云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四
True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)
( ) 1. Modern poetry is “the poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will
suffice.” This is the opinion of Walt Whitman.
( ) 2. Robert Frost experimented with form, as many poets did in the 1920s.
( ) 3. Emperor Jones represents one of O’Neil’s attempts to place plot elements and
themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting.
( ) 4. “Looking for Mr. Green” is a story of Mosby’s Memories and other Stories. ( ) 5. Bellow will be remembered for the biting social criticism of his novels, and of
course, for his riotous sense of humor.
( ) 6. Hester’s letter “A” eventually comes to represent “Angel” and “Able” to the
townspeople.
( ) 7. Poe stresses rhythm, defines true poetry as “the rhythmical creation of beauty,”
and declares that “music is the perfection of the soul, or idea, of poetry.”
( ) 8.All three parts of Franklin's autobiography were published and released
together in English for the first time in 1868.
( ) 9. New England Transcendentalism was important to American literature. It
inspired a whole new generation of famous authors such as Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
( ) 10. The setting of “Looking for Mr. Green” is Depression Columbus.
( ) 11. There are four survivors in The Open Boat: the captain, the oiler, the cook
and the correspondent.
( ) 12. In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Porter narrated the story sometimes in
chronological order and sometimes in flashback, and the chronological time is more important than the psychological time.
( ) 13. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in The Roaring Twenties.
( ) 14. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the
Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.
( ) 15. The point of view in Barn Burning is the third person narration and the
narrator is omniscient.
( ) 16. “The dignity of movement of iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being
above water” is put forward by Fitzgerald.
( ) 17. In “A Psalm of Life”, the poet sings a song for the everlasting friendship. ( ) 18. In “To Helen”, Poe employed a lot similes, metaphors and allusions to
portray Helen’s beauty.
( ) 19. Walt Whiteman’s poems are noted for the free verse.
( ) 20. Ralph Waldo Ellison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953.
I.
Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)
Writers: ( ) 1. Edgar Allan Poe ( ) 2. Walt Whiteman
II.
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( ) 3. F·Scott Fitzgerald
( ) 4. William Carlos Williams ( ) 5. Toni Morrison
( ) 6. Ralph Waldo Ellison ( ) 7. Langston Hughes ( ) 8. Ezra Pound ( ) 9. Stephen Crane
( ) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne Works:
a. O Captain! My Captain! b. The Bluest Eye
c. In a Station of the Metro
d. The House of the Seven Gables e. The Fall of the House of Usher f. The Red Wheelbarrow g. The Open Boat h. Dreams
i. The Great Gatsby j. Shadow and Act
Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)
1. Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking
of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing, since this may be read or not as any one pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity.
Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
III.
2. I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that the
intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was NOT the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones.
Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography
3. It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his
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parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest. It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to die upon the gallows.
Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden
4. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were
fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett
5. Canton flannel gulls flew near and far. Sometimes they sat down on the sea,
near patches of brown seaweed that rolled on the waves with a movement like carpets on a line in a gale. The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingey, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland. Often they came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes.
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett
6. Lighting the lamps had been beautiful. The children huddled up to her and
breathed like little calves waiting at the bars in the twilight. Their eyes followed the match and watched the flame rise and settle in a blue curve, then they moved away from her. The lamp was lit, they didn’t have to be scared and hang on to mother any more. Never, never, never more. God, for all my life, I thank Thee. Without Thee, my God, I could never have done it. Hail, Mary, full of grace.
Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner
7. About five o’clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby’s station wagon, all wet to the skin. As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the
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