2024年4月11日发(作者：)

美国文学期末考试复习

Part one: Multiple choices. (25题，每题

2分，共50分)

1 "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own

mind" is a famous quote from __D__’s writings.

A. Walt Whitman B. Henry David Thoreau C.

Herman Melville D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 Which of Hemingway’s novels describes the drifting漂流

life of American exiles流亡者in Europe? B

A. The Sun Also Rises. B. A

Farewell to Arms.

C. For Whom the Bell Tolls. D. The Old

Man and the Sea.

3 The theme of ___C____ may be well stated as "It sings

of nationalism and of the nature of the self in

relation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose

of birth and death."

A. Edgar Allan Poe’s "To Helen" B.

Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken"

C. Walt Whitman’s "Song of Myself" 惠特曼

〔1819-1892，美国诗人〕。 D. Emily Dickenson’s

"Because I could not stop for Death"

4 The American Puritanism清教 as a cultural heritage遗产

benefited the Americans in ___A____.

A. strengthening their moral values

B. weakening their religious faith

C. knowing truth intuitively

D. developing their science and technology

5 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American

writers, is well known for his ___C___.

A. international theme

B. waste-land imagery

C. local color

D. symbolism

6 "Strange names were over the doors -strange faces at

the windows -every thing was strange. His mind

now began to misgive使害怕 him, that both he and

the world around him were bewitched. Surely this was his

native village, which he had left but the day before."

The above passage is taken from __A____.

A. Irving’s "Rip Van Winkle"

B. Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown"

C. James’ "Daisy Miller"

D. Hemingway’s "Indian Camp"

7 According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which

originally stood for "___A____" finally obtained

the meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester’s

efforts.

A. adultery B. arrogance C.

accomplishment D. agony

8 As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly

influenced by ___B____.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Charles Darwin

C. Henry James

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

9 In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and

totally devastated荒废, ends his life by turning on

the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking

comfortably in her luxurious豪华的 hotel room before she

boards a ship for ___B____.

A. New York

B. London

C. Paris

D, Geneva

10 Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?

C

A. The Call of the Wild

B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. Jumping Frog

11 “ ”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile

Zola. B

A. Realism B.

Naturalism

C. Transcendentalism D.

Impressionism

12 The Cop and the Anthem is written by . A

A. O. Henry B. Henry

James

C. Jack London D. Mark Twain

13 An American Dictionary of the English Language was

published in 1828 by . B

A. Samuel Johnson B. Noah

Webster

C. Daniel Webster D. Daniel Defoe

14 Walden is written by . B

A. Emerson B. Thoreau

C. Poe D. Hawthorne

15 American writers of the first postwar era who were

devoid缺乏 of faith and alienated疏远 from the

。civilization were commonly called "___D___."

A. sons of liberty

B. fatherless children

C. a beat generation

D. a lost generation

16 The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage

down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the

following EXCEPT ___C___.

A. a return to nature

B. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of

the civilized society

C. the heavenly kingdom of Christianity

D. a small world where people of different colors can

live friendly and happily

17 Of the following American poets in the twentieth century,

the one who has the best knowledge of

Chinese culture is ____C___.

A. Robert Frost

B. Allen Ginsberg

C. Ezra Pound

D. E. E. Cummings

18 Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story "A

Rose for Emily," can be regarded as a symbol

standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT

___D____.

A. no prejudice against the northerners

B. rigid坚定地 ideas of social status

C. bigotry固执 and eccentricity偏心

D. grace and integrity诚实

Answer: D

19 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his

poems are mainly concerned about the ___B____.

A. life in New York

B. country life in New England

C. sea adventures

D. life on the Mississippi

20 In Hemingway’s story "Indian Camp" Nick, the

protagonist, witnesses __D_____.

A. a tragic killing of the Indians by the white man

B. real friendship between the white men and the

Indians

C. men’s senseless killing of each other

D. terrible scenes of birth and death

21 Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story

about __B____ who was destroyed by the

influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people

around him.

A. a vagabond

B. an idealist

C. an eccentric

D. an opportunist

22 “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line

in the poem The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter written

by C .

A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert

Frost

C. Ezra Pound D. Carl

Sandburg

23 D was the first American to achieve an

international literary reputation after the Revolutionary

War.

A. Edgar Allan Poe B. Robert

Frost

C. Emily Dickinson D. Washington

Irving

24 A is the summit of American Romanticism.

A. Transcendentalism 超越主义 B. Naturalism

C. Impressionism D. Expressionism

25 The term The Gilded Age is given by D to

describe the post-civil war years.

A. O. Henry B. Henry

James

C. Jack London D. Mark

Twain

26 Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is B .

A. The Awakening B. Sister

Carrie

C. The Scarlet Letter D. The Great

Gatsby

27 Washington Irving was best known for his famous

short stories such as __B_____.

A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby Dick

B. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

C. Young Goodman Brown and Moby Dick

D. The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van

Winkle

28 One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American

literature is that he made __D____ an accepted

standard literary medium.

A. tall tale B. local colorism C.

humor D. colloquial speech

32 Which one is Not the symbol in Kate Chopin’s A Pair of

Silk Stockings? C

A. The silk stockings B. The cable

car

C. A luxurious hat D. Shabby old

shopping bag

33 Which one is NOT Gothic歌德人的 element? B