《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）
1.P oor Richard’s Almanac ( )
2.T he Hou of the Seven Gables ( )
3.“Raven” ( )
4.M y Antonia ( )
5.B abbitt ( )
6.A Streetcar Named Desire ( )
7.M aggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )
8.A Farewell to Arms ( )
9.T he Call of the Wild ( )
10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( )
11. Common Sen ( )
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 Enterpri, Samuel
Langhorne Clemens adopted the pudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.
3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the direct
treatment 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 his masterpiece novel _________.
5. is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
for his vigorous 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.\disgrace
8._______________________was a great democratic poet. He is also the great
poet to u the form of free ver.
9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.
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 most appropriate answer. (30%)
1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment, _______________ was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?
A. Michael Wigglesworth
B. Edward Taylor
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Philip Freneau
3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan
Boston in _______.
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Young Goodman Brown
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Ambitious Guest
4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A. Thoreau
B. Emerson
C. Hawthorne
D. Whitman
5. Choo the work NOT written by Mark Twain.
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer六级时间
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万达 石景山C. Life on the Mississippi
D. The Ri of Silas Lapham
6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
A. The American Scholar
教学相长翻译B. English Traits
C. The Conduct of Life
D. Reprentative Men
7. 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 Sea
B. Moby Dick
C. White Jacket
D. Billy Budd
8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth
century. This was ___________.
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher
9. The main theme of _______________The Art of Fiction reveals his literary
credo that reprentation of life should be the main object of the novel.
A. Henry James’
B. William Dean Howells’
C. Mark Twain’s
D. O. Henry’s
10. ___________ showed great interest in Chine literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. T. S. Eliot
D. E. E. Cummings
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11. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the
scene, _______ became the major trend in the venties and eighties of the nineteenth century.
A.
ntimentalism
B. romanticism
C.
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D. naturalism
12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred
poems looly connected.
deluxe是什么意思A. The Waste
Land
B. The Cantos
C. Don
Juan
D. Queen Mab
13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a
revolution in literary style and language.
A. Gertrude
Stein
B. Ezra Pound
C. James Joyce
D. all of the above
14. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted
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from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.
for love of the gameA. Of Mice and
Men
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. The Great
Gatsby
D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their
criticism were the failures of American society and ___________ .
A. the failure of communication among Americans
B. the economic depression
C. the extreme prosperity of America
D. the paradi of New Land
IV. Choo TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or fal. (10%)
1. All his literary life, Hawthorne emed to be haunted by his n 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 esntially 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 pro bad on simple ntence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, preci image-ry, 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 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. 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 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.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousau also greatly influenced the
active thinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousau reprented the impul for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes reprented the point of view, often expresd 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. Choo THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)
Passage One
Lo! in you brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I e thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
Are 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%)
