《美國文學》期末考試試卷(A卷)

1、外國語學院20 20 學年第 二 學期美國文學期末考試試卷（A卷）適用班級 050511-13 考試時間 120 分鐘學院 班級 學號 姓名 題號一二三四五六七八九十總分分數(shù)得分 I. Write the names of the authors.(10%) 1. Leaves of Grass ( )2. Raven ( )3. Anecdote of the Jar ( )4. The Octopus ( )5. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )6. A Rose for Emily ( )7. Arrowsmith ( )8. Of Mice and M

2、en ( )9. The Weary Blues ( )10. The Streetcar Named Desire ( )得分 II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%）1. Emily Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual and pays attention to only one region “_”. Her poetry characterizes with the concise, direct and simple dic

3、tion and syntax.2. Simply _ means the use of regional detail in a literary or artistic work. The name is given especially to a kind of American literature that in its most characteristic form made its appearance just after the Civil War and for nearly three decades was the single most popular form o

4、f American literature.3. Martin Eden, one of Londons most important books, is this _ account of a young sailor who struggles to improve himself and achieves eventual success as a writer, but grows disenchanted with fame and wealth. It represents both an indictment of the American dream and an import

5、ant reflection on Londons own background and career.4. Modernism in literature is not easily summarized, but the key elements are experimentation, _, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.5. The _ manifesto came out in 1912 showed three poetic principles: direct trea

6、tment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）, exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）, the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）.6. In The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells us a story of an old Cuban

7、 fisherman, _, who is a perfectionist when it comes to fishing.7. William Faulkner wrote works of psychological drama and emotional depth, typically with long serpentine prose and high, meticulously-chosen diction, also using groundbreaking literary devices such as stream of consciousness, _, and ti

8、me-shifts within narrative.8. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in _ for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.9. _ was more than just a literary movement: it included racial consciou

9、sness, the back to Africa movement led by Marcus Garvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others. It was a huge leap for black liberation and culture.10. _ received the Pulitzer Prize four times and received the Nobel

10、Prize for Literature in 1936 for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy, making him the first US dramatist to do so.得分 III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. （20%）1.Mark Twain created, in

11、_, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A.Huckleberry FinnB.Tom SawyerC.The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD.The Gilded Age2. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. Th

12、e Rise of Silas Lapham3.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. romanticismC. realism D. naturalism4.The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Grea

13、t Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _.A. First World War B. Second World WarC. Civil War D. War of Independence5.Ezra Pound s long poem_ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste Land B. The CantosC. Don Juan D. Queen Mab6. _, a poetic t

14、ragedy on the betrayal of Thomas a Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power.A. The Confidential ClerkB. The Cocktail PartyC.The Family Reunion D. Murder in the Cathedral7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties

15、, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _.A. The Roaring Twenties B. The Jazz AgeC. The Dollar Decade D. all of the above8.In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language

16、.A. Gertrude Stein B. Ezra PoundC. Thomas Stearns Eliot D. James JoyceE. all of the above9. _ tells the Joad familys life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and Men B. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great Gatsby D. For Whom the Be

17、ll Tolls10. _ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the poor Whites; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Er

18、nest Hemingway D. John Steinbeck得分 IV. Identify the author and the title of the work from which each of the following excerpts is taken. And then answer the question after each excerpt. (20%)Passage 1I celebrate myself, and sing myself.And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to m

19、e as good belongs to you. The author The title of the work Question: What is the author celebrating?Passage 2CABOT:The farm needs a son.ABBIE:I need a son.CABOT:Ay-eh. Sometimes ye air the farm an sometimes the farm be yew. Thats why I clove t ye in my lonesomeness. (A pause. He pounds his knee with

20、 his fist.) Me an the farm has got t beget a son!ABBIE:Yed best go t sleep. Yere gittin thins all mixed.CABOT:(with an impatient gesture) No, I haint. My minds clears a well. Ye dont know me, thats it. (He stares hopelessly at the floor.)ABBIE:(indifferently) Mebbe. ABBIE:(at lastpainfully) Ye shoul

21、dnt, Ebenye shouldntId make ye happy!EBEN:(harshly) I dont want t be happyfrom yew!ABBIE:(helplessly) Ye do, Eben! Ye do! Why dye lie?EBEN:(viciously) I dont take t ye, I tell ye! I hate the sight o ye!ABBIE:(with an uncertain troubled laugh) Waal, I kissed ye anywaysan ye kissed backyer lips was bu

22、rninye cant lie bout that! (intensely) If ye dont care, why did ye kiss me backwhy was yer lips burnin?The author The title of the work Question: The second conversation in the above excerpt takes place immediately after the first one. What do you think is Abbies real intention of showing affection

23、to Eben?Passage 3“Since then- tis Centuries-and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses HeadsWere toward Eternity”The author The title of the work Question: What is the implication of this final stanza?Passage 4They were careless people, Tom and DaisyThey 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 m