《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷)

湖州师范学院外国语学院2008— 2009 学年第 二 学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷） 适用班级 050511-13 考试时间 120 分钟 学院 班级 学号 姓名 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 号 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 总分 分数 得分 I. Write the names of the authors.(10%) Leaves of Grass ( ) Raven ( ) Anecdote of the Jar ( ) The Octopus ( ) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( ) A Rose for Emily ( ) Arrowsmith ( ) Of Mice and Men ( ) The Weary Blues ( ) The Streetcar Named Desire ( ) 得分 II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%） Emily Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual and pays attention to only one region “____________”. Her poetry characterizes with the concise, direct and simple diction and syntax. Simply ______________ means the use of regional detail in a literary or artistic work. The name is given especially to a kind of American literature that in its most characteristic form made its appearance just after the Civil War and for nearly three decades was the single most popular form of American literature. Martin Eden, one of London's most important books, is this __________ account of a young sailor who struggles to improve himself and achieves eventual success as a writer, but grows disenchanted with fame and wealth. It represents both an indictment of the American dream and an important reflection on London's own background and career. Modernism in literature is not easily summarized, but the key elements are experimentation, __________, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects. The __________ manifesto came out in 1912 showed three poetic principles: direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）, exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）, the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）. In The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells us a story of an old Cuban fisherman, __________, who is a perfectionist when it comes to fishing. William Faulkner wrote works of psychological drama and emotional depth, typically with long serpentine prose and high, meticulously-chosen diction, also using groundbreaking literary devices such as stream of consciousness, ______________, and time-shifts within narrative. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in __________ for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters. ____________ was more than just a literary movement: it included racial consciousness, "the back to Africa" movement led by Marcus Garvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others. It was a huge leap for black liberation and culture. ____________ received the Pulitzer Prize four times and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy, making him the first US dramatist to do so. 得分 III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. （20%） 1.  Mark Twain created, in____________, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature. A. Huckleberry Finn B. Tom Sawyer C. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg D. The Gilded Age 2. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain. A.   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B.   Innocents Abroad C.   Life on the Mississippi D.   The Rise of Silas Lapham 3. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century. A. sentimentalism                                       B. romanticism C. realism                                                     D. naturalism 4. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________. A. First World War                                      B. Second World War C. Civil War                                                        D. War of Independence 5. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected. A. The Waste Land                                    B. The Cantos C. Don Juan                                                  D. Queen Mab 6. __________, a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas a Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power. A. "The Confidential Clerk" B. "The Cocktail Party" C. "The Family Reunion" D. "Murder in the Cathedral" 7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______. A. The Roaring Twenties                               B. The Jazz Age C. The Dollar Decade                                     D. all of the above 8. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language. A. Gertrude Stein                                           B. Ezra Pound C. Thomas Stearns Eliot                                D. James Joyce E. all of the above 9. __________ tells the Joad family's life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California. A. Of Mice and Men                                       B. The Grapes of Wrath C. The Great Gatsby                                       D. For Whom the Bell Tolls 10. _________ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which are​presented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them. A. William Faulkner                                      B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. Ernest Hemingway                                     D. John Steinbeck 得分 IV. Identify the author and the title of the work from which each of the following excerpts is taken. And then answer the question after each excerpt. (20%) Passage 1   "I celebrate myself, and sing myself. And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. "   The author The title of the work Question: What is the author celebrating? Passage 2 CABOT:The farm needs a son. ABBIE:I need a son. CABOT:Ay-eh. Sometimes ye air the farm an’ sometimes the farm be yew. That’s why I clove t’ ye in my lonesomeness. (A pause. He pounds his knee with his fist.) Me an’ the farm has got t’ beget a son! ABBIE:Ye’d best go t’ sleep. Ye’re gittin’ thin’s all mixed. CABOT:(with an impatient gesture) No, I hain’t. My mind’s clear’s a well. Ye don’t know me, that’s it. (He stares hopelessly at the floor.) ABBIE:(indifferently) Mebbe. … … … … ABBIE:(at last—painfully) Ye shouldn’t, Eben—ye shouldn’t—I’d make ye happy! EBEN:(harshly) I don’t want t’ be happy—from yew! ABBIE:(helplessly) Ye do, Eben! Ye do! Why d’ye lie? EBEN:(viciously) I don’t take t’ ye, I tell ye! I hate the sight o’ ye! ABBIE:(with an uncertain troubled laugh) Waal, I kissed ye anyways—an’ ye kissed back—yer lips was burnin’—ye can’t lie ’bout that! (intensely) If ye don’t care, why did ye kiss me back—why was yer lips burnin’? The author The title of the work Question: The second conversation in the above excerpt takes place immediately after the first one. What do you think is Abbie’s real intention of showing affection to Eben? Passage 3 “Since then-- ’tis Centuries--and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity—” The author The title of the work Question: What is the implication of this final stanza? Passage 4 They were careless people, Tom and Daisy— They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . The author The title of the work Question: What is the author' s attitude toward such persons as Tom and Daisy? Passage 5 Lo! in you brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-Land! The author The title of the work Question: Comment on the beauty of this poem. 得分 V. Answer the following questions briefly.（20%） 1. Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”: （1）What realistic elements can you find in this story? (5%) （2）What role does language play in the story? (5%) What is the Lost Generation? (10%) 得分 VI. Answer ONE of the following questions.（20%） Analyze An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. 2. Analyze William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. 4