美国文学期末试卷及答案

《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  (      ) 11.  Common 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 Langhorne Clemens adopted the pseudonym               , 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.\ 8. _______________________was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet to use the form of free verse. 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. 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.    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.  Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain. A.   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B.   Innocents Abroad C.   Life on the Mississippi D.  The Rise of Silas Lapham 6.  Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? A.  The American Scholar B.  English Traits C.  The Conduct of Life D. Representative 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 representation 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 Chinese 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 11. 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.  sentimentalism                                       B.  romanticism C.  realism                                                     D.  naturalism 12.  Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected. 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 from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California. A.  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 paradise of New Land IV. 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 active thinking 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 One  Lo! in you brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see 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%) 3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%) Passage 2 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere 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 difference Questions: 1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%) 2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)