《美国文学赏析》试题

Group 1
Column A Column B
( e ) 1. T. S. Eliot a. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ( d ) 2. Wallace Stevens b. Sister Carrie
( b ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c.The Oversoul
( c ) 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Anecdote of the Jar
( a ) 5. Robert Frost e. The Waste Land
Group 2
Column A Column B
( b ) 1. Benjy a. Sister Carrie
( a ) 2. George Hurstwood b. The Sound and the Fury
( d ) 3. Emily c. Mrs Warren’s Profession
( c ) 4. Vivie d. A Rose for Emily
( e ) 5. Jim e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“God help men that help themselves” is found in ________ work.
A.Paine
B. Franklin
C. Freneau
D. Jefferson
From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _____, an annal(年表、编年史) collection of proverbs.（谚语）
A.The Autobiography
B. Poor Richard’s Almanac
C. Common Sense D .The General Magazine
______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A.Henry David Thoreau
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Nathanial Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
Transcendentalists（超验主义者）recognized ________ as the “highest power of the soul”.
A. Intuition
B. logic
C. data of the senses
D. thinking
The common thread throughout American literature has been emphasis on the ________.
A.Revolution
B. Reason
C. Individualism
D. Rationalism
The publication of ________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature
B. Self-reliance
C.The American Scholar
D. The Over-soul
There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ______ on the Puritan soil.
A. Romanticism
B. Puritanism （清教主义）
C. Mysticism （神秘主义）
D. Unitarianism （实用主义）
In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _______.
A.the thought that designates（标出、定名为）a literary and philosophical theory which tends to
see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.
B.The thought that designates man as a social animal
C.The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commo
D.The modes of thinking
Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ______ language.
A.Grand
B. pompous
C. simple
D. vernacular
Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as ______.
A.the golden age
B. the silver age
C.the gilded age
D. the roaring age
The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American _________.
A. modernism
B. Naturalism
C. Vernacularism
D. local colorism
Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?
A. Ezra Pound
B. William Carlos Williams
C. Robert Frost
D. Theodore Dreiser
The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ______.
A. William Faulkner
B. F. Scott. Fitzgerald
C. John Steinbeck
D. Ernest Hemingway
Who, one of the most import poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?
A. J. D. Salinger
B. Ezra Pound
C. Richard Wright
D. Ralph Ellison
Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of American’s ____________.
A. naturalists
B. realists
C. modernists
D. romanticists
The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to _____.
A. The Great Gatsby
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
D. Moby Dick
The American “Thirties”, lasted from the Crash(股市崩盘), through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak (开始) of the Second World War in 1939. This was a period of ______.
A. poverty
B. important social movements
C. a new social consciousness （意识）
D. all of the above
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _________.
A.T. S. Eliot
B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
D.
E. E. Cummings
Early in the 20th century, _______ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.
A. Ezra Pound
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Robert Frost
D. Both A and B
The imagist writers followed three principles; they respectively are direct treatment, economy of expression and ____________.
A. clear rhythm
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. heroic couplet
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both…” In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to __________.
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. on e’s course of life
In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ________ in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
A. stream of consciousness
B. imagism
C. symbolism
D. naturalism
Yoknapatawpha county is an imagery land invented by _________.
A. William Faulkner
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Balzac
D. Theodore Dreiser
_______ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying (衰败的) upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous(厚颜无耻的)class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.
A. Faulkner
B. Fitzgerald
C. Hemmingway
D. Steinbeck
1.Who is your favorite American writer? What is his/her masterwork? Why do you like
him/her? ( The writers and the works are not confined to (局限于) those we have
mentioned in class.) (15 points)
2.What is the relationship between wars and American literature? (U.S. has gone through
the Independence War, the civil war, WWI, WWII, and the anti-terrorist war, you can choose one particular period to analyze or interpret it from a bird’s view.) (15 points)
3.What have you leaned from this elective（选修课）this term? And do you have any
suggestions for this class? (10 points)
你最喜欢哪一位美国作家？他（她）的代表作品是什么？为什么喜欢？
简述美国文学与战争的关系。

谈谈通过一个学期的学习，自己的收获和对课程的建议。

从南北战争结束到第一次世界大战，美国文学总的倾向是现实主义的兴起、发展和浪漫主义的衰微。

南北战争结束后的20、30年内,资本主义处于自由竞争阶段,民主、自由的理想鼓舞着人民和作家，文学创作中乐观的情绪处于主导地位。

80年代以后,经过几次经济危机,社会动荡不安，人们怀疑民主制度是“人人自由、幸福的天堂”。

80、90年代以后，批判现实、揭露社会黑暗的作品增多，主题涉及农村的破产，城市下层人民的困苦，劳资斗争，不少作品揭露种族歧视、海外侵略和政府与大企业的勾结，也有些作品表现了空想社会主义的情绪。