美国文学考试试题.doc

Group 1Column A Column B( ) 1. T. S. Eliot a. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening( ) 2. Wallace Stevens b. Sister Carrie( ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c.The Oversoul( ) 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Anecdote of the Jar( ) 5. Robert Frost e. The Waste LandGroup 2Column A Column B( ) 1. Benjy a. Sister Carrie( ) 2. George Hurstwood b. The Sound and the Fury( ) 3. Emily c. Mrs Warrens Profession( ) 4. Vivie d. A Rose for Emily( ) 5. Jim e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“God help men that help themselves” is found in _ work.A. PaineB. FranklinC. FreneauD. JeffersonFrom 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _, an annal(年表、编年史) collection of proverbs.（谚语）A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richards AlmanacC. Common SenseD .The General Magazine_ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathanial HawthorneD. Walt WhitmanTranscendentalists（超验主义者）recognized _ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. IntuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinkingThe common thread throughout American literature has been emphasis on the _.A. RevolutionB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. RationalismThe publication of _ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-relianceC.The American ScholarD. The Over-soul There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually _ on the Puritan soil.A. RomanticismB. Puritanism （清教主义）C. Mysticism （神秘主义）D. Unitarianism （实用主义）In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _.A. the thought that designates（标出、定名为）a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.B. The thought that designates man as a social animalC. The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD. The modes of thinkingMark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _ language.A. GrandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacularMark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolismThe Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as _.A.the golden ageB. the silver ageC.the gilded ageD. the roaring ageThe impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American _.A. modernismB. NaturalismC. VernacularismD. local colorismWhich of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?A. Ezra PoundB. William Carlos WilliamsC. Robert FrostD. Theodore DreiserThe following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except _.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott. FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest HemingwayWho, one of the most import poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?A. J. D. SalingerB. Ezra PoundC. Richard WrightD. Ralph EllisonTheodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of Americans _.A. naturalistsB. realistsC. modernistsD. romanticistsThe book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to _.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Adventure of Huckleberry FinnD. Moby DickThe American “Thirties”, lasted from the Crash(股市崩盘), through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak (开始) of the Second World War in 1939. This was a period of _. A. povertyB. important social movementsC. a new social consciousness （意识）D. all of the above “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _.A.T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. E. E. CummingsEarly in the 20th century, _ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B The imagist writers followed three principles; they respectively are direct treatment, economy of expression and _.A. clear rhythmB. blank verseC. free verseD. heroic couplet “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both” In the above two lines of Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _. A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. ones course of lifeIn Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _ in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. stream of consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalismYoknapatawpha county is an imagery land invented by _.A. William FaulknerB. Thomas HardyC. BalzacD. Theodore Dreiser_ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying (衰败的) upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous(厚颜无耻的)class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labored for both of them. A. FaulknerB. FitzgeraldC. HemmingwayD. Steinbeck1. Who is your favorite American writer? What is his/her masterwork? Why do you like him/her? ( The writers and the works are not confined to (局限于) those we have mentioned in class.) (15 points)2. What is the relationship between wars and American literature? (U.S. has gone through the Independence War, the civil war, WWI, WWII, and the anti-terrorist war, you c