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)
publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.
87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical.
, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.
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 _______.
the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.
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.
1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
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 _______.
launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.
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)
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
of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as
well. A.
nature
B.
self-
reliance C. self D. life 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
D.
Over-Self-
Soul Reliance
Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.
A.
saviors B. villains
C.
commentators D. observers
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 _____. ’s Sister Carrier
Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ’s Leatherstocking Tales ’s Walden
of the following is Not optimistic about human nature .
A.
Ralph
Emerson B. Walt Whitman
C.
Hawthorne Thoreau
Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.
Nathaniel D.
Henry
Van Winkle and Moby Dick
Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Goodman Brown and Moby Dick
Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle
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
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
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 Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.
A. New England B. South C. Mid West D. West
of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ an
accepted standard literary medium. A.
tall
tale
C.
B.
local
D.
colorism colloquial speech
humor
Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.
A.
7
B. C.
8 9 D. 10
writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.
A.
sonnet Japanese haiku
English
B.
C. Chinese classical poetry D. French 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
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
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
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题
