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浙江万里学院继续教育学院2021第一学期
英美文学史
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I. Fill in the Following Blanks: Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10×1.5´= 15´)
1. The _______ style of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has impacted American literature so much that the books before and after it are quite different.
2. Writers who are ___________ tend to develop and promote mannerism, dress, speech, customs of a particular region. They try to be informative about the peculiarities of a given region and emphasize verisimilitude of details about dialect, local geographical feature and the like.
3. In his novel ________________, Theodore Dreiser portrays a girl who is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot control. Alone and helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities as offered first by Druet and then by Hurst wood.
4. Pound’s definition of ___________, “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time〞, is an agreement with his perception of the Chinese ideogram.
5. Although they are originally Americans, Henry James and _____ became British subjects later.
6. In the poem __________________, T.S. Eliot portrays the image of an ineffectual, sorrowful, tragic twentieth-century Western man, possibly the modern intellectual who is divided between passion and timidity, between desire and impotence.
7. In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the "______", especially in The Great Gatsby (1925).
8. Most of ___________ works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County.
9. The protagonist in The Old Man and the Sea is _____________.
10. Arthur Dimmesdale is a character in Hawthorne’s novel_____________.
II. Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (15×1´= 15´)
1. T. S. Eliot deserves the following titles EXCEPT _______________.
A. a great poet B. a dramatist C. a literary critic D. a great novelist
2 .Henry James wrote the following novels EXCEPT ________________.
A. Roderick Hudson B. Daisy Miller
C. The Wings of Dove D. The Golden Bowl
3. Which one of the following is NOT the correct description of John Steinbeck
A. He is regarded as the foremost writer of the Great Depression during the 1930s.
B. He is a great spokesman for the opposed.
C. He belongs to the Lost Generation.
D. He writes about the poverty-stricken people in their sufferings.
4. Which of the following is Willa Cather’s novel
A. Main Street B.My Antonia
C.The Great Gatzby D.The Triumph of the Egg
5.Which of the following is NOT William Faukner’s novel
A. Their Eyes Were Watching God B. The Sound and The Fury
C. A Rose for Emily D. Light in the August
6. Which one of the following descriptions about the Hemingway hero is true
A. Hemingway Hero is also called code hero.
B.Hemingway Hero is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent.
C.The typical Hemingway hero is one who, wounded but strong, more sensitive and wounded because stronger, enjoys the pleasures of life (sex, alcohol, sport) in face of ruin and death and maintains, through some notion of a code, an ideal of himself.
D. The typical Hemingway hero is one who was the pioneer in the frontier.
7. Which one of the following writers does NOT employ colloquial style in his writings
A. Mark Twain B. Sherwood Anderson
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. William Faulkner
8. Which one of the following writers can be cataloged as Southern Literature writers
A. William Faulkner B.Henry James
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Ernest Hemingway
9. Which one of the following writers is NOT a dramatist
A. Kate Chopin B. Eugene O’neill C. Tennessee Williams D. Arthur Miller
10. The American writers who are awarded Nobel Prize for literature include the following writers BUT___.
A. Eugene O’Neill B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck D. Ezra Pound
11. American naturalists tend to adopt the following concepts except_______.
A.Dawin’s ideas of evolution B.The ideas of Herbert Spencer
C.Emerson’s transcendentalism D.French Naturalism
12. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of_________.
A. Thomas Hood B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington
13. Transcendentalists recognized ______as the "highest power of the soul".
A. intuition B. logic C. data of the senses D. thinking
14.Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ______; there arose a kind of teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century.
A. Herman Melville B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser
15. Edgar Allan Poe put forward the following literary ideas EXCEPT_______.
A. Poems should be as long as Homer’s epics.
B. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.
C. He stressed the principle of concentration and thematic totality.
D. Poems should be short enough so that it can be read at one sitting.
III. Match the Writers and Works under the Two Columns (10×2´=20´)
1. T.S. Eliot a. The Great Gatsby
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. The Sound and the Fury
3. William Faulkner c. Native Son
4. John Steinbeck d. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Sherwood Anderson e. Moby Dick
6. Richard Wright f. The Scarlet Letter
7. Herman Melville g. The Raven
8. Edgar Allen Poe h. The Waste Land
9. Harriet Beecher Stowe i. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
10.Kate Chopin j. The Triumph of the Egg
k. The Awakening
IV. Identify the following selected excerpts and write down the name of the authors and the works. (5×4´=20´)
1. Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality.
Author:__________________(full name)
Works: ___________________
2. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
Author:__________________(full name)
Works: ___________________
3. Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced.
Author:__________________(full name)
Works: ___________________
4.The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Author:__________________(full name)
Works: ___________________
5. NONE of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Author:__________________(full name)
Works: ___________________
V. Explain the Following Terms (4×5´=20´)
Realism
Free verse
Hemingway Heroes
Romanticism
VI. Answer the following questions according to the materials. (1×10´=10´)
Passage One
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...
Questions
1. Who is the author of the novel from which the selection is from
2. What is the narrator’s attitude toward such persons as Tom and Daisy？
英美文学史试卷A 参考答案
I. 1. colloquial 2. local colorists 3. Sister Carrie 4. Imagism
5. T.S. Eliot 6. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 7. American Dream 8. Faulkner’s 9. Santiago 10. The Scarlet Letter
II.1.D 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.A 6.D 7.C 8.A 9.A 10.D 11. C
12. B 13.A 14.B
III.1. h 2. a 3. b 4. d 5. j 6. c 7. e 8. g 9. i 10. k
IV.
1. Author: Emily Dickinson
Works:Because I could not stop for Death
2. Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
works: Nature
3. Author: Mark Twain
Works: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Author: Ezra Pound
Works:In a Station of the Metro
5. Author: Stephen Crane
Works: The Open Boat
V.Explain the Following Terms (4×5´=20´)
Realism: In American literature, the Civil War brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age of Realism came into existence. It came as a reaction against the lie of romanticism and sentimentalism, as Everett Carter put it. Realism turned from an emphasis on the strange toward a faithful rendering of the ordinary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concern for common place and the low, and it offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. Realist literature finds the drama and the tension beneath the ordinary surface of life. A realist writer is more objective than subjective, more descriptive than symbolic. Realists looked for truth in everyday truths. The representative writers are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Henry James.
Free verse: Free verse is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure. It is poetry without a fixed metrical pattern, having a loosely organized rhythm. It uses the cadences of natural speech. Although free verse had been used before Whitman—notably in Italian opera and in the King James translation of the Bible—it was Whitman who pioneered the form and made it acceptable in American poetry. It is to be found in the work of some 19th-century American poets, e.g. Whitman and Stephen Crane, and it has been commonly employed only since World War I, its early users including the Imagists, Sandburg, Masters, Pound and E.E. Cummings.
Hemingway Heroes:
"Hemingway Heroes" refer to some protagonists in Hemingway' s works. Such a hero usually is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent. And usually he is a man of action and of few words. He is such an individualist, alone even when with other people, somewhat an outsider, keeping emotions under control, stoic and self-disciplined in a dreadful place where one can not get happiness. For instance, Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms is completely disillusioned. He has been to the war, but has seen nothing sacred and glorious.
Romanticism: American Romanticism: The Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century till the outbreak of the Civil War. A rising America with its ideals of democracy and equality, its industrialization, its westward expansion, and a variety of foreign influences such as Sir Walter Scott were among the important factors which made literary expansion and expression not only possible but also inevitable in the period immediately following the nation's political independence. Yet, romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in value of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness and man's societies a source of corruption. Romantic writers include Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville, etc. Such romantic writers placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. Heroes and heroines exhibited extremes of sensitivity and excitement. The novel of terror became the profitable literary staple. A preoccupation with the demonic and the mystery of evil marked the works of Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and a host of minor writers. The New England poets, such as Longfellow and Bryant formed a different school from Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson and Poe.
VI. Answer the following questions according to the materials. (1×10´=10´)
Passage One: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. The narrator shows his disliking and disgust towards such irresponsible persons like Tom and Daisy.
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