美国文学期末试卷及答案

《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

Langhorne Clemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.

3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the

direct treatment 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 his masterpiece novel _________.

5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for

his vigorous 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 to use the form of free verse.

9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.

10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the

incidents on 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. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Revolution

D. Evolution

2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?

A. Michael Wigglesworth

B. Edward Taylor

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Philip Freneau

3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of

Puritan Boston in _______.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Young Goodman Brown

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Ambitious Guest

4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.

A. Thoreau

B. Emerson

C. Hawthorne

D. Whitman