发布时间 : 星期三 文章美国文学期末试卷B更新完毕开始阅读
———系————班 姓名———— 学号——-- ------------------------密---------------------封---------------------线-------
衡水学院外语系 英语专业 2004级普本
2007—2008学年第一学期期末考试 美国文学史及选读 课程试卷（B） 命题教师：徐常兰 试题审核人：孙艳
题 号 得 分 阅卷人 复核人
一 二 三 四 五 六 七 总 分 合分人 核分人 I. Work-Author pairing-up: (15%)
( ) 1. The Confidence-Man A. Walt Whitman
( ) 2. The House of the Seven Gables B. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( ) 3. The Over-Soul C. Nathaniel Hawthorne ( ) 4. There Was a Child Went Forth D. Herman Melville ( ) 5. The Turn of the Screw E. Emily Dickenson ( ) 6. This is My Letter to the World F. Henry James
( ) 7. The Hairy Ape G.. F. Scott Fitzgerald ( ) 8. The Sound and the Fury H. Eugene O’ Nell ( ) 9. Tender Is the Night I. William Faulkner ( ) 10. For Whom the Bell Tolls . J. Eugene O’Nell ( ) 11. Emperor Jones K. Ernest Hemingway ( ) 12. After Apple -Picking L. Ezra Pound ( ) 13. In a Station of the Metro M. Robert Frost ( ) 14. North of Boston ( ) 15. In Our Time
II. Choose one suitable answer for each statement. (20%)
( ) 1. In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to ____
A. die B. calm down C. fall into sleep D. stop walking
( ) 2. Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?
A. Robert Frost B. Walt Whitman C. Emily Dickenson D. Wallace Stevens
( ) 3. In these lines “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; /Petals on a wet,
black bough”, Ezra Pound uses the figure of speech of ___. A. metaphor B. simile C. hyperbole D. contrast
( ) 4. Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on ______ A. Robert Frost B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Ezra Pound D. Emily Dickenson
( ) 5. The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their_____.
A. indestructible spirit B. pessimistic view of life C. war experiences D. masculinity
( ) 6. Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered
around Gatsby’s wealth like_____.
A. gluttons B. flies C. insects D. moths
( ) 7. In a class which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will
definitely NOT include ___
A. William Carlos Williams B. Ezra Pound
B. Gary Snyder D. Wallance Stevens
( ) 8. Emily Dickenson was sometimes curious about the feeling of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the _________of death, the title of the poem is “ I heard a Fly buzz when I died”.
A. moment B. suffering C. happiness D. meaning
( )9. In all his novels Theodore Dresier set himself to project the materialistic
American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined ____.
A. hereditarily B. economically C. by his or her literalness D. historically
( )10. Theodore Dresier was influenced by many writers whose works he had read.
But his true literary influence did not come from ___.
A. Balzac B. Charles Darwin
C. Herbert Spencer D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
( ) 11. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain one of the major
literary figures in the 19th century American literature is the use of _____. A. vernacular B. interior monologue
C. point of view D. photographic description
( ) 12. The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of ____.
A. Henry James B. William Dean Howells C. Washington Irving D. Emily Dickenson ( )13. The author of The Portrait of a Lady is best at ______. A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human life.
B. A truthful delineation of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women.
C. A dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on an international scene.
D. Disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War.
( ) 14. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality are_____.
A. transcendentalism B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionist
( ) 15. Of all the following issues, _____ is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history.
A. Puritan morality B. human bestiality C. noble savages D. divinity of man
( )16. “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind” is a famous quote from ____’ writings.
A. Walt Whitman B.Henry David Thoreau C. Herman Melville D. Ralph Emersion ( ) 17. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT_____.
A. malignancy B. beauty C. adultery D. God
( ) 18. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, romance should be ____. A. both imaginative and creative B. full of adventures
C. a true record of human life D. a mixture of facts and fancy
( ) 19. Whitman is noted for his use of ____ language. A. oral B. poetic C. formal D. archaic
( ) 20. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was to behave as a supreme_____.
A. democrat B. individualist C. romanticist D. leader III. Define the following literary terms: (15%)
1. Jazz Age
2. Local colorism
3. The “Hemingway Code” of hero 4. picaresque 5. imagism
IV. Reading comprehension:(12%)
Directions: Read the following selected readings and answer the questions.
1 I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman—
I have detested you long enough, I come to you as a grown child Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends. Questions:
1). What is the title of the poem? 2) Who writes the poem?
3) What does the poem describes?
2. “ Standing on the bare ground, ---- my head bathed by the blither air and uplifted
into infinite space,---all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. Questions:
(1). What is the title of the essay?
(2) Who writes it?
(3) How do you understand the philosophical ideas in these world?
3. Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Questions:
1). What is the title of the whole poem from which the stanza is taken? 2) Who writes the poem?
3) Summarize the poet’s advice on living.
4. The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough. Questions:
1). What is the title of the poem? 2) Who writes the poem?
3). How do you appreciate this poem?
V. Questions:(18%)
Directions: For each of the following questions you are asked to concentrate on the essential points.
1. What is writing features of Henry James?
2. Give a brief analysis of the character of Huckleberry Finn.
VII. Essay questions (20%)
1. Give a brief analysis of Gatsby’s tragedy in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. 2. Analyze Henry’s illusions in the forest in Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage.