美国文学样卷及答案.docx

济南大学考试试卷样卷1I Matching (15 points)Match each of the following works in column A with its author in column B and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Note: there are two extra authors.A B( ) 1. The Waste Land A. Tennessee Williams( ) 2. Sister Carrie B. Philip Freneau( ) 3. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. William Cullen Bryant( ) 4. The Call of the Wild D. Carl Sandburg( ) 5. Walden E. William Faulkner ( ) 6. The Sound and the Fury F. Mark Twain( ) 7. Moby DickG. Theodore Dreiser( ) 8. The Emperor of Ice-CreamH. Jack London( ) 9. The Fall of the House of UsherI. Herman Melville( )10. A Farewell to ArmsJ. Edgar Allan Poe( )11. The Last of the MohicansK.Wallace Stevens( )12. The Glass MenagerieL. Henry David Thoreau( )13. Fog M. James Fenimore Cooper( )14. The Wild Honey SuckleN. Ernest Hemingway( )15. Self-Reliance O. Walt WhitmanP. T.S.EliotQ. Ralph Waldo EmersonII Multiple-choice Questions (15 points) There are 15 multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _.A. rationality B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism2. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possible read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT_.A. malignancy B. beauty C. adultery D. God3. The most important representatives of American transcendentalism, which once flourished in New England as a philosophical and literary movement, are _.A. Edgar Poe and James Cooper B. Emerson and Whitman C. Hawthorne and Melville D. Emerson and Thoreau4. _ is considered the founder of Psychological realism.A. Henry JamesB. Jack London C. Mark TwainD. Nathaniel Hawthorne5. According to Emerson, mans capacity is _.A. ambiguousB. limited C. infinite D. subsidiary to God6. _ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.A. NatureB. Walden C. Moby Dick D. The Scarlet Letter7. In her quiet and partially isolated life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of_.A. a single household and an inactive life B. a few adventurous experiencesC. a happy and active lifeD. a hard and suffering life8. _ fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people.A. Eliots B. Hemingways C. FitzgeraldsD. Faulkners9. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is a master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers. 10. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “_.” A. free verse B. blank verse C. alliteration D. end rhyming11. By the turn of the century, the publication of The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Mysterious Stranger marks the change in Mark Twain from _to _.A. an almost despairing pessimist.an optimist B. an optimist . an almost despairing pessimistC. a local colorist . a naturalistD. a naturalist . a local colorist12. In the history of American literature, Realism was a reaction against_and paved the way to Modernism.A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism D. Enlightenment13. American _, another school of realism, resulted mainly from the impact of Darwins evolutionary theory and the influence of the 19th century French literature.A. Transcendentalism B. NaturalismC. Enlightenment D. Freudianism14. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his “black vision.” The term “black vision” refers to_.A. Hawthornes observation that every man faces a black wallB. Hawthornes belief that all men are by nature evilC. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his storyD. that Puritans of Hawthornes time usually wore black clothes15. The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by _ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. He captured the dialects of the Mississippi characters, including Negroes and the redneck, as well as more refined and educated narrators like Quentin.A. Faulkner B. Fitzgerald C. HemingwayD. SteinbeckIII Identifying (10 points)Identify the author and title of each of the following excerpts and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. 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.2. The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.3. The woods are lovely, dark and deepBut I have promises to keepAnd miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.”4. I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.5. For a moment he looked at me as if he failed to understand.“ Im Gatsby,” he said suddenly.IV Short Answer Questions (30 points)Answer the following questions briefly and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. William Faulkner is famous for his creation of “Yoknapatawpha Saga”. What does “Yoknapatawpha Saga” mean? List at least two “Yoknapatawpha novels”. 2. What does Henry James “the international theme” mean? Give one example of James novel with “the international theme.”3. What does local color or regional literature mean? Why is Mark Twain regarded as a writer with the features of local colorism?4. Discuss briefly the symbolism in Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage.5. Identify the major features of Irvings writings.V Comment and Interpretation (20 points)1. Comment on the following topic and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Discuss the significance of Eugene ONeill in American literature. You can discuss the question from such aspects as his contribution to modern American drama, his representitive works and the major themes in his plays, etc.2. Interpret the following passage by answering the questions briefly.Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servanta combined gardener and cookhad seen in at least ten years. It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white , decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emilys house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumpsan eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town , dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apronremitted her taxes. The dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity . Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emilys father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.Questions:1) Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?2) What kind of person is Emily Grierson in this story?3) Why was the death of Miss Emily compared to a “fallen monument”?VI Poem Analysis (10 points)Analyze one of the following two poems and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Anecdote of the JarI placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion every where. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee. Annabel LeeIt 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 thought Than to love and be loved by me. She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee- With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud by night Chilling my Annabel Lee; So that her high-born kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me:- Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling And killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we- Of many far wiser than we- And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:- For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea- In her tomb by the side of the sea.课程考试试卷（样卷1）评分标准（含参考答案）课程名称：美国文学史及选读I Matching (15 points, 1 point each).1-5 PGFHL 6-10 EIKJN 11-15 MADBQ本题评分标准：本题为匹配题，共15个小题，每小题1分，共15分。错一题扣1分。II Multiple-choice Questions (15 points, 1 point each).1-5 ACDAC 6-10 CACCA 11-15 BBBBA本题评分标准：本题为单选题，共15个小题，每小题1分，共15分。错一题扣1分。III Identifying (10 points).1. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1分)The Scarlet Letter (1分) 2. Ezra Pound(1分)In a Station of the Metro (1分) 3. Robert Frost (1分)Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1分) 4. Walt Whitman (1分)Song of Myself (1分) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald(1分)The Great Gatsby (1分) 本题评分标准：本题为识辨题，共5个小题，每小题2分，共10分。作家及作品名称各占1分，单词拼错此项不得分(作家名字缩写可得分)。 IV Short Answer Questions (30 points, 6 points each)1. In his writing, William Faulkner created a mythical county of Yoknapatawpha as the setting of many of his works. (2分) Faulkners works set in Yoknapatawpha county have been termed Yoknapatawpha saga since Faulkner writes about the histories of a number of southern aristocratic families. (2分)The representative novels include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying. (2分)（注：本小题共三个要点，每个2分。作品举例亦可为 Light in August, Absalom, Absolom!, A Rose for Emily 等）2. International Theme means the confrontation between Americans and Europeans, American innocence in contact and contrast with European decadence and moral and psychological complications arising therefrom. (3分)The American in Jamess novel is usually open, optimistic, and democratic but lacking the knowledge, culture, and sophistication of the Europeans, while the European is cultured and elegant but perhaps overly sophisticated, and even on occasion cruel and evil.(2分) Example：The Portrait of a Lady (1分)（注：本小题共三个要点。作品举例亦可为 Daisy Miller等）3. Local color or regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region. (3分).Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. His masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a good example of his local colorism. It isa keen realistic portrayal of regional character and frontier experience on the Mississippi. The book is written in the unpretentious, colloquial and poetic style. Different dialects are spoken in it, which makes the novel have local color and more vivid. (3分).（注：本小题共两个要点，每个要点3分。）4.In the novel, Crane uses symbols in many different ways and on many different levels by creating unusual and compelling colors and animal images. Red is the most important color in the book. It is related to battle as it symbolizes the blood , the rage which a soldier feels, and the color of the flag. It also seems to be related to any strong emotion such as hate. (3分)The title of the book, The Red Badge of Courage, refers to the bloody wounds received in battle. These wounds are symbolic of courage.(3分)（注：本小题共两个要点，每个要点3分）5. First, Irving avoids moralizing as much as possible; he wrote to amuse and entertain. (1.5分) Then he is good at enveloping the story in an atmosphere. (1.5分)His charaters are vivid and true so that they tend to linger in the mind of the reader. (1.5分) There is a sense of humor in his writing, so it is difficult not to smile after reading him. (1.5分)(注：本小题共四个要点，每个要点1.5分)本题评分标准：本题为简答题，共5个小题，每小题6分，共30分，基本按照要点计算分数，只写出关键词可得分。关键单词拼写错误视情况扣0.5至1分。V Comment (20 points)1. ONeill is Americas greatest playwright, the first universally recognized world dramatic American produced. He is regarded as “the founder of the American drama” since he virtually established the modern American theatre. He was the first playwright to explore serious themes in theatre. With him, American drama developed into a form of literature. And in him, American drama came of age. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times and was the only American dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize. (4分)In his play ONeill deals with such major themes as mens struggles with his own fate, loss of self and alienation. (3分)The autobiographical Long Days Journey Into Night marks the climax of ONeills literary career and the coming of age of American drama. Another important play The Hairy Ape concerns the problem of modern mans identity. Yanks sense of belonging nowhere, hence homelessness and rootlessness, is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early 20th century. (3分)(注：本小题基本按三个要点计分: “position”, “major themes”, “representitive works”)2. 1) It is from “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner. (2分)2) Emily, an eccentric spinster, is stern-minded and extremely isolated. She seems to cling to a by-gone era when her family was given prominence. As the product of an earlier era , she surrounds herself with reminders of the past and she has the need to deny loss. (4分)3) Emily refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it. She is regarded as the symbol of tradition and the old way of life. Thus her death is like the falling of a monument. (4分)本题评分标准：本题为论述题，共2个小题，每小题10分，共20分，基本按照要点计算分数，只写出关键词可得分。但因属开放型题目，学生可以有独创见解，可不拘泥于答案，只要回答切题且合理都可酌情得分。关键单词拼写错误视情况扣0.5至1分，语言运用及句子结构或拼写错误很多从而影响意思表达等情况扣2分。VI Poem Analysis (10 points) Anecdote of the JarThis poem was written by an important poet in modern American literature, Wallace Stevens（1分）. This is a symbolist poem illustrating the order of art in the midst of the confusion of life, and their mutual influence. The theme of the poem is about the relationship between reality and imagination, between art and nature . （4分）This poem is also unique for its unusual use of symbols. The “jar”, a man-made object, according to the philosophical idea of Wallace Stevens, can be regarded as the symbol of art, and the “I”, who put the jar in Tennessee, can be a symbol of artist. The “wilderness in Tennessee” can be regarded as the symbol of nature. （5分） (注：本小题基本按三个要点计分，第一个要点 “poet”1分，第二个要点“theme” 视情况3 至4分，第三个要点“symbols” 视情况4至5分，解释: 1至2分。)Annabel LeeThis poem is written by Edgar Allan Poe. （1分）It is regarded as the culmination of Poes lyric style in his recurrent theme of the loss of a beautiful and loved woman. Using a melodious narrative form, the speaker laments the death, many years ago, of his beloved young bride Annabel Lee. It is an astonishing example of the immortality of young love. （4分）Devices of sound are used to govern the mood within a poem and unify the poem. For example, the repitition of words, phrases and lines is used to creat a kind of ballad quality. It suggests that the love is such an ideal one that it has become a popular legend which is cherished by people for generations. The repitition of some sounds, presented in the form of alliteration, consonance and rhyme also contributes to the echoing sound effect, and it suggests the speakers haunting memory of his beloved girl. （5分）(注：本小题基本按三个要点计分，第一个要点 “poet”1分，第二个要点“theme” 视情况3 至4分，第二个要点“devices of sound” 视情况4至5分，解释: 1至2分。)本题评分标准：本题为诗歌分析题，两个小题选做其一，共10分，基本按照要点计算分数，只写出关键词可得分。但因属开放型题目，学生可以有独创见解，可不拘泥于答案，只要回答切题且合理都可酌情得分。关键单词拼写错误视情况扣0.5至1分，语言运用及句子结构或拼写错误很多从而影响意思表达等情况扣2分。 大学考试试卷样卷2I Matching (15 points)