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13. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her
life time. A.
7
B. C.
8 9 D. 10
14. In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.
A.
sonnet Japanese haiku
C. Chinese classical poetry D. French 15. Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for
Literature. A.
William English
B.
Faulkner B. Ernest Hemingway
C.
John
Steinbeck D. F. S. Fitzgerald
16. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned
about the _____. A.
life
in
New
York B. country life in New England
C.
sea
adventures D. life on the Mississippi River
17. The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the
American Depression. A.
F.
S.
Fitzgerald B. John Steinbeck
C.
Ernest
Hemingway D. William Howells
18. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote
the book that started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______. A.
Mrs.
Stowe B. Emily Dickinson
C.
George
Eliot D. Jane Austen
19. 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
20. “Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.”
This
may be a principle for the characterization of _______.
A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. modernism
III. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points
for each)
1. Local color fiction 2. Captain John Smith 3. “Annabel Lee”
IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)
1. What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson? 2. What’s the symbolic significance of The Scarlet Letter?
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二
I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)
1. _____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
2. The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
3. Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.
4. _________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.
5. Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.
6. The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.
7. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.
8. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.
9. “The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______.
10. Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.
11. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.
12. ______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.
13. As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.
14. The publication of Washington Irving’s _________, a collection of essays, sketches and tales, marks the beginning of American romanticism. 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. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)
1. In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.
A.
individualism B. freedom