英美文学概论

1 姓名姓名 学号学号 级级 班班 装装 订订 线线 英美文学概论 试题 Length 120minutes Use of Notes open notes closed neighbor Structure This exam consists of two parts Part one Multiple Choice Part Two Essay Part One Multiple Choice 70pts Directions In this objective test there are 100 questions or incomplete statements about the literary terms writers and their works in American literary history Each of them has four choices marked with A B C D Please choose the most appropriate one that can best answer the question or best fill the blanks to make the statement correct 1 The two earliest colonies established by English are The Plymouth Colony and A New Hampshire B Rhode Island C Connecticut D Massachusetts 2 The basic beliefs puritanism can be abbreviated as TULIP what does the letter T stand for A Total Atonement B Total Grace C Total Depravity D Total Election 3 Which of the following is not the aspects of the Puritan Legacy A The need for moral justification for private public and governmental acts B The Questing for Freedom C Hedonism D Elegiac verse morbid fascination with death 4 The Colonial Period from 1700 to 1800 is known as an age of A gold B reason C Jazz D Dollar 5 The common beliefs of the age of enlightenment are the following except A Faith in natural goodness B Perfectibility of a human being C The sovereignty of reason D Outdated social institutions has nothing to do with individual behavior 6 Which of the following is not the characteristics of the 18th century A age of revolutions in America and in France B experimentation in science C economic concept of laissez faire D the development of rational religion known as puritanism 7 Which of the following is not the romantic attitude A Appeals to imagination use of the willing suspension of disbelief B Stress on emotion rather than reason C Objectivity in form and meaning D optimism geniality 8 Romantics interest in external nature because nature is A Nature as source for the knowledge of the primitive B Nature as refuge C Nature as revelation of God to the individual D All of the above 2 姓名姓名 学号学号 级级 班班 装装 订订 线线 9 The romantic techniques are the following except A Remoteness of settings in time and space B Improbable plots C Inadequate or unlikely characterization D Content rises out of form 10 Transcendentalism is located in the history of American Thought as A Post Unitarian and free thinking in religious spirituality B Kantian and idealistic in philosophy C Romantic and individualistic in literature D All of the above 11 Transcendentalism essentially is a form of A Idealism B Pessimism C Imagism D pragmaticism 12 Which of the following is not the basic belief of Transcendentalism A intuition B oversoul C self reliance D materialism 13 Which of the flollowing is not the Transcendental legacy A The influence on Mahatma Gandhi Rev M L King Jr and others who protested using civil disobedience B The influence on the beat generation of the 1950s and the young radicals of the 60s and 70s who practised dissent anti materialism anti war and anti work ethic sentiments C The influence on realistic writers like Mark Twain and William James and his ideas on the subconscious D The popularity of Transcendental Meditation Black Power Feminism and sexual freedoms 14 William Dean Howells says Realism is nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material What event marks the change of the literary trend from Romanticism to Realism A Western Expansion B Gold Rush C The Civil War D The First World War 15 American local color realism points towards an imaginative sociology that is at once A objective and visionary B Obscure and intangible C Distorted and fabricated D Romanticized and sensationalized 16 The principles of realism are A Insistence upon and defense of the experienced commonplace B Character more important than plot C Emphasis upon morality often self realized and upon an examination of idealism D All of the above 17 Which of the following is not the description of realism A The subject matter of Realism is drawn from our experience it treated the common the average the non extreme the representative the probable B Attack upon romanticism and romantic writers C Emphasis is placed upon authorial comment and evaluation rather than upon scenic presentation D Their use of symbolism is controlled and limited 18 All of the following are realistic techiniques except A Settings thoroughly familiar to the writer B Plots emphasizing the norm of daily experience C Ordinary characters studied in depth D Complete authorial subjectivity E Responsible morality a world truly reported 19 Which of the following descriptions of the naturalistic characterization is not true A characters are conditioned and controlled by environment heredity chance or instinct B These characters are mostly from the lower middle or the lower classes they are poor uneducated and unsophisticated C The naturalists treat their characters as God D the Naturalists attempt to represent the intermingling in life of the controlling forces and individual worth 3 姓名姓名 学号学号 级级 班班 装装 订订 线线 20 Naturalism is essentially A pessimistic determinism in philosophy B Transcendentalism in philosophy C Deism in philosophy D Nihilism in philosophy 21 Which of the following is not the theme of modernism A The Gilded Age B The passage of 19th amendament in 1920 giving women the right to vote C Prohibition of the production sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages 1920 33 D The stock market crash of 1929 and the Depression of the 1930s and their impact 22 Harlem Renaissance HR is the name given to the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression The commom themes of the renaissance are A alienation marginality B the use of folk material C the use of the blues tradition D all of the above 23 Modern literature is a creation of A the urban experience B the war experience C the sea experience D the pastoral experience 24 One of the contradictory elements of Modernism is Puritanical and repressive elements and A freer expression in sexual and political matters B National jingoism and provinciality C Elitist D Democratic 25 The Beat Generation led by Ginsburg and Jack Kerouac begins in the years of A the roaring Twenties B the tranquilized fifties C the depressed thirties D the Guilded Age 26 is commonly used as subject of literary works in 1960 s A black humor B politician C natural disaster D everyday life 27 The 1970s mark the emergence of the women s movement led by the 1970 publication of Sexual Politics In this work the author Kate Millet attacks the male writers for their use of A sex B religion C antifemale attitudes D Political power 28 The 1980s and 1990s witness American literature a stage of multicultural writers among them Amy Tan and are brilliant Chinese American writers A Maxine Hong Kingston B James Welch C Bharati Mukherjee D Sandra Cisneros 29 The impact of expressionism on Modern drama can be viewed as follows except A The characters and the milieu may be realistic but their presentation on stage is controlled by the writer s personal biases and inclinations B No longer a camera photograph the stage could be higly elaborate or bare C More like a dream expressionistic writing has no recognizable plot conflicts and character developments However the threads are still audience friendly D expressionism tends to be absurdism or an exercise in obscurity 30 Which of the following description is stage realism A Recognizable heroes and villains were replaced with ordinary characters showing ordinary strengths and weaknesses B There is heroism in a human s desire to survive against insurmountable odds C More like a dream the drama has no recognizable plot conflicts and character developments D All of the above 4 姓名姓名 学号学号 级级 班班 装装 订订 线线 31 Which of the following works is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson A Self Reliance B The American Scholar C Nature D Walden 32 is considered the gospel of American Transcendentalism A Self Reliance B The American Scholar C Nature D The Divinity School Address 33 Which of the following description is on Ralph Waldo Emerson 34 Which of the following descriptions is on Emily Dickson 35 Which of the following descriptions is on Walt Whitman 36 Which of the following descriptions is on Edgar Allen Poe Questions 33 36 are based on the following choices A No other great literary figure in American history has led a more tragic life as his He reflects the paradoxical time there was the apocalyptic sense of doom combined with the romantic innocence of childhood B As a transcendentalist he delivered a speech The American Scholar at Harvard College to prod the students to become more confident in their abilities and to take pride in native Americanism C Known as the Belle of Amherst Though lonely and isolated she appears to have loved deeply perhaps only those who have loved and lost can love with an intensity and desire which can never be fulfilled in the reality of the lovers touch D As a pioneer of Modern poetry he made the city and urban living conditions suitable settings for poetry In his her remarkable use of sex and sexual imagery he or she broke new ground in American writing 37 Critics have associated Emily Dickinson s work with A The 17th Century Metaphysical Tradition B The Emersonian Tradition C The New England Tradition D All of the above 38 Which of the following is the character of Emily Dickinson s verse 39 Which of the following is the character of Edgar Allen Poe s work 40 Which of the following is the characterof Walt Whitman s poetry Questions 38 40 are based upon the following choices A Highly compressed compact elliptical shy of being exposed and highly subjective B First poetic writing which combines lyric verse and prose fiction modern poetry thrives on this combination C Unity of effect or impression is of primary importance He suggested the ideal length of a poem is 100 lines and the most effective story is one that can be read at a single sitting D The first published American poet she can be considered a seventeenth century feminist because she was a woman writing about experiences in her life which defied the current tradition 41 Which of the following works is written by Natheniel Hawthorne 42 Which of the following works is written by Herman Melville 43 Which of the following is written by Fenimore Cooper 44 Which of the following is written by Washington Irving Questions 41 44 are based on the following choices A The Legend of Sleepy Hollow B The Leatherstocking Tales C The Scarlet Letter D Moby Dick 5 姓名姓名 学号学号 级级 班班 装装 订订 线线 45 Which of the following is the best description of Nathaniel Hawthorne 46 Which of the following is the best description of Herman Melville 47 Which of the following is the best description of Fenimore Cooper 48 Which of the following is the best description of Washington Irving Questions 45 48 are based on the following choices A In his masterpiece he disguised as Ishmael the sole survivor of the Pequod a schoolteacher and part time sailor a Presbyterian He discusses such issues as free will predestination necessity and damnation B Obsessed with the crime committed by his puritan ancestors he rounds off the puritan cycle in American writing belief in the existence of an active evil and in a sense of determinism C He is the first belletrist in American literature writing for pleasure at a time when writing was practical and for useful purposes He is the first American literary humorist He has written the first modern short stories His use of the gothic looks forward to Poe D He writes the first and only five volume epic romance to carry its mythic hero Natty Bumppo from youth to old age 49 Apart from writing fiction Henry James made important contributions to the genre of literary theories especially through his famous essay A The Art of Fiction B Principle of Composition C The Fictional Principle D The New Criticism 50 As a master of character portrayal Henry James has extensively used the method in his ficitional writing to present the psychological reality A stream of consciousness B Multiple point of view C Symbolism D image 51 Henry James is at his best in A international themes and about the entanglements of love B an investigation of the varieties of realism C the depiction of the social outcast D mythlogical allusions and images 52 Which of the following is not Henry James s work A Daisy Miller B Sister Carrie C Ambassadors D The Wings of the Dove 53 of Mark Twain is often hailed as the source from which all modern American literature comes A The Innocents Abroad B Life on the Mississippi C The Prince and the Pauper D The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 54 The story in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place along the A Missouri River B Arkansas River C Mississippi River D Hudson River 55 Mark Twain should be remembered both as a great literary artist and in the history of the United States A a poet B a great social critic C a businessman D a soldier 6 姓名姓名 学号学号 级级 班班 装装 订订 线线 56 Which one of the following descriptions is about Stephen Crane 57 Which one of the following descriptions is about Theodore Dreiser Questions 56 57 are based on the following choices A A brilliant writer died at twenty eight Nevertheless in an extraordinary burst of energy he produced two great books impressive poems and ninety pieces of short fiction His depiction of ghetto life and the deprivation of war made him internationally well known B A literary naturalist whose adventure stories of Alaska and the Pacific continue to fascinate new generations of readers C The spirit of the turn of the century San Francisco is impressively captured in McTeague Its theme that of a powerful man failing against unexpected adversity typifies the thrust of the best of Naturalistic writing D The leader of Naturalism in American writing deals with social problems and with characters who struggle to survive His best known work is An American Tragedy which shows a young man trying to succeed in a materialistic society 58 Which of the following is written by Stephen Crane 59 Which of the following is written by Theodore Dreiser Questions 58 59 are based on the following choices A The Call of the Wild B Sister Carrie C Daisy Miller D Maggie A Girl of the Street 60 Common themes and issues explored in Stephen Cranes works are A Natures indifference to humanity B rebellion religion and the physical emotional and intellectual responses of people under extreme pressure C Both A and B D Neither A nor B 61 Imagism is a reaction against sentimentalism A Elizabethan B Edwardian C Victorian D Shakespearean 62 Imagism is a literary movement that advocates A the use of free verse B common speech patterns C clear concrete images D All of the above 63 Which of the following works is written by Ezra Pound 64 Which of the following works is written by T S Eliot 65 Which of the following works is written by Robert Frost Questions 63 65 are based on the following choices A Hugh Selwyn Mauberly B After Apple Picking C Four Quartets D Harmonium 66 Which of the following description is most appropriate for Robert Frost 67 which of the following description is most appropriate for T S Eliot 68 which of the following description is most appropriate for Ezra Pound Questions 66 68 are based on the following choices A His poetry presents difficulties of numerous allusions use of foreign language use of metaphysical conceit and an absence of obvious narrative structure B He uses New England as a frequent setting or backdrop for much of his poetry explores aspects of humanity that are timeless and universal his sentences are clear his verse forms traditional and language similar to everyday speech C He is influenced by Chinese and Japanese poetry advocated free meter and a more economical use of words and images in poetic expression D His poetry is known for its eccentric style its unusual typography and spellings and deliberate misuse of grammatical structure 7 姓名姓名 学号学号 级级 班班 装装 订订 线线 69 Who is the spokesman of Jazz Age 70 Who is the spokesman of Lost Generation 71 Who is the spokesman of Southern Renaissance Questions 69 71are based on the following choices A T S Eliot B William Faulkner C F Scott Fitzgerald D Ernest Hemingway 72 Which is the best description of Ernest Hemingway 73 Which is the best description of T S Eliot 74 Which is the best description of William Faulkner Questions 72 74 are based on the following choices A Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature he grew up in Oxford Mississippi which became the prototype of Jefferson in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha the setting of many of his works B The most dominant literary figure between the two world wars won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948 His poetry The Waste Land is considered to be a remarkable and extraordinary achievement deals with the failure of Western civilization as shown by World War I C An excellent storyteller preoccupied by a need to describe the plight of the grotesque the unsuccessful the deprived and the inarticulate He sensitively describes poverty and eccentricity His simple style in the oral tradition of storytelling influenced writers like Hemingway and Faulkner D Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 for his mastery of the art of modern narration he used a spare and tight journalistic type of prose He used the objective detached point of view and his vocabulary and sentence structure are deceptively simple 75 Which of the following is written by Ernest Hemingway 76 Which of the following is written by William Faulkner 77 Which of the following is written by F Scot Fitzgerald Questions 75 77 are based on the following choices A Winesburg Ohio B The Sun Also Rises C Light in August D Tender is the Night 78 What is Hemingway s hero like 79 What is Fitzgerald s hero like 80 What is Faulkner s hero like Questions 78 80 are based on the following choices A He has the American worship of riche