美国文学 期末考试试卷及答案 精品.docx

1、2009 2010学年第 学期美国文学期末考试试卷（A 卷）适用班级 考试时间 120分钟学院班级学号姓名题号一二三四五六七八九十总分分数. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (10%)得分1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20.Octopus()Maggie, A Girl of the Streets()Babbitt (White Fang ()“Legend of Sleepy Hollow”(My Antonia (

2、“Birches” ()Poor Richards Almanac Light in August (Twice Told Tales ()The Declaration of“Rip Van Winkle”(Nature(Independence()The Song of Hiawatha( Uncle Toms Cabin(The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( Sister Carrie(The Waste Land(For Whom the Bell Tolls( The Emperor Jones()1. Choose FIVE of the foll

3、owing and fill in the blanks. (10%)得分1. was one of the founders of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies. was a determined revolutionary whose work helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, butwho lost his popularity long before hi

4、s death.2.3.The termrefers to the group of people, some of themimportant to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic. was an early form of horror fiction that4.18thoriginated incentury Europe and was very po

5、pular in Americaduring the Romantic Period. , known for her deeply personal poems and radically different poetic themes and form, didnt achieve fame as a poet until long after her death.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by , a British captain, who thus became the f

6、irst American writer. has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry. was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism, author of the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the hi

7、story of American literature. is the first American professional writer and the firstwriter of the detective story in the world. is also called novel of the road, it stringsthe incidents on the line of the heros travel.5.6.7.8.9.10. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriat

8、e answer. (30%)得分21. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published inEngland, she became know as the “ ” who appeared in America.A B CDNinth Muse Tenth Muse Best MuseFirst Muse2. is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters andcustoms in regional literature.A B

9、CDpurple prosewaste-land imagerylocal color symbolism3. The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to arelatively large literate Black readership was known as .A B CDThe HolocaustThe Harlem Renaissance AbolitionismThe Civil Rights Movement4. was a leading 19thcentury fe

10、minist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement.A B CDMargaret Fuller Sylvia Plath Hilda DoolittleGloria Stein5. Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry?A B C Dworldgushing sentimentalism and comfortable images abandonment of earlier verse formsuse of free versean

11、 effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing6. Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20thcentury American poets?ABEzra PoundWalt Whitman3CDRobert FrostAllen Ginsburg7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earn

12、ed for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as .A B CDThe Jazz Age The Gilded Age The Roaring AgeThe Beat Age8. Which is true of the “Fireside Poets”?AB CThey were generally strongly in favor of abolishing slavery.

13、 They were deeply involved in the Transcendentalist movement. They were a group of 19thcentury New England poets who were tremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote.They opposed to tradition and were in favor of radical change.D9. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent t

14、o a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of hisnovel .A B CDThe Old Man and the Sea For Whom the Bell Tolls The Sun Also RisesA Farewell to Arms10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to .A BideasCThe highest ranking of

15、 the Hindu castes.A movement that emerged from rebellion against Puritan religious and systems.A group of New England writers known for their scholarship and/orconservative philosophy.DA school of imaginative writing.11. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklins famous proverbs?AB“A stitch in time saves nine”“God helps those who