美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

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美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一

I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)

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

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 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. 4. Jack London’s masterwork _________ is 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 movement in poetry which he called the “________” movement. 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 narration”. 11. In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst” since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life.

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

13. _______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.

14. The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 15. “The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.

II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)

1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an

ultimately mystery of the universe.

A. Stubb B. Ishmael C. Ahab D. Starbuck

2. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.

A. nature B. self-reliance C. self D. life

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

A. Importance of the Individual B. Faith in Christianity C. The Over-Soul D. Self-Reliance

4. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.

A. saviors B. villains C. commentators D. observers

5. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The

following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____. A. Dreiser’s Sister Carrier

B. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales D. Thoreau’s Walden

6. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? .

A. Ralph Emerson B. Walt Whitman C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Henry Thoreau

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7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.

A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby Dick

B. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow C. Young Goodman Brown and Moby Dick

D. The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle

8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a

usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.

A. Religion B. Life and death C. Love and marriage D. War and peace 9. Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.

A. the inner life of human beings B. small town life in backward regions

C. suffering of the aged D. violent events in history

10. ______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”

A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. Life on the Mississippi C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. The Gilded Age 11. William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.

A. New England B. South C. Mid West D. West

12. One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ an accepted standard

literary medium.

A. tall tale B. local colorism C. humor D. colloquial speech

13. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.

A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 D. 10 14. In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.

A. English sonnet B. Japanese haiku C. Chinese classical poetry D. French

15. Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A. William Faulkner B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. F. S. Fitzgerald

16. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _____.

A. life in New York B. country life in New England C. sea adventures D. life on the Mississippi River

17. The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.

A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. John Steinbeck C. Ernest Hemingway D. William Howells

18. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this

great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.

A. Mrs. Stowe B. Emily Dickinson C. George Eliot D. Jane Austen

19. It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.

A. Mark Twain B. Emily Dickinson C. Theodore Dreiser D. Henry James

20. “Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” This may be a principle for the characterization of _______.

A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. modernism

III. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each) 1. Local color fiction 2. Captain John Smith

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3. “Annabel Lee”

IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)

1. What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson? 2. What’s the symbolic significance of The Scarlet Letter?

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二

I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)

1. _____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

2. The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.

3. Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.

4. _________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.

5. Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.

6. The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.

7. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.

8. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.

9. “The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.

10. Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece. 11. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.

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

13. As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.

14. The publication of Washington Irving’s _________, a collection of essays, sketches and tales, marks the beginning of American romanticism.

15. “The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.

II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each) 1. In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.

A. individualism B. freedom C. democracy D. all the above 2. ______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.

A. Ahab B. Ishmael C. Flask D. Queequeg

3. In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell

Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.” A. Declaration of Independence B. Self-Reliance

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