美国文学试题

Exercises OneI.Write the names of the authors.(10%)( ) 1. The Fall of the House of the Usher( ) 2. The House of the Seven Gables( ) 3. Song of Myself( ) 4. I Died for Beauty-but Was Scarce( ) 5. The Prince and the Pauper() 6. The Catcher in the Rye( ) 7. Catch-22( ) 8. The Naked and the Dead( ) 9. The Victim( ) 10. On the Road( ) 11. Twice Told Tales( ) 12. The Voice of the City( ) 13. Life on the Mississippi( ) 14. Annabel Lee( ) 15. The Turn of the Screw( ) 16. The Mysterious Stranger( ) 17. them( ) 18. Portnoy's Complaint( ) 19. Howl( ) 20. Life StudiesII. Write the names of the novels or poems according to the give n passage. (10%)( ) 1. There was the great city, bound more closely by •th ese •very •trains which came up daily. Colu mbia City was not so very far away, even onceshe was in Chicago.( ) 2. The carriage held but just OurselvesAnd Immortality( ) 3. " I will go home with you," said Mr. Dimmesdale( ) 4. My Captain doesn't answer, his lips are pale and still.My father doesn't feel my arm, he has no puls e and will.( ) 5. Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore( ) 6. I Loaf and invite my soulI Lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.( ) 7. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at •the •threshold, was a wild rosebush, covere d in this month of June, with•its •delicate •g ems,•which •might •be imagined to offer their fragrance and •frail beauty to the prisoner as he went in... ( ) 8. Were I with theeWild Nights should be Our luxury!( ) 9.Art lives upon •discussion,•upon•experiment,•u pon•curiosity,•upon variety of attempt,upon the exchange of v iews and the comparison of stand-points...( )10. The only reason for the existence •of •a •novel •is •that •it •does attempt to represent life.III.Some of the following statements are true,some are false,mar k them. (15%)( ) 1.The Calvinist doctrine of "original sin" exerted great influen ce up Hawthorne.( ) 2.To Hawthorme sin will get punished,one way or another. ( ) 3.Roger •Chillingworth,•the •scholar,•the •embodiment •of •pure ••intellect,••committed ••the "Unpardonable Si n".( ) 4.Emily Dickinson didn't like using capital letters where small ones are needed.( ) 5.Walt Whitman used parallelism and refrain in his poems. ( ) 6.Walt Whitman was regarded as the Zenith in American rom antic poetry.( ) 7.Dickinson was original.She never imitated others.( ) 8.Allan Poe defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beau ty.( ) 9.O.Henry seldom wrote about poor people.( )10.According to Poe,art serves for pleasure.The chief •aim •of •poetry •is •beauty,•namely,•to produce a feeling of beaut y in the reader.( )11.According to Dickinson,death means immortality.( )12.According to Poe,truth is beauty,beauty true.( )13.According to Henry James,the aim of the novel is to reflect life reality.( )14.James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American soci ety,and Howells •concerned •himself chiefly with middle class lif e,whereas Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. ( )15.American writers,especially novelists were rather experimen tal after World War( )16.Joyce Carol Oates was a famous Jewish writer.( )17.Allen Ginsberg was the representative of the Beat Generati on.( )18.The Confessional Poets took Whitman as their model in wri ting.( )19.Emily Dickinson was regarded as the forerunner of symboli sm.( )20.The Confessional Poets never wrote about themselves. ( )21.Allan Poe was regarded as the forerunner of American Ima gism.( )22.Literary criticism in Europe began with the theory•of •literature •and •art •as •works •of imitation of nature,as preach ed by Plato and Aristotle.( )23.Allan Poe advocated "pure" poetry.( )24.Mark Twain's contribution to the development of realism an d to •American •literature •as •a whole was partly through hi s theories of localism in American •fiction,•and •partly •throu gh his themes.( )25.Henry James adopted a new point of view in one of his no vels.( )26.The method of showing symbolizes the beginning of moder n prose fiction.( )27.Traditional novelists, especially the critical realistic •novelis ts,•generally •focused their attention on social significance. ( )28.Henry James discovered the trick of making his characters reveal •themselves •with •minimal intervention of the author. ( )29.N.Hawthorne was a symbolic writer in some sense.( )30.Whiteman's poetry suggests rather than tells.IV. Explain (15%)1. O.Henry's style2.Henry James' contribution to American fiction3.Walt Whitman was the pioneer of modern poetry┏━━━┳━━━┓┃得分┃┃┣━━━╋━━━┫┃阅卷人┃┃┗━━━┻━━━┛V.Tell what the following symbolize. (10%)1. Letter "A" ( 1.________________2. ____________3.______ _______4.__________5.__________6 ________________)'.2. Dimmesdale ( 1._______________ 2._____________3._____ ________).3. Chillingworth ( 1._______________ 2.________________).4. Pearl ( 1.________________ 2._________________).5. Hester ( 1.________________ 2.__________________).6. Prynne ( 1.________________ 2.___________).7. "Rose" in The Scarlet Letter ( 1.______________ 2.________ ___ 3.________).VI.Fill the blanks (30%)1.•2. The Leaves of Grass deals with the following themes (1)_____ ____、2)________、(3)__________、(4)___________、(•5)•__ __________、(•6)•___________、(•7)•____________、(•8)•___________,•(9)____________and (10)_________________.3. E.Dickinson was the pioneer of (1)_inmagism__ and (2) wome n literature.4.Between(1)_ the Civil War in(2)_ America and(3)•the outbr eak of the First World War in 4)1914 ,short story because a vog ue.American short story writers are (1)•_ Irving (2) O.•Henry(3) Jack London (4)_ Henry James (5) Allan Poe etc.5. Allan •Poe •was •the •inventor •of •(•1)•detective stor y,•the •foreunner •of (•2)•French symbolism and (3) South ern American Literature7. Hester Prynne is Juliet, but Arthur Dimmesdale isn't Romeo.9. Henry James' writing is sometimes hard to understand becaus美国文学史评分标准试题说明及试题答案本题含20个小题，每小题1分，计20分。