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(完整版)American Literature(美国文学考试试卷)
一、选择填空
1. William Faulkner is the author of Sound and Fury。
2．Robert Frost is a famous poet。
3。 The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by Earnest Hemingway.
4．The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is Walden。
5．I Have a Dream is addressed by Martin Luther King。
6．Eugene O'Neil is an American playwright.
7. Grass is a poem written by Walt Whitman。
8．Moby Dick is the most important work by Herman Melville.
9。 O。 Henry earned his fame mainly for his short stories.
10。 Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of naturalistic work.
11. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by Robert Frost。
12。 “God help them that help themselves" is found in Franklin’s work。
13。 T. S。 Eliot’s most famous long poem is The Waste Land。
14。 The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn。
15. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of John Steinbeck。
16. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be Scott Fitzgerald。
17。 Emerson was the most important person of the transcendental club.
18. Eugene O’Neil has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and one Nobel Prize。
19。 Gertrude Stein initiated the name of the Lost Generation.
20. On the Road is the representative work of the Beat Generation。
二、判断
1．Hawthorne was a symbolic writer in some sense。 （ √ ）
2．Mark Twain was the father of American language. （ √ )
3．American literature is the oldest of all the national literitures. （ × ）
4．O. Henry paid little attention to plot in writing. ( × ）
5．Eugene O’Neil is an American poet。 （ × ）
6．Daisy Miller is a great work by Mark Twain。 （ × ）
7。 Putting the stress on traditional values is a typical feature of modernism. （ × )
8。 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over Ezra Pound。 （ √ )
9．Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology. ( × ）
10。 According to Henry James，the aim of the novel is to reflect life reality。 （ √ ）
11．To Hawthorne sin will get punished，one way or another. （ √ ）
12．Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology. （ × ）
13．Hawthorne only touched upon the problem of love in The Scarlet Letter。 （ × ）
14．Allan Poe advocated "pure" poetry。 （ √ ）
15．Scarlet Letter is a great work by Mark Twain. （ × ）
16. Mark Twain depicted the adventurous spirit of American people。 ( √ ）
17. Grass is a poem written by Carl Sandburg. （ × )
三、选择连线
1. The Sound and the Fury Wiliam Faulkner
2. The American Scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson
3。 Walden Henry David Thoreau
4. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
5。 Moby Dick Herman Melville
6. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
7. The Gilded Age Mark Twain
8. The Call of the Wild Jack London
9。 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
10. The Waste Land T—S—Eliot
11。 The Old Man and Sea Hemingway
12. Nature Emerson
13。 The Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson
14. The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
四、名词解释
1。 Realism:Realism is the theory of writing in which familiar aspects of contemporary life and everyday scenes are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner. This is the theory that authors try to use and guide them in their writing. It stresses truthful treatment of material。 It is anti-romantic, anti-sentimental, and without abstract interest in nature, death, etc。 Mark Twain laughed at people who were caught up in the world of illusions， who were not mature enough to see real situations。 This is one example of the truthful treatment of material。
2．Imagism: A literary movement that began in London and later spread to the US at the beginning of the 20th century. It underwent three major phases in its development, and T. E。 Hulme, Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell lead the movement respectively. It advocated “the use of one dominant image"。 According to Ezra Pound, an image is “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time” and the three principles that he established were： a. Direct treatment of the “thing”， whether subjective or objective; b. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation； c。 As regarding rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase， not in the sequence of a metronome。
3。 American Romanticism：Romanticism was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism. It was a movement of conscious rebellion against being too objective。 The romantic spirit was one of subjectivity of inward feelings that one could trust one's subjective responses。 Romantics placed a high premium upon the creative function of imagination, and saw art as a formulation of intuitive and imaginative perceptions that tend to speak a nobler truth than that of fact.
4．Local Colorism As a literary trend， local colorism made its presence felt in the late 1860s to early 70s and lost its momentum at the end of the 19th century. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local characters of their religions。 They tended to idealize and glorify， but they never forgot to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life。 The ultimate aim of the local colorists is to create the illusion of an indigenous little world with qualities that tells it apart from the world outside. The representative works of local colorism include Bret Hart’s "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and H. B。 Stowe’s Oldtown Folks。
五、简答题
1。 Mark Twain presented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain’s art of fiction: the setting， the language, and the characters， etc。， based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A. Mark Twain uses the Mississippi alley as his fictional kingdom， writing about the landscape and people， the customs and the dialects of one particular region， and is therefore known as a local colorist.
B。 He creates life—like characters， especially the unconventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional village morality.
C。 He uses a simple， direct vernacular language, totally different from any precious literary language。 It is the kind of colloquial belonging to the lower class, the living local American English。
D。 He has created a special humor to satirize and the decayed convention。
2. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
A. They accept the negative implication of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and believe that society is a "jungle” where survival struggles go on.
B。 They believe that man’s instinct, the environment and other social and economic forces play an overwhelming role and man’s fate is ”determined” by such forces beyond his control.