《美国文学》期末考试试卷(B卷)及答案
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《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B 卷）适用班级考试时间120 分钟
学院班级学号姓名
得分
Ⅰ.
Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the
authors. (10%)
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20. Poor Richard ' s Alma n( ac The House of the Seven Gables
( “ Raven” ( My Antonia ( Babbitt (
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A Streetcar Named Desire ( Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( A Farewell to Arms ( The Call of the Wild ( Long Day's Journey into Night Common Sense ( “Rip Van
Winkle ”( Walden( The Song of Hiawatha ( Uncle Tom 's Cabin( The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Sister Carrie ( The Waste Land( A Farewell to Arms ( The Great Gatsby (
得分Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (10%)
1. defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
2. While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens
adopted the pseudonym
, the way of a boatman taking
soundings, and meaning two fathoms.
3. Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the direct treatment of an object or
situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exact word. 4. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece
novel __________________________ .
5. is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his vigorous and graphic art of
description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. 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 considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\ 8. _____________________________ was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet to use the form of free verse.
9. __________________________ i s the first American lyric poet.
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_____________________________ 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%)
1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment, was the
dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution
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
4. _______________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club. A. Thoreau B. Emerson C. Hawthorne D. Whitman
2. Who was considered as the
A. Michael Wigglesworth
B. Edward Taylor
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Philip Freneau
Poet of American Revolution
3. The finest example of Hawthorne