美国文学模拟试题六

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题六

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. By seeing Yossarian’s entrails spilling over the plane, Snowden learns that ―Man was matter, that was Snowden’s secret. Drop him out a window and

he’ll fall. Set fire to him and he’ll burn. Bury him and he’ll rot, like other

kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage.‖

( ) 2. Desire under the Elms uses ancient Roman themes of incest, infanticide and fateful retribution.

( ) 3. O’Neill wrote many plays which were highly experimental in form and style. ( ) 4. MacLeish was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times.

( ) 5. The scarlet letter ―A‖ represents the act of adultery that she has committed and it is to be a symbol of her sin – a badge of shame – for all to see throughout

the novel.

( ) 6. With the publication of Fanshawe in 1825, Nathaniel Hawthorne became famous and his reputation as a major American author has been on the

increase ever since.

( ) 7. ―Self-Reliance‖ contains the most solid statement of one of Emerson's repeating themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false

consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

( ) 8. Stephen Crane’s most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial,

the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.

( ) 9. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.

( ) 10. Apart from The Autobiography, Franklin is perhaps best remembered in print for his Poor Richard's Almanac.

( ) 11. The main theme of The Red Badge of Courage reveals the heroism on the battlefield.

( ) 12. Porter had been to Berlin before the Nazis came into power. She described her witness of the social unrest in Germany into her novel Pale Horse, Pale

Rider.

( ) 13. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of

the 1920s as the lost generation.

( ) 14. William Faulkner wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States, and its effects on the lives of modern people,

both black and white.

( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway fuses naturalism and symbolism in ―A Clean, Well-Lighted Place‖. One of the motifs in this story is nothing/nihilism. ( ) 16. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow introduced many European poems to America and contributed a great deal to the development of romantic poetry in

America.

( ) 17. In ―O Captain! My Captain!‖, Walt Whiteman expresses his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.

( ) 18. Leaves of Grass is written by Edgar Allen Poe.

( ) 19. The theme of Emily Dickinson’s poem is war and peace.

( ) 20. Ralph Waldo Ellison’s masterpiece is Invisible Man.

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

Writers:

( ) 1. Robert Frost

( ) 2. Saul Bellow

( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Ellison

( ) 4. Eugene Glastone O’Neill

( ) 5. Wallace Stevens

( ) 6. Ernest Hemingway

( ) 7. William Carlos Williams

( ) 8. Stephen Crane

( ) 9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

( ) 10. Edgar Allan Poe

Works:

a.Emperor Jones

b.Spring and All

c.The Old Man and the Sea

d.Fire and Ice

e.The Cask of Amontillado

f.The Red Badge of Courage

g.The Necessary Angel

h.Dangling Man

i.Voices of the Night