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英美文学在线作业2-0002The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.A:the 17th century … the American War of IndependenceB:the 18th century … the American Civil WarC:the 17th century … the American Civil WarD:the 18th century … the U.S. – Mexican War正确选项：BThe one who translated Homer’s epics into English isA:ShakespeareB:MarloweC:ChapmanD:Sidney正确选项：C“The Forsyte Saga” is a trilogy by _______.A:John GalsworthyB:Thomas HardyC:Charles DickensD:H. Lawrence正确选项：AFielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel . A:Best writer of the English novelB:Father of the English novelC:the most gifted writer of the English novelD:conventional writer of English novel正确选项：B“In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and uponawaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana areform .A:Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB:William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC:Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D:John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”正确选项：AHere are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?A:Simile．B:Metonymy．C:Pun．D:Synecdoche．正确选项：CWhich of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of20th century literature?A:Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"B:Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.C:Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".D:Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis正确选项：C“Drive my dead thought over the universeLike withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?A:Synecdoche.B:Metaphor.C:Simile.D:Onomatopoeia.正确选项：CDaisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by itsnarration from the point of view of_______ .A:the author Henry JamesB:the Italian youth GiovanelliC:the American youth WinterbourneD:her mother Mrs. Miller正确选项：CLe Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story exceptA:search for CupB:life of King ArthurC:fight against Roman invasionD:illicit love正确选项：Cthe most significant idea of the Renaissance is____.A:humanismB:realismC:naturalismD:skepticism正确选项：AG.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the_______ in the English society.A:slum landlordismB:inequality between men and womenC:political corruptionD:economic exploitation of women正确选项：DOne of the following events played an important part in Chaucer’s writing:A:his marriage with a girl of noble familyB:his visit to ItalyC:his duty as a controller of the CustomsD:his participation in the Hundred Years’ War正确选项：BWhose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?A:Singer‘sB:Salinger‘sC:Vonnegut‘s正确选项：Bprovides the main source of influence on American naturalism.A:The puritan heritageB:Howells’ ideas of realismC:Darwin’s theory of evolutionD:The pioneer spirit of the wild west正确选项：CThe novelist who was born in Poland wroteA:The portrait of A LadyB:A Passage to IndiaC:The Heart of DarknessD:Dubliners正确选项：C“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .A:John KeatsB:William BlakeC:William WordsworthD:Percy Bysshe Shelley正确选项：AMetaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantasticalA:mysticismB:romanticismC:lyricismD:decadence正确选项：A_______is the essence of the Renaissance.A:IndividualismB:ReasonC:IrrationalismD:Humanism正确选项：DIn Mark Twain’s The Adventu res of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter toinform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. Thisfact reveals that .A:Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hateB:there is a conflict between society and conscience in HuckC:Huck is always an indecisive personD:Huck has very little education正确选项：BWilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .A:错误B:正确正确选项：BPuritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on the writing of Hawthorne .A:错误B:正确正确选项：BAs a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .A:错误B:正确正确选项：AOn one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.A:错误B:正确正确选项：BNeo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.A:错误B:正确正确选项：AThe Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.A:错误B:正确正确选项：BMarlowe mainly wrote tragedies .A:错误B:正确正确选项：BMark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .A:错误B:正确正确选项：BThe Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby .A:错误B:正确正确选项：BThe story of Catch–22 develops chronologically in a traditional structure .A:错误B:正确正确选项：BIrving was best known for his short stories such as Rip Van Winkle . A:错误B:正确正确选项：BAccording to Emerson , man is divine in nature .A:错误B:正确正确选项：BThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .A:错误B:正确正确选项：AOne of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.A:错误B:正确正确选项：BThe protagonist of Catch–22 is called Herzog .A:错误B:正确正确选项：AThe pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.A:错误B:正确正确选项：AEssays of Elia was written by Mary Lame when she worked in East India House.A:错误B:正确正确选项：AAll My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .A:错误B:正确正确选项：AShakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.A:错误B:正确正确选项：BThe poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.A:错误B:正确正确选项：A。

美国文学简史精读笔记The coming of Imagism1.the first Imagisttheorist, the English writer T.E. Hulme(休姆）Imagism （意向主义）(1)Imagism came into being in Britain and US around 1910 as a reaction to the traditional English poetry to express the sense of fragmentation and dislocation.（2）The Imagists, with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the most effective means to express these momentary impressions is through the use of one dominantimage.(3)Imagism is characterized by the following three poetic principles: i) directtreatment of subject matter; ii) economy of expression; iii) as regards rhythm,to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence ofmetronome; iv) Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro isa well-known imagist poem.the third phase ofImagism (1914-1917) :the representative: Amy Lowell——Aymgism (艾米主义）；Vorticism(漩涡主义）The influence ofancient Chinese poetry upon imagistsEzra Pound (爱兹拉·庞德）Cathay (1915)《中国》avolume of Chinese translation.He blue-penciled The Waste Land《荒原》the most significant American poem of the twentieth century.Cantos 《诗章》，a modern epic Pound’smajor work of poetry。

《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.。

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绪论单元测试1【判断题】(50分) Wecandefineliteratureaslanguageartisticallyusedtoachieveidentifiableliteraryqualitiesan dtoconveymeaningfulmessages.（）A.错B.对2【多选题】(50分)Hopefully,therearethreeveryhelpfulapproachestothestudyofit:namely(),(),().A.NoneoftheotherchoicesB.analyticalapproachC.thematicapproachD.historicalapproach第一章测试1【单选题】(10分) ThemostenduringshapinginfluenceinAmericanthoughtandAmericanliteraturewas().A.IdealismB.TranscendentalismC.AmericanPuritanismD.Enlightenment2【单选题】(10分) ThecommonthreadthroughoutAmericanliteraturehasbeentheemphasisonthe().A.revolutionismB.individualismC.reasonD.rationalism3【单选题】(10分)DuringtheReasonandRevolutionPeriod,AmericanswereinfluencedbytheEuropeanmove mentcalledthe().A.EnlightenmentMovementB.ModernistMovementC.ChartistMovementD.RomanticistMovement4【单选题】(10分)ThomasJefferson’sattitude,thatis,afirmbeliefinprogress,andthepursuitofhappiness,istypi caloftheperiodwenowcall().A.AgeofEvolutionB.AgeofReasonC.AgeofRomanticismD.AgeofRegionalism5【判断题】(10分) ThesettlementoftheNorthAmericancontinentbytheEnglishbeganintheearlypartofthe16th century.()A.对B.错6【判断题】(10分) BenjaminFranklinseemedtorepresenttheageofreasonandrevolutioninhisparadoxicalfaith inbothsocialorderandinnaturalrights,inloveofstabilityanddevotiontorevolutionarychange.（）A.错B.对7【判断题】(10分) CommonSenseboldlyadvocatedaDeclarationofIndependence.（）A.错B.对8【判断题】(10分) PhilipFreneauwasthemostimportantwriterinAmericanpoetryofthe18thcentury.（）A.对B.错9【多选题】(10分) WhichofthefollowingstirredtheworldandhelpedformtheAmericanRepublic?()A.TheAmericanCrisisB.TheAutobiographyC.TheFederalistD.DeclarationofIndependence10【多选题】(10分)Whoarenotconsideredasthe“PoetofAmericanRevolution”?()A.PhilipFreneauB.WaltWhitmanC.AnneBradstreetD.EdwardTaylor第二章测试1【单选题】(10分)In（）,Hawthornesetsouttoprovethateveryonepossessessomeevilsecrets.A.TheMinister’sBlackVeilB.YoungGoodmanBrownC.TheBirthmarkD.Earth’sHolocaust2Thedesireforanescapefromsocietyandareturntonaturebecameapermanentconventionof Americanliterature,evidentin().A.HenryDavidThoreau’sWaldenB.NathanielHawthorne’sTheScarletLetterC.HermanMelville’sMobyDickD.RalphWaldoEmerson’sTheAmericanScholar3【单选题】(10分)ThemasterpieceofWaltWhitmanis().A.LeavesofGrassB.Drum-TapsC.O,Captain,MyCaptainD.SongofMyself4EdgarAllanPoewasthefirstAmericanartistintheAmericanLiterature,whoinfluencedtheEur opean,especiallythe()writersofthefollowinggenerations.A.EnglishB.FrenchC.ItalianD.German5【判断题】(10分) DemocracyandpoliticalequalitybecametheidealsoftheromanticperiodinAmerica.()A.错B.对6【判断题】(10分) EmilyDickinsonisgoodatthecharmofsomethingbutdroppingthethingitself.()A.对B.错7【判断题】(10分)RomanticvalueswereprominentinAmericanpolitics,art,andphilosophyuntiltheCivilWar.（）A.错B.对8【判断题】(10分)Asamoralphilosophy,transcendentalismwasneitherlogicalnorsystematical.()A.对B.错9【多选题】(10分)Ledby()and(),therearoseakindofteachingsoftranscendentalismintheearlynineteenthcent ury.A.WaltWhitmanB.RalphWaldoEmersonC.HenryDavidThoreauD.HermanMelville10【多选题】(10分) ChoosetheauthorswhobelongtotheromanticgroupinAmericanliterature.()A.NathanielHawthorneB.BenjaminFranklinC.HenryDavidThoreauD.RalphWaldoEmerson第三章测试1【单选题】(10分)Theappearanceof()’sTheLuckofRoaringCampin1868markedasignificantdevelopmentint hebriefhistoryoflocalcolorfiction.A.HarrietBeecherStoweB.BretHarteC.KateChopinD.HamlinGarland2【单选题】(10分)WithWilliamDeanHowells,HenryJamesandMarkTwainactiveonthescene,()becamethem ajortrendinthe1870sand1980s.A.SentimentalismB.NaturalismC.RealismD.Romanticism3MarkTwaincreated,in(),amasterpieceofAmericanrealismthatisalsooneofthegreatbookso fworldliterature.A.TheAdventuresofTomSawyerB.TheGildedAgeC.TheManthatCorruptedHadleyburgD.TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn4【单选题】(10分)(),oneofthegreatestwarnovelscomesfromStephenCrane.A.TheBlueHotelB.Maggie:AGirloftheStreetsC.TheRedBadgeofCourageD.OpenBoat5Generallyspeaking,LondonwasmuchmoreinterestedinideasthanCraneandlesssentiment althanNorris.()A.对B.错6【判断题】(10分) Theultimateaimofthelocalcoloristsistocreatetheillusionofanindigenouslittleworldwithqual itiesthattellitapartfromtheworldoutside.()A.对B.错7【判断题】(10分) JackLondonwasusuallyconsideredasanaturalistbyliteraryhistorians.()A.对B.错8【判断题】(10分)AftertheCivilWar,theFrontierwasclosing.Disillusionmentandfrustrationwerewidelyfelt.W hathadbeenexpectedtobea“GoldenAge”turnedtobea“Gilded”one.()A.对B.错9【多选题】(10分) TherearesomeimportantinfluencesofAmericanliteratureofRealismincluding().A.industrializationB.theCivilWarC.mechanizationD.capitalism10【多选题】(10分)Choosethethreestaunchadvocatesofnineteenth-centuryAmericanrealism().A.MarkTwainB.HenryJamesC.JackLondonD.WilliamDeanHowells第四章测试1【单选题】(10分)“Theapparitionofthesefacesinthecrowd;Petalsonawet,blackbough.”Thisistheshortestpoemwri ttenby().A.EzraPoundB.E.E.CummingsC.RobertFrostD.ThomasStearnsEliot2【单选题】(10分) TheAmericansocialupheavalsandtheliteraryconcernsoftheGreatDepressionyearsended withtheprosperityandturmoilbroughtbythe().A.SecondWorldWarB.FirstWorldWarC.WarofIndependenceD.CivilWar3【单选题】(10分)WhichofthefollowingwasnotwrittenbyRobertFrost?()A.SteepleBushB.IntheClearingC.AWitnessTreeD.TilburyTown4【单选题】(10分) ThefirstAmericantowintheNobelPrizeforLiteraturewasasharpsocialcritic,whosenamewa s().A.SinclairLewisB.WilliamFaulknerC.ErnestHemingwayD.ThomasStearnsEliot5【判断题】(10分) TheformanddirectionofmodernAmericanliteraturehadclearlybeguntoemergeinthefirstde cadeofthe20thcentury.()A.对B.错6【判断题】(10分) ThreeAmericanwriterswontheNobelPrizeforLiteratureduringtheyearsbetweenthetwowor ldwars.()A.对B.错7【判断题】(10分)Althoughshore-lived,theImagistmovementhadatremendousinfluenceonmodernpoetry.()A.错B.对8【判断题】(10分)RobertFrostwonfourNobelPrizesinhislife.()A.错B.对9【多选题】(10分)Earlyinthe20thcentury,()and()publishedworksthatwouldchangethenatureofAmericanpoe try.A.T.S.EliotB.RobertFrostC.WaltWhitmanD.EzraPound10【多选题】(10分)TheImagistwritersfollowedthreeprinciples,theyrespectivelyare().A.economyofexpressionB.NoneoftheotherchoicesC.directtreatmentD.clearrhythm第五章测试1【单选题】(10分)WhatwasRalphEllison'snovelthatwasthestoryofanunnamedAfricanmanwhocouldnotbes eenbecausepeoplechosenottoseehim?()A.FlyingHomeB.ShadowandActC.ThreeDaysBeforetheShootingD.InvisibleMan2【单选题】(10分) Thisladywasarecordbreakerfortheliteratureandwomenwriters!Shewasaslavethatlearned toreadandwritefromhermasters,whoalsoencouragedhertowritepoetry.Herworkwasprais edbytheBritishandAmericansalikeduringtheAmericanRevolutionaryWar.Whowasthefirst AfricanAmericanladypoettopublishabookintheUnitedStates?()A.MayaAngelouB.PhillisWheatleyC.SojournerTruthD.AliceWalker3【单选题】(10分)WhereisMorrison's1992novelJazzset?()A.Chicagointhe1940sB.NewOrleansattheturnofthe20thcenturyC.Harleminthe1920sD.Sohointhe1950s4【单选题】(10分)Alphonso(Celie'sstepfather)neverrevealedthatCelieandNettiewerenothisbiologicalchildr enbecause().A.hepromisedtheirmotherhewouldneverrevealthetruth.B.hewantedtheirinheritancerights.C.hethoughthewasindeedtheirfather.D.hedidnotwanttohurtthem.5【判断题】(10分) SeveralAfricanAmericansbecamefamousfortheirautobiographiesabouttheirlivesasslave s,includingFrederickDouglass,whobecamealeadingfigureintheabolitionistmovement.()A.对B.错6【判断题】(10分)AftertheendofslaveryandtheAmericancivilwar,anumberofAfrican-Americanauthorswrote nonfictionworksabouttheconditionofAfricanAmericansintheUnitedStates.()A.对B.错7【判断题】(10分)Morrison'snovelsaremostlysetinablackcommunityinthethirtiesorforties,buttheydonotmer elytellstoriesaboutaparticularcommunityduringaparticularperiod.()A.错B.对8【判断题】(10分)MisterisCelie'shusbandwhooriginallytriestoseekarelationshipwithNettiebutsettlesforCeli e.()A.错B.对9【多选题】(10分) AboutthefourthdevelopmentstageofAmericanJewishliterature,whichareright?()A.Duringthisperiod,theeconomyoftheUnitedStatesdevelopedrapidly.B. AmericanJewishwritersdominatedtheAmericanliteraryworldandbecameoutstandingwritersinthisperiod.C.Inpolitics,inthe1950s,theUnitedStateswasfullofclosedandconservativeideas.D.Thefourthperiodwasfrom1945to1973.10【多选题】(10分) ChoosetheChinsesAmericanwriters.()A.SuiSinFarB.MaxineHongKingstonC.FrankChinD.AmyTan第六章测试1【单选题】(10分)WhendidEugeneO'NeillgetNobelPrizeforliterature?()A.1952B.1948C.1955D.19362【单选题】(10分)“AmericanShakespeare”refersto().A.EugeneO’NeillB.EdwardAlbeeC.ElmerRiceD.TennesseeWilliams3【单选题】(10分) DeathofaSalesmaniswrittenby().A.ElmerRiceB.TennesseeWilliamsC.CliffordOdetsD.ArthurMiller4【单选题】(10分)WaitingforLefty,writtenby()ashortplayaboutaNewYorktaxi-drivers'strike,withitsfamousag itpropendinganditsinfluentialuseofEuropeanexpressionistmethodsprovedtobeaverybrilli antandimpressiveperformanceonBroadway.A.EugeneO’NeillB.TennesseeWilliamsC.CliffordOdetsD.ElmerRice5【判断题】(10分)LongDay'sJourneyintoNightissetinthesummerhomeoftheTyronefamily,August1912.()A.对B.错6【判断题】(10分) TheAmericandramatictraditionbeganwithYeBareandYeCubb(1665)byWilliamDarbyand othertwoauthor-performers.()A.错B.对7【判断题】(10分) ThefirstAmericantragedytobestagedwasTheContrastwrittenbyRoyallTyler(1757-1826),a ndfirstplayedinNewYorkCityin1787.()A.错B.对8【判断题】(10分)Poeticplayswereverypopularinthefirsthalfofthe19thcentury.()A.对B.错9【多选题】(10分) Choosetheplaywrightswhobelongtothe1940s?()A.WilliamIngeB.TennesseeWilliamsC.ArthurMillerD.DavidMamet10【多选题】(10分) Choosetheplaywrightswhobelongtothe1960s?()A.SamShepardB.DavidMametC.EdwardAlbeeD.AugustWilson。

美国文学试题模拟卷与答案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 the classics of the genre.(F ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions, but the militarybureaucracy is always able to find a way to make him stay.(F ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crime in the end of theplay.(T ) 4. “Dreams” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to give up hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable.(T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work.(F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of theImagist movement in the early 19th century.(F ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Poe’s poems.(F ) 8. Saul Bellow’s perceptions center around the black people, the big city, and the spirit ofAmerican life in the second half of the 20th century.(T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hester’s illegitimate daughter.(T ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound’s Cantos the best long poem in modern literature.(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street, which exerted great influence on Theodore Dreiser’s realism.( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s.(F ) 13. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the romantic period.(F ) 14. William Faulkner’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral in theAmerican North.(F ) 15. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, in which thewhole story was told through the thoughts of one character.(T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman of the lost generation.(T ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love.(F ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life” was written by Edgar Allen Poe.(F ) 19. “The Raven” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.(F ) 20. T oni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel The Bluest Eye.II.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( g ) 1. Benjamin Franklin Works:a.Ars Poetica( d ) 2. T oni Morrison ( f ) 3. William Faulkner ( a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( c ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne( e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( b ) 7. Stephen Crane ( j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter( h ) 9. William Carlos Williams( i ) 10. Saul Bellowb.Maggie: A Girl of the Streetsc.Twice-told Talesd.Belovede. A Psalm of Lifef.Barn Burningg.Poor Richard’s Almanach.Patersoni.Anderson the Rain King j.The Flowering JudasIII.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owethe mentioned happiness of my past life to his kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done, the complexion of my future fortune being known to him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had Igiven Fortunato cause to doubtmy good will. I continued as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at the thought of his immolation.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo 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 or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, -- as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonWork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4.The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared, in the first place, like ablack shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer inits final and closest application to the offender.Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting onewave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slatey wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6.Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forked greenvein danced and made her eyelids t witch. “Now, now, be a good girl, and we’ll have you up in no time.”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7.But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. I found myself on Gatsby’s side,and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me. At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8. The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy,crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver c urve of fish…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9.It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow theleaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk,and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted PlaceC. Recitatif10.CABOT--Thunder 'n' lightnin', Abbie! I hain't slept this late in fifty year! Looks 's if thesun was full riz a'most. Must've been the dancin' an' likker. Must be gittin' old. I hope Eben's t' wuk. Ye might've tuk the trouble t' rouse me, Abbie. (He turns--sees no one there--surprised) Waal--whar air she? Gittin' vittles, I calc'late. (He tiptoes to the cradle and peers down--proudly) Mornin', sonny. Putty's a picter! Sleepin' sound. He don't beller all night like most o' 'em. (He goes quietly out the door in rear--a few moments later enters kitchen--sees Abbie--with satisfaction) So thar ye be. Ye got any vittles cooked?Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul BellowWork:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1.I shot an __ arrow ___ into the air.It fell to __ earth ___ I knew not ___ where __;For so swiftly it __ flew ___ the sightCould not __ follow ___ it in its __ flight ___. (6%)2.Life is __ real ___! Life is __ earnest ___!And the grave is not its __ goal ___;__ Dust __ thou art, to ___ dust __ returnest,Was not spoken of the __ soul ___. (6%)3.Helen, thy ___ beauty __ is to meLike those Nicean barks of yoreThat gently, o’er a __ perfumed ___ sea,The weary, way-worn ___ wanderer __ boreTo his own native _ shore ____. (4%)4.My captain does not answer, his lips are __ pale ___ and __ still ___,My father does not feel my arm, he has no ___ pulse __ nor __ will ___ (4%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Of physiology from top to toe I sing,Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say theForm complete is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,The Modern Man I sing.I sing for physiology from top to toe. Neither looks alone nor intelligence is worthy for the praise. I say the form is far worthier.I also sing for the equality betweenthe sexes. I sing for the modern man of their life full of passion, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed under the divine laws./doc/9aad4da05a0216fc700abb68a98 271fe910eaf96.html ment: 20%1.The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the verydefinitiveness with which it was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.Answer the following questions:(1) Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? (5%)(2) What kind of person do you think the narrator is according to the above passage? (5%)2.On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. Answer the following questions:(1)What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of the letter A 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 length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression.(F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates inJefferson and Thoreau.(T ) 3. Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles.(F ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms.(T ) 5. The quotation—“Whatsoever thy hand f indeth to do, do it with thy might…” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.(T ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.(T ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells thestory of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses toname the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.(F ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about his life, he istaking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past.(F ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar” symbolizes social regulation.(F ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to use Montresor’s fondnessfor wine against him.(T ) 11. Stephen Cra ne’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates astory of a good woman’s downfall and destruction in a slum environment.(T ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of human reality.(T ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. (F ) 14. The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is considered as therepresentative of his short story.(T ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat.(T ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation.(T ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms—the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.(F ) 18. In “Sonnet—To Science”, Poe praised science for it emancipated the poet’simagination.(T ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson’s poems.(T ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize. V.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( j ) 1. Walt Whiteman( b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( h ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald( a ) 5. Wallace Stevens( i ) 6. Joseph Heller( c ) 7. Eugene Glastone O’Neill ( d ) 8. Ernest Hemingway ( g ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( e ) 10. Langston Hughes Works:a.The Man with the Blue Guitarb.The Ravenc.Desire under the Elmsd.For Whom the Bell Tollse.Fine Clothes to the Jewf.Natureg.The Leaning Towerh.The Side of Paradisei.God Knowsj.Leaves of GrassVI.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of myancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook。

[0097]《英美文学史.美国》第一次作业[判断题]Mark Twain, Henry James and William dean Howells were all realists.参考答案：正确[判断题]Bryant was father of American poetry.参考答案：正确[判断题]Anne Bradstreet was an American poet of the 19th century.参考答案：错误[判断题]Cooper, Bryant, Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville were all Romantic writers. 参考答案：正确[判断题]Franklin was an idealist参考答案：错误[判断题]Ezra Pound was a poet and critic of the Imagist School.参考答案：正确[判断题]The Scarlet Letter refers to the letter A.参考答案：正确[判断题]Albee was a playwright of the Theatre of the Absurd.参考答案：正确[判断题]Poe was a poet, short story writer, and critic.参考答案：正确[判断题]The Leatherstocking Tales was written by James Cooper.参考答案：正确第二次作业[判断题]“Contemplations” was written by Anne Bradstreet.参考答案：正确[判断题]O'Neill mainly wrote one-act plays.参考答案：错误[判断题]The first anti-hero in American literature is Rip Van Winkle.参考答案：正确[判断题]The masterpiece of Miller is Death of a Salesman参考答案：正确[判断题]The so called O Henry ending is also known as the surprise ending.参考答案：正确[判断题]Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22.参考答案：正确[判断题]Hemingway was the spokesman of the Lost Generation.参考答案：正确[判断题]Irving was father of American short story.参考答案：正确[判断题]Franklin was father of American literature.参考答案：错误[判断题]American Romanticism started in 1800参考答案：正确第三次作业[论述题]Define the Beat Generation.参考答案：Beat Generation: The term was coined by Jack Kerouac in 1948 to refer to a group of disillusioned writers following World War Two. Later, this literary and cultural movement continued into the 1960s. The Beat Generation must not be confused with the Lost Generation of writers. Spokesmen and representatives of the Beat Generation were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others. They revolted against an America that was materialistic, belligerent and frustrating; social, intellectual and sexual freedom was advocated; and traditional culture and normal social behavior were attacked and violated. Many of the Beats were drug addicts wearing long hair and dirty clothes; and they were fond of slangs and jazz. Masterpieces created by writers of this group include Kerouac's On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, which were regarded as the pocket Bibles of that generation.[论述题]What is black humor?参考答案：Black humor: a term frequently used in modern literary criticism. It is sometimes called "black comedy” or "tragic farce.” It is humor or laughter resulting from great pain, despair, horror and the absurdity of human existence. Black humor is a common quality of modern anti-novels and anti-plays. Examples are Franz Kafka's stories "Metamorphosis,” "The Castle” and "The Trial”; Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22; and Albee's play The Zoo Story. Other writers who did much contribution to the popularity of black humor were Beckett, Camus, Ionesco, V onnegut, Pynchon, and so on.第四次作业[论述题]What is the Jazz Age?参考答案：Jazz Age: Jazz is a form of dance music that is derived from early Afro-American folk music, ragtime, and Negro blues. It is marked with exciting rhythm, pronounced syncopation, and constant improvisation. The musical instruments used are mainly drums, trumpets, and saxophones. Major composers of Jazz music include Irvin Berlin and W. C. Handy. The term Jazz Age was specifically employed by F. Scott Fitzgerald to denote the 1920s, which was characterized by the loss of traditional moral standards; indulgence in romantic yearnings; and great social excitement.[论述题]What is blank verse?参考答案：Blank verse: poetry that does not rhyme but has iambic pentameter lines. Though not originated in England or America, it has been the most important and most widely used English verse form. Blank verse is popular because it is closest to the rhythm of daily English speech. Thus most English poems which are dramatic, reflective or narrative are in the form of blank verse. This verse was probably first used in England by Surrey who translated Aeneid, by Sackville and Norton who composed Gorboduc. It was developed and perfected by Marlowe, Shakespeare and Milton. In the 18th century, most poets favored heroic couplets, but Young and Thomson were able to write in the tradition of blank verse. The 19th century saw a renewed interest in this poeticform. Masters of blank verse included Wordsworth, Coleridge and Bryant. The fact that blank verse is still practiced by writers like T. S. Eliot, Yeats, Frost and Stevens shows how influential and favorable it really is.第五次作业[论述题]What is free verse?参考答案：Free verse: It is a form of poetry without rhyme, meter, regular line length, and regular stanzaic structure. It depends on natural speech for rhythm. Robert Frost compared it to the "playing [of] tennis with the net down.” Though it is much simpler and less restrictive than conventional poetry and blank verse, free verse does no mean "formlessness.” T. S. Eliot once said that "no verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job.”[论述题]What is the Lost Generation?参考答案：Lost Generation: A term invented by Gertrude Stein, it denotes a group of writers after the First World War. They were characterized with their loss of ideals and values resulting from the War and other social evils. When talking with Hemingway, Stein said: "You are all a lost generation.” Hemingway later used it as a preface to his novel The Sun Also Rises, the hero of which is often referred to as the archetype of the generation. Other major representatives of the Lost Generation were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane, Louis Bromfield, and Malcolm Cowley. These writers had either participated in the War or lived for a long time in Europe. Disillusioned and disenchanted, they were anti-traditional, cynical, desperate, and hedonistic. The term is sometimes used for those killed in the War and those who survived it but could not find their spiritual belonging.第六次作业[论述题]What is stanza?参考答案：Stanza: One of the major divisions of a poem consisting of lines grouped together, characterized by a common pattern of rhyme, meter, and line length. Stanzas can be units of thought in a poem much like paragraphs in prose. The term "verse paragraph” is sometimes used if the forms of the stanzas are entirely irregular and the lengths of the stanzas vary. The stanzas of a poem are set off by white space.[论述题]What is imagery?参考答案：Imagery:When Simonides declared that "Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting,” he must have meant that good poems should have not only musical qualities, but also pictorial qualities (qtd. in Partington 648). He seemed to have implied that the language of poetry should make frequent use of imagery. Horace said that "Poems are like pictures” (75). Sidney echoed by saying that poetry is a "speaking picture; with this end: to teach and delight” (138). Henry Home in Elements of Criticism warns against "abstract and general terms” (qtd. in Partington 385). Poetic language, according to Lord Kames, is that which isspecific, concrete, sensuous, and imagery-bearing. Images are "the life of poetry” (qtd. in Partington 385). In The Poetic Image, C. D. Lewis defines image as "a picture made out of words.” R. H. Fogle in The Imagery of Keats and Shelley calls it "the sensuous elements in poetry.” So an image is the use of language to represent objects and other things which appeal primarily to one or all of the senses. It is often more than a "mental picture.”。

1．第1题Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _______.A.short, clear sentencesB.abundance of local imagesC.ordinary American speechD.highly refined language您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.02．第2题When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A.Henry JamesB.Scott FitzgeraldC.HemingwayD.William Faulkne您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.03．第3题The novel which was described by a critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is ____.A.Young Goodman BrownB.MardiC.Daisy MillerD.The Tragic Muse您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.04．第4题After the success of ____, Herman Melville became known as a man who lived among cannibals.A.TypeeB.White JacketC.OmooD.Moby Dick您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.05．第5题___ wrote Rights of Man in 1792 to suggest the overthrow of the British monarchy.A.Thomas PaineB.Benjamin FranklinC.George WashingtonD.Jefferson您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.06．第6题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.A.Stephen CraneB.Frank NorrisC.Jack LondonD.Walt Whitman您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.07．第7题William Sidney Porter was the real name of________.A.Mark TwainB.O’ HenryC.Jack LondonD.William Dean Howells您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.08．第8题There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ___ on the Puritan soil.A.RomanticismB.PuritanismC.mysticismD.Unitarianism您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.09．第9题____ made many translations, among which, Dante’s Divine Comedy was the best.A.William C. BryantB.Henry W. LongfellowC.EmersonD.Hawthorne您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.010．第10题1.？？？？？ Realism, a literary doctrine that called for “ reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life, originated in ______ ,A.GermanyB.FranceC.EnglandD.Italy您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.011．第11题Mark Twain’s first book is ________.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Gilded AgeD.Jumping Frog您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.012．第12题The novel which was described by a critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is ____.A.Young Goodman BrownB.MardiC.Daisy MillerD.The Tragic Muse您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.013．第13题Franklin shaped his writings after the ____ of the English essayist Addison and Steel.A.Spectator papersB.WaldenC.. NatureD.The Sacred Wood您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.014．第14题____, first governor of Plymouth, left a wealth of letters after he died.A.William BradfordB.William WordsworthC.John WinthropD.John Eliot您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.015．第15题___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga.A.deerslayerB.pathfinderC.hawkeyeD.Mohican您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.016．第16题______ is not a character in the novel The Scarlet Letter.A.Arthur DimmesdaleB.Roger ChillingworthC.Goodman BrownD.Pearl您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.017．第17题5. Puritan values do not include ____.A.hard workB.thriftC.sobrietyD.debauchery您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.018．第18题“ I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,/The black-clad cricket bear a second part” These lines written by ____________.A.Roger WilliamsB.John EliotC.Anne BradstreetD.Washington Irving您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.019．第19题1.？？？？？ Realism, a literary doctrine that called for “ reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life, originated in ______ ,A.GermanyB.FranceC.EnglandD.Italy您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.020．第20题Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?A.Stowe’s Uncle Ton’s CabinB.James’s The Portrait of a Lady.C.Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms ？D.Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.021．第21题Perhaps Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of is to be found in I Heard a FlyBuzz--When I Died---a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces.A.enthusiasmB.deathC.crisisD.fantasy您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.022．第22题The first great American juvenile literature was _____.A.Sketch BookB.The Legend of Sleepy HollowC.WaldenD.Mardi您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.023．第23题1.牋牋？ Franklin had never been _____.A.a printerB.a scientistC.a statesmanD.an atheist您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.024．第24题4. The most quoted among Franklin’s writings could be ___, an annual collection of proverbs.A.The AutobiographyB.Poor Richard’s AlmanacC.SpectatorD.. Nature您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.025．第25题The Declaration of Independence was the product of the joint efforts by ___,A.George WashingtonB.Thomas JeffersonC.Thomas AddisonD.Irving您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.026．第26题1.牋牋？ ___ is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A.Self-relianceB.NatureC.The American ScholarD.. The Bells您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.027．第27题______ translated the Bible into the Indiantongue.A.Benjamin FranklinB.Roger WilliamsC.. John EliotD.John Cotton您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.028．第28题The first writings that we may call American were the narratives and ___ of the early English settlements.A.. documentsB.journalsC.statementsD.files您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.029．第29题The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB.Edgar Allan PoeC.MelvilleD.Longfellow您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.030．第30题The arbiter of nineteen-century literary realism in America was ______.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.O’HenryD.William Dean Howells您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：0.031．第31题Mark Twain’s first book is ________.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Gilded AgeD.Jumping Frog您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.032．第32题Mark Twain had never been a _______.A.humoristB.ambassadorC.frontierD.lecturer.您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.033．第33题In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A.Puritan ？B.materialisticC.psychological ？D.religious您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.034．第34题___ might be considered as a great realist of human spirit.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Jack LondonD.Theodore Dreiser您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.035．第35题My Lost Youth written by ____ is about his hometown of Portland, Maine.A.Henry W. LongfellowB.John CottonC.Carl SandburgD.Anne Bradstreet您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.036．第36题Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of man and ____.A.natureB.self-relianceC.selfD.life您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.037．第37题As a Modernist poet, Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______A.cubist school of modern paintingB.Imagist MovementC.stream-of-consciousness techniqueD.German Expressionism您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.038．第38题Most critics have agreed that __ is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision.A.FitzgeraldB.FrostC.CummingsD.Hemingway您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.039．第39题in 1952, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named ___ in The old Man and the Sea.A.Natty BumppoB.PocahontasC.SantiagoD.Henry您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.040．第40题___’s A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country was a guide to the country and an invitation to the bold spirits needed to enlarge and strengthen the English plantation in the new land.A.John SmithB.William BradfordC.John WinthropD.John Cotton您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.041．第41题Puritans emphasized a ____God.A.mercifulB.wrathfulC.benevolentD.learned您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.042．第42题___ did not ever show his/her concern for the Indians.A.Anne BradstreetB.Philip FreneauC.Roger WilliamsD.John Eliot您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.043．第43题A Key into the Language of America was a significant work by____.A.Roger WilliamsB.John CottonC.John SmithD.Noah Webster您的答案：A题目分数：2此题得分：2.044．第44题Mrs. Stowe’s did not ever write _______.A.The Man That Was a ThingB.Uncle Tom’s CabinC.The StoicD.Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.045．第45题Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times, ____ was an admirer.A.Harriet BeecherB.Jack LondonC.Henry JamesD.O’ Henry您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.046．第46题Eugene O’Neil did not write ______.A.The Emperor JonesB.Anna ChristieC.The Hairy ApeD.The Saloon您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.047．第47题With the precedent of Whitman, ___also undertook as a spokesman for the common pople. He was proud later to “favor simple poems for simple people.”A.Wallace StevensB.Edwin RobinsonC.Robert FrostD.Carl Sandburg您的答案：D题目分数：2此题得分：2.048．第48题The collections of his occasional lectures on poetry entitled ___ established Wallace Stevens as a major American poet.A.Ideas of OrderB.The Necessary AngelC.HarmoniumD.Parts of a World您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.049．第49题“ We hold these truths to be elf-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” This sentence is takenfrom ___.Aaaamon SenseB.The Declaration of IndependenceC.The AutobiographyD.The American Crisis您的答案：B题目分数：2此题得分：2.050．第50题____ was considered to be the first Americanwriter.A.Washington IrvingB.Benjamin FranklinC.John SmithD.Hoffman您的答案：C题目分数：2此题得分：2.0[文档可能无法思考全面，请浏览后下载，另外祝您生活愉快，工作顺利，万事如意!]。

英美文学考试题目及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共10分）1. 英国文学史上被称为“英国诗歌之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《傲慢与偏见》B. 《理智与情感》C. 《简·爱》D. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》答案：C3. 美国文学中，被誉为“美国文学之父”的作家是：A. 爱伦·坡B. 马克·吐温C. 华盛顿·欧文D. 亨利·詹姆斯答案：C4. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 狄更斯B. 哈代C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 简·奥斯汀答案：C5. 美国文学中的“迷惘的一代”是指：A. 第一次世界大战后的作家群体B. 第二次世界大战后的作家群体C. 独立战争后的作家群体D. 内战后的作家群体答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。

答案：《麦克白》2. 《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家________创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约为背景的小说。

答案：F·司各特·菲茨杰拉德3. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与________共同发起了浪漫主义诗歌运动。

答案：塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治4. 美国诗人沃尔特·惠特曼的代表作是________，它被认为是美国文学史上的里程碑。

答案：《草叶集》5. 英国现代主义诗人T.S.艾略特的代表作《荒原》是一首________诗。

答案：长三、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 简述乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中“老大哥”的象征意义。

答案：在《1984》中，“老大哥”象征着极权主义政权的无所不在和无所不知，代表了对个人自由和思想的全面控制。

他的形象无处不在，监视着社会的每一个角落，象征着对个人隐私的侵犯和对思想自由的压制。

自考《外国文学作品选》2014年10月真题答案（主观题）简答题：36.简述尤内斯库《头儿》的艺术特色。

(1)剧本中的人物总是处于一种不正常的生活逻辑中，人物形象是破碎的，故事是碎片化的。

(2)剧本追求一种让人思考并常常让观众陷入迷惘而不能自拔的艺术风格，剧中人物的乖张行为和错乱语言令人发笑，但笑过之后又令人感觉难受。

(3)荒诞的话语言说方式，在摧毁意义的同时又于无意义中显示意义，从而揭示荒诞感和荒诞意识。

37.拜伦在《哀希腊》中是如何表现爱国主义主题的？(1)《哀希腊》的爱国主义主题建立在古今对比的基础之上。

诗人从“文教”和“武功”两个角度回顾了古希腊民族的辉煌成就。

(2)诗人在回顾希腊民族光荣传统的同时，不断将其与国破家亡、山河破碎的现实加以对比，把古代希腊人民的英雄主义和爱国精神与当下希腊人的精神麻木沉沦作对比，以唤醒希腊人民的自豪感，激励其反抗异族统治的战斗精神。

(3)诗人最后流露出的孤独感混合了责备与忧愤，进一步深化了爱国主义主题。

38.简述《老人与海》中“硬汉精神”的思想内涵。

(1)在《老人与海》中，作者彰显了在暴力境遇下人类不屈不挠的进取精神以及面对莫测的自然、悲怆的人生所表现出的一种“重压下的从容”。

(2)海明威在刻画“硬汉子”形象时，不是张扬他们能够战胜一切的英雄气概，而是在于弘扬面对打击与困难时的不屈精神。

(3)桑提亚哥是硬汉精神的典型，虽然在与大海搏斗的过程中他失败了，但是他表现出一种永不屈服的精神，表达了一个人可以被消灭，但不能被打败的精神境界。

39.简述《外套》中阿卡基·阿卡基耶维奇的形象特点。

(1)阿卡基是一名卑微的小公务员，他几十年来伏案抄公文，脸色灰暗，面容憔悴，穷困潦倒，食不果腹。

他得不到同事的人格尊重，人人都可以对他发号施令，可以嘲弄侮辱他。

(2)阿卡基在长期的精神压抑下，变得逆来顺受、麻木不仁、忍气吞声，贫乏的精神生活毁掉了他的才能，摧残了他的精神。