美国文学试题A

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A. To Helen

B. The Sound and the Fury

C. Autobiography

D. The Triumph of the Egg

E. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

F. Success is Counted Sweetest

G. A Psalm of Life

H. Sister Carrie

I. Daisy Miller

J. Walden

statements according to what you have North America was established at Jamestown, the most eloquent spokesman of New

epic poem, ran nine Realistic period are William Dean Howells,

the 20th century, helped 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.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by

the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.

9.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Earnest Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude

Stein had called a “__________”.

10.The Leading playwright of the modern period in American literature is ________.

Ⅲ. Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.

(20%)

1. American Romanticism stretches from the end of the ________ century through the outbreak of ______.

A.18th, the Civil War

B. 18th, the War of Independence

C. 19th, WWI

D. 19th, WWII

2. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are

generally concerning ____________________.

A. nature, man and the universe

B. the relationship between man and woman

C. the development of Romanticism in American literature

D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?

A. Importance of the Individual

B. Faith in Christianity

C. The Over-Soul

D. Self-Reliance

4. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regard ed as a masterpiece of the New England

Transcendental Movement.

A. Walden

B. The Pioneers

C. Nature

D. "Song of Myself"

5. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his “black vision”. The term “black vision” refers

to______________.

A. Hawthorne’s observation that every man faces a black Wall.

B.Hawthorne’s belief that all men are by nature evil.

C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story.

D. that Puritans of Hawthorne’s time usually wore black clothes.

6. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is,

unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”

A. Walt Whitman

B. Edgar Allen Poe

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual

subject of her poetic expression?

A. Religion.

B. Life and death.

C. Love and marriage.

D. War and peace.

8. After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.

A. an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society

B. an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality

C. a poor and backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society

D. an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society

9. After “The Adventure of Tom Sawyer”, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book

called_________, and the book from which “all modern American literature comes”.

A. Life on the Mississippi River

B. The Gilded Age

C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. The Sun Also Rises

10. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following

titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _________.

A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie

C. Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales

D. Thoreau’s Walden 11. _______ is famous for psychological realism.

A. Mark Twain

B. William Dean Howells

C. Henry James

D. Walt Whitman

12. In the first part of the 20th century，apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers -______，whose ideas had

the greatest impact on the period.

A. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud

B. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud

C. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James

D. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud

13. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the

20th century?

A. The Sun Also Rises.

B. The Old Man and the Sea.

C. Mosses From the Old Manse.

D. The Green Hills of Africa.

14. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?

A. Cambridge.

B. Oxford.

C. Mississippi.

D. Yoknapatawpha.

15. Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because_____________.

A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South

B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and Social institutions

C. most of them were prisoners of the past

D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable

16. F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the author of ______ .

A. The Great Gatsby

B. Tender is the Night

C. A Farewell to the Arms

D. This Side of Paradise

17. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear

American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A. Southern

B. Western