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《美国文学选读》试卷(A)

层次本科考试方式闭卷年级 2010 专业英语

I. Identify each of the authors in Column A with his or her work in Column B by putting

the appropriate letter in the brackets. (10%)

A B 1.William Faulkner A. To Helen

2. Robert Frost B. The Sound and the Fury

3. Benjamin Franklin C. Autobiography

4. Theodore Dreiser D. The Triumph of the Egg

5.Edgar Allan Poe E. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

6. Henry David Thoreau F . Success is Counted Sweetest

7.Sherwood Anderson G . A Psalm of Life

8. Emily Dickinson H. Sister Carrie

9. Henry James I. Daisy Miller 10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

J. Walden

II. Fill in the blanks in the following summary statements according to what you have learnt of American history and literature. (20%)

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown,

Virginia in .

2. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New

England Transcendentalism.

3. Walt Whitman’s_______, acclaimed America’s first genuine personal epic poem, ran nine

editions with more than 400 poems all written in free verse form,.

4. The three dominant figures of the American Realistic period are William Dean Howells,

_________ and Mark Twain.

5. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces

shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances. 6. The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem of

the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 7. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortest poem written

by .

8. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by

the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.

9. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises , Earnest Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude

Stein had called a “__________”.

10. The Leading playwright of the modern period in American literature is ________.

Ⅲ. Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.

(20%)

1. American Romanticism stretches from the end of the ________ century through the outbreak of ______. A.18th, the Civil War B. 18th, the War of Independence C. 19th, WWI D. 19th, WWII

2. 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

3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson? A. Importance of the Individual B. Faith in Christianity

C. The Over-Soul

D. Self-Reliance

4. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regard ed as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.

A. Walden

B. The Pioneers

C. Nature

D. "Song of Myself"

5. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his “black vision”. The term “black vision” refers to______________.

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A. Hawthorne’s observation that every man faces a black Wall.

B.Hawthorne’s belief that all men are by nature evil.

C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story.

D. that Puritans of Hawthorne’s time usually wore black clothes.

6. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is,

unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”

A. Walt Whitman

B. Edgar Allen Poe

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual

subject of her poetic expression?

A. Religion.

B. Life and death.

C. Love and marriage.

D. War and peace.

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. After “The Adventure of Tom Sawyer”, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book

called_________, and the book from which “all modern American literature comes”.

A. Life on the Mississippi River

B. The Gilded Age

C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. The Sun Also Rises

10. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following

titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _________.

A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie

C. Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales

D. Thoreau’s Walden 11. _______ is famous for psychological realism.

A. Mark Twain

B. William Dean Howells

C. Henry James

D. Walt Whitman

12. 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

13. 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.

14. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?

A. Cambridge.

B. Oxford.

C. Mississippi.

D. Yoknapatawpha.

15. Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because_____________.

A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South

B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and Social institutions

C. most of them were prisoners of the past

D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable

16. F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the author of ______ .

A. The Great Gatsby

B. Tender is the Night

C. A Farewell to the Arms

D. This Side of Paradise

17. 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

18. 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

19. In Robert Frost’s famous poem“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The

woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to______.

A. die

B. calm down

C. fall into sleep

D. stop walking

20. 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.

Ⅳ. Explain the following literary terms in your own words. (20%)

1. Transcendentalism

2. Free Verse

3. Local Color Fiction

4. Jazz Age

5. Imagism

V. Read the following excerpts or poems and then answer questions. (30%)

1. (10 points)

(Excerpt) But the point which drew all ayes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer, --so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time, --was the SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relation with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

Question 1 Who is the bearer of the SCARLET LETTER? (1 point)

Question 2 From which book is this excerpt chosen? Who is the author? (2 points)

Question 3 What is the symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter “A”? (7 points)

2.(10 points)

I'M Nobody! Who are you?

Are you--Nobody--too?

Then there's a pair of us!

Don’t tell! they'd advertise--you know!

How dreary--to be--Somebody!

How public--like a Frog--

To tell your name--the livelong June--

To an admiring Bog!

Questions 1 Who is the author of the little poem? （1 point）

Questions 2 What are the usual subjects of the author? （4 points）

Questions 3 How do you understand the poem? (5 points)

3.(10 points)Try to interpret the following poem according to your own understanding.（at least 150 words）

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

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