《美国文学》期末考试试卷(B卷)及答案
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《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）
适用班级 考试时间 120
分钟
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. 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( )
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Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the
following and fill in the blanks.
(10%)
1
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.
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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
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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
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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
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IV. Choose TEN of the
following and decide whether the
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.
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.
Twain’s region
was the Deep South, with its bitter history of
slavery, civil war
and destruction.
statements are true or false. (10%)
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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.
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.
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.
Plymouth Plantation was written by William
Bradford.
ts 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
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”.
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.
way, 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.
atawpha
saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.
20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed
from Greek meaning “meditation on death”.
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V. Choose THREE of the
following fragments and answer the
questions.
(20%)
Passage One
5
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%)
3. What kind of feeling does
this stanza show? (3%)
4. How do you
appreciate this poem? (3%)
Passage 3
I 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
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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%)
Passage 5
Often
I think of the beautiful town
That is seated
by the sea;
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of that dear old town,
And my youth comes back to me.
And a verse
of a Lapland song
Is haunting my memory still:
And the thoughts of youth are long, long
thoughts.
Questions:
1. The stanza is taken
from the poem________________?(1%)
2. The
author of the poem is____________ . (1%)
3.
The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem
contains a key word, usually a
verb, which
sums up the feeling established in the stanza.
What is the verb and
what kind feeling that it
conveys?(4%)
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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. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter. （10%）
2. Emily Dickinson's “Because I
Could not stop for Death”.（10%）
3. Ralph
Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance. （10%）
《美国文学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准
适用班级060511-3
考试时间 120 分钟
Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the
following works and write the names of the
authors. (1*10=10%)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Benjamin Franklin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Willa Cather
Sinclair Lewis
Tennessee
Williams
Stephen Crane
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8.
Ernest Hemingway
9. Jack London
10. Eugene
O’Neill
11. Thomas Paine
12. Washington
Irving
13. Henry David Thoreau
14. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
15. Harriet Beecher Stowe
16. Mark Twin
17. Theodore Dreiser
18.
T.S. Eliot
19. Ernest Hemingway
20. F.
Scott Fitzgerald
Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the
following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)
1. Edgar Allan Poe
2. Mark Twain
3.
Imagism
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Sinclair
Lewis
6. John Smith
7. Ezra Pound
8.
Walt Whitman
9. William Cullen Bryant
10.
Picaresque novel
Ⅲ. Choose only one answer
form the four choices as the most appropriate
answer. (2*15=30%)
1
6
11
B
A
C
2
7
12
D
B
B
3
8
13
A
C
D
4
9
14
B
A
B
5
10
15
D
A
A
IV.
Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the
statements are
true or false. (1*10=10%)
1
6
T
T
2
7
F
T
3
8
T
F
4
9
T
F
5
10
F
T
9
11
16
T
T
12
17
F
F
13
18
T
T
14
19
F
F
15
20
T
T
V. Choose
THREE of the following fragments and answer the
questions. (20%)
Passage 1
Allan Poe (1)
(1)
beauty of form.
（diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.）
The beauty of content. (3)
Passage 2
1. Robert Frost(1)
2.
3. This poem is
written in classic five-line stanzas, with the
rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b
and conversational
rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet,
walking in the woods
in autumn, choosing which
road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it
concerns the
important decisions which one
must make in life, when one must give up one
desirable
thing in order to possess another.
Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the
consequences of one' s choice for it is not
possible to go back and have another chance to
choose differently.
4. In the poem, the
poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which
road to take,
because they are both pretty. In
the end, he follows the one which seems to have
fewer
travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose
to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he
was
speaking of his choice to become a poet
rather than some commoner profession. But he
always remembers the road which he might have
taken, and which would have given him
a
different kind of life.
Passage 3
1.
2.
3.
Walden (1)
Henry David
Thoreau (1)
Find the answer from the passage.
(5)
Passage 4
The Scarlet Letter,
Nathaniel Hawthorne. (2)
life and liberty.(2)
Passage 5
10
1.
2.
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
My Lost Youth.(1)
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (1)
“haunting sums up the feeling
that was begun earlier with
Passage 6
Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne
Bradstreet.(2)
One's real house is in heaven,
built by the great architect, God. (2)
VI.
Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on
them. (20%)
1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter. （10%）
2. Analyze Emily
Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for
Death”.（10%）
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-
Reliance. （10%）
The score is given to the
theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the
work chosen.
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