美国文学考试资料

Part one: Answer: 1—60 A,B,D,D,C/  D,A,B,A,D/  A,A,D,D,B/  C,C,B,D,C D A B D B/  A C B C D/  C D C D A/  B,A,C,A,D B,C,C,B,A/  D,A,B,D,D/  A,A,D,D,B/  C,C,A,D,C 1 1. Hawthorne’s masterpiece, one of the greatest novels of the world is The Scarlet Letter. 2. Emerson’s first startling book is Nature.      3. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the chief spokesman of this spiritual movement of Transcendentalism. 4. Washington Irving is worth the honor of being “for his literary craftsmanship for his literary craftsmanship. 5. The colonial influence over American Romanticism made American Romantic writers more moralize than their English counter-parts. 6. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American Naturalism. 7. In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud, whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period. 8.  In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial New England speech into a poetic expression. The theme of returning to nature could be read in Leather-Stocking Tales by Cooper. 10. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not true? D A. It's very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin. B. It's a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism. C. It's mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main  characters and the people in general. D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel. 11. Ezra Pound showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Bai into English. 12. Eliot’s first major poem (1917 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock , has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English. 13. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as     The Roaring Twenties,The Jazz age andThe Dollar Decade.        14. 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 Farewell to Arms 15. The Grapes of Wrath tells the Joad family’s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California. 16. Faulkner wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who laboured for both of them. 17. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called stream of consciousness , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of four characters. 18. Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view. 19. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should observe with no judgment whatsoever and reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum. 20. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards? A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic field. 1. The Beat Generation is a large group including San Francisco writers, the name referred simultaneously_______, through drugs, and alcohol. l A. to their sense that society was worn out l B. to their interest in new forms of experience l C. to the rhythm of jazz 2. In the Depression Age, John Steinbeck is the famous leftist for his sympathetic story about drifting farm laborers and factory workers. 3. The 1940s saw the flourishing of a new contingent of writers, including R. P. Warren, A. Miller, T. Williams, K. A. Porter and E. Welty. All but Miller were from the South 4. The Great God Brown fuses symbolism, poetry, and the affirmation of a pagan idealism to show how materialistic civilization denies the life—giving impulses to and destruction of the genuine art.  5. The realistic schools led by Mark Twain and Henry James differ in their understanding of the truth 6. Eliot’s first major poem (1917)       has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English. A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock    B. The Waste Land C. Four Quartets                      D. Preludes 7. Which story is William Dean Howells’ masterpiece on the American spirit of the self-made man? A. A Modern Instance      B. The Luck of Roaring Camp C. The Rise of Silas Lapham D. A Woman’s Reason 8. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner's novels? A. Cambridge.             B. Yoknapatawpha C. Mississippi.            D.Tagliamento   9. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This line is the shortest poem written by ______. A. T. S. Eliot      B. Robert Frost    C. Ezra Pound    D. E. E. Cummings 10. Which couple of the following are not written by Henry James? A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians D. The Genius and The Gilded Age 11. __________ is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner. A. Go Down, Moses                B. Light in August C. Absalom, Absalom          D. The Sound and the Fury 12. Which of the following is said of the American naturalists? A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories. B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town. C. Human should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh            environment. D. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces. 13. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered______. A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty B. an adventurous exploration into man's relationship with nature C. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe D. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure 14. The American 30s lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the 2nd World War 1939. This was a period of _______. A. a new social consciousness        B. bleakness    C. important social movements      D. All above  15. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following statements is not true? A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions. B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement. C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition. D. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced. 16. Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited ______. A. up-class mind  B. middle-class mind  C. proletarian    D. ordinary people 17. In  A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of ______ devices in narration. A. romantic    B. realistic  C. gothic    D. modernist 18. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors. It is always referred to as “_______”. A. Imagism    B. black humor    C. new fiction    D. the Beat Generation 19. As an autobiographical play, O’Neill’s ______ (1951) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama. A. Long Day’s Journey into Night         B. The Hairy Ape C. Desire under the Elms                D. The Iceman Cometh 20. Tender Is the Night is a ______ by Fitzgerald. A. short story    B. novella    C. poem    D. novel 1. Which of the following notions is not of literature? A. local color              B. sub-consciousness  C. stream of consciousness    D. naturalism 2. As Fitzgerald’s writing style is concerned, which of the following is true? A. The author dropped off the device of having events observed by a “central consciousness”. B. His intervening passages of narration leave the tedious process of transition to the author’s imagination. C. His diction and metaphors are partially original and details accurate.