美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题(20201126152726)

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一

I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)

1. The publication of _____ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England

Tran sce nden talism.

2. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest

American writing.

3. At 87, ______ read his poetry at the in augurati on of Preside nt Joh n F. Kenn edy.

4. Jack London ' s masterwork __________ i s somewhat autobiographical.

5. _____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to

destroy evil.

6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new moveme nt in poetry which he called the “______ ”

7. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ________ .

8. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, _____________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.

9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of

_______ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

10. In 1954, ______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his mastery of the art of modern nar

11. In American literary history, _______ i s called AmhersttheReclusinee”f she isolated herself from

the outside almost for life.

12. The Fall of the House of Usher ” is a short story written by _______ .

13. _____ laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the sea adve nture and the fron tier saga,

represe nted byThe Leatherstock ing Tales.

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14. The publication of T. S. Eliot ' s in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20 century, helped to establish a

modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.

15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by ______ .

II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the stateme nt. Then put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)

1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____ , the n arrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an

ultimately mystery of the uni verse.

A. Stubb

B. Ishmael

C. Ahab

D. Starbuck

2. Most of the poems in Whitman L eaves of Grasssing of the -mass en ” and the _____ a s well.

A. n ature

B. self-relia nee

C. self

D. life

3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?

A. Importa nce of the In dividual

B. Faith in Christia nity

C. The

Over-Soul D. Self-Relia nce

4. In Hawthor ne ' no vels and short stories, i ntellectuals usually appear as ______ .

A. saviors

B. villai ns

C. comme ntators

D. observers

5. In America n literature, escap ing from the society and retur ning to n ature is a com mon subject. The