云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题六
学院:外语学院专业:英语年级：________ 班次:
学号：姓名：
考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150 分钟试卷编号( 卷)
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( ) 1. By seeing Yossarian’s entrails spilling over the plane, Snowden learns that ―Man was matter, that was Snowden’s secret. Drop him out a window and he’ll fall. Set fire to him and he’ll burn. Bury him and he’ll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage.‖
( ) 2. Desire under the Elms uses ancient Roman themes of incest, infanticide and fateful retribution.
( ) 3. O’Neill wrote many plays which were highly experimental in form and style.
( ) 4. MacLeish was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times.
( ) 5. The scarlet letter ―A‖ represents the act of adultery that she has committed and it is to be
a symbol of her sin – a badge of shame – for all to see throughout the novel.
( ) 6. With the publication of Fanshawe in 1825, Nathaniel Hawthorne became famous and his reputation as a major American author has been on the increase ever since.
( ) 7. ―Self-Reliance‖ contains the most solid statement of one of Emerson's repeating themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.
( ) 8. Stephen Crane’s most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.
( ) 9. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.
( ) 10. Apart from The Autobiography,Franklin is perhaps best remembered in print for his Poor Richard's Almanac.
( ) 11. The main theme of The Red Badge of Courage reveals the heroism on the battlefield. ( ) 12. Porter had been to Berlin before the Nazis came into power. She described her witness of the social unrest in Germany into her novel Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
( ) 13. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as the lost generation.
( ) 14. William Faulkner wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States, and its effects on the lives of modern people, both black and white.
( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway fuses naturalism and symbolism in ―A Clean, Well-Lighted Place‖.
One of the motifs in this story is nothing/nihilism.
( ) 16. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow introduced many European poems to America and contributed a great deal to the development of romantic poetry in America.
( ) 17. In ―O Captain! My Captain!‖, Walt Whiteman expresses his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.
( ) 18. Leaves of Grass is written by Edgar Allen Poe.
( ) 19. The theme of Emily Dickinson’s poem is war and peace.
( ) 20. Ralph Waldo Ellison’s masterpiece is Invisible Man.
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Writers:
( ) 1. Robert Frost
( ) 2. Saul Bellow
( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Ellison
( ) 4. Eugene Glastone O’Neill
( ) 5. Wallace Stevens
( ) 6. Ernest Hemingway
( ) 7. William Carlos Williams
( ) 8. Stephen Crane
( ) 9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
( ) 10. Edgar Allan Poe
Works:
a.Emperor Jones
b.Spring and All
c.The Old Man and the Sea
d.Fire and Ice
e.The Cask of Amontillado
f.The Red Badge of Courage
g.The Necessary Angel
h.Dangling Man
i.Voices of the Night
j.Invisible Man
III.’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)
1.Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state
of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated. Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison
Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
2.For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must
know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs. Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college.
Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson
Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C.Self-reliance
3.In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the
spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.
On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.
Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson
Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden
4.The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection
and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down. The mind of the master of a vessel is rooted deep in the timbers of her, though he commanded for a day or a decade, and this captain had on him the stern impression of a scene in the greys of dawn of seven turned faces, and later a stump of a top-mast with a white ball on it that slashed to and fro at the waves, went low and lower, and down.
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane
Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett
5."Take her easy, now, boys," said the captain. "Don't spend yourselves. If we have to run
a surf you'll need all your strength, because we'll sure have to swim for it. Take your
time." Slowly the land arose from the sea. From a black line it became a line of black and a line of white, trees and sand. Finally, the captain said that he could make out a house on the shore. "That's the house of refuge, sure," said the cook. "They'll see us before long, and come out after us."
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane
Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett
6.So there was nothing, nothing to worry about anymore, except sometimes in the night one
of the children screamed in a nightmare, and they both hustled out and hunting for the matches and calling, ―There, wait a minute, here we are!‖ John, get the doctor now, Hapsy’s time has come. But there was Hapsy standing by the bed in a white cap. ―Cornelia, tell Hapsy to take off her cap. I can’t see her plain.‖
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 Corner
7.G atsby’s house was still empty when I left—the grass on his lawn had grown as long as
mine. One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate
without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident, and perhaps he had made a story about it all his own. I didn’t want to hear it and I avoided him when I got off the train. 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 Gatsby
8.He got up. He was a little stiff, but walking would cure that too as it would the cold, and
soon there would be the sun. He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds, called unceasing-the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night. He did not look back.
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost
Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince
9.The old man sitting in the shadow rapped on his saucer with his glass. The younger
waiter went over to him.
"What do you want?"
The old man looked at him. "Another brandy," he said.
"You'll be drunk," the waiter said. The old man looked at him. The waiter went away.
"He'll stay all night," he said to his colleague. "I'm sleepy now. I never get into bed before three o'clock. He should have killed himself last week."
Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway
Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif
10.EBEN--I love ye, Abbie. (They kiss. The three men grin and shuffle embarrassedly. Eben
takes Abbie's hand. They go out the door in rear, the men following, and come from the house, walking hand in hand to the gate. Eben stops there and points to the sunrise sky.) Sun's a-rizin'. Purty, hain't it?
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-22
1.O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is _____,
The ship has _____ every rack, the _____ we sought is won,
The port is _____, the bells I _____, the people all exulting,
While _____ eyes the steady keel, the vessel _____ and _____; (8%)
2.I’m _____! Who are you?
Are you _____ too?
Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They’d _____ us, you know! (3%)
3.They enter the new world _____,
cold, _____ of all
_____ that they enter. All about them
the cold, _____ wind— (4%)
4.He gave the harness bells a _____
To ask if there is some _____.
The only other sound’s the _____
Of _____ wind and _____ flake. (5%)
Not enjoyment , and not sorrow,
Is our destined and our way;
But to act,
That much to-morrow.
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and time is fleeting.
And our hearts , though stout and brave.
Still , like muffled drums , are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
1.And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder
when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Answer the following questions:
(1)Do you think Gatsby deserves to be called ―the great‖? Why? (5%)
(2)Does ―the green light‖ Gatsby believed in exist in reality? Why or why not? (5%)
2.―Come,‖ I said, with decision, ―we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich,
respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed.
For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible.
Besides, there is Luchresi—‖
―Enough,‖he said, ―the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.‖
―True—true,‖I replied; ―and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily—but you should use all proper caution. A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps.‖
…
He raised it to his lips with a leer. He paused and nodded to me familiarly, while his bells jingled.
―I drink,‖ he said, ―to the buried that repose around us.‖
―And I to your long life.‖
Describe briefly how Poe characterizes Montresor and Fortunato as contrasts? (10%)
云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题六
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1. Answer the following questions:
(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%)
(2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? (5%)
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2. Answer the following questions:
(1) Is there black humor in this part? How is it expressed? (5%)
(2)What do you see from behind this humor? (5%)
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云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四 学院:外语学院专业:英语年级：________ 班次: 学号：姓名： 考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150 分钟试卷编号( 卷) I. ( ) 1. Modern poetry is “the poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice.” This is the opinion of Walt Whitman. ( ) 2. Robert Frost experimented with form, as many poets did in the 1920s. ( ) 3. Emperor Jones represents one of O’Neil’s attempts to place plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting. ( ) 4. “Looking for Mr. Green” is a story of Mosby’s Memories and other Stories. ( ) 5. Bellow will be remembered for the biting social criticism of his novels, and of course, for his riotous sense of humor. ( ) 6. Hester’s letter “A” eventually come s to represent “Angel” and “Able” to the townspeople. ( ) 7. Poe stresses rhythm, defines true poetry as “the rhythmical creation of beauty,” and declares that “music is the perfection of the soul, or idea, of poetry.” ( ) 8.All three parts of Franklin's autobiography were published and released together in English for the first time in 1868. ( ) 9. New England Transcendentalism was important to American literature. It inspired a whole new generation of famous authors such as Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. ( ) 10. The setting of “Looking for Mr. Green” is Depression Columbus. ( ) 11. There are four survivors in The Open Boat: the captain, the oiler, the cook and the correspondent. ( ) 12. In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Porter narrated the story sometimes in chronological order and sometimes in flashback, and the chronological time is more important than the psychological time. ( ) 13. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in The Roaring Twenties. ( ) 14. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962. ( ) 15. The point of view in Barn Burning is the third person narration and the narrator is omniscient.
The literature of colonial America John Smith 1）The1st American writer 2）作品“reports of exploration”have been de scribed as the1st distinctly American literatur e written in English,attracted Pilgrims(朝圣者) &the Puritans. 3）1608，写了封信“A true Relation of Such O ccurance&Accidents of Note as Hath Happen ed in Virginia Since the1st planting of That c olony” 4）1612，第二本书“A map of Virginia:with a Description of the Country” 5）他一共出版了八本书，公司破产以后做了向导，he sought a post as guide to the pilgrims. 1624，“General History of Virginia”讲述How the Indian princess Pocahonats Saved him. 6）他早期记录和反映的思想慢慢演变成了美国历史的基本思想，这种思想推动了美国边疆的西移。7）早期英格兰文学主要关于theological(神学), moral(道德),historical and political.
The Puritans in New England embraced hards hips,together with the discipline of a harsh church.They had toughness,purpose and cha racter,they grappled strongly with challenges they set themselves.他们的基本价值观：hard w ork,thrift,piety and sobriety.（也是美国作品的主导思想） William Bradford&John Withrop 1）William Bradford：“The History of Plymouth Plantation”（从1630年写起，关于一群清教徒从英国出发到Amsterdam最后到新大陆的过程）Cotton Mather评价：“a common blessing and father to them all.” 2）John Withrop：“The History of New England”（1630，登上Arbella号去Massachusetts并keep a journal and to the rest of his life.1826年出版）3）Puritans -Puritans wanted to make pure their religious beliefs and practices.The Puritan was Would-be purifier. -Looked upon themselves as a choosen peol
2018年自学考试《美国文学选读》试题 Multiple choice; 1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil. A.Emerson’s B. Hawthorne’s C. Thoreau’s D. Allan Poe’s 2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”got ideas from _______ legends. A.B ritish B. German C. Italian D. French 3. “Rip Van Winkle”reveals the theme of ______ the past. A. nostalgia for B. rejectionn to C. detachment from D. dislike for 4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , “A”may stand for ____________. A. Angel B. Adultery C. Able D.all the above 4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style? A. Fresh B. Simple C. Grand D. Direct 6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.
湖州师范学院外国语学院2008— 2009学年第二学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）答案暨评分标准 I. Write the names of the authors. (10%) ①Walt Whitman ②Edgar Allen Poe ③Wallace Stevens ④Franklin Norris ⑤Stephen Crane ⑥William Faulkner ⑦Sinclair Lewis ⑧John Steinbeck ⑨Langston Hughes ⑩Tennessee Williams II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%） ①New England ②Regionalism or Local color writing ③semi-autobiographical ④anti-realism ⑤Imagist ⑥Santiago ⑦multiple narrations or points of view ⑧1930 ⑨Harlem Renaissance ⑩Eugene O’Neill III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. （20%） 1－5. A D C B B 6－10. D B E B A IV. Identify the author and the title of the work from which each of the following excerpts is taken. And then answer the question after each excerpt. (20%) Passage 1 the author: Walt Whitman (1%) the title of the work : Songs of Myself (1%) Question: What is the poet celebrating? (2%) The poet is celebrating individualism and nationalism, singing of all those people who form the American nationality.
美国文学（本科）试题5 I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each) 1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in . 2. became the first American writer. 3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing. 4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of and Revolution. 5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece . 6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared. 7. The signing of symbolized the birth of an independent American nation. 8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was . 9. Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win international fame. 10. is the summit of American Romanticism. 11. With the publication of Emerson’s in 1836,American Romanticism reached its summit. 12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel . 13.Henry James’ major fictional theme is . 14. brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into existence. 15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called . 16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by . 17. The term The Gilded Age is given by to describe the post-civil war years. 18. Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is . 19. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is . 20. is the spokesman for Lost Generation. 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 and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each) 1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was . A. Bret Harte B. Mark Twain C. Henry James D. William Dean Howells 2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain? A. The Gilded Age B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Jumping Frog 3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency? A. Mark Twain B. Jack London C. Theodore Dreiser D. Frank Norris 4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in and Thoreau. A. Jefferson B. Emerson C. Freneau D. Oversoul 5. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”? A. The Financier B. The Titan C. The Stoic D. An American Tragedy
Part I The Literature of Colonial America I．Historical Introduction The colonial period stretched roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th. The first permanent settlement in America was established by English in 1607. ( A group of people was sent by the English King James I to hunt for gold. They arrived at Virginia in 1607. They named the James River and build the James town.) II．The pre-revolutionary writing in the colonies was essentially of two kinds: 1) Practical matter-of-fact accounts of farming, hunting, travel, etc. designed to inform people "at home" what life was like in the new world, and, often, to induce their immigration 2) Highly theoretical, generally polemical, discussions of religious questions. III．The First American Writer The first writings that we call American were the narratives and journals of these settlements. They wrote about their voyage to the new land, their lives in the new land, their dealings with Indians. Captain John Smith is the first American writer. A True Relation of such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony (1608) A Map of Virginia: A Description of the Country (1612) General History of Virgini a (1624): the Indian princess Pocahontas Captain John Smith was one of the first early 17th-century British settlers in North America. He was one of the founders of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. His writings about North America became the source of information about the New World for later settlers. One of the things he wrote about that has become an American legend was his capture by the Indians and his rescue by the famous Indian Princess, Pocahontas. IV．Early New England Literature William Bradford and John Winthrop John Cotton and Roger Williams Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor V．Puritan Thoughts 1. The origin of puritan In the mediaeval Europe, there was widespread religious revolution. In the 16th Century, the English King Henry VIII (At that time, the Catholics were not allowed to divorce unless they have the Pope's permission. Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife because she couldn't bear him a son. But the Pope didn't allow him to divorce, so he) broke away from the Roman Catholic Church & established the Church of
美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一 ) '×15=15I.Multiple Choice (1'______was the first colony in American history. C1. D.Georgia C. Virginia A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey War. the before Revolutionary only good American author 2. _B_____ was the
One “His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on of his fellow Americans said, this young nation.”D.Thomas Paine B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson A. John Smith 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. D. individualism C. intuition B. imagination A. common sense The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ 4. B. Edgar Allan Poe A. Philip Freneau D. Emily Dickinson C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. D. Titanic C. Mayflower B. Armada A. Sunflower D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in 6. Melville's novel __ pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. Moby Dick D. C. White Jacket A. Typee B. Omoo 7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. D.Transcendentalism C.Sentimentalism B.Rationalism A.Modernism 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. B. Sister Carrie A. The Scarlet Letter The Old Man and Sea D. C. The Great Gatsby 9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. 页1 第 A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious 10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards
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, Emerson 3．作品：The W asteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter 1.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 Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement 2. 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 Generation B. Iceberg theory C. American Dream D. Code Heroes 4. Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? ________ A. Hester Prynne B. Roger Chillingworth C. Captain Ahab D. Pearl 5. Jack London’s semi-biographical novel ________well presents the disillusionment of American Dream. A. The American Tragedy B. The Call of the Wild C. Martin Eden D. The Grapes of Wrath b)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)
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, an ultimately mystery of the universe. A. Stubb B. Ishmael C. Ahab D. Starbuck 2.Most of the p oems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well. A. nature B. self-reliance C. self D. life 3.Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson? A. Importance of the Individual B. Faith in Christianity C. The Over-Soul D. Self-Reliance 4.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____. A. saviors B. villains C. commentators D. observers 5.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 Carrier B.Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C.Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales D.Thoreau’s Walden 6.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? . A. Ralph Emerson B. Walt Whitman C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Henry Thoreau
1、The Colonial Period（1607-1765） American Puritanism ( in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 北美第一位女诗人Anne Bradstreet(宗教气息，夫妻恩爱) Edward Taylor 都受英国玄学派影响（metaphysical） 2、The Enlightenment and Revolution Period Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography---“美国梦”的根源 3、American Romanticism（end of 18th to the civil war） American writers emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. 早期浪漫主义Washington Irving father of American Literature