自考美国文学选读试题_浙江省7月自考试卷

自考美国文学选读试题_浙江省2009年7月

自考试卷

浙江省2009年7月自学考试美国文学选读试题

课程代码：10055

Part Ⅰ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)

Group 1

Column A Column B

( )1. Washington Irving A. The Scarlet Letter

( )2. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. An American Tragedy

( )3. Theodore Dreiser C. As I Lay Dying

( )4. Ezra Pound D. In a Station of the Metro

( )5. William Faulkner E. The Sketch Book

Group 2

Column A Column B

( )6. Nick Carraway A. Indian Camp

( )7. Hurstwood B. Moby Dick

( )8. Miss Waston C. Sister Carrie

( )9. Ahab D. The Great Gatsby

( )10. Nick Adams E. Adventures of huckleberry Finn

Part Ⅱ. Select from the four choices A, B, C and D of each item

the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)

11. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ____, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New

England Transcendental Movement.( )

A. Walden

B. Nature

C. The Pioneers

D. Song of Myself

12. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT____.( )

A. malignancy

B. God

C. adultery

D. beauty

13. The Romantic Period in the history of American literature started with the pub lication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s ____.( )

A. Drum Taps

B. Leaves of Grass

C. Rip Van Winkle

D. Walden

14. ____is worth the honor of being “the American Goldsmith” for his literary craftsmanship.( )

A. Walt Whitman

B. Washington Irving

C. Herman Melville

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind”is a famous quote from ___’s writings.( )

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Mark Twain

C. Henry James

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. In the history of American literature ____is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period. ( )

A. New England Transcendentalism

B. the Harlem Renaissance

C. England Unitarianism

D. New Transcendentalism

17. The Civil War affected both the social and the value system of the country. After the Civil War America transformed from ____to ____.( )

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

B. an agrarian community…a highly developed society

C. a poor and backward society…an agrarian community

D. an agrarian community…an industrialized and commercialized society

18. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of ____in the history of the United States.( )

A. Symbolism

B. Imagism

C. Realism

D. Modernism

19. Mark Twain preferred to have his own class and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “____”, a unique variation of American literary realism.( )