《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）
1. Poor Richard’s Almanac ( )
2. The House of the Seven Gables ( ) 3. “Raven” ( ) 4. My Antonia ( ) 5. Babbitt ( )
6. A Streetcar Named Desire ( )
7. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( ) 8. A Farewell to Arms ( ) 9. The Call of the Wild ( )
10. Long Day's Journey into Night ( ) 11. Common Sense ( ) 12. “Rip Van Winkle”( ) 13. Walden( )
14. The Song of Hiawatha( ) 15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( )
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( ) 17. Sister Carrie( ) 18. The Waste Land( ) 19. A Farewell to Arms( ) 20. The Great Gatsby( )
1. defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
2. While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne
Clemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.
3. Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the direct
treatment of an object or situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exact word.
4. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his
masterpiece novel _________.
5. is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his
vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.
6. The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by
___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.
7. _________________ has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\\
8. _______________________was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet to
use the form of free verse.
9. _____________________is the first American lyric poet.
10. _______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidents
on the line of the hero’s travel.
Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (30%)
1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment, _______________ was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution
2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?
A. Michael Wigglesworth B. Edward Taylor C. Anne Bradstreet D. Philip Freneau
3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in
_______.
A. The Scarlet Letter B. Young Goodman Brown C. The Marble Faun D. The Ambitious Guest
4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club. A. Thoreau B. Emerson C. Hawthorne D. Whitman
5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. Innocents Abroad C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Rise of Silas Lapham
6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
A. The American Scholar B. English Traits
C. The Conduct of Life D. Representative Men
7. 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
8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This
was ___________.
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Jane Austen C. Emily Dickinson D. Harriet Beecher
9. The main theme of _______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that
representation of life should be the main object of the novel. A. Henry James’
B. William Dean Howells’ C. Mark Twain’s D. O. Henry’s
10. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost C. T. S. Eliot
D. E. E. Cummings
11. With William Dean Howells, Henry 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. naturalism
12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems
loosely connected.
A. The Waste Land B. The Cantos
C. Don Juan D. Queen Mab
13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution
in literary style and language.
A. Gertrude Stein B. Ezra Pound C. James Joyce D. all of the above
14. __________ tells the Joad family' s 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 Wrath
C. The Great Gatsby D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticism
were the failures of American society and ___________ . A. the failure of communication among Americans B. the economic depression
C. the extreme prosperity of America D. the paradise of New Land
IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (10%)
1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.