云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五
I. True or fal choices: 20% (One point for each item)
( ) 1. Hawthorne concludes that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the word.”
( ) 2. Transcendentalists recognized intuition as the “highest power of the soul.”
( ) 3. The misshapen scholar mentioned in Chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne’s husband.
( ) 4. The finest example of Hawthorne’s expressionism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in The Scarlet Letter.
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橡皮虫( ) 5. MacLeish often wrote his poetry with short lines and the strong rhythm of jazz.
( ) 6. The poet compares hatred to fire in “Fire and Ice”.
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( ) 7. Heller’s sardonic novel, Catch-22 is considered to be one of the most significant works of “protest literature” to appear since the Second World War.
( ) 8. The bulk of The Autobiography was written in 1771, 1784 and 1788.
( ) 9. Through his efforts, the American theatre grew up during the 1920s; O’Neill had a great influence on American playwrights.
( ) 10. The narrator, Fortunato, opens the story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by stating that he has been irreparably insulted by his acquaintance, Montresor, and that he eks revenge.
( ) 11. William Dean Howells thinks The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s beast work and prais it as “a real Crane’s work”.
( ) 12. One of Porter’s contributions is that she described the women’s liberation from the perspective of feminism.
( ) 13. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is a story of an idealist who was destroyed by the disillusion of American Dream.
( ) 14. Sarty is one of the main characters in Barn Burning created by Faulkner.
( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway revealed his life values and standards in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
( ) 16. Writers of the first postwar era lf-consciously acknowledged that they were a Beat Generation.
( ) 17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the most famous American realistic poets in 19th century.
( ) 18. Poe is influenced by romantic style. His poems are noted for nice rhythm and images.
( ) 19. n the poem “One’s Self I sing”, Whiteman t forth the principle beliefs of the modern man.
( ) 20. Emily Dickinson has published 1775 poems during her lifetime.
II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)
Writers:
( ) 1. Toni Morrison
古诗名句( ) 2. Joph Heller
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( ) 3. Eugene Glastone O’Neill
( ) 4. Archibald MacLeish
( ) 5. Emily Dickinson
( ) 6. Benjamin Franklin
( ) 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson
( ) 8. F·Scott Fitzgerald
( ) 9. William Faulkner
( ) 10. Wallace Stevens
Works:
a. The Hairy Ape
b. I’m Nobody!
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d. English Traits
e. The Sound and the Fury
f. The Autobiography
g. Tender is the Night
h. 我们祝你圣诞快乐 Anecdote of the Jar
i. Song of Solomon
j. J.B.
III. Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)
1. Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themlves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the posssor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cas, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison英雄联盟隐藏分
Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
2. He had a weak point -- this Fortunato -- although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himlf on his connoisurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity to practi imposture upon the British and Austrian MILLIONAIRES. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen , was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere.
Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo Ellison
Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Cask of Amontillado
3. In either ca, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in who character both were so thoroughly interfud, that the mildest and verest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold. On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mockin
g infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itlf.
