美国文学史及作品选读 模拟试题一
I. Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)
1. C______was the first colony in American history.
A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey C. Virginia D.Georgia
2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One
of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”
A. John Smith B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D.Thomas Paine 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. A. common sense B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ A. Philip Freneau B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson
5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat
its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Titanic
6. Melville’s novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.
A. Typee B. Omoo C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick
7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A.Modernism B.Rationalism C.Sentimentalism D.Transcendentalism 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Sister Carrie
C. The Great Gatsby D. The Old Man and Sea
9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is
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not determined economically.
A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious
10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism D. Enlightenment 11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.
A. T. S Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. Walt Whitman 12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?D A. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing close friends.
B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson. C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure. D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.
13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by __A_____. A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore Dreiser 14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?C A. The Old Man and Sea B. A Farewell to Arms C. Sound and Fury D. For Whom the Bell Tolls 15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?D
A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects. B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.
C. The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century. D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.
II. Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)
Column A Column B
( c ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost
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( e) 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain
( i ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter
( a ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson ( h ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick (b ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway ( d) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau ( g ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson ( j) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie
( f ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott Fitzgerald
III. Define the following words within one phrase (2’×5=10’)
1. free verse 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 3. Mark Twain 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Ezra Pound IV. Simple questions (5’×4=20’)
1. What are Puritan thoughts?
2. What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures?
3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A” in The Scarlet Letter. 4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry. V. Interpreting the following texts (45’)
Text 1
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things.
Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives,
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