美国文学期末复习题.doc
美国文学期末复习题
2013-2014-1 美国文学史及选读期末复习材料
ⅠMultiple choices
1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?
A. Common Sense
B. The American Crisis
C. The Rights of Man
D. The Autobiography
2.“These are the times that try men’s souls”, these words were once read to Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words? A.Benjamin Franklin B. Thomas Paine
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington
3.At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ______.
A. Chartist Movement
B. Romanticist Movement
C. Enlightenment Movement
D. Modernist Movement
4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable to______.
A. the colonial order
B. religious obscurantism
C. the Puritan tradition
D. the secular literature
5.The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted ______ in 177
6.
A. Declaration of Independence
B. the Sugar Act
C. the Stamp Act
D. the Mayflower Compact
6.______ usually was regarded as the first American writer.
A. William Bradford
B.Anne Bradstreet
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Captain John Smith
7.Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “_____”who appeared in America.
A. Ninth Muse
B. Tenth Muse
C. Best Muse
D. First Muse
8. Who was considered as the “poet of American Revolution”?
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Edward Taylor
C. Michael Wigglesworth
D. Philip Freneau
9.In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet ______ to appear in America
up to that time.
A. Edward Taylor
B. Philip Freneau
C. William Cullen Bryant
D. Edgar Allen Poe
10. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in ______.
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Young Goodman Brown
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Ambitious Guest
11. “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul?Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England ______.
A. Romanticism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Naturalism
D. Symbolism
12. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
A. Nature
B. Walden
C. On Beauty
D. Self-Reliance
13.Mark Twain created, in _________, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
A. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
C. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
D. The Gilded Age
14._________ marks the climax of Mark Twain’s literary creativity.
A . The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn B. The Gilded Age
C. Life on the Mississippi
D. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
15.Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.
A. The Ambassadors
B. The Wings of the Dove
C. The Bostonians
D. The Mysterious Stranger
16. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be
_________.
A. transcendentalists
B. idealists
C. pessimists
D. impressionists
17. Ezra Pound’s long poem _________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.
A. The Waste Land
B. The Cantos
C. Don Juan
D. Queen Mab
18.T. S. Eliot ’s first major poem _________(1917), has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.
A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. The Waste Land
C. Four Quartets
D. Preludes
19.Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel _________.
A. The Old Man and the Sea
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. A Farewell to Arms
20. In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _________, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
A. stream of consciousness
B. imagism
C. symbolism
D. naturalism
21.Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ______, there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.
A.H erman Melville
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Mark Twain
D. Theodore Dreiser
22.A New ______ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century.
A. realism
B. critical realism
C. romanticism
D. naturalism
23.From Henry David Thoreau ’s jail experience, came his famous essay,______ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A. Walden
B. Nature
C. Civil Disobedience
D. Common Sense
24.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _________.
A. international theme
B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
25. Herman Melville ’ s is an encyclopedia of everything: history, philosophy religion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
A. The Old Man and the Sea
B. Moby Dick
C. White Jacket C. Billy Budd
26.The ship “_____” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A. Sunflower
B. Armada
C. Mayflower
D. Pequod
27. From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous ______, an annual collection of proverbs.
A. The Autobiography
B. Poor Richard’s Almanac
C. Common Sense
D. The General Magazine
28.In American literature, the eighteen-century was the age of the Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
29.______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
30.Edgar Allen Poe’s first collection of short stories is ______.
A. Tales of a Traveler
B. Leatherstocking Tales
C. Canterbury Tales
D. Tales of the Grotesque of Arabesque
31. ______ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The successof the book soon made Melville well known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.
A. Moby Dick
B. Typee
C. Omoo
D. Billy Budd
32.Which is regarded as the“Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
A. The American Scholar
B. English Traits
C. The Conduct of Life
D. Representative Men
33.The three dominant figures of the realistic period in American literature are _________.
A. Theodore Dreiser, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howells
B. Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean Howells
C. Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser and William Dean Howells
D. Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howells
34.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _________. A. Anne Bradstreet B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher
35.In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named_________.
A. The Son of the Wolf
B. The Sea Wolf
C. The Law of Life
D. White Fang
36.In Henry James’Daisy Miler, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of
_________.
A. the force of convention
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the corruption of the newly rich
37.“ Theapparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _________.
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
D. E.E.Cumings
38.The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _________.
A. The Roaring Twenties
B. The Jazz Age
C. The Dollar Decade
D. all of the above
39.In 1954, _________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
A. T.S Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faukner
40. William Faukner’ snovel _________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. Startoris
C. The Unvanquished
D. The Town
41.“The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit” si the title of one chapter in Dreiser’s novel _________.
A. An American Dream
B. Sister Carrie
C. Dreiser Looks at Russia
D. Jannie Gerhardt
42.The main theme of _________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.
A. Henry James’
B. William Dean Howells’
C. Mark Twain ’s
D. O. Henry ’s
43. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _________became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.
A. sentimentalism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. naturalism
44.While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel _________.
A. The Call of the Wild
B. The Sea Wolf
C. Martin Eden
D. The Iron Heel
45_________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets“killed”by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.
A. The American
B. The Europeans
C. Daisy Miller
D. The Portait of a Lady
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ⅡFilling the following blanks with proper answers
1.Captain John Smith became the first American writer.
2.The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people.
3.The first major intellectual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay colony was John Cotton, sometimes called“the Patriarch of New England.”
4.Anne Bradstreet published The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, and she was nicknamed the tenth Muse.
5.Poor Richard’s Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin.
6.Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a“Declaration for Independence”.
7.Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
8.Philip Freneau developed a natural, simple, and concrete diction, best illustrated in such nature lyrics as “ The Wild Honey Suckle ”and “The Indian Burying Ground”.
9.Philip Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.
10.In Washington Irving ’s Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
11.Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the Leatherstocking tales.
12.“To a Waterfowl”is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok.
13.“Thanatopsis”,WilliamCullenBryant’s
best-known poem, consistsof four stanzas in iambic tetrameter abab. The title means“view of death”.
14. Edgar Allan Poe is considered“ father of American detective stories and American gothic stories.”
15.Emerson believed above all in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance.
16.In Walden, Thoreau thought it better for a man to work one day a week and rest six, and the rest of
the time could be devoted to thought.
17.Hawthorne’s stories touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.
18.Moby Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.
19.After his death, Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
20.Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, had become an American institution and the most famous literary woman in the world.
21.William Dean Howells found his subject matter
in the experiences of the American middle class. 22.William Dean Howells called for the treatment of the “smiling aspects of life” as being the more “American.”
23.The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment.
24.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called free verse.
25.O·Henry’s stories are usually short and interesting; Famous for their surprising end.
26.Henry James is famous for his international theme of the traditionless American confronting the complexity of European life.
27.Jack London believed in the inevitable triumph
of the strongest individuals.
28.Dreiser’s greatest and most successfulnovel, An American Tragedy, is about a young man who acts as if the only way he can be truly fulfilled is by acquiring wealth—through marriage if necessary. 29.Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Lost Generation,”devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.
30.Wallace Stevens’work is primarily motivated by the belief that “ideas of order”.
31.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called“a lost generation”.
ⅢDecide whether the statements are true or false (T/F).
1.John Winthrop ’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been regarded as the first distinct American literature written in English.
2. In 1612, William Bradford published in England a book called A Map of Virginia; With a description of the country.
3.Philip Freneau was neoclassical by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.
4.Ralph Waldo Emerson was recognized as the leader of transcendentalist movement, but he always applied the term “Transcendentalist”to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.
5.To Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, the telling of a tale was a way of inquiring into the meaning of life.
6.Walt Whitman was attacked in his lifetime for his offensive subject matter of sexuality and for his conventional style.
7.Tom Sawyer walked out of Twain’s pages directly from his fresh memory of his boyhood in the west.
8.Hurstwood is a character in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
9.In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights.
10.Edwin Arlington Robinson began his career as a novalist in bleakness and poverty.
11.The greatest of America’s realists, such as Henry James and Mark Twain, moved well beyond a superficial portrayal of nineteenth-century America. 12.Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Mark Twain or William Dean Howells.
13.Sister Carrie is generally regarded as Theodore Dreiser’s masterpiece.
14.Generally speaking, Jack London was much more interested in ideas than Stephen Crane and less sentimental than Frank Norris.
15.Ralph Waldo Emerson’s prose style was sometimes as highly individual as his poetry.
16.American literature is the oldest of all national literature.
17.Georgia, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, New England, all were named after French monarchs and lands.
18.Benjamin Franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity and balance.
19.The Fall of the House of Usheris one of Edgar
Allan Poe’s poems.
20. The Scarlet Letteris set in the seventeenth century. It is an elaboration of a fact which the author took out
of the life of the Puritan past.
21.Walt Whitman was so great that he won respect
and love during his lifetime for hisLeaves of Grass. 22.Many of O. Henry ’s stories contain a lot of slang and colloquial expressions, just like his own speech.
23.Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Mark Twain or William Dean Howells.
24.Robert Frost rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, and chose “the old-fashioned way to be new”instead.
25.John Steinbeck’s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.
26.Transcendentalistsspoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society.
27.Washington Irving was the first great belletrist, writing always for pleasure, and to produce pleasure.
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Washington Irving Bracebridge Hall 布雷斯布里奇田庄 (1822) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Tales of a Traveller 旅客谈 (1824) Christopher Columbus (1828) c. writing characteristics (1) humorous: the function of his writing is to amuse, to entertain instead of teaching or instruction (2) vivid and true character portrayal (3) finished (refined) and musical language, thus regarded as “the Amn. Goldsmith ” d. analysis on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow(选自the sketch book 见闻札记 ) 1. the story:setting,character, plot 2. theme:conflicts and praise conflict betw. Ichabod and Brom conflict betw. the village and the outside world James Fenimore Cooper The Spy (1821): a historical novel The Pilot (1824): a sea novel Leatherstocking Tales 皮裹腿故事集(1823-1841): frontier novels The Last Mohicans (1826) (Colonial War betw. Britain and France) e. writing features: strong points: we can see a variety of incidents and tensions, complicated plot and structure and a beautiful description of nature. Weak points: characterization is weak. There is unsatisfactory description of characters (esp. female). He is not free from syntactical awkwardness, heavy-handed attempt at humor. “Where Irving excels Cooper is weak.” Dialect is not authentic. Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House Usher Feature: i. brevity (15 pages) ii. Single effect iii. originality in theme To Helen It was inspired by the beauty of the mother of a schoolmate of Poe in Richmond, Virginia. The poem is famous for a number of things: 1. its rhyme scheme: ababb 2. its varied line lengths 3. its metaphor of a travel on the sea 4. its oft-quoted lines: "To the glory that was Greece,/And the grandeur that was Rome." theme: praise the ideal love and beauty and ancient Greek and Roman civilizations The Raven 乌鸦 theme: the lament over the death of a beautiful woman tone: melancholy Transcendentalism (essayists, poets, novelists) Their journal is “The Dial ” . Definition: Transcendentalism is idealism. (Emerson) b. features (1) stress on Oversoul, that is spirit. (2) stress the importance of individual. (3) fresh conception of nature. c. significance (1) inspired a whole generation of writers such as Whitman, Melville and Dickinson. (2) dresses man ’s subjective initiative as opposed to materialism. (3) liberated people from Calvin ’s original sin d. limitation (1) shallow: cut off from real life or reality; initiated by the rich, they were limited in a certain circle. So, in some degree, they have been cut off from social life and can ’t understand the sufferings of the common people. (2) inward contradiction: gain knowledge by intuition, shows its idealistic aspect. R.W. Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Nature (1836): the Bible of New England transcendentalism The American Scholar (1837): "America's Declaration of Intellectual The Divinity School Address 神学院致辞 (1838) Essays (1841/1847) Representative Men (1850) English Traits (1856)
(完整word版)《美国文学选读》课程标准
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作家作品 Naturalism 1、Stephen Crane斯蒂芬·克莱恩1871-1900 战争小说之父 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets《街头女郎麦琪》（美国文学史上首次站在同情立场上描写受辱妇女的悲惨命运）, a pioneering work of sociological naturalism；关于南北战争的The Red Badge of Courage《红色英勇勋章》，奠定了他在美国文坛上不可动摇的地位；优秀短篇小说集The Open Boat《海上扁舟》和blue hotel 《蓝色旅馆》; wounds in the rain 《雨中的伤痕》The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky《新娘来到黄天镇》 2、Theodore Dreiser西奥多·德莱塞1871-1945美国文学史上最杰出的现实主义小说家，一位以探索充满磨难的现实生活着称的美国自然主义作家. Sister Carrie《嘉莉妹妹》，真实再现了当时美国社会;Jennie Gerhardt《珍妮姑娘》，被称为《嘉莉妹妹》的姐妹篇;Trilogy of Desire欲望三部曲（Financer金融家,The Titan巨人,The Stoic斯多噶）;An American Tragedy《美国悲剧》是德莱赛成就最高的作品，是人们清晰地看到了美国社会的真实情况，“至今依然具有巨大的现实意义” 在《美国悲剧》中，Dreiser intended to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde's downfall inevitable. Clyde's tragedy is a tragedy that depends upon the American social system which encouraged people to pursue the "dream of success" at all costs. 1、Naturalism emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances. 2. The effect of Darwinist idea of "survival of the fittest" was shattering. It is not surprising to find in Dreiser's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law. Dreiser's Writing Features: ?As a naturalist writer, Dreiser stressed determinism in his novels which deals with everyday life, often with its sordid side. ?As a naturalist, he developed the capacity for photographic and relentless (无情的) observation, thereby truthfully reflecting the society and people of his time. ?His narrative method is natural and free from artifice. Modern Poetry 3、Robert Frost罗伯特·弗罗斯特1874-1963 20世纪最受欢迎的美国诗人, 美国文学中的桂冠诗人田园诗；自然诗?He used symbols from everyday country life to express his deep ideas. His graceful and traditional poetic style is highly appreciated in the country. A Boy's Will少年心愿and North of Boston波士顿之北were published and highly acclaimed in England. Mending Wall修墙,After Apple-picking摘苹果之 后;Mountain Interval山间The Road Not taken没有选择的道路;
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1.C aptain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.T he puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.T homas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.
5.T homas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.I n Washington Irving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
8.C ooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”.
2019宁波大学英美文学考试大纲
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