联大学堂信阳师范大学美国文学史网上考试答案
| Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________. |
| A.the love and marriage theme B.the theme of humor and satire on life C.the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism D.the international theme |
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| _____ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. |
| A.New York B.Chicago C.California D.Washington |
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| The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder. |
| A.Native Son B.Uncle Tom ’s Cabin C.Invisible Man D. Go Tell It on the Mountains |
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| Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway? |
| A.The Old Man and Sea B.A Farewell to Arms C.Sound and Fury D.For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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| Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author ’ts one in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____. |
| A.rational B.humorous C.optimistic D.pessimistic |
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| Which is regarded as the “ Declaration of Intellectual Independence ”? |
| A.The American Scholar B.English Traits C.Oversoul D.Self-reliance |
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| ____ is considered Mark Twain ’ s greatest achievement. |
| A.The Gilded Age B.Innocent Abroad C.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer D.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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| The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _______. |
| A.Mark Twain B.Henry James C.Emily Dickinson D.Theodore Dreiser |
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| _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism. |
| A. Benjamin Franklin B. Washington Irving C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Henry David Thoreau |
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| Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper ’s ________ |
| A.The Precaution B.The Spy C.The Gleanings in Europe D.Leatherstocking Tales |
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| When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things.Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumesthe cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediatebalance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has itscunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter.There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expressionpossible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often aseffective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half theundoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forceswholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at handto whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these thingsbreathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty,like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler humanperceptions.Questions1. Please use one phrase to summarize the above paragraph’) (22. What are the two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving her home?(2’)3. Please find out the figures of speech (2’)4. What are the attractive forces mentioned in a big city? (4’)5. How are naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph? Illustrate yourpoints with examples (5’) |
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| Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real-life is earnest-And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Questions:(1). Who is the writer of the lines?(2). What is the title of the whole poem from which the two stanzas are taken?(3). Summarize the poet ad’vicse for living. |
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| The way in which Hawthorne wrote () suggests that American omanticism adapted itself to American Puritan morality. |
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| （） was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American Romanticism. |
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| In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Pioneers, the first of the five novels that make up （）. The remaining four books: The Last of the Mohicans, the Prairie, the Pathfinder and the Deerslayer, contimue the story of Natty Bumppo , one of the most famous characters in American fiction. |
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| （） was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War. |
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| The first important American novelist was （） . |
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| ―To a Waterfowl ‖is perhaps the peak of （） Bryant ‘s work. It has been called by an eminent English critic ―the most perfect brief poem in the language ‖. |
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| Edgar Allan Poe ‘s poem ―The （） ‖ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language. |
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| A superb book () came out of Thoreau ‘s two-year experience at Walden Pond. |
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| In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece () , the story of a triangle love affair in colonial America |
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| In ―I Hear America Singing ‖,() depicts the beauty of labor and laborers. |
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| The short story “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ” is taken from Irving ’ s work named ______. |
| A.The Leatherstocking Tales B.The Sketch Book C.The Autobiography D.The History of New Y ork |
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| Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature. |
| A.Sinclair Lewis B.Theodore Dreiser C.F. Scott Fitagerald D.H.L.Mencken |
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| Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain ’ s language? |
| A.vernacular B.colloquial C.elegant D.humorous |
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| From Thoreau ’ s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government. |
| A.Walden B.Nature C.Civil Disobedience D.Common Sense |
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| Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true? |
| A.After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing close friends. B.She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson. C.She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure. D.During her lifetime, all her poems are published. |
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| In the first section of Autobiography the writer addressed to ________ |
| A.his son B.his friends C.his wife D.himself |
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| The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate. |
| A.The Octopus B. Moby-Dick C. The Rise of Silas Lapham D.Leaves of Grass |
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| Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and impressionisti |
| A.romantic B.naturalistic C.classical D.imagining |
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| Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas ________wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society. |
| A.William Carlos Williams B. William Faulkner C. John Steinbeck D. F.Scott Fitzgerald |
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| _________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism. |
| A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Walt Whitman D. Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Questions:(1) Please examine the poetic form (rhyme and meter) (2 ’)(2) Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one does thespeaker take? (3 ’(3) How do you understand the word “sigh ”? (4 ’)(4) What might the two roads stand for in the speaker 2’)’s mind? ((5) What is the theme of this poem? (2 ’) |
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| The Civil War of 1861-1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of（） |
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| _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing. |
| A.The use of the poetic “I” B.Free verse C.Musicality or rhythm D.Allegory |
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| It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide. |
| A.An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. McTeague D.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets |
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| History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of ________ |
| A.Washington Irving B.Diedrich Knickerboker C.James Fenimore Cooper D.John Whittier |
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| _________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War. |
| A.A Farewell to Arms B.The Catcher in the Rye C.The Red Badge of Courage D.The Naked and the Dead |
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| Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature. |
| A.Huckleberry Finn B.Tom Sawyer C.The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg D.The Gilded Age |
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| _____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life. |
| A.“Ripa Vn Winkle ” B.“The Pioneers ” C.“ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ” D.“ The Fall of the House of Usher ” |
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| Within Dickinson’s little lyrics, she addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which exclude ________. |
| A.religion B.Friendship C.love D.immortality |
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| The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in Californi |
| A.The Grapes of Wrath B. U.S.A C.Babbitt D. The Adventures of Augie March |
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| Judgethe authors of these works and fill them on the Answer Sheet.1. Gleanings in Europe2. Oliver Goldsmith3. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America4. “The Day of Doom ”5. A History of New York6. The Last of the Mohicans7. The House of the Night8. A Forest Hymn9. “The Raven”10. “The Cask of Amontillado ” |
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| （）‘s poems have the musical quality and romantic beauty. The Raven is his best-known poem. |
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| American achievements in the short story have demanded international respect and admiration for more than a century and a half. The first successful American short stories came from （） in the early 19 th century. |
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| （） is generally thought of as the true beginner of the short stories because he was the first writer who formulated a poetics of the short stories. |
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| As you read from writer to writer, from （）‘s ?Rip Van Winkle ‘to O’Connner ‘s ?A Good Man is Hard to Find ‘, you will see the coming of a short story age,growing from an entertaining tale into a story which probes deep into human souls. |
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| Washington Irving, the Father of American Literature, developed （） as a genre in American literature. |
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| The term ―（） ‖ was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of England. |
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| Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the （） values that dominated much of the early American writing. |
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| Bradstreet used a word ―（） ‖ to describe the community of believers who sailed from Southampton England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 |
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| The Puritan philosophy known as （） was important in New England during colonial time, and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations. |
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| Franklin edited the first colonial magazine, which he called . |
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