《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷)
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学院 班级 学号 姓名
题号
分数
得分
一 二 三 四
五 六 七 八 九 十 总分
Ⅰ. 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
Richard’s 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 Tom’s Cabin( )
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(
)
17. Sister Carrie( )
18. The Waste Land( )
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls(
)
20. The Emperor Jones(
)
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Ⅱ.
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
18
th
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, didn’t 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 hero’s travel.
. Choose only one
answer form the four choices as the
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Ⅲ
most appropriate answer. (30%)
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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 Muse
2.
______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local
language, characters and
customs in regional
literature.
A purple prose
B waste-land imagery
C local
color
D symbolism
3. 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 Movement
4.
_______ was a leading 19
th
century
feminist and one of the core members of
the
Transcendentalist movement.
A
Margaret Fuller
B Sylvia Plath
C Hilda Doolittle
D Gloria
Stein
5. Which of the following is not
typical of modern poetry?
A gushing
sentimentalism and comfortable images
B
abandonment of earlier verse forms
C
use of free verse
D an effort to
find andor explore a new role for the poet in a
changing
world
6. Who was perhaps
the most popular of all 20
th
century
American poets?
A Ezra Pound
B Walt Whitman
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C
Robert Frost
D Allen Ginsburg
7. 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 Age
8. 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 19
th
century
New England poets who 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 Arms
10.
The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American
literature, refers to _______.
A
The highest ranking of the Hindu castes.
B
A movement that emerged from rebellion against
Puritan religious
ideas and systems.
C A group of New England writers known for
their scholarship andor
conservative
philosophy.
D A school of
imaginative writing.
11. Which of the
following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous
proverbs?
A “A stitch in time saves
nine”
B “God helps those who help
themselves”
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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 Modernism
13. Although few of her poems were published
in her lifetime and a complete
collection of
them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a
major impact on
20
th
century poetry.
A Anne Bradstreet
B
Gertrude Stein
C Emily Dickinson
D Amy Lowell
14. Which of
the following writers died a natural death in his
old age?
A Jack London
B
Ernest Hemingway
C Stephen Crane
D Mark Twain
15. Who of
the following is NOT a 20
th
century
American poet?
A Henry Wordsworth
Longfellow
B Amy Lowell
C
Ezra Pound
D Robert Frost
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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 19
th
century black
writer.
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3. The sound of
Whitman’s 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
Whitman’s 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
Brown’s 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 Steinbeck’s novels.
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20. “Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant
borrowed from Latin meaning
“meditation on
death”.
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V. Choose THREE of the
following fragments and answer
the questions.
(20%)
Passage 1
The
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 2
It was late and everyone had left the café
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 3
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I went
to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately, to front only the es-
sential
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 4
But, 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
token that the deep heart of Nature could pity
and be kind to him.
Questions:
1. This
part is from the novel , written
by .
(2%)
2. What
does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to
your opinion?
(5%)
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Passage 5
It was many and many a year
ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a
maiden there lived whom you may know.
By the
name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she
lived with no other thought
Than to love and
be loved by me.
Questions:
1. The stanza
is taken from the poem________________?(1%)
2.
The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)
3. What is the most obvious rhetorical device
the author uses for effect?
(4%)
Passage 6
Thou hast an house on high
erect,
Framed by that mighty Architect,
With glory richly furnished,
Stands
permanent though this be fled.
It’s purchased
and paid for too
By Him who hath enough to do.
Questions:
1. This stanza is taken from
the poem
__________________________by____________.(2%)
2. What is one’s real house according to the
poet? (5%)
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VI. Choose TWO of
the following and Comment on them.
(20%)
1. Robert Frost' s The Road Not
Taken. （10%）
2. Eugene O' Neill’s Long Day's
Journey into Night.（10%）
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3.
Talk about Adgar Allan Poe's social outlook and
writings （10%）
4. Comment on Hawthorne’s
style. （10%）
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