美国文学期末考试试卷

2012-2013学年第二学期

《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）

专业：英语年级：2010级考试方式：闭卷学分：2 考试时间：110分钟

I．Multiple Choices(每小题 1分，共20分)

Directions: Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question.

II．Explain the Following Literary Terms Briefly (每小题7分，共14分) Directions: Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.

Local Colorism

Transcendentalism

III．Identification of Fragments (每小题7分，共21分)

Directions: Please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly comment on it in English. Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.

23. “…That‟s right.‟ He said; …I‟m no good now. I was all right. I had money. I‟m going to quit this,‟ and, with death in his heart, he started down toward the Bowery. People had turned on the gas before and died; why shouldn‟t he? He remembered a lodging house where there were little, close rooms, with gas-jet in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents. Then he remembered that he had no fifteen cents.”

25. “Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why that would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.

24. “…Mr. Gatz, I thought you might want to take the body West.‟

He shook his head. …Jimmy always liked it better down East. He rose up to his position in the East. Were you a friend of my boy‟s, Mr. -?‟

…We were close friends.‟

…He had a big future before him, you know. He was only a young man, but he had a lot of brain power here.”

25. “Two were lying open-eyed in sawdust; a third pumped blood down the dress of the main one- the woman schoolteacher bragged about, the one he said made fine ink, damn good soup, pressed his collars they way he liked besides having at least ten breeding years left.

IV. Short Essay Questions(每小题10分，共 30 分)

Directions: Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.

V．Appreciating a Literary Work(计 15 分)

Directions: In this part, you are required to write a commentary paper in no less than 100 words.Please write it on the Answer Sheet.