英美文学复习资料2

I. Choose the right answer. (25 items, 50 points, 2 points for each)

1. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for

his_____.

A. international theme B. waste- land imagery

C. local color D. symbolism

2. Emily Dickinson’s verse is most aptly characterized as ______. A. exposing the evils of the society

B. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets C. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman

D. exhibiting sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality etc.

3. Which essay of Emerson is regarded as an unofficial manifesto for the “Transcendental Club”?

A. Self-reliance B. Nature

C. The American Scholar D. The Over-soul

4. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______.

A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C. William D. Howells D. Theodore Dreiser

5. Which of the following statements is said about most of the poems in Whitman’s

Leaves of Grass?

A. They identify his ego with the conservative America. B. They celebrate the self and ignore sexuality. C. They sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.

D. They reject the pursuit of love and happiness of individuals.

6. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are roughly divided into two kinds: those of ________.

A. horror and ratiocination B. love and nature C. horror and love D. love and death

7. All the following are the works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT _____.

A .The Marble Faun B. Typee

C. The Scarlet Letter D. Mosses from an Old Manse

8. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ____.

A. the strict poetic form

B. the free and natural rhythm C. the easy flow of feelings

D. the simple and conversational language

9. In Hawthorne’s novel and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as ________.

A. commentators B. observers C. saviors D. villains 10. William Faukener is the author of ____

A. Far From the Madding Crowd B. Sound and Fury C. For Whom the Bell Tolls D. Scarlet Letter 11. Who is the author of the work \

A. John Steinbeck B. Eugene O'Neil C. F. Scott Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser

12. Which of the following statements can be said about the novel Sister Carrie?

A. Its heroine is a country girl, who strives to gain her material rise in big cities

but soon gets tired of her success.

B. Its heroine is a Southern aristocratic woman, who refuses to come to terms

with the present.

C. It tells about a young sailor, who struggles to reach the upper society but soon

gets disillusioned.

D. The heroine is a young vain girl, who indulges herself in grand parties and

luxurious trips but soon becomes penniless.

13. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _____.

A. indestructible spirit B .pessimistic view of life C. war experiences D. masculinity

14. After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to

Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___. A. Life on the Mississippi B. The Gilded Age

C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

15. About Washington Irving, Father of American short stories, which of the

following statement is right?

A. Many of his writings focused on American subjects, landscapes, particularly

the legends of the Hudson River region of the fresh young land. B. His writings preferred the Old World to the New. C. As a writer, he always exalted a disappearing past.

D. He is well-known for his international theme across the Atlantic.

16. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?

A. Exquisite and elaborate language B. Minute detailed description C. Lengthy psychological analysis D. American colloquialism

17. Which of the following indicates a permanent convention of American

literature which is evident in both of Cooper’s Leather-stocking Tales and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

A. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature. B. The desire to push forward to the west frontier.

C. The self-reliance and independence of the individual. D. Both A and B.

18. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some

common features — , with the English Romanticists. A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions B. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters C. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature D. both A and B

19. Who wrote The American?

A. Herman Melville B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Henry James D. Theodore Dreiser

20. In The Lake Isle of Innisfree, William Butler Yeats expresses his __________. A. hope to go abroad B. desire to escape into a “fairyland”. C. love for common life D. hatred for war

21. The major concern of ________ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological

development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A. E. M. Forster’s B. Thomas Hardy’s C. D. H. Lawrence’s D. Charles Dickens’

22. Of the following poems by T. S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry?

A. Poems 1909- 1925 B. The Hollow Men C. Prufrock and Other Observations D. The Waste Land 23. Which of the following is not true about James Joyce?

A. Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature.

B. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness

novelist.

C. Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history.

D. His novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is a naturalistic

account of the hero’s bitter experiences and his final artistic and spiritual liberation.

24. In Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, “A” may stand for_________. A. Adultery B. Angel

C. Amiable D. All of the above

25. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to ________. A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Moby-Dick

II. Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10 points, 1 point each)

Column A Column B

1. Nathaniel Hawthorne A. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 2. Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book

3. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. The House of the Seven Gables 4. Ernest Hemingway D. A Farewell to Arms 5. Washington Irving E. White Jacket

6. Henry James F. The Great Gatsby 7. William Faulkner G. The Sound and the Fury 8. Jack London H. Jennie Gerhardt 9. Ezra Pound I. Daisy Miller 10. Theodore Dreiser J. White Fang

III. Explain the following literary terms (2 items, 10 points, 5 points for each)

1. 2.

Transcendentalism Oedipus Complex

IV. Give brief answers to the following questions. (30 points)

1. Read the following poem, and then answer the questions given.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere 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.

Question 1 From which poem is the stanza taken? (3 points) Question 2 Who is the writer? (3 points)

Question 3 What is the theme of the stanza? (4 points)

2. What are the major themes of D.H Lawrence’s novels? (5 points)

3. Give a brief comment on the“tough guys” in Ernest Hemingway’s novels by taking the protagonist in The Old Man and the Sea as an example. (15 points)

。选择正确的答案。 （25个项目，50个点，每2分）

1。马克吐温最伟大的19世纪，一个美国作家，是众所周知的his_____。 答：国际主题乙废物土地意象 三地方色彩四象征

2。艾米莉狄金森的诗是最能为______的特点。 答：揭露社会丑恶现象

二铺平了自由诗的诗人以下一代的方式 正因为沃尔特惠特曼共享相同的诗意公约

四参展经验的敏感性，以象征性的意义，例如爱，死亡，永生等， 3。艾默生哪一篇文章是一个非官方的宣言，为把“先验俱乐部”？ 答：自力更生乙自然

C的美国学者四，过度的灵魂

4。塞缪尔克莱门斯是兰霍恩更广为人知的笔名______。 答：马克吐温乙亨利詹姆斯 豪厄尔斯正威廉D四德莱塞

5。下列哪些说法是说，大约在惠特曼的草叶集的诗是什么？ 答：他们认同的，保守的美国，他的自我。 B.它们庆祝自己和忽略性。

C.他们唱的“恩，集体”和自我以及。 D.他们拒绝了爱和个人幸福的追求。

6。埃德加爱伦坡的故事大致分为两类：对________的。 答：恐怖和推理二爱与性

三爱四恐怖和爱情和死亡

7。以下是所有除_____霍桑的作品。