美国文学期末试卷及答案.doc

美国文学期末考试试卷（B卷）1. Poor Richards 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 Days Journey into Night ( )11. Common Sense ( )12. “Rip Van Winkle”( )13. Walden( )14. The Song of Hiawatha( )15. Uncle Toms 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 heros travel. 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 Freneau3. The finest example of Hawthornes symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _.A. The Scarlet Letter B. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble Faun D. The Ambitious Guest 4. _ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A.ThoreauB.EmersonC.HawthorneD.Whitman5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the Mississippi D.The Rise of Silas Lapham6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men7. Melvilles _ 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 SeaB. Moby DickC. White Jacket D. Billy Budd8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher9. 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 JamesB. William Dean HowellsC. Mark Twains D. O. Henrys10. _ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A.Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC.T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11.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. romanticismC. realism D. naturalism12.Ezra Pounds long poem_ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste Land B. The CantosC. Don Juan D. Queen Mab13.In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude Stein B. Ezra Pound C. James JoyceD. all of the above14. _ 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 WrathC. The Great Gatsby D. For Whom the Bell Tolls15.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 AmericansB. the economic depressionC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New LandIV. 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. Hemingways works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twains 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 Steinbecks 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 OneLo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre 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 2I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere 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 differenceQuestions: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 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 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 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets of that dear old town,And my youth comes back to me.And a verse of a Lapland songIs haunting my memory still:A boys will is the winds will,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%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.Its purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1. This stanza is taken from the poem _by_.(2%)2. What is ones real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2. Emily Dickinsons “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%） 3. Ralph Waldo Emersons Self-Reliance. （10%）美国文学期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%) 1. Benjamin Franklin 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne3. Edgar Allan Poe4. Willa Cather5. Sinclair Lewis6. Tennessee Williams7. Stephen Crane 8. Ernest Hemingway9. Jack London10. Eugene ONeill11. Thomas Paine12. Washington Irving13. Henry David Thoreau14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15. Harriet Beecher Stowe16. Mark Twin17. Theodore Dreiser18. T.S. Eliot19. Ernest Hemingway20. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%) 1. Edgar Allan Poe2. Mark Twain 3. Imagism 4. The Great Gatsby5. Sinclair Lewis6. John Smith7. Ezra Pound8. Walt Whitman9. William Cullen Bryant10. Picaresque novel. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)1B2D3A4B5D6A7B8C9A10A11C12B13D14B15A IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)1T2F3T4T5F6T7T8F9F10T11T12F13T14F15T16T17F18T19F20TV. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions.(20%)Passage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1) 2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.）The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21. Robert Frost(1)2. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening(1)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 3Walden (1)Henry David Thoreau (1)Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (2)2. life and liberty.(2)Passage 51. My Lost Youth.(1)2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3. “haunting sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with Often in thought and come