美国文学史及选读考试试题（卷）
B卷
院系： 专业： 考试科目：美国文学史及选读 考试形式：闭 卷 考试时间： 100 分钟 姓名： 学号： 题号 得分 得分 评分人 I. Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.
a. Leaves of Grass b. The Scarlet Letter c. “Hymn to The Night” d. “The Secret of the Sea”
2. Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his
predecessor, ______, but his style and method are very different. a. Mark Twain b. Stephen Crane c. Henry James d. Emerson
3. Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the
representative naturalistic novel in the American literature. a. Sinclair Lewis b. Theodore Dreiser c. F. Scott Fitagerald d. H.L.Mencken
4． Mark Twain’s ______ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.
a. Roughing It
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn c. Life on the Mississippi
d. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5. Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and impressionistic. a. romantic b. naturalistic
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一 二 三 四 五 六 总分 c. classical d. imagining 6. ______ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
a. New York b. Chicago c. California d. Washington
7. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England
Transcendentalism? a. Nature b. Walden c. On Beauty d. Self-Reliance
8. Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
a. The Old Man and the Sea b. Moby Dick c. White Jacket d. Billy Budd
9. Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
a. Huckleberry Finn b. Tom Sawyer
c. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg d. The Gilded Age
10. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th
century. This was _______.
a. Anne Bradstreet b. Jane Austen c. Emily Dickinson d. Harriet Beecher
11. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, ______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
a. sentimentalism b. Romanticism c. realism d. naturalism
12. Leaves of Grass has _______ editions.
a. nine b. five c. six d. seven
13. _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing.
a. The use of the poetic “I” b. Free verse c. Musicality or rhythm d. Allegory
14. Melville’s _______ is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the
sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors.
a. Typee b. Redburn c. White Jacket d. Billy Budd
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15. _______ is not among the writing features of Melville’s works.
a. symbolism b. allgory
c. psychological analyses d. Dramatic monologue
16. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _______.
a. Mark Twain b. Henry James c. Emily Dickinson d. Theodore Dreiser
17. _______ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of American
national literature.”
a. Emily Dickinson b. Henry James c. Mark Twain d. Theodore Dreiser
18. _______, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, is Mark
Twain’s most representative book.
a. Roughing It
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn c. Life on the Mississippi
d. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
19. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with
________.
a. the love and marriage theme
b. the theme of humor and satire on life
c. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism d. the international theme
20. Within Dickinson’s little lyrics, she addresses those issues that
concern the whole human beings, which exclude ________.
a. religion b. Friendship c. love d. immortality
得分 评分人 II. Match. (20 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for the following works and put them onto the Answer Sheet.
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A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Henry David Thoreau C. Herman Melville D. Henry W. Longfellow E. Walt Whitman F. Emily Dickinson G. Mark Twain H. Stephen Crane I. Henry James
1. Self-reliance ( ) 2. There Was a Child Went Forth ( ) 3. There Was a Child Went Forth ( ) 4. White Jacket ( ) 5. Moby Dick ( ) 6. Life on the Mississippi ( ) 7. Daisy Miller ( ) 8. What Maisie Knew ( ) 9. This is My Letter to the World ( ) 10. I Like to See It Lap the Miles ( ) 11. A Red Badge of Courage ( ) 12. Civil Disobedience ( ) 13. Voices of the Night ( ) 14. The Gilded Age ( ) 15. Hiawatha ( ) 16. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( ) 17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( ) 18. I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died ( ) 19. The American Scholar ( ) 20. Song of Myself ( )
得分 评分人 III. Terms (20 points, 4 points for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are five terms. Please give the definition for these terms. Scores will be given for the related contents. Four individual contents will be enough for four points.
1. Free Verse
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2. 3. 4. 5. Transcendentalism American Realism American Naturalism Local Color
得分 评分人 IV. Appreciation (10 points, 5 points for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are two excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by three questions. Read the excerpts and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet. Part A Success Success is counted sweetest Those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag today Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear.
1. Who is the author of the poem? (1’)
2. According to the poem, what best understands success? (1’) 3. In your opinion, who wants most to succeed? (1’) 4. Translate the first stanza into Chinese. (2’)
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美国文学史及选读试卷（B卷）包含评分标准及答案
