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1、美国文学史考试样卷默认分类2011-02-22 15:58:17 阅读 10 评论 0 字号：大中小订阅卷号：（B）（2009 年 7 月）绝密湖北师范学院文理学院本科期末考试试卷美国文学史I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following(1 15%):1.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states,which are known respectively as the _and the_.a.N,S b.R

2、evolutionaries,Reactionaries c.Union,Confederacy d.Slavery,Anti-Slavery 2._was praised by the British as the“Tenth Muse in America”.a.Anne Bradstreet b.Edward Taylor c.Thomas Paine d.Philip Freneau 3.Mark Twain was a representative of _ in American literature.a.transcendentalism b.naturalism c.local

3、 colorism d.imagism 4._ was the leader of American transcendentalism.a.Benjamin Franklin b.Washington Irving c.Ralph Waldo Emerson d.Henry David Thoreau 5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is _.a.Washington Irving b.Ezra Pound c.Walt Whitman d.Emily Dickinson 6._ is fathe

4、r of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a.Washington Irving b.Ralph Waldo Emerson c.Walt Whitman d.Edgar Allan Poe 7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life;_ writes about the middle class society,and Mark Twain deals with the 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 1 页，共 9 页 -lower cla

5、ss reality.a.Stephen Crane b.Frank Norris c.Theodore Dreiser d.William Dean Howells 8.Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a.William Dean Howells b.Mark Twain c.Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser 9._ s writings are characterized by simple,colloquial language and deep thoughts.a.Ernest He

6、mingway b.William Faulkner c.F.Scott Fitzgerald d.Mark Twain 10._ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town,Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south.a.William Faulkner b.John Steinbeck c.Ernest Hemingway d.Mark Twain 11._is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major charact

7、ers.a.Sinclair Lewis b.Saul Bellow c.Norman Mailer d.Jerome David Salinger 12._ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a.Anne Bradstreet b.Robert Frost c.H.D.d.Emily Dickinson 13._ is father of American drama and won the Nobe

8、l Prize for literature in 1936.a.John Steinbeck b.William Faulkner c.Eugene O Neill d.Arthur Miller 14._ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.a.Richard

9、 Wright b.Harriet Beecher Stowe c.Langston Hughes d.Ralph Ellison 15._ first used the“Jazz age”as the title of a collection of short storiesa.F.Scott Fitzgerald b.William Faulkner c.John Steinbeck d.Ernest Hemingway 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 2 页，共 9 页 -II.Identify Works as Described Below(115%):1.The

10、 play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognized by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.a.The Hairy Ape b.Henderson the Rain King c.Long Day s Journey into Night d.The Glass Menageries2.The prota

11、gonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.a.A Street Car Named Desire b.The Hairy Ape c.Long Day s Journey into Night d.The Glass Menageries 3.The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his name is unknown.a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom s Cabin c.Invisible Man d.Go Tell It on the

12、 Mountains 4.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a.Long Day s Journey into Night b.Henderson the Rain King c.The Hairy Ape d.The Glass Menageries 5.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how he is finally arrested a

13、nd tried and sentenced to death.a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom s Cabin c.Invisible Man d.Go Tell It on the Mountains6._ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage d.The Naked and the Dead 6.The novel b

14、y Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Rises 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 3 页，共 9 页 -c.The Old Man and the Sea d.The Naked and the Dead 7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and

15、 how they suffer hunger in California.a.The Grapes of Wrath b.U.S.A.c.Babbitt d.The Adventures of Augie March 8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel,1919,and The Big Money,with such techniques as biographies,newsreels and camera eye.a.Babbitt b.Light in August c.U.S.A.d.The Grapes of Wrath 9.

16、It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeare s Macbeth.a.Absolom,Absolom!b.The Sound and the Fury c.A Farewell to Arms d.The Great Gatsby 10.It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes with Hurstwood and how she

17、 becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.a.An American Tragedy b.Sister Carrie c.McTeague d.Maggie,A Girl of the Streets 11.It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog.In it a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but they themselve

18、s are killed in the end,except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.a.Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer c.Moby Dick d.The Portrait of a Lady 12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier(Henry Fleming)s reactions in the Civil War,in which wound is called the red

19、badge which symbolizes courage.a.An American Tragedy b.Sister Carrie c.The Red Badge of Courage d.McTeague 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 4 页，共 9 页 -13.The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantos b.The Raven

20、c.Song of Myself d.Chicago 14.The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially but who rises morally because he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate,which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.a.The Octopus b.The Rise of Silas Lapham c.Moby-Dick d.

21、Leaves of Grass 15.It is a speech delivered at Harvard University.It is often hailed as the“declaration of intellectual independence”in America.a.The American Scholar b.Nature c.The Scarlet Letter d.Walden III.Match the following(1 20%)A.Match Works with Their Authors 1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly 2.Walden

22、 3.Autobiography 4.The Scarlet Letter 5.Leaves of Grass 6.The Raven 7.The Rise of Silas Lapham 8.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 5 页，共 9 页 -9.Long Day s Journey into Night 10.The Old Man and the Sea a.Mark Twain b.Ernest Hemingway c.Eugene O Neill d.William Dean Howells e.Edgar

23、 Allan Poe f.Walt Whitman g.Nathaniel Hawthorne h.Benjamin Franklin i.Henry David Thoreau j.Ezra Pound k.Thomas Jefferson l.T.S.Eliot B.Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1.Hester Prynne 2.Mrs.Touchett 3.Frederick Henry 4.Benjy Compson 5.the Joads 6.General Edward Cummings 7.Ho

24、lden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas 8.Yank 9.Happy a.The Portrait of a Lady b.The Scarlet Letter c.The Hairy Ape d.A Farewell to Arms e.The Sound and the Fury f.The Grapes of Wrath g.The Naked and the Dead h.The Catcher in the Rye i.Native Son j.Death of a Salesman 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 6 页，共 9 页 -k.I

25、nvisible Man l.Catch-22 IV.Give a term for each of the following definitions(2 10%)1.a strictness in morality that verges on intolerance and a supposed parallel with the moral severity of the early New England settlers 2.a method of writing which emphasizes the workings of the unconscious mind and s

26、ynthesizes these workings with those of the conscious mind,e.g.The Invisible Man 3.a form of nostalgia for a primitive way of life,for that lost innocence,for“the good old days”,e.g.Cooper s leather-stocking tales.4.the disillusioned intellectuals of the years following the First World War,who rebel

27、led against former ideals and values.e.g.Ernest Hemingway 5.a literary writing method that aims at a detached,scientific objectivity in the treatment of natural man,that is,man as controlled by his instincts or passions,or by his social and economic environment 6.works which emphasize its setting,be

28、ing concerned with the characters of a certain district which is marked by its costumes,dialect,landscape or other peculiarities that have escaped standardizing cultural influences.e.g.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 7.the philosophic and literary movement advocating the search for reality through sp

29、iritual intuition e.g.R.W.Emerson 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 7 页，共 9 页 -8.the use of a concrete image to express an emotion or an abstract idea e.g.The Scarlet Letter 9.American poets active in the 1950s,who emphasized a rejection of mainstream American values,experimentation with drugs and alternate

30、forms of sexuality,and an interest in Eastern spirituality,e.g.Allen Ginsberg and his Howl 10.a nihilistic movement in art and literature advocating nothingness,total freedom,anti rules,ideals and tradition,often emphasizing collage effect,e.g.T.S.Eliot V.Essay Questions(30%;choose only ONE of the f

31、ollowing three topics and write a short essay of at least 200 words.Note:1Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs;you are not simply to make a list of facts.2 You may give a title to your essay,but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to.3You are not to write on a topic

32、 of your own.1.To the best of your knowledge,analyze and make comments on Emerson s Nature2.Comment on any American poet you like.3.Analyze and/or comment on any one of the American novels or plays you have read.B.卷参考答案I.Choose the best answers(115%)名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 8 页，共 9 页 -1-5.caccc 6-10

33、.dddaa 11-15.bdcba II.Identify Works as Described Below(115%):1-5.adcad 6-10.aacbb 11-15.cccba III.Match the following(120%)A.Match Works with Their Authors 1-5.jihgf 6-10.edccb B.Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1-5.badef 6-10.ghicj IV.Give a term for each of the following definitions(210%)1-5.bbcdd 6-10.bbcba V.Essay Questions(30%)1.文章言之有物，层次清楚，论点鲜明，语言通顺，错误极少，给25 至 30 分。2.中心突出，层次清楚，分析较透彻，语言较通顺，无过多的错误，给20 至 25 分。3.文章有中心，有内容，有层次，但语言错误较多，给15 至 20 分。4.全篇单词不够规定的数目，思绪紊乱，语言错误很多，只有一段文字，给5 至于15 分。名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 9 页，共 9 页 -