美国文学期中测试卷Mid –term Examination

美国文学期中测试卷Mid –term Examination

I.Put the following literary terms into English. (1*20=20*)

1. 清教主义

2.史诗

3.诗节

4.押头韵

5.浪漫主义

6.现实主义

7.当代文学

8.十四行诗

9.民谣10.挽歌

11.超验主义12.科幻小说13.启蒙主义文学14.独白15.自传

16.抒情诗17.哥特式小说18.人物角色19.题材20.寓言诗歌II．Name the authors of the following works. (1*20=20*)

1. My Lost Youth/ A Psalm of Life

2.Billy Budd

3.Self-Reliance

4.The Blithedale Romance

5. To a Waterfowl

6.The Fall of the House of Usher

7.The Deerslayer

8.Walden

9. Rip Van Winkle 10.The Indian Buying Ground 11.The Autobiography

12.To Helen 13.Uncle To m′s Cabin 14. The Scarlet Letter

15. The Old man and the Sea 16.The Cop and The Anthem

17. A Farewell to Arms 18.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

19. Moby Dick 20.The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America III. Fill in the blanks. (1*10=10*)

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at ______, Virginia in 1607.

2.For the puritans, they have led a way of life that stressed hard

work, thrift, ______ and sobriety.

3._______, the main representative of American Enlightenment,

is generally regarded as the embodiment of the American Dream.

4.As a poet, ______ heralded American literary independence

for he has produced many natural lyrics like The Wild Honey Suckle.

5.For those New England Transcendentalists, their main belief

is the ________, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things are a part.

6.The publication of the book _____, written by Emerson in

1836 announced the birth of Transcendentalism.

7.It is generally acknowledged that Washington Irving is the

father of American short stories. He established his reputation with the publication of his ________.

8.James Fenimore Cooper has launched two kinds of

immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale and the ________ saga.

9.The father of American gothic novels is _________.

10.The famous novel The Scarlet Letter uses a puritanical

background that is ________ century (time) Boston.

IV. Multiple choices. (1*20=20*)

1. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is

NOT true?

A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.

B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.

C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.

D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.

2. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote from ______’s writings.

A. Walt Whitman

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Herman Melville

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.All the following historical figures helped to build a new Nation in America except _____.

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Thomas Paine

C. Benjamin Franklin

D. Philip Freneau

4.About the puritans, which of the following statement is not true?