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 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%)
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 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:
"A boy's will is the wind's 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 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%)
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

Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)
1. Benjamin Franklin
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Willa Cather
5. Sinclair Lewis
6. Tennessee Williams
7. Stephen Crane
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%)

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B
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D
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A
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B
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D
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A
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B
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B
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D
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B
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 IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)

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T
4
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F
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T
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F
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 V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)
Passage 1
1.Edgar Allan Poe (1)
2.Psyche (1)
3.The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.）
The beauty of content. (3)
Passage 2
1. 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 3
Walden (1)
Henry David Thoreau (1)
Find the answer from the passage. (5)
Passage 4
1. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (2)
2. life and liberty.(2)
Passage 5
1. 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