英语专业美国文学试题

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Ⅰ. Write the names of the authors.(10%)

1. The Prince and the Pauper

2. The Red Badge of Courage

3. “A Clean, Well Lighted Room”

4. Call of the Wild

5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

6. “A Station at the Metro”

7. “Fire and Ice”

8. The Autobiography

9. “One’s Self I sing” 10. The Scarlet Letter Ⅱ. Fill in the following blanks . (10%)

1. In the novel , Hemingway described the dignity and courage of the common people during the Spanish Civil War.

2. was a great inventor, diplomat, and founding father of the United States of America.

3. , the earliest well-known American naturalist writer, wrote a novel about the American Civil War.

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

had called “ ”.

5. ____________________, writing well before the Modern Poetry movements of the 20th century, is often

considered the “father of modern poetry.” Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (15%) of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true A It is an early expression of naturalist writing.

B It is full of symbolism.

C It is argues the distinction between “sins of passion” and “sins of principle”

D It is considered a “romance” by its writer because it shows fantastic events and does not limit itself to strict, literal reality.

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

3. _____ was known as the founder of the American short story. A Washington Irving B Mark Twain C Jack London D O. Henry

Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______.

A French symbolism

B The Beat Generation

C confessional poetry

D Imagism

Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.

A sentimentalism

B romanticism

C realism

D naturalism

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.

A blank verse

B heroic couple

C free verse

D iambic pentameter

Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot 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 Jazz Age

B The Gilded Age

C The Roaring Age

D The Beat Age

wrote a series of historical novels set in the American Midwest and was known as “the American Sir Walter Scot.”

A Nathaniel Hawthorne

B Mary Renalt

C Stephan Crane

D James Fenimore Cooper

’s ideal hero, who faced life, fate and death courageously, can be called the __ .

A “lost generation” man

B modern man

C natural man

D true individual

doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau.

A Jefferson

B Emerson

C Freneau

D Over-soul

of the following writers influenced the development of French symbolist poetry

A Walt Whitman

B Edgar Allen Poe

C Ezra Pound

D Robert Frost

famous graduation speech turned Transcendentalism into a major intellectual and literary movement

A The American Scholar