英美文学史A卷及答案

线：名姓：号学封：级班点学教外校密浙江万里学院继续教育学院2017 第一学期英美文学史考试形式：闭卷考试时间： 90 分钟i. fill in the following blanks:complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10 1.5= 15)1. the style of the adventures of huckleberry finnhas impacted american literature so much that the books before and after it are quite different.2. writerswho are tend to developand promote mannerism, dress, speech,customs of a particularregion. they try to be informativeabout the peculiarities of a given region and emphasize verisimilitude of details about dialect, local geographical feature and the like.3. in his novel , theodore dreiser portrays a girl who is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot control. alone and helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven bydesire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities as offered first by druet and then by hurst wood.4. pounds definitionof ,“that whichpresents an intellectualand emotionalcomplex in an instant of time ”, is an agreement with his perception of the chinese ideogram.5. although they are originally americans, henry james and became british subjects later.6. in the poem , t.s. eliot portrays the image of an ineffectual, sorrowful, tragic twentieth-century western man, possibly the modern intellectual who is divided between passion and timidity, between desire and impotence.7. in fitzgeralds great fiction,theres always fullof the main theme of the bankruptcy of the , especially inthe great gatsby (1925).8. most of works are set in the american south about people from a small region in northern mississippi, yoknapatawpha county.9. the protagonist in the old man and the sea is .10. arthur dimmesdale is a character in hawthorne s novel .ii. multiple choices: each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (15 1= 15 )1. t. s. eliot deserves the following titles except .a.a great poetb. a dramatistc. a literary criticd. a great novelist2.henry james wrote the following novels except .a. roderick hudsonb. daisy millerc. the wings of doved . the golden bowl3. which one of the following is not the correct description of john steinbeck?a. he is regarded as the foremost writer of the great depression during the 1930s.b. he is a great spokesman for the opposed.c. he belongs to the lost generation.d. he writes about the poverty-stricken people in their sufferings.4. which of the following is willa cathers novel?1.a. main streetb.my antoniac.the great gatzbyd.the triumph of the egg 5.which of the following is not william faukners novel?a. their eyes were watching godb. the sound and the furyc. a rose for emilyd. light in the august6. which one of the following descriptions about the hemingway hero is true?a. hemingway hero is also called code hero.b. hemingway hero is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent. c.the typical hemingway hero is one who, wounded but strong, more sensitive and wounded because stronger, enjoys the pleasures of life (sex, alcohol, sport) in face of ruin and death and maintains, through some notion of a code, an ideal of himself.d. the typical hemingway hero is one who was the pioneer in the frontier.7. which one of the following writers does not employ colloquial style in his writings?a. mark twainb. sherwood andersonc. nathaniel hawthorned. william faulkner8. which one of the following writers can be cataloged as southern literature writers?a.william faulknerb.henry jamesc. nathaniel hawthorned. ernest hemingway9. which one of the following writers is not a dramatist?a. kate chopinb. eugene o neillc. tennessee williamsd. arthur miller10. the americanwriters who are awarded nobel prize forliteratureinclude the following writers but .a. eugene o neillb. ernesthemingwayc. john steinbeckd. ezra pound11. american naturalists tend to adopt the following concepts except . a.dawin s ideas of evolutionb.the ideas of herbert spencer c.emersons transcendentalismd.french naturalism12. the secular ideals ofthe american enlightenmentwere exemplifiedin the life and career of .a. thomas hoodb. benjamin franklinc. thomas jeffersond. george washington13. transcendentalists recognized as the highest power of the soul.a. intuitionb. logicc. data of the sensesd. thinking14. led by nathanielhawthorne,ralph waldo emerson and ; there arose a kindof teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century.a. herman melvilleb. henry david thoreauc. mark twaind. theodore dreiser15. edgar allan poe put forward the following literary ideas except .a. poems should be as long as homer s epics.b. melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.c. he stressed the principle of concentration and thematic totality.d. poems should be short enough so that it can be read at one sitting.iii. match the writers and works under the two columns (102=20);.1. t.s. eliota. the great gatsby2. f. scott fitzgeraldb. the sound and the fury3. william faulknerc. native son4. john steinbeckd. the grapes of wrath5. sherwood andersone. moby dick6. richard wrightf. the scarlet letter7. herman melvilleg. the raven8. edgar allen poeh. the waste land9. harriet beecher stowei. uncle tom s cabin10. kate chopinj. the triumph of the eggk. the awakeningiv. identify the following selected excerpts and write down the name of the authors and theworks. (54=20)1. because i could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.author: (full name) works: 2. standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinitespace, all mean egotism vanishes. i become a transparent eye-ball; i am nothing; i see all; the currents of the universal being circulate through me; i am part or particle of god.author: (full name) works: 3. once i said to myself it would be a thousand times better for jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as hed got to be a slave, and so id better write a letter to tom sawyer and tell him to tell miss watson where he was. but i soon give up that notion for two things: shed be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so shed sell him straight down the river again; and if she didnt, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and theyd make jim feel it all the time, and so hed feel ornery and disgraced.author: (full name) works: 4. the apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough.author: (full name)works: 5. none of them knew the color of the sky. their eyes glanced level, and were fastened uponthe waves that swept toward them. these waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. the horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. author: (full name)works: v. explain the following terms (4realism free versehemingway heroes romanticism5=20)vi. answer the following questions according to the materials. (1passage one10=10)i couldn t forgive him or like him, but i saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.it was very careless and confused. they were careless people, tom and daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.questions1. who is the author of the novel from which the selection is from?2. what is the narrator s attitude toward such persons as tom and daisy？英美文学史试卷a参考答案i. 1. colloquial2. local colorists3. sister carrie4. imagism5. t.s. eliot6. the love song of j. alfred prufrock7. american dream8. faulkner s9. santiago10. the scarlet letterii. 1.d2.a3.c4.b5.a6.d7.c8.a9.a10.d11. c 12. b13.a14.b15.aiii. 1. h2. a3. b4. d5. j6. c7. e8. g9. i10. kiv.1. author: emily dickinsonworks:because i could not stop for death2. author:ralph waldo emerson works: nature3. author: mark twainworks: the adventures of huckleberry finn4. author: ezra poundworks:in a station of the metro5. author: stephen crane works: the open boatv. explain the following terms (45=20)realism: in american literature, the civil war brought the romantic period to an end. the ageofrealism came intoexistence. it came as a reaction against the lie ofromanticismand sentimentalism, as everett carter put it. realism turned from an emphasis on the strange towarda faithful rendering of the ordinary, a slice of life as it is really lived. it expresses the concern for common place and the low, and it offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. realist literaturefinds the drama and the tension beneath the ordinary surface of life. a realist writer is more objective than subjective, more descriptive than symbolic. realists looked for truth in everyday truths. the representative writers are william dean howells, mark twain and henry james.free verse: free verse is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure. it is poetry without a fixed metrical pattern, having a loosely organized rhythm. it uses the cadences of natural speech. although free verse had beenused beforewhitman notablyinitalianopera and in the kingjames translationofthebible it was whitman who pioneered the form and made it acceptable in american poetry. it is to be found in the work of some 19th-century american poets, e.g. whitman and stephen crane,and it has been commonlyemployed onlysince worldwar i, its early users includingthe imagists, sandburg, masters, pound and e.e. cummings.hemingway heroes:hemingway heroes refer to some protagonists in hemingway s works. such a hero usually is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent. and usually he is a manof action and of few words. he is such an individualist,alone even when withother people, somewhat an outsider, keeping emotions under control, stoic and self-disciplined in a dreadful place where one can not get happiness. for instance, frederic henry in a farewell to arms is completely disillusioned. he has been to the war, but has seen nothing sacred and glorious.romanticism: american romanticism: the romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century tillthe outbreak of the civilwar. a rising america withits ideals of democracy and equality, its industrialization, its westward expansion, and a variety of foreign influences such assir walter scott were among the important factors which made literary expansion and expression not only possible but also inevitable in th