美国文学试题模拟的卷及问题详解.docx

1、美国文学试题模拟的卷及问题详解美国文学期末考试模拟试题及答案I. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. Franklins autobiography, published after his death, has become one of the classics of the genre.(F ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions, but the military bureaucracy

2、 is always able to find a way to make him stay.(F ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crime in the end of the play.(T ) 4. “Dreams” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to give up hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is un

3、bearable.(T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work.(F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Imagist movement in the early 19th century.

4、(F ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Poes poems.(F ) 8. Saul Bellows perceptions center around the black people, the big city, and the spirit of American life in the second half of the 20th century.(T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hesters illegitimate daughter.(T ) 10. Some prese

5、nt-day critics consider Pounds Cantos the best long poem in modern literature.(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street, which exerted great influence on Theodore Dreisers realism. ( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s. (F ) 13. F

6、itzgeralds fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the romantic period.(F ) 14. William Faulkners woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral in the American North. (F ) 15. In Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, in which the whole story was

7、 told through the thoughts of one character. (T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman of the lost generation. (T ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love. (F ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life” was written by Ed

8、gar Allen Poe. (F ) 19. “The Raven” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. (F ) 20. Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel The Bluest Eye. II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers: ( g ) 1. Benjamin FranklinWorks:a. Ars P

9、oetica( d ) 2. Toni Morrison( f ) 3. William Faulkner( a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( c ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne( e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow( b ) 7. Stephen Crane( j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter( h ) 9. William Carlos Williams( i ) 10. Saul Bellowb. Maggie: A Girl of the Streetsc. Twice-told Talesd

10、. Belovede. A Psalm of Lifef. Barn Burningg. Poor Richards Almanach. Patersoni. Anderson the Rain Kingj. The Flowering JudasIII. Identify the following by choosing the authors name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility t

11、o acknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to his kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or

12、 enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done, the complexion of my future fortune being known to him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B.

13、Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at the thought of his immolation.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Ed

14、gar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Cask of Amontillado3. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man _and_ his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as

15、they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, - as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a

16、spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonWork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4. The door of the jail being flung op

17、en from within there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Pur

18、itanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender. Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she rep

19、elled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in th

20、e fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is n

21、ot probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slatey wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim wate

22、r.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6. Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forked green vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. “Now, now, be a good girl, and well have you up in no time.”Au

23、thor: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7. But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. I found myself on Gatsbys side, and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West

24、Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me. At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didnt move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interestedinterested, I mean

25、, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. LongfellowWork: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8. The store in which the justice of the Peaces court was sitting smelled of chee

26、se. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his m

27、ind but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fishAuthor: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9. It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made again

28、st the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was

29、 a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10. CABOT-Thunder n lightnin, Abbie! I haint slept t

30、his late in fifty year! Looks s if the sun was full riz amost. Mustve been the dancin an likker. Must be gittin old. I hope Ebens t wuk. Ye mightve tuk the trouble t rouse me, Abbie. (He turns-sees no one there-surprised) Waal-whar air she? Gittin vittles, I calclate. (He tiptoes to the cradle and p

31、eers down-proudly) Mornin, sonny. Puttys a picter! Sleepin sound. He dont beller all night like most o em. (He goes quietly out the door in rear-a few moments later enters kitchen-sees Abbie-with satisfaction) So thar ye be. Ye got any vittles cooked?Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. Oneill C. Saul

32、BellowWork: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1. I shot an _ arrow _ into the air. It fell to _ earth _ I knew not _ where _; For so swiftly it _ flew _ the sightCould not _ follow _ it in its _ flight _. (6%)2. Life is _ real _! Life is _ earnest _! And the grave is not its _ goal _; _ Dust _ thou art, to _ dust _ returnest, Was not spoken of the _ sou