英美文学复习(Fitzgerald)

英美文学复习

F • Scott Fitzgerald

1. F • Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of ______.

A. This Side of Paradise

B. Tender is the night

C. The Great Gatsby

D. In Our Time

2. F • Scott Fitzgerald shows an interest in the spiritual predicament of ______ i n his fiction.

A. the working-class people

B. the upper-class society

C. the exiles in Paris

D. intellectuals and artists

3. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties.The purpose of such descriptions is to show______.

A. emptiness of life

B. the corruption of the upper class

C. contrast of the rich and the poor

D. the happy days of the Jazz Age

4. “He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of the Ame rican Dream.” The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of ______.

A. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

B. Dreiser’s An American Tragedy

C. Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls

D. Twain’s The Adventures of Hucklebe

5. When we 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 about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.

A. Henry James

B. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. William Faulkner

6. In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and girls came and went like moths.” The author most likely indicates that ______.

A. there was a crowd of party-goers

B. such life does not have real meaning

C. these people were light-hearted

D. these were crazy and ignorant characters

7. “He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faces—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your in your favor.”

A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which the passage is taken.

B. Who is “He” ?

C. What is going on in this part of the novel?

答案：

A. F. Scoot Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby;

B. Gatsby;

C. A luxurious party is being held in Gatsby's house.

8. “… I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.

A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.

B. The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?

C. What implied meaning can you get after reading this passage?

答案：

A. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

B. It is a description of the end of a big party.

C. The passage hints at the meaninglessness, spiritual emptiness and vanity of such a pleasure-seeking life. There is a tragic sense.

9. How did “The lost Generation” come into existence in the literary history of the United States? What does the term “The lost Generation” mean? Who were the leading figures of this literary movement? (Give at least two)

When the first Word War broke out, many American young men volunteered to take part in "the war to end war's only to find that modern warfare was not as glorious or heroic as they thought it to be. Disillusioned and disgusted by the frivolous, greedy, and heedless way of life in America, they began to write and they wrote from their own experiences in the war. Among these young writers were the most prominent figures in American literature, especially in modern American literature. They were basically expatriates who left American and formed a community of writers and artists in Pairs, involved with other European novelists and poets in their experimentation on new modes of thought and expression. These writers were named by an American writer, Gertrude Stein ," The Lost Generation" Among the greatest figures in "The Lost Generation" are Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner.

10. Why is The Great Gatsby a successful novel?

A. Evoking a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again;

B. Sense of loss and disillusionment that comes with the failure embodied fully in the personal tragedy of a young man whose "incorruptible dream" "smashed into pieces by the relentless reality"'

C. Gatsby, a mythical figure whose personal experience approximates a sense of mind of the American ; the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal grail, Gatsby's failure predicts to great extent the end of the American dream.

11. The ___Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.

A. Lost

B. Jazz B. Reason D. Gilded