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美国文学复习题(有答案版)

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第一部分连线题（1*10=10’）

1. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence

2. Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain

3. Mark Twain Jumping Frog

4. Robert Frost Mending Wall

5. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro

6. Carl Sandburg Chicago

7. Saul Bellow The Adventure of Augie March

8. Ernest Hemingway Men without Women

9. John Steinbeck The Grape of Wrath

10. Jack London The Call of the Wild

11. Sinclair Lewis Babbit

12. Flannery O’ Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find

13. O. Henry The Last Leaf

14. Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

15. William Falkner The Sound and the Fury

第二部分单项选择(1.5*20=30’)

1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England

that she became known as the “________” who appeared in America.

A. Tenth Muse

B. Ninth Muse

C. Best Muse

D. First

Muse

2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.

________ was the dominant spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Revolution

D.

Evolution

3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?

A. The American Crisis

B. The Federalist

C. Declaration of Independence

D. The Age of Reason

4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the

European movement called the ________.

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

D. Modernist Movement

5. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual

communication with ________.

A. nature

B. transcendentalist ideas

C. human beings

D. celestial beings

6. ________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a

puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

A. Twice-Told Tales

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The House of the Seven Gables

D. The Marble Faun

A. The American

B. The Europeans

C. Daisy Mill er

D. The Portrait of a Lady

20. ________ is d escribed by Mark twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a

d eformed conscience”.

A. Tom Sawyer

B. Huckl eberry Finn

C. Jim

D. Tony

21. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ________ l anguage.

A. grand

B. pompous

C. simpl e

D.

vernacul ar

22. The book from which “all mod ern American literature comes” refers to ________.

A. The Great G atsby

B. The Sun Also Rises

C. The Adventures of Huckl eberry Finn

D. Moby-Dick

23. In which of the foll owing works Hemingway present s his phil osophy about life

and d eath through the d epiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?

A. Death in the Afternoon

B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

C. To Have and Have Not

D. The Green Hills of Africa

24. ________ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he d epict s a vivid portrait of

“The Lost Generation”.

A. The Sun Also Rises

B. A Farewell to Arms

C. In Our Time

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

25. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming coupl et s,

bl ank verse—with a cl ear American l ocal speech rhythm, the speech of ________ farmers with it s idiosyncratic diction and synt ax.

A. Southern

B. Western

C. New Hampshire

D. New Engl and

26. ________, one of the most import ant poet s in his time, is a l eading spokesman of

the “Imagist Movement”.

A. J. D. Salinger

B. Ezra Pound

C. Richard Wright

D. Ralph Ellison

27. “Tender Is the Night” is a ________ by Fitzgeral d.

A. short story

B. novell a

C. poem

D. novel

28. ________ is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner.

A. Go Down, Moses

B. Light in August

C. The Sound and the Fury

D. Absal om

29. ________ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safety and

the unknown.

A. Mending the wall B Home Burial

C. The Road not Taken

D. Stopping by Wood s on a Snowy

Evening

30. Hemingway’s writing styl e, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly

and permanently influenced by his experiences ________.

A. in his chil dhood

B. in the war

C. in America

D. in Africa

31. The foll owing writers were award ed Nobel Prize for literature except ________.

A. William Faulkner

B. F. Scott Fitzgeral d

C. John Steinbeck

D. Ernest Hemingway

32. ________ is not consid ered to be one of the masters in the fiel d of American

fiction in the mod ernistic period.

A. F. Scott Fitzgeral d

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Arthur Mill er

D. William Faulkner

33. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both…”

In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken”, the poet, by implication, was referring to ________.

A. one’s course of life

B. a marriage d ecision

C. a mid dl e-age crisis

D. a travel experience

34. Most of the writers in the mod ern period were abl e to probe into the inner

worl d of human reality on the base of ________.

A. William James’ “stream of consciousness”

B. Carl Jung’s “coll ective unconscious” and “archetypal symbol”

C. Sigmund Freud’s “interpret ation of dreams”

D. All of the above

35. Writers of the second postwar era self-consciously acknowl ed ged that they

were ____________.

A. a Lost Generation

B. a Beat Generation

C. a Jazz Generation

D. none of the above

36. In 1862, Presid ent Lincoln excl aimed: “So you are the littl e woman who wrote

the book that st arted this great war!” The book refers to ________.

A. Unc l e Tom’s Cabin

B. Bel oved

C. Prid e and Prejudice

D.The Adventures of Huckl eberry

Finn

37. In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.

A. individualism

B. freedom

C. democracy

D. all the above

38. 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

39. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?

A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.

B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.

C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.

D. He represents a new group of Southern writers

40. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ________.

A. England during World War I

B. Paris during the French Revolution

C. Puritan America

D. America after the Revolutionary War

第三部分判断对错 (1*15=15’)

(T)1. The Calvinist doctrine of “original sin” exerted great influence upon Hawthorne.

(T)2. To Hawthorne sin will get punished, one way or another.

(T)3. Roger Chillingworth, the scholar, the embodiment of pure intellect, committed the “Unpardonable Sin”.

(F)4. Emily Dickinson didn’t like using capital letters where small ones are needed.

(T)5. Walt Whitman used parallelism and refrain in his poems.

(T)6. Walt Whitman was regarded as the Zenith in American romantic poetry. (T)7. Dickinson was original. She never imitates others.

(T)8. Allan Poe defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

(F)9. O. Henry seldom wrote about poor people.

(T)10. According to Poe, art serves for pleasure. The chief aim of poetry is beauty, namely, to produce a feeling of beauty in the reader. (T)11. According to Dickinson, death means immortality.

(F)12. According to Poe, truth is beauty, beauty truth.

(T)13. According to Henry James, the aim of the novel is to reflect life reality.

(T)14. James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, and Howells concerned himself chiefly with middle class life whereas Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society.

(F)15. American writers, especially novelists were rather experimental after the World Wars.

(T)16. O. Henry’s short stories are famous for their surprising endings. (T)17. Allen Ginsberg was the representative of the Beat Generation. (T)18. Allan Poe exerted great influence upon many southern American writers, especially William Faulkner.

(F)19. Emily Dickinson was regarded as the forerunner of symbolism.

(F)20. Mark Twain never touched upon the problem of slavery system in his novels.

(F)21. Allan Poe was regarded as the forerunner of American Imagism. (T)22. Mark Twain was the father of American language.

(T)23. Allan Poe advocated “pure” poetry.

(F)24. Mark Twain’s contribution to the development of realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of localism in American fiction and partly through his themes.

(T)25. Toni Morrison is one of the most famous contemporary women writers. (T)26. O. Henry was the pen name of William Sidney Porter.

(T)27. Thomas Jefferson was the major writer of The Declaration of Independence

(T)28. Henry James discovered the trick of making his characters reveal themselves with minimal intervention of the author.

(T)29. N. Hawthorne was a symbolic writer in some sense.

(T)30. Whitman’s poetry suggests rather than tells.

第四部分术语解释 (4*5=20’)

1. Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism refers to the religious and philosophical doctrines of Ralph Waldo Emerson and others in New England in the middle 1800’s, which emphasized the importance of individual inspiration and intuition, the Oversoul, and nature. Other concepts that accompanied Transcendentalism include the idea that nature is ennobling and the idea that the individual is divine and, therefore, self-reliant.

2. Naturalism

Naturalism, a more deliberate kind of realism, usually involves a view of human beings as passive victims of natural forces and social environment. As a literary movement, naturalism was initiated in France and it came to be led by Zola, who claimed at “scientific” status for his studies of impoverished characters miserably subjected to hunger, sexual obsession, and hereditary defects.

3. American Dream

The American Dream is the faith held by many people in the United States of America that through hard work, courage and determination one can achieve a better life for oneself, usually through financial prosperity. These were values held by many early European settlers, and have been passed on to subsequent generations.

4. The Lost Generation

The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American Literary notables who lived in Paris from the time period which saw the end of WWI to the beginning of the Great Depression. Significant members included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein herself. Hemingway likely popularized the term, quoting Stein (“You are all a lost generation”) as epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises. More generally, the term is being used for the young adults of Europe and America during WWI. They were “lost” because after the war many of them were disillusioned with the world in general and unwilling to move into settled life.

5. Modernism

Modern writing is marked by a strong and conscious break with traditional forms and techniques of expression; it believes that we create the world in the act of perceiving it. Modernism implies historical discontinuity, a sense of alienation, of loss, and of despair. It elevates the individual and his inner being over social man and prefers the unconscious to the self-conscious.

6. Puritanism

The principles and practices of puritans were popularly known as

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