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you 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 Austenis 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.” 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)color fictionJohn Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson’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)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.publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped 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 isthe shortest poem written by _____.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 note to the novel _______.the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time., the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation ofnature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.publication of Washington Irving’s _________, a collection of essays, sketches and 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)Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A.individualismB. freedomC.democracyD. all the aboveis the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American ScholarTranscendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is ______.A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divineHawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observersAmerican literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.’s Sister CarrierTwain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’s Leather-Stocking Tales’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 Thoreauof the following is Not optimistic about human natureA. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreauof the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true _____.explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.Van Winkle and Moby DickVan Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowGoodman Brown and Moby DickFall of the House of Usher and Rip Van WinkleDickinson wrote many of her poems on 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 peaceTwain wrote most of his literary works with a ____ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simpleperiod 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 Colonialismis 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 Agemain theme of _______’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howellsis 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 Jamesto 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. accomplishmentthe 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 AgeFrost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _____.A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid WestFaulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 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 by critics as a classic specimen of _____.A. the imagist poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the transcendental poetry’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ______.A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical PeriodC. the Jazz AgeD. the Romantic Periodusually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smithworks of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howellsis NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A.PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago87, ______ 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.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started thi s great war!” Who is this woman referred to ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austenhis 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)Romanticism.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)1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet, ______, to appear in America up to that time.Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and ______.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.Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond.his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the ______.arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______.poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist” movement.1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.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.was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.Fau lkner considered __________ to be “the first truly American writer”.a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forcesshaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.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)Dick was dedicated to ____.A. Ralph EmersonB. NathanielHawthorneC. HenryThoreau D.Henry Longfellowwas Mark Twain’s masterpiece from which, 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 Ageusually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. AnnBradstreetC. EmilyDickinson D. John SmithFranklin was the epitome of the ____.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD.RomanticistJefferson’s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and t he pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call ____.A. Age ofEvolution B. Age of ReasonC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Regionalism a literary and philosophical movement, ____ flourished in New England from the 1830sto the Civil War.A. modernismB.rationalismC.sentimentalismD. transcendentalismis NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedienceis a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ____ on the Puritan soil.A.RomanticismB. SymbolismC.MysticismD. Rationalismliterature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ____.A. AnneBradstreet B.Jane AustenC. EmilyDickinson D.Harriet Beecherof the following statements about O. Henry is NOT rightA. 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.main theme of ____’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. HenryJames B.William HowellsC. MarkTwainD. O. Henryof the following does NOT have a naturalist tendencyA. StephanCrane B.Frank NorrisC. JackLondonD. Walt WhitmanMelville, 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. Starbuckof the following is NOT optimistic about human natureA. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry ThoreauDickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expressionA.ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peacethe following American writers, _____ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wr ote the book that started this great war!” The book refers to ____.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Belovedand Prejudice D.Uncle Tom’s Cabinworks of _____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William HowellsLeaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A.individualismB. freedomC.democracyD. all the aboveis 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 Jamesthe 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 Romancewe say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East 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 Faulknerwriters 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 Menone of the following statements is NOT true of William FaulknerA. 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 writerssetting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ____.A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. PuritanAmericaD. America after the Revolutionary Warstatement is NOT true of the American naturalistA. 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.is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. ErnestHemingway B.F. Scott FitzgeraldC. WilliamFaulknerD. John Steinbeck, 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 Ni ght.A. ArthurMillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. BernardMalamud D.Eugene O’NeillAllan Poe occupies an important position in 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 best known writers of local color.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)2. frontier saga3. transcendentalist4. Moby Dick5. Sketch Book7. Longfellow8. Civil War9. Howells10. free verseJames12. 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 AB 6 --- 10: D D AC 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 whyThis 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 oblivionin 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 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)Emerson’s truest disciple was ______, who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories.January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.4.“To a Waterfowl” is perhaps the peak of ______’s work, which has been called byan English prominent critic “the most perfect brief poem in the language”.his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, ______ gave America its first genuine epic poem.probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece ______.Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the frontier saga and ______.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.Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit ofa seemingly supernatural white whale.the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.。

美国文学考试模拟题

美国文学考试模拟题

第一章殖民地时期的美国文学填空题1. Theterm “Puritan”was applied to those settlers who originally were devout membersof the Church of ______.【答案】England查看答案【解析】清教徒(Puritan),是指要求清除英国国教Church of England中天主教残余的改革派。

其字词于16世纪60年代开始使用,源于拉丁文的Purus,意为“清洁”。

2. Themost enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was______.【答案】American Puritanism查看答案【解析】美国文化源于清教文化,由清教徒移民时传入北美。

美国主流价值观都可以追溯到殖民地时期一统天下的清教主义,并且清教思想对美国文学有着根深蒂固的影响。

3. Hard work, thrift,piety and sobriety, these were the ______ values that dominated much of theearly American writing.【答案】Puritan查看答案【解析】清教主义,起源于英国,在北美殖民地得以实践与发展。

清教徒强调艰苦奋斗、勤俭节约、虔诚和淡泊。

这些价值观也影响了早期的美国文学。

4. Many Puritans wroteverse, but the works of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and ______, rose to thelevel of real poetry.【答案】EdwardT aylor查看答案【解析】美国殖民时期最著名的诗人是安·布莱德斯特和爱德华·泰勒。

5. TheT enth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by______.【答案】AnneBradstreet查看答案【解析】安·布莱德斯特律是美国殖民时期著名的诗人。

美国文学模拟题

美国文学模拟题

美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题I.Simple questions (5’×4=20’)1. What are Puritan thoughts?2. What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures?3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A” in The Scarlet Letter.4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry.II.Interpreting the following texts (45’)Text 1When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things.Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.Questions1.Please use one phrase to summarize the above paragraph (2’)2.What are the two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving herhome?(2’)3.Please find out the figures of speech (2’)4.What are the attractive forces mentioned in a big city? (4’)5.How are naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph? Illustrate yourpoints with examples (5’)Text 2Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me --The Carriage held but just Ourselves --And Immortality.We slowly drove -- He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility –We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess -- in the Ring --We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --We passed the Setting Sun –…Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses' HeadsWere toward Eternity –Questions:1.Identify the poet and the title of this poem? (2’)2.Explain the underlined words (4’)3.What are the implications of “the School”, “the fields of Gazing Grain”, “theSetting Sun”? (3’)4.How do you understand “Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet / Feelsshorter than the Day” ? (3’)5.What are the speaker’s opinions about death? (3’)Text 3Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth.Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Questions:1.Please examine the poetic form (rhyme and meter) (2’)2.Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one doesthe speaker take? (3’)3.How do you understand the word “sigh”? (4’)4.What might the two roads stand for in the speaker’s mind? (4’)5.What is the theme of this poem? (2’)I.Simple Questions (5’×4=20’) (Answers should be to the points. 1score for time, 2 scores for features and 1 score for representativefigures when defining the literary terms)1.Puritan thoughts: to make pure their religious beliefs and practices, torestore simplicity, to live a hard and disciplined life and oppose pleasure andarts.2.Transcendentalism is the climax of American Romanticism.First, the Transcendentalist placed emphasis on spirit, or the oversoul, as the most important thing in the universe.Secondly, Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual.Thirdly, the Transcendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the spirit.3. a. The letter’s meaning shifts as time passes. Originally intended to markHester as an adulterer, the “A”eventually comes to stand for “Able”or“Angel”.b. Besides Hester, Dimmesdale also ironed the letter A on his body, which provoked his self-consciousness and showed his repent for what he did.c. Pearl, their baby, wore a green letter a in a piece of seaweed while playing on the beach. This green letter A symbolizes vitality or new life, and also suggests her inheritance from her mother.4. a. direct treatment of the “thing”(no fuss, frill, or ornament),b. exclusion of superfluous words(precision and economy of expression),c. the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome(free verse form and music).Ⅱ.Interpreting the following texts (45’)Text 11. The attraction of big city (2’)2. One is to fall into the saving hands and becomes better; secondly, she mayadmit themoral value of big city and becomes worse. (2’)3. Simile, meta phor and synecdoche (2’)4. The gleam of lights, a blare of sound, a roar of life, and a vast array of humanhives (4’)5. Naturalist attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presentingcharacters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by theirenvironment and heredity. In this novel, the major female character CarrieMeeber is deeply influenced by the present environment and heredity, whichleads to the result of her dynamic character.(5’) (the features of naturalism 3scores, examples 2 scores)Text 21. Emily Dickinson and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”(2’)2. He: death; civility: politeness; Recess: break Surmised: guessed (4’)3. They represent three stages of life. The school is the childhood and young age; the fields of gazing grain refers to the mature period and the setting sun the old age, that is the end of one’s life. (3’)4. Because this day is towards death, immortal and eternal (3’)5. Death is immortality (3’)Text 31. It is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymed abaab.(2’)2. Similarities: both of the roads are beautiful (fair)Differences: one is quiet and grassy, less-traveled; the other is trodden by many people and flatHe took the less-travelled road (3’)3. The word “sigh”is a tricky word. Because sigh can be interpreted into nostalgic relief or regret. If it is the relief sigh, then the difference means the speaker feels glad with the road he took. If it is the regret sigh, then the difference would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. Hence, sigh is ambigous here for the speaker is not showing whether his choice is right or wrong. (4’)4. The real road; the life road and the road in career (4’)5.Choice is inevitable but you never know what your choice will mean until youhave lived it. This is also the theme of the poem. (2’)。

美国文学试题模拟卷及答案

美国文学试题模拟卷及答案

美国文学期末考试模拟试题及答案 I.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. Franklin’s autobiography, published after his death, has become one ofthe classics of the genre.(F ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions,but the military bureaucracy is always able to find a way to make him stay. (F ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crimein the end of the play.(T ) 4. “Dreams ” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to giveup hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable.(T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter , published in 1850, is an American novel written byNathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work.(F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, andleader of the Imagist movement in the early 19th century.(F ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher ” is one of Poe ’s poems.(F ) 8. Saul Bellow ’s perceptions center around the black people, the big city,and the spirit of American life in the second half of the 20th century. (T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter , Pear is Hester ’s illegitimate daughter.(T ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound ’s Cantos the best long poem inmodern literature.(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street , which exertedgreat influence on Theodore Dreiser ’s realism.( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s. (F ) 13. Fitzgerald ’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit ofthe romantic period.(F ) 14. William Faulkner ’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moralin the American North.(F ) 15. 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. (T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises , Ernest Hemingway became thespokesman of the lost generation.(T ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love. (F ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life ” was written by Edgar Allen Poe. (F ) 19. “The Raven ” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.(F ) 20. Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel TheBluest Eye .II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( g ) 1. Benjamin Franklin Works: a. Ars Poetica ( d ) 2. Toni Morrison ( f ) 3. William Faulkner( a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( c ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne( e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( b ) 7. Stephen Crane( j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter ( h ) 9. William Carlos Williams ( i ) 10. Saul Bellowb.Maggie: A Girl of the Streetsc. Twice-told Talesd. Belovede. A Psalm of Lifef. Barn Burningg. Poor Richard’s Almanach. Patersoni. Anderson the Rain King j.The Flowering JudasIII.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility toacknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life tohis kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave themsuccess. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must notpresume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me,in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done, the complexion of myfuture fortune being known to him only in whose power it is to blessto us even our afflictions.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A.The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I givenFortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued as was my wont,to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOWwas at the thought of his immolation.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C.The Cask of Amontillado3.Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception thanthe rule. There is the man _and_ his virtues. Men do what is calleda good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as theywould pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their livingin the world, -- as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Theirvirtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. Mylife is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that itshould be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than thatit should be glittering and unsteady.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4.The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared,in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine,the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword byhis side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C.Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that aftersuccessfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slatey wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water. Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6.Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead wherethe forked green vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. “Now, now, be a good girl, and we’ll have you up in no time.”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7.But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential.? I foundmyself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.? From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me.? At firstI was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house anddidn’t move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end. Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C.H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8.?The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sittingsmelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the backof the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fish…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9.It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man whosat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him. Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10.CABOT--Thunder 'n' lightnin', Abbie! I hain't slept this late infifty year! Looks 's if the sun was full riz a'most. Must've been the dancin' an' likker. Must be gittin' old. I hope Eben's t' wuk.Ye might've tuk the trouble t' rouse me, Abbie. (He turns--sees no one there--surprised) Waal--whar air she? Gittin' vittles, I calc'late. (He tiptoes to the cradle and peers down--proudly) Mornin', sonny. Putty's a picter! Sleepin' sound. He don't beller all night like most o' 'em. (He goes quietly out the door in rear--a few moments later enters kitchen--sees Abbie--with satisfaction) So thar ye be. Ye got any vittles cooked?Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1.I shot an __ arrow ___ into the air.It fell to __ earth ___ I knew not ___ where __;For so swiftly it __ flew ___ the sightCould not __ follow ___ it in its __ flight ___. (6%)2.Life is __ real ___! Life is __ earnest ___!And the grave is not its __ goal ___;__ Dust __ thou art, to ___ dust __ returnest,Was not spoken of the __ soul ___. (6%)3.Helen, thy ___ beauty __ is to meLike those Nicean barks of yoreThat gently, o’er a __ perfumed ___ sea,The weary, way-worn ___ wanderer __ boreTo his own native _ shore ____. (4%)4.My captain does not answer, his lips are __ pale ___ and __ still___,My father does not feel my arm, he has no ___ pulse __ nor __ will ___ (4%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Of physiology from top to toe I sing,Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,The Modern Man I sing.I sing for physiology from top to toe. Neither looks alone nor intelligence is worthy for the praise. I say the form is far worthier. I also sing for the equality between the sexes. I sing for the modern man of their life full of passion, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed under the divine laws.ment: 20%1.The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.Answer the following questions:(1) Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? (5%)(2) What kind of person do you think the narrator is according to the above passage? (5%)2.On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.Answer the following questions:(1)What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of theletter A so elaborate? (5%)(2)How does this tell us about her character? (5%)____________________________________________美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二IV.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression. (F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literaryadvocates in Jefferson and Thoreau.(T ) 3. Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles.(F ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms. (T ) 5. The quotation —“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might…” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.(T ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.(T ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth aftercommitting adultery, refuses to name the father, and strugglesto create a new life of repentance and dignity.(F ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about hislife, he is taking his one week vacation in the Englishcountryside to record his past.(F ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar”symbolizes social regulation.(F ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to useMontresor’s fondness for wine against him.(T ) 11. Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story ofa good woman’s downfall and destruction in a slum environment. (T ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of humanreality.(T ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.(F ) 14.The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is consideredas the representative of his short story.(T ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat.(T ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation.(T ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms — the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.(F ) 18. In “Sonnet —To Science”, Poe praised science for itemancipated the poet ’s imagination.(T ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson ’s poems. (T ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize.V. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point foreach item)Writers:( j ) 1. Walt Whiteman ( b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe ( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( h ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald ( a ) 5. Wallace Stevens ( i ) 6. Joseph Heller ( c ) 7. Eugene Glastone O ’Neill ( d ) 8. Ernest Hemingway ( g ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( e ) 10. Langston Hughes Works: a. The Man with the Blue Guitar b. The Ravenc. Desire under the Elmsd. For Whom the Bell Tollse. Fine Clothes to the Jewf. Natureg. The Leaning Towerh. The Side of Paradise i. God Knowsj. Leaves of GrassVI. Identify the following by choosing the author ’s name and the nameof the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors.? You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose.? Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you.? To which I have besides some other inducements.Author : A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.Author : A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography3. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church,contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, -- under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4.The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on alarge scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C.Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden5.In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued asto the difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook had said: "There's a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up."Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.“Get along and doctor your sick,” said Granny Weatherall. “Leavea well woman alone. I’ll call for you when I want you…Where wereyou forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You weren’t even born. Don’t let Cornelia l ead you on,” she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. “I pay my own bills, and I don’t throw my money away on nonsense!”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner7.It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless anddismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day.? His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, andwhen I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat.? He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for somethin g to eat.? But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C.H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8."Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckonanybody named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they?" The boy said nothing. Enemy! Enemy! he thought; for a moment he could not even see, could not see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: "Do you want me to question this boy?" But he could hear, and during those subsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince9.The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from thecounter inside the cafe and marched out to the old man's table.He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe. He sat down at the table with his colleague again.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10.ABBIE--(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him--wildly) I killedhim, I tell ye! I smothered him. Go up an' see if ye don't b'lieve me! (Cabot stares at her a second, then bolts out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs, and rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk back lifelessly into her former position. Cabot puts his hand down on the body in the crib.An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.) Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1.To make a __ prairie ___ it takes a __ clover ___ and one ___ bee__,One ___ clover __ and a _ bee ____.And __ revery ___.__ Revery ___ alone will do,If ___ bees __ are few. (8%)2.How ___ dreary __ to be somebody!How public, like a ___ frog __To tell your name the __ livelong ___ dayTo an __ admiring ___ bog! (4%)3.The __ apparition ___ of these faces in the crowd;__ Petals ___ on a wet, black __ bough ___. (3%)4.So much __ depends ___upona red __ wheel _____ barrow _____ glazed ___ with rainwaterbesides the ___ white __chickens (5%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that passing thereHad worn them really about the same.In a yellow wood, I could see two roads diverged, but I felt sorry because I could not walk on both of them. As a traveler, I stood there for a long time and tried to look down one road as far as I could to the place where it changed the direction in the deep wood. Then I chose the other road just as beautiful as this. And perhaps it would be more attractive, because it was covered with grass and very quiet, even though I could see that these two roads bore almost the same amount of footprints.ment: 20%1. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.…When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.Answer the following questions:(1)What does the opening sentence imply? (5%)(2)In what way could the survivors be interpreters? (5%)2.I want you to pick all the fruit this year and see that nothing is wasted. There’s always someone who can use it. Don’t let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. Don’t let things get lost. It’s bitter to lose things. Now, don’t let me get to thinking, not when I am tired and taking a little nap before supper…Answer the following questions:(1) What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family?(5%)(2) What do you see from behind her words? (5%)美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三VII.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(F ) 1. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true foryou in your private heart is true for all men —that is genius.”The sentence shows the opinion of Joseph Heller.(F ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James,Franklin's wife.(T ) 3. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby trapping Fortunato inside forever.(F ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale?in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen ofHawthorne’s chilling, cold-blooded human animals.(T ) 5. The lines —“A poem should not mean / But be”comes from “Ars Poetica” by MacLeish.(T ) 6. O’Neill’s great purpose was to try and discover the root of human desires and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment.(T ) 7. Catch-22combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.(F ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (T ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism.(T ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau.(T ) 11. In The Open Boat, Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat naturaldisasters with natural and impressionistic approaches.(T ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers.(F ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920sdecade in his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night.(F ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character named NickCarraway, who is also a participant in the event.(F ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.(T ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway ’s first true novel in which hedepicts a vivid portrait of “the lost generation ”.(T ) 17. Hemingway ’s writing style, together with his theme and hero,is greatly and permanently influenced by his experience in the war. (F ) 18. In Walt Whiteman ’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!”, captainrefers to President Lincoln.(F ) 19. Emily Dickinson ’s poetic idiom is noted for obscure.(F ) 20. Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class strive for their identity.VIII. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point foreach item)Writers:( a ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( e ) 2. Robert Frost ( i ) 3. Saul Bellow ( h ) 4. Joseph Heller (b ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison ( j ) 6. Ezra Pound ( d ) 7. Ernest Hemingway ( f ) 8. Emily Dickinson ( c ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( g ) 10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Works: a. Self-Relianceb. Invisible Manc. Pale Horse, Pale Riderd. The Sun Also Risese. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningf. Success is Counted Sweetestg. Song of Myselfh. Catch-22i. Looking for Mr. Green j. CantoIX. Identify the following by choosing the author ’s name and the nameof the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.? So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable.Author : A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single。

美国文学考试模拟题

美国文学考试模拟题

第一章殖民地时期的美国文学填空题1. Theterm “Puritan”was applied to those settlers who originally were devout membersof the Church of ______.【答案】England查看答案【解析】清教徒(Puritan),是指要求清除英国国教Church of England中天主教残余的改革派。

其字词于16世纪60年代开始使用,源于拉丁文的Purus,意为“清洁”。

2. Themost enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was______.【答案】American Puritanism查看答案【解析】美国文化源于清教文化,由清教徒移民时传入北美。

美国主流价值观都可以追溯到殖民地时期一统天下的清教主义,并且清教思想对美国文学有着根深蒂固的影响。

3. Hard work, thrift,piety and sobriety, these were the ______ values that dominated much of theearly American writing.【答案】Puritan查看答案【解析】清教主义,起源于英国,在北美殖民地得以实践与发展。

清教徒强调艰苦奋斗、勤俭节约、虔诚和淡泊。

这些价值观也影响了早期的美国文学。

4. Many Puritans wroteverse, but the works of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and ______, rose to thelevel of real poetry.【答案】EdwardTaylor查看答案【解析】美国殖民时期最著名的诗人是安·布莱德斯特和爱德华·泰勒。

5. TheTenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by______.【答案】AnneBradstreet查看答案【解析】安·布莱德斯特律是美国殖民时期著名的诗人。

美国文学期末考试考试卷模拟精彩试题

美国文学期末考试考试卷模拟精彩试题

美国文学期末考试考试卷模拟精彩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%, 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 whic h 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 Recluseof 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 Hawt horne’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 Carrie rB.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 origi nally 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 America up 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 ____.。

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Test Four(Chapter7-8 with answers)I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1. The beginning of the Modern Period in American literature was markedby .A. World War IB. World War IIC. the turn of the centuryD. the Great Depression2. Eugene O'Neill was born the child of_________.A. wealthy London socialitesB. circus folkC. an actorD. investment bankers3. While in his twenties, O'Neill had to be treated for__________.A. syphilisB. herpesC. hepatitisD. consumption4. In 1916, O'Neill chanced on a career-starting bit of luck when he met the founders of___________.A. SeattleB. the Eugene O'Neill playersC. MGMD. the Provincetown players5. Eugene O'Neill is considered to be____________.A. the last great American playwrightB. the first great American playwrightC. the greatest American playwright of the 19th centuryD. the greatest British playwright of this century6. Long Day's Journey into Night could best be described as____________.A. a short playB. a deeply autobiographical workC. an experiment in surrealist theatreD. an experiment in extreme realism7. Eugene O'Neill's mother was______________.A. an alcoholicB. a prostituteC. a morphine addictD. an actress8. Eugene's older brother was______________.A. a great poetB. a great actorC. a great writerD. a drunken whoremonger9. Eugene gave the play to his wife Carlotta on the occasion of_____________.A. their 12th wedding anniversaryB. his retirementC. his deathD. their first child's birth10. Eugene O'Neill was the only American playwright to win____________.A. the Pulitzer prizeB. the Van Deeken prizeC. both the Pulitzer prize and the Nobel prizeD. the Nobel prize11.In the Modern Period, many theories had great impact upon literature. Theymainly include the theories of .A. Darwin’sB. Mark’sC. Freud’sD. All the above12. Long Day's Journey into Night was performed___________.A. in 1953, in the last year of O'Neill's lifeB. in 1956, three years after O'Neill's deathC. in 1920, at the start of O'Neill's ascent to fameD. 1916, before O'Neill was well known13. Yank, the protagonist of Eugene O’Neill’s play The Hairy Ape, talked to thegorilla and set it free because _________.A. he was mad, mistaking a beast for a humanB. he was told by the white young lady that he was like a beast and he wanted tosee how closely he resembled the gorillaC. he was caged with the gorilla after he insulted an aristocratic strollerD. he could feel the kinship only with the beast14. Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model ofthe 20th century English poetry?A.Poems 1909-1925 B.The Hollow ManC.Prufrock and Other Observations D.The Waste Land15. Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the ―______________‖ , was one of the mostimportant poets in his time.A.Imagist Movement B.Cubist MovementC.Reformist Movement D.Transcendentalist Movement 16.Eugene O’Neill’s first full—length play, ______________, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for Cardiff B.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the Elms D.Beyond the Horizon17. Strong affinity of the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of_________.A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Arthur Miller18. Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in Englandand then in America?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens19. In these lines "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, blackbough", Ezra Pound uses the figure of speech of ________.A. metaphorB. simileC. hyperboleD. contrast20. O’Neill’s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when ______was in full swing.A. SymbolismB. ExpressionismC. RomanticismD. Realism21. "He got me, aw right. I’m trou. Even him didn’t tink I belonged." I n these sentences taken from ’The Hairy Ape’, the words ―he‖ and ―him‖ both refer to__________.A. YankB. GodC. The ape in the zooD. A person unnamed22. In 1915, Ezra Pound began writing his great work_______, which spanned from 1917 to 1959.A. CantosB. Collected Early Poems of Ezra PoundC. PersonaeD. Hygh Selwyn Mauberley23.Most of the writers in the Modern Period were able to probe into the innerworld of human reality on the base of .A.William James’s “stream of consciousnessB.Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious” and “archetypal symbol”C.Sigmund Freud’s “interpretation of dreams”D.All the above24. Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape explores the problem of________.A. human disillusionmentB. the corruption of human desireC. human responsibilityD. the loss of human identity25. _____ was the only American writer ever to win three National Book Awards, thePulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize.A. HemingwayB. FaulknerC. BellowD. Mailer26._____ is the first American to incorporate the great nineteenth-century Europeanrealists in his work.A. HemingwayB. BellowC. FaulknerD. Twain27._____ is Saul Bellow’s first novel that makes him famous.A. Dangling ManB. The Adventures of Augie MarchC. HerzogD. Henderson the Rain King28.As representative of the ______American writers, Bellow’s works became centralto American literature after World War II.A.JewishB. RussianC. CanadianD. Israeli29.In 1965 Mr. Bellow was awarded the International Literary Prize for _____becoming the first American to receive the prize.A.Henderson the Rain KingB. HerzogC. Mr. Sammler's PlanetD. Humboldt's Gift30. The characters in Bel low’s novels are mainly _____ people.A. BlackB. WhiteC. JewishD. European31. The Adventures of Augie March and Henderson the Rain King alike are both______ in a free-flowing writing style.A. essaysB. short storiesC. novellasD. picaresque novels32. At the age of 85, Bellow published his last novel entitled _______.A. RavelsteinB. The VictimC. The Dean's DecemberD. More Die of Heartbreak33.Norman Kingsley Mailer is a major figure in post-war American literature andgenerally considered the representative author, but not______, of recent decades.A. essayistB. novelistC. film producerD. lecturer34._____ is well known for his new journalism and mastery of the nonfiction novel.A. HemingwayB. FaulknerC. BellowD. Mailer35._____ is Norman Mailer’s first novel that makes him famous.A. The Naked and the DeadB. The Armies of the NightC. Advertisements for MyselfD. The Executioner's Song36.―The White Negro‖ is written by _____.A. HemingwayB. FaulknerC. BellowD. Mailer37.―The White Negro‖ is regarded as one of the significant cultural documents of theperiod, and this essay attempts to trace the source of the "destructive, the liberating, the creative nihilism of the _____" to African American experience, defining how the "psychic outlaw" opposes social and political repression.A. NakedB. DeadC. HipD. Square38.Norman Mailer is one of the most famous and controversial post-World War IIAmerican writers. His An American Dream has drawn the attack from _____.A. feministsB. historiansC. politiciansD. critics39.The following books are novel biographies except _______.A. MarilynB. Portrait of Picasso as a Young ManC. Tough Guys Don't DanceD. Oswald's Tale40. At the age of 84, Norman Mailer published his most recent novel entitled_______.A. The Castle in the ForestB. Miami and the Siege of ChicagoC. Of a Fire on the MoonD. The Executioner's Song41._____, the ―Poet Laureate of black America‖, was inspired by the rhythm andromance of jazz in 1920s New York, and introduced the language of jazz into his poems and changed the sound of modern poetry.A. James BaldwinB. Richard WrightC. Gwendolyn BrooksD. Langston Hughes42. Baldwin’s first novel __________, published in 1953, was an autobiographicalwork about growing up in Harlem. The passion and depth with which he described the struggles of black Americans was unlike anything that had been written.A.Going to Meet the ManB. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been GoneC.Go Tell It on The MountainD. The Fire Next Time43. Wright’s story ________ was given the O. Henry Memorial award in 1938.A. Uncle Tom's ChildrenB.Fire and CloudC. Black BoyD. Native Son44.Warren's depiction of the natural world, __________, is quite striking.A. The HawkB. Infant Boy at MidcenturyC. The ladyD. The leaf45. Capote seized on the grisly story and went down to Kansas to turn it into a book.He spent six years researching ______ and claimed to have invented a genre, the nonfiction novel.A. To Kill a MockingbirdB. The New York TimesC. The Grass HarpD. In Cold Blood46. _____ is known as both a Southern and a Catholic writer.A. WarrenB. CapoteC. O’connorD. Faulkner47.The story Gimpel the Fool was written by .A.Bernad MalamudB.Philip RothC.Saul BellowD.Isaac Bashevis Singer48.Gimpel got married with Elka because .A. he was forced toB. he was fooled toC. he was laughed atD. he was an orphan49.When Gimpel felt puzzled and went to the rabbi for help, the rabbi told him.A. that townspeople’s kidding was well meaningB. that everything was possible, as it was written in the Wisdom of the FathersC. that it was better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evilD. believing was better puzzling50.What did the Spirit of Evil ask Gimpel to do in his dream?A. He asked Gimpel to revenge.B. He asked Gimpel to meet his wife Elka .C. He asked Gimpel to take care of Elka’s children.D. He asked Gimpel to give him kreplach.51. Finally Jimpel dug a big hole and buried all the filthy loaves just before the eye ofhis apprentice, this shows that .A. he didn’t want to make money any longerB. he just did something as the Spirit of Evel told himC. he was afraid of his apprenticeD. good overwhelmed evils52. Samuel’ parents lives in a village named .A. WarsawB. ZakroczymC. LentshinD. Nowy Dwor53. Samuel’s parents put the gold coins that Samuel sends them in a boot at the home,because .A. there is no bank at LentshinB. there is no thieves at LentshineC. the boot is very safe placeD. all of the above54. In summer and winter Samuel’s father wore all of the following except .A. a sheepskin hatB. a pair of glovesC. a padded cotton jacketD. a pair of stout boots55. Everyday Use is selected from .A. The Third Life of Grange CopelandB. You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: StoriesC. In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black WomenD. The Color Purple56. Mother wants to pass on the quilts to as dowry.A. DeeB. MaggieC. Hakim-a-barberD. None of them57.Which of the following helps Alice Walker win the Pulitzer Prize?A. The Third Life of Grange CopelandB. You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: StoriesC. In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black WomenD. The Color Purple58.All the following objects have a special meaning to Mother, except .A. the dowryB. the butter churnC. the dasherD. the quilts59. Plath won Pulitzer Prize and became well-known .A.when Ted Hughes published her Poems Collection after her deathB.when she studied at Cambridge UniversityC.just two weeks after the publication of The Bell JarD.when she was at Smith College60. Which of the following is not Salinger’s works?A. Hapworth 16,1924B. Nine StoriesC. The Red Badge of CourageD. Franny and Zooey61. Where does the title of the novel ―Catcher in the Rye‖ come from?A. It is the title of Holden's favorite song.B. It is a reference to Greek mythology.C. It refers to a game that Holden and Allie would play.D. It comes from a poem by Robert Burns.62. What or who is the ―Catcher in the Rye‖?A. Holden’s dream jobB. Phoebe’s favorite stuffed animalC. An old college buddy of Holden’s fatherD. A symbolically important drinking glass63. Which of the following things does Holden NOT like?A. Allie CaulfieldB. James CastleC. The nuns at Grand CentralD. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms64. is the spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Theodore DreiserD. Robert Frost65. When was The Great Gatsby published?A. 1921B. 1925C. 1922D. 1923 II. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false. Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1.O’Neill is always remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his playsdeal with the basic issues of human existence and predicament:life and death,illusion and disillusion,alienation and communication,dream and reality,self and society,desire and frustration. ( )2.The Iceman Cometh(l946)proves to be a masterpiece of Eugene O’Neill in theway it is a complex,ironic,deeply moving exploration of human existence,written out of a profound insight into human nature and constructed with tremendous skill and logic. ( )3.O’Neill borrowed freely from the traditions of European dramas,such as Greektragedies,the realism of Ibsen,the expressionism of Stringberg,but not Shakespeare. ( )4.Chinese playwright Cao Yu has also been greatly influenced by O’Neill in hisdrama creation. ( )5.O’Neill introduced the realistic or even the naturalistic aspect of life into theAmerican theater, and he hated to use modern literary techniques. ( )6.The poem In a Station of the Metro compares human faces to petals on a wet,black bough. This way of making poetry comes from Chinese poetics. ( )7.Pound composed poems,wrote criticisms and did translations. ( )8.Pound’s poetry is saturated with the familiar poetic subjects that characterize the19th century Romanticism. ( )9.In The Cantos,Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires,themoral and social chaos of the modern world,especially the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson. ( )10.The primary Imagist objective is to avoid rhetoric and moralizing,to stickclosely to the object or experience being described,and to move from explicit generalization. ( )11.Pound associated with many writers, including William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot,William Carlos Williams and Earnest Hemingway, and he served as a teacher for them. ( )12.Pound’s life-work was The Cantos, which he wrote and published until his death.13.Saul Bellow was a novelist, and only wrote novels. ( )14.What distinguishes Bellow from his William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway isBellow’s international character of fiction. ( )15.Most of Bellow’s novels descr ibe the life of modern country men. ( )16.In January 1968 Canada awarded Bellow the Croix de Chevalier des Arts etLettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by that nation to non-citizens. ( ) 17.Saul Bellow is best known for writing novels that typically deal with largephilosophical issues: the search for meaning, the conflicts between moraluncertainty and the quest for a personal ethic, and the tensions between the imaginative individual and a sometimes indifferent, sometimes entangling world.( )18.Norman Mailer published his first novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) when hewas 25. ( )19.Mailer began a second career in the mid-1950s as film producer and director. ( )20.Advertisements for Myself(1959) is a collection of Mailer’s essays, stories,interviews and short fictions on the subjects of politics, sex, drugs, his own writing, and the works of others. ( )21.During an anti-Vietnam march, Mailer was arrested. ( )22.Norman Mailer has never published any poems. ( )23.The major themes of Joseph Heller’s works are usually about the absurdity of theworld, and the criticism of conventional social life. ( )24.His prolific literary career was launched in 1926 with a volume of jazz poems, IWonder as I Wander, written for performance with musical accompaniment in the famous Harlem clubs of the era. ( )25.In 1964 Baldmin’s play Blues for Mister Charlie was based on the murder of ayoung black man in Mississippi, was produced by the Actors Studio in New York.( )26.Wright’s autobiography Native Son is a harrowing account of his Southernchildhood. ( )27. Warren's great concern with the historical vision and the meanings found inmemory and the past are distinctly southern. ( )28. Capote's early stories were published in popular magazines and in 1946 he wonthe O.Henry award. ( )29. With an keen eye for the dark side of human nature, an amazing ear for dialogue,and a necessary sense of irony, Flannery O'Conner exposes the underside of life in the rural south of the United States. ( )30. Gimpel shares many of the nicknames he has had given to him in school,including ―imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, flump, ninny, and fool.‖( ) 31.Gimpel’s leaving Frampol shows that he wants to get away and he is no longer afool that can be taken advantage of at will. ( )32.Elka represents an immoral but not a sinner. ( )33.It is Gimpel, the saint-like figure that saves Elka’s soul by being understanding,patient, and continually loving towards her. ( )34.Every month Samuel sends a letter and money to his parents from America, andthey just keep the money in the bank. ( )35.It is forbidden to smoke on Sabbath. ( )36.Samuel is very wealthy when he returns his hometown. ( )37.Many young people remain at lentshin, like the old generation, they observe theJewish tradition and prefer the way of life there. ( )38.In her poem Daddy Plath just depicts her Daddy a Fascist, from it we can see thatshe is awed her father. ( )39.Her Daddy is a Fascist because he persecutes Jewish people. ( )40.The relationship between mother and Dee is very harmonious. ( )III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken1. YANK—[In a vague mocking tone.] Say, where do I go from here? POLICEMAN—[Giving him a push--with a grin, indifferently.] Go to hell.2. Edmund —Then Nietzsche must be right. ―God is dead: of His pity for man hath God died.‖3. And round about there is a rabbleOf the filthy, study, unkillable infants of the very poor.They shall inherit the earth.4.Then he described how he had bought an old hospital building at auction andturned it into a tenement. Inside of six months he had cleared fifty thousand bucks on this, and then had organized a management company and run the place for the new owners. He had a large interest in a Spanish cobalt mine now. They sold the stuff in Turkey, or some place in the Middle East. He also had a potato-chip concession in several railroad stations.5.He wanted me to know what his life was like. And maybe he though I’d run intosomething that would appeal to me, for my future’s sake. ―Wait a minute though,‖ he said. ―What kind of clown’s suit are you wearing there? You can’t go among pe ople dressed like that.‖6.One is Hip or one is Square (the alternative which each new generation cominginto American life is beginning to feel), one is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a Square cell, trapped in the totalitarian tissues of American society, doomed willynilly to conform if one is to succeed.7.The novelist gave a fulsome welcome to the poet. He did not speak of his poetry(with which he was not conspicuously familiar) nor of his prose which he thought excellent—Mailer told instead of why he had respect for Lowell as a man.8.Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as hedid, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.9.After I had outlived the shocks of childhood, after the habit of reflection had beenborn in me, I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair.10.Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,I heard a Negro play.Down on Lenox Avenue the other nightBy the pale dull pallor of an old gas lightHe did a lazy sway . . .He did a lazy sway . . .To the tune o' those Weary Blues.11.Then it was over. Creole and Sonny let out their breath, both soaking wet, andgrinning. There was a lot of applause and some of it was real. In the dark, the girl came by and I asked her to take drinks to the bandstand. There was a long pause, while they talked up there in the indigo light and after a while I saw the girl put a Scotch and milk on top of the pi ano for Sonny. He didn’t seem to notice it, but just before they started playing again he sipped from it and looked toward me, and nodded. Then he put it back on top of the piano. For me, then, as they began to play again, it glowed and shook above my brot her’s head like the very cup of trembling.12.Here the fig lets down the leaf, the leafOf the fig five fingers has, the fingersAre broad, spatulate, stupid,Ill-formed, and innocent—but of a hand, and the hand,To hide me from the blaze of the wide world, drops,Shamefast, down.13.I know what is being said about me and you can take my side or theirs, that's yourown business. It's my word against Eunice's and Olivia-Ann's, and it should be plain enough to anyone with two good eyes which one of us has their wits about them. I just want the citizens of the U.S.A to know the facts, that's all.14.―Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!‖ She reached outand touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. Then he put his gun down on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them.15.I was coming home from school and heard a dog barking. I'm not afraid of dogs, but of courseI never want to start up with them. One of them may be mad, and if he bites there's not aTartar in the world who can help you. So I made tracks. Then I looked around and saw the whole market place wild with laughter. It was no dog at all but Wolf-Leib the thief. How was I supposed to know it was he? It sounded like a howling bitch.16.To make a long story short, I lived twenty years with my wife. She bore me sixchildren, four daughters and two sons. All kinds of things happened, but I neither saw nor heard. I believed, and that's a ll. The rabbi recently said to me, ―Belief in itself is beneficial. It is written that a good man lived by his faith.‖17.No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the trueworld. At the door of the hotel where I lie, there stands the plank on which the dead are taken away. The gravedigger Jew has his spade ready. The grave waits and the worms are hungry;the shrouds are prepared - I carry them in my beggar's sack. Another snorer is waiting to inherit my bed of straw. When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception. God be praised: there even Gimpel cannot be deceived.18.In the smallest of these huts lived old Berl, a man in his eighties, and his wife,who was called Berlcha(wife of Berl). Old Berl was one of the Jews who had been driven from their villages in Russia and had settled in Poland. In Lentshin, they mocked the mistakes he made while praying aloud. He spoke with sharp ―r‖. He was short, broad-shouldered, and had a small white beard, and summer and winter he wore a sheepskin hat, a padded cotton jacket, and stout boots. He walked slowly, shuffling his feet. He had a half acre of field, a cow, a goat, and chickens.19.One Friday morning, when Berlcha was kneading the dough for the Sabbath loaves, the dooropened and a nobleman entered. He was so tall that he had to bend down to get through the door. He wore a beaver hat and a clock bordered with fur. He was followed by Chazkel, the coachman from Zakroczym, who carried two leather valises with brass locks. In astonishment Berlcha raised her eyes.20.The neighbors had heard the good news that Berl’s son had arrived from Americaand they came to greet him. The woman began to help Berlcha prepare for the Sabbath. Some laughed, some cried. The room was full of people, as at a wedding.They asked Berl’s son, ―What is new in America?‖And Berl’s son answered, ―America is all right.‖21.He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may comeacross four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.22. The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.23.As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom Iasked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.24. When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through asort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant – a combined gardener and cook – had seen in at least ten years.25. I looked around. Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said tobe their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension. One of the men was talking with curious intensity to a young actress, and his wife, after attempting to laugh at the situation in a dignified and indifferent way, broke down entirely and resorted to flank attacks—at intervals she appeared suddenly at his side like an angry diamond, and hissed: ―You promised!‖ into his ear.。

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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 timeis 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 HawthorneWorks:a.O Captain! My Captain!b.The Bluest Eyec.In a Station of the Metrod.The House of the Seven Gablese.The Fall of the House of Usherf.The Red Wheelbarrowg.The Open Boath.Dreamsi.The Great Gatsbyj.Shadow and ActIII.’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 talkingof themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselvesobliged to give me a hearing, since this may be read or not as any one pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity. Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that theintoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was NOT the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography3.It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom hisparents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest. It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to die upon the gallows.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden4.None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and werefastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett5.Canton flannel gulls flew near and far. Sometimes they sat down on the sea,near patches of brown seaweed that rolled on the waves with a movement like carpets on a line in a gale. The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingey, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland. Often they came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.Lighting the lamps had been beautiful. The children huddled up to her andbreathed like little calves waiting at the bars in the twilight. Their eyes followed the match and watched the flame rise and settle in a blue curve, then they moved awa y from her. The lamp was lit, they didn’t have to be scared and hang on to mother any more. Never, never, never more. God, for all my life, I thank Thee. Without Thee, my God, I could never have done it. Hail, Mary, full of grace.Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner 7. About five o’clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby’s station wagon, all wet to the skin. As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around. It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby’s books in the library one night three months before.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby8.His father turned, and he followed the stiff black coat, the wiry figure walking alittle stiffly from where a Confederate provost's man's musket ball had taken him in the heel on a stolen horse thirty years ago, followed the two backs now, since his older brother had appeared from somewhere in the crowd, no taller than the father but thicker, chewing tobacco steadily, between the two lines of grim-faced men and out of the store and across the worn gallery and down the sagging steps and among the dogs and half-grown boys in the mild May dust, where as he passed a voice hissed…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince 9."No, thank you," said the waiter and went out. He disliked bars and bodegas. Aclean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it was probably only insomnia.Many must have it.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif 10.CABOT--(considers this--a pause--then in a hard voice) Waal, I'm thankful furhim savin' me the trouble. I'll git t' wuk. (He goes to the door--then turns--in a voice full of strange emotion) He'd ought t' been my son, Abbie. Ye'd ought t' loved me. I'm a man. If ye'd loved me, I'd never told no Sheriff on ye no matter what ye did, if they was t' brile me alive!Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-221.Hold fast to _____For when _____ goLife is a barren _____Frozen with _____. (4%)2.My old _____,He’s got a _____ on his _____.He’s been a _____ so longHe’s forgot about his _____. (5%)3.I used to _____About _____ and _____—I think the _____ liesBetween _____ and _____. (6%)4.I breathed a _____ into the air,It fell to _____ I knew not where;For who has the sight so _____ and _____That can follow the flight of a _____. (5%)In the world’s broad field of battle,In the bivouac of Life,Be not like dumb,driven cattle!Be a hero in the strife!Trust no future. howe’er pleasant!Let the dead Past bury its dead!Act,act in the living Present!Let us,then, be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuingLearn to labour and to wait.1. Abbie: Don’t ye dare tech me! What right hev ye t’ question me ’bout him? He wa’n’t yewr son! Think I’d have a son by yew? I’d die fust! I hate the sight o’ ye an’allus did! It’s yew I should’ve murdered, if I’d had good sense! I hate ye! I love Eben.I did from the fust. An’ he was Eben’s so n—mine an’ Eben’s—not your’n!Answer the following questions:(1)What tragic elements are there in the play? (5%)(2)How do you interpret them? (5%)2.All had to be said, each memorized nuance considered, rendered. Nor was that all.Whenever I uttered a word of three or more syllables a group of voices would yell for me to repeat it. I used the phrase “social responsibility” and they yelled:“What’s that word you say, boy?”“Social responsibility,” I said.“What?”“Social…”“Louder.”“… responsibility.”“More!”“Respon —”“Repeat!”“— sibility.”The room filled with the uproar of laughter until, no doubt, distracted by having to gulp down my blood, I made a mistake and yelled a phrase I had often seen denounced in newspaper editorials, heard debated in private.“Social…”“What?” they yelled.“… equality —”When making the speech, the protagonist inadvertently pronounced “social equality”where “social responsibility”is intended, thus causing a menacing silence and displeasure. Do you think this is merely a slip of tongue? Why? (10%)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)1.____2. ____3._____4._____5._____6._____7._____8._____9._____ 10_____ 11.____ 12.___ 13.____ 14.____ 15.____ 16.____17.____ 18.____19.____ 20._____following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. Author:_____ , Work:_____2. Author:____ , Work:_____3. Author:_____ , Work:_____4. Author:____ , Work:_____5. Author:_____ , Work:_____6. Author:____ , Work:_____7. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 8. Author:____ , Work:_____9. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 10. Author:____ , Work:_____1. (1%)_________ ,2. (4%)________, _______, _______, _______3. (1%)____________,4.(1%)____________5.(1%)___________6. (4%)_________ , __________, __________ ,__________7. (1%)__________ , 8. (1%)____________ , 9. (1%)____________10. (4%)__________, _________ , _________ , _________ 11. (1%)______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________1. Answer the following questions:(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%)(2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? (5%)_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ 2. Answer the following questions:(1) Is there black humor in this part? How is it expressed? (5%)(2)What do you see from behind this humor? (5%)_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________。

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