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校外教学点 班级： 学号： XX： 密 封 线万里学院继续教育学院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 Finn has impacted American literature so much that the books before and after it are quite different.2. Writers who are _ tend to develop and promote mannerism, dress, speech, customs of a particular region. They try to be informative about 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 by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities as offered first by Druet and then by Hurst wood.4. Pounds definition of _, “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex 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 Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the "_", especially in The Great Gatsby (1925). 8. Most of _ works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Mississippi, YoknapatawphaCounty. 9. The protagonist in The Old Man and the Sea is _.10. Arthur Dimmesdale is a character in Hawthornes 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 poet B. a dramatist C. a literary critic D. a great novelist2 .Henry James wrote the following novels EXCEPT _.A. Roderick Hudson B. Daisy MillerC. The Wings of Dove D. 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?A. Main Street B.My AntoniaC.The Great Gatzby D.The Triumph of the Egg5.Which of the following is NOT William Faukners novel?A. Their Eyes Were Watching God B. The Sound and The FuryC. A Rose for Emily D. 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 Twain B. Sherwood AndersonC. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. William Faulkner8. Which one of the following writers can be cataloged as Southern Literature writers? A. William Faulkner B.Henry JamesC. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Ernest Hemingway9. Which one of the following writers is NOT a dramatist?A. Kate Chopin B. Eugene Oneill C. Tennessee Williams D. Arthur Miller 10. The American writers who are awarded Nobel Prize for literature include the following writers BUT_.A. Eugene ONeill B. Ernest Hemingway C. John SteinbeckD. Ezra Pound 11. American naturalists tend to adopt the following concepts except_.A.Dawins ideas of evolution B.The ideas of Herbert SpencerC.Emersons transcendentalism D.French Naturalism12. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in thelife and career of_.A. Thomas Hood B. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington13. Transcendentalists recognized _as the "highest power of the soul".A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the senses D. thinking14.Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _; therearose a kind of teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century.A. Herman Melville B. Henry David ThoreauC. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser15. Edgar Allan Poe put forward the following literary ideas EXCEPT_.A. Poems should be as long as Homers 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 (10×2´=20´)1.T.S. Eliot a. The Great Gatsby2. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. The Sound and the Fury3. William Faulkner c. Native Son4. John Steinbeck d. The Grapes of Wrath 5. Sherwood Anderson e. Moby Dick6. Richard Wright f. The Scarlet Letter7. Herman Melville g. The Raven8. Edgar Allen Poe h. The WasteLand9. Harriet Beecher Stowe i. Uncle Toms Cabin10.Kate Chopin j. The Triumph of the Eggk. The AwakeningIV. Identify the following selected excerpts and write down the name of the authors and the works. (5×4´=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 infinite space, 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 he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd 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: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd 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 upon the 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 (4×5´=20´)RealismFree verseHemingway HeroesRomanticism VI. Answer the following questions according to the materials. (1×10´=10´)Passage OneI couldnt 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 DaisyThey 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 narrators attitude toward such persons as Tom and Daisy？英美文学史试卷A 参考答案I. 1. colloquial 2. local colorists 3. Sister Carrie 4. Imagism 5. T.S. Eliot 6. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 7. American Dream 8. Faulkners 9. Santiago 10. The Scarlet LetterII.1.D 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.A 6.D 7.C 8.A 9.A 10.D 11. C12. B 13.A 14.B 15.AIII.1. h 2. a 3. b 4. d 5. j 6. c 7. e 8. g 9. i 10. kIV. 1. Author: Emily Dickinson Works:Because I could not stop for Death2. Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson works: Nature 3. Author:Mark Twain Works: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4. Author: Ezra Pound Works:In a Station of the Metro 5. Author:Stephen CraneWorks: The Open BoatV.Explain the Following Terms (4×5´=20´)Realism: In American literature, the Civil War brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age ofRealism came into existence. It came as a reaction against the lie of romanticism and sentimentalism, as Everett Carter put it. Realism turned from an emphasis on the strange toward afaithful rendering of the ordinary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concernfor common place and the low, and it offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. Realist literature finds the drama and the tension beneaththe ordinary surface of life. A realist writer is more objective than subjective, more descriptivethan 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 been used before Whitmannotably in Italian opera and in the King James translation of the Bibleit 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 commonly employed only since World War I, its early users including the Imagists, Sandburg, Masters, Pound and E.E. Cummings.Hemingway Heroes: "Hemingway Heroes" refer to some protagonists in Hemingway' s works. Such a herousually is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent. And usuallyhe is a man of 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 toArms 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 till the outbreak of the Civil War. A rising Americawith its ideals of democracy and equality, its industrialization, its westward expansion, and avariety of foreign influences such as Sir Walter Scott were among the important factors whichmade literary expansion and expression not only possible but also inevitable in the period immediately following the nation's political independence. Yet, romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in value of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness and man's societies a source of corruption. Romantic writers include Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville, etc. Such romantic writers placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. Heroes and heroinesexhibited extremes of sensitivity and excitement. The novel of terror became the profitableliterary staple. A preoccupation with the demonic and the mystery of evil marked the works ofPoe, Hawthorne, Melville, and a host of minor writers.The New England poets, such as Longfellow and Bryant formed a different school fromEmerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson and Poe.VI. Answer the following questions according to the materials. (1×10´=10´)Passage One: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. The narrator shows his disliking and disgust towards such irresponsible persons like Tom and Daisy.7 / 7