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英美文学选读-阶段测评3成绩：87.5分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A、The Rainbow，Women in LoveB、The Rainbow，Sons and LoversC、Sons and Lovers，Lady Chatterley’s LoverD、Women in Love，Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P370.para2）劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》，而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》标准答案：A考生答案：A本题得分：2.5 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land.A、“Prufrock”B、“Gerontion”C、The Hollow MenD、Lyrical Ballads（P358.para3）“Gerontion”是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌，是《荒原》的前奏曲，也采用了意识流派的文风。

标准答案：B考生答案：B本题得分：2.5 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ).A、The RainbowB、Women in LoveC、Sons and LoversD、Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P369.para1）劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的，同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。

其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况，被视为其半自传体小说。

英美文学选读-阶段测评3成绩：87.5分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A、The Rainbow，Women in LoveB、The Rainbow，Sons and LoversC、Sons and Lovers，Lady Chatterley’s LoverD、Women in Love，Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P370.para2）劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》，而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》标准答案：A考生答案：A本题得分：2.5 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land.A、“Prufrock”B、“Gerontion”C、The Hollow MenD、Lyrical Ballads（P358.para3）“Gerontion”是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌，是《荒原》的前奏曲，也采用了意识流派的文风。

标准答案：B考生答案：B本题得分：2.5 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ).A、The RainbowB、Women in LoveC、Sons and LoversD、Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P369.para1）劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的，同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。

其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况，被视为其半自传体小说。

华南农业大学美国文学史期末考Ⅰ。

Explain the following literary terms。

（本大题共2小题，每小题5分，共10分)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 Steinbeck2.T。

S。

Eliot3.Carl Sandburg4.F。

Scott Fitzgerald5.Harriet Beecher Stowe6.O’ Henry7.Thomas Paine8.Ernest Hemingway9.Ralph Waldo Emerson10.Nathaniel Hawthornea. A Farewell to Armsb. Common Sensec。

Uncle Tom’s Cabind. The Cop and the Antheme。

The Grapes of Wrathf. Fogg。

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockh. Naturei。

The Great Gatsbyj. 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. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole tha n did_______。

A.Puritanism B Romanticism C Rationalism D Sentimentalism2. Franklin wrote and published his famous__________， an annul collection of pr overbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard‘s Almanack C。

第二章吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》模拟试题及详解（二）I. Fill in the blanks1. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s masterpiece is ______.【答案】Uncle Tom’s Cabin【解析】比彻·斯托夫人（Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896）的名作长篇小说《汤姆叔叔的小屋》（Uncle Tom’s Cabin）是19世纪最畅销的小说（以及第二畅销的书，仅次于最畅销的书《圣经》）并被认为是刺激废奴主义于1850年代兴起的一大原因。

2. The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “_______”.【答案】The Gilded Age【解析】现实主义时期被马克吐温看作“镀金时代”。

3. Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “______”movement.【答案】imagism【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote ______, which has been called “the Manifesto ofA merican Transcendentalism,”and ______, which has been regarded as A merica’s “Declaration of Intellectual Independence.”【答案】Nature；“The A merican Scholar”【解析】爱默生的《论自然》被称为“美国超验主义的宣言”，其《美国学者》则被誉为美国知识分子的独立宣言。

5. William Bradford’s work ______ consists of two books. The first book deals with the persecutions of the Separatists in Scrooby, England, and the second book describes the signing of the “Compact”.【答案】MayflowerII. Multiple Choice1. Which ONE of the following is the author of The Leather-Stocking Tales?A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Edgar Allan PoeD. James Fennimore Cooper【答案】D【解析】James Fenimore Cooper（库柏），美国早期作家，The Leather-Stocking Tales （《皮裹腿故事集》）是他的经典之作。

外国文学史试题及答案一、选择题1.以下哪位作家是英国文学的代表人物?A. 陀思妥耶夫斯基B. 维克多·雨果C. 威廉·莎士比亚D. 弗朗索瓦·拉伯雷答案：C. 威廉·莎士比亚2.以下作品属于美国文学的是哪一部?A. 《战争与和平》B. 《老人与海》C. 《麦田里的守望者》D. 《安娜·卡列宁娜》答案：C. 《麦田里的守望者》3.以下哪位作家是法国文学的代表人物?A. 托马斯·曼B. 弗兰兹·卡夫卡C. 荷马D. 阿尔贝·加缪答案：D. 阿尔贝·加缪4.下列哪部作品是俄国文学的经典之作?A. 《安娜·卡列宁娜》B. 《麦田里的守望者》C. 《老人与海》D. 《战争与和平》答案：D. 《战争与和平》5.以下哪位作家与德国文学相关?A. 夏目漱石B. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡C. 威廉·莎士比亚D. 陀思妥耶夫斯基答案：B. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡二、简答题1.请简要描述意大利文艺复兴时期对文学发展的影响。

答案：意大利文艺复兴时期对文学发展影响深远。

首先，意大利文艺复兴时期重视古希腊、古罗马文化的复兴，人们开始重新研究古典文学作品，这使得古代文学作品重新受到重视并成为现代文学的重要源泉。

其次，意大利文艺复兴时期的人文主义思潮推动了人们对人性、人类价值和社会伦理的关注，这对后来欧洲的文学发展起到了重要的推动作用。

此外，意大利文艺复兴时期的艺术家和文学家们通过对古代希腊、罗马作品的研究与模仿，开展了大量的文学创作实践，推动了文学的多样性与创新。

2.阐述浪漫主义对欧洲文学的影响。

答案：浪漫主义对欧洲文学的影响巨大。

浪漫主义强调个体的内心体验、情感的自由流露和对自然、想象力的推崇，这对欧洲文学的形式和内容都产生了深远影响。

在浪漫主义的影响下，欧洲文学中出现了众多热情洋溢的感伤诗歌，作家们追求超凡脱俗、超越现实的主题和形式，文学作品中常常出现的浪漫情节、奇遇故事和对自然的描写，都是浪漫主义在欧洲文学中的表现。

201 3–201 4年第一学期武昌理工学院试题课程名称：美国文学名著选读适用专业班级：英语1101-1104班Part I. True or false statements. ( 10 points, 1 point for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 10 statements. Decide whether they are true or false; if they true, write T; if false, write F.1. Early in the sixth century, the English settlements in California and Massachusetts began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.2. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and journals of the native Indians.3. The colonies that became the first United States were for the most part English.4. At the initial period the spread of ideas of the American Enlightenment was largely due to journalism.5. Benjamin Franklin seemed to represent the age of reason and revolution in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change.6. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.7. Romantic writers in the 19th century placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.8. With a vast group of supporting characters, virtuous or villainous, James Fenimore Cooper made the America conscious of his past, and made the European conscious of America.9. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his first book, Nature, which met with a wild reception.10. All his literary life, Nathaniel Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.Part II. Multiple choices.(30 points, 1 point for each)1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement ofAmerica in the early 17th century through the end of ________ century.A. the 18thB. the 19thC. the 20thD. the 21st2. New-England’s Plantation was published in 1630 by ________A. Francis HigginsonB. William BradfordC. John SmithD. Michael Wigglesworth3. Of all the books the one written by Herman Melville is ________A. The Flesh and the SpiritB. Moby DickC. The True TravelsD. Christopher Columbus4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.A. Sugar ActB. American EnlightenmentC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. What style did the seventeenth century American poets adapt to the subject matter confronted in a strangely new environment?A. The style of their own.B. The style of established European poets.C. The style mixed with native-American and British tradition.D. The style mixed with English and American elements.6. During 1807-1808, Washingto n Irving wrote for his brother’s newspaper called________A. New York TimesB. Washington PostC. SalmagundiD. Daily News7. History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of ________A. Washington IrvingB. Diedrich KnickerbokerC. James Fenimore CooperD. John Whittier8. Rip Van Winkle was written by ________A. James Fenimore CooperB. Washington IrvingC. Benjamin FranklinD. Walt Whitman9. The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is a novel about________A. American Civil WarB. American RevolutionC. American West ExpansionD. The First World War10. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________A. The PrecautionB. Leatherstocking TalesC. The Gleanings in EuropeD. The Spy11. ________ was regarded as a poet of the American RevolutionA. Philip FreneauB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Cal Sandburg12. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson13. The Minister’s Black Veil was written by ________A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry David ThoreauD. Ralph Waldo Emerson14. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the ______ who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse15. The ship ______ 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.A. SunflowerB. MayflowerC. ArmadaD. Titanic16. A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.A. RealismB. Critical realismC. RomanticismD. Naturalism17. Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, Rip Van Winkle, from a________A. Greek legendB. German legendC. French legendD. English legend18. Rip Van Winkle is found in Irving’s longer work, ________A. History of New YorkB. The Sketch BookC. Tales of a TravelerD. The Precaution19. _____ was often regarded as America’s first man of letters, devoting much of hiscareer to literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Washington IrvingC. Philip FreneauD. James Fenimore Cooper20. All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales except ________A. The PioneersB. The SpyC. The DeerslayerD. The Prairie21. _____ defined realism as "nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”, and he best exemplified his theories in three novels. Choose them from the following.A. William Dean HowellsB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman22. Mark Twain created, in____________ , a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD. The Gilded Age23. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradstreetB. Emily DickinsonC. Jane AustenD. Harriet Beecher24. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the en-mass and the ___ as well.A. natureB. selfC. self-relianceD. life25. ___________is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A. Henry JamesB. Emily DickinsonC. William Dean HowellsD. Mark Twain26. ___________explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era.A. Innocents AbroadB. Roughing ItC. The Gilded AgeD. The Middle Years27. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. SentimentalismB. realismC.Romanticism C.D. naturalism28.Whitman‘s “There was a child went forth” is a poem aboutA. a soldier going into the battlefieldB.the birth of a new lifeC.a tragic boyhood experienceD.the growth of a child29. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman‘s poems are characterized by all the following features except they areA. conversational and crudeB.lyrical and well-structuredC.wimple and rather crudeD.free-flowing30.Who among the following is a poet of free verse?A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Herman MelvilleD. Theodore DreiserPart III. Short easy questions. (20 points, 5 points for each)1.What are the main features of Puritanism?2.What is the main plot of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? Summarize it in onesentence.3.What are the symbols used in The Scarlet Letter? List at least five of them.4.What is alliteration? Use examples to illustrate this.Part IV. Passage Identification. (10 points, 2 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 5 passages. Please give the name of the work for them.Passage 1Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the un-quenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it. A ghastly stage fright seized him, his legs quaked under him, and he was like to choke. True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house --- but he had the house' s silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy. The master frowned, and this completed the disaster. Tom struggled awhile and then retired, defeated.Work_________________________________________________________________ Passage 2We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness? That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.Work_________________________________________________________________Passage 3"Arms and the clarion for the battle, but the song of thanksgiving to the victory!" answered the liberated David. "Friend," he added, thrusting forth his lean, delicate hand forwards Hawkeye, in kindness, while his eyes twinkled and grew moist, " I thank thee the hairs of my head still grow where they were first rooted by Providence for, though those of other men may be more glossy and curling, I have ever found mine own well suited to the brain they shelter. That I did not join myself been to the battle, was less owing to disinclination, than to the bonds of the heathen. Valiant and skilful hast thou proved thyself in the conflict, and I hereby thank thee, before proceeding to discharge other and more important duties, because thou hast proved thyself well worthy of a Christian' s praise. "...Work_________________________________________________________________ Passage 4Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—Only this, and nothing more. "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had tried to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow -sorrow for the lost.Work_________________________________________________________________ Passage 5I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Work_________________________________________________________________ Part V. Appreciation. (10 points, 5 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are two excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by several questions. Read the excerpts and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.Part AIf nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same;The space between, is but an hour,The frail duration of a flower.Questions:1. Who is the poet of the poem and what is the title of the poem?2. Tell the rhyme scheme of the poem.Part BThe opinions of this Junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sundial. It is true he was rarely heard to speak, but smoked his pipe incessantly. His adherents, however (for every great man has his adherents), perfectly understood him, and knew how to gather his opinions. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation.From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquility of the assemblage and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.Questions:1. Who was the writer of this story? What is the title of this story?2. Who was Nicholas Vedder? How did he express his opinions on public matters? Part VI. Essay writing. (20 points)Directions : choose one from the following topics and write an essay within 100 words.1.One theme of American literary works is American Dream. Explain it andcomment it. You can use literary works as quotations if necessary.2.What do you know about Gothic style? Explain it from different aspects.3.What are the differences and similarities between American Realism andNaturalism?4.What are the differences and similarities between Walt Whitman and EmilyDickinson?。

二十世纪西方文学一、填空题1、西方文学的演进，大约经历了人与自然、（人与神）、（人与物）三个发展阶段。

3、现实主义的三个基本特征是（客观）（批判）和典型性。

4、（爱德华.福斯特）是作为一个小说家而在现代英国文学乃至世界文学中占有重要的地位的。

他一直同乔伊斯、劳伦斯和伍尔芙被称为20世纪英国最伟大的小说家。

5、高尔斯华绥的三个三部曲是（《福尔赛世家》）（《尾声》）和《现代喜剧》6、《樱桃园》《漂亮朋友》的作者是（莫泊桑）7、高尔基《母亲》中母亲名叫（尼罗夫娜）8、文学史上一个公认的事实是：（法国）是近现代欧洲一切艺术革命的策源地——19世纪的现实主义文学运动和象征主义诗歌运动都是从法国开始的，而后扩散到其他国家。

9、在20世纪欧美现代派文学中，（象征主义）是出现最早持续时间最长的影响最大的文学流派。

10、《青鸟》是（梅特林克）的代表作品。

11、西方文学界关于《城堡》主题内涵有三种理解：第一，犹太人长期漂泊而寻找精神家园；第二，（人类寻找上帝）。

第三，（人类追求真理和人生目的）。

12、意识流手法作为一种创作方法，扩大了文学的（心理）描写空间。

13、海明威在《午后之死》中说：“我总是按照（冰山）的原则来写作。

”14、《太阳照常升起》的主人公是（杰克·巴恩斯）。

15、（萨特）的戏剧常被称为“境遇剧”或“环境剧”。

16、戈和狄狄是（《等待戈多》）中的人物形象。

17、20欧美现实主义文学的基本特征是一，（人道主义内涵的新发展）二，（观察和描写的向内转移）三，（叙事形式的演进和分化）。

18、德国20世纪现实主义文学的代表作家首先当推亨利希·曼和托马斯·曼兄弟。

哥哥的《臣仆》和弟弟的《布登勃洛克一家》中许多细节都取自他们的个人经历和所熟悉的慕尼黑社会。

19、（西奥图.德莱塞）在美国20世纪初期的文坛上占有极为重要的地位。

他的代表作包括长篇小说《嘉丽妹妹》、《美国的悲剧》等。

20、（萧伯纳）是英国20世纪前期最有代表性的现实主义戏剧家，1925年的诺贝尔文学奖获得者。

英美文学选读-阶段测评4成绩：30分一、Multiple Choice 共 40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A、Theodore DreiserB、William FaulknerC、Henry JamesD、Mark Twain(P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。

被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。

标准答案：C考生答案：D本题得分：0 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A、love and natureB、death and universeC、death and immortalityD、family and happiness（P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。

标准答案：C考生答案：A本题得分：0 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分H.L.Mencken considered( )“the true father of our national literature”.A、Bret HarteB、Mark TwainC、Washington IrvingD、Walt Whitman(P477.para1)马克.吐温是美国文学巨匠，他以两部“历险记”创造可美国文学史上的一个奇迹，那就是开创了美国文学的一个新时代，所以将他誉为“真正的美国文学之父”。

Exercise TwoⅠ. Write the names of the authors.(10%)1. The Prince and the Pauper2. The Red Badge of Courage3. “A Clean, Well Lighted Room”4. Call of the Wild5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”6. “A Station at the Metro”7. “Fire and Ice”8. The Autobiography 9. “One’s Self I sing” 10. The Scarlet Letter. Fill in the following blanks . (10%) 1. In the novel , Hemingway described the dignity and courage of the commonpeople during the Spanish Civil War.2. was a great inventor, diplomat, and founding father of the United States ofAmerica.3. , the earliest well-known American naturalist writer, wrote a novel about theAmerican Civil War.4. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises , Hemingway became the spokesman for whatGertrude Stein had called “ ”.5. ____________________, writing well before the Modern Poetry movements of the 20thcentury, is often considered the “father of modern poetry.” . Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer.1. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true? A It is an early expression of naturalist writing. B It is full of symbolism.C It is argues the distinction between “sins of passion” and “sins of principle”D It is considered a “romance” by its writer because it shows fantastic events and does not limit itself to strict, literal reality.2. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.A International themeB Waste-land imageryC Local colorD Symbolism3. _____ was known as the founder of the American short story.A Washington IrvingB Mark TwainC Jack LondonD O. Henry4. Ezra Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______.A French symbolismB The Beat GenerationC confessional poetryD Imagism5. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A sentimentalismB romanticismC realismD naturalism6. 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.A blank verseB heroic coupleC free verseD iambic pentameter7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______.A The Jazz AgeB The Gilded AgeC The Roaring AgeD The Beat Age8. ___ wrote a series of historical novels set in the American Midwest and was known as “the American Sir Walter Scot.”A Nathaniel HawthorneB Mary RenaltD James Fenimore Cooper9. Hemi ngway’s ideal hero, who faced life, fate and death courageously, can be called the__ .A “lost generation” manB modern manC natural manD true individual10. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau.A JeffersonB EmersonC FreneauD Over-soul11. Which of the following writers influenced the development of French symbolist poetry?A Walt WhitmanB Edgar Allen PoeC Ezra PoundD Robert Frost12. Which famous graduation speech turned Transcendentalism into a major intellectual and literary movement?A The American ScholarB The Divinity School AddressC The Conduct of LifeD Representative Men13. Although her poems were never published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a major impact on 20th century poetry.A Anne BradstreetB Gertrude SteinC Emily DickinsonD Amy Lowell14. Which of the following fiction writers wanted to always live an active, masculine life and committed suicide in 1961, when he was too old to do so any more?A Mark TwainB Ernest HemingwayC Stephen CraneD Jack London15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?B Amy LowellC Edgar Allan PoeD Robert Frost(10%) 1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life. 2. Transcendentalism, in exalting feeling over reason and individual expression over therestraints of law and custom, very much reflects the spirit of Romanticism.3. The sound of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell over readers. His tone isawesome, sad and melancholy.4. Ezra Pound was famous not only for his own poetry but also as a translator of Chinesepoetry and other classical Chinese literature.5. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about the New England countryside.6. Ezra Pound’s poetry evoked the deeply personal world of a man who withdrew from theworld around him and spent most of his time in his room.7. In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of modernnarration.”8. Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing is death with dignityand courage.9. Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such as his pamphletCommon Sense , which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution. 10. William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy , written in 1789, is often call ed “the firstAmerican novel”. (20%) Passage OneThe 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.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? _______________2. What is the title of this poem? _______________3. Why does the writer repeat the last line?4.What kind of feeling does this stanza show? How does the writer show it in the poem as a whole?5.Why do people say that this writer’s poems show traditional form and content combinedwith modern theme and feeling?Passage 2The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large 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 of belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication.Questions:1.This passage is from , written by .2.Who is the woman being described? What does this description tell about change inculture over a period of time?答案I．Write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Mark Twain2.Stephen Crane3.Ernest Hemingway4.Jack London5.Washington Irving6.Ezra Pound7.Robert Frost8.Benjamin Franklin9.Walt Whitman10.Nathaniel HawthorneII．Fill in the following blanks. (2*5=10%)1.For Whom the Bell Tolls2.Benjamin Franklin3.Stephen Crane4.the lost generation5.Walt WhitmanⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriateanswer. (1*15=15%)IV. Decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Identify the following fragments and then answer questions. (20%)Passage 11.The writer of the poem is Robert Frost. (1)2.The poem is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1)3.Doing so emphasizes the writer’s “modern” theme of urgency; it also completes the form,which is a quatrain or four line per verse poem. (2)4.Discuss loneliness, urgency and the sense of a “tame” nature that is somehow far fromfriendly and easy to control. (4)5.Discuss the contrast between the traditional use of rhyme and meter, pastoral setting etc.and how Frost transforms these forms with modern feelings and themes. (4)Passage 21.This part if from the novel The Scarlet Letter, (1分) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.(1分)2.The woman is Hester. The answer relates to the writer’s use of historical perspective,and his theory that the ideal of a “lady” has changed over time, from the strong, earthyideal of the Elizabethan period and shortly after to a weaker, more ethereal ideal by thetime he wrote. (6分)VI. Write about 150 words to comment on Mark Twain, his style, content, and contributions to American Literature. (20%)∙Pay special attention to his place in realism, his humor, his use of local color and role in regional literature and how he helped to create a genuinely “American” literary language.VII. Write about 120 words to comment on Ezra Pound’s contribution to American Poetry of twenty century. (15%)∙Ezra Pound is regarded, and rightly, as the father of modern American poetry. Impatient with the fetters of English traditional poetics, he led the experiment in revolutionizingpoetry. It was he who first discovered T. S. Eliot and blue-penciled the latter’s famouspoem, The Waste Land. It was he who helped William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, D. H.Lawrence, and William Carlos Williams in their literary careers. And he survived themall, writing continually right up to his death. Pound’s contribution to the development of modern poetry is very great.。

自考美国文学选读试题_浙江省2009年4月自考试卷浙江省2009年4月自考美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A( )1. James F. Cooper( )2. Washington Irving( )3. Herman Melville( )4. Emily Dickinson( )5. Mark TwainGroup 2Column A( )6. Charles Drouet( )7. Homer Barron( )8. Yank( )9. Mrs. Phelps( )10. Tom BuchananPart Ⅱ: Select from the four choices A, B, C and D of each itemthe one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)11. Being a period of the flowering of American literature, the Romantic period is also called “_____”.( )A. the American RenaissanceB. the English RenaissanceC. the Harlem RenaissanceD. the Second Renaissance12. With a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good” of the whole nation, a spectacular outburst of _____ was brought about in the first half of the 19th century in the history of America.( )A. classic feelingB. romantic feelingC. nationalistic feelingD. realistic feeling13. With such a surge of exalting the individual and the common man throughout the United States in the middle of the 19th century, Freneau showed a great interest in external nature in his works. The literary use of the more colorful aspects of the past could be found in Philip Freneau’s use of the “_____”.( )A. ruins of human beingsB. ruins of AmericansC. ruins of empireD. ruins of common people14. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage had exertedgreat influences over American Romanticism. One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to _____ than their English and European counterparts.( )A. idealizeB. moralizeC. classicizeD. realize15. In the period of Romanticism in the history of American literature, Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far. The two writers are( )A. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt WhitmanB. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David ThoreauC. James F. Cooper and Henry David ThoreauD. James F. Cooper and Walt Whitman16. New England Transcendentalism is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature. And the chief spokesman of this spiritual movement is( )A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow17. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature ofWashington Irving?( )A. He was regarded as Father of the American short stories.B. His taste was essentially conservative.C. He had the honor of “the American O’ Henry”.D. He has been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style tha t American Literature ever produced”.18. In his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne fully displayed all the following EXCEPT( )A. his remarkable sense of the Puritan past.B. his understanding of the colonial history in Deep South.C. his apparent preoccupation with the moral issues of sin and guilt.D. his keen psychological analysis of people.19. Herman Melville had written many sea adventure stories, among which _____ proves to be the best.( )A. TypeeB. OmooC. RedburnD. Moby-Dick20. Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of _____, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.( )A. the democratic idealsB. the religious idealsC. the romantic idealsD. the self-reliance spirits21. Which of the following statements about the three dominant figures in the history of American literature is right? ( ) A. Henry James had laid a great emphasis on the “inner world” of man.B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Europeans.C. Howells focused his discussion on the lower class and the way they lived.D. Twain preferred to have the other regions and people at the forefront of his stories.22. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language? ( )A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct.B. His sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical.C. His characters speak with a strong accent, which is true of his local colorism.D. His style of language was later exerted little influence on his descendants.23. Mark Twain’s late works unmistakably shaved his change from an optimist and _____ to an almost despairingdeterminister.( )A. realistB. romanticistC. humoristD. pessimist24. “I confess I do not care to judge any work of the imagination without first applying this test to it. We must ask ourselves before anything else, Is it true?—true to the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the life of actual men and women?” This principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life comes from ( )A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. William Dean HowellsD. Theodore Dreiser25. In which of the following novels can you find the proper names “Winterbourne”, “Giovanelli”, and “Randolph”?( )A. Daisy MillerB. The Turn of the ScrewC. The Middle YearsD. The Death of a Lion26. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of Henry James’ literary techniques?( )A. stream-of-consciousnessB. narrative “point of view”C. psychological realismD. local colorism27. The little poem I like to see it lap the Miles— is generally regarded as an interesting study of how Dickinson makes the train part of _____ by animalizing it.( )A. natureB. manC. loveD. death28. Sigmund Freud’s inter pretation of dreams and the theories of _____ have infused modern American literature and made it possible for most of the writers in the modern period to probe into the inner world of human reality. ( )A. William James’ “stream of consciousness” and Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious”B. Carl Jung’s “stream of consciousness” and William James’ “collective unconscious”C. William James’ “archetypal symbol” and Carl Jung’s “individual consciousness”D. Carl Jung’s “archetypal symbol” and William James’ “individual consciousness”29. Chinese poetry and philosophy had exerted great influence on ( )A. Robert FrostB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Ralph Waldo Emerson30. O’Neill’s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when _____ was in full swing.( )A. SymbolismB. RealismC. ExpressionismD. Surrealism31. In Robert Frost’s famous poem “After Apple-Picking”, there are four lines like these: “Were he no t gone, /The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his, /Long sleep, as I describe its coming on. /Or just some human sleep.” The human sleep refers to ( )A. deathB. calmness of the spiritC. fall into sleepD. memory of experience32. Among Faulkner’s four masterpieces, _____ is a story of “lost innocence,” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.( )A. Go Down, MosesB. Absalom, Absalom!C. Light in AugustD. The Sound and the Fury33. Which of the following statements can be said about the writing styles of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a most representative figure of the 1920s?( )A. His style is complex and warm.B. His dialogue is subtle and quite difficult to grasp.C. His observation of mannerism, models and attitudes provide the reader with a vivid sense of unreality.D. He follows the Jamesian tradition in using the scenic methodin his chapters.34. Compared with earlier writings, especially those of the 19th century, modern American writings are notable for what they omit. A typical modern work will NO longer one of the following as its trademark, that is, a ( )A. record of sequence and coherence.B. book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience.C. juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory.D. book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and without solution.35. _____ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero——Nick Adams.( )A. The Sun Also RisesB. The Old Man and the SeaC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. In Our TimePart Ⅲ. InterpretationRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)36. “In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, —no disgrace, no calamity,(leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, —my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, —all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. In this quoted part the author used the remarkable image of a transparent eyeba ll and a powerful analogy between “I”. Please make a brief comment on the symbolic relationship between “eyeball” and “I”.37. “Terrible!” said that little lady, joining her. “I hope it snows enough to go sleigh riding.”“Oh, dear,” said Carrie, with whom the sufferings of Father Goriot were still keen. “That’s all you think of. Aren’t you sorry for the people who haven’t anything tonight?”“Of course I am,” said Lola; “but what can I do? I haven’t anything.”Carrie smiled.Questions:A. Identify the author and the novel.B. Briefly interpret the contrast of the feelings of the two ladies towards the poor.38. “The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.The paired butterflies are already yellow with August,Over the grass in the West garden;They hurt me. I grow older.If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang, Please let me know beforehand,And I will come out to meet youAs far as Cho-fu-Sa.”Questions:A. This stanza comes from Ezra Pound’s The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter. From which Chinese poet is this poem translated?B. How does the speaker communicate with her husband?39. “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Roll-Royce became an omnibus, bearing partiesto and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.”Questions:A. Identify the narrator and the novel from which this passage is taken.B. “Moths” in the second line is metaphorically used. What does it refer to?Part Ⅳ. Topic DiscussionGive brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding space. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)40. How does Huck, a boy with rebellious spirit, come to be a real hero in the reader’s mind? Please give a brief analysis of the character Huckleberry Finn.41. In Hemingway’s Indian Camp, the hero Nick witnessed the birth of a baby and the simultaneous suicide of the infant’s father. For Nick, the night journey to the camp has all the possibilities of a learning experience. How important is Nick’sexperience at the Indian Camp to his initiation into the world?。