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美国文学 期末考试试卷及答案
2009 — 2010 学年第 一 学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A 卷）适用班级 考试时间 120 分钟学院 班级 学号 姓名Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (10%)1. Octopus ( )2. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( )3. Babbitt ( )4. White Fang ( )5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( )6. My Antonia ( )7. “Birches” ( )8. Poor Richard’s Alma nac ( )9. Light in August ( )10. Twice Told Tales ( )11. The Declaration of Independence ( )12. “Rip Van Winkle ”( )13. Nature ( )14. The Song of Hiawatha ( )15. Uncle Tom ’s Cabin ( )16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( )17. Sister Carrie ()18. The Waste Land ( )19. For Whom the Bell Tolls ( )20. The Emperor Jones ( )(10%)1._________________________was one of the founders of theJamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies.2.__________________________was a determined revolutionary whosework helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, but who lost his popularity long before his death.3.The term refers to the group of people, some of themimportant to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic.4.________________________was an early form of horror fiction thatoriginated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period.5._____________________________, known for her deeply personalpoems and radically different poetic themes and form, didn’t achieve fame as a poet until long after her death.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 entitled the “Father of AmericanPoetry.8._______________________was the first great prose stylist ofAmerican romanticism, author of the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the history of American literature.9._____________________is the first American professional writer andthe first writer of the detective story in the world.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it stringsthe incidents on the line of the hero’s travel.Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as themost appropriate answer. (30%)1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became know as the “______” who appeared in America.A Ninth MuseB Tenth MuseC Best MuseD First Muse2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature.A purple proseB waste-land imageryC local colorD symbolism3. The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to a relatively large literate Black readership was known as_____.A The HolocaustB The Harlem RenaissanceC AbolitionismD The Civil Rights Movement4. _______ was a leading 19th century feminist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement.A Margaret FullerB Sylvia PlathC Hilda DoolittleD Gloria Stein5. Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry?A gushing sentimentalism and comfortable imagesB abandonment of earlier verse formsC use of free verseD an effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing world6. Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20th century American poets?A Ezra PoundB Walt WhitmanC Robert FrostD Allen Ginsburg7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as_______.A The Jazz AgeB The Gilded AgeC The Roaring AgeD The Beat Age8. Which is true of the “Fireside Poets”?A They were generally strongly in favor of abolishing slavery.B They were deeply involved in the Transcendentalist movement.C They were a group of 19th century New England poets who weretremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote.D They opposed to tradition and were in favor of radical change.9. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel ________.A The Old Man and the SeaB For Whom the Bell TollsC The Sun Also RisesD A Farewell to Arms10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to _______.A The highest ranking of the Hindu castes.B A movement that emerged from rebellion against Puritan religious ideas and systems.C A group of New England writers known for their scholarship and/or conservative philosophy.D A school of imaginative writing.11. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous proverbs?A “A stitch in time saves nine”B “God helps those who help themselves”C “A Friend in need is a friend indeed”D “Ask not who the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee”12. ___________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.A RomanticismB RealismC NaturalismD Modernism13. Although few of her poems were published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a major impact on 20th century poetry.A Anne BradstreetB Gertrude SteinC Emily DickinsonD Amy Lowell14. Which of the following writers died a natural death in his old age?A Jack LondonB Ernest HemingwayC Stephen CraneD Mark Twain15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?A Henry Wordsworth LongfellowB Amy LowellC Ezra PoundD Robert FrostIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether thestatements are true or false. (10%)1.Hawthorne was a firm believer in Puritan principles and mourned theirpassing in his works.2.Frederick Douglas was a major 19th century black writer.3.The sou nd of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell overreaders. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy.4.Haiku, a form of traditional Japanese poetry, greatly influenced theImagist movement.5.Leaves of Grass is Whitman’s life work.6.Thanks in part to the efforts of Ezra Pound, Robert Frost was publishedin England and quickly became recognized as a major American poet. 7.In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of theart of modern narration.”8.Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing hisdeath with dignity and courage.9.Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such ashis pamphlet Common Sense, which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution.10.William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy, written in 1789, is oftencalled “the first American novel”.11.The literary movement of American romanticism was generally dividedinto two stages: pre-romanticism and post-romanticism.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. Theromanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.The Scarlet Letter is called an economical novel because there are onlythree chief characters-or four if we include the child Pearl.14.President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman whowrote the book that made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literaryrealism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.”The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong tothe school of “Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Agewho wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.20.“Thanatopsis”is a word Bryant borrowed from Latin meaning“meditation on death”.the questions. (20%)Passage 1The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1.Who is the writer of this poem? _______________(1%)2.What is the title of this poem? _______________(1%)3.What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are“modern”? (2%)4.What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem?And what feeling and meaning does the poem express to you? (2%)Passage 2It was late and everyone had left the caféexcept an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by .(2%)2.Why does the old man get drunk every night and why did he commitsuicide? (2%)3.What does the young waiter think of the old man and how does he treathim? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the es-sential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.Questions:1.This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2.The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going tolive in the woods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by .(2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion?(5%)Passage 5It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know.By the name of Annabel Lee; —And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem________________?(1%)2.The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)3.What is the most obvious rhetorical device the author uses for effect?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem__________________________by____________.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them.(20%)1.Robert Frost' s The Road Not Taken.（10%）2.Eugene O' Neill’s Long Day's Journey into Night.（10%）3.Talk about Adgar Allan Poe's social outlook and writings （10%）ment on Hawthorne’s style. （10%）《美国文学》期末考试试卷A卷答案暨评分标准适用班级060511-3 考试时间120 分钟Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Frank Norris2.Stephen Crane3.Sinclair Lewis4.Jack London5.Washington Irving6.Willa Cather7.Robert Frost8.Benjamin Franklin9.William Faulkner10.Nathaniel Hawthorne11.Thomas Jefferson12.Washington Irving13.Ralph Waldo Emerson14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.Eugene O’NeillⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.John Smith2.Thomas Paine3.“founding fathers”4.Gothic Fiction5.Emily Dickenson6.John Smith7.Philip Freneau8.Washington Irving9.Edgar Allan Poe10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Ezra Pound (1)2.In A Station of the Metro (1)3.Answer should comment on the parallel between the “modern” imagery(description of urban crowds and transportation, loneliness) of the firstline and the traditional “Oriental” imagery (budding flowers on a tree,wetness) of the second line. (2)4.What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem?Describe the stylistic result of the parallel and the feelings it evokes (2)Passage 21.This part if from the short story “A Clean Well Light Room” written byErnest Hemingway. (2)2.Describe the old man’s character and relate it to the nihili st philosophyexpressed in the story. (2)3.What does the young waiter think of the old man (and why) and howdoes he treat him? Describe the young man’s character, his lack ofunderstanding of the old man and the significance of how he treats theold man as described in the story. (3)Passage 31.Walden (1)2.Henry David Thoreau (1)3.Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(5)Passage 51.Annabel Lee.(1)2.Edgar Allan Poe. (1)3.repetition or refrains.(4)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (5) VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. (10%)This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about thepoet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he shouldfollow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions whichone must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing inorder to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must acceptthe consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back andhave another chance to choose differently.∙In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one whichseems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow anunusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become apoet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembersthe road which he might have taken, and which would have given him adifferent kind of life.2. Eugene O' Neill’s Long Day's Journey into Night. (10%)∙Long Day's Journey into Night is somewhat autobiographical. The Tyrones of the play are in fact modeled on the Eugene O' Neill family.The four major characters include James Tyrone, the father, a famousactor, anxious to become rich at the expense of his own talent; MaryTyrone, the mother, a drug addict; Jamie Tyrone, their elder son, andEdmund Tyrone, their younger son. The Mother becomes mentally illbecause she is extremely unhappy with her married life. Young Jamieloses faith in life, while Edmund the wanderer comes back withtuberculosis. All the four suffer frustrations and wish to escape from theharsh reality, James and Jamie look for solace in their cups, while Maryand Edmund seek the protection of the fog which they hope wouldscreen them from the intrusion of the world outside. They meet in theliving room of the family' s summer home at 8:30 a. m. of a day inAugust, 1912, and torment one another and themselves until midnight.The father is angry with the mother for her drug addiction, the motherwith his sons for being good for nothing, and the sons with their parentsfor not being good parents. All are torn in a war between love and hate,and no one is sure which is the stronger emotion. Life is too painful forthem even to try and make sense of it. Edmund ' s desperate advice inface of the horrible burden of Time weighing on people ' s shoulders andcrushing them to the earth is to lose feeling in their cups and stay alwaysdrunk. Thus the long day journeys into night when the tragedy of thefamily is finally enacted. No relief is felt, no light is seen, and all ends inthe engulfing darkness.In a figurative sense, Long Day' s Journey into Night is a metaphor for Eugene 0' Neill' s lifelong endeavor to find truth and the way toacceptance. The former he found, namely, the faithless, fragmentarynature of modern life, whereas the latter he did not; for him all passedinto night. In despair Eugene O' Neill thought of the old God of theCatholic church on which, it is ironical to not, he had turned his backlong before.3. Talk about Adgar Allan Poe's social outlook and writings （10%）●Poe admired aristocratic society，distrusted the leveling tendency ofdemocracy, and expressed contempt for uplift movements of progress（提高社会地位的进步运动）.He deplored America's increasing industrialization.In his more sardonic comments on democracy, he says that it amounts to the tyranny "of a mob." He could be associated with those literary men in the 1840's and 1850's，who became, in M elville's words , "isolates（孤僻者，与世隔绝者）, " who were (at least in theory)divorced from society. Yet Poe's criticism of contemporary America cut deeper than that of his contemporaries, causing an isolation more nearly absolute than theirs (see Hawthorne). He was more interested in redeeming and refining language.He was called the "great literary engineer."●Poe also dramatizes for us what has been called the demonic side of thenineteenth century. His tales are filled with assassination and non-escape ,with violence and death. Many of his characters are obsessed with a fear of death. Some of them strive to come back from the tomb;others are terrified of being buried alive or in fact are buried alive like Madeline in "The Fall of the House of Usher. "The two obsessions are part of a general fear of retaining consciousness in a world that is dead.●Poe was preoccupied with the disintegration of culture, with decadence. Hegives us a vision of "dehumanized man." Poe’s characters are dead to the world, machines of sensation and will. They are not willing to live in their own skins. For Poe's characters, the body is a mere machine. It refuses to be reconciled to the flesh and its mortal fate.●As a consequence , Poe's characters insist on living with an intensity andfear that has no relation to the limitations imposed by biological and physical laws. They do not seem to eat or drink ,they do not work.Occasionally they read or play on musical instruments. They are constantly musing about their lives. They speak to each other intensely and with passion. They live only in their heads—all a matter of intellect and imagination.●Poe's typical heroines are usually afflicted with mysterious diseases. Theyvisibly waste away before their lovers’ eyes. Their lovers or husbands can see that they are perishing and the heroines themselves are thoroughly aware of it, but the process cannot be halted. But they are not willing to let go of their lovers.●His characters fear the final moment, which constantly threatens them whilethey are alive, since they have no contact with the world of nature or with religion, being just sheer intelligence which is not connected with anything providing life or spiritual fulfillment. One critic has written :"Poe is not interested in anything that is alive. Everything in Poe is dead —the houses, the rooms, the furniture." Death is a predominant theme of Poe's poetry.The setting of "The Raven," his most celebrated poem, is like that of his tales : the unhappy, unresolved lover sits in an elaborately furnished room, trying to find peace from sorrow in his books and conducting a curious dialogue with his midnight visitant ,a black, deathlike symbol—the raven.Death is also the theme of the curious poem, "Ulalume(尤拉鲁姆)" and "The City in the Sea. "Some literary critics suggest that Poe’s intention was to recognize the impulse,always kept hidden, to kill, even to do violence to one's own nature.●Yet if the world of Poe's imagination is haunted by death and if the tales inparticular seem morbid and obsessed, why did they appeal to the audience of Poe's day? And can they have anything to say to us? The answer would have to be that in spite of their fantastic character they do，at some level, reveal what was going on in the psyche of nineteenth century man.Something like a disintegration of personality was occurring in Poe's life time, and the strange horrors that Poe described produced some echoes in the thoughts of his contemporaries. His audience had a craving for the sensational and the shocking. Writers and sensitive thinkers saw man as spiritually gutted),being pushed into an insane, inhuman world created by the rapidly growing process of industrialization.●Strangely enough, however, Poe had a fascination with the power of reason,despite his emphasis on the irrational. In stories like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter , " reason is applied to the solution of a baffling crime. Even a few of Poe's tales of nightmare terror come tohappy endings precisely because the hero can think his way through a problem. Though the hero of "The Pit and the Pendulum" cannot, by his unaided efforts, save himself from the death intended for him, he uses his head to keep himself alive until help from the outside comes. In fact, one kind of Poe's characters must be those who are forced to fall back on the resources of one's mind.●Just as he was fascinated with the process of reason, Poe was interested inthe deviousness(曲折) of the human soul. He placed emphasis on how the unconscious motivates human beings, not unlike the Romantics of his day, but to a greater extent. Unlike the Romantics, Poe examined irrational drives; he wanted to bring reason to bear on areas which, in his time, were regarded as lying beyond its boundaries or else were ignored altogether. In other words, Poe used his reason to discover the source of the irrational.This is especially evident in "Tell-Tale Heart."●Poe's tragic life and his concentration on death were his extreme and poeticresponse to that which was elaborated upon, in naturalistic terms, fifty years later. He was unusually sensitive to the world of his own day, affected by it intensely ，causing his isolation. Though he wanted to find his place in a traditional society, his failure to do so may well have heightened his sense of lonely individualism. It is this sense of alienation which has carried itself through the greatest of literature in America.4. Comment on Hawthorne’s style.（10%）●His style is also noteworthy for his frequent use of images. Metaphors andsimiles abound, most of them stirringly fresh and effective. He makes skillful use of colors as a means for conveying mood. Black ,red and gray predominate.●Hawthorne's sentences, like his language, show the effects of his long yearsof study and practice in writing. There are few of the awkward sentences which may be found in Cooper. The sentences may appear, to a twentieth century reader, to be too consistently long. But they were not abnormally long for their day. In the most complex sentences ,however, grammatical subordination is employed with sufficient logic and variety to make the writing smooth and clear.●Another reflection of the times in which Hawthorne wrote is seen in hispunctuation. Many of his works are over-punctuated, by modern standards;there are superfluous commas, excessive dashes, and far too many exclamation points. In most cases his words are forceful enough to achieve the emphasis he desires, and the attempt to show such emphasis by using exclamation points is not necessary. But Hawthorne cannot be condemned for following the mechanical conventions of his day.●Hawthorne depends heavily on summarized historical narrative, but linksscenes dramatically. Occasionally, he will interrupt his works to address the reader directly, with some comment on the story, some piece of background information, or a brief moral essay.● A characteristic device of Hawthorne’s，which is employed several timesin The Scarlet Letter, is the "optional reading, " Hawthorne uses concrete objects as well as characters to serve as his symbols. He concentrates on a few main symbols repeated often in the story, and uses the fluidity of character development to illustrate the ways in which symbols grow and change based upon one's perception of them.。
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《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 LanghorneClemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the directtreatment 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 hismasterpiece novel _________.5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for hisvigorous 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 touse the form of free verse.9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidentson 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. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in_______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men7. 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 SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. Thiswas ___________.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher9. The main theme of _______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. William Dean Howells’C. Mark Twain’sD. O. Henry’s10. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,_______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poemsloosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolutionin literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. James JoyceD. all of the above14. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from theirfarm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticismwere the failures of American society and ___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the economic depressionC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New LandIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (10%)1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.2. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.3.The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.4. Hemingway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twain’s region was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.6. Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.8. Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modern poetry.9. Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering innocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.11.Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) and revelation (divine will or Godly "truth")in favor of reason.14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the activethinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressed by Hamilton, of a strong central government.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”. V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage OneLo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!Questions:1.This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is _________.(1%)2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%)3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)Passage 2I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the differenceQuestions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%)2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)4. How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it byexperience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God. Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in thewoods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%)Passage 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets of that dear old town,And my youth comes back to me.And a verse of a Lapland songIs haunting my memory still:"A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem______?(1%)2.The author of the poem is_____ . (1%)3.The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually averb, which sums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb andwhat kind feeling that it conveys?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem _______by_______.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1.Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2.Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3.Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）《美国文学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Benjamin Franklin2.Nathaniel Hawthorne3.Edgar Allan Poe4.Willa Cather5.Sinclair Lewis6.Tennessee Williams7.Stephen Crane8.Ernest Hemingway9.Jack London10.Eugene O’Neill11.Thomas Paine12.Washington Irving13.Henry David Thoreau14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.F. Scott FitzgeraldⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Mark Twain3.Imagism4.The Great Gatsby5.Sinclair Lewis6.John Smith7.Ezra Pound8.Walt Whitman9.William Cullen Bryant10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1)2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.）The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21.Robert Frost(1)2."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"(1)3.This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.4.In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life.Passage 3Walden (1)Henry David Thoreau (1)Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(2)Passage 51.My Lost Youth.(1)2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3.“haunting" sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with "Often in thought "and "comes back to me" .(3)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2. Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.。
《美国文学》期末考试试卷(B卷)及答案
《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B 卷）适用班级 考试时间 120 分钟学院 班级 学号 姓名题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 总分分数Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names ofthe authors. (10%)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 ( ) 11. Common 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 ( )Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks.(10%)得分得分1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel LanghorneClemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman takingsoundings, and meaning two fathoms.3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the directtreatment of an object or situation. He also advocated the language of commonspeech, but always the exact word.4.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in hismasterpiece novel _________.5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for hisvigorous 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 Americanwriter.7._________________ has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\8._______________________was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet touse the form of free verse.9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidentson the line of the hero’s travel.Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most 得分appropriate answer. (30%)1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment,_______________ was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in_______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men7. Melville’s ____________________ is an encyclopedia o f everything, history,philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. Thiswas ___________.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher9. The main theme of _______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. William Dean Howells’C. Mark Twain’sD. O. Henry’s10. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry ofLi Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,_______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poemsloosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolutionin literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. James JoyceD. all of the above14. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from theirfarm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticismwere the failures of American society and ___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the economic depressionC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New LandIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the得分statements are true or false. (10%)1 All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil inlife.2. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.3.The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.4. Hemingway’s works have someti mes been read as an essentially negativecommentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twain’s regio n was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil warand destruction.6. Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness andfair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.8. Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modernpoetry.9. Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glitteringinnocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.11.Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticistspreferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought thatman was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate.They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and toreturn to “natural primitive state”.13.Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) andrevelation (divine will or Godly "truth")in favor of reason.14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the bookthat made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the activethinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for aJeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressedby Hamilton, of a strong central government.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of“Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote thenovels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”.V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the 得分questions. (20%)Passage OneLo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!Questions:1. This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is____________________.(1%)2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%)3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)Passage 2I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the differenceQuestions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%)2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)4. How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it byexperience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in thewoods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%)Passage 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets of that dear old town,And my youth comes back to me.And a verse of a Lapland songIs haunting my memory still:"A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem________________?(1%)2.The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)3.The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually averb, which sums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb andwhat kind feeling that it conveys?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem__________________________by____________.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)得分VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2. Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）《美国文学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准适用班级060511-3 考试时间120 分钟Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of theauthors. (1*10=10%)1.Benjamin Franklin2.Nathaniel Hawthorne3.Edgar Allan Poe4.Willa Cather5.Sinclair Lewis6.Tennessee Williams7.Stephen Crane8.Ernest Hemingway9.Jack London10.Eugene O’Neill11.Thomas Paine12.Washington Irving13.Henry David Thoreau14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.F. Scott FitzgeraldⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Mark Twain3.Imagism4.The Great Gatsby5.Sinclair Lewis6.John Smith7.Ezra Pound8.Walt Whitman9.William Cullen Bryant10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)1 B2 D3 A4 B5 D6 A7 B8 C9 A 10 A11 C 12 B 13 D 14 B 15 AIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)1 T2 F3 T4 T5 F6 T7 T8 F9 F 10 T11 T 12 F 13 T 14 F 15 T16 T 17 F 18 T 19 F 20 TV. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1)2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.）The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21.Robert Frost(1)2."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"(1)3.This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.4.In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life.Passage 31.Walden (1)2.Henry David Thoreau (1)3.Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(2)Passage 51.My Lost Youth.(1)2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3.“haunting" sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with "Often in thought"and "comes back to me" .(3)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2. Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.。
美国文学样卷
云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五I.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)( ) 1. Hawthorne concludes that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the word.”( ) 2. Transcendentalists recognized intuition as the “highest power of the soul.”( ) 3. The misshapen scholar mentioned in Chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne’s husband.( ) 4. The finest example of Hawthorne’s expressionism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in The Scarlet Letter.( ) 5. MacLeish often wrote his poetry with short lines and the strong rhythm of jazz.( ) 6. The poet compares hatred to fire in “Fire and Ice”.( ) 7. Heller’s sardonic novel, Catch-22is considered to be one of the most significant works of “protest literature” to appear since the Second World War. ( ) 8. The bulk of The Autobiography was written in 1771, 1784 and 1788.( ) 9. Through his efforts, the American theatre grew up during the 1920s; O’Neill had a great influence on American playwrights.( ) 10. The narrator, Fortunato, opens the story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by stating that he has been irreparably insulted by his acquaintance, Montresor,and that he seeks revenge.( ) 11. William Dean Howells thinks The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s beast work and praises it as “a real Crane’s work”.( ) 12. One of Porter’s contributions is that she described the women’s liberation from the perspective of feminism.( ) 13. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is a story of an idealist who was destroyed by the disillusion of American Dream.( ) 14. Sarty is one of the main characters in Barn Burning created by Faulkner. ( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway revealed his life values and standards in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.( ) 16. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they werea Beat Generation.( ) 17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the most famous American realistic poets in 19th century.( ) 18. Poe is influenced by romantic style. His poems are noted for nice rhythm and images.( ) 19. n the poem “One’s Self I sing”, Whiteman set forth the principle beliefs of the modern man.( ) 20. Emily Dickinson has published 1775 poems during her lifetime.II.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( ) 1. Toni Morrison( ) 2. Joseph Heller( ) 3. Eugene Glastone O’Neill( ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( ) 5. Emily Dickinson( ) 6. Benjamin Franklin( ) 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson( ) 8. F·Scott Fitzgerald( ) 9. William Faulkner( ) 10. Wallace StevensWorks:a.The Hairy Apeb.I’m Nobody!c.We Bombed in New Havend.English Traitse.The Sound and the Furyf.The Autobiographyg.Tender is the Nighth.Anecdote of the Jari.Song of Solomonj.J.B.III.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I maysay," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.He had a weak point -- this Fortunato -- although in other regards hewas a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit.For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian MILLIONAIRES. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen , was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C.The Cask of Amontillado3.In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the partof the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful.Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold. On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden4.The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches ofgunwale which separated him from the ocean. His sleeves were rolled over his fat forearms, and the two flaps of his unbuttoned vest dangled as he bent to bail out the boat. Often he said: "Gawd! That was a narrow clip." As he remarked it he invariably gazed eastward over the broken sea.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett5.They sat together in the same seat, and each rowed an oar. Then the oiler tookboth oars; then the correspondent took both oars; then the oiler; then the correspondent. They rowed and they rowed. The very ticklish part of the business was when the time came for the reclining one in the stern to take his turn at the oars. By the very last star of truth, it is easier to steal eggs from under a hen than it was to change seats in the dingey.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.It was Hapsy she really wanted. She had to go a long way back through a greatmany rooms to find Hapsy standing with a baby on her arm. She seemed to herself to be Hap sy also, and the baby on Hapsy’s arm was Hapsy and himself and herself, all at once, and there was no surprise in the meeting. Then Hapsy melted from within and turned flimsy as gray gauze and the baby was a gauzy shadow, and Hapsy came up close and said, “I thought you’d never come,” and looked at her very searchingly and said, “You haven’t changed a bit!” They leaned forward to kiss, when Cornelia began whispering from a long way off, “Oh, is there anything you want to tell me? Is there anything I can do for you?”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner 7.After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond myeyes’ powe r of correction. So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby 8."Get out of my way, nigger," his father said, without heat too, flinging the doorback and the Negro also and entering, his hat still on his head. And now the boy saw the prints of the stiff foot on the doorjamb and saw them appear on the pale rug behind the machinelike deliberation of the foot which seemed to bear (or transmit) twice the weight which the body compassed. The Negro was shouting "Miss Lula! Miss Lula! "Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince 9."We are of two different kinds," the old waiter said. He was now dressed to gohome. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe."Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif 10.EBEN--Nor me--but it led up t' the other--an' the murder ye did, ye did 'count o'me--an' it's my murder, too, I'll tell the Sheriff--an' if ye deny it, I'll say we planned it t'gether--an' they'll all b'lieve me, fur they suspicion everythin' we've done, an' it'll seem likely an' true to 'em. An' it is true--way down. I did help ye--somehow.Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-22 IV: Complete the following: 20%1.I used to _____About _____ and _____—I think the _____Is _____. (5%)2.Long, long afterwards in an _____,I found the ____ still unbroken,And the _____, from beginning to end,I found again in the _____ of a friend. (4%)3. Art is_____, and Time is _____,And our hearts, though _____ and _____,Still, like muffled _____, are beating_____ marches to the _____. (7%)4.On desperate seas long wont to _____,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy naiad airs have brought me_____To the _____ that was Greece,And the _____ that was Rome. (4%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!----For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.ment: 20%1. That night I dreamed I was at a circus with him and that he refused to laugh at the clowns no matter what they did. Then later he told me to open my brief case and read what was inside ad I did, finding an official envelope stamped with the state seal; and inside the envelope I found another and another; endlessly, and I thought I would fall of weariness. “Them’s years,”he said. “Now open that one.”And I did and in it I found an engraved document containing a short message on letters of gold. “Read it,”my grand-father said. “Out loud!”“To Whom It May Concern,” I intoned, “Keep This Nigger-Boy Running.”I awoke with the old man’s laughter ringing in my ears. (It was a dream I was ti remember and dream again for many years after. But at that time I had no insight into its meaning. First I had to attend college.)How do you understand the message “Keep This Nigger-Boy Running”? (10%)2. Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over his as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. 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 is gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden’s secret. Ripeness was all.How are we to understand the message Yossarian reads in Snowden’s entrails? (10%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ ment: 20%1. Answer the following questions:(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%)(2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? (5%)_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ 2. Answer the following questions:(1) Is there black humor in this part? How is it expressed? (5%)(2)What do you see from behind this humor? (5%)_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________。
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《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 ( ）11. Common 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。
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answerson the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1.The publication of ______ established Emersonas the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.2.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were thePuritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.3.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inaugurationof President John F. Kennedy.4.Jack London’s masterwork _________ issomewhat autobiographical.5.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burningwith a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a newmovement in poetry which he called the “________”movement.7.“The Custom House” is an introductory note tothe novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “AmericanDream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure ofAmerican poetry. His innovation first of all lies inhis use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10.In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literaturefor his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.11.In American literary history, ________ is called “theRecluse of Amherst” since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short storywritten by _______.13._______ launched two kinds of immensely popularstories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14.The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, themost significant American poem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____,the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves ofGrass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life3.Which of the following is Not one of themain ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Reliance4.In Hawthorne’s novel s and short stories,intellectuals usually appear as _____.A.saviorsB. villainsC.commentatorsD. observers5.In American literature, escaping from thesociety and returning to nature is a commonsubject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A.Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures ofHuckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leatherstocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden6.Which of the following is Not optimisticabout human nature? .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7.Washington Irving was best known for hisfamous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of SleepyHollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip VanWinkle8.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poemson various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A.ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9.Henry James is mostly concerned with ______in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10.______ is called by Hemingway the one fromwhi ch “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern theAmerican _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12.One of Mark Twain’s contributions toAmerican literature is that he made ______ an accepted standard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only____ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound gothis inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Notwon the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense thathis poems are mainly concerned about the _____.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17.The works of _______ reveal the misery of themigrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18.In 1862, Presi dent Lincoln exclaimed: “Soyou are the little woman who wrote the book that start ed this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction aworld of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“Let’s portray man and w oman in a way thatwe meet them in our real life.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1.Local color fiction2.Captain John Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1.What’s the differ ence between Walt Whitmanand Emily Dickinson?2.What’s the symbolic significance of TheScarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1._____ was a founding figure of American poetry,whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2.The publication of Nature established ______ asthe most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were thePuritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder ofpsychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.5.Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ putmost of himself.6.The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliothelped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.7.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.8.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises,________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory noteto the novel _______.10.Among the works attacking the “AmericanDream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.11.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____of which had appeared during her life time.12.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with abaleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literaryindependence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________,acollection of essays, sketches and tales, marks the beginning of American romanticism.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short storywritten by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one thatwould best complete the statement. Put youranswers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point foreach)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concernedWhitman.A.individualismB. freedomC.democracyD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speechentitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “O ur Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar4.The Transcendentalists believe that, first,nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is ______.A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories,intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers6.In American literature, escaping from thesociety and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A.Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures ofHuckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leather-Stocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden7.“I celebrate myse lf, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”Who could have written these lines? _____.A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8.Which of the following is Not optimisticabout human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9.Which of the following statements aboutThe Scarlet Letter is Not true? _____.A.It explores man’s never-ending search forthe satisfaction of materialistic desires.B.It relates the conflicts between the societyand the individual.C.It presents a psychological analysis of theinward tensions of the characters.D.It is about the effect of sin on the peopleinvolved and the society as a whole.10.Washington Irving was best known for hisfamous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of SleepyHollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip VanWinkle11.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems onvarious aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A.ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary workswith a ____ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 hasbeen referred to as _____.A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14.______ is called by Hemingway the one fromwhich “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15.The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fictionreveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction aworld of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James17.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter “A”which originally stands for “_____”, finally obtainsthe meaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester’s efforts.A.arroganceB. adulteryC.agonyD. accomplishment18.During the period after the Civil War, theAmerican society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as _____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19.Robert Frost is generally considered to be aregional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _____.A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20.William Faulkner’s works mainly concernthe American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize forLiterature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner22.“In a Station of the Metro” is regarded bycritics as a classic specimen of _____.A. the imagist poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the transcendental poetry23.Fitzgerald’s fictional w orld is the best embodiment of the spirit of ______.A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical PeriodC. the Jazz AgeD. the Romantic Period24._____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26._______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A.PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inaugurationof President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way thatwe meet them in our real life.” This may be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “Soyou are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen30.All his novels reveal that, as time went on,Mark Twain became increasingly ______.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contented。
美国文学期末考试试题（卷）模拟试题（卷）
美国文学期末考试试题（卷）模拟试题（卷）美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 pointfor each)1.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of NewEngland Transcendentalism.2.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much ofthe earliest American writing.3.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.4.Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical.5.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself inhis thirst to destroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry whic h he called the “________”movement.7.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerfulpiece.9.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all liesin his use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regularrhyme scheme.10.In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modernnarration”.11.In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst”since sheisolated herself from the outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.13._______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and thefrontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14.The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem ofthe 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still amystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing ofthe “en-mass” and the ____ aswell.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life3.Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Reliance4.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers5.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a commonsubject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A.Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leatherstocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden6.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle8.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9.Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literaturecomes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12.One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ anaccepted standard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her lifetime.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned aboutthe _____.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the AmericanDepression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the bookthat started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed”was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meetthem in our real life.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1.Local color fiction2.Captain John Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1.What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2.What’s the symbolic significance of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1._____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in hisuse of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2.The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of NewEngland Transcendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much ofthe earliest American writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder of psychologicalrealism, who believed thatreality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.5.Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.6.The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition ofliterature rich with learning and allusive thought.7.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is theshortest poem written by _____.8.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for whatGertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.10.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerfulpiece.11.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her lifetime.12.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself inhis thirst to destroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation ofnature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________,a collection of essays, sketches andtales, marks the beginning of American romanticism.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed byOliver Wendell Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-Reliance。
美国文学模拟试题二
云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二学院: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. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression.( ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Jefferson and Thoreau.( ) 3. Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles.( ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms.( ) 5. The quotation—“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might…” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.( ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.( ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses toname the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. ( ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. ( ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar” symbolizes social regulation.( ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to use Montresor’s fondness for wine against him.( ) 11. Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story of a good woman’s downfall and destruction in a slum environment.( ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of human reality.( ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. ( ) 14. The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is considered as the representative of his short story.( ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat.( ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation.( ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms—the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.( ) 18. In “Sonnet—To Science”, Poe praised science for it emancipated the poet’s imagination.( ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson’s poems.( ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize.II.following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( ) 1. Walt Whiteman( ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson( ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald( ) 5. Wallace Stevens( ) 6. Joseph Heller( ) 7. Eugene Glastone O’Neill( ) 8. Ernest Hemingway( ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter( ) 10. Langston HughesWorks:a.The Man with the Blue Guitarb.The Ravenc.Desire under the Elmsd.For Whom the Bell Tollse.Fine Clothes to the Jewf.Natureg.The Leaning Towerh.The Side of Paradisei.God Knowsj.Leaves of GrassIII.’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of myancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains ofmy relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato bowedhim through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography3.The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that itscatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, -- under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C.Self-reliance4.The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden5.In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued as to thedifference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook hadsaid: "There's a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up."Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.“Get along and doctor your sick,” said Granny Weatherall. “Leave a wellwoman alone. I’ll call for you when I want you…Where were you forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You weren’t even born. Don’t let Cornelia lead you on,” she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. “I pay my own bills, and I don’tthrow my money away on nonsense!”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner7.It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless and disma yed,bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day. His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby8."Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckon anybodynamed for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they?" The boy said nothing. Enemy! Enemy! he thought; for a moment he could not even see, could not see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: "Do you want me to question this boy?" But he could hear, and during those subsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince9.The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from the counter insidethe cafe and marched out to the old man's table. He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe.He sat down at the table with his colleague again.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif10.ABBIE--(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him--wildly) I killed him, I tellye! I smothered him. Go up an' see if ye don't b'lieve me! (Cabot stares at hera second, then bolts out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs,and rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk backlifelessly into her former position. Cabot puts his hand down on the body in the crib. An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.)Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-221.To make a _____ it takes a _____ and one _____,One _____ and a _____.And _____._____ alone will do,If _____ are few. (8%)2.How _____ to be somebody!How public, like a _____To tell your name the _____ dayTo an _____ bog! (4%)3.The _____ of these faces in the crowd;_____ on a wet, black _____. (3%)4.So much _____upona red _______________ with rainwaterbesides the _____chickens (5%)Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that passing thereHad worn them really about the same.1. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.…When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.Answer the following questions:(1)What does the opening sentence imply? (5%)(2)In what way could the survivors be interpreters? (5%)2.I want you to pick all the fruit this year and see that nothing is wasted. There’s always someone who can use it. Don’t let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. Don’t let things get lost. It’s bitter to lose things. Now, don’t let me get to thinking, not when I am tired and taking a little nap before supper…Answer the following questions:(1) What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family? (5%)(2) What do you see from behind her words? (5%)云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二学院: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)1.____2. ____3._____4._____5._____6._____7._____8._____9._____ 10_____ 11.____ 12.___ 13.____ 14.____ 15.____ 16.____17.____ 18.____19.____ 20._____following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. Author:_____ , Work:_____2. Author:____ , Work:_____3. Author:_____ , Work:_____4. Author:____ , Work:_____5. Author:_____ , Work:_____6. Author:____ , Work:_____7. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 8. Author:____ , Work:_____9. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 10. Author:____ , Work:_____1. (1%)_________ ,2. (4%)________, _______, _______, _______3. (1%)____________,4.(1%)____________5.(1%)___________6. (4%)_________ , __________, __________ ,__________7. (1%)__________ , 8. (1%)____________ , 9. (1%)____________10. (4%)__________, _________ , _________ , _________ 11. (1%)______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________1. Answer the following questions:(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%)(2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? 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美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题(20201126152726)
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. The publication of _____ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.2. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.3. At 87, ______ read his poetry at the in augurati on of Preside nt Joh n F. Kenn edy.4. Jack London ' s masterwork __________ i s somewhat autobiographical.5. _____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new moveme nt in poetry which he called the “______ ”7. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ________ .8. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, _____________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of_______ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10. In 1954, ______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his mastery of the art of modern nar11. In American literary history, _______ i s called AmhersttheReclusinee”f she isolated herself fromthe outside almost for life.12. The Fall of the House of Usher ” is a short story written by _______ .13. _____ laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the sea adve nture and the fron tier saga,represe nted byThe Leatherstock ing Tales.th14. The publication of T. S. Eliot ' s in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20 century, helped to establish amodern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by ______ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the stateme nt. Then put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____ , the n arrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the uni verse.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2. Most of the poems in Whitman L eaves of Grasssing of the -mass en ” and the _____ a s well.A. n atureB. self-relia neeC. selfD. life3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importa nce of the In dividualB. Faith in Christia nityC. TheOver-Soul D. Self-Relia nce4. In Hawthor ne ' no vels and short stories, i ntellectuals usually appear as ______ .A. saviorsB. villai nsC. comme ntatorsD. observers5. In America n literature, escap ing from the society and retur ning to n ature is a com mon subject. Thefollowing titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except ____ .A. Dreiser L ister CarrierB. Mark Twain T hes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper T eatherstocking Tales ___D. Thoreau TValdens6. Which of the followi ng is Not optimistic about huma n n ature? .C. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9. Henry James is mostly concerned with _____ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11. William Faulkner 's works mainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12. One of Mark Twain 's contributions to American literature is that he made ______ anacceptedstandard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ___ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014. In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from ___ .A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15. Of the following American writers, ____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the ____ .A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! Whois this woman referred to? _________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19. It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be kiA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20. “Let 's portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. ”This may be a principle for the characterization of ______ .A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. Local color fiction2. Captain John Smith3. “Annabel Lee ”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1. What ' the differenee between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2. What ' the symbolic significanee of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. ___ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the freeverse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2. The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.3. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.4. ________ i s considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in theimpressi ons made by life on the spectator.5. Marti n Ede n is the no vel into which ____ put most of himself.6. The publication of ______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature richwith lear ning and allusive thought.7. The appariti on of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. ” This is the shortest poemwritte n by ____ .8. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ b ecame the spokesman for what Gertrude Steinhad called a Lost Generation ”.9. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ______ .10. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, ___________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.11. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ___ of which had appeared during her life time.12. ____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick , bur ning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.13. As a poet, _________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of naturedisti nguished his treatme nt of in dige nous wild life and other n ative America n subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14. The publication of Washington Irving 's a collectio,n of essays, sketches and tales, marks thebeg inning of America n roma nticism.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by _____ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. In Leaves of Grass, ______ is all that concerned Whitma n.A. i ndividualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2. _____ i s the n arrator ofMoby Dick.3. In 1837, Ralph Emers on made a speech en titled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wen dellHolmes as Our In tellectual Declarati on of In depe nden ce. ” C. Divin itySchool Address D.The America n Scholar4. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is _____A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5. In Hawthorne 's novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____ .6. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles areall related, in one way or another, to the subject except ___________________ .A. Dreiser 'Sister CarrierB. Mark Twain 'Thes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper 'Leathers-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau 'Waldens7. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. ”Who could have written these lines? ___ .A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? ____ .A. It explores man 's-neverending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.D. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.10. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle11. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ____ .A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15. The main theme of ______ 'Thes Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of lifeshould be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16. It is not surprising to find in ____A. Mark TwainC. Theodore Dreiser17. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter's fiction a world of jungle, whereB. Emily DickinsonD. Henry James“A”which originally stands forkill or to be kimeaning of “able ”or angel ”through Hester s efforts.A. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19. Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on thelandscape and people in _____________ .A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20. William Faulkner 'orkswmainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21. In 1954, ____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “masteryof the art of modernnarration. ” C. the Jazz Age D. the Romantic Period24. ___ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26. _____ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27. At 87, _____ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28. “Let 's portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. ”This may bthe characterization of ______ .A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! ”Whois this woman referred to? ____________________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. JaneAusten A. T. S. EliotC. John Steinbeck22. “In a Station of the Metro A.the imagist poetry C. the romanticpoetry B. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner ”is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ____ B. the absurd poetry D. the transcendental poetry23. Fitzgerald 's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ________A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical Period30. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ____ .A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth ”(by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1. American Romanticism.2. Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier .美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis ”introduced the best poet, ________ , to appear in Aup to that time.2. James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and3. Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of _____ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4. Herman Melville 'novels ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.th5. In the early 19 th century, Washington Irving wrote _____ which became the first work by anAmerican writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ____ Pond.7. After his death, _____ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poetth8. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18 th century through the outburst of the■th9. The arbiter of 19 th century literary realism in America was ______ .10. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ____ , which is poetry without a fixed beat orregular rhyme scheme.11. ____ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in theimpressions made by life on the spectator.12. ____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13. O. Henry 's ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order toget money for a Christmas present for each other.14. ____ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he calledthe “Imagist ”movement.15. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel _____ . It is the story of an idealist who wasdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16. Ernest Hemingway 's stature as a writer wasconfirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17. ____ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18. William Faulkner considered _________ to be truly “theAmericanfirst writer ”.19. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and _____ as important deterministic forces shapingindividualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ____ .II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions.Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1. Moby Dick was dedicated to ___ .A. Ralph EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry ThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2. ____ was Mark Twain 's masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American litcomes. ”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3. __ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the __ .A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. Thomas Jefferson 's attitude, thats, ifirm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period wenow call ______________ .A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age ofRomanticism D. Age of Regionalism6. As a literary and philosophical movement, ___ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the CivilWar.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7. __ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience8. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ___ on the Puritansoil.A. RomanticismB. SymbolismC. MysticismD. Rationalismth9. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19 century. This was _ .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10. Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11. The main theme of ___ The 'sArt of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life shouldbe the main object of the novel.A. Henry JamesB. William HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry12. Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?A. Stephan CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Walt Whitman13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14. Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15. E mily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject ofher poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16. Of the following American writers, ___ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! The bookrefers to __________ .A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom 's Cabin18. The works of ____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, ____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22. “The Custom-House ”is an introductory note to ____ .A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in thequest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing ____________________ 's thematic concernin his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24. American writers after World War I self- consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “___ ”, devfaith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers26. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ___ .A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27. Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28. __ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. John Steinbeck29., one of America 's greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor.Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day 's Journey into Night.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. Bernard MalamudD. Eugene O 'Neill30. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ___ .A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translatorIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier becomesuccessful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案I: Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. Bryant2. frontier saga3. transcendentalist4. Moby Dick5. Sketch Book6. Walden7. Longfellow8. Civil War9. Howells10. free verse11. Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. American CrisisII: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions.Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1---5: BBDAB 6---10:DDACD11---15:ADBCD 16---20:BDBDC21---25:CBBAC 26---30:CBBDAIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 pointsfor each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of local color, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things was immediately observable; the dialects, customs, sights, and sounds of regional America. Bret Harte was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity,prese nti ng stories of western mining tow ns with colorful gamblers, outlaws, and sea ndalous wome n. Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chop in, Joel Chan dler Harris, and Mark Twain provided regi onal stories and tales of the life of America ' Wester ners, Souther ners, and Easter ners. Local color ficti on reached its pe popularity in the 1880s, but by the turn of the century it had begun to decline.2. I nstead of hav ing her puni shed for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroli ne Meeber i n Sister Carrierbecome successful. Can you tell why?This is due to a nu mber of reas ons:1) Theodore Dreiser based the novel on the life of his sister Emma. In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Can ada with a married man who had stole n money from his employer. Ano ther sister of his was a prostitute.2) Like Sister Carrie who went to Chicago at the age of 18, Dreiser himself left home at age 15 for Chicago and started to support himself, doing menial jobs. He understood perfectly well how hard life was for a girl like Sister Carrie in a big city.3) His sympathy for Sister Carrie is related to his n aturalistic beliefs. The n aturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and wome n had no free will, that their lives were con trolled by heredity andthe en vir onment, that religious t ruth ” were illusory, that the desti ny of huma nity was misery in life an oblivio n in death. As a pion eer of n aturalism in America n literature, Dreiser wrote no vels reflect ing his mecha ni stic view of life, a con cept that held huma nity as the victim of such un gover nable forces as econo mics, biology, society, and eve n cha nee. In his works, conven ti onal morality is uni mporta nt, con sciously virtuous behavior hav ing little to do with material success and happ in ess. So Sister Carrie is not to be blamed for her sin of life.4) His sympathy for Sister Carrie also shows the in flue nce of the teach ings of Charles Darwin----natural selection and the survival of the fittest and that of the teachings of Herbert Spencer----social Darwinism. In this novel, Sister Carrie is portrayed as an example of the survival of the fittest in an indifferent world.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the follow ing stateme nts with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. Ralph Emerson ' truest disciple was _______ , who put into practice many of Emerson ' s2. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine ' s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated aDeclaration for Independence ”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.3. _____ has been called the Father of American Poetry ”.4. Toa Waterfowl ”is perhaps the peak of _______ ' work, which has been called by an Englishprominent critic the most perfect brief poem in the Ian guage ”.5. In his cluster of poems calledLeaves of Grass, _____ gave America its first genuine epic poem.6. _____ probed deeply at the in dividual psychology of his characters, writi ng in a rich and in tricatestyle that supported his intense scruti ny of complex huma n experie nce.7. _____ ' s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctlyAmerican literature to be written in English.8. Benjamin Fran kli n ' s best writi ng is found in his masterpiece _____ .9. James Fennimore Cooper laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the fron tier saga and■。
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云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三学院: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. ―To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men —that is genius.‖The sentence shows theopinion of Joseph Heller.( ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James, Franklin's wife.( ) 3. In ―The Cask of Amontillado‖, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, therebytrapping Fortunato inside forever.( ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen of Hawthorne’s chilling, cold-blooded human animals.( ) 5. The lines—―A poem should not mean / But be‖ comes from ―Ars Poetica‖by MacLeish.( ) 6. O’Neill’s great purpose was to try and discover the root of human desires and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaningand purpose in their lives but all met disappointment.( ) 7. Catch-22combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.( ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.( ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism.( ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau.( ) 11. In The Open Boat, Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat natural disasters with natural andimpressionistic approaches.( ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers.( ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night.( ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character named Nick Carraway, who is also a participant in the event.( ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.( ) 16.A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of ―the lost generation‖.( ) 17. Hemingway’s writing style, together with his theme and hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experience in the war.( ) 18. In Walt Whiteman’s poem ―O Captain! My Captain!‖, captain refers to President Lincoln.( ) 19. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for obscure.( ) 20.Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class strive for their identity.II.following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson( ) 2. Robert Frost( ) 3. Saul Bellow( ) 4. Joseph Heller( ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison( ) 6. Ezra Pound( ) 7. Ernest Hemingway( ) 8. Emily Dickinson( ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter( ) 10. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowW orks:a.Self-Relianceb.Invisible Manc.Pale Horse, Pale Riderd.The Sun Also Risese.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningf.Success is Counted Sweetestg.Song of Myselfh.Catch-22i.Looking for Mr. Greenj.CantosIII.’s name and the name of theworks: 20% (1 points for each item)1.That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, thatwere it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in asecond edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for othersmore favorable.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison W ork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed theeighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and theeleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. Istruggled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But nowthere came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head.It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognising as thatof the noble Fortunato.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo EllisonW ork: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography3.The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyesof nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man. The joyful loyalty with which men haveeverywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the great proprietor to walkamong them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things, andreverse theirs, pay for benefits not with money but with honor, and representthe law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signifiedtheir consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every man. Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonW ork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C.Self-reliance4. A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by thebeadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointedfor her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understandinglittle of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter on her breast. It wasno great distance, in those days, from the prison door to the market-place. Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson W ork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden5.As the boat bounced from the top of each wave, the wind tore through the hairof the hatless men, and as the craft plopped her stern down again the spraysplashed past them. The crest of each of these waves was a hill, from the top of which the men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven. It was probably splendid. It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white and amber. Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneW ork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.Well, she could just hear Cornelia telling her husband that Mother was getting ali ttle childish and they’d have to humor her. The thing that most annoyed her was that Cornelia thought she was deaf, dumb, and blind. Little hasty glances and tiny gestures tossed around here and over her head saying, ―Don’t cross her, let her have her way, she’s eighty years old,‖ and she sitting there as if she lived in a thin glass cage.Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterW ork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner7. A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I beganto look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. So did Gatsby’s father. And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain way. The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. LongfellowW ork: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby8."No!" Harris said violently, explosively. "Damnation! Send him out of here!"Now time, the fluid world, rushed beneath him again, the voices coming to him again through the smell of cheese and sealed meat, the fear and despair and the old grief of blood…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostW ork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince9."Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued theconversation with himself. It is the light of course, but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that the light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway W ork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif10.ABBIE--(gives him a furious push which sends him staggering back andsprings to her feet--with wild rage and hatred) Don't ye dare tech me! What right hev ye t' question me 'bout him? He wa'n't yewr son! Think I'd have a son by yew? I'd die fust! I hate the sight o' ye an' allus did! It's yew I should've murdered, if I'd had good sense! I hate ye! I love Eben. I did from the fust. An' he was Eben's son--mine an' Eben's--not your'n!Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul BellowW ork:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-221.Some say the world will end in _____,Some say in _____.From what I’ve tasted of _____I hold with those who favor _____.But if it had to _____ twice,I think I know enough of _____ (6%)2. Whose woods these are I think I _____.His _____ is in the village, though;He will not see me _____ hereTo watch his _____ fill up with _____. (5%)2.Two roads _____ in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not _____ both.…I _____ the one less _____ by,And that has made all the _____. (5%)3.Hold fast to _____For if _____ dieLife is a broken-winged _____That cannot _____. (4%)Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne’er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need.Not one of all the purple hostWho took the flag todayCan tell the definition,So clearly, of victory.As he, defeated, dying,On whose forbidden earThe distant strains of triumphBurst, agonized and clear.1.He opened it at the back cover and turned it around for me to see. On the last fly-leaf was printed the word SCHEDULE, and the date September 12, 1906. And underneath:Rise from bed ………………………………… 6.00 A.M.Dumbell exercise and wall-scaling ………....... 6.15 – 6.30 ..Study electricity, etc. …………………………. 7.15 – 8.15 ..Work ………………………………………….. 8.30 – 4.30 P.M.Baseball and sports …………………………… 4.30 - 5.00 ..Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it … 5.00 – 6.00 ..Study needed inventions ……………………… 7.00 – 9.00 ..What does Gatsby’s Schedule reveal about him and how does it relate to the American Dream? (10%)2. It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. Y ou do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Not can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.Answer the following questions:(1)What do you see from the older waiter’s view of life? (5%)(2)How do you interpret the irony of the title ―A Clean, Well-Lighted Place‖afterreading the above passage? (5%)云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三学院: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)1.____2. ____3._____4._____5._____6._____7._____8._____9._____ 10_____ 11.____ 12.___ 13.____ 14.____ 15.____ 16.____17.____ 18.____19.____ 20._____following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. Author:_____ , Work:_____2. Author:____ , Work:_____3. Author:_____ , Work:_____4. Author:____ , Work:_____5. Author:_____ , Work:_____6. Author:____ , Work:_____7. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 8. Author:____ , Work:_____9. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 10. Author:____ , Work:_____1. (1%)_________ ,2. (4%)________, _______, _______, _______3. (1%)____________,4.(1%)____________5.(1%)___________6. (4%)_________ , __________, __________ ,__________7. (1%)__________ , 8. (1%)____________ , 9. (1%)____________10. (4%)__________, _________ , _________ , _________ 11. (1%)______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________1. Answer the following questions:(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%)(2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? (5%)_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ 2. Answer the following questions:(1) Is there black humor in this part? How is it expressed? (5%)(2)What do you see from behind this humor? 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大四美国文学期末考型及例大四美国文学期末考型及例：1./60 分（ 40 道，20 个）2.名解10 分（5 个）3.段配10 分（5 个）4.答20 分（10/2）1．史： Father / poetess⋯2.名作家： Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson3．作品： The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter1.a)（ 40 个， 40 分）1.At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by theEuropean movement called the ________.A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement2.Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin? ________A.He was born in a poor family.B.He was a pious puritan.C.He was phrased as“Jack of all trades”.D.He was a master of diplomacy.3.Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT ________.A.Lost GenerationB.Iceberg theoryC.American DreamD.Code Heroes4.Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? ________A.Hester PrynneB.Roger ChillingworthC.Captain AhabD.Pearl5.Jack London’s semi-biographical novel ________well presents thedisillusionment of American Dream.A.The American TragedyB.The Call of the WildC.Martin EdenD.The Grapes of Wrathb)判断（ 20 个， 20 分）1.Poe’smasterpiece“To Helen”is written to memorize his deceased wife.(F)2.The tone of “Annabel Lee”is optimistic and hopeful. (F)3.Mark Twain's novel Jumping Frog was an artistic failure, but it gave its name tothe America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.(F)4.Sister Carrie ended up in tragedy because she could not control her fate(F).大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题2.名词解释题（5个，10分）1. It refers to t he religious beliefs held by the Puritans, who had intended to“ purif or simplify the religious ritual of the Church of England. They believed in the originalsin and the harsh Day of Doom, although some good people --- the chosen peopleor “ the Elect--- may” be saved. Puritanism)(2.A literary doctrine that called for “ realityand truth ”in the depiction of ordinarylife ．It had originated in France and was very popular in 19th century.Realism)(3.选段配对题（5个，10分）1.Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,Hid in this silent, dull retreat,Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow,Unseen thy little branches greet:No roving foot shall crush thee here,No busy hand provoke a tear.The Wild Honey Suckle (Philip Freneau)2.During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year,when the cloud hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, onhorseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself,as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. Iknow not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense ofinsufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.The Fall of the House of Usher(Edgar Allan Poe)4.问答题（ 10/2， 20 分）1. Transcendentalism(a) Transcendentalism (p56){1}As a moral philosophy, it exalted feeling over reason, individual expression overthe restraints of law and custom. & believed in the transcendence ofthe“oversoul ” {2}A literary movement flourishing in New England from the1830s to the Civil war. It stresses intuitive understanding of God, without the helpof the church and advocated independence of the mind. The representative writersare Emerson and Thoreau.{b} The significance of TranscendentalismTranscendentalism exerted a dominating notion onto the major wirers of the Romanticperiod and its essence has been permanently absorbed into the main stream ofAmerican thought. As a moral philosophy, Transcendentaliststook their ideas from theromantic literature of Europe, from neo-Platonism, from German idealistic philosophyand from the revelations of Oriental mysticism. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation andagainst the materialism of American society. They believed in the transcendence ofthe“Oversoul”, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come andof which all things are a part. As a philosophical and literarymovement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830’s to the Civil War. Its doctrines found their greatest literary advocated in Emerson, who believed that man was a part of absolute good, and in Thoreau who beheld divinityin the “unspotted innocence”of nature. It was a powerful expression of the intellectual mood of the age, and the ideas it represented have remained a strong influence on great American writers from the days of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman to the present.2. “The Road Not Taken”Symbolic meanings of The Road Not Taken:In this poem, the author uses two roads in the woods to symbolize the choices inthe real life. The author suggests us not being afraid to take a chance, not following the crowd and trying new things. Individualism is highlighted in the poem because the speaker chooses to go his own way, taking the“road less traveled”.Caution is also taken before deciding to take the“road less traveled”, for the speaker takes time to consider the other road.Commitment is symbolized in the poem because the speaker does not havesecond thoughts after making his decision.The last symbolized theme is accepting a challenge. It may be that the road the speaker chooses is less traveled because it represents trials or perils. Such challenges seem to appeal to the speaker.The Road Not TakenThis poem, as many of Frost ’ sbeginspoems,with the observation of nature, as if the poet is a traveler sightseeing in nature. By the end, all the simple words condense into a serious proposition: When anyone in life is confronted with making a choice, in order to possess something worthwhile, he has to give up something which seems as lovely and valuable as the chosen one. Then, whatever follows, he must accept the consequence of his choice for it is not possible for him to return to the beginning and have another chance to choose differently. Frost is asserting that nature is fair and honest to everyone. Thus all the varieties of human destiny result from each person spontaneous capability of making choices.Form : The poem is very regularly structured with 4 classic 5-line stanzas, withthe rhyme scheme “ abaab” and in conversational rhythm.3. The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby the parody (戏仿 )of American dreamThematically ，the novel is a parody of the American dream as represented by Gatsby’s pursuit for wealth and love ．(1)American Dream(derived the Puritanism) is a popular belief that people can achieve success，whether it is wealth，fame or love through honest hard working ina new world of liberty ，equality，chances and promises． (e.g. Franklin, Obama )(2) It is true that Gatsby had a huge wealth，but it was built up through illegal means —bootlegging. Daisy was the embodiment of love for Gatsby，but the Daisy in Gatsby s’illusion was not the Daisy in reality —— a mindless and spiritless woman only with a beautiful appearance，who retreated to her boring but secure way of life rather than accept the responsibility at the moment of crisis．(3)Like Franklin ， Gatsby also made a time table and a list of“do’s anddon'ts”． But unfortunately he did not know that the time had changed．(4)Therefore, G’s dream is tarnished by his material possessions, much like America is now with the obsession with wealth. In any case, Gatsby would have failed to his idealistic dream inevitably, namely disillusion of American dream.Together with Martin Eden, it well presents the disillusionment of American Dream. Main ideas :Nick Caraway, the narrator decided to leave his family in the Midwest to study bond business in New York．He took a small house at West Egg of Long Island and became a neighbor of Jay Gatsby，a mysterious man of great wealth．He resumed acquaintance with Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy at a dinner party in their home． There he also met Jordan Baker，an attractive but arrogant young lady．He soon learned that their marriage was not happy and Tom has a mistress，Myrtle ， wife of George Wilson ，a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes．A few days later he was invited to Gatsby’s party. From Gatsby and later from Jordan, Nick learned of the love affair between Daisy and Gatsby before she married Tom．Gatsby then made a request of Nick：to bring Daisy to tea and meet Gatsby． At the reunion Gatsby changed from nervousness to excitement and from excitement to a remote fantasy． At a party Gatsby gave to the Buchanans，Nick and Jordan，Gatsby and Tom had a fierce quarrel over Daisy and Daisy sided with both men in turns．Then Daisy and Gatsby left in Gatsbys car while’ the others followed in Tom’s． On the way Gatsby’s car knocked Myrtle dead and ran away ， but he later told Nick that Daisy was driving at the time of the accident．Myrtle ，thinking Tom was in the car，ran toward it and was hit．Meanwhile Mr ．Wilson traced Gatsby’s car and found Gatsby's house． A few hours later both of them were found dead．Apparently Wilson shot Gatsby and then himself． Although Nick tried to make Gatsby’s funeral respectable，none of his friends came．Only Gatsby’s father appeared，still thinking that his son was a great man． On another occasion Nick met Tom and Daisy and was reluctant to shake hands with them．He already knew that it was Tom who made Wilson believe that Myrtle was Gatsby s’ lover and was run over by Gatsby． Soon Nick went back to his people in the MiddleWest．。
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云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)( ) 1. ―To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men —that is genius.‖The sentence shows the opinion of Joseph Heller.( ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James, Franklin's wife.( ) 3. In ―The Cask of Amontillado‖, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby trapping Fortunato inside forever.( ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen of Hawthorne’s chilling, cold-blooded human animals.( ) 5. The lines—―A poem should not mean / But be‖ comes from ―Ars Poetica‖by MacLeish.( ) 6. O’Neill’s great purpose was to try and discover the root of human desires and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment.( ) 7. Catch-22combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.( ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.( ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism.( ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau.( ) 11. In The Open Boat, Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat natural disasters with natural andimpressionistic approaches.( ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers.( ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night.( ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character named Nick Carraway, who is also a participant in the event.( ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.( ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of ―the lost generation‖.( ) 17. Hemingway’s writing style, together with his theme and hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experience in the war.( ) 18. In Walt Whiteman’s poem ―O Captain! My Captain!‖, captain refers to President Lincoln.( ) 19. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for obscure.( ) 20.Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class strive for their identity.II.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson( ) 2. Robert Frost( ) 3. Saul Bellow( ) 4. Joseph Heller( ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison( ) 6. Ezra Pound( ) 7. Ernest Hemingway( ) 8. Emily Dickinson( ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter( ) 10. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWorks:a.Self-Relianceb.Invisible Manc.Pale Horse, Pale Riderd.The Sun Also Risese.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningf.Success is Counted Sweetestg.Song of Myselfh.Catch-22i.Looking for Mr. Greenj.CantosIII.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, thatwere it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in asecond edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed theeighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and theeleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head.It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognising as thatof the noble Fortunato.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography3.The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyesof nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverencethat is due from man to man. The joyful loyalty with which men haveeverywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the great proprietor to walkamong them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things, and reverse theirs, pay for benefits not with money but with honor, and representthe law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signifiedtheir consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every man. Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C.Self-reliance4. A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by thebeadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointedfor her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understandinglittle of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face and at thewinking baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter on her breast. It wasno great distance, in those days, from the prison door to the market-place. Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden5.As the boat bounced from the top of each wave, the wind tore through the hairof the hatless men, and as the craft plopped her stern down again the spray splashed past them. The crest of each of these waves was a hill, from the top of which the men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven. It was probably splendid. It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white and amber. Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.Well, she could just hear Cornelia telling her husband that Mother was getting alittle childish and they’d have to humor her. The thing that most annoyed herwas that Cornelia thought she was deaf, dumb, and blind. Little hasty glances and tiny gestures tossed around here and over her head saying, ―Don’t cross her, let her have her way, she’s eighty years old,‖ and she sitting there as if she lived in a thin glass cage.Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner7. A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I beganto look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. So did Gatsby’s father. And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain way. The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby8."No!" Harris said violently, explosively. "Damnation! Send him out of here!"Now time, the fluid world, rushed beneath him again, the voices coming to him again through the smell of cheese and sealed meat, the fear and despair and the old grief of blood…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince9."Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued theconversation with himself. It is the light of course, but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that the light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif10.ABBIE--(gives him a furious push which sends him staggering back andsprings to her feet--with wild rage and hatred) Don't ye dare tech me! What right hev ye t' question me 'bout him? He wa'n't yewr son! Think I'd have a son by yew? I'd die fust! I hate the sight o' ye an' allus did! It's yew I should've murdered, if I'd had good sense! I hate ye! I love Eben. I did from the fust. An' he was Eben's son--mine an' Eben's--not your'n!Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-22 IV．Complete the following: 20%1.Some say the world will end in _____,Some say in _____.From what I’ve tasted of _____I hold with those who favor _____.But if it had to _____ twice,I think I know enough of _____ (6%)2. Whose woods these are I think I _____.His _____ is in the village, though;He will not see me _____ hereTo watch his _____ fill up with _____. (5%)2.Two roads _____ in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not _____ both.…I _____ the one less _____ by,And that has made all the _____. (5%)3.Hold fast to _____For if _____ dieLife is a broken-winged _____That cannot _____. (4%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne’er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need.Not one of all the purple hostWho took the flag todayCan tell the definition,So clearly, of victory.As he, defeated, dying,On whose forbidden earThe distant strains of triumphBurst, agonized and clear.1.He opened it at the back cover and turned it around for me to see. On the last fly-leaf was printed the word SCHEDULE, and the date September 12, 1906. And underneath:Rise from bed ………………………………… 6.00 A.M.Dumbell exercise and wall-scaling ………....... 6.15 – 6.30 ..Study electricity, etc. …………………………. 7.15 – 8.15 ..Work ………………………………………….. 8.30 – 4.30 P.M.Baseball and sports …………………………… 4.30 - 5.00 ..Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it … 5.00 – 6.00 ..Study needed inventions ……………………… 7.00 – 9.00 ..What does Gatsby’s Schedule reveal about him and how does it relate to the American Dream? (10%)2. It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Not can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.Answer the following questions:(1)What do you see from the older waiter’s view of life? (5%)(2)How do you interpret the irony of the title ―A Clean, Well-Lighted Place‖afterreading the above passage? (5%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ ment: 20%1. Answer the following questions:(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%)(2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? (5%)_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ 2. Answer the following questions:(1) Is there black humor in this part? How is it expressed? (5%)(2)What do you see from behind this humor? 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美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I。
Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on theAnswer Sheet。
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The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism。
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Hard work, thrift， ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.3。
At 87， ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy。
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Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiog raphical。
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______， the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil。
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Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “________” movement。
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“The Cus tom House" is an introductory note to the novel _______。
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Among the works attacking the “American Dream”， __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece。
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外国语学院20— 20 学年第二学期《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷)适用班级050511-13 考试时间120 分钟1.Leaves of Grass ( )2.Raven ( )3.Anecdote of the Jar ( )4.The Octopus ( )5.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )6. A Rose for Emily ( )7.Arrowsmith ( )8.Of Mice and Men ( )9.The Weary Blues ( )10.The Streetcar Named Desire ( )II、Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information、(10%)1.Emily Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual and paysattention to only one region “____________”、Her poetry characterizeswith the concise, direct and simple diction and syntax、2.Simply ______________ means the use of regional detail in a literaryor artistic work、The name is given especially to a kind of American literature that in its most characteristic form made its appearance just after the Civil War and for nearly three decades was the single most popular form of American literature、3.Martin Eden, one of London's most important books, is this __________account of a young sailor who struggles to improve himself and achieves eventual success as a writer, but grows disenchanted with fame and wealth、It represents both an indictment of the American dream and animportant reflection on London's own background and career、4.Modernism in literature is not easily summarized, but the key elementsare experimentation, __________, individualism and a stress on thecerebral rather than emotive aspects、5.The __________ manifesto came out in 1912 showed three poeticprinciples: direct treatment of the “thing”(no fuss, frill, or ornament), exclusion of superfluous words(precision and economy of expression), the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome(free verse form and music)、6.In The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells us a story of anold Cuban fisherman, __________, who is a perfectionist when it comes to fishing、7.William Faulkner wrote works of psychological drama and emotionaldepth, typically with long serpentine prose and high, meticulously-chosen diction, also using groundbreaking literary devices such as stream of consciousness, ______________, and time-shifts within narrative、8.Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literaturein __________ for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters、9.____________ was more than just a literary movement: it includedracial consciousness, "the back to Africa" movement led by Marcus Garvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others、It was ahuge leap for black liberation and culture、10.____________ received the Pulitzer Prize four times and received theNobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy, making him the first US dramatist to do so、III、Choose only one answer form the four choices as the mostappropriate answer、(20%)1、 Mark Twain created, in____________, a masterpiece of Americanrealism that is also one of the great books of world literature、A、Huckleberry FinnB、Tom SawyerC、The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD、The Gilded Age2、Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain、A、The Adventures of Tom SawyerB、Innocents AbroadC、Life on the MississippiD、The Rise of Silas Lapham3、 With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century、A、sentimentalismB、romanticismC、realismD、naturalism4、 The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________、A、First World WarB、Second World WarC、Civil WarD、War of Independence5、 Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected、A、The Waste LandB、The CantosC、Don JuanD、Queen Mab6、__________, a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas a Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power、A、"The Confidential Clerk"B、"The Cocktail Party"C、"The Family Reunion"D、"Murder in the Cathedral"7、The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F、Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling、It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______、A、The Roaring TwentiesB、The Jazz AgeC、The Dollar DecadeD、all of the above8、 In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language、A、Gertrude SteinB、Ezra PoundC、Thomas Stearns EliotD、James JoyceE、all of the above9、__________ tells the Joad family's life from the time they were evictedfrom their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California、A、Of Mice and MenB、The Grapes of WrathC、The Great GatsbyD、For Whom the Bell Tolls10、_________ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them、A、William FaulknerB、F、Scott FitzgeraldC、Ernest HemingwayD、John SteinbeckIV、Identify the author and the title of the work from which eachof the following excerpts is taken、And then answer the questionafter each excerpt、(20%)Passage 1"I celebrate myself, and sing myself、And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you、"The authorThe title of the workQuestion: What is the author celebrating?Passage 2CABOT:The farm needs a son、ABBIE:I need a son、CABOT:Ay-eh、Sometimes ye air the farm an’sometimes the farm be yew、That’s why I clove t’ ye in my lonesomeness、(A pause、He pounds his knee with his fist、) Me an’ the farm has got t’ begeta son!ABBIE:Ye’d best go t’ sleep、Ye’re gittin’ thin’s all mixed、CABOT:(with an impatient gesture) No, I hain’t、My mind’s clear’s a well、Ye don’t know me, that’s it、(He stares hopelessly at thefloor、)ABBIE:(indifferently) Mebbe、…………ABBIE:(at last—painfully) Ye shouldn’t, Eben—ye shouldn’t—I’d make ye happy!EBEN:(harshly) I don’t want t’ be happy—from yew!ABBIE:(helplessly) Ye do, Eben! Ye do! Why d’ye lie?EBEN:(viciously) I don’t take t’ ye, I tell ye! I hate the sight o’ ye! ABBIE:(with an uncertain troubled laugh) Waal, I kissed ye anyways—an’ye kissed back—yer lips was burnin’—ye can’t lie’bout that!(intensely) If ye don’t care, why did ye kiss me back—why was yerlips burnin’?The authorThe title of the workQuestion: The second conversation in the above excerpt takes place immediately after the first one、What do you think is Abbie’s real intention of showing affection to Eben?Passage 3“Since then-- ’tis Centuries--and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses’ HeadsWere toward Eternity—”The authorThe title of the workQuestion: What is the implication of this final stanza?Passage 4They were careless people, Tom and Daisy —They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into theirmoney or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together,and let other people clean up the mess they had made 、 、 、The authorThe title of the work Question: What is the author' s attitude toward such persons as Tom andDaisy?Passage 5Lo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!The authorThe title of the work Question: Comment on the beauty of this poem 、V 、 Answer the following questions briefly 、(20%) 1、 Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”:(1)What realistic elements can you find in this story? (5%)(2)What role does language play in the story? (5%)2. What is the Lost Generation? (10%)VI 、 Answer ONE of the following questions 、(20%) 1. Analyze An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 、2、 Analyze William Faulkner ’s The Sound and the Fury 、。
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美国文学期末考试考试卷模拟精彩试题美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTranscendentalism.2.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.3.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.4.Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobi ographical.5.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry whic h he called the “________” movement.7.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10.In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.11.In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluseof Amherst” since she isolated herself fromthe outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.13._______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga,represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14.The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20thcentury, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2.Most of the p oems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life3.Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Reliance4.In Hawt horne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers5.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. Thefollowing titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A.Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leatherstocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden6.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle8.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not ausual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9.Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12.One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ an accepted standardliterary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _____.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started thisgreat war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1.Local color fiction2.Captain John Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1.What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2.What’s the symbolic signif icance of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1._____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the freeverse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2.The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTranscendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in theimpressions made by life on the spectator.5.Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.6.The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature richwith learning and allusive thought.7.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poemwritten by _____.8.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Steinhad called “a Lost Generation”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel_______.10.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.11.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.12.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of naturedistinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________,a collection of essays, sketches and tales, marks thebeginning of American romanticism.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver WendellHolmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar4.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is ______.A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers6.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. Thefollowing titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A.Dreiser’s Sister Carrie rB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leather-Stocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden7.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”Who could have written these lines? _____.A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? _____.A.It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B.It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C.It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.D.It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.10.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle11.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not ausual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ____ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15.The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of lifeshould be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James17.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter “A” which origi nally stands for “_____”, finally obtains themeaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester’s efforts.A. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as_____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19.Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainlyfocus on the landscape and people in _____.A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20.William Faulkner’s w orks mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modernnarration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner22.“In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _____.A. the imagist poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the transcendental poetry23.Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ______.A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical PeriodC. the Jazz AgeD. the Romantic Period24._____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26._______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” This may be a principle forthe characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started thisgreat war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen30.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ______.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth” (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1.American Romanticism.2.Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet, ______, to appear in America up to that time.2.James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and______.3.Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4.Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.5.In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an Americanwriter to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond.7.After his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner ofWestminster Abbey.8.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the______.9.The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______.10.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat orregular rhyme scheme.11.______ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in theimpressions made by life on the spectator.12.______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13.O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order toget money for a Christmas present for each other.14.______ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist” movement.15.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who wasdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16.Ernest Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in 1929.The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17.______ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18.William Faulkner considered __________ to be “the first truly American writer”.19.As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shapingindividualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20.A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ______.II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions.Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1.Moby Dick was dedicated to ____.。
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云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五学院: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. Hawthorne concludes that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the word.”( ) 2. Transcendentalists recognized intuition as the “highest power of the soul.”( ) 3. The misshapen scholar mentioned in Chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne’s husband.( ) 4. The finest example of Hawthorne’s expressionism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in The Scarlet Letter.( ) 5. MacLeish often wrote his poetry with short lines and the strong rhythm of jazz.( ) 6. The poet compares hatred to fire in “Fire and Ice”.( ) 7. Heller’s sardonic novel, Catch-22 is considered to be one of the most significant works of “protest literature” to appear since the Second World War.( ) 8. The bulk of The Autobiography was written in 1771, 1784 and 1788.( ) 9. Through his efforts, the American theatre grew up during the 1920s; O’Neill had a great influence on American playwrights.( ) 10. The narrator, Fortunato, opens the story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by stating that he has been irreparably insulted by his acquaintance, Montresor, and that he seeks revenge.( ) 11. William Dean Howells thinks The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s beast work and praises it as “a real Crane’s work”.( ) 12. One of Porter’s contributions is that she described the women’s liberation from the perspective of feminism. ( ) 13. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is a story of an idealist who was destroyed by the disillusion of American Dream.( ) 14. Sarty is one of the main characters in Barn Burning created by Faulkner.( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway revealed his life values and standards in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.( ) 16. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a Beat Generation.( ) 17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the most famous American realistic poets in 19th century.( ) 18. Poe is influenced by romantic style. His poems are noted for nice rhythm and images.( ) 19. n the poem “One’s Self I sing”, Whiteman set forth the principle beliefs of the modern man.( ) 20. Emily Dickinson has published 1775 poems during her lifetime.II.Writers:( ) 1. Toni Morrison( ) 2. Joseph Heller( ) 3. Eugene Glastone O’Neill( ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( ) 5. Emily Dickinson( ) 6. Benjamin Franklin( ) 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson( ) 8. F·Scott Fitzgerald( ) 9. William Faulkner( ) 10. Wallace StevensWorks:a.The Hairy Apeb.I’m Nobody!c.We Bombed in New Havend.English Traitse.The Sound and the Furyf.The Autobiographyg.Tender is the Nighth.Anecdote of the Jari.Song of Solomonj.J.B.III.’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thingimmediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.He had a weak point -- this Fortunato -- although in other regards he was a man to be respected andeven feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian MILLIONAIRES. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen , was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C.The Cask of Amontillado3.In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a peopleamong whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold. On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden4.The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches of gunwale which separated him from theocean. His sleeves were rolled over his fat forearms, and the two flaps of his unbuttoned vest dangled as he bent to bail out the boat. Often he said: "Gawd! That was a narrow clip." As he remarked it he invariably gazed eastward over the broken sea.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett5.They sat together in the same seat, and each rowed an oar. Then the oiler took both oars; then the correspondent tookboth oars; then the oiler; then the correspondent. They rowed and they rowed. The very ticklish part of the businesswas when the time came for the reclining one in the stern to take his turn at the oars. By the very last star of truth, it is easier to steal eggs from under a hen than it was to change seats in the dingey.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.It was Hapsy she really wanted. She had to go a long way back through a great many rooms to find Hapsy standing witha baby on her arm. She seemed to herself to be Hapsy also, and the baby on Hapsy’s arm was Hapsy and hims elf andherself, all at once, and there was no surprise in the meeting. Then Hapsy melted from within and turned flimsy as gray gauze and the baby was a gauzy shadow, and Hapsy came up close and said, “I thought you’d never come,” and looked at her very se archingly and said, “You haven’t changed a bit!” They leaned forward to kiss, when Cornelia began whispering from a long way off, “Oh, is there anything you want to tell me? Is there anything I can do for you?”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner7.After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction.So whenthe blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. LongfellowWork: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby8."Get out of my way, nigger," his father said, without heat too, flinging the door back and the Negro also and entering,his hat still on his head. And now the boy saw the prints of the stiff foot on the doorjamb and saw them appear on the pale rug behind the machinelike deliberation of the foot which seemed to bear (or transmit) twice the weight which the body compassed. The Negro was shouting "Miss Lula! Miss Lula! "Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince9."We are of two different kinds," the old waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question ofyouth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe."Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif10.EBEN--Nor me--but it led up t' the other--an' the murder ye did, ye did 'count o' me--an' it's my murder, too, I'll tell theSheriff--an' if ye deny it, I'll say we planned it t'gether--an' they'll all b'lieve me, fur they suspicion everythin' we've done, an' it'll seem likely an' true to 'em. An' it is true--way down. I did help ye--somehow.Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul BellowWork:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-221.I used to _____About _____ and _____—I think the _____Is _____. (5%)2.Long, long afterwards in an _____,I found the ____ still unbroken,And the _____, from beginning to end,I found again in the _____ of a friend. (4%)3. Art is_____, and Time is _____,And our hearts, though _____ and _____,Still, like muffled _____, are beating_____ marches to the _____. (7%)4.On desperate seas long wont to _____,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy naiad airs have brought me_____To the _____ that was Greece,And the _____ that was Rome. (4%)Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!----For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.1. That night I dreamed I was at a circus with him and that he refused to laugh at the clowns no matter what they did. Then later he told me to open my brief case and read what was inside ad I did, finding an official envelope stamped with the state seal; and inside the envelope I found another and another; endlessly, and I thought I would fall of weariness. “Them’s years,” he said. “Now open that one.” And I did and in it I found an engraved document containing a short message on letters of gold. “Read it,” my grand-father said. “Out loud!”“To Whom It May Concern,” I intoned, “Keep This Nigger-Boy Running.”I awoke with the old man’s laughter ringing in my ears. (It was a dream I was ti remember and dream again for many years after. But at that time I had no insight into its meaning. First I had to attend college.)How do you understand the message “Keep This Nigger-Boy Running”? (10%)2. Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over his as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. 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 is gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden’s secret. Ripeness was all.How are we to understand the message Yossarian reads in Snowden’s entrails? (10%)云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五学院: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)1.____2. ____3._____4._____5._____6._____7._____8._____9._____ 10_____11.____ 12.___ 13.____ 14.____ 15.____ 16.____17.____ 18.____19.____ 20._____1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. Author:_____ , Work:_____2. Author:____ , Work:_____3. Author:_____ , Work:_____4. Author:____ , Work:_____5. Author:_____ , Work:_____6. Author:____ , Work:_____7. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 8. Author:____ , Work:_____9. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 10. Author:____ , Work:_____1. (1%)_________ ,2. (4%)________, _______, _______, _______3. (1%)____________,4.(1%)____________5.(1%)___________6. (4%)_________ , __________, __________ ,__________7. (1%)__________ , 8. (1%)____________ , 9. (1%)____________10. (4%)__________, _________ , _________ , _________ 11. (1%)_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________1. Answer the following questions:(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%)(2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? (5%)__________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________2. Answer the following questions:(1) Is there black humor in this part? How is it expressed? (5%)(2)What do you see from behind this humor? (5%)__________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________。