《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷)
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适用班级060511-3 考试时间 120 分钟
学院 班级 学号 姓名
Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (10%)
1. Octopus ( )
2. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( )
3. Babbitt ( )
4. White Fang ( )
5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( )
6. My Antonia ( )
7. “Birches” ( )
8. Poor Richard’s Almanac ( )
9. Light in August ( )
10. Twice Told Tales ( )
11. The Declaration of Independence ( )
12. “Rip Van Winkle ”( )
13. Nature ( )
14. The Song of Hiawatha ( )
15. Uncle Tom ’s Cabin ( )
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( )
17. Sister Carrie
( )
18. The Waste Land
( )
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls ( )
20. The Emperor Jones ( )
(10%)
1._________________________was one of the founders of the
Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies.
2.__________________________was a determined revolutionary whose
work helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, but who lost his popularity long before his death.
3.The term refers to the group of people, some of them
important to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic.
4.________________________was an early form of horror fiction that
originated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period.
5._____________________________, known for her deeply personal
poems and radically different poetic themes and form, didn’t achieve fame as a poet until long after her death.
6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by
___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.
7. _________________ has been entitled the “Father of American
Poetry.
8._______________________was the first great prose stylist of
American romanticism, author of the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the history of American literature.
9._____________________is the first American professional writer and
the first writer of the detective story in the world.
10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings
the incidents on the line of the hero’s travel.
Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the
most appropriate answer. (30%)