《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）

外国语学院20— 20 学年第 二 学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）

适用班级 050511-13 考试时间 120 分钟

学院 班级 学号 姓名 题号 一 分数 得分

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

1. Leaves of Grass ( ) 2. Raven ( )

3. Anecdote of the Jar ( ) 4. The Octopus ( )

5. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( ) 6. A Rose for Emily ( ) 7. Arrowsmith ( )

8. Of Mice and Men ( ) 9. The Weary Blues ( )

10. The Streetcar Named Desire ( )

II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%）

1. Emily Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual and pays

attention to only one region “____________”. Her poetry characterizes with the concise, direct and simple diction and syntax.

2. Simply ______________ means the use of regional detail in a literary

or artistic work. The name is given especially to a kind of American literature that in its most characteristic form made its appearance just after the Civil War and for nearly three decades was the single most popular form of American literature.

3. Martin Eden, one of London's most important books, is this __________

account of a young sailor who struggles to improve himself and achieves eventual success as a writer, but grows disenchanted with fame and wealth. It represents both an indictment of the American dream and an

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二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 总分 得分 important reflection on London's own background and career.

4. Modernism in literature is not easily summarized, but the key elements

are experimentation, __________, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.

5. The __________ manifesto came out in 1912 showed three poetic

principles: direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）, exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）, the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）.

6. In The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells us a story of an old Cuban fisherman, __________, who is a perfectionist when it comes to fishing.

7. William Faulkner wrote works of psychological drama and emotional

depth, typically with long serpentine prose and high, meticulously-chosen diction, also using groundbreaking literary devices such as stream of consciousness, ______________, and time-shifts within narrative.

8. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

in __________ for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.

9. ____________ was more than just a literary movement: it included

racial consciousness, \back to Africa\movement led by Marcus Garvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others. It was a huge leap for black liberation and culture.

10. ____________ received the Pulitzer Prize four times and received the

Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy, making him the first US dramatist to do so.

得分 III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. （20%）

1. Mark Twain created, in____________, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature. A. Huckleberry Finn B. Tom Sawyer

C. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

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D. The Gilded Age

2. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain. A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. Innocents Abroad C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Rise of Silas Lapham

3. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.

A. sentimentalism B. romanticism

C. realism D. naturalism

4. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________.

A. First World War B. Second World War

C. Civil War D. War of Independence

5. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.

A. The Waste Land B. The Cantos

C. Don Juan D. Queen Mab

6. __________, a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas a Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power. A. \The Confidential Clerk\ B. \The Cocktail Party\C. \ D. \Murder in the Cathedral\

7. The 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 Roaring Twenties B. The Jazz Age

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C. The Dollar Decade D. all of the above

8. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.

A. Gertrude Stein B. Ezra Pound

C. Thomas Stearns Eliot D. James Joyce E. all of the above

9. __________ tells the Joad family's life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California. A. Of Mice and Men B. The Grapes of Wrath

C. The Great Gatsby D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

10. _________ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the \who labored for both of them.

A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Ernest Hemingway D. John Steinbeck

得分 IV. Identify the author and the title of the work from which each of the following excerpts is taken. And then answer the question after each excerpt. (20%)

Passage 1

\And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. \

The author

The title of the work

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