美国文学模拟试题三

师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：：

考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150 分钟试卷编号( 卷)

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-22 combines 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 and impressionistic 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