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Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1.Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.
a. Leaves of Grass
b. The Scarlet Letter
c. “Hymn to The Night”
d. “The Secret of the Sea”
2.Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his
predecessor, ______, but his style and method are very
different.
a. Mark Twain
b. Stephen Crane
c. Henry James
d. Emerson
3.Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the
representative naturalistic novel in the American literature.
a. Sinclair Lewis
b. Theodore Dreiser
c. F. Scott Fitagerald
d. H.L.Mencken
4．Mark Twain’s ______ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.
a.Roughing It
b.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c.Life on the Mississippi
d.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5. Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and
impressionistic.
a. romantic
b. naturalistic
c. classical
d. imagining
6.______ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
a. New York
b. Chicago
c. California
d. Washington
7.Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England
Transcendentalism?
a. Nature
b. Walden
c. On Beauty
d. Self-Reliance
8. 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
9. Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
a. Huckleberry Finn
b. Tom Sawyer
c. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
d. The Gilded Age
10.American literature produced only one female poet during the
19th century. This was _______.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Jane Austen
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Harriet Beecher
11. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, ______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
a. sentimentalism
b. Romanticism
c. realism
d. naturalism
12. Leaves of Grass has _______ editions.
a. nine
b. five
c. six
d. seven
13._______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s
writing.
a. The use of the poetic “I”
b. Free verse
c. Musicality or rhythm
d. Allegory
14.Melville’s _______ is a semi-autobiographical novel
concerning the sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors.
a. Typee
b. Redburn
c. White Jacket
d. Billy Budd
15._______ is not among the writing features of Melville’s
works.
a. symbolism
b. allgory
c. psychological analyses
d. Dramatic monologue
16.The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age”by
_______.
a. Mark Twain
b. Henry James
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Theodore Dreiser
17._______ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of
American national literature.”
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Henry James
c. Mark Twain
d. Theodore Dreiser
18._______, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults,
is Mark Twain’s most representative book.
a. Roughing It
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c. Life on the Mississippi
d. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
19.Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and
stories with ________.
a. the love and marriage theme
b. the theme of humor and satire on life
c. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor
and criticizing the capitalism
d. the international theme
20.Within Dickinson’s little lyrics, she addresses those issues
that concern the whole human beings, which exclude
________.
a. religion
b. Friendship
d. immortality
Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for the following works and put them onto the Answer Sheet.
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Herman Melville
D. Henry W. Longfellow
E. Walt Whitman
F. Emily Dickinson
G. Mark Twain H. Stephen Crane
I. Henry James1.A 2.E 3.E 4.C 5.C
6.G
7. I
8.I
9. F 10.F
11. H 12.B 13. D 14.G 15. D
16. H 17.G 18.F 19. A 20.E
1.Self-reliance ( )
2.There Was a Child Went Forth ( )
3.There Was a Child Went Forth ( )
4.White Jacket ( )
5.Moby Dick ( )
6.Life on the Mississippi ( )
7.Daisy Miller ( )
8.What Maisie Knew ( )
9.This is My Letter to the World ( )
10.I Like to See It Lap the Miles ( )
11.A Red Badge of Courage ( )
12.Civil Disobedience ( )
13.V oices of the Night ( )
14.The Gilded Age ( )
15.Hiawatha ( )
16.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( )
17.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( )
18.I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died ( )
19.The American Scholar ( )
20.Song of Myself ( )
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five terms. Please give the definition for these terms. Scores will be given for the related contents. Four individual contents will be enough for four points.
1.Free Verse
2.Transcendentalism
3.American Realism
4.American Naturalism
5.Local Color
Directions: In this part of the test, there are two excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by three questions. Read the excerpts and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.
Part A
Success
Success is counted sweetest
Those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag today
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.
1.Who is the author of the poem? (1’)
2.According to the poem, what best understands success? (1’)
3.In your opinion, who wants most to succeed? (1’)
4.Translate the first stanza into Chinese. (2’)
Part B
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!
I felt her presence, by its spell of might,
Stoop o’er me from above;
The calm, majestic presence of the Night,
As of the one of I love.
I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight,
The manifold, soft chimes,
That fill the haunted chambers of the Night,
Like some old poet’s rhymes.
From the cool cisterns of the midnight air
My spirit drank repose;
The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,--
From those deep cisterns flows.
O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy finger on the lips of care,
And they complain no more.
Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer!
Descend with broad-winged flight,
The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair,
The best-beloved Night!
1.What is the title of the poem? Who is the author?
2.How does the poet personify the Night?
Directions: In this part of the test, there are ten excertps. Judge the authors and titles of these works and fill them on the Answer
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1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. A. Ahab B. Ishmael C. Stubb D. Starbuck 2. Naturalism is evolved from re alism 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 3. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes th ree novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ . A. The Genius B. The Tycoon C. The Stoic D. The Giant 4. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ . A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism 5. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. A. Southern B. Western C. New Hampshire D. New England 6. As an autobiographical play, O’Neill’s ___________(1956) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama. A. The Iceman Cometh B. Long Day’s Journey Into Night C. The Hairy Ape D. Desire Under the Elms 7. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions. A. impressionism B. expressionism C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 8. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________. A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images C. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language 9. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ . A. vernacular B. interior monologue C. point of view D. photographic description 10. It is on his____________ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European tours C. early poetry D. tales about America 11. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “____________________”.
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Washington Irving Bracebridge Hall 布雷斯布里奇田庄 (1822) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Tales of a Traveller 旅客谈 (1824) Christopher Columbus (1828) c. writing characteristics (1) humorous: the function of his writing is to amuse, to entertain instead of teaching or instruction (2) vivid and true character portrayal (3) finished (refined) and musical language, thus regarded as “the Amn. Goldsmith ” d. analysis on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow(选自the sketch book 见闻札记 ) 1. the story:setting,character, plot 2. theme:conflicts and praise conflict betw. Ichabod and Brom conflict betw. the village and the outside world James Fenimore Cooper The Spy (1821): a historical novel The Pilot (1824): a sea novel Leatherstocking Tales 皮裹腿故事集(1823-1841): frontier novels The Last Mohicans (1826) (Colonial War betw. Britain and France) e. writing features: strong points: we can see a variety of incidents and tensions, complicated plot and structure and a beautiful description of nature. Weak points: characterization is weak. There is unsatisfactory description of characters (esp. female). He is not free from syntactical awkwardness, heavy-handed attempt at humor. “Where Irving excels Cooper is weak.” Dialect is not authentic. Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House Usher Feature: i. brevity (15 pages) ii. Single effect iii. originality in theme To Helen It was inspired by the beauty of the mother of a schoolmate of Poe in Richmond, Virginia. The poem is famous for a number of things: 1. its rhyme scheme: ababb 2. its varied line lengths 3. its metaphor of a travel on the sea 4. its oft-quoted lines: "To the glory that was Greece,/And the grandeur that was Rome." theme: praise the ideal love and beauty and ancient Greek and Roman civilizations The Raven 乌鸦 theme: the lament over the death of a beautiful woman tone: melancholy Transcendentalism (essayists, poets, novelists) Their journal is “The Dial ” . Definition: Transcendentalism is idealism. (Emerson) b. features (1) stress on Oversoul, that is spirit. (2) stress the importance of individual. (3) fresh conception of nature. c. significance (1) inspired a whole generation of writers such as Whitman, Melville and Dickinson. (2) dresses man ’s subjective initiative as opposed to materialism. (3) liberated people from Calvin ’s original sin d. limitation (1) shallow: cut off from real life or reality; initiated by the rich, they were limited in a certain circle. So, in some degree, they have been cut off from social life and can ’t understand the sufferings of the common people. (2) inward contradiction: gain knowledge by intuition, shows its idealistic aspect. R.W. Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Nature (1836): the Bible of New England transcendentalism The American Scholar (1837): "America's Declaration of Intellectual The Divinity School Address 神学院致辞 (1838) Essays (1841/1847) Representative Men (1850) English Traits (1856)