英美文学史

《英美文学史》考试形式：闭卷考试时间：90分钟Fill in the Following Blanks: Complete each of the following statements with a proper×1.5´= 15´)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has impacted American literature so Writers who are ___________ tend to develop and promote mannerism, dress, speech, of a particular region. They try to be informative about the peculiarities of a givenPound’s definition of ___________, “that which presents an intellectual and emotional”, is an agreement with his perception of the Chinese ideogram.In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the The Great Gatsby (1925).The Old Man and the Sea is _____________.’s novel_____________.×1´= 15´)a great poet B. a dramatist C. a literary critic D. a great novelist.Henry James wrote the following novels EXCEPT ________________.B. Daisy MillerThe Wings of Dove D. The Golden BowlHe writes about the poverty-stricken people in their sufferings.’s novel?A. Main StreetB.My AntoniaC.The Great GatzbyD.The Triumph of the Egg5.Which of the following is NOT William Faukner’s novel?A. Their Eyes Were Watching GodB. The Sound and The FuryC. A Rose for EmilyD. Light in the August6. Which one of the following descriptions about the Hemingway hero is true?A. Hemingway Hero is also called code hero.B.Hemingway Hero is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent.C.The typical Hemingway hero is one who, wounded but strong, more sensitive and wounded because stronger, enjoys the pleasures of life (sex, alcohol, sport) in face of ruin and death and maintains, through some notion of a code, an ideal of himself.D. The typical Hemingway hero is one who was the pioneer in the frontier.7. Which one of the following writers does NOT employ colloquial style in his writings?A. Mark TwainB. Sherwood AndersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. William Faulkner8. Which one of the following writers can be cataloged as Southern Literature writers?A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Ernest Hemingway9. Which one of the following writers is NOT a dramatist?A. Kate ChopinB. Eugene O’neillC. Tennessee WilliamsD. Arthur Miller10. The American writers who are awarded Nobel Prize for literature include the following writers BUT___.A. Eugene O’NeillB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. Ezra Pound11. American naturalists tend to adopt the following concepts except_______.A.Dawin’s ideas of evolutionB.The ideas of Herbert SpencerC.Emerson’s transcendentalismD.French Naturalism12. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of_________.A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington13. Transcendentalists recognized ______as the "highest power of the soul".A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking14.Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ______; there arose a kind of teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry David ThoreauC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser15. Edgar Allan Poe put forward the following literary ideas EXCEPT_______.A. Poems should be as long as Homer’s epics.B. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.C. He stressed the principle of concentration and thematic totality.D. Poems should be short enough so that it can be read at one sitting.III. Match the Writers and Works under the Two Columns (10×2´=20´)1. T.S. Eliot a. The Great Gatsby2. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. The Sound and the Fury3. William Faulkner c. Native Son4. John Steinbeck d. The Grapes of Wrath5. Sherwood Anderson e. Moby Dick6. Richard Wright f. The Scarlet Letter7. Herman Melville g. The Raven8. Edgar Allen Poe h. The Waste Land9. Harriet Beecher Stowe i. Uncle Tom’s Cabin10.Kate Chopin j. The Triumph of the Eggk. The AwakeningIV. Identify the following selected excerpts and write down the name of the authors and the works. (5×4´=20´)1. Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me—The carriage held but just Ourselves—And Immortality.Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________2. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________3. Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced.Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________4.The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________5. 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. Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________V. Explain the Following Terms (4×5´=20´)RealismFree verseHemingway HeroesRomanticismVI. Answer the following questions according to the materials. (1×10´=10´)Passage OneI couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made... Questions1. Who is the author of the novel from which the selection is from?2. What is the narrator’s attitude toward such persons as Tom and Daisy？。