美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

A. The American B. Daisy Miller C.

The Golden Bowl D. The Red Badge of Courage

27. Jack London’s masterwork ____ is somewhat autobiographical.

A.

The Sea Wolf B. Martin Eden C.

White Fang D. The Call of the Wild

28. Whose fame largely rested on his handling of the international theme?

A.

Mark

Twain B. Henry James C.

Theodore

Dreiser D. Stephen Crane

29. ___ has been regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

A. The American Scholar B.

English Traits C.

The Conduct of D.

Life Representative Men

30. ____ wrote the famous two-line poem In a Station of the Metro.

A. W. B.

Yeats B. Ezra Pound C.

T.

S.

Eliot D. D. M. Thomas

III. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet.

(30%, 15 points for each)

1. What’s the symbolic significance of the letter “A” in The Scarlet Letter? 2. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五

I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases and

put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at

Jamestown, Virginia in .

2. became the first American writer.

3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much

of the early American writing.

4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of and Revolution.

5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece .

6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared. 7. The signing of symbolized the birth of an independent American nation.

8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18 century was .

9. Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win international fame.

10. is the summit of American Romanticism. 11. With the publication of Emerson’s in 1836, American

Romanticism reached its summit.

12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s

novel .

13. Henry James’ major fictional theme is . 14. brought the Romantic period to an end. So the

age of Realism came into existence. 15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called .

16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by .

17. The term The Gilded Age is given by to

describe the post-civil war years. 18. Theodore Dreiser’s first novel

is .

19. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is .

th

20. is the spokesman for Lost Generation.

II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers

or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)

1. The first American writer of local color to achieve was .

A.

Harte B. Mark Twain

C.

James William Dean Howells

2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?

A.

The Age B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Jumping Frog

3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?

A.

Twain Jack London

wide popularity Bret

Henry

D. Gilded

Mark B.