云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五

《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》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 姓名题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 总分分数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%)得分得分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 takingsoundings, 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 commonspeech, 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 Americanwriter.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 得分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 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 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 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 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得分statements are true or false. (10%)1 All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil inlife.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 negativecommentary 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 thatman 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 toreturn 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 aJeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressedby 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.20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”.V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the 得分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%)得分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 theauthors. (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%)1 B2 D3 A4 B5 D6 A7 B8 C9 A 10 A11 C 12 B 13 D 14 B 15 AIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)1 T2 F3 T4 T5 F6 T7 T8 F9 F 10 T11 T 12 F 13 T 14 F 15 T16 T 17 F 18 T 19 F 20 TV. 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 of theclassics 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. Ebe n kills the infant in Desire un der the Elm and con fesses his crime in theend 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 un bearable.(T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter , published in 1850, is an American novel written by Natha niel Hawthor ne and is gen erally con sidered to be his represe ntativework.(F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, andleader of 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, andthe spirit of America n life in the sec ond half of the 20 th cen tury.(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.great in flue nee on Theodore Dreiser (T) 12. The setti ng of The Floweri ng Judas is the Mexiea n Revolution is the 1920s.(F ) 13. Fitzgerald ' s fietional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of theroma ntie period.(F ) 14. William Faulkner ' s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moralin the America n 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 thespokesma n of the lost gen erati on.(T ) 17. The no vel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love.(F ) 18. The famous poem “ A Psalm of Life ” was writte n by Edgar Alle n Poe.(F ) 19. “ The Raven ” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.(F ) 20. Toni Morris onwas awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her no vel The Bluest Eye .Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)a. Ars Poetica(f ) 3. William Faulk ner(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane publishedMaggie: A Girl of Street , which exerted s realism.II. Writers: (g ) 1. Benjam in Fran kli n (d ) 2. T oni Morrison Works:g. Poor Richard ' s Almanac(h ) 9. William Carlos Williams i. An ders on the Rain Kingb. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets III. Identify the following by choosing the author ' s name and the name ofthe works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. And now I speak of tha nking God, I desire with all humility to ack no wledge that I owe the men tioned happ in ess of my past life to his kind provide nee, which led me to the means I used and gavethem success. My belief of this in duces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in con ti nuing that happ in ess, or en abli ng me to bear afatal reverse, which I may experie nee as others have done, the complexion of my future fortune beingknown to him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflict ions.Author : A. William Faulk ner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby (a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish c. Twice-told Tales(c ) 5. Natha niel Hawthor ne d. Beloved(e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Lon gfellow e. A Psalm of Life(b ) 7. Stephen Cranef. Bar n Burning(j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter h. Paters on(i ) 10. Saul Bellow The Floweri ng Judas2.It must be un derstood that n either by word nor deed had I give n Fort un ato cause to doubt my goodwill. I con ti nued as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOWwas at the thought of hisimmolatio n.Author : A. William Faulk ner B. Edgar Alla n Poe C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : 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 orcharity, much as they would pay a fine inexpiati on of daily non-appeara nee on parade. Their works are done as anapology or exte nu ati on of their liv ing in the world, -- as in valids and theinsane pay a high board. Their virtues are penan ces. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My lifeis for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower stra in, so it begenuine and equal, tha n that it should be glittering and unsteady.Author : A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulk ner C. Ralph W. Emers onWork : A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-relianee4.The door of the jail being flung ope n from with in there appeared, in thefirst place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristlyprese nee of the tow n-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of officein his hand. This pers on age prefigured and represe nted in his aspect the whole dismal severity ofthe Purita nic code of law, which it was his bus in ess to administer in its final and closestapplication to the offender. Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his rightupon the shoulder of a young woma n, whom he thus drew forward, un til, on the threshold of theprison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, andstepped into the open air as if by her own free will.Author : A. Natha niel Hawthorne B. William Faulk ner C. Emily Dicke nsonWork : A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfullysurm oun ti ng one wave you discover that there is ano ther beh ind it just as importa nt and just as n ervously an xious to do someth ing effective in the way of swamp ing boats. In a ten-foot din geyone can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to theaverage experie nee which is n ever at sea in a din gey. As each slatey wall of water approached, itshut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagi ne that thisparticular wave was the final outburst ofthe ocea n, the last effort of the grim water.Author : A. Henry James B. William Faulk ner C. Stephe n CraneWork : A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6.Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushi on on her forehead where theforked gree n vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. “ Now, now, be agood girl, and we ' ll have you up in no time. ”Author : A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Lo ngfellow C. Katheri ne Anne PorterWork : A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7.But all this part of it seemed remote and un esse ntial. I found myself onGatsby ' s side, and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Eggvillage, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me. At first I wassurprised and con fused; the n, as he lay in his house and did n ' t move or breathe or speak,hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was resp on sible, because no oneelse was in terested —in terested, I mean, with that i nte nse pers onal in terestto which every one has some vague right at the end.Author : A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Lo ngfellowWork : 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 smelled ofcheese. The boy, crouched on his n ail keg at the back of the crowded room,knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the letteringwhich meantnothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fish…Author : A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulk ner C. Robert FrostWork : A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9.It was late and every one had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of thetree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at ni ght the dewsettled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at ni ght it was quiet and he felt the differe nee. The two waiters in side the cafe knew that the old manwas a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he wouldleave without pay ing, so they kept watch on him.Author : A. Wallace Steve ns B. William Faulk ner C. Ernest Hemi ngwayWork : A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10.CABOT--Thu nder 'n 'light nin', Abbie! I hai n'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 gitt in' old. I hope Ebe n's t' wuk. Ye might've tuk the trouble t' rouseme, Abbie. (He turns--sees no one there-surprised ) Waal--whar air she?Gitt in' vittles, I calc'late. ( He tiptoes to the cradle and peers dow n--proudly )Mornin', sonny. Putty's a picter! Sleep in' sound. He don't beller all ni ght like most o' 'em. (Hegoes quietly out the door in rear--a few moments laterenters kitchen--sees Abbie--with satisfaction ) So thar ye be. Ye got anyvittles cooked?Author : A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O ' neill C. Saul BellowWork : A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looki ng for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the follow ing: 20%1.2.3.Like those Nicea n barks of yore4.(4%)V. Rewrite the followi ng into moder n En glish: 10%Of physiology from top to toe I sing.Not physiog nomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say theForm complete is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I si ng.Of Life imme nse in passi on, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form ' d under the laws divine,The Moder n Man I sing.I si ng for physiology from top to toe. Neither looks alone nor in tellige nce 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 moder n man of their life full of passi on, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed un der the divi ne laws.VI. Comme nt: 20%1.The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when ven tured upon in sult Ihe vowed reven ge. You, who so well know the n ature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave uttera nce to a threat. At len gth I would be aven ged; this was a point defi nitely settled ——but the very defi nitive ness with whichit was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punishwith imp uni ty. A wrong is un redressed whe n retributi on overtakes its redresser. It is equally un redressed whe n the aven ger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wron g. It must be un derstood that n either by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, tosmile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolatio n.An swer the follow ing questi ons:(1)Who is the n arrator? 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 sple ndor in accorda nce with the taste of the age, but greatly bey ond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulati ons of the colony.An swer the follow ing questi ons:(1)What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of the letterA so 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 len gth as to be read atone sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression.(F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literaryadvocates in Jeffers on and Thoreau.(T ) 3. Williams ' poem “ The Red Wheelbarrow ” is considered anexample of the Imagist movement's style and principles.(F ) 4. Sime on and Peter are the farm owners in Desire un der the Elms . (T ) 5. The quotati on —“ Whatsoever thy hand fin deth to do, do it withthy 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 Purita n Bost on in the seve ntee nth cen tury, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committi ng adultery, refuses to n amethe father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.(F ) 8. Fran kli n says that because his wife may wish to know about hislife, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countrysideto record his past.(F ) 9. The jar in “ An ecdote of the Jar ” symbolizes social regulatio n.(F ) 10. In “ The Cask of Amontillado ” , Fortunato decides to useMontresor ' s fondness for wine against him.(T ) 11. Stephen Crane ' s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story of agood woman ' s downfall and destruction in a slum environment.(T ) 12. Katheri ne Anne Porter is characterized by her employme nt of the stream of con sciousness to probe into the inner world of huma n reality.(T ) 13. F Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of theJazz Age.(F ) 14. The Sou nd and the Fury won O He nry Award in 1939 and is con sidered as the representative of his short story.(T ) 15. In the no vel The Old Man and the Sea , Hem in gway portrayed an old man shows triumpha nt eve nt in defeat.(T ) 16. Hem in gway ' s no vel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole gen erati on, the lost gen erati on.(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 Scienee ” , Poe praised scienee for it emancipated the poet ' simagination.(T ) 19. Emers on has great in flue nee on Emily Dick inson ' s poems.(T ) 20. Toni Morris on is the first America n black woma n who wins theNobel Prize.V. Match the followi ng writers andfor each item)Writers: equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumsta nces oftheir works: 10% (One poi nt Works:(j ) 1. Walt Whiteman a. The Man with the Blue Guitar(b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe b. The Rave n(f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Desire un der the Elms(h ) 4. F Scott Fitzgerald d. For Whom the Bell Tolls(a ) 5. Wallace Steve ns e. Fine Clothes to the Jew(i ) 6. Joseph Heller f. Nature(c ) 7. Eugene Glastone O ' Neill g. The Lea ning Tower(d ) 8. Ern est Hemi ngway h. The Side of Paradise(g ) 9. Katheri ne Anne Porter i. God Knows(e ) 10. Lan gst on Hughes j. Leaves of GrassVI. Ide ntify the follow ing by choos ing the author s n ame 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 theremai ns of my relati ons whe n you were with me in En gla nd, andthe journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may bemy life, many of which you are yet un acqua in ted with, andexpect ing the enjo yme nt of a week's unin terrupted leisure in my prese nt countryretireme nt, I sit dow n to write them for you. To which I have besides some other in duceme nts.Author : A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph WaldoEllis onWork : A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one toFortunato bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into thevaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, request ing him to be cautious as he followed.We came at le ngth to the foot of the desce nt, and stood togetheron the damp ground of the catacombs of the Mon tresors.Author : A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellis onWork : A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C. TheAutobiography3.The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead toyou is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression ofyour character. If you maintain a dead church,con tribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the governmentor against it, spread your table like basehousekeepers, -- un der all these scree ns I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But doyour work, and I shallknow you. Do your work, and you shall rein force yourself. A man must con sider what a bli ndma n's-buff is this game of con formity.Author : A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emers onWork : A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-relianee4.The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect eleganee on alarge scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshinewith a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexi on, had the impressive ness bel onging to a marked browand 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 thedelicate, evanescent, and in describable grace which is now recog ni sed as its indicati on. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antiqueinterpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.Author : A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dicke nsonWork : A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5.In disjoin ted senten ces the cook and the corresp ondent argued asto the differenee between a life-saving station and a house ofrefuge. The cook had said: "There's a house of refuge just n orth of the MosquitoInlet 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 Faulk ner C. Stephe n Crane Work : A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6. “ Get along and doctor your sick, ”said Granny Weatherall.“Leave a well woman alone. I ' ll call for you when I want you Where were you forty years ago whe n I pulled through milk-legand double pneumonia? You weren ' t even born. Don ' t letCornelia lead you on, ” she shouted, because Doctor Harryappeared to float up to the ceili ng 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 JollyCorner7.It was Gatsby ' s father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up ina long cheap ulster against the warm September day. His eyes leaked continuously withexcitement,and whe n I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he bega n to pull so in cessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldn ' t eat, and the glass of milkspilled from his trembli ng hand.Author : A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. LongfellowWork : A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8."Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckon an ybody n amed forColonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they?" The boysaid nothing. En emy! En emy! he thought; for a mome nt he could not eve n see, couldnot see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice wastroubled whe n he spoke to the man n amed Harris: "Do you wantme to question this boy?" But he could hear, and during those subseque nt long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over aravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant ofmesmerized 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 the coun ter in side thecafe and marched out to the old man's table.He put dow n the saucer and poured the glass full of bran dy. Thewaiter took the bottle back in side the cafe. He sat dow n at thetable with his colleague aga in.Hemi ngwayWork : A. Death of a Salesman Recitatif10. ABBIE--( sudde Author : A. Wallace Steve nsB. William Faulk nerC. ErnestB.A Clea n, Well-lighted PlaceC.nly 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'lieve me!(Cabot stares at her a second, then bolts out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs, and rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk backlifelessly into her former positi on. Cabot puts his hand dow n on the body in the crib. An expressi on of fearand 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 ____ b ee2.3.Petals _ on a wet, black bough . (3%)4. So much _ dependsuponwaterbesides the _________ whitechicke ns (5%)V. Rewrite the followi ng into moder n En glish: 10%Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.And be one traveler, l ong I stoodAnd looked dow n one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And hav ing perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wan ted wear;Though as for that pass ing thereHad worn them really about the same.In a yellow wood, I could see two roads diverged, but I felt sorry becauseI could not walk on both of them. As a traveler, I stood there for a long time and tried to look down one road as far as I could to the place where it cha nged the directi on 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 footpri nts.me nt: 20%1.None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes gla need level, andwere fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waveswere 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 horiz on n arrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.Whe n it came ni ght, the white waves paced to and fro in the moon light,and the wind brought the sound of the great sea ' s voice to the men onshore, and they felt that they could the n be in terpreters.An swer the follow ing questi ons:(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 some one who can use it. Don ' t let good thi ngs rot for want of using. You waste life whe n 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 whe n I am tired and tak ing a little nap before supper •…An swer the follow ing questi ons:(1)What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family?(5%)(2)What do you see from behi nd 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 for youin 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 ope ns with a letter to DorothyJames, Fran kli n's wife.(T ) 3. In “The Cask of Amontillado ” , Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fort un ato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby trapp ing Fort un ato in side forever.(F ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen of Hawthor ne ' s chilli ng, cold-blooded huma n ani mals.(T ) 5. The lines —“ A poem should not mea n / But be ” comes from“Ars Poetica ” by MacLeish.(T ) 6. O ' Neill ' s great purpose was to try and discover the root of humandesires and frustrati ons. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seekingmeaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappo in tme nt.(T ) 7. Catch-22 combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to 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. Emers on is the men tor to Thoreau.(T ) 11. In The Ope n Boat , Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat naturaldisasters with n atural and impressio ni stic approaches.(T ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers.(F ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920sdecade in his masterpiece no vel Ten der is the Night.(F ) 14. The n arrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character n amed NickCarraway, who is also a participa nt in the eve nt.(F ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the PulitzerPrize in 1954 and 1962.(T ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway ' s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “ the lost generation ” .(T ) 17. Hemingway ' s writing style, together with his theme and hero, isgreatly and perma nen tly in flue need by his experie nee in the war.(F ) 18. In Walt Whiteman ' s poem “O Captain! My Captain! ” , captain refers to Preside nt Lineol n.(F ) 19. Emily Dick inson ' s poetic idiom is no ted for obscure.(F ) 20. Inv isible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class strivefor their ide ntity.VIII.Match the followi ng writers and for each item)Writers:(a ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emers on(e ) 2. Robert Frost(i ) 3. Saul Bellowtheir works: 10% (One poi nt(b ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison(j ) 6. Ezra Pou nd(d ) 7. Ern est Hemi ngway(f ) 8. Emily Dicki nso n(c ) 9. Katheri ne Anne Porter。

美国⽂学期末考试试卷及答案精品2009 — 2010 学年第⼀学期《美国⽂学》期末考试试卷（A 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 of the authors. (10%)1. Octopus ( )2. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( )3. Babbitt ( )4. White Fang ( )5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( )6. My Antonia ( )7. “Birches” ( )8. Poor Richard’s Alma nac ( )9. Light in August ( )10. Twice Told Tales ( )11. The Declaration of Independence ( )12. “Rip Van Winkle ”( )13. Nature ( )14. The Song of Hiawatha ( )15. Uncle Tom ’s Cabin ( )16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( )17. Sister Carrie ()18. The Waste Land ( )19. For Whom the Bell Tolls ( )20. The Emperor Jones ( )(10%)1._________________________was one of the founders of theJamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies.2.__________________________was a determined revolutionary whosework helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, but who lost his popularity long before his death.3.The term refers to the group of people, some of themimportant to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic.4.________________________was an early form of horror fiction thatoriginated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period.5._____________________________, known for her deeply personalpoems and radically different poetic themes and form, didn’t achieve fame as a poet until long after her death.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 entitled the “Father of AmericanPoetry.8._______________________was the first great prose stylist ofAmerican romanticism, author of the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the history of American literature.9._____________________is the first American professional writer andthe first writer of the detective story in the world.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it stringsthe incidents on the line of the hero’s travel.Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as themost appropriate answer. (30%)1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became know as the “______” who appeared in America.A Ninth MuseB Tenth MuseC Best MuseD First Muse2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature.A purple proseB waste-land imageryC local colorD symbolism3. The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to a relatively large literate Black readership wasknown as_____.A The HolocaustB The Harlem RenaissanceC AbolitionismD The Civil Rights Movement4. _______ was a leading 19th century feminist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement.A Margaret FullerB Sylvia PlathC Hilda DoolittleD Gloria Stein5. Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry?A gushing sentimentalism and comfortable imagesB abandonment of earlier verse formsC use of free verseD an effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing world6. Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20th century American poets?A Ezra PoundB Walt WhitmanC Robert FrostD Allen Ginsburg7. 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. Which is true of the “Fireside Poets”?A They were generally strongly in favor of abolishing slavery.B They were deeply involved in the Transcendentalist movement.C They were a group of 19th century New England poets who weretremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote.D They opposed to tradition and were in favor of radical change.9. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel ________.A The Old Man and the SeaB For Whom the Bell TollsC The Sun Also RisesD A Farewell to Arms10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to _______.A The highest ranking of the Hindu castes.B A movement that emerged from rebellion against Puritan religious ideas and systems.C A group of New England writers known for their scholarship and/or conservative philosophy.D A school of imaginative writing.11. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous proverbs?A “A stitch in time saves nine”B “God helps those who help themselves”C “A Friend in need is a friend indeed”D “Ask not who the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee”12. ___________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.A RomanticismB RealismC NaturalismD Modernism13. Although few of her poems were 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 writers died a natural death in his old age?A Jack LondonB Ernest HemingwayC Stephen CraneD Mark Twain15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?A Henry Wordsworth LongfellowB Amy LowellC Ezra PoundD Robert FrostIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether thestatements are true or false. (10%)1.Hawthorne was a firm believer in Puritan principles and mourned their passing in his works.2.Frederick Douglas was a major 19th century black writer.。