美国文学试题模拟卷及答案.doc

美国文学期末考试模拟试题及答案I. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. Franklins autobiography, published after his death, has become one of the classics of the genre.(F ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions, but the military bureaucracy is always able to find a way to make him stay.(F ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crime in the end of the play.(T ) 4. “Dreams” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to give up hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable.(T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work.(F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Imagist movement in the early 19th century.(F ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Poes poems.(F ) 8. Saul Bellows perceptions center around the black people, the big city, and the spirit of American life in the second half of the 20th century.(T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hesters illegitimate daughter.(T ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pounds Cantos the best long poem in modern literature.(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street, which exerted great influence on Theodore Dreisers realism. ( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s. (F ) 13. Fitzgeralds fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the romantic period.(F ) 14. William Faulkners woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral in the American North. (F ) 15. In Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. (T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman of the lost generation. (T ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love. (F ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life” was written by Edgar Allen Poe. (F ) 19. “The Raven” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. (F ) 20. Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel The Bluest Eye. II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)31第 31 页 共 31 页Writers: ( g ) 1. Benjamin FranklinWorks:a. Ars Poetica( d ) 2. Toni Morrison( f ) 3. William Faulkner( a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( c ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne( e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow( b ) 7. Stephen Crane( j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter( h ) 9. William Carlos Williams( i ) 10. Saul Bellowb. Maggie: A Girl of the Streetsc. Twice-told Talesd. Belovede. A Psalm of Lifef. Barn Burningg. Poor Richards Almanach. Patersoni. Anderson the Rain Kingj. The Flowering JudasIII. Identify the following by choosing the authors name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to his kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done, the complexion of my future fortune being known to him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at the thought of his immolation.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Cask of Amontillado3. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man _and_ his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, - as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonWork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4. The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender. Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slatey wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6. Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forked green vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. “Now, now, be a good girl, and well have you up in no time.”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7. But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. I found myself on Gatsbys side, and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me. At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didnt move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interestedinterested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. LongfellowWork: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8. The store in which the justice of the Peaces court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fishAuthor: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9. It was late and everyone had left the cafe 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. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10. CABOT-Thunder n lightnin, Abbie! I haint slept this late in fifty year! Looks s if the sun was full riz amost. Mustve been the dancin an likker. Must be gittin old. I hope Ebens t wuk. Ye mightve tuk the trouble t rouse me, Abbie. (He turns-sees no one there-surprised) Waal-whar air she? Gittin vittles, I calclate. (He tiptoes to the cradle and peers down-proudly) Mornin, sonny. Puttys a picter! Sleepin sound. He dont beller all night like most o em. (He goes quietly out the door in rear-a few moments later enters kitchen-sees Abbie-with satisfaction) So thar ye be. Ye got any vittles cooked?Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. Oneill C. Saul BellowWork: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1. I shot an _ arrow _ into the air. It fell to _ earth _ I knew not _ where _; For so swiftly it _ flew _ the sightCould not _ follow _ it in its _ flight _. (6%)2. Life is _ real _! Life is _ earnest _! And the grave is not its _ goal _; _ Dust _ thou art, to _ dust _ returnest, Was not spoken of the _ soul _. (6%)3. Helen, thy _ beauty _ is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, oer a _ perfumed _ sea, The weary, way-worn _ wanderer _ bore To his own native _ shore _. (4%)4. My captain does not answer, his lips are _ pale _ and _ still _,My father does not feel my arm, he has no _ pulse _ nor _ will _ (4%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Of physiology from top to toe I sing,Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action formd under the laws divine,The Modern Man I sing.I sing for physiology from top to toe. Neither looks alone nor intelligence is worthy for the praise. I say the form is far worthier. I also sing for the equality between the sexes. I sing for the modern man of their life full of passion, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed under the divine laws.VI. Comment: 20%1. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settledbut the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.Answer the following questions:(1) Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? (5%)(2) What kind of person do you think the narrator is according to the above passage? (5%)2. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.Answer the following questions:(1) What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of the letter A so elaborate? (5%)(2) How does this tell us about her character? (5%)_美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二IV. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression.(F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Jefferson and Thoreau.(T ) 3. Williams poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movements style and principles.(F ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms. (T ) 5. The quotation “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.(T ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Hellers novel Catch-22.(T ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.(F ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past.(F ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar” symbolizes social regulation.(F ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to use Montresors fondness for wine against him.(T ) 11. Stephen Cranes Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story of a good womans downfall and destruction in a slum environment. (T ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of human reality. (T ) 13. FScott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. (F ) 14. The Sound and the Fury won OHenry Award in 1939 and is considered as the representative of his short story. (T ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat. (T ) 16. Hemingways novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation. (T ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee. (F ) 18. In “Sonnet To Science”, Poe praised science for it emancipated the poets imagination. (T ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinsons poems. (T ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize.V. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers: ( j ) 1. Walt Whiteman( b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson( h ) 4. FScott Fitzgerald( a ) 5. Wallace Stevens( i ) 6. Joseph Heller( c ) 7. Eugene Glastone ONeill( d ) 8. Ernest Hemingway( g ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter( e ) 10. Langston HughesWorks:a. The Man with the Blue Guitarb. The Ravenc. Desire under the Elmsd. For Whom the Bell Tollse. Fine Clothes to the Jewf. Natureg. The Leaning Towerh. The Side of Paradisei. God Knowsj. Leaves of GrassVI. Identify the following by choosing the authors name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a weeks uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C. The Autobiography3. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindmans-buff is this game of conformity.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonWork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4. The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued as to the difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook had said: Theres a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, theyll come off in their boat and pick us up.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6. “Get along and doctor your sick,” said Granny Weatherall. “Leave a well woman alone. Ill call for you when I want youWhere were you forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You werent even born. Dont let Cornelia lead you on,” she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. “I pay my own bills, and I dont throw my money awa