云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题.doc

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五

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I.

( ) 1. Hawthorne concludes that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the word.”( ) 2. Transcendentalists recognized intuition as the “highest power of the soul.”

( ) 3. The misshapen scholar mentioned in Chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne’s husband.

( ) 4. The finest example of Hawthorne’s expressionism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in The Scarlet Letter.

( ) 5. MacLeish often wrote his poetry with short lines and the strong rhythm of jazz.

( ) 6. The poet compares hatred to fire in “Fire and Ice”.

( ) 7. Heller’s sardonic novel, Catch-22 is considered to be one of the most significant works of “protest literature” to appear since the Second World War.

( ) 8. The bulk of The Autobiography was written in 1771, 1784 and 1788.

( ) 9. Through his efforts, the American theatre grew up during the 1920s; O’Neill had a great influence on American playwrights.

( ) 10. The narrator, Fortunato, opens the story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by stating that he has been irreparably insulted by his acquaintance, Montresor, and that he seeks revenge.

( ) 11. William Dean Howells thinks The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s beast work and praises it as “a real Crane’s work”.

( ) 12. One of Porter’s contributions is that she described the women’s liberation from the perspective of feminism. ( ) 13. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is a story of an idealist who was destroyed by the disillusion of American Dream.

( ) 14. Sarty is one of the main characters in Barn Burning created by Faulkner.

( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway revealed his life values and standards in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

( ) 16. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a Beat Generation.

( ) 17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the most famous American realistic poets in 19th century.

( ) 18. Poe is influenced by romantic style. His poems are noted for nice rhythm and images.

( ) 19. n the poem “One’s Self I sing”, Whiteman set forth the principle beliefs of the modern man.

( ) 20. Emily Dickinson has published 1775 poems during her lifetime.

II.

Writers:

( ) 1. Toni Morrison

( ) 2. Joseph Heller

( ) 3. Eugene Glastone O’Neill

( ) 4. Archibald MacLeish

( ) 5. Emily Dickinson

( ) 6. Benjamin Franklin