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美国文学期中考试试卷
考试时间：90分钟
学院 班级 学号 姓名

注意：此卷由Part A和Part B组成。其中Part A属于闭卷考试，考试时间为30分钟。在监考老师收完Part A的答卷后，再发放Part B的试题。Part B属于开卷考试,学生可以查阅除手机等设备外的纸质资料,考试时间为60分钟.

Part A
Ⅰ. Match (20’)
A. Match Works with Their Authors。 （20 x 0。5’= 10’）
1. Jack London A. The American Daisy Miller
2。 Sherwood Anderson B。 A History of New York
3. Mark Twain C。 Declaration of America
4。 Henry James D. The Song of Hiawathe
5。 O. Henry E。 The Rising Glory of America
6. William Dean Howells F. Song of Myself
7. Washington Irving G。 The Scarlet Letter
8。 James Fenimore Cooper H。 Typee
9。 William Cullen Bryant I。 Thanatopis
10。 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow J。 Walden
11. Nathaniel Hawthorne K. The Fall of the House of Usher
12. Herman Melville L。 The Call of the Wild
13. Ralph Emerson M. Poor White
14. Henry David Thoreau N。 A Farewell to Arms
15。 Edar Allan Poe O. The Autobiography
16。 Benjamin Franklin P。 The Road of Destiny
17。 Thomas Jefferson Q。 The Rise of Silas Lapham
18. Philip Freneau R。 The American Crisis
19。 Walt Whitman S。 The Leather stocking Tales
20. Thomas Paine T。 Nature

B。 Match Authors with Their Literary Position (1’×10=10’）
1. Benjamin Franklin A. The first writer acclaimed local writer who emphasized American regionalism
2。 Anne Bradstreet B。 A great master of the art of fiction which usually has a surprise ending
3。 O. Henry C。 Tenth Muse in America
4. William Cullen Bryant D. Inventor of detective fiction genre
5。 Ralph Waldo Emerson E。 The first American writer who developed his literary career mostly in Europe
6. Edgar Allan Poe F。 The First American
7。 Mark Twain G。 The Lincoln of American literature
8. Francis Bret Harte H。 The most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club
9。 Henry James I。 One of the finest “psychological” fiction writers in American
10. Sherwood Anderson J. The American Wordsworth

Ⅱ. Multiple choice。 Please choose the best answer among the four items。 (20 x 1’= 20')
1. In American literature， the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment。 ______ was the dominant.
A. humanism B。 rationalism
C。 romanticism D. evolution
2. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?
A。 Rationalism B. inner self
C. personal feelings D. individualism
3。 Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _____。
A. short, clear sentences
B。 abundance of local images
C. ordinary American speech
D。 highly refined language
4。 Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau。
A。 Jefferson B. Emerson
C。 Freneau D。 Mark Twain
5。 ______ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement。
A。 The Gilded Age
B. Innocent Abroad
C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____。
A。 rational B. humorous
C. optimistic D。 pessimistic

7。 ______ is the father of American Literature.
A. Benjamin Franklin B。 Philip Freneau
C。 Paine D。 Washington Irving
8. ______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club。
A。 Thoreau B. Emerson
C。 Hawthorne D。 Whitman
9。 Which of following is not a typical feature of Mark Twain's language？
A。 vernacular B. colloquial
C. elegant D。 humorous
10。 From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay， _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government。
A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D。 Common
11。 Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and send to 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
12. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en—mass” and the______ as well.
A。 nature B。 self—reliance C. self D. life

13. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous proverbs？
A. “A stitch in time save nine”
B. “God helps those who help themselves”
C. “A friend in need is a friend indeed”
D。 “Ask not who the bell tolls， the bell tolls for three”
14。 Which of the following writers died in a natural death in his old ages？
A. Jack London B。 Ernest Hemingway
C. Emily Dickinson D。 Mark Twain
15。 With William Dean Howells, 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
16。 Moby Dick was dedicated to __________.
A. Ralph Emerson B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C。 Henry Thoreau D. Henry Longfellow
17。 There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually___________ on Puritan soil.
A. Romanticism B。 Symbolism C. Mysticism D. Rationalism
18. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.
A。The Octopus B。 Moby-Dick
C. The Rise of Silas Lapham D。 Leaves of Grass
19. The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________。
A. Washington Irving B。 Ezra Pound
C。 Walt Whitman D. Emily Dickinson
20。 The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ______ in the American literary history.
A. individual feeling B。 survival of the fittest
C。 strong imagination D。 return to nature

Ⅲ. Decide whether the statements are True or False. （10 x 1’= 10’）
1. ( ） Franklin’s autobiography, published after his death， has become one of the classics of the genre.
2. ( ) O. Henry paid little attention to plot in writing.
3. ( ） All his literary life， Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil。
4. ( ) Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology。
5. ( ) Henry James abandoned traditional way of telling a story in his short stories and novels.
6. （ ） Mark Twain was the father of American language。
7. ( ) Emerson was recognized as the leader transcendentalist movement， and he always applied the term “transcendentalist" to himself to or his belief and ideas。
8. （ ) Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable。
9. （ ) In 1836, Whitman published his first book, Nature, which met with a wild reception。
10. （ ） The subjects of Walt Whitman are often war and its effects on people， or contests, such as hunting or bullfighting, which demand stamina and courage.

Part B

Ⅳ。 Explain the following literary terms。 (4'×4=16’）
1. Jack London
2. The old man and the sea
3. The lost generation
4. American transcendentalism

Ⅴ. Choose one of two great works and analyze it。 （1 x 10’= 10')
1. Analyze the poem “To a Waterfowl”。
2. Read the following passage, and answer the following questions。

Passage
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 practice 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 to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most man， it appears to me， are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of the God.

Questions：
1. This passage is taken from a famous entitled_________。 （1%）
2. The author of the work is________. （1％）
3. List by yourself at least four reasons that the author gives for going to live in the woods。 （8%）

Ⅵ. Choose two of the following questions and answer them. (2 x 12'= 24')
1. What’s the theory fiction of Henry James？
2. Give a brief analysis of Gatsby’s tragedy in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
3. The differences between Realism and Naturalism。