美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五 I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases and     put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each) 1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at     Jamestown, Virginia in    1607   .  2.        John Smith    became the first American writer.  3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the    Puritan   values that dominated much of the early American writing. 4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of     Reason and Revolution. 5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece       The Autobiography . 6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet      Common Sense appeared.   7. The signing of   The Declaration of Independence      symbolized the birth of an independent American nation. 8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was       Philip Freneau   . 9. Washington Irving’s      Sketch Book       became the first work by an American writer to win international fame. 10.      Transcendentalism         is the summit of American Romanticism.   11. With the publication of Emerson’s      Nature    in 1836, American Romanticism reached its summit. 12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel    the Scarlet Letter            . 13. Henry James’ major fictional theme is      international theme         . 14.       The Civil War         brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into existence. 15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called  free verse             . 16.  “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by            Emily Dickinson  . 17. The term The Gilded Age is given by    Mark Twain            to describe the post-civil war years. 18.  Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is                     Sister Carrie. 19.  The leader of the literary movement Imagism is     Pound        . 20.       Ernest Hemingway    is the spokesman for Lost Generation.      II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your   answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each) 1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was      .   A. Bret Harte                          √               B. Mark Twain   C. Henry James                                      D. William Dean Howells 2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?   A. The Gilded Age                                   B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer        C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn       √   D. Jumping Frog 3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?                  A. Mark Twain           √                         B. Jack London   C. Theodore Dreiser                               D. Frank Norris 4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in     and       Thoreau. A. Jefferson                                                B. Emerson                √ C. Freneau                                                 D. Oversoul 5. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”? A. The Financier                                       B. The Titan C. The Stoic                                               D. An American Tragedy √ 6. Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?   A. Hester Prynne                                        B. Mr. Hooper   C. Ahab    √                                                 D. Pearl 7.          written by Henry James brought him first international fame.   A. The Golden Bowl                                  B. The American    C. The Tragic Muse                                   D. Daisy Miller √ 8. “     ”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola. A. realism                                                   B. naturalism    √ C. transcendentalism                                   D. veritism 9. Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote       , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism.      A. The Sea Wolf                                        B. To Build a Fire    C. The Call of the Wild       √                      D. Martin Eden 10. The Cop and the Anthem is written by     .    A. O. Henry      √                                        B. Henry James      C. Jack London                                        D. Mark Twain 11. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poem The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter written by      .    A. T. S. Eliot                                         B. Robert Frost      C. Ezra Pound           √                     D. Carl Sandburg 12. The imagist poets followed three principles, they are      , direct treatment and economy of expression.    A. blank verse              B. rhythm      √     C. free verse                D. common speech 13. Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?         A. Ernest Hemingway                               B. Ezra Pound  C. F. S. Fitzgerald                             D. Emily Dickinson 14. Who was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s?    A. Ernest Hemingway                               B. Ezra Pound  C. John Steinbeck                                    D. F. S. Fitzgerald √ 15. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and     of the early settlements.    A. journals  √        B. poetry                     C. drama                D. folklores 16. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by      .    A. Samuel Johnson                        B. Noah Webster     √    C. Daniel Webster                       D. Daniel Defoe 17. Walden is written by       .      A. Emerson                                              B. Thoreau   √    C. Poe                                   D. Hawthorne 18.        is famous for psychological realism.    A. Mark Twain                                       B. William Dean Howells   C. Henry James         √                           D. Walt Whitman 19.  Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?    A. Nature √                                               B. Walden C. On Beauty                                D. Self-Reliance 20. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?    A. The American Scholar  √                       B. English Traits    C. The Conduct of Life                           D. Nature 21. Santiago is the character in Hemingway’s novel        .    A. In Our Time                                        B. The Old Man and the Sea   √    C. For Whom the Bell Tolls                     D. The Sun Also Rises 22. Which of the following is a much harsher realism?    A. local colorism                                       B. naturalism　√　　    C. romanticism                                         D. imagism 23. Who is the arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America?    A. Mark Twain                                         B. Bret Harte        C. William Dean Howells            √              D. Henry James 24. F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the author of           .    A. The Great Gatsby  √                                    B. Tender is the Night  　    C. A Farewell to the Arms                             D. This Side of Paradise 25. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such American writers as         .      A. Mark Twain                                                B. F. S. Fitzgerald      C. Walt Whitman                                             D. Stephen Crane √ 26. Charles Drouet is a character in the novel of ______.    A. The American                                     B. The Portrait of a Lady    C. Sister Carrie   √                                     D. The Gift of the Magi 27. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. She    was        .    A. Anne Bradstreet                                         B. Jane Austen  C. Emily Dickinson  √                                  D. Harriet Beecher 28.         read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.      A. Robert Frost          √                         B. T. S. Eliot       C. Carl Sandburg                                    D. Ezra Pound      29. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene,       became the major trend in the 70s and 80s of the 19th century.      A. sentimentalism                                    B. romanticism C. realism       √                                         D. naturalism 30.  “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortest poem written by       .                  A. T. S. Eliot                                                B. Robert Frost    C. Ezra Pound           √                                  D. Wallace Stevens   III. Give brief answers to the following and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each) 1. Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the Romantic Period is called “the American Renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are. 1.  (1) The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, giving birth to the spectacular outburst of romantic feeling. (2) The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation. (3) Taking foreign influence in consideration, the great works of American writers still carried typically American romantic color. (4) The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy. Transcendentalism stresses man’s capacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses. 2. How does Sister Carrie embody Dreiser’ 2. (1) In this novel, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards. (2) The novel best embodies his naturalistic belief that while men are controlled by heredity, instinct and chance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence. (3) To Sister Carrie, the world is cold and harsh. Alone, helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities first offered by Drouet, and then by Hurstwood. A feather in the wind, she was totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend, still less to say control. The famous picture of Carrie sitting in a rocking chair in her room in the evening, rocking back and forth, is a picture of Carrie’s drifting with the tide. She has no control, no freedom of will.