美国文学模拟试题一

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一

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. Franklin’s autobiography, published after his death, has become one of the classics of the genre.

( ) 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. ( ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crime in the end of the play.

( ) 4. “Dreams” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to give up hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable. ( ) 5. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative

work.

( ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Imagist movement in the early 19th century.

( ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Poe’s poems.

( ) 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.

( ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hester’s illegitimate daughter.

( ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound’s Cantos the best long poem in modern literature.

( ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street, which exerted great influence on Theodore Dreiser’s realism.

( ) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s. ( ) 13. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the romantic period.

( ) 14. William Faulkner’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral in the American North.

( ) 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.

( ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman of the lost generation.

( ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love. ( ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life” was written by Edgar Allen Poe. ( ) 19. “The Raven” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.

( ) 20. Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel The Bluest Eye.

II.following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)

Writers:

( ) 1. Benjamin Franklin

( ) 2. Toni Morrison

( ) 3. William Faulkner

( ) 4. Archibald MacLeish

( ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne

( ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

( ) 7. Stephen Crane

( ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter

( ) 9. William Carlos Williams

( ) 10. Saul Bellow

Works:

a.Ars Poetica

b.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

c.Twice-told Tales

d.Beloved

e. A Psalm of Life

f.Barn Burning

g.Poor Richard’s Almanac

h.Paterson

i.Anderson the Rain King

j.The Flowering Judas

III.’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 to acknowledge

that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to his kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will