美国文学试题

( ) 1. The Fall of the House of the Usher

( ) 2. The House of the Seven Gables

( ) 3. Song of Myself

( ) 4. I Died for Beauty-but Was Scarce

( ) 5. The Prince and the Pauper

() 6. The Catcher in the Rye

( ) 7. Catch-22

( ) 8. The Naked and the Dead

( ) 9. The Victim

( ) 10. On the Road

( ) 11. Twice Told Tales

( ) 12. The Voice of the City

( ) 13. Life on the Mississippi

( ) 14. Annabel Lee

( ) 15. The Turn of the Screw

( ) 16. The Mysterious Stranger

( ) 17. them

( ) 18. Portnoy's Complaint

( ) 19. Howl

( ) 20. Life Studies

II. Write the names of the novels or poems according to the give n passage. (10%)

( ) 1. There was the great city, bound more closely by •th ese •very •trains which came up daily. Colu mbia City was not so very far away, even once

she was in Chicago.

( ) 2. The carriage held but just Ourselves

And Immortality

( ) 3. " I will go home with you," said Mr. Dimmes dale

( ) 4. My Captain doesn't answer, his lips are pale and still.

My father doesn't feel my arm, he has no puls e and will.

( ) 5. Helen, thy beauty is to me

Like those Nicean barks of yore

( ) 6. I Loaf and invite my soul

I Lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

( ) 7. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at •the •threshold, was a wild rosebush, covere d in this month of June, with•its •delicate •g ems,•which •might •be imagined to offer their fragrance and •frail beauty to the prisoner as he went in... ( ) 8. Were I with thee

Wild Nights should be Our luxury!

( ) 9.Art lives upon •discussion,•upon•experiment,•u pon•curiosity,•upon variety of attempt,upon the exchange of v iews and the comparison of stand-points...

( )10. The only reason for the existence •of •a •novel •is •that •it •does attempt to represent life.

III.Some of the following statements are true,some are false,mar k them. (15%)

( ) 1.The Calvinist doctrine of "original sin" exerted great influen ce up Hawthorne.

( ) 2.To Hawthorme sin will get punished,one way or another. ( ) 3.Roger •Chillingworth,•the •scholar,•the •embodiment •of •pure ••intellect,••committed ••the "Unpardonable Si n".

( ) 4.Emily Dickinson didn't like using capital letters where small ones are needed.

( ) 5.Walt Whitman used parallelism and refrain in his poems.

( ) 6.Walt Whitman was regarded as the Zenith in American rom antic poetry.

( ) 7.Dickinson was original.She never imitated others.

( ) 8.Allan Poe defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beau ty.

( ) 9.O.Henry seldom wrote about poor people.

( )10.According to Poe,art serves for pleasure.The chief •aim •of •poetry •is •beauty,•namely,•to produce a feeling of beaut y in the reader.

( )11.According to Dickinson,death means immortality.

( )12.According to Poe,truth is beauty,beauty true.

( )13.According to Henry James,the aim of the novel is to reflect life reality.

( )14.James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American soci ety,and Howells •concerned •himself chiefly with middle class lif e,whereas Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. ( )15.American writers,especially novelists were rather experimen tal after World War

( )16.Joyce Carol Oates was a famous Jewish writer.

( )17.Allen Ginsberg was the representative of the Beat Generati on.

( )18.The Confessional Poets took Whitman as their model in wri ting.

( )19.Emily Dickinson was regarded as the forerunner of symboli sm.

( )20.The Confessional Poets never wrote about themselves. ( )21.Allan Poe was regarded as the forerunner of American Ima gism.

( )22.Literary criticism in Europe began with the theory•of •lite rature •and •art •as •works •of imitation of nature,as preach ed by Plato and Aristotle.

( )23.Allan Poe advocated "pure" poetry.