美国文学史及选读试卷Word格式文档下载.doc

1、 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT _. A. common sense B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism4. The Raven was written in 1844 by _ A. Philip Freneau B. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson5. The ship _ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 day

2、s to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Titanic6. Melvilles novel _ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. A. Typee B. Omoo C. W

3、hite Jacket D. Moby Dick7. As a philosophical and literary movement, _ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. A.Modernism B.Rationalism C.Sentimentalism D.Transcendentalism 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Sister Carrie C. The Great G

4、atsby D. The Old Man and Sea 9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the _ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious10. Realism was a reaction

5、 against_ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism D. Enlightenment11. _ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture. A. T. S Eliot B. Robert Frost C. E

6、zra Pound D. Walt Whitman12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true? A. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeingclose friends. B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrate

7、d love affair for Dickinson. C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure. D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _.A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore Dreiser14. Which of the fo

8、llowing works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?A. The Old Man and Sea B. A Farewell to Arms C. Sound and Fury D. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism? A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cere

9、bral rather than emotive aspects. B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars. C. The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century. D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.I. Match the Column A with Colum

10、n B （110=10） Column A Column B（ ） 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost （ ） 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain （ ） 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter （ ） 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson （ ） 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick （ ） 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway （ ） 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry D

11、avid Thoreau （ ） 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson （ ） 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie （ ） 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott Fitzgerald II. Define the following words within one phrase（25=10）1. free verse 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 3. Mark Twain4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Ezra Pound III. Simple

12、 questions （54=20）1. What are Puritan thoughts?2. What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures? 3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A” in The Scarlet Letter. 4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry.IV. Interpreting the following texts （45）Text 1 When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning w