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1、2009 — 2010 學年第 一 學期 《美國文學》期末考試試卷（A卷） 適用班級考試時間 120 分鐘 學院 班級 學號 姓名 題號 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 總分 分數(shù) 得分 Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (10%) 1. Octopus ( ) 2. Maggie, A Girl of the Stre

2、ets ( ) 3. Babbitt ( ) 4. White Fang( ) 5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( ) 6. My Antonia( ) 7. “Birches”( ) 8. Poor Richard’s Almanac( ) 9. Light in August ( ) 10. Twice T

3、old Tales( ) 11. The Declaration of Independence( ) 12. “Rip Van Winkle”( ) 13. Nature( ) 14. The Song of Hiawatha( ) 15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( ) 16. The Adventures of Huckl

4、eberry Finn( ) 17. Sister Carrie( ) 18. The Waste Land( ) 19. For Whom the Bell Tolls( ) 20. The Emperor Jones( ) 得分 Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (10%) 1.

5、_________________________was one of the founders of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies. 2. __________________________was a determined revolutionary whose work helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, but who lost his popularit

6、y long before his death. 3. The term refers to the group of people, some of them important to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic. 4. ________________________was an early form of horror fiction that o

7、riginated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period. 5. _____________________________, known for her deeply personal poems and radically different poetic themes and form, didn’t achieve fame as a poet until long after her death. 6. The first of American lite

8、rature was not written by an American, but by ___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer. 7. _________________ has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry. 8. _______________________was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism, author of

9、the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the history of American literature. 9. _____________________is the first American professional writer and the first writer of the detective story

10、 in the world. 10. _______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidents on the line of the hero’s travel. 得分 Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (30%) 1.Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were publishe

11、d in England, she became know as the “______” who appeared in America. A Ninth Muse B Tenth Muse C Best Muse D First Muse 2.______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature. A purple prose Bwaste-land imagery C local color D

12、symbolism 3.The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to a relatively large literate Black readership was known as_____. A The Holocaust B The Harlem Renaissance C Abolitionism D The Civil Rights Movement 4._______ was a leading 19th century feminist and

13、one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement. A Margaret Fuller BSylvia Plath C Hilda Doolittle D Gloria Stein 5.Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry? A gushing sentimentalismand comfortable images B abandonment of earlier verse forms C use of free ver

14、se D an effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing world 6.Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20th century American poets? A Ezra Pound B Walt Whitman C Robert Frost D Allen Ginsburg 7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent m

15、ore money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______. A The Jazz Age B The Gilded Age C The Roaring Age D The Beat Age 8.Which is true of the “Fireside Poets”?

16、A They were generally strongly in favor of abolishing slavery. B They were deeply involved in the Transcendentalist movement. C They were a group of 19th century New England poetswho were tremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote. D They opposed to tradition and were in favor o

17、f radical change. 9. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel ________. A The Old Man and the Sea B For Whom the Bell Tolls C The Sun Also Rises D A Farewell to Arms

18、 10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to _______. A The highest ranking of the Hindu castes. BA movement that emerged from rebellion against Puritan religious ideas and systems. C A group of New England writers known for their scholarship and/or conservative philo

19、sophy. D A school of imaginative writing. 11.Which of the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous proverbs? A “A stitch in time saves nine” B“God helps those who help themselves” C “A Friend in need is a friend indeed” D “Ask not who the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee” 12. ___

20、________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment. A Romanticism B Realism C Naturalism D Modernism 13. Although few of her poems were published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a major impact on 20th

21、 century poetry. A Anne Bradstreet B Gertrude Stein C Emily Dickinson D Amy Lowell 14. Which of the following writers died a natural death in his old age? A Jack London B Ernest Hemingway C Stephen Crane D Mark Twain 15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?

22、 A Henry Wordsworth Longfellow B Amy Lowell C Ezra Pound D Robert Frost 得分 IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (10%) 1. Hawthorne was a firm believer in Puritan principles and mourned their passing in his works. 2. Frederick Douglas

23、was a major 19th century black writer. 3. The sound of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell over readers. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy. 4. Haiku, a form of traditional Japanese poetry, greatly influenced the Imagist movement. 5. Leaves of Grass is Whitman’s life work. 6. Than

24、ks in part to the efforts of Ezra Pound, Robert Frost was published in England and quickly became recognized as a major American poet. 7. In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of modern narration.” 8. Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by

25、facing his death with dignity and courage. 9. Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such as his pamphlet Common Sense, which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution. 10. William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy, written in 1789, is often called “the first

26、American novel”. 11. The literary movement of American romanticism was generally divided into two stages: pre-romanticism and post-romanticism. 12. Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man.

27、 They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”. 13. The Scarlet Letter is called an economical novel because there are only thr

28、ee chief characters-or four if we include the child Pearl. 14. President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” 15. Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”. 16. Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new developmen

29、t of literary realism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.” The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists. 17. Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”. 18. F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of th

30、e Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age. 19. Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels. 20. “Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Latin meaning “meditation on death”. 得分 V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions.(20%) Passage 1 The

31、 apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Questions: 1. Who is the writer of this poem? _______________(1%) 2. What is the title of this poem? _______________(1%) 3. What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are “modern”? (2%) 4. What is the e

32、ffect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem? And what feeling and meaning does the poem express to you? (2%) Passage 2 It was late and everyone had left the caf except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the stre

33、et 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. Questions: 1. This part is from the novel , written by . (2%) 2. Why does the old man get drunk every night and why did he commit s

34、uicide? (2%) 3. What does the young waiter think of the old man and how does he treat him? (3%) Passage 3 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discov

35、er that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cu

36、t a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true acco

37、unt of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God. Questions: 1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%) 2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%) 3. List by yourself at lea

38、st five reasons that the author gives for going to live in the woods. (5%) Passage 4 But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile

39、 beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him. Questions: 1. This part is from the novel , written by . (2%) 2. What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opin

40、ion? (5%) Passage 5 It 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. Questions: 1. The stanza is taken from the poem______

41、__________?(1%) 2. The author of the poem is____________ . (1%) 3. What is the most obvious rhetorical device the author uses for effect? (4%) Passage 6 Thou hast an house on high erect, Framed by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though this be fled.

42、It’s purchased and paid for too By Him who hath enough to do. Questions: 1. This stanza is taken from the poem __________________________by____________.(2%) 2. What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%) 得分 VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%) 1. Robert

43、Frost s The Road Not Taken. （10%） 2. Eugene O Neill’s Long Days Journey into Night.（10%） 3. Talk about Adgar Allan Poes social outlook and writings （10%） 4. Comment on Hawthorne’s style. （10%） 《美國文學》期末考試試卷A卷答案暨評分標準 適用班級060511-3考試時間 120 分鐘 Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and writ

44、e the names of the authors. (1*10=10%) 1. Frank Norris 2. Stephen Crane 3. Sinclair Lewis 4. Jack London 5. Washington Irving 6. Willa Cather 7. Robert Frost 8. Benjamin Franklin 9. William Faulkner 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne 11. Thomas Jefferson 12. Washington Irving 13. Ralph Wal

45、do Emerson 14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 15. Harriet Beecher Stowe 16. Mark Twin 17. Theodore Dreiser 18. T.S. Eliot 19. Ernest Hemingway 20. Eugene O’Neill Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%) 1. John Smith 2. Thomas Paine 3. “founding fathers” 4. Gothi

46、c Fiction 5. Emily Dickenson 6. John Smith 7. Philip Freneau 8. Washington Irving 9. Edgar Allan Poe 10. Picaresque novel Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%) 1 B 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 A 6 C 7 A 8 D 9 D 10 C 11 B 12 A 1

47、3 C 14 D 15 A IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%) 1 T 2 T 3 F 4 T 5 T 6 T 7 F 8 T 9 F 10 T 11 T 12 F 13 T 14 F 15 T 16 T 17 F 18 T 19 F 20 F V. Choose THREE of the following fragments an

48、d answer the questions.(20%) Passage 1 1. Ezra Pound (1) 2. In A Station of the Metro (1) 3. Answer should comment on the parallel between the “modern” imagery (description of urban crowds and transportation, loneliness) of the first line and the traditional “Oriental” imagery (budding flowe

49、rs on a tree, wetness) of the second line. (2) 4. What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem? Describe the stylistic result of the parallel and the feelings it evokes (2) Passage 2 1. This part if from the short story “A Clean Well Light Room” written by Ernest Hemi

50、ngway. (2) 2. Describe the old man’s character and relate it to the nihilist philosophy expressed in the story. (2) 3. What does the young waiter think of the old man (and why) and how does he treat him? Describe the young man’s character, his lack of understanding of the old man and the signifi

51、cance of how he treats the old man as described in the story. (3) Passage 3 1. Walden (1) 2. Henry David Thoreau (1) 3. Find the answer from the passage. (5) Passage 4 1. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (2) 2. life and liberty.(5) Passage 5 1. Annabel Lee.(1) 2. Edgar Allan Poe.

52、 (1) 3. repetition or refrains.(4) Passage 6 1. Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2) 2. Ones real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (5) VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%) 1. Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. (10%) This poem

53、is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, whe

54、n one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently. In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to

55、 take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road whi

56、ch he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life. 2. Eugene O Neill’s Long Days Journey into Night. (10%) Long Days Journey into Night is somewhat autobiographical. The Tyrones of the play are in fact modeled on the Eugene O Neill family. The four major characters

57、 include James Tyrone, the father, a famous actor, anxious to become rich at the expense of his own talent; Mary Tyrone, the mother, a drug addict; Jamie Tyrone, their elder son, and Edmund Tyrone, their younger son. The Mother becomes mentally ill because she is extremely unhappy with her married

58、 life. Young Jamie loses faith in life, while Edmund the wanderer comes back with tuberculosis. All the four suffer frustrations and wish to escape from the harsh reality, James and Jamie look for solace in their cups, while Mary and Edmund seek the protection of the fog which they hope would screen

59、 them from the intrusion of the world outside. They meet in the living room of the family s summer home at 8:30 a. m. of a day in August, 1912, and torment one another and themselves until midnight. The father is angry with the mother for her drug addiction, the mother with his sons for being good

60、for nothing, and the sons with their parents for not being good parents. All are torn in a war between love and hate, and no one is sure which is the stronger emotion. Life is too painful for them even to try and make sense of it. Edmund s desperate advice in face of the horrible burden of Time w

61、eighing on people s shoulders and crushing them to the earth is to lose feeling in their cups and stay always drunk. Thus the long day journeys into night when the tragedy of the family is finally enacted. No relief is felt, no light is seen, and all ends in the engulfing darkness. In a figurat

62、ive sense, Long Day s Journey into Night is a metaphor for Eugene 0 Neill s lifelong endeavor to find truth and the way to acceptance. The former he found, namely, the faithless, fragmentary nature of modern life, whereas the latter he did not; for him all passed into night. In despair Eugene O Neil

63、l thought of the old God of the Catholic church on which, it is ironical to not, he had turned his back long before. 3. Talk about Adgar Allan Poes social outlook and writings （10%） l Poe admired aristocratic society，distrusted the leveling tendency of democracy, and expressed contempt for uplift movements of progress（提高社會地位的進步運動）.He deplored Americas increasing industrialization. In his more sardonic comments on democracy, he says that it amounts to the tyranny "of a mob." He could be associated with those literary men in t