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Ⅰ. Multiple Choices .
1. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving’s ______ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book
B. Tales of a Traveller
C. A History of New York
D. The Scarlet Letter
2. In the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”。 A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance
C. the American Renaissance
D. the Salem Renaissance
3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______.
A. nature, man and the universe
B. the relationship between man and woman
C. the development of Romanticism in American literature
D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism 4. In the history of American literature ， ______ is usually agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism. A. the Harlem Renaissance B. England Transcendentalism C. New England Transcendentalism D. New Transcendentalism
5. About the novel The Scarlet Letter ，which of the following statements is not right ？ A. It’s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.
B. It’s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.
C. It’s mainly about the moral ，emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.
D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel. 6. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered______.
A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe
B. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with nature
C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure
D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty
7. In his poems ， Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry ，which is called “______.”
A. free verse
B. blank verse
C. alliteration
D. end rhyming
8. After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to ______.
A. an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society
B. an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality
C. a poor and backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society D . an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society 9. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism ？
A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.
B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.
C. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh environment.
D. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes ， their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.
10. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language ？ A. His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read. B. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.
C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration ，repetition and anti-climax.
D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.
11. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thou ght and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism ：American ______. A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism
C. Realism
D. Naturalism
12. Which of the following is not written by Henry James ？ A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians D. The Genius and The Gilded Age
13. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed. A. man and man B. men and women C. man and nature D. men and God
14. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson’s poems about nature ？
A. In them, she expressed her general affirmation about the relationship between man and nature.
B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature.
C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.
D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature’s inscrutability and indifference to the life and interests of human beings.
15. As a great innovator in American literature ，Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called free verse ，that is ______. A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains
B. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
C. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat
D. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
16. By the end of the 19th century, the American realists sought to ______and therefore rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and events in their writings.
A. describe the wide range of American experience
B. show animal nature of human beings
C. present the subtleties of human personality
D. both A and C
17. In the first part of the 20th century ，apart from Darwinism ，there were two thinkers -______， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.
A. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud
B. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud
C. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James
D. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud
18. Which of the following can be said about Eugene O’Neill plays？
A. Most of his plays are concerned about the root，the truth of human desires and human frustrations.
B. His tragic view of life is reflected in many of his works.
C. His plays are concerned about the relationship between man and nature as well as man and woman.
D. both A and B.
19. Most of O’Neill’s plays are concerned about the following except______.
A. success and failure in man’s literary career
B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality
C. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration
D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament
20. Which of the following can be said about a typical modern literary work？
A. It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.
B. It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory.
C. It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience.
D. Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public.
21. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following is not right？
A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions.
B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.
C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.
D. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime，his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.
22. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poetic expression.
A. England
B. New England
C. Plymouth
D. Boston
23. Which of the following statements is right about Robert Frost’s poetry？
A. He combined traditional verse forms with the difficult and highly ornamental language.
B. He combined traditional verse forms with the pastoral language of the Southern area.
C. He combined traditional verse forms with a simple spoken language-the speech of New England farmers.
D. He combined traditional verse forms with the experimental.
24. Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”？
A. Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment.
B. They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern world.
C. They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces.
D. They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.
25. As Fitzgerald’s writing style is concerned, which of the following is right？
A. The author dropped off the device of having events observed by a “central consciousness”.
B. His intervening passages of narration leaves the tedious process of transition to the author’s imagina tion.
C. The scenic method is employed, each of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.
D. His diction and metaphors are partially original and details accurate.
26. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century？
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. The Old Man and the Sea
C. Mosses From the Old Manse
D. The Green Hills of Africa
27. Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms？
A. The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’s design or his beneficence.
B. The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930s.
C. The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.
D. It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian nurse.
28. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s no vels？
A. Cambridge.
B. Oxford.
C. Mississippi.
D. Yoknapatawpha.
29. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.
A. observe with no judgment what so ever
B. reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum
C. observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the events
D. both A and B
30. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards？
A. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic field.
B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose works were set against the Jewish experience and tradition.
C. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.
D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its predecessors.
31. The speaker of “The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter”describes ______.
A. the history of her parents' village
B. the effect of the changing seasons on her garden
C. her marriage and her husband's absence
D. her life on the river
32. Which of the following statements about Robert Frost is right?
A. His achievement in poetic form is his combination of the traditional verse patterns and the refined
language.
B. The very elements of war and famine are found in Frost's poetical natural world.
C. His first collection of poetry is North of Boston.
D. His poems are mostly concerned with his contemplation on nature, and relationship between man and nature.
33. Hemingway's first true novel______ casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects
of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. The Old Man and the Sea
C. For Whom the Bell Tolls
D.A Farewell to Arms
34. In 1950, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist______.
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. Intruder in the Dust
C. The Unvanquished
D. Light in August
35. Stephen Crane’s novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Street, is the story of a girl _______.
A. who is brought up in a poor area of Chicago
B. who is loved by her family but betrayed by her friends
C. who experiences the violence and cruelty of the society almost every day
D. who is evil by nature
36. In the 1920s decade, O'Neill established an international reputation with such play (or plays) as_______.
A. The Hairy Ape
B. Ann Christle
C. The Emperor Jones
D. All of the above
37. Which of the following does not belong to the Lost Generation of modern American literature?
A. Ezra Pound and Robert Frost
B. W.
C. Williams and Gertrude Stein
C. F.S. Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner and Theodore Dreiser
38. In the poem “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” Emily Dickinson gives a tense description of the greatest rending of the moment of _______.
A. love
B. immortality
C. death
D. nature
39. In the following statements, _______ is NOT true as to the backgrounds of the Dollar Decade?
A. The United States had become the most powerful industrialized nation in the world.
B. The Crash marked the beginning of “The Great Depression” in the 1930s.
C. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.
D. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life of the American people.
40. In a class which discusses the Imagism Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include _______.
A. William Carlos Williams
B. Gary Snyder
C.Hulme
D. Ezra Pound
Ⅱ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. Group 1
Column A Column B
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne A. White Jacket
2. Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book
3. Washington Irving C. The Scarlet Letter
4. Ernest Hemingway D. A Farewell to Arms
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald E. This Side of Paradise
Group 2
Column A Column B
6.Ahab A. The Great Gatsby
7. George Hurstwood B. A Farewell to Arms
8. Yank C. Moby Dick
9. Tom Buchanan D. Sister Carrie
10. Henry E. The Hairy Ape
III. Interpretation.
Passage 1
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd；
Petals on a wet, black bough.
1.Who is the author? （1%）
2.Please analyze this poem. （4%）
Passage 2
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom if my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I,now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
1. What poem is this stanza extracted? Who is the writer? （2%）
2. What’s the theme of this poem? （3%）
Passage 3
Hurstwood put his hand, red from cold, down in his pockets. Tears came into his eyes. “That’s right,”he said; “I’m no good now. I was all right. I had money. I’m going to quit this,”and, with death in his heart, he started down toward the Bowery. People had turned on the gas before and died; why shouldn’t he? He remembered a lodging house where there were little, close rooms, with gas-jets in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents. Then he remembered that he had no fifteen cents. Hurstwood moved on, wondering. The sight of the large, bright coin pleased him a little. He remembered that he was hungry and that he could get a bed for ten cents. With this, the idea of death passed, for the time being, out of his mind. It was only when he could get nothing but insults that death seemed worthwhile.
1. Please identify the author and the novel. （2%）
2. Please give a naturalistic understanding of the novel. （3%）
Ⅳ. Define the following terms.
1. Symbolism
2. American Romanticism
3. The Autobiography
Ⅴ. Give a brief answer to the following questions.
1. Choose the following authors and make a comment on any one of his literary works.
a. Ezra Pound
b. Steinbeck
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Robert Frost
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