大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题

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大学美国文学试卷

大学美国文学试卷

美国文学1.第7题__C__ was considered to be the first American writer.A.Washington IrvingB.Benjamin FranklinC.John SmithD.Hoffman答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.02.第8题The School Room Poets did not include _____.A.LongfellowB.LowellC.HolmesD.Poe答案:D您的答案:D题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.03.第9题pound’s poem “the river-merchant’s wife” was translatedfrom a poem by the chinese poet __________.A.李白B.杜甫C.白居易D.王安石答案:A您的答案:A题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.04.第14题Tales of a Traveller was written by the American author__________.A.James Fenimore CooperB.Washington IrvingC.Nathaniel Hawthorne答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.05.第18题The modern critic Van W. Brooks calls _____ a shredded Shakespeare play.A.The Scarlet LetterB.Moby DickC.Billy BuddD.Mardi答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.06.第19题“Civil Disobedience” is a famous essay written by ___________.A.Ralph Waldo EmersonB.Henry David ThoreauC.E. B. White答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.07.第20题among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his or her life. the person is ___.A. Edgar Ellan PoeB.Herman MelvilleC.Emily Dickinson答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.08.第21题The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB.Herman MelvilleC.Edgar Ellan Poe答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.09.第22题The poem “Thanatopsis” was written by __________.A.Emily DickinsonB.William Cullen BryantC.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.010.第23题"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.A.T. S. EliotB.Wallace StevensC.Robert Frost答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.011.第24题The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB.Edgar Allan PoeC.MelvilleD.Longfellow答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.012.第25题Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of man and ____.A.natureB.self-relianceD.life答案:A您的答案:A题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.013.第26题____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.A.To a WaterfowlB.ThanatopsisC.To HelenD.Annabel Lee答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.014.第27题1.牋牋?________ was the first writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.A.Mark TwainB.Harriet StoweC.Bret HarteD.Henry James答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.015.第28题______ translated the Bible into the Indian tongue.A.Benjamin FranklinB.Roger WilliamsC.. John EliotD.John Cotton答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.016.第29题The best-selling books in the first decades of the twentieth century wereA.news reportB.travel booksmercial booksD.historical romances答案:D您的答案:D题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.017.第30题Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.A.old valuesB.rigid ideas of social statusC.bigotry and eccentricityD.harmony and integrity答案:D您的答案:D题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.018.第38题___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga.A.deerslayerB.pathfinderC.hawkeyeD.Mohican答案:D您的答案:D题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.019.第39题"To a Waterfowl" is a poem written by ---.A.Edgar Ellan PoeB.William Cullen BryantC. Whittier答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.020.第40题Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___.A.The Purloined LetterB. LigeiaC.The Tell-tale Heart答案:A您的答案:A题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.021.第41题The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.A.New YorkB.BeijingC.BostonD.Chicago答案:D您的答案:D题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.022.第42题The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________.A.Henry JamesB.FitzgeraldC.Ernest HemingwayD.William Faulkner答案:A您的答案:A题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.023.第43题The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______.A.Martin EdenB.The Iron HeelC.The Sea WolfD.The Call of the Wild答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.024.第44题Among the following authors the one who received 4 pulitzer prizes was ---.A.Robert FrostB.Jack LondonC.Mark Twain答案:A您的答案:A题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.025.第45题My Lost Youth written by ____ is about his hometown of Portland, Maine.A.Henry W. LongfellowB.John CottonC.Carl SandburgD.Anne Bradstreet答案:A您的答案:A题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.026.第46题William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.A.Mark TwainB.O’ HenryC.Jack LondonD.William Dean Howells答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.027.第47题When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A.Henry JamesB.Scott FitzgeraldC.HemingwayD.William Faulkne答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.028.第48题Puritans emphasized a ____God.A.mercifulB.wrathfulC.benevolentD.learned答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.029.第49题The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.A.Ralph Waldo EmersonB.Philip FreneauC.Henry David Thoreau答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.030.第50题____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.A.To a WaterfowlB.ThanatopsisC.To HelenD.Annabel Lee答案:B您的答案:A题目分数:2.0此题得分:0.031.第51题Besides symbolism, all the following qualities except ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick, a world classic.A.narrative power ?B.psychological analysisC.speculative agility ?D.optimistic view of life答案:D您的答案:D题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.032.第52题The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________.A.Isabelle ArcherB.Natty BumpoC.Ishmael答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.033.第53题A poetic line of two feet is called___________.A.monometerB.dimeterC.trimeterD.tetrameter答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.034.第54题Perhaps Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of ___________ is to be found in I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died---a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces.A.enthusiasmB.deathC.crisisD.fantasy答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.035.第55题Jack London did not write ______.A.The Sea WolfB.The Call of the WildC.The AmbassadorsD.White Fang答案:C您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.036.第56题American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. It was _____.A.. Anne BradstreetB.Jane AustenC.Emily DickinsonD.Harriet Beecher答案:C您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:0.037.第57题The first writings that we may call American were the narratives and ___ of the early English settlements.A.. documentsB.journalsC.statementsD.files答案:D您的答案:D题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.038.第58题Many of O’ Henry’s stories tell about the lives of poor people in ____.A.ChicagoB.New YorkC.New JerseyD.New England答案:B您的答案:B题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.039.第59题William Faulkner once declared that ___ was the first truly American writer from whom we are descended.A.Washington IrvingB.CooperC.HawthorneD.Mark Twain答案:D您的答案:D题目分数:2.0此题得分:2.040.第60题The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________.A.Ernest HemingwayB.Ezra PoundC.T. S. EliotD.William Carlos Williams答案:B您的答案:C题目分数:2.0此题得分:0.041.第1题1.?????While working for the Virginia City Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted the pseudonym “Mark Twain,” which means two fathoms.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.042.第2题1.牋牋?Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.043.第3题Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.044.第4题"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.045.第5题“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe.答案:错误您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:0.046.第6题"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.047.第10题1.?????Many of O Henry’s stories contain a lot of slangs and colloquial expressions, just like his own speech.答案:错误您的答案:错误题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.048.第11题1.牋牋?To Hawthorne and Poe, the telling of a tale was a way inquiringinto the meaning of life.答案:错误您的答案:错误题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.049.第12题1.牋牋?Immediately after their arrival in America, the American Puritans became more preoccupied with business and profits, as they had to be in the grim struggle for survival.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.050.第13题"Declaration of Independence" was drafted by Benjamin Franklin alone. 答案:错误您的答案:错误题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.051.第15题Many of Poe’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.052.第16题The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”.答案:错误您的答案:错误题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.053.第17题life and death is a major theme in emily dickinson’s poems.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.054.第31题1.牋牋?American naturalism, like Romanticism, had come from Germany. 答案:错误您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:0.055.第32题1.?????Throughout his life, Steinbeck’s greatest happiness and deepest sorrow were caused by his American dream of success.答案:错误您的答案:错误题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.056.第33题1.牋牋?Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and veil, never showed a positive part of the life.答案:错误您的答案:错误题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.057.第34题The poet Robert Frost wrote in traditional rhyme schemes, but his themes are very modern.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.058.第35题Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doyle.答案:正确您的答案:正确题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.059.第36题"A Rose for Emily" is a Gothic short story written by William Faulkner. 答案:正确您的答案:错误题目分数:1.0此题得分:0.060.第37题The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman. 答案:错误您的答案:错误题目分数:1.0此题得分:1.0。

美国文学选读期末试卷(A)

美国文学选读期末试卷(A)

美国文学选读期末试卷(A)Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10 points in all, 2 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B()1. Benjamin Franklin a. Moby Dick()2.Edgar Allan Poe b. The Cast of Amontillado()3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The Scarlet letter()4. Nathaniel Hawthorne d. Self-Reliance()5. Herman Melville e. The AutobiographyPart ⅠⅠ: Gap filling (10 points in all, 1 point for each).1.‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is written by _______ .2.Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______ _______ .3.‘the remains of my relations’ means __________________in Chinese.4.‘I must not only punish but punish with impunity’ means ___________________________in Chinese.5._________is regarded as the first person to write the detective novel in the west.6.Ralph Waldo Emerson is the supporter of _________.7.Herman Melville is the famous _________and poet of America.8.In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life ofAmerica. It was entitled _________by Emerson.9.The historical novel ‘Scarlet Letter’ describes the17th century’s life style of the___________________________in North America.10.In Herman Melville’s Moby Dick’, as the opposite of the human being, the whale stands for__________________.Part ⅠⅠⅠ: Reading Comprehension (40 points in all, 2 points for each).AHow canI travel a lot, and I find out different “styles” (风格) of directions ever y time 1 ask “I get to the post office?”Foreign tourists are often confused (困惑) in Japan because most streets there don’t have names; in Japan, people use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. Forexample, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the bighotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.”In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There areno mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles.Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example,people will say, “Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.”People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measuredistance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “iabout fiv e minutes from here.” You say, “Yes, but how many miles away is it?” They don’t It’s true that a person doesn’t know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in suchtan, Mexico, no onea situation? A New Yorker might say, ‘Sorry, I have no idea.” But in Yucathey usuallyPeople in Yucatan believe that “I don’t know” is impolite,answers “I don’t know.”give an answer, often a wrong one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!1. When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a certain place they usually _________A. describe the place carefullyB. show him a map of the placeC. tell him the names of the streetsD. refer to recognizable buildings and places2. What is the place where people measure distance in time? _________A. New York.B. Los Angeles.C. Kansas.D. Iowa.3. People in Yucatan may give a tourist a wrong answer ________A. in order to save timeB. as a testC. so as to be politeD. for fun4. What can we infer from the text? _________for travelers to understand cultural differences.A. It’s importantB. It’s useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.C. People have similar understandings of politeness.D. New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.BHeroes of Our TimeA good heartDikembe Mutombo grew up in Africa among great poverty and disease. He came toGeorgetown University on a scholarshipto study medicine —but Coach John Thompson got alook at Dikembe and had a different idea. Dikembe became a star in the NBA, and a citizen of theUnited States. But he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to share his fortune with others.He built a new hospital in his old hometown in the Congo. A friend has said of this good-heartedman: “Mutombo believes that God has given him this chance to do great things.”Success and kindnessAfter her daughter was born, Julie Aigner-Clark searched for ways to share her love of musicinand art with her child. So she borrowed some equipment, and began filming children’s videosher own house. The Baby Einstein Company was born, and in just five years her business grew tomore than $20 million in sales. And she is using her success to help others — producing childsafety videos with John Walsh of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Juliesays of her new program: “I believe it’s the most important thing that I have ever done. I believethat children have the right to live in a world that is safe.”Bravery and courageA few weeks ago, Wesley Autrey was waiting at a Harlem subway station with his two littlegirls when he saw a man fall into the path of a train. With seconds to act, Wesley jumped onto thetracks, pulled the man into the space between the rails, and held him as the train passed rightabove their heads. He insists he’s not a hero. He says: “We have got to show each other somelove.”5. What was Mutombo praised for? .A. Being a star in the NBA.B. Being a student of medicine.C. His work in the church.D. His willingness to help the needy.6. Mulombo believes that building the new hospital is .A. helpful to his personal developmentB. something he should do for his homelandC. a chance for his friends to share his moneyD. a way of showing his respect to the NBA7. What did the Baby Einstein Company do at its beginning? .A. Produce safety equipment for children.B. Make videos to help protect children.C. Sell children’s music and artwork.D. Look for missing and exploited children.8. Why was Wesley Autrey praised as a hero? .A. He helped a man get across the rails.B. He stopped a man from destroying the rails.C. He protected two little girls from getting hurt.D. He saved a person without considering his own safety.CTom was one of the brightest boys in the year, with supportive parents. But when he was 15he suddenly stopped trying. He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary schoolsubjects. One of the reasons that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer group.The lack of right male role models in many of their lives — at home and particularly in theschool environment — means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselvesagainst.They don’t see men succeeding in society so it doesn’t occur to them that they could make something of themselves. Without male teachers as a role model, the effect of peer actions andstreet culture is all powerful. Boys want to be part of a club. However, schools can provide theenvironment for change, and provide the right role models for them. Teachers need to be trained toYou have to do it one to one, because that is when youstop that but not in front of a child’s peers.see the real child.It’s pointless sending a child home if he or she has done wrong. They see it as a welcome dayoff to watch television or play computer games. Instead, schools should have a special unit wherea child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems — somewhere hecan work away from his peers and go home after the other children.9. Why did Tom give up studying? .A. He disliked his teachers.B. His parents no longer supported him.C. It’s cool for boys of his age not to care about studies.D. There were too many subjects in his secondary school.10. What seems to have a bad effect on students like Tom? .A. Peer groups.B. A special unit.C. The student judges.D. The home environment.11. What should schools do to help the problem schoolboys? .A. Wait for their change patiently.B. Train leaders of their peer groups.C. Stop the development of street culture.D. Give them lessons in a separate area.12. A teacher’s work is most effective with a schoolboy when he.A. is with the boy aloneB. teaches the boy a lessonC. sends the boy home as punishmentD. works together with another teacherDFar from the land of Antarctica, a huge shelf of ice meets the ocean. At the underside of theshelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod.For forty years scientists have been curious about that fish. How does it live where most fishwould freeze to death? It must have some secret. The Antarctic is not a comfortable place to workand research has been slow. Now it seems we have an answer.Research was begun by cutting holes in the ice and catching the fish. Scientists studied thefish’s blood and measured its freezing point.C and many tiny pieces ofThe fish were taken from seawater that had a temperature of-1.88°ice floating in it. The blood of the fish did not begin to freeze until its temperature was lowered toC. That small difference is enough for the fish to live at the freezing temperature of the-2.05°ice-salt mixture.blood kept it from next research job was clear: Find out what in the fish’s The scientists’ freezing. Their search led to some really strange thing made up of a protein never before seen inthe blood of a fish. When it was removed, the blood froze at seawater temperature. When it wasput back, the blood again had its antifreeze quality and a lowered freezing point.Study showed that it is an unusual kind of protein. It has many small sugar molecules(分子)held in special positions within each big protein molecule. Because of its sugar content, it is calleda glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein, or AFGP.13. What is the text mainly about? .A. The terrible conditions in the Antarctic.B. A special fish living in freezing waters.C. The ice shelf around Antarctica.D. Protection of the Antarctic cod.14. Why can the Antarctic cod live at the freezing temperature? .A. The seawater has a temperature of -1.88°C.B. it loves to live in the ice-salt mixtureC. A special protein keeps it from freezing.D. Its blood has a temperature lower than -2.05°C..15. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?A. A type of ice-salt mixture.B. A newly found protein.C. Fish blood.D. Sugar molecule.in the last paragraph 16. What does “glyco-” in the underlined word “glycoprotein” mean? .A. sugarB. iceC. bloodD. moleculeEIf your boss asks you to work in Moscow th is year, he’d better offer you more money to doso —or even double that depending on where you live now. That’s because Moscow hasjust beenmost expensive city for the second year in a row by Mercer Humanfound to be the world’sResources Consulting.Using the cost of living in New York as a base, Mercer determined Moscow is 34.4 percentmore expensive including the cost of housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.A two-bedroom flat in Moscow now costs $4,000 a month; a CD $24.83, and an internationalnewspaper $6.30, according to Mercer. By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger is asteal at $4.80.London takes the No. 2 place, up from No. 5 a year ago, thanks to higher cost of housing anda stronger British pound relative to the dollar. Mercer estimates London is 26 percent moreexpensive than New York these days. Following London closely are Seoul and Tokyo, both ofwhich are 22 percent more expensive than New York, while No. 5 Hong Kong is 19 percent morecostly.Among North American cities, New York and Los Angeles are the most expensive and arethe only two listed in the top 50 of the world’s most expensive cities. But both have fallen since study —New York came in 15th, down from 10th place, while Los Angeles fell tolast year’s42nd from 29th place a year ago. San Francisco came in a distant third at No. 54, down 20 placesfrom a year earlier.Toronto, meanwhile, is Canada’s most expensive city but fell 35 places to take 82nd place worldwide. In Australia, Sydney is the priciest place to live in and No. 21 worldwide._________17. What do the underlined words “a steal” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. an act of stealingB. something deliciousC. something very cheapD. an act of buying18. London has become the second most expensive city because of _________A. the high cost of clothingB. the stronger pound against the dollarC. its expensive transportationD. the high prices of fast food meals19. Which city is the third most expensive on the list? _________A. Tokyo.B. Hong Kong.C. Moscow.D. Sydney.20. Which city has dropped most on the list in North America?A. New York.B. Los Angeles.C. San Francisco.D. Toronto.Part IV: Translation (40 points in all, 20 points for each).1.When he found I would leave him, he took care to prevent me getting employment in anyother printing house of the town by going round and speaking to every master, whoaccordingly refused to give me work. I then thought of going to New York as the nearestplace where there was a printer; and I was the rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflectedthat I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party; and from thearbitrary proceeding of the Assembly in my brother’s case, it was likely I might if I stayedsoon bring myself into scrapes, and further that my indiscreet disputations about religionbegan to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or atheist. I determinedon the point, but my father now siding with my brother, I was sensible that if I attempted to goopenly means would be used to prevent me.2. He had a weak point--this Fortunato--although in other regards he was a man to berespected and even feared. He prided himself upon his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity, to practice imposture upon the British and Austrian millionaires. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. In this respect I did not differ from him materially;--I was skillful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could.答卷Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10 points in all, 2 point for each)1 2 3 4 5Part ⅠⅠ: Gap filling (10 points in all, 1 point for each).1. __________ ;2. __________ ;3. __________ ;4. __________ ;5. __________ ;6. __________ ;7. __________ ; 8. __________ ; 9. __________ ;10. __________ ;Part ⅠⅠⅠ: Reading Comprehension (40 points in all, 2 points for each).1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Part IV: Translation (40 points in all, 20 points for each).1.2.。

美国文学选读期末试卷

美国文学选读期末试卷

美国文学选读期末试卷美国文学选读期末试卷(A);PartⅠ:Choosetherelevantm;(10pointsinall,2pointfor;Group1;ColumnACol umnB;1.BenjaminFranklina.Mo;2.EdgarAllanPoeb.TheCa;3.RalphWaldoEmersonc. T;4.NathanielHawtho美国文学选读期末试卷 (A)Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10 points in all, 2 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B1. Benjamin Franklin a. Moby Dick2.Edgar Allan Poe b. The Cast of Amontillado3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The Scarlet letter4. Nathaniel Hawthorne d. Self-Reliance5. Herman Melville e. The AutobiographyPart ⅠⅠ: Gap filling (10 points in all, 1 point for each).1.2.3.4. ?The Old Man and the Sea? is written by _______ . Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______ _______ . ?the remains of my relations? means __________________ in Chinese. ?I must not only punish but punish with impunity? means___________________________in Chinese.5. _________ is regarded as the first person to write the detective novel in the west.6. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the supporter of _________.7. Herman Melville is the famous _________and poet of America.8. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled _________ by Emerson.9. The historical novel ?Scarlet Letter? describes the17th century?s life style of the___________________________ in North America.10. In Herman Melville?s Moby Dick?, as the opposite of the human being, the whale stands for __________________.Part ⅠⅠⅠ: Reading Comprehension (40 points in all, 2 points for each).AI travel a lot, and I find out different “styles” (风格) of directions every time 1 ask “How can I get to the post office?”Foreign tourists are often confused (困惑) in Japan because most streets there don?t have names; in Japan, people use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.”In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, “Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.”People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure distance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post offi ce?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “it?sabout five minutes from here.” You say, “Yes, but how many miles away is it?” They don?t know. It?s true that a person doesn?t know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say, ?Sorry, I have no idea.” But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers “I don?t know.” People in Yucatan believe that “Idon?t know” is impolite, they usually give an answer, often a wrong one.A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!1. When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a certain place they usually _________A. describe the place carefullyB. show him a map of the placeC. tell him the names of the streetsD. refer to recognizable buildings and places2. What is the place where people measure distance in time?_________A. New York.B. Los Angeles.C. Kansas.D. Iowa.3. People in Yucatan may give a tourist a wrong answer ________A. in order to save timeB. as a testC. so as to be politeD. for fun4. What can we infer from the text? _________A. It?s important for travelers to understand cultural differences.B. It?s useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.C. People have similar understandings of politeness.D. New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.BHeroes of Our TimeA good heartDikembe Mutombo grew up in Africa among great poverty and disease. He came to Georgetown University on a scholarshipto study medicine ―but Coach John Thompson got a look at Dikembe and had a different idea. Dikembe became a star in the NBA, and a citizen of the United States.But he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to share hisfortune with others. He built a new hospital in his old hometown in the Congo. A friend has said of this good-hearted man: “Mutombo believesthat God has given him this chance to do great things.”Success and kindnessAfter her daughter was born, Julie Aigner-Clark searched for ways to share her love of music and art with her child. So she borrowed some equipment, and began filming children?s videos in her own house. The Baby Einstein Company was born, and in just five years her business grew to more than $20 million in sales. And she is using her success to help others ― producing child safety videos with John Walsh of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Julie says of her new program: “I believe it?s the most important thing that I have ever done. I believe that children have the right to live in a world that is safe.”Bravery and courageA few weeks ago, Wesley Autrey was waiting at a Harlem subwaystation with his two little girls when he saw a man fall into the pathof a train. With seconds to act, Wesley jumped onto the tracks, pulled the man into the space between the rails, and held him as the train passed right above their heads. He insists he?s not a hero. He says: “We have got to show each other some love.”A. Being a star in the NBA.B. Being a student of medicine.C. His work in the church.D. His willingness to help the needy..A. helpful to his personal developmentB. something he should do for his homelandC. a chance for his friends to share his moneyD. a way of showing his respect to the NBAA. Produce safety equipment for children.B. Make videos to help protect children.C. Sell children?s music and artwork.D. Look for missing and exploited children.A. He helped a man get across the rails.B. He stopped a man from destroying the rails.C. He protected two little girls from getting hurt.D. He saved a person without considering his own safety.CTom was one of the brightest boys in the year, with supportive parents. But when he was 15 he suddenly stopped trying. He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary school subjects. One of the reasons that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer group.The lack of right male role models in many of their lives ― at home and particularly in the school environment ― means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselves against.They don?t see men succeeding in society so it doesn?t occur to them that they could make something of themselves. Without male teachers as a role model, the effect of peer actions and street culture is all powerful. Boys want to be part of a club. However, schools can provide the environment for change, and provide the right role models for them. Teachers need to be trained to stop that but not in front of a child?s peers. You have to do it one to one, because that is when you see the real child.It?s pointless sending a child home if he or she has done wrong. They see it as a welcome day off to watch television or play computer games. Instead, schools should have a special unit where a child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems ― somewhere he can work away from his peers and go home after the other children.A. He disliked his teachers.B. His parents no longer supported him.C. It?s cool for boys of his age not to care about studies.D. There were too many subjects in his secondary school..A. Peer groups.B. A special unit.C. The student judges.D. The home environment.A. Wait for their change patiently.B. Train leaders of their peer groups.C. Stop the development of street culture.D. Give them lessons in a separate area.12. A teacher?s work is most effective with a schoolboy when heA. is with the boy alone B. teaches the boy a lessonC. sends the boy home as punishmentD. works together with another teacherDFar from the land of Antarctica, a huge shelf of ice meets the ocean. At the underside of the shelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod.For forty years scientists have been curious about that fish. How does it live where most fish would freeze to death? It must have some secret. The Antarctic is not a comfortable place to work and researchhas been slow. Now it seems we have an answer.Research was begun by cutting holes in the ice and catching the fish. Scientists studied the fish?s blood and measured its freezing point.The fish were taken from seawater that had a temperature of-1.88°C and many tiny pieces of ice floating in it. The blood of the fish didnot begin to freeze until its temperature was lowered to -2.05°C. That small difference is enough for the fish to live at the freezing temperature of the ice-salt mixture.The scientists? next research job was clear: Find out what in the fish?s blood kept it from freezing. Their search led to some really strange thing made up of a protein never before seen in put back, the blood again had its antifreeze quality and a lowered freezing point.Study showed that it is an unusual kind of protein. It has many small sugar molecules(分子)held in special positions within each big protein molecule. Because of its sugar content, it is called a glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein, or AFGP..A. The terrible conditions in the Antarctic.B. A special fish living in freezing waters.C. The ice shelf around Antarctica.D. Protection of the Antarctic cod..A. The seawater has a temperature of -1.88°C.B. it loves to live in the ice-salt mixtureC. A special protein keeps it from freezing.D. Its blood has a temperature lower than -2.05°C.15. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?A.A type of ice-salt mixture. B. A newly found protein.C. Fish blood.D. Sugar molecule.16. What does “glyco-” in the underlined word “glycoprotein” in the last paragraphA. sugarB. iceC. bloodD. moleculeEIf your boss asks you to work in Moscow this year, he?d better offer you more money to doso ― or even double that depending on where you live now. That?s because Moscow has just been found to be the world?s most expensive city for the second year in a row by Mercer Human Resources Consulting.Using the cost of living in New York as a base, Mercer determined Moscow is 34.4 percent more expensive including the cost of housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.A two-bedroom flat in Moscow now costs $4,000 a month; a CD $24.83, and an international newspaper $6.30, according to Mercer. By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger is London takes the No. 2 place, up from No. 5 a year ago, thanks to higher cost of housing and a stronger British pound relative to the dollar. Mercer estimates London is 26 percent more expensive than New York these days. Following Londonclosely are Seoul and Tokyo, both of which are 22 percent more expensive than New York, while No. 5 Hong Kong is 19 percent more costly.Among North American cities, New York and Los Angeles are the most expensive and are the only two listed in the top 50 of the world?s most expensive cities. But both have fallen since last year?s study ― New York came in 15th, down from 10th place, while Los Angeles fell to 42nd from 29th place a year ago. San Francisco came in a distant third at No. 54, down 20 places from a year earlier.Toronto, meanwhile, is Canada?s most expensive city but fell 35 places to take 82nd place worldwide. In Australia, Sydney is thepriciest place to live in and No. 21 worldwide.17. What do the underlined words “a steal” in Paragraph 3 mean?_________A. an act of stealingB. something deliciousC. something very cheapD. an act of buying18. London has become the second most expensive city because of_________A. the high cost of clothingB. the stronger pound against thedollarC. its expensive transportationD. the high prices of fast food meals19. Which city is the third most expensive on the list? _________A. Tokyo.B. Hong Kong.C. Moscow.D. Sydney.20. Which city has dropped most on the list in North America?A. New York.B. Los Angeles.C. San Francisco.D. Toronto.Part IV: Translation (40 points in all, 20 points for each).1. When he found I would leave him, he took care to prevent me getting employment in anyother printing house of the town by going round and speaking to every master, who accordingly refused to give me work. I then thought of going to New York as the nearest place where there was a printer; and I was the rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party; and from the arbitrary proceeding of the Assembly in my brother?s case, it was likely I might if I stayed soon bring myself into scrapes, and further that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or atheist. I determined on the point, but my father now siding with my brother, I was sensible that if I attempted to go openly means would be used to prevent me.2. He had a weak point--this Fortunato--although in other regards he was a man to be[美国文学选读期末试卷]。

美国文学期末试卷B卷及答案

美国文学期末试卷B卷及答案

美国⽂学期末试卷B卷及答案《美国⽂学》期末考试试卷(B 卷)适⽤班级考试时间 120 分钟学院班级学号姓名Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names ofthe authors. (10%)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 ( ) 11. Common 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 ( ) Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks.(10%)1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel LanghorneClemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the directtreatment 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 hismasterpiece novel _________.5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for hisvigorous 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 mostappropriate answer. (30%)1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment,_______________ was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men7. Melville’s ____________________ is an encyclopedia o f everything, history,philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. Thiswas ___________.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher9. The main theme of _______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. William Dean Howells’C. Mark Twain’sD. O. Henry’s10. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry ofLi Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,_______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. James JoyceD. all of the above14. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticism were the failures of American society and ___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the economic depressionC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New LandIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether thestatements are true or false. (10%)1 All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.2. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.3.The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.4. Hemingway’s works have someti mes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twain’s regio n was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil warand destruction.6. Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness andfair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.8. Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modernpoetry.9. Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glitteringinnocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.11.Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticistspreferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate.They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) andrevelation (divine will or Godly "truth")in favor of reason.14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the bookthat made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the activethinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressed by Hamilton, of a strong central government.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of“Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote thenovels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”. V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage OneLo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!Questions:1. This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is____________________.(1%)2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%)3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)Passage 2I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the differenceQuestions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%)2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)4. How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it byexperience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in thewoods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal(⼊⼝),and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%) Passage 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets of that dear old town,And my youth comes back to me.And a verse of a Lapland songIs haunting my memory still:"A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem________________?(1%)2.The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)3.The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually a verb, which sums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb and what kind feeling that it conveys?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem__________________________by____________.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. (10%)2. Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.(10%)3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.(10%)《美国⽂学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准适⽤班级060511-3 考试时间120 分钟Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Benjamin Franklin2.Nathaniel Hawthorne3.Edgar Allan Poe4.Willa Cather5.Sinclair Lewis6.Tennessee Williams7.Stephen Crane8.Ernest Hemingway9.Jack London10.Eugene O’Neill11.Thomas Paine12.Washington Irving13.Henry David Thoreau14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.F. Scott FitzgeraldⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Mark Twain3.Imagism4.The Great Gatsby5.Sinclair Lewis6.John Smith7.Ezra Pound8.Walt Whitman9.William Cullen Bryant10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1)2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. (diction,rhyme and rhythm,rhetorical devices.)The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21.Robert Frost(1)2."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"(1)3.This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.4.In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life.Passage 31.Walden (1)2.Henry David Thoreau (1)3.Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(2)Passage 51.My Lost Youth.(1)2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3.“haunting" sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with "Often in thought"and "comes back to me" .(3)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. (10%)2. Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.(10%)3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.(10%)The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.。

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.2.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.3.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.4.Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobi ographical.5.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “________” movement.7.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10.In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.11.In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst” since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.13._______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14.The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2.Most of the p oems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life3.Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Reliance4.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers5.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.Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leatherstocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden6.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle8.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9.Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12.One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ an accepted standard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _____.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the AmericanDepression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book thatstarted this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” wasthe law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1.Local color fiction2.Captain John Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1.What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2.What’s the symbolic signif icance of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1._____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2.The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.5.Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.6.The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot 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.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.10.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.11.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.12.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________,a collection of essays, sketches and tales, marks the beginning of American romanticism.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar4.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is ______.A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers6.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.Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leather-Stocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden7.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”Who could have written these lines? _____.A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? _____.A.It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B.It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C.It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.D.It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.10.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle11.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ____ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15.The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James17.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter “A” which originally stands for “_____”, finally obtains the meaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester’s efforts.A. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as _____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19.Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _____.A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20.William Faulkner’s w orks mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner22.“In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _____.A. the imagist poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the transcendental poetry23.Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ______.A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical PeriodC. the Jazz AgeD. the Romantic Period24._____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26._______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” This may be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen30.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ______.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth” (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1.American Romanticism.2.Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet, ______, to appear in America up to that time.2.James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and ______.3.Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he never applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4.Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.5.In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond.7.After his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.8.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the ______.9.The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______.10.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.11.______ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.12.______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13.O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young coupl e who sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.14.______ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist” movement.15.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.16.Ernest Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17.______ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18.William Faulkner considered __________ to be “the first truly American writer”.19.As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20.A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ______.II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1.Moby Dick was dedicated to ____.A. Ralph EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry ThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2.____ was Mark Twain’s masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3.____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith4.Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5.Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call ____.A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Regionalism6.As a literary and philosophical movement, ____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7.____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience8.There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ____ on the Puritan soil.A. RomanticismB. SymbolismC. MysticismD. Rationalism9.American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ____.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10.Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11.The main theme of ____’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry JamesB. William HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry12.Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?A. Stephan CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Walt Whitman13.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14.Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16.Of the following American writers, _____ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” The book refers to ____.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB.Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin18.The works of _____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as ____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22.“The Custom-House” is an introductory note to _____.A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “____”, devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers26.The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ____.A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27.Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28.____ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. John Steinbeck29.____, o ne of America’s greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor. Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. Bernard MalamudD. Eugene O’Neill30.Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ____.A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translatorIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier become successful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案I: Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1.Bryant2. frontier saga3. transcendentalist4. Moby Dick5. Sketch Book6.Walden7. Longfellow8. Civil War9. Howells10. free verse11.Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. American CrisisII: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1 --- 5: B B D A B 6 --- 10: D D A C D11 ---15: A D B C D 16 --- 20: B D B D C21 --- 25: C B B A C 26 --- 30: C B B D AIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of local color, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things was immediately observable; the dialects, customs, sights, and sounds of regional America. Bret Harte was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity, presenting stories of western mining towns with colorful gamblers, outlaws, and scandalous women. Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mark Twain providedregional stories and tales of the life of America’s Westerners, Southerners, and Eastern ers. Local color fiction reached its peak of popularity in the 1880s, but by the turn of the century it had begun to decline. 2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier become successful. Can you tell why?This is due to a number of reasons:1) Theodore Dreiser based the novel on the life of his sister Emma. In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Canada with a married man who had stolen money from his employer. Another sister of his was a prostitute.2) Like Sister Carrie who went to Chicago at the age of 18, Dreiser himself left home at age 15 for Chicago and started to support himself, doing menial jobs. He understood perfectly well how hard life was for a girl like Sister Carrie in a big city.3) His sympathy for Sister Carrie is related to his naturalistic beliefs. The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment, that religious “truth” were illusory, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion in death. As a pioneer of naturalism in American literature, Dreiser wrote novels reflecting his mechanistic view of life, a concept that held humanity as the victim of such ungovernable forces as economics, biology, society, and even chance. In his works, conventional morality is unimportant, consciously virtuous behavior having little to do with material success and happiness. So Sister Carrie is not to be blamed for her sin of life.4) His sympathy for Sister Carrie also shows the influence of the teachings of Charles Darwin----natural selection and the survival of the fittest and that of the teachings of Herbert Spencer----social Darwinism. In this novel, Sister Carrie is portrayed as an example of the survival of the fittest in an indifferent world.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point foreach)1.Ralph Emerson’s truest disciple was ______, who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories.2.On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.3.______ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.4.“To a Waterfowl” is perhaps the peak of ______’s work, which has been called by an English prominent critic “the most perfect brief poem in the language”.5.In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass,______ gave America its first genuine epic poem.6.______ probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.7.______’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.8.Benjamin Franklin’s best writing is found in hi s masterpiece ______.9.James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the frontier saga and ______.10.Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he never applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.11.Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.12.In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.13.After his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.14.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the ______.15.The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______.16.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.。

美国文学试题及答案

美国文学试题及答案

美国文学试题及答案一、单项选择题(每题2分,共20分)1. 马克·吐温的代表作是以下哪一部?A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《哈克贝利·芬历险记》C. 《白鲸》D. 《老人与海》答案:B2. 爱伦·坡的《乌鸦》属于什么文学流派?A. 浪漫主义B. 现实主义C. 哥特式D. 现代主义答案:C3. 《飘》的作者是谁?A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫B. 玛格丽特·米切尔C. 简·奥斯汀D. 乔治·艾略特答案:B4. 以下哪部作品不是亨利·詹姆斯的作品?A. 《贵妇人的画像》B. 《使节》C. 《简·爱》D. 《贵妇人的画像》答案:C5. 以下哪部作品是威廉·福克纳的代表作?A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《喧哗与骚动》C. 《老人与海》D. 《白鲸》答案:B二、填空题(每题2分,共10分)1. 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》的作者是________。

答案:哈丽叶特·比彻·斯托2. 《红字》的作者是________。

答案:纳撒尼尔·霍桑3. 《草叶集》的作者是________。

答案:沃尔特·惠特曼4. 《愤怒的葡萄》的作者是________。

答案:约翰·斯坦贝克5. 《太阳照样升起》的作者是________。

答案:欧内斯特·海明威三、简答题(每题5分,共20分)1. 简述《白鲸》中主人公艾哈布船长的形象。

答案:艾哈布船长是《白鲸》中的主人公,他是一个对捕鲸有着极端执着的船长,他的复仇心理和对白鲸的执念几乎占据了他整个人生。

他的形象代表了人类对自然的挑战和对未知的恐惧。

2. 描述《了不起的盖茨比》中盖茨比的美国梦。

答案:《了不起的盖茨比》中的盖茨比代表了20世纪20年代的美国梦,他通过自己的努力从贫穷中崛起,追求财富和社会地位,但最终因为追求一个无法实现的爱情和对过去的执着而走向悲剧。

美国文学期末考试试题(卷)模拟试题(卷)

美国文学期末考试试题(卷)模拟试题(卷)

美国文学期末考试试题(卷)模拟试题(卷)美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 pointfor each)1.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of NewEngland Transcendentalism.2.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much ofthe earliest American writing.3.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.4.Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical.5.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself inhis thirst to destroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry whic h he called the “________”movement.7.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerfulpiece.9.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all liesin his use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regularrhyme scheme.10.In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modernnarration”.11.In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst”since sheisolated herself from the outside almost for life.12.“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.13._______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and thefrontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14.The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem ofthe 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still amystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing ofthe “en-mass” and the ____ aswell.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life3.Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Reliance4.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers5.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a commonsubject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A.Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB.Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Cooper’s Leatherstocking TalesD.Thoreau’s Walden6.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? .A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.A.Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB.Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD.The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle8.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9.Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literaturecomes.”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12.One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ anaccepted standard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her lifetime.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned aboutthe _____.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17.The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the AmericanDepression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18.In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the bookthat started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19.It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed”was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meetthem in our real life.” Thismay be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1.Local color fiction2.Captain John Smith3.“Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1.What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2.What’s the symbolic significance of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1._____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in hisuse of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2.The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of NewEngland Transcendentalism.3.Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much ofthe earliest American writing.4._________ is considered to be the founder of psychologicalrealism, who believed thatreality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.5.Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.6.The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition ofliterature rich with learning and allusive thought.7.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is theshortest poem written by _____.8.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for whatGertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.9.“The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.10.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerfulpiece.11.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her lifetime.12.______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself inhis thirst to destroy evil.13.As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation ofnature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14.The publication of Washington Irving’s _________,a collection of essays, sketches andtales, marks the beginning of American romanticism.15.“The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. FlaskD. Queequeg3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed byOliver Wendell Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of IndependenceB. Self-Reliance。

美国文学期末试卷及其规范标准答案

美国文学期末试卷及其规范标准答案

《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 LanghorneClemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the directtreatment 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 hismasterpiece novel _________.5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for hisvigorous 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 touse the form of free verse.9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidentson 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. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in_______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men7. Melville’s ____________________ is an encyclopedia of everything, history,philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. Thiswas ___________.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher9. The main theme of _______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. William Dean Howells’C. Mark Twain’sD. O. Henry’s10. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,_______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poemsloosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolutionin literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. James JoyceD. all of the above14. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from theirfarm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticismwere the failures of American society and ___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the economic depressionC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New LandIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (10%)1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.2. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.3.The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.4. Hemingway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twain’s region was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.6. Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.8. Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modern poetry.9. Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering innocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.11.Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) and revelation (divine will or Godly "truth")in favor of reason.14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the activethinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressed by Hamilton, of a strong central government.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”. V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage OneLo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!Questions:1.This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is _________.(1%)2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%)3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)Passage 2I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the differenceQuestions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%)2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)4. How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it byexperience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God. Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in thewoods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal(入口),and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%)Passage 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets of that dear old town,And my youth comes back to me.And a verse of a Lapland songIs haunting my memory still:"A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem______?(1%)2.The author of the poem is_____ . (1%)3.The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually averb, which sums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb andwhat kind feeling that it conveys?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem _______by_______.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1.Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. (10%)2.Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.(10%)3.Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.(10%)《美国文学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Benjamin Franklin2.Nathaniel Hawthorne3.Edgar Allan Poe4.Willa Cather5.Sinclair Lewis6.Tennessee Williams7.Stephen Crane8.Ernest Hemingway9.Jack London10.Eugene O’Neill11.Thomas Paine12.Washington Irving13.Henry David Thoreau14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.F. Scott FitzgeraldⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Mark Twain3.Imagism4.The Great Gatsby5.Sinclair Lewis6.John Smith7.Ezra Pound8.Walt Whitman9.William Cullen Bryant10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1)2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. (diction,rhyme and rhythm,rhetorical devices.)The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21.Robert Frost(1)2."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"(1)3.This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.4.In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life.Passage 3Walden (1)Henry David Thoreau (1)Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(2)Passage 51.My Lost Youth.(1)2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3.“haunting" sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with "Often in thought "and "comes back to me" .(3)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. (10%)2. Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.(10%)3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.(10%)The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.。

美国文学史期末考试复习资料

美国文学史期末考试复习资料

I.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’=10’)1.In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the2.The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named______.3.Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?4.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _____.6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?8.____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.9._____ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.10.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing b ecomes lessserious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.1-5,BBACD 6-10 BADCDII.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)11.______ is the father of American Literature.12._____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream oflife.13._____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language?15.From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief thatno man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense16.17.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as18.What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery,an ultimate mystery of the universe.1-5 D A B C C 6-10 A C C D CII. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name inunknown to us.a.Native Sonb.Uncle Tom’s Cabinc.Invisible Mand. Go Tell It on theMountains2.The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value of fine appearance andpopularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.a.A Street Car Named Desireb. The Hairy Apec.Long Day’s Journey into Nightd. Death of Salesman3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Day’s Journey into Nightb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries4.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society isresponsible for the murder.a.Native Sonb.Uncle Tom’s Cabinc.Invisible Mand. Go Tell It on theMountains5._________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.a.A Farewell to Armsb.The Catcher in the Ryec.The Red Badge of Couraged. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Armsb.The Sun Also Risesc.The Old Man and the Sead. The Naked and the Dead7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel toCalifornia to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.a.The Grapes of Wrathb. U.S. A.c.Babbittd. The Adventures of Augie March8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with suchtechniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.a.Babbittb. Light in Augustc. U.S.A.d. The Grapes of Wrath9.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is takenfrom Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom!b. The Sound and the Furyc.A Farewell to Armsd. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes afamous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.a.An American Tragedyb. Sister Carriec. McTeagued.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the localdialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.a.Sister Carrieb.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnd.The Portrait of a Lady12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the CivilWar.a.An American Tragedyb. Sister Carriec.The Red Badge of Couraged. McTeague13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality andequality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd.Chicago14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale butthemselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopusb. Moby-Dickc. The Rise of Silas Laphamd. Leaves of Grass15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned with thefour uses of nature.a. Waldenb. Naturec. The Scarlet Letterd. The American Scholar1-5.cdaad 6-10.aacbb cbbI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 andarrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.a. The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. Titanic2._________ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.a. Tennessee Williamsb. Eugene O’Neillc. Arthur Millerd. Elmer Rice3._________ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Washington Irvingc. Mark Twaind. Ernest Hemingway4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.a. Benjamin Franklinb. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emersond. Henry David Thoreau5._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 shortlyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buckb.Harriet Bicher Stowec. Emily Dickensond. Walter Whitman6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan Poe7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a. Stephen Craneb. Frank Norrisc. Theodore Dreiserd. Henry James8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a. William Dean Howellsb. Mark Twainc. Ernest Hemingwayd.Theodore Dreiser9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is______.a. Ernest Hemingwayb. William Faulknerc. F. Scott Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south.He is ______.a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Ernest Hemingwayd. Mark Twain11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are majorcharacters.a. Sinclair Lewisb. Saul Bellowc. Norman Mailerd. Jerome David Salinger12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Robert Frostc. H.D.d. Emily Dickinson13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a. John Steinbeckb. William Faulknerc. Euge ne O’Neilld. Arthur Miller14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on theconsciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he?a.Richard Wrightb. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughesd. Ralph Ellison15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas ________ wrote aboutthe Jazz age, life in American society.a.William Carlos Williamsb. William Faulknerc. John Steinbeckd. F. Scott Fitzgerald 1-5 bbccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcadI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):2.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the Southstates, which are known respectively as the ______and the______.a. N, Sb. Revolutionaries, Reactionariesc. Union, Confederacyd. Slavery, Anti-Slavery2._____________was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.a.Anne Bradstreetb. Edward Taylorc. Thomas Pained. Philip Freneau3.Mark Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature.a. transcendentalismb. naturalismc. local colorismd. imagism4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.a. Benjamin Franklinb. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emersond. Henry David Thoreau5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________.a. Washington Irvingb.Ezra Poundc. Walt Whitmand. Emily Dickinson6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan Poe7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a. Stephen Craneb. Frank Norrisc. Theodore Dreiserd. William Dean Howells8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a. William Dean Howellsb. Mark Twainc. Ernest Hemingwayd.Theodore Dreiser9. ________’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.a. Ernest Hemingwayb. William Faulknerc. F. Scott Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deepsouth. .a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Ernest Hemingwayd. Mark Twain11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are majorcharacters.a. Sinclair Lewisb. Saul Bellowc. Norman Mailerd. Jerome David Salinger12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Robert Frostc. H.D.d. Emily Dickinson13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a. John Steinbeckb. William Faulknerc. Eugene O’Neilld. Arthur Miller14. _______ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact onthe consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.b.Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughesd. Ralph Ellison15. ________ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short storiesa. F. Scott Fitzgeraldb. William Faulknerc. John Steinbeckd. Ernest Hemingway1-5.caccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcbaII. Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):6.The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognized by his fellowhuman beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.a. The Hairy Apeb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. Long Day’s Journey into Nightd. The Glass Menageries7.The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.a.A Street Car Named Desireb. The Hairy Apec.Long Day’s Journey into Nightd.The Glass Menageries8.The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his name is unknown.a.Native Sonb.Uncle Tom’s Cabinc.Invisible Mand. Go Tell It on the Mountains4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Day’s Journey into Nightb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries5.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how he is finallyarrested and tried and sentenced to death.a.Native Sonb.Uncle Tom’s Cabinc.Invisible Mand. Go Tell It on theMountains6._________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.a.A Farewell to Armsb.The Catcher in the Ryec.The Red Badge of Couraged. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Armsb.The Sun Also Risesc.The Old Man and the Sead. The Naked and the Dead10.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel toCalifornia to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.b.T he Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.c.Babbittd. The Adventures of Augie March11.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with suchtechniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.b.B abbitt b. Light in Augustc. U.S.A.d. The Grapes of Wrath12.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is takenfrom Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom!b. The Sound and the Furyc.A Farewell to Armsd. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes with Hurstwoodand how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.a.An American Tragedyb. Sister Carriec. McTeagued.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11. It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group of people on a whaling ship killa great whale but they themselves are killed by the whale in the end, except Ishmael thenarrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.b.Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. Moby Dickd. The Portrait of a Lady12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War,in which wound is called the red badge which symbolizes courage.a.An American Tragedyb. Sister Carriec.The Red Badge of Couraged. McTeague13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality andequality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd.Chicago14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially but who rises morallybecause he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.a.The Octopusb. The Rise of Silas Laphamc. Moby-Dickd. Leaves of Grass15. It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailed as the “declaration ofintellectual independence” in America.a. The American Scholarb. Naturec. The Scarlet Letterd. Walden1-5.adcad 6-10.aacbb cbaII. Match the following (1×20%)A. Match Works with Their Authors1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly2.Walden3. Autobiography4. The Scarlet Letter5.Leaves of Grass6.The Raven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer9. Long Day’s Journey into Night10. The Old Man and the Seaa.Mark Twain b . Ernest Hemingwayc. Eugene O’Neilld. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitmang. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin Franklini.Henry David Thoreau j. Ezra Poundk.Thomas Jefferson l. T.S. EliotB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1.Hester Prynne2.Mrs. Touchett3.Frederick Henry4.Benjy Compson5.the Joads6.General Edward Cummings7.Holden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas8.Yank 9.Happya.The Portrait of a Ladyb. The Scarlet Letterc. The Hairy Aped. A Farewell to Armse.The Sound and the Furyf. The Grapes of Wrathg. The Naked and the Deadh. The Catcher in the Ryei. Native Sonj. Death of a Salesmank.Invisible Manl.Catch-22A. Match Works with Their Authors1-5.jihgf 6-10.edccbB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear. 1-5.badef 6-10.ghicjIII. Match the following (1’×20=20’)A. Match works with their authors1.Nature2.Rip Van Winkle3. Nature4. The Scarlet Letter5.Leaves of Grass6.The Raven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. Cantos10. The Old Man and the Seaa.Ezra Poundb. Ernest Hemingwayc. Mark Twaind. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitmang. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emersoni.Washington Irving j. Waldo Emersonk.T.S. Eliot l. Robert FrostB. Match characters with the works in which they appear.2.Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer3.Frederic Henry and Catherine4.Benjy Compson5.the Joads6.General Edward Cummings7.Holden Caulfield 8.Bigger Thomas9.The Tyrones 10.Willy Lomana.The Portrait of a Ladyb. Moby-Dickc. Death of a Salesmand. A Farewell to Armse.The Sound and the Furyf. The Grapes of Wrathg. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Ryei. Native Son j. Long Day’s Journey into Nightk.Absalom, Absalom l. The Old Man and the SeaA. Match Works with Their Authors1-5.jihgf 6-10.edcabB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1-5.badef 6-10.edcabV. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 200 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.1.To the best of your knowledge, analyze and make comments on Emerson’s Naturement on any American poet you like.3.Analyze and/or comment on any one of the American novels or plays you have read.V. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a shortessay of at least 200 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs; you arenot simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are requiredto indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of yourown.)4.Make comments on an American novel we have discussed in this course.ment on an American poet.6.Describe how your knowledge of American literature is improved after taking thiscourse..IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)1.Why do people think Franklin is the embodiment of American dream?2.What is “Lost Generation”?V. Discussion. (1 x 20’ = 20’)State your own interpretations of Hemingway’s iceberg theory of writing?IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)3.Wha t is Hawthorne’s style? Explain the style with examples.4.At the end of the 19th century, there were three fighters for Realism. Who are they?What are their differences?________True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.2. Thomas Jefferson was the only American to sign the 4 documents that created the US.3. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil.4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology.5. Hurstwood is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.6. Faulkner’s region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.7. Placed in historical perspective, Howells is found lacking in qualities and depth. But anyhow he is a literaryfigure worthy of notice.8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.9. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.10. Emily Dickinson expr esses her deep love in the poem “Annabel Lee”.1-5 F F T F F 6-10 F F T F FII. Decide whether the statements are True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)1. Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.2. American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural elements.3. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.4. “Young Goodman Brown” wants to prove everyone possesses kindness in heart.5. Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Twain or Howells.6. The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality.7. Frost’s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.9. Roger Chillingworth is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.10. After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one.1-5 T F T F T 6-10 F T T F TIII. Please explain the follo wing terms. (5 x 6’ = 30’)1. Puritanism2. Free verse3. International novel: 4.Romanticism 5. Naturalism 6. American Realism 7.American Naturalism Modernism Imagism1.Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.2.Free verse: It is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts toavoid any predetermined verse structure; instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech.3.International novel: IN brings together persons of various nationalities who representcertain characteristics of their own countries.4.Naturalism: It views human beings as animals in the natural world responding toenvironmental forces and internal stresses and drives, over none of which they havecontrol and none of which they fully understand. The literary naturalists have a majordifference from the realists. They look at a different spot to find real life.III. Please explain the following terms. (5 x 6’ = 30’)1. Puritanism2. international novel3. the lost generation4. free verse5.American transcendentalism Hemingway heroes1.Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.2.international novel: IN brings together persons of various nationalities who representcertain characteristics of their own countries.3.the lost generation: reveals the huge destruction of the wars to the young generation. Itdescribes the Americans who remained in Paris as a colony of “expatriates”. They werelost in disillusionment.4.free verse: It is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts toavoid any predetermined verse structure; instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech.5.transcendentalism: It stressed the power of intuition, believing that people could learnthings both from the outside world by means of the five senses and from the inner worldby intuition. It took nature as symbolic of spirit or God. All things in nature were symbolsof the spiritual, of God’s presence. It emphasized the significance of the individual andbelieved that the individual was the most important element in society and that the idealkind of individual was self-reliant and unselfish. Transcendentalists envisioned religion asan emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “Oversoul”.。

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet。

(15%, 1 point for each)1.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTranscendentalism.2。

Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing。

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At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F。

Kennedy。

4.Jack London's masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical。

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______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “________" movement.7。

“The Cus tom House" is an introductory note to the novel _______.8.Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece。

大学课程《美国文学史》期末试卷及参考答案

大学课程《美国文学史》期末试卷及参考答案

大学课程《美国文学史》期末试卷1.Darwinism2.Lost generation3.Imagism4.Free VerseⅡ. Matching (本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分) 1. John Steinbeck 2. T.S. Eliot 3. Carl Sandburg 4. F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe 6. O ’ Henry 7. Thomas Paine 8. Ernest Hemingway 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. A Farewell to Arms b. Common Sense c. Uncle Tom’s Cabind. The Cop and the Antheme. The Grapes of Wrathf. Fogg. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock h. Naturei. The Great Gatsby j. The Scarlet Letter.Ⅲ. Multiple choice.(本大题共 35 小题,每小题 1 分,共 35 分)1.In the early nineteenth century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothi ng has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did_______. A.Puritanism B Romanticism C Rationalism D Sentimentalism2. Franklin wrote and published his famous__________, an annul collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard‘s AlmanackC. Common SenseD. The Genera l Magazine3. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. _______was the dominant spirit.A. Humanism B Rationalism C Revolution D Evolution 4.________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A.William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC.Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith 5..Which is not Irving‘s works in the following.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a Traveller C .A History of New York D To A Waterfowl 6. Choose Freneau‘s poem from the following.A. The RavenB. To a WaterfowlC. To HellenD. The wild Honey Suckle7. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet___to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. Philip FreneauC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allan Poe pared with his contemporaries, _________was no doubt the best in exploring the wildness and frontier in fiction.A. Washington IrvingB. James Fenimore CooperC. William Cullen Bryant D Philip Freaneau9. Washington Irving‘s ‘Rip Van Winkle‘ is famous for_________. A.Rip‘s escape into a mysterious valleyB.The story‘s German legendary source materialC. Rip‘s seeking for happinessD. Rip‘s 20-years sleep 10. Choose Poe‘s work from the followingA. The Day of DoomB.The Last of the MohicansC. The Indian Burying Ground D The Fall of the House of Usher 11.Choose Irving‘s work from the following .A. The Sketch BookB. ThanatopsisC. The SpyD.The British Prison Ship 12._______ is the most commonly used in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllabl e comes first followed by a stressed.A. the trochaic footB. an anapestic footC. a quatrainD. a iambic foot 13. The Indian Burying Ground by___________ is the earliest poem which romanticizes the Indian as a child of nature.A. Washington IrvingB. Adgar Alan PoeC.Philip FreneauD.Nathaniel Hawthorne 14._______ is a poetic device used to increase the musical quality and link the lines and stanzas of a poem.A. meterB. repetitionC. rhymeD.foot15.Poetry is aimed at conveying and enriching human experience which is formed throu gh sense impressions. _____ is the representation of sense experience through language. A . meter B. image C. theme D. assonance16. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant.院系: 专业班级: 姓名: 学号:装 订 线A. humanismB. rationalismC. romanticismD. evolution17. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ______.A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York18. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A. RationalismB. inner selfC. personal feelingsD. individualism19.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. conservativeD. ironic20. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___and ThoreauA. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Mark Twain21. Which is r egarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. OversoulD. Self-reliance22. ______ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. PaineD. Washington Irving23. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman24. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life25. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. AhabB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Starbuck26. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd. Chicago27. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopusb. Moby-Dickc. The Rise of Silas Laphamd. Leaves of Grass28. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.a. The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. Titanic29._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buckb. Harriet Bicher Stowec. Emily Dickensond. Walter Whitman30. ._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan Poe31. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. ——was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution 32.——Which statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.33.Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick34.The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's ——and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD.A history of New York35.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to asA. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic PeriodIV. Identification of Fragments(本大题共有7个诗歌或小说选段,请选5个选段并回答其后的问题,答题时请先注明选段, 再回答问题。

美国文学史及选读期末考试

美国文学史及选读期末考试

Ⅰ. Write the author of each item. 10’1.Anne Bradstreet(The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America)①Contemplation②To My Dear and Loving Husband2. Benjamin Franklin①The Autobiography (early American Dream)3. Philip Freneau (Poet of American Revolution; The Father of American Poetry)①The Wild Honey Suckle②The Indian Burying Ground③To a Caty-Did4. Washington Irving (The Father of American Short Story; first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame; regarded as Father of American literature.)①The legend of Sleep Hollow②Rip Van Winkle③The Sketch Book(the beginning of American Romanticism)5. James Fennimore Cooper①The Last Mohicans②Leather Stocking Tales6. William Cullen Bryant①Thanatopsis②To a Water Fowl7. Edgar Allen Poe (Father of Modern Short Story; Father of Psychoanalysis criticism)①To Helen②The Raven③The Fall of the House of Usher④The Black Cat8. Ralph Waldo Emerson (leading New England transcendentalist)①Nature②Self-Reliance③The American Scholar9. Henry David Thoreau (an active transcendentalist)①Walden10. Nathaniel Hawthorne (a master of symbolism; first great American writer of fiction to work in moralistic tradition. combined the American romanticism with puritan moralism; created a new genre psychological romance)①The Scarlet Letter②Twice Told Tales③The Marble Faun④Blithedale Romance⑤The Minister’s Black Veil11. Herman Melville①Moby Dick12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (the fireside poet; love of nature, love for the past)①A Psalm of Life②The Slave’s Dream③My Lost Youth④The Song of Hiawatha13. Walt Whitman①Leaves of Grass(first genuine epic poem)②Song of Myself③I Sit and Look Out④Beat!Beat!Drums!14. Emily Dickinson (the theme of her poetry concern religion, life, death, marriage, immorality, nature etc.)①I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed②I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain③A Bird Came Down the Walk④I Died for Beauty ___but Was Scarce⑤I Hear a Fly Buzz ___When I Died⑥Because I Could not Stop for DeathⅡ. True or False choice. 20’Ⅲ. Choose the best answer 10’Ⅳ. Appreciation 30’The Scarlet LetterAuthor: Nathaniel HawthorneSymbolism:The Scarlet Letter, A symbol of shame, but instead it becomes a powerful symbol of identity to Hester. The letter’s meaning shifts as time passes. Originally intended to mark Hester as an adulteress, the “A” eventually comes to stand for “Able.”The Meteor , to Dimmesdale, the meteor implies that he should wear a mark of shame just as Hester does. The meteor is interpreted differently by the rest of the community, which thinks that it stands for “Angel” and marks Governor Winthrop’s entry into heavenThe Rosebush, Next to the Prison Door .The narrator chooses to begin his story with the image of the rosebush beside the prison door. The rosebush symbolizes the ability of nature to endure and outlast man’s activities.Pearl is a sort of living version of her mother’s scarlet letter. She is the physical consequence of sexual sin and the indicator of a transgression (evildoing). Upward American spiritCharacter analysis:Hester: disloyalty, betrayal, deception, sexual desire, adultery. Face, correct, redeem, purify. Praise, content, conformability.Dimmesdale: adultery, cowardice, hypocrisy, dishonesty, selfishness, too coward to confess, tortured by his conscience. Sympathetic, disfavor his hesitation, indecisiveness and cowardice.Chillingworth: revenge. Tortured by the desire of revenge, twisted and reduced to nothing. disgusted, think he committed greater crime.Puritanism in The Scarlet LetterPuritan background: setting, events, characters, thoughts, behaviors.Puritan doctrines: original sin, total depravity, predestination, limited atonement.Ralph Waldo Emerson1.NatureThe declaration of TranscendentalismAnalysis of “Nature”A long essay which has eight parts: the opening, commodity, beauty, language, discipline, Idealism, spirit and prospects. Our selection is taken from the opening. Taken as a whole, “Nature” expresses Emerson’s philosophy in a more systematic fashion than any other work of his.Meanings of natureI BeautyNature is beautiful. : the complete, mysterious, useful and moral beauty of nature. First, nature’s beauty lies in its completeness. Second, nature’s beauty lies in its mystery. cannot be manipulated. Only when he holds a sincere r espect for nature, can man feel the mysterious beauty of nature. Third, nature’s beauty lies in its usefulness. Nature provides man without any benefitII Nature Is Divine●Nature is divine and has the eternal order which should not be violated. Influenced in a way byChinese ancient philosophy, Emerson believes that all the things in the world come from the same root---the Oversoul.●Emerson believes that man can find God in his own heart by direct contact with nature●Nature has permeated (penetrate) all aspects of human life. Spirit embodied in nature hasinfluence upon us. Nature inspires man and gives him\her power. Man should find the truth, goodness and beauty in his own soul and bring into play his potentiality as human being. Then, he will become hims elf “All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do".●For Emerson, the individual is potentially the most divine and any organization or existing ideacan not limit the development of individual.III Nature Is ChangingEverything in nature is in a process---growing, withdrawing and falling into the ground. The flowing of nature comes from a force which impels it to develop. For instance, a river is always in constantly flowing. It originates from mountains, flows along great plains and ultimately converges into the sea. Transcendental philosophyNature symbolizes freedom, independence and change. These are Individualism elements which attend to significance of common life. Therefore Emerson's nature is the theoretical base of American Individualism---one of the characteristics of American culture. As the symbol of Spirit, nature helps to prove that man's soul is beautiful, divine and fluid. Man should pursue spiritual fulfillmentExcerpt from Nature: in Nature Emerson puts forward every phenomenon of the nature there was the spirit of the spirit of the nature.Here from this paragraph we could see that emerson found the beauty in the wildness nature rather than the village or something. “in the wildness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.” In the wildness of the nature, emerson can transcend physical body to the spirit of the God and he can become one part of the spirit.He emerges into the nature, and then he goes into the Oversoul. “I am part or particle of God.” “I am nothing; I see all”. This sentence clearly shows that emerson merges into the sporit. And in the nature we could get the eternal beauty.2.Self-Reliance①“The Confidence”. a man must show his opinion confidently and bravely in spite of different ideas.②“The Independence”. A man should keep himself firmly ; not be easily influenced by environment.③Keep personality, which is closely related to the confidence and the independence. a man must keep his personality and conform to his own principles.④“Showing no Sympathy to the Poor” shows that why the poor are poor is mainly due to their backward thinking. Showing help to this kind of people means doing harm to them.Comment: In Self-reliance, Emerson expressed the romantic idea of individualism, with an emphasis on being self-sufficient. He promoted relying on oneself rather than on established society. Emerson was known for his repeated use of phrase “trust thyself”. “Self-reliance” is his explanation---both systematic and passionate of what he meant by this, and why he was moved to make it his catchphrase. Every individual possesses a unique genius, Emerson argues, that can only be revealed when that individual has the courage to trust his or her own thoughts, attitudes, and inclinations against all public disapproval.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1. A Psalm of Life①Love of nature, love for the past ②Trochaic tetrameter③constant theme for poets: The relationship of life and death. ④He expresses his pertinent interpretation to that by warning us that though life is hard and everybody must die, time flies and life is short, yet, human beings ought to be hold “to act,” to face the reality straightly so as to make otherwise meaningless life significant.2. My Lost YouthⅤ. Terms 10’New England PoetsThe new England poets were the representatives of imitation, authors like Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Henry wadsworth Longfellow etc. tried to imitate the forms and themes of their English brothers, such as Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Thomas Gray, wordsworth and so on.Rip van winkleThis is one story in Washington Irving’s Sketch Book. It tells a story of a kind but hen-pecked man rip van winkle. The protagonist does not take care of his own family very well and just wants to live idly. But his wife does not want him to live the life like that and keeps talking to him. Unhappy at home, he enters in the mountain with his gun and dog. One afternoon, he meets some strangers looking people playing at nine pins. Out of curiosity, he drinks the wine and falls into sleep. When he wakes up, he finds his dog missing and his gun rusted. He has to go back to the village again. But can not recognize the village and the folks. Later his surprise, he has been slept for 20 years. And his wife has been dead and his children grow up. At the end of story, his daughter takes him home and he still lives the life as he was used to.Ⅵ.Comment 20’1. Comment on Moby Dick:a. Although the narrator sees insanity in Ahab, Melville’s emotional sympathy is with the deficient Ahab. He begins with a noble intention to crush evil, but in taking this to the extreme, he becomes evil himself. He is destroyed by his consuming desire to root out evil.b. Moby Dick is a symbol to represent cruel, brutal, malicious powers of nature. Nature is capable of destroying the human world. Nature threatens humanity & thus calls out the heroic powers of the human beings. So the power of the universe is both of blessing and curse. In this way, the author constructs a complicated statement about American view of nature.2. Compare: Emily Dickinson with Walt Whitman in their writing style.Similarities①Along with Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman stands as one of the two giants of American poetry in the nineteenth century.②Pioneers of imagism③Part of American Renaissance④Influenced by transcendentalism⑤Thematically, they both extolled in their different ways and emergent America, its expansion, its individualism and its Americanness, their poetry being part of “American Renaissance”⑥Technically, they both added to the literary independence of the new nation by breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter and exhibiting a freedom in form unknown before: they are pioneers in American poetry.Differences①Whitman seems to keep his eyes on society at large; Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual.②Whereas Whitman is “national” in his outlook. Dickinson is “regional”③Whitman has the “catalogue techniques”, all-inclusive catalogue. Whereas Dickinson’s concise, direct, simple diction and syntax。

完整版大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题

完整版大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题

大四美国文学期末测试题型及例题:1.选择/对错60分〔40道选择,20个对错〕2.名词解释10分〔5个〕3.选段配对10分〔5个〕4.问答20 分〔10/2〕1. 历史:Father / poetess…2.名作家:Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson3.作品:The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter1.a)选择题(40个,40分)1.At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the.A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement2.Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin?A.He was born in a poor family.B.He was a pious puritan.C.He was phrased as Jack of all trades'.D.He was a master of diplomacy.3.Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT.A.Lost GenerationB.Iceberg theoryC.American DreamD.Code Heroes4.Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter?A.Hester PrynneB.Roger ChillingworthC.Captain AhabD.Pearl5.Jack London's semi-biographical novel well presents the disillusionmentof American Dream.A.The American TragedyB.The Call of the WildC.Martin EdenD.The Grapes of Wrathb)判断对错题(20个:20分)1.Poe s masterpiece To Helen“ is written to memorize his deceased wife .(F)2.The tone of Annabel Lee" is optimistic and hopeful. (F)3.Mark Twain's novel Jumping Frog was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of thepostbellum period which it attempts to satirize.(F)4.Sister Carrie ended up in tragedy because she could not control her fa(F)2洛词解释题(5个,10分)1.It refers to t he religious beliefs held by the Puritans, who had intended to“ purifor simplify the religious ritual of the Church of England. They believed in the original sin and the harsh Day of Doom, although some good people --- the chosen people or“the Elec--- m ay be saved. Puhtanism)2. A literary doctrine that called for “realityand truth 'in the depiction of ordinary life.It had originated in France and was very popular in 19th century.Realism)3选段配对题(5个,10分)1.Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet: No roving foot shall crush thee here, No busy hand provoke a tear. The Wild Honey Suckle (Philip Freneau)2.During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the cloud hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was— but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.The Fall of the House of Usher(Edgar Allan Poe)生.10/2, 201.Transcendentalism (a) Transcendentalism (p56) {1}As a moral philosophy, it exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. & believed in the transcendence of th eoversoul〞 {2}A literary movement flourishing in New England from the 1830s to the Civil war. It stresses intuitive understanding of God, without the help of the church and advocated independence of the mind. The representative writers are Emerson and Thoreau.{b} The significance of TranscendentalismTranscendentalism exerted a dominating notion onto the major wirers of the Romantic period and its essence has been permanently absorbed into the main stream of American thought. As a moral philosophy, Transcendentaliststook their ideas from the romantic literature of Europe, from neo-Platonism, from German idealistic philosophy and from the revelations of Oriental mysticism. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. They believed in the transcendence of the Oversoul",an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things are a part. As a philosophical and literarymovement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 183 @ to the Civil War. Its doctrines found their greatestliterary advocatedin Emerson, who believed that man was a part of absolute good, and in Thoreau who beheld divinity in the Unspotted innocence of nature. It was a powerful expression of the intellectual mood of the age, and the ideas it representedhave remained a strong influence on great American writers from the days of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman to the present.2.The Road Not TakenSymbolic meanings of The Road Not Taken:In this poem, the author uses two roads in the woods to symbolize the choices in the real life. The author suggests us not being afraid to take a chance, not following the crowd and trying new things. Individualism is highlighted in the poem because the speaker chooses to go his own way, taking theroad less traveled. Caution is also taken before deciding to take the road less traveled, for the speaker takes time to consider the other road.Commitment is symbolized in the poem because the speaker does not have second thoughts after making his decision.The last symbolized theme is accepting a challenge. It may be that the road the speaker chooses is less traveled because it represents trials or perils. Such challenges seem to appeal to the speaker.The Road Not TakenThis poem, as many of Frostsbeoensswith the observation of nature, as if thepoet is a traveler sightseeing in nature. By the end, all the simple words condense into a serious proposition: When anyone in life is confronted with making a choice, in order to possess something worthwhile, he has to give up something which seems as lovely and valuable as the chosen one. Then, whatever follows, he must accept the consequence of his choice for it is not possible for him to return to the beginning and have another chance to choose differently. Frost is asserting that nature is fair and honest to everyone. Thus all the varieties of human destiny result from each person spontaneous capability of making choices.Form: The poem is very regularly structured with 4 classic 5-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme “abaab" an d in conversational rhythm.3.The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby the parody 〔&仿〕of American dreamThematically , the novel is a parody of the American dream as represented by Gatsby's pursuit for wealth and love .(1)American Dream(derived the Puritanism) is a popular belief that people can achieve success whether it is wealth, fame or love through honest hard working in a new world of liberty , equality, chances and promises (e.g. Franklin, Obama )(2)It is true that Gatsby had a huge wealth but it was built up through illegal means —bootlegging. Daisy was the embodiment of love for Gatsby, but the Daisy in Gatsbys illusion was not the Daisy in reality ------------------------- a mindless and spiritless womanonly with a beautiful appearance, who retreated to her boring but secure way of life rather than accept the responsibility at the moment of crisis(3)Like Franklin , Gatsby also made a time table and a list of do's and don'ts'. But unfortunately he did not know that the time had change d(4)Therefore, G's dream is tarnished by his material possessions, much like America is now with the obsession with wealth. In any case, Gatsby would have failed to his idealistic dream inevitably, namely disillusion of American dream.Together with Martin Eden, it well presents the disillusionment of American Dream. Main ideas: Nick Caraway, the narrator decided to leave his family in the Midwest to study bond business in New York. He took a small house at West Egg of Long Island and became a neighbor of Jay Gatsby a mysterious man of great wealth He resumed acquaintance with Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy at a dinner party in their home There he also met Jordan Baker, an attractive but arrogant young lady. He soon learned that their marriage was not happy and Tom has a mistressMyrtle , wife of George Wilson , a garage owner in the Valley of Ashe sA few days later he was invited to Gatsbys party. From Gatsby and later from Jordan, Nick learned of the love affair between Daisy and Gatsby before she married Tom Gatsby then made a request of Nick to bring Daisy to tea and meet Gatsby. At the reunion Gatsby changed from nervousness to excitement and from excitement to a remote fantasy. At a party Gatsby gave to the Buchanans Nick and Jordan, Gatsby and Tom had a fierce quarrel over Daisy and Daisy sided with both men in turns. Then Daisy and Gatsby left in Gatsbys car while the others followed in Tom's. On the way Gatsby's car knocked Myrtle dead and ran away, but he later told Nick that Daisy was driving at the time of the accident. Myrtle , thinking Tom was in the car, ran toward it and was hit Meanwhile Mr. Wilson traced Gatsbys car and found Gatsby's house A few hours later both of them were found dead Apparently Wilson shot Gatsby and then himself. Although Nick tried to make Gatsby s funeral respectable none of his friends came. Only Gatsbys father appeared, still thinking that his son was a great man. On another occasion Nick met Tom and Daisy and was reluctant to shake hands with them. He already knew that it was Tom who made Wilson believe that Myrtle was Gatsby s lover and was run over by Gatsby. Soon Nick went back to his people in the Middle West。

美国文学史期末考试复习题

美国文学史期末考试复习题

美国文学史期末考试复习题(使用书本为童明的《美国文学史修订版》)一、名词解释(交代背景、内容/特点、代表人物/作品)1. American Realism: In American literature, the Civil War brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age of Realism came into existence. It came as a reaction against the lie of romanticism and sentimentalism. Realism turned from an emphasis on the strange toward a faithful rendering of the ordinary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concern for commonplace and the low, and it offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. (the representative writers and its features should be also added.)2. Black Humor :1)In the 1960s, in literature, drama, and film, black humor refers to grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world.2)Black humor often uses low comedy farce and low comedy to make clear that individuals are helpless victims of fate and character.3)Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is an example of this school3. Henry James’s international theme: 书p1594. Beat Generation:1) American poets, 1950s-1960s, a rebellion ,counterculture, romantic, drugs and uninhibited sex.2)Best and most influential poem: “Howl”:denounces the life-denying effects of American culture.5.American Puritanism:it comes from the American puritans, who were the first immigrants moved to American continent in the 17th century. Original sin, predestination and salvation were the basic ideas of American Puritanism. And, hard-working, piousness,thrift and sobriety were praised.书p176. Transcendentalism: is a philosophic and literary movement that flourished in New England, particular at Concord, as a reaction against Rationalism and Calvinism. Mainly it stressed intuitive understanding of God, without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind. The representative writers are Emerson andThoreau.7. Themes of Henry James’s writing: 书p1588.The Lost Generation:it refers to a group of young intellectuals who came back from war,were injured both physically and mentally. They lived by indulging themselves in the Bohemian way of life. Their American dream was disillusioned. The best representative of the lost generation was Ernest Hemingway.二、回答问题1. What are the characteristics of American romanticism?(书本p68. 3点+ P69.5点)2. How is the Darwinian belief in naturalism opposed to the Christian creationist view? 书p166What is the determinist view of existence that informs naturalism? What are the implications of this view on ethics?3. What are the philosophical foundations and characteristics of American naturalism? 书p1664. What are the important point s for Hawthorne’s sty le?5. What is the predominant mood in Poe’s poetry? Discuss with two poems as examples.6. What are the parameters of American Realism?书P1457. How is Thoreau revolt manifested both in his social actions and his writing?书p99What is the nature of his revolt?书p100( and nature in Civil Disobedience should be added)8. The age of American realism is divided into two more periods. What are the periods called? What are the characteristics and who are the representatives of each period?。

美国文学期末考试复习

美国文学期末考试复习

美国文学期末考试复习美国文学期末考试复习Part one: Multiple choices. (25题,每题2分,共50分)1 "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote from __D__’s writings.A. Walt WhitmanB. Henry David ThoreauC. Herman MelvilleD. Ralph Waldo Emerson2 Which of Hemingway’s novels describes the drifting漂流life of American exiles流亡者in Europe? BA. The Sun Also Rises.B. A Farewell to Arms.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls.D. The Old Man and the Sea.3 The theme of ___C____ may be well stated as "It sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self inrelation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death."A. Edgar Allan Poe’s "To Helen"B. Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Take n"C. Walt Whitman’s "Song of Myself" 惠特曼〔1819-1892,美国诗人〕。

D. Emily Dickenson’s "BecauseI could not stop for Death"4 The American Puritanism清教as a cultural heritage遗产benefited the Americans in ___A____.A. strengthening their moral valuesB. weakening their religious faithC. knowing truth intuitivelyD. developing their science and technology5 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ___C___.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism6 "Strange names were over the doors -strange faces at the windows -every thing was strange. His mindnow began to misgive使害怕him, that both he and the world around him were bewitched. Surely this was his native village, which he had left but the day before." The above passage is taken from __A____.A. Irving’s "Rip Van Winkle"B. Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown"C. James’ "Daisy Miller"D. Hemingway’s "Indian Camp"7 According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "___A____" finally obtainedthe meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester’s efforts.A. adulteryB. arroganceC. accomplishmentD. agony8 As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by ___B____.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson9 In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated荒废, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious豪华的hotel room before she boards a ship for ___B____.A. New YorkB. LondonC. ParisD, Geneva10 Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain? CA. The Call of the WildB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. Jumping Frog11 “”was a term created by the Fr ench novelist, Emile Zola. BA. RealismB. NaturalismC. TranscendentalismD. Impressionism12 The Cop and the Anthem is written by . AA. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain13 An American Dictionary of the English Language waspublished in 1828 by . BA. Samuel JohnsonB. Noah WebsterC. Daniel WebsterD. Daniel Defoe14 Walden is written by . BA. EmersonB. ThoreauC. PoeD. Hawthorne15 American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid 缺乏of faith and alienated疏远from the 。

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美国文学精彩试题模拟卷及问题详解

美国文学期末考试模拟试题及答案I. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. Franklin ’s autobiography, published after his death, has become one ofthe classics of the genre.(F ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions,but the military bureaucracy is always able to find a way to make him stay. (F ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crime inthe end of the play.(T ) 4. “Dreams ” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to give uphope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable.(T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter , published in 1850, is an American novel written byNathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work.(F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leaderof the Imagist movement in the early 19th century.(F ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher ” is one of Poe ’s poems.(F ) 8. Saul Bellow ’s perceptions center around the black people, the big city,and the spirit of American life in the second half of the 20th century.(T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter , Pear is Hester ’s illegitimate daughter.(T ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound ’s Cantos the best long poem inmodern literature.(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street , which exertedgreat influence on Theodore Dreiser ’s realism.( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s. (F ) 13. Fitzgerald ’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of theromantic period.(F ) 14. William Faulkner ’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moralin the American North.(F ) 15. In Faulkner ’s The Sound and the Fury , he used a technique called imagism,in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. (T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises , Ernest Hemingway became thespokesman of the lost generation.(T ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love. (F ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life ” was written by Edgar Allen Poe. (F ) 19. “The Raven ” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.(F ) 20. Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel The BluestEye .II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item) Writers: ( g ) 1. Benjamin Franklin Works:a. Ars Poetica( d ) 2. Toni Morrison( f ) 3. William Faulkner( a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( c ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne( e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( b ) 7. Stephen Crane( j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter( h ) 9. William Carlos Williams ( i ) 10. Saul Bellow b.Maggie: A Girl of the Streetsc. Twice-told Talesd. Belovede. A Psalm of Lifef. Barn Burningg. Poor Richard’s Almanach. Patersoni. Anderson the Rain Kingj.The Flowering JudasIII.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledgethat I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to his kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done, the complexion of my future fortune being known to him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunatocause to doubt my good will. I continued as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at the thought of his immolation.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C.The Cask of Amontillado3.Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.There is the man _and_ his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, -- as invalids and the insane paya high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but tolive. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonWork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4.The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared, in thefirst place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristlypresence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfullysurmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slatey wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6.Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forkedgreen vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. “Now, now, be a good girl, and we’ll have you up in no time.”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7.But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. I found myself onGatsby’s side, and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me. At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8.The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sitting smelledof cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the rankedshelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fish…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9.It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in theshadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him. Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10.CABOT--Thunder 'n' lightnin', Abbie! I hain't slept this late in fifty year!Looks 's if the sun was full riz a'most. Must've been the dancin' an' likker.Must be gittin' old. I hope Eben's t' wuk. Ye might've tuk the trouble t' rouse me, Abbie. (He turns--sees no one there--surprised) Waal--whar air she? Gittin' vittles, I calc'late. (He tiptoes to the cradle and peers down--proudly) Mornin', sonny. Putty's a picter! Sleepin' sound. He don't beller all night like most o' 'em. (He goes quietly out the door in rear--a few moments later enters kitchen--sees Abbie--with satisfaction) So thar ye be. Ye got any vittles cooked?Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1.I shot an __ arrow ___ into the air.It fell to __ earth ___ I knew not ___ where __;For so swiftly it __ flew ___ the sightCould not __ follow ___ it in its __ flight ___. (6%)2.Life is __ real ___! Life is __ earnest ___!And the grave is not its __ goal ___;__ Dust __ thou art, to ___ dust __ returnest,Was not spoken of the __ soul ___. (6%)3.Helen, thy ___ beauty __ is to meLike those Nicean barks of yoreThat gently, o’er a __ perfumed ___ sea,The weary, way-worn ___ wanderer __ boreTo his own native _ shore ____. (4%)4.My captain does not answer, his lips are __ pale ___ and __ still ___,My father does not feel my arm, he has no ___ pulse __ nor __ will ___ (4%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Of physiology from top to toe I sing,Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say theForm complete is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,The Modern Man I sing.I sing for physiology from top to toe. Neither looks alone nor intelligence is worthy for the praise. I say the form is far worthier. I also sing for the equality between the sexes. I sing for the modern man of their life full of passion, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed under the divine laws.ment: 20%1.The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.Answer the following questions:(1) Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? (5%)(2) What kind of person do you think the narrator is according to the above passage? (5%)2.On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. Answer the following questions:(1)What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of the letter Aso elaborate? (5%)(2)How does this tell us about her character? (5%)____________________________________________美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二IV.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression. (F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literaryadvocates in Jefferson and Thoreau.(T ) 3. Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles.(F ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms. (T ) 5. The quotation —“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might…” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.(T ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.(T ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth aftercommitting adultery, refuses to name the father, and strugglesto create a new life of repentance and dignity.(F ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about hislife, he is taking his one week vacation in the Englishcountryside to record his past.(F ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar” symbolizes social regulation.(F ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to use Montresor’s fondness for wine against him.(T ) 11. Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story ofa good woman’s downfall and destruction in a slum environment. (T ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of humanreality.(T ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.(F ) 14.The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is consideredas the representative of his short story.(T ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat.(T ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation.(T ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms — the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.(F ) 18. In “Sonnet — To Science”, Poe praised science for it emancipatedthe poet’s imagination.(T ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson’s poems.(T ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize.V. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point foreach item)Writers:( j ) 1. Walt Whiteman ( b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe ( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( h ) 4. F ·Scott Fitzgerald ( a ) 5. Wallace Stevens ( i ) 6. Joseph Heller ( c ) 7. Eugene Glastone O ’Neill ( d ) 8. Ernest Hemingway ( g ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( e ) 10. Langston Hughes Works: a. The Man with the Blue Guitar b. The Ravenc. Desire under the Elmsd. For Whom the Bell Tollse. Fine Clothes to the Jewf. Natureg. The Leaning Towerh. The Side of Paradisei. God Knowsj. Leaves of GrassVI. Identify the following by choosing the author ’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of myancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements.Author : A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunatobowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.Author : A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C. The Autobiography3. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to youis, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, -- under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4.The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on alarge scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C.Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden5.In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued asto the difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook had said: "There's a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up."Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.“Get along and doctor your sick,” said Granny Weatherall. “Leavea well woman alone. I’ll call for you when I want you…Where wereyou forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You weren’t even born. Don’t let Cornelia lead you on,” she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. “I pay my own bills, and I don’t throw my money away on nonsense!”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner7.It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed,bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm Septemberday. His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when Itook the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull soincessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty ingetting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I tookhim into the music room and made him sit down while I sent forsomething to eat. But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milkspilled from his trembling hand.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C.H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8."Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckonanybody named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help buttell the truth, can they?" The boy said nothing. Enemy! Enemy! hethought; for a moment he could not even see, could not see thatthe justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice wastroubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: "Do you want meto question this boy?" But he could hear, and during thosesubsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in thecrowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it wasas if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine,and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instantof mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince9.The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from thecounter inside the cafe and marched out to the old man's table.He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. Thewaiter took the bottle back inside the cafe. He sat down at thetable with his colleague again.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10.ABBIE--(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him--wildly) I killedhim, I tell ye! I smothered him. Go up an' see if ye don't b'lieveme! (Cabot stares at her a second, then bolts out the rear door,can be heard bounding up the stairs, and rushes into the bedroomand over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk back lifelessly into her former position. Cabot puts his hand down on the body in the crib.An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.) Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1.To make a __ prairie ___ it takes a __ clover ___ and one ___ bee__,One ___ clover __ and a _ bee ____.And __ revery ___.__ Revery ___ alone will do,If ___ bees __ are few. (8%)2.How ___ dreary __ to be somebody!How public, like a ___ frog __To tell your name the __ livelong ___ dayTo an __ admiring ___ bog! (4%)3.The __ apparition ___ of these faces in the crowd;__ Petals ___ on a wet, black __ bough ___. (3%)4.So much __ depends ___upona red __ wheel _____ barrow _____ glazed ___ with rainwaterbesides the ___ white __chickens (5%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that passing thereHad worn them really about the same.In a yellow wood, I could see two roads diverged, but I felt sorry because I could not walk on both of them. As a traveler, I stood there for a longtime and tried to look down one road as far as I could to the place where it changed the direction in the deep wood. Then I chose the other road just as beautiful as this. And perhaps it would be more attractive, because it was covered with grass and very quiet, even though I could see that these two roads bore almost the same amount of footprints.ment: 20%1. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.…When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.Answer the following questions:(1)What does the opening sentence imply? (5%)(2)In what way could the survivors be interpreters? (5%)2.I want you to pick all the fruit this year and see that nothing is wasted. There’s always someone who can use it. Don’t let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. Don’t let things get lost. It’s bitter to lose things. Now, don’t let me get to thinking, not when I am tired and taking a little nap before supper…Answer the following questions:(1) What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family?(5%)(2) What do you see from behind her words? (5%)美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三VII.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(F ) 1. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true foryou in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.”The sentence shows the opinion of Joseph Heller.(F ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James,Franklin's wife.(T ) 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.(F ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen ofHawthorne ’s chilling, cold-blooded human animals.(T ) 5. The lines — “A poem should not mean / But be ” comes from “ArsPoetica ” by MacLeish.(T ) 6. O ’Neill ’s great purpose was to try and discover the root of humandesires and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment.(T ) 7. Catch-22 combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in orderto criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.(F ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (T ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism.(T ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau.(T ) 11. In The Open Boat , Crane explores the theme that men is morepowerful than nature and men will consequently defeat naturaldisasters with natural and impressionistic approaches.(T ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalisticwriters.(F ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920sdecade in his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night.(F ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character named NickCarraway, who is also a participant in the event.(F ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.(T ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway ’s first true novel in which hedepicts a vivid portrait of “the lost generation ”.(T ) 17. Hemingway ’s writing style, together with his theme and hero,is greatly and permanently influenced by his experience in the war. (F ) 18. In Walt Whiteman ’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!”, captain refersto President Lincoln.(F ) 19. Emily Dickinson ’s poetic idiom is noted for obscure.(F ) 20. Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lowersocial class strive for their identity.VIII. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point foreach item)Writers:( a ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( e ) 2. Robert Frost ( i ) 3. Saul Bellow ( h ) 4. Joseph Heller (b ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison ( j ) 6. Ezra Pound ( d ) 7. Ernest Hemingway ( f ) 8. Emily Dickinson ( c ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( g ) 10. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWorks:a. Self-Relianceb. Invisible Man。

美国文学题库整理版

美国文学题库整理版

美国⽂学题库整理版. 美国⽂学史及选读期末复习重点考试题型:1.名词解释(20分)5个*4=20分2.选择题(20分)3.连线题(10分)4.判断题(10分)5.⽚段赏析(20分)⼀个10分2个⼀个⼩说⼀个诗歌6.论述题(20分)⼀个10分2个⼀个⼩说⼀个诗歌The Outline of American LiteratureThe Realistic Period 1865-1914Realists:Henry James and his psychological realismWilliam Dean Howells and his moral realismLocal Colorism/Regionalism: Mark TwainNaturalists:Stephen Crane /DreiserThe Modern Period 1914-1945Modern Poetry:Imagism:Ezra PoundW.C.WilliamsLyrical Poet:Robert FrostCarl SandburgWallace StevensModern Novelists:Representatives of the Lost Generation:(Jazz Age)F.Scott Fitzgerald/Ernest Hemingway/T.S.EliotEpitome of the Southern Renaissance:William FaulknerThe Leftist Novelists:John Dos Passos/John SteinbeckThe Jewish American Novelists in this period:Eugene O·NeillPart I Term Definition1.American Naturalism:美国⾃然主义1.Naturalism is a more deliberate kind of realism and this term describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity(客观)and detachment(冷静)to its study of human beings.2.Naturalism is a literary movement that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.3.Although naturalist literature.described the world with sometimes brutal realism, it sometimes also aimed at bettering the world through social reform.4.It accepted the interpretationDreiser is a leading Key words :Darwin ’s Evolutionary Theory;environment and heredity; objectivity and detachment Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie, Stephen Crane, etc.2. American Realism:美国现实主义1.时间:In American literature, the Civil War brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age of Realism came into existence. 内战将浪漫主义结束,开启现实主义。

《美国文学》期末试卷2

《美国文学》期末试卷2

《美国文学》期末试卷2《美国文学》期末试卷2Anglo-Catholic in religion ”A. Walt Whitman B Emily Dickinson C. Wallace Stevens D. T.S. Eliot2 Three of the following writers are Nobel Prize winners. Which one is NOT? A Ernest Hemingway B William Faulkner C Pearl Buck D John Dos Passos3 ___ are not only poets but also literary critics.① Edgar Allan Poe ② Carl Sandburg ③T.S. Eliot ④ Ezra PoundA. ①③④B. ①②③C. ①②④D. ①②③④4 Which of the following writers does NOT belong to the Lost Generation. A John Steinbeck B John Dos Passos C Ernest Hemingway D F.Scott Fitzgerald5 __ was regarded as America ’s poet laureate and invited to read his poem at the inauguration of President Kennedy.A. T.S. EliotB. E.E. CummingsC. Robert FrostD. Ezra Pound6. three poets Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and __ opened the way to Modern poetry. A. O.Henry B. Henry David Thoreau C. E.E. Cummings D. Robert Frost7 Which of the following is NOT a southern writer in the USA?A. Saul BellowB. T ennessee WilliamsC. Eudora WeltyD. FlanneryO ’Connor8 In The Great Gatsby , Nick is the narrator who belongs to the type of ___. A. participant B. non-participant C. unreliable D. innocent eye9 Among the following writers,__ is best known for his sensitive depiction of the American small-town life.A. Henry JamesB. Sherwood Anderson C Ernest Hemingway D John Dos Passos10 Which of the following novels is a good illustration of the “Roaring 20s ” andhence serves as a “cultural-history allego ry ” for the America? A. A Farewell to Arms B .Treasure IslandC. The Great GatsbyD. The Portrait of a Lady11 Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT___.A. Lost GenerationB. iceberg theoryC. American DreamD. grace under pressure.12 The most popular and versatile of all the writers connected with the Harlem Renaisance is ___.A. Richard WrightB. W.E.B. DuBboisC. Langston HughesD. James Baldwin 13 “American Shakespeare” refers to __.A. Elmer RiceB. Edward AlbeeC. Eugene O’NeillD. Tennessee Williams14. One of the most noticeable elements of Harlem Renaissance writing is its use of dialect and folklore and its identification with the spirit of ___. A. rap B. jazz C. blues D. R&B 15 ___ is said to be a “historical novel ” by Faulkner. A. Go Down, Moses B. Light in August C. The Sound and the Fury D. Absalom, Absalom 16 Which beat-poet wrote the work On the Road? A. Allen Ginsberg B. Jack Kerouac C. Wlliam Burroughs D. Charles Bukowski17 Which of the following novels is the masterpiece of Vladimir Nabokov? A Lolita B On the RoadC The Lonesome TravelerD The Naked Lunch18 Which of the following poets is NOT member of the Black Mountain poets? A. Robert Creely B. Robert Duncan C. Throdore Roethke D. Charles Olson19 Who is the author of Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book?A Jade Snow WongB Maxine Hong KingstonC Kai-yu HsuD Elaine Kim 20 Death of a Salesman is written by __. A. Tennessee Williams B. Arthur Miller C. Elmer Rice D. Clifford Odets二、 Decide whether the following statements are true (T)or false (F).(每题1分,共30分)1 Long Day’s Journey into Night is considered as Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play.2 Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman keeps on dreaming of success and living in illusions and lies.3 Baldwin’s common theme is t o condemn racism, urge reform, and criticize evils of society.4 The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller.5 Tennessee Williams is the one who dares to deal with themes such as violence, sex, and homosexuality on the stage in the postwar period.6.Beyond the Horizon is not written by Eugene O’Neill7 American southern literature can date back to Edgar Allen Poe, and reach its summit with the appearance of the two “giants” – Faulkner and Wolfe.8 The New Criticism as a school of poetry and criticism established itself in the 1940s as an academic orthodoxy in the United States.9 John Steinbeck was a significant Depression writer.10.The Grapes of Wrath is a crisis novel.11 If T.S. Eliot had tried to represent a spiritual waste land in his famous poem, the writers of the 1930s were faced with the challenge of painting a physical waste land that America had become.12 William Faulkner carries on careless technical experimentation all his literary career.13 Technically, Sinclair Lewis was a highly original writer .14. Faulkner was a daring formal experimentalist. He evolved his literary strategies so as to be able to communicate his idea.15 Sinclair Lewis was the first American author to win the Nobel Prize.16. Lewis was sociological writer. His novel forms a segment of American social history.17.Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry is in large measure a response to her personal experiences.18 In formal terms, Ginsberg has borrowed freely from the cataloging form of Whitman’s prose poetry and from William Carlos Williams in tone and rhythm.19 Norman Mailer was a multi-faceted talent.20 Catch 22 was the first book in America to treat the absurdity theme with absurdist techniques.21 Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22 about his experience in the war.22 The central figure of New York School was Frank O’Hara.23 Slaughterhouse-Five is a war book, an anti-war novel.24 The life of the 1950s was poisoned at the root by McCarthyism, and that of the sixties enriched by the Civil Rights movement, the appearance of a counter culture, and an upsurge of feminist power.25 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was written by Ken Kesey26 Beloved is written by Tony Morrison.27 Lolita was written by Vladimir Nabokov.28 A great postmodern writer, Kurt V onnegut became the cult figure of the counterculture generation at that time, known as “a gum for the youth” in supporting the students in their anti-war movements.29 In the 1920s, social concern was topmost in the minds of many authors.30 Toni Morrison was a winner of Nobel Prize.1 Author(1): title(2):It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.I was na?ve. I was looking for myself and asking everyoneexcept myself questions which I ,and only could answer.2 Ezra Pound’s life long endeavor had been devoted to the writing of (3), which contains(4)poems.3 In the 1920s, there was a new upsurge of African American literature, which has come to be known as (5)4 Iin his novel, William Faulkner has invented a county named(6) and the seat of the county(7)6. Quentin is a character in William Faulkner’s novel(8)7. In the story(9), Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named (10), who is triumphant even in defeat.8. F. Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the (11)decade in his masterpiece novel(12).9. Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel (13) in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.10. (14)’s Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited (15)mind.11. The Joy Luck Club was written by (16).12. The author of The Woman Warrior is (17).13. The novel, set in the American Dust Bowl region, that shows the social significance of the migrant labor problem was written by (18) and the title is (19). 14. Gravity’s Rainbow is written by (20)三Fill in the blanks(每题1分,共20分)1.Black Humor2. Hemingway’s code hero3. Southern Renaisance 4 .the Lost Generation’s writing style? 2 Why was Fitzgerald regarded as spokesman of the Jazz Age?四 Tell what you know about the following in your own words.(每题5分,共20分)五Questions (每题5分,共10分)。

美国文学史考试题

美国文学史考试题

美国文学史考试题第一部分:选择题(每题10分,共10题)1. 美国的英语文学起源于哪个时期?A. 开拓殖民时期B. 独立战争时期C. 革命战争时期D. 后现代主义时期2. 下列哪位作家被誉为美国南方文学的代表人物?A. 威廉·福克纳B. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑C. 马克·吐温D. 索尔·贝娄3. 哪位作家是美国失落一代文学的代表人物?A. 弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德B. 约翰·斯坦贝克C. 伊莎贝尔·艾伦德D. 埃米莉·狄金森4. 以下哪本小说是托尼·莫里森的代表作?A. 《傻白甜心理学》B. 《百年孤独》C. 《百年孤寂》D. 《亲爱的安德烈》5. 下列哪本经典小说是赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的作品?A. 《百年孤独》B. 《白鲸记》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《诺大卡尼亚号》6. 以下哪位作家是美国现代主义文学运动的重要代表人物?A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙B. 《钢铁是怎样炼成的》C. 奥斯卡·王尔德D. 约翰·欧文7. 哪位作家被称为黑人文学的奠基人?A. 托尼·莫里森B. 朱莉娅·阿尔瓦雷兹C. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔D. 菲利普·罗斯8. 美国浪漫主义文学的代表作是哪部?A. 《大卫·科波菲尔》B. 《老人与海》C. 《寻找失去的时光》D. 《丛林中的莫娜·利萨》9. 下列哪本小说是约翰·斯坦贝克的代表作?A. 《雾都孤儿》B. 《西游记》C. 《钢铁是怎样炼成的》D. 《愤怒的葡萄》10. 哪位作家是美国现代主义诗歌的代表人物?A. 罗伯特·佩斯B. 艾米莉·狄金森C. 西奥多·德莱塞D. 菲利普·罗斯第二部分:简答题(每题20分,共4题)1. 简要介绍美国哈莱姆文艺复兴运动及其对美国文学的影响。

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大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题公司内部档案编码:[OPPTR-OPPT28-OPPTL98-OPPNN08]大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题:1.选择/对错 60分(40道选择, 20个对错)2.名词解释 10分(5个)3.选段配对 10分(5个)4.问答 20分(10/2)1.历史:Father / poetess…2. 名作家:Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson3.作品:The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter选择题(40个,40分)1. At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________.A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement2. Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin ________A. He was born in a poor family.B. He was a pious puritan.C. He was phrased as “Jack of all trades”.D. He was a master of diplomacy.3. Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT ________.A. Lost GenerationB. Iceberg theoryC. American DreamD. Code Heroes4. Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter ________A. Hester PrynneB. Roger ChillingworthC. Captain AhabD. Pearl5. Jack London’s semi-biographical novel ________well presents the disillusionment of American Dream.A. The American TragedyB. The Call of the WildC. Martin EdenD. The Grapes of Wrathb)判断对错题(20个,20分)1. Poe’s masterpiece “To Helen” is written to memorize his deceased wife. (F)2. The tone of “Annabel Lee” is optimistic and hopeful. (F)3. Mark Twain's novel Jumping Frog was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize. (F)4. Sister Carrie ended up in tragedy because she could not control her fate. (F)2.名词解释题(5个,10分)1. It refers to the religious beliefs held by the Puritans, who had intended to “purify” or simplify the religious ritual of the Church of England. They believed in the original sin and the harsh Day of Doom, although some good people --- the chosen people or “the Elect”--- may be saved. (Puritanism)2. A literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life.It had originated in France and was very popular in 19th century. (Realism)3.选段配对题(5个,10分)1. Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,Hid in this silent, dull retreat,Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow,Unseen thy little branches greet:No roving foot shall crush thee here,No busy hand provoke a tear.The Wild Honey Suckle (Philip Freneau)2. During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the cloud hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.The Fall of the House of Usher(Edgar Allan Poe)4.问答题(10/2,20分)1. Transcendentalism(a) Transcendentalism (p56){1}As a moral philosophy, it exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. & believed in the transcendence of the“oversoul”{2}A literary movement flourishing in New England from the1830s to the Civil war. It stresses intuitive understanding of God, without the help of the church and advocated independence of the mind. The representative writers are Emerson and Thoreau. {b}The significance of TranscendentalismTranscendentalism exerted a dominating notion onto the major wirers of the Romantic period and its essence has beenpermanently absorbed into the main stream of American thought. As a moral philosophy, Transcendentalists took their ideas from the romantic literature of Europe, from neo-Platonism, from German idealistic philosophy and from the revelations of Oriental mysticism. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. They believed in the transcendence of the “Oversoul”, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things are a part. As a philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830’s to the Civil War. Its doctrines found their greatest literary advocated in Emerson, who believed that man was a part of absolute good, and in Thoreau who beheld divinity in the “unspotted innocence” of nature. It was a powerful expression of the intellectual mood of the age, and the ideas it represented have remained a strong influence on great American writers from the days of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman to the present.2. “The Road Not Taken”Symbolic meanings of The Road Not Taken:In this poem, the author uses two roads in the woods to symbolize the choices in thereal life. The author suggests us not being afraid to take a chance, not following the crowd and trying new things. Individualism is highlighted in the poem because the speaker chooses to go his own way, taking the “road less traveled”. Caution is also taken before deciding to take the “road less traveled”, for the speaker takes time to consider the other road.Commitment is symbolized in the poem because the speaker does not have second thoughts after making his decision.The last symbolized theme is accepting a challenge. It may be that the road thespeaker chooses is less traveled because it represents trials or perils. Such challengesseem to appeal to the speaker.The Road Not TakenThis poem, as many of Frost’s poems, begins with the observation of nature, as if the poet is a traveler sightseeing in nature. By the end, all the simple words condense into a serious proposition: When anyone in life is confronted with making a choice, in order to possess something worthwhile, he has to give up something which seems as lovely and valuable as the chosen one. Then, whatever follows, he must accept the consequence of his choice for it is not possible for him to return to the beginning and have another chance to choose differently. Frost is asserting that nature is fair and honestto everyone. Thus all the varieties of human destiny result from each person’s spontaneous capability of making choices. Form: The poem is very regularly structured with 4 classic 5-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme “abaab” and in conversational rhythm.3. The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby the parody (戏仿)of American dream Thematically,the novel is a parody of the American dream as represented by Gatsby’s pursuit for wealth and love.(1)American Dream(derived the Puritanism) is a popular belief that people can achieve success,whether it is wealth,fame or love through honest hard working in a new world of liberty,equality,chances and promises.. Franklin, Obama )(2) It is true that Gatsby had a huge wealth,but it was built up through illegal means—bootlegging. Daisy was the embodiment of love for Gatsby,but the Daisy in Gatsby’s illusion was not the Daisy in reality——a mindless and spiritless woman only with a beautiful appearance,who retreated to her boring but secure way of life rather than accept the responsibility at the moment of crisis.(3) Like Franklin,Gatsby also made a time table and a list of “do’s and don'ts”.But unfortunately he did not know that the time had changed.(4) Therefore, G’s dream is tarnished by his material possessions, much like America is now with the obsession with wealth. In any case, Gatsby would have failed to his idealistic dream inevitably, namely disillusion of American dream. Together with Martin Eden, it well presents the disillusionment of American Dream.Main ideas:Nick Caraway, the narrator decided to leave his family in the Midwest to study bond business in New York.He took a small house at West Egg of Long Island and became a neighbor of Jay Gatsby,a mysterious man of great wealth.He resumed acquaintance with Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy at a dinner party in their home.There he also met Jordan Baker,an attractive but arrogant young lady.He soon learned that their marriage was not happy and Tom has a mistress,Myrtle,wife of George Wilson,a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes.A few days later he was invited to Gatsby’s party. From Gatsby and later from Jordan, Nick learned of the love affair between Daisy and Gatsby before she married Tom.Gatsby then made arequest of Nick:to bring Daisy to tea and meet Gatsby.At the reunion Gatsby changed from nervousness to excitement and from excitement to a remote fantasy.At a party Gatsby gave to the Buchanans,Nick and Jordan,Gatsby and Tom had a fierce quarrel over Daisy and Daisy sided with both men in turns.Then Daisy and Gatsby left in Gatsby’s car while the others followed in Tom’s.On the way Gatsby’s car knocked Myrtle dead and ran away,but he later told Nick that Daisy was driving at the time of the accident.Myrtle,thinking Tom was in the car,ran toward it and was hit.Meanwhile Mr.Wilson traced Gatsby’s car and found Gatsby's house.A few hours later both of them were found dead.Apparently Wilson shot Gatsby and then himself.Although Nick tried to make Gatsby’s funeral respectable,none of his friends came.Only Gatsby’s father appeared,still thinking that his son was a great man.On another occasion Nick met Tom and Daisy and was reluctant to shake hands with them.He already knew that it was Tom who made Wilson believe that Myrtle was Gatsby’s lover and was run over by Gatsby.Soon Nick went back to his people in the Middle West.。

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