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济宁学院2015-2016学年第2学期
2013级及2015级专升本英语专业美国文学期末考试试卷
题号 一 二 三 四 五 总得分 题分 40 10 15 15 20 得分 核分人 阅卷人 复查人 I. Multiple Choices . (40%)（本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分）
1. It is on his____________ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European tours C. early poetry D.tales about America
2. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “____________________”.
A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance
3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________. A. nature, man and the universe
B. the relationship between man and woman
C. the development of Romanticism in American literature D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism
4. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is NOT right? A. It’s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.
B. It’s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.
C. It’s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.
D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel. 5. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered____________.
A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe. B. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with nature C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure
D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty
6. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”
A. free verse B. blank verse C. alliteration D. end rhyming
7. Emily Dickinson wrote many short 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.
8. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as \
A. \ B. \
C. \ D. \
9. In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is_______________. A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman
10. Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas
Whitman likes to keep his eye on human Society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as_______, immortality, religion, love and nature. A. progress B. freedom C. beauty D. death
11. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography? A. Temperance B. Humanity (Humility) C. Frugality D. Immoderation
12. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” A. Walt Whitman B. Edgar Allen Poe
C. Anne Bradstreet D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. In Emily Dickinson’s Because I Could Not Stop for Death, ______________. A. death is personified as a devil
B. death is described as the tragic end of a person’s life
C. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortality D. death is described as a beautiful girl who couldn’t find her final destination
14. Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism? A. Thoreau’s Walden B. Emerson’s Nature C. Poe’s Poetic Principle D. Thoreau’s Nature
15. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.
A. Walden B. The Pioneers
C. Nature D. \
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16. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic
17. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century?
A. The Sun Also Rises B. The Old Man and the Sea
C. Mosses from the Old Manse D. Hills Like White Elephant
18. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues Except the __________ in the American 线 Robert Frost?
A. “The Raven” B. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” C. “After Apple-picking” D. “The Road Not Taken”
27. “The lost generation” refers to the writers who relocated to Paris in the post WWⅠyears to reject to values of American materialism. All the following but ________ are involved in this group. A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Ernest Hemingway C. Theodore Dreiser D. John Dos Passos
28. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them _________. A. Anglicans B. Catholics 名 姓 号 学 订 业 专 装级年 history.
A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest C. strong imagination D. return to nature
19. Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because__________. A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South.
B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and Social institutions. C. most of them were prisoners of the past.
D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable.
20. Which of the following statements is right about Robert Frost’s poetry?
A. He combined traditional verse forms with the difficult and highly ornamental language. B. He combined traditional verse forms with the pastoral language of the Southern area.
C. He combined traditional verse forms with a simple spoken language, the speech of New England farmers.
D. He combined traditional verse forms with the experimental.
21. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels? A. Cambridge B. Oxford
C. Mississippi D. Yoknapatawpha
22. The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck reveals the miserable lives of __________ . A. factory workers B. sailors
C. landless farm laborers D. veterans
23. Among the American realistic writers, _________ focused his attention on the rising middle class and the way they lived. A. Herman Melville B. Henry James C. Mark Twain D. William Dean Howells
24. The first symbol of self-made American man is _________. A. Benjamin Franklin B. Washington Irving C. George Washington D. Mark Twain
25. The Imagist writers followed three principles. They respectively are direct treatment, economy of expression and ________. A. local color B. irony
C. clear rhythm D. blank verse
26. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poems was not written by
C. Normans D. Puritans
29. Which one of the following statements is applicable to the understanding of Transcendentalism? A. It is strongly influenced by social Darwinism.
B. Belief in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance. C. Man has no free-will.
D. It holds that determinism governs everything.
30. In __________, Captain Ahab is obsessed with the revenge on a whale which sheared off his leg on a previous voyage, and his crazy chasing of it eventually brings death to all on board the whaler except Ishmael, who survives to tell the tale.
A. Typee B. White Jacket C. Moby Dick D. Billy Budd
31. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT.( ) A. a free and natural rhythmic pattern B. a simple and conversational language C. a strict poetic form
D. an easy flow of feelings
32. Another fact that made ______ unique is his magic power with language, his use of vernacular. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.( ) A. Mark Twain B. Washington Irving C. Henry James
D. Theodore Dreiser
33. Mark Twain’s pen name is .( ) A. Samuel Langhorne Clemens B. Langhorne Clemens Samuel C. Langhorne Samuel Clemens
D. Samuel Clemens Langhorne 34. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?( )
A. They portrayed misery and poverty of the “underdogs”, who were demonstrably victims of society and nature. B. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society. C. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.
D. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme of human “bestiality,” especially an explanation of sexual desire.
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线 名 姓 号 学 订 业 专 装级年 35. Which of the following is a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?( ) A. exquisite and elaborate language B. minute detailed description
C. Lengthy psychological analysis D. all of them
36. Which of the following statements about Mark Twain is NOT true?( ) A. He is a humorist. B. He is a realist. C. He is a local colorist.
D. He is a psychologist
37. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?( ) A. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines. B. Dickinson’s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way. C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern. D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.
38. Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the ______ theme.( ) A. Deep South B. local color C. international
D. national
39. In the poem “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” Emily Dickinson gives a tense description of the greatest rending of the moment of ______.( ) A. death B. immortality C. love
D. nature
40. ______ fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people.( ) A. Eugene O’ Neill’s B. Scott Fitzgerald’s C. Ernest Hemingway’s D. William Faulkner’s
II. Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)
（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
Group 1
Column A Column B
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne A. White Jacket 2. Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book 3. Washington Irving C. The Scarlet Letter 4. Ernest Hemingway D. A Farewell to Arms 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald E. This Side of Paradise
Group 2
Column A Column B
6.Ahab A. The Great Gatsby
7. George Hurstwood B. A Farewell to Arms 8. Yank C. Moby Dick 9. Tom Buchanan D. Sister Carrie 10. Henry E. The Hairy Ape
III. Explain the following terms.（15%）（本大题共3小题，每小题5分，共15分） 1. Local Colorism 2. Transcendentalism 3. The Lost Generation
IV. Interpreting the following texts. （15%）（本大题共2小题，共15分）
Text 1
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd；
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Questions:
1. Who is the author? (2’)
2. Please analyze this poem. (5’)
Text 2
Hurstwood put his hand, red from cold, down in his pockets. Tears came into his eyes. “That’s right,” he said; “I’m no good now. I was all right. I had money. I’m going to quit this,” and, with death in his heart, he started down toward the Bowery. People had turned on the gas before and died; why shouldn’t he? He remembered a lodging house where there were little, close rooms, with gas-jets in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents. Then he remembered that he had no fifteen cents.
Hurstwood moved on, wondering. The sight of the large, bright coin pleased him a little. He remembered that he was hungry and that he could get a bed for ten cents. With this, the idea of death passed, for the time being, out of his mind. It was only when he could get nothing but insults that death seemed worthwhile. 3. Please identify the author and the novel.
(2’)
4. Pleasegive a naturalistic understanding of the novel. (6’)
Ⅴ. Give a brief answer to the following question. (20%) (本大题共1小题，共20分)
1. The relationship between man and nature is a recurrent theme, perhaps one of the most important themes, in American literature. Write a short essay on it by contrasting two or three American literary works, or two or three American literary movements, to tell what you know about their different views of nature.
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