《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷)答案

湖州师范学院外国语学院2008— 2009学年第二学期

《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）答案暨评分标准

I. Write the names of the authors. (10%)

①Walt Whitman

②Edgar Allen Poe

③Wallace Stevens

④Franklin Norris

⑤Stephen Crane

⑥William Faulkner

⑦Sinclair Lewis

⑧John Steinbeck

⑨Langston Hughes

⑩Tennessee Williams

II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%）

①New England

②Regionalism or Local color writing

③semi-autobiographical

④anti-realism

⑤Imagist

⑥Santiago

⑦multiple narrations or points of view

⑧1930

⑨Harlem Renaissance

⑩Eugene O’Neill

III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. （20%）

1－5. A D C B B 6－10. D B E B A

IV. Identify the author and the title of the work from which each of the following excerpts is taken. And then answer the question after each excerpt. (20%)

Passage 1

the author: Walt Whitman (1%)

the title of the work : Songs of Myself (1%)

Question: What is the poet celebrating? (2%)

➢The poet is celebrating individualism and nationalism, singing of all those people who form the American nationality.

Passage 2

the author: Eugene O’Neill (1%)

the title of the work :Desire Under the Elm s (1%)

Question: What do you think is Abbie’s real intention of showing affection to Eben? ➢To seduce Eben, with the intention to be pregnant with a son that could inherit the farm. (2%)

Passage 3

the author: Emily Dickinson (1%)

the title of the work: “Because I could not stop for death”(1%)

Question: What is the implication of this final stanza?(2%)

➢Death leads us to immortality.

Passage 4

the author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1%)

the title of the work : The Great Gatsby (1%)

Question: What is the author' s attitude toward such persons as Tom and Daisy?

➢The author criticized them as selfish, hypocritical persons. (2%)

Passage 5

the author: Edgar Allan Poe (1%)

the title of the work: “To Helen”(1%)

Question: Comment on the beauty of this poem. (2%)

➢The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices..）

➢The beauty of content.

V. Answer the following questions briefly.（20%）

1. Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”:（1）What realistic elements can you find in this story? (5%)

①Background: Gold Rush (2%)

②California was a world of men, isolated, homesick, and eager for

entertainment. (1%)

③Gambling was one of the easiest and most popular ways to amuse

themselves. (1%)

④The Easterners had a reputation for being civilized, cultured, and advanced;

whereas the Westerners were considered to be less-educated, less-refined and

easy to be deceived. (1%)