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美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一
I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)
1. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
2. Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.
3. At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. 4. Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical.
5. ______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.
6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “________” movement.
7. “The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.
8. Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.
9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
10. In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
11. In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst” since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life.
12. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.
13. _______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.
14. The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.
15. “The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.
II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)
1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick
is still a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe. A.
Stubb
B.
Ishmael C. Ahab D. Starbuck
2. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and
the ____ as well. A.
nature
B.
self-
reliance C. self D. life
3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph
Emerson?
A. Importance of the Individual B. Faith in Christianity
C.
The
D.
Over-Self-
Soul Reliance
4. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as
_____.
A.
saviors B. villains
C.
commentators D. observers
5. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is
a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.
A. Dreiser’s Sister Carrier
B. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales D. Thoreau’s Walden 6.
Which
of
the
following
is
Not
optimistic
about
human
nature? . A.
Ralph
Emerson B. Walt Whitman
C.
Hawthorne Thoreau
7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as
_______.
A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby Dick
B. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow C. Young Goodman Brown and Moby Dick
D. The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle
Nathaniel D.
Henry
8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of
the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____. A.
Religion B. Life and death
C.
Love
and
marriage D. War and peace
9. Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.
A. the inner life of human beings B. small town life in backward regions C.
suffering
of
the
aged
D. violent events in history
10. ______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American
literature comes.”
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. Life on the Mississippi
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. The Gilded Age 11. William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.
A. New England B. South C. Mid West D. West
12. One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______
an accepted standard literary medium. A.
tall
tale
C.
B.
local
D.
colorism colloquial speech
humor