美国文学 期末考试试卷及答案

2009 2010 学年第 一 学期美国文学期末考试试卷（A卷）适用班级考试时间 120 分钟学院 班级 学号 姓名 题号一二三四五六七八九十总分分数得分. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (10%)1. Octopus ( )2. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( )3. Babbitt ( )4. White Fang( )5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( )6. My Antonia( )7. “Birches”( )8. Poor Richards Almanac( )9. Light in August ( )10. Twice Told Tales( )11. The Declaration of Independence( )12. “Rip Van Winkle”( )13. Nature( )14. The Song of Hiawatha( )15. Uncle Toms Cabin( )16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( )17. Sister Carrie( )18. The Waste Land( )19. For Whom the Bell Tolls( )20. The Emperor Jones( )得分. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (10%)1. _was one of the founders of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies.2. _was a determined revolutionary whose work helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, but who lost his popularity long before his death.3. The term refers to the group of people, some of them important to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic.4. _was an early form of horror fiction that originated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period.5. _, known for her deeply personal poems and radically different poetic themes and form, didnt achieve fame as a poet until long after her death.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 entitled the “Father of American Poetry.8. _was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism, author of the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the history of American literature.9. _is the first American professional writer and the first writer of the detective story in the world.10. _is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidents on the line of the heros travel.得分. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (30%)1.Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became know as the “_” who appeared in America. A Ninth Muse B Tenth Muse C Best Muse D First Muse2._ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature. A purple prose Bwaste-land imagery C local color D symbolism3.The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to a relatively large literate Black readership was known as_. A The Holocaust B The Harlem Renaissance C Abolitionism D The Civil Rights Movement4._ was a leading 19th century feminist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement. A Margaret Fuller BSylvia Plath C Hilda Doolittle D Gloria Stein5.Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry? A gushing sentimentalismand comfortable images B abandonment of earlier verse forms C use of free verse D an effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing world6.Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20th century American poets? A Ezra Pound B Walt Whitman C Robert Frost D Allen Ginsburg7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _. A The Jazz Age B The Gilded Age C The Roaring Age D The Beat Age8.Which is true of the “Fireside Poets”? A They were generally strongly in favor of abolishing slavery. B They were deeply involved in the Transcendentalist movement. C They were a group of 19th century New England poetswho were tremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote. D They opposed to tradition and were in favor of radical change.9. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel _. A The Old Man and the Sea B For Whom the Bell Tolls C The Sun Also Rises D A Farewell to Arms10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to _. A The highest ranking of the Hindu castes. BA movement that emerged from rebellion against Puritan religious ideas and systems. C A group of New England writers known for their scholarship and/or conservative philosophy. D A school of imaginative writing.11.Which of the following is one of Ben Franklins famous proverbs? A “A stitch in time saves nine” B“God helps those who help themselves” C “A Friend in need is a friend indeed” D “Ask not who the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee”12. _ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment. A Romanticism B Realism C Naturalism D Modernism13. Although few of her poems were published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didnt appear until the 1950s, _ had a major impact on 20th century poetry. A Anne Bradstreet B Gertrude Stein C Emily Dickinson D Amy Lowell14. Which of the following writers died a natural death in his old age? A Jack London B Ernest Hemingway C Stephen Crane D Mark Twain15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet? A Henry Wordsworth Longfellow B Amy Lowell C Ezra Pound D Robert Frost得分IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (10%)1. Hawthorne was a firm believer in Puritan principles and mourned their passing in his works.2. Frederick Douglas was a major 19th century black writer.3. The sound of Whitmans words casts a magic, romantic spell over readers. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy.4. Haiku, a form of traditional Japanese poetry, greatly influenced the Imagist movement.5. Leaves of Grass is Whitmans life work.6. Thanks in part to the efforts of Ezra Pound, Robert Frost was published in England and quickly became recognized as a major American poet.7. In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of modern narration.”8. Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing his death with dignity and courage.9. Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such as his pamphlet Common Sense, which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution.10. William Hill Browns The Power of Sympathy, written in 1789, is often called “the first American novel”.11. The literary movement of American romanticism was generally divided into two stages: pre-romanticism and post-romanticism.12. Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13. The Scarlet Letter is called an economical novel because there are only three chief characters-or four if we include the child Pearl.14. President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”15. Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16. Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literary realism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.” The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.17. Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”.18. F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19. Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbecks novels.20. “Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Latin meaning “meditation on death”.得分V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions.(20%) Passage 1The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? _(1%)2. What is the title of this poem? _(1%)3. What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are “modern”? (2%)4. What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem? And what feeling and meaning does the poem express to you? (2%)Passage 2It was late and everyone had left the caf except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.Questions:1. This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2. Why does the old man get drunk every night and why did he commit suicide? (2%)3. What does the young waiter think of the old man and how does he treat him? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _ . (1%)2. The author of the work is_ . (1%)3. List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in the woods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1. This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2. What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%)Passage 5It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know.By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.Questions:1. The stanza is taken from the poem_?(1%)2. The author of the poem is_ . (1%)3. What is the most obvious rhetorical device the author uses for effect? (4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.Its purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1. This stanza is taken from the poem _by_.(2%)2. What is ones real house according to the poet? (5%)得分VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Robert Frost s The Road Not Taken. （10%）2. Eugene O Neills Long Days Journey into Night.（10%）3. Talk about Adgar Allan Poes social outlook and writings （10%）4. Comment on Hawthornes style. （10%）美国文学期末考试试卷A卷答案暨评分标准适用班级060511-3考试时间 120 分钟. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%) 1. Frank Norris 2. Stephen Crane 3. Sinclair Lewis4. Jack London 5. Washington Irving 6. Willa Cather7. Robert Frost 8. Benjamin Franklin 9. William Faulkner 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne11. Thomas Jefferson12. Washington Irving13. Ralph Waldo Emerson14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15. Harriet Beecher Stowe16. Mark Twin17. Theodore Dreiser18. T.S. Eliot19. Ernest Hemingway20. Eugene ONeill. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%) 1. John Smith 2. Thomas Paine 3. “founding fathers” 4. Gothic Fiction 5. Emily Dickenson6. John Smith7. Philip Freneau8. Washington Irving9. Edgar Allan Poe10. Picaresque novel. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)1B2C3B4A5A6C7A8D9D10C11B12A13C14D15AIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)1T2T3F4T5T6T7F8T9F10T11T12F13T14F15T16T17F18T19F20FV. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions.(20%)Passage 11. Ezra Pound (1) 2. In A Station of the Metro (1) 3. Answer should comment on the parallel between the “modern” imagery (description of urban crowds and transportation, loneliness) of the first line and the traditional “Oriental” imagery (budding flowers on a tree, wetness) of the second line. (2) 4. What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem? Describe the stylistic result of the parallel and the feelings it evokes (2)Passage 21. This part if from the short story “A Clean Well Light Room” written by Ernest Hemingway. (2) 2. Describe the old mans character and relate it to the nihilist philosophy expressed in the story. (2) 3. What does the young waiter think of the old man (and why) and how does he treat him? Describe the young mans character, his lack of understanding of the old man and the significance of how he treats the old man as described in the story. (3)Passage 31. Walden (1)2. Henry David Thoreau (1)3. Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (2)2. life and liberty.(5)Passage 51. Annabel Lee.(1)2. Edgar Allan Poe. (1)3. repetition or refrains.(4)Passage 61. Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2. Ones real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (5)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken. (10%) This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently. In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life.2. Eugene O Neills Long Days Journey into Night. (10%) Long Days Journey into Night is somewhat autobiographical. The Tyrones of the play are in fact modeled on the Eugene O Neill family. The four major characters include James Tyrone, the father, a famous actor, anxious to become rich at the expense of his own talent; Mary Tyrone, the mother, a drug addict; Jamie Tyrone, their elder son, and Edmund Tyrone, their younger son. The Mother becomes mentally ill because she is extremely unhappy with her married life. Young Jamie loses faith in life, while Edmund the wanderer comes back with tuberculosis. All the four suffer frustrations and wish to escape from the harsh reality, James and Jamie look for solace in their cups, while Mary and Edmund seek the protection of the fog which they hope would screen them from the intrusion of the world outside. They meet in the living room of the family s summer home at 8:30 a. m. of a day in August, 1912, and torment one another and themselves until midnight. The father is angry with the mother for her drug addiction, the mother with his sons for being good for nothing, and the sons with their parents for not being good parents. All are torn in a war between love and hate, and no one is sure which is the stronger emotion. Life is too painful for them even to try and make sense of it. Edmund s desperate advice in face of the horrible burden of Time weighing on people s shoulders and crushing them to the earth is to lose feeling in their cups and stay always drunk. Thus the long day journeys into night when the tragedy of the family is finally enacted. No relief is felt, no light is seen, and all ends in the engulfing darkness. In a figurative sense, Long Day s Journey into Night is a metaphor for Eugene 0 Neill s lifelong endeavor to find truth and the way to acceptance. The former he found, namely, the faithless, fragmentary nature of modern life, whereas the latter he did not; for him all passed into night. In despair Eugene O Neill thought of the old God of the Catholic church on which, it is ironical to not, he had turned his back long before.3. Talk about Adgar Allan Poes social outlook and writings （10%）l Poe admired aristocratic society，distrusted the leveling tendency of democracy, and expressed contempt for uplift movements of progress（提高社会地位的进步运动）.He deplored Americas increasing industrialization. In his more sardonic comments on democracy, he says that it amounts to the tyranny of a mob. He could be associated with those literary men in t