《美国⽂学》期末考试试卷（A卷）适⽤班级060511-3 考试时间 120 分钟
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Ⅰ. Choo 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 Almanac ( )
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 ( )
成时京16. 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 the
Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies.
2.__________________________was a determined revolutionary who
work helped the cau 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 them
important to American literature (especially cular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic.
4.________________________was an early form of horror fiction that
originated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period.
5._____________________________, known for her deeply personal
poems 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 American
Poetry.
8._______________________was the first great pro stylist of
American 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 and
the first writer of the detective story in the world.
10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings
the incidents on the line of the hero’s travel.
Ⅲ. Choo only one answer form the four choices as the
秕糠most 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 Mu
B Tenth Mu
C Best Mu
D First Mu
2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated u of local language, characters and customs in regional literature.
A purple pro
B waste-land imagery
C local color
D symbolism
3. The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to a relatively large literate Black readership was
known as_____.
A The Holocaust
B The Harlem Renaissance
C Abolitionism
D The Civil Rights Movement
4. _______ was a leading 19th century feminist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement.
A Margaret Fuller
B Sylvia Plath
C Hilda Doolittle
D Gloria Stein
5. Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry?
A gushing ntimentalism and comfortable images
B abandonment of earlier ver forms
masonry
C u of free ver
D an effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing world
6. Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20th century American poets?
A Ezra Pound
B Walt Whitman
C Robert Frost
D Allen Ginsburg
7. 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 Age
B The Gilded Age
C The Roaring Age
D The Beat Ageospery
8. 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 were
tremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote.
D They oppod to tradition and were in favor of radical change.
9. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and nt to a hospital where he fell in love with a nur. The two persons later became the characters of his novel ________.
A The Old Man and the Sea
B For Whom the Bell Tolls
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D A Farewell to Arms
10. 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 conrvative philosophy.
D A school of imaginative writing.
11. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous proverbs?thanks
A “A stitch in time saves nine”
B “God helps tho who help themlves”
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 Romanticism
B Realism
C Naturalism
D Modernism
13. 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 Bradstreet
B Gertrude Stein
C Emily Dickinson
D Amy Lowell
14. Which of the following writers died a natural death in his old age?
所以的英文A Jack London
B Ernest Hemingway
C Stephen Crane
D Mark Twain
15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?
A Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
B Amy Lowell
C Ezra Pound
D Robert Frost
IV. Choo TEN of the following and decide whether the
statements are true or fal. (10%)
1.Hawthorne was a firm believer in Puritan principles and mourned their
运营商英文passing in his works.brothel
2.Frederick Douglas was a major 19th century black writer.
3.The sou nd of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell over
readers. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy.
4.Haiku, a form of traditional Japane poetry, greatly influenced the
Imagist movement.
5.Leaves of Grass is Whitman’s life work.
6.Thanks in part to the efforts of Ezra Pound, Robert Frost was published
in England and quickly became recognized as a major American poet. 7.In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the
art of modern narration.”
8.Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing his
death with dignity and courage.
9.Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such as
his pamphlet Common Sen, which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution.
10.William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy, written in 1789, is often
called “the first American novel”.
11.The literary movement of American romanticism was generally divided
into two stages: pre-romanticism and post-romanticism.
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 esntially 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.The Scarlet Letter is called an economical novel becau there are only
three chief characters-or four if we include the child Pearl.
14.President Lincoln praid 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.Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literary
realism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.”The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.
dawn是什么意思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.
