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(完整版)美国文学期中考试试题美国文学期中考试试卷考试时间：90分钟学院 班级 学号 姓名 注意：此卷由Part A和Part B组成。其中Part A属于闭卷考试，考试时间为30分钟。在监考老师收完Part A的答卷后，再发放Part B的试题。Part B属于开卷考试,学生可以查阅除手机等设备外的纸质资料,考试时间为60分钟.Part A. Match (20)A. Match Works with Their Authors。 （20 x 0。5= 10）1. Jack London A. The American Daisy Miller2。 Sherwood Anderson B。 A History of New York 3. Mark Twain C。 Declaration of America4。 Henry James D. The Song of Hiawathe 5。 O. Henry E。 The Rising Glory of America6. William Dean Howells F. Song of Myself7. Washington Irving G。 The Scarlet Letter8。 James Fenimore Cooper H。 Typee9。 William Cullen Bryant I。 Thanatopis10。 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow J。 Walden11. Nathaniel Hawthorne K. The Fall of the House of Usher12. Herman Melville L。 The Call of the Wild13. Ralph Emerson M. Poor White14. Henry David Thoreau N。 A Farewell to Arms15。 Edar Allan Poe O. The Autobiography16。 Benjamin Franklin P。 The Road of Destiny17。 Thomas Jefferson Q。 The Rise of Silas Lapham18. Philip Freneau R。 The American Crisis19。 Walt Whitman S。 The Leather stocking Tales20. Thomas Paine T。 NatureB。 Match Authors with Their Literary Position (110=10）1. Benjamin Franklin A. The first writer acclaimed local writer who emphasized American regionalism2。 Anne Bradstreet B。 A great master of the art of fiction which usually has a surprise ending3。 O. Henry C。 Tenth Muse in America4. William Cullen Bryant D. Inventor of detective fiction genre5。 Ralph Waldo Emerson E。 The first American writer who developed his literary career mostly in Europe6. Edgar Allan Poe F。 The First American7。 Mark Twain G。 The Lincoln of American literature8. Francis Bret Harte H。 The most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club9。 Henry James I。 One of the finest “psychological” fiction writers in American10. Sherwood Anderson J. The American Wordsworth. Multiple choice。 Please choose the best answer among the four items。 (20 x 1= 20)1. In American literature， the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment。 _ was the dominant.A. humanism B。 rationalismC。 romanticism D. evolution2. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A。 Rationalism B. inner selfC. personal feelings D. individualism3。 Stylistically, Henry James fiction is characterized by _。A. short, clear sentencesB。 abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD。 highly refined language4。 Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _ and Thoreau。A。 Jefferson B. EmersonC。 Freneau D。 Mark Twain5。 _ is considered Mark Twains greatest achievement。A。 The Gilded AgeB. Innocent AbroadC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn6. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _。A。 rational B. humorousC. optimistic D。 pessimistic7。 _ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin Franklin B。 Philip FreneauC。 Paine D。 Washington Irving 8. _ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club。A。 Thoreau B. EmersonC。 Hawthorne D。 Whitman9。 Which of following is not a typical feature of Mark Twains language？A。 vernacular B. colloquialC. elegant D。 humorous 10。 From Thoreaus jail experience, came his famous essay， _ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government。A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D。 Common 11。 Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and send to hospital where he fell in love with a nurse， these two persons later became the characters of his novel _.A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also Rises D. A Farewell to Arms12. Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the “enmass” and the_ as well.A。 nature B。 selfreliance C. self D. life13. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklins famous proverbs？A. “A stitch in time save nine” B. “God helps those who help themselves”C. “A friend in need is a friend indeed” D。 “Ask not who the bell tolls， the bell tolls for three”14。 Which of the following writers died in a natural death in his old ages？A. Jack London B。 Ernest Hemingway C. Emily Dickinson D。 Mark Twain 15。 With William Dean Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene， _ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A。 sentimentalism B. romanticism C。 realism D. naturalism16。 Moby Dick was dedicated to _. A. Ralph Emerson B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C。 Henry Thoreau D. Henry Longfellow17。 There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually_ on Puritan soil. A. Romanticism B。 Symbolism C. Mysticism D. Rationalism18. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.A。The Octopus B。 Moby-Dick C. The Rise of Silas Lapham D。 Leaves of Grass 19. The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is _。A. Washington Irving B。 Ezra Pound C。 Walt Whitman D. Emily Dickinson20。 The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _ in the American literary history.A. individual feeling B。 survival of the fittestC。 strong imagination D。 return to nature. Decide whether the statements are True or False. （10 x 1= 10）1. ( ） Franklins autobiography, published after his death， has become one of the classics of the genre.2. ( ) O. Henry paid little attention to plot in writing.3. ( ） All his literary life， Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil。4. ( ) Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology。5. ( ) Henry James abandoned traditional way of telling a story in his short stories and novels.6. （ ） Mark Twain was the father of American language。7. ( ) Emerson was recognized as the leader transcendentalist movement， and he always applied the term “transcendentalist to himself to or his belief and ideas。8. （ ) Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable。 9. （ ) In 1836, Whitman published his first book, Nature, which met with a wild reception。10. （ ） The subjects of Walt Whitman are often war and its effects on people， or contests, such as hunting or bullfighting, which demand stamina and courage.Part B。 Explain the following literary terms。 (44=16） 1. Jack London2. The old man and the sea3. The lost generation4. American transcendentalism . Choose one of two great works and analyze it。 （1 x 10= 10)1. Analyze the poem “To a Waterfowl”。2. Read the following passage, and answer the following questions。PassageIwenttothewoodsbecauseIwishedtolivedeliberately，tofrontonlytheessentialfactsoflife,andseeifIcouldnotlearnwhatithadtoteach,andnot,whenIcametodie,discoverthatIhadnotlived。Ididnotwishtolivewhatwasnotlife，livingissodear;nordidIwishtopracticeresignation,unlessitwasquitenecessary.Iwantedtolivedeepandsuckoutallthemarrowoflife,tolivesosturdilyandSpartanlikeastoputtoroutallthatwasnotlife,tocutabroadswathandshaveclose，todrivelifeintoacorner,andreduceittoitslowestterms, and, if it proved to be mean， why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it， and publish its meanness to the world； or if it were sublime， to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.For most man， it appears to me， are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of the God.Questions：1. This passage is taken from a famous entitled_。 （1%）2. The author of the work is_. （1）3. List by yourself at least four reasons that the author gives for going to live in the woods。 （8%）. Choose two of the following questions and answer them. (2 x 12= 24)1. Whats the theory fiction of Henry James？2. Give a brief analysis of Gatsbys tragedy in Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby. 3. The differences between Realism and Naturalism。