《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷).doc

适用班级060511-3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得分. 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 Richards 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 Toms Cabin( )16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( )17. Sister Carrie( )18. The Waste Land( )19. For Whom the Bell Tolls( )20. The Emperor Jones( )得分. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (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 whose work 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 them important 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 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, didnt 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 prose 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 heros travel.得分. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the 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 Muse B Tenth Muse C Best Muse D First Muse2._ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature. A purple prose Bwaste-land imagery C local color D symbolism3.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 Movement4._ was a leading 19th century feminist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement. A Margaret Fuller BSylvia Plath C Hilda Doolittle D Gloria Stein5.Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry? A gushing sentimentalismand comfortable images B abandonment of earlier verse forms C use of free verse D 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 Pound B Walt Whitman C Robert Frost D 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 Age B The Gilded Age C The Roaring Age D 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 poetswho were tremendously 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 Sea B For Whom the Bell Tolls C The Sun Also Rises D A Farewell to Arms10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to _. A The highest ranking of the Hindu castes. BA 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 Franklins 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 Romanticism B Realism C Naturalism D Modernism13. Although few of her poems were published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didnt appear until the 1950s, _ had a major impact on 20th century poetry. A Anne Bradstreet B Gertrude Stein C Emily Dickinson D Amy Lowell14. Which of the following writers died a natural death in his old age? A Jack London B Ernest Hemingway C Stephen Crane D Mark Twain15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet? A Henry Wordsworth Longfellow B Amy Lowell C Ezra Pound D Robert Frost得分IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements 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.3. The sound of Whitmans words casts a magic, romantic spell over readers. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy.4. Haiku, a form of traditional Japanese poetry, greatly influenced the Imagist movement.5. Leaves of Grass is Whitmans 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 Sense, which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution.10. William Hill Browns 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 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. The Scarlet Letter is called an economical novel because there are only three chief characters-or four if we include the child Pearl.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. Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literary realism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.” The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.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 Steinbecks novels.20. “Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Latin meaning “meditation on death”.得分V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions.(20%) Passage 1The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? _(1%)2. What is the title of this poem? _(1%)3. What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are “modern”? (2%)4. What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem? And what feeling and meaning does the poem express to you? (2%)Passage 2It was late and everyone had left the caf except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves 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.Questions:1. This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2. Why does the old man get drunk every night and why did he commit suicide? (2%)3. What does the young waiter think of the old man and how does he treat him? (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 by experience, 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 the woods. (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 toke