美国文学期末考试考试卷模拟精彩试题

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 autobi ographical.

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 19, _______ 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 p oems 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 Over-Soul D. Self-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. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Henry 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 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

B. local colorism C. humor

D. colloquial speech

13.Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.

A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 D. 10

14.In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.

A. English sonnet B. Japanese haiku

C. Chinese classical poetry D. French

15.Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A. William 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 signif icance 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 C. democracy D. all the above

2.______ is the narrator of Moby Dick. A. Ahab B. Ishmael C. Flask

D. Queequeg

3.In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell

Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.” A. Declaration of Independence B. Self-Reliance

C. Divinity School Address D. The American Scholar

4.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is ______.

A. vicious by nature B. insignificant C. forward-looking D. divine

5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.

A. saviors B. villains C. commentators D. observers

6.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 Leather-Stocking Tales D.Thoreau’s Walden

7.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” Who could have written these lines? _____. A. Edgar Allan Poe B. Ralph Emerson C. Walt Whitman D. Henry Thoreau

8.Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?

A. Ralph Emerson B. Walt Whitman C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Henry Thoreau

9.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? _____.

A.It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.

B.It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.

C.It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.

D.It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.

10.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 11.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

12.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ____ language.

A. grand B. pompous C. vernacular D. simple

13.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.

A. the Age of Romanticism B. the Age of Realism C. the Age of Modernism D. the Age of Colonialism

14.______ 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

15.The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life

should be the main object of the novel. A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C. Theodore Dreiser D. William Dean Howells

16.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

17.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter “A” which originally stands for “_____”, finally obtains the

meaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester’s efforts. A. arrogance B. adultery C. agony

D. accomplishment

18.During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as

_____.

A. the Golden Age B. the Modern Age C. the Gilded Age D. the Puritan Age

19.Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly

focus on the landscape and people in _____. A. New York B. the West C. New England D. Mid West

20.William Faulkner’s w orks mainly concern the American _____.

A. New England

B. South C. Mid West D. West

21.In 19, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern

narration.” A. T. S. Eliot

B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faulkner

22.“In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _____.

A. the imagist poetry B. the absurd poetry C. the romantic poetry D. the transcendental poetry

23.Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ______.

A. the Renaissance Period B. the Neoclassical Period C. the Jazz Age D. the Romantic Period

24._____ usually was regarded as the first American writer. A. William Bradford B. Anne Bradstreet C. Emily Dickinson D. Captain John Smith

25.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

26._______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter. A. Pearl

B. Arthur Dimmesdale C. Roger Chillingworth D. Santiago

27.At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.

A. Edwin Robinson B. Wallace Stevens C. Carl Sandburg D. Robert Frost

28.“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

29.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

30.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ______.

A. optimistic B. pessimistic C. confident D. contented

III. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)

1. New England literary renaissance

2. “My Lost Youth” (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 3. William Dean Howells

IV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)

1.American Romanticism.

2.Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier. 美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三

I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)

1.In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet, ______, to appear in America

up to that time.

2.James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and

______.

3.Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he never

applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas. 4.Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a

seemingly supernatural white whale.

5.In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an American

writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic. 6.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond.

7.After his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of

Westminster Abbey.

8.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the

______.

9.The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______.

10.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or

regular rhyme scheme.

11.______ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the

impressions made by life on the spectator.

12.______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.

13.O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young coupl e who sell their best possessions in order to

get money for a Christmas present for each other.

14.______ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist” movement.

15.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was

destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.

16.Ernest Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in 1929.

The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love. 17.______ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.

18.William Faulkner considered __________ to be “the first truly American writer”.

19.As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shaping

individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

20.A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ______.

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. (30%, 1 point for each)

1.Moby Dick was dedicated to ____.