美国文学期末试卷及答案

《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）

1.Poor Richard’s Almanac ( )

2.The House of the Seven Gables ( )

3.“Raven”( )

4.My Antonia ( )

5.Babbitt ( )

6.A Streetcar Named Desire ( )

7.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )

8.A Farewell to Arms ( )

9.The Call of the Wild ( )

10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( )

mon Sense ( )

12. “Rip Van Winkle”( )

13. Walden( )

14. The Song of Hiawatha( )

15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( )

16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( )

17.Sister Carrie( )

18.The Waste Land( )

19. A Farewell to Arms( )

20.The Great Gatsby( )

1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne

Clemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.

3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the direct

treatment of an object or situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exact word.

4.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his

masterpiece novel _________.

5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his

vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.

6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by

___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.

7._________________ has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\

8._______________________was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet to

use the form of free verse.

9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.

10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidents

on the line of the hero’s travel.

Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (30%)

1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment, _______________ was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Revolution

D. Evolution

2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?

A. Michael Wigglesworth

B. Edward Taylor

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Philip Freneau

3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in

_______.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Young Goodman Brown

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Ambitious Guest

4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.

A. Thoreau

B. Emerson

C. Hawthorne

D. Whitman

5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.

A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

B. Innocents Abroad

C. Life on the Mississippi

D. The Rise of Silas Lapham

6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

A. The American Scholar

B. English Traits

C. The Conduct of Life

D. Representative Men

7. Melville’s ____________________ is an encyclopedia of everything, history,

philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.

A. The Old Man and the Sea

B. Moby Dick

C. White Jacket

D. Billy Budd

8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This

was ___________.

A. Anne Bradstreet