美国文学期末试卷B

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衡水学院外语系英语专业2004级普本

2007—2008学年第一学期期末考试

美国文学史及选读课程试卷（B）

命题教师：徐常兰试题审核人：孙艳

I. Work-Author pairing-up: (15%)

( ) 1. The Confidence-Man A. Walt Whitman

( ) 2. The House of the Seven Gables B. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( ) 3. The Over-Soul C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

( ) 4. There Was a Child Went Forth D. Herman Melville

( ) 5. The Turn of the Screw E. Emily Dickenson

( ) 6. This is My Letter to the World F. Henry James

( ) 7. The Hairy Ape G.. F. Scott Fitzgerald

( ) 8. The Sound and the Fury H. Eugene O’ Nell

( ) 9. Tender Is the Night I. William Faulkner

( ) 10. For Whom the Bell Tolls . J. Eugene O’Nell

( ) 11. Emperor Jones K. Ernest Hemingway

( ) 12. After Apple -Picking L. Ezra Pound

( ) 13. In a Station of the Metro M. Robert Frost

( ) 14. North of Boston

( ) 15. In Our Time

II. Choose one suitable answer for each statement. (20%)

( ) 1. In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to ____

A. die

B. calm down

C. fall into sleep

D. stop walking

( ) 2. Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?

A. Robert Frost

B. Walt Whitman

C. Emily Dickenson

D. Wallace Stevens

( ) 3. In these lines “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; /Petals on a wet, black bough”, Ezra Pound uses the figure of speech of ___.

A. metaphor

B. simile

C. hyperbole

D. contrast

( ) 4. Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on ______

A. Robert Frost

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Ezra Pound

D. Emily Dickenson

( ) 5. The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their_____.

A. indestructible spirit

B. pessimistic view of life

C. war experiences

D. masculinity

( ) 6. Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby’s wealth like_____.

A. gluttons

B. flies

C. insects

D. moths

( ) 7. In a class which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include ___

A. William Carlos Williams

B. Ezra Pound

B. Gary Snyder D. Wallance Stevens

( ) 8. Emily Dickenson was sometimes curious about the feeling of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the _________of death, the title of the poem is “ I heard a Fly buzz when I died”.

A. moment

B. suffering

C. happiness

D. meaning

( )9. In all his novels Theodore Dresier set himself to project the materialistic American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined ____.

A. hereditarily

B. economically

C. by his or her literalness

D. historically

( )10. Theodore Dresier was influenced by many writers whose works he had read.

But his true literary influence did not come from___.

A. Balzac

B. Charles Darwin

C. Herbert Spencer

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

( ) 11. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain one of the major literary figures in the 19th century American literature is the use of _____.

A. vernacular

B. interior monologue

C. point of view

D. photographic description

( ) 12. The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of ____.