美国文学 期末考试试卷及答案 精品

2009 — 2010 学年第 一 学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）

适用班级 考试时间 120 分钟

学院 班级 学号 姓名

题号 分数 得分 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 总分 Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the

names of the authors. (10%)

1. Octopus ( )

2. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( ) 3. Babbitt ( ) 4. White Fang ( )

5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( ) 6. My Antonia ( ) 7. “Birches” ( )

8. Poor Richard’s Almanac ( ) 9. Light in August ( ) 10. Twice Told Tales ( )

11. The Declaration of Independence( ) 12. “Rip Van Winkle”( ) 13. Nature( )

14. The Song of Hiawatha( ) 15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( )

16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( ) 17. Sister Carrie( ) 18. The Waste Land( )

19. For Whom the Bell Tolls( ) 20. The Emperor Jones( )

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得分 Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (10%)

1. _________________________was one of the founders of the

Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies.

2. __________________________was a determined revolutionary whose

work helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, but who lost his popularity long before his death.

3. The term refers to the group of people, some of them important to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic.

4. ________________________was an early form of horror fiction that

originated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period.

5. _____________________________, known for her deeply personal

poems and radically different poetic themes and form, didn’t achieve fame as a poet until long after her death.

6. The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by

___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.

7. _________________ has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry.

8. _______________________was the first great prose stylist of

American romanticism, author of the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the history of American literature.

9. _____________________is the first American professional writer and

the first writer of the detective story in the world.

10. _______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings

the incidents on the line of the hero’s travel. 得分 Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (30%)

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1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became know as the “______” who appeared in America. A Ninth Muse B Tenth Muse C Best Muse D First Muse

2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature. A purple prose

B waste-land imagery C local color D symbolism

3. The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to a relatively large literate Black readership was known as_____. A The Holocaust

B The Harlem Renaissance C Abolitionism

D The Civil Rights Movement

4. _______ was a leading 19th century feminist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement. A Margaret Fuller B Sylvia Plath C Hilda Doolittle D Gloria Stein

5. Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry? A gushing sentimentalism and comfortable images B abandonment of earlier verse forms C use of free verse

D an effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing world

6. Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20th century American poets? A Ezra Pound B Walt Whitman

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C Robert Frost D Allen Ginsburg

7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______.

A The Jazz Age B The Gilded Age C The Roaring Age D The Beat Age

8. Which is true of the “Fireside Poets”?

A They were generally strongly in favor of abolishing slavery. B They were deeply involved in the Transcendentalist movement. C They were a group of 19th century New England poets who were

tremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote.

D They opposed to tradition and were in favor of radical change.

9. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel ________.

A The Old Man and the Sea B For Whom the Bell Tolls C The Sun Also Rises D A Farewell to Arms

10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to _______. A The highest ranking of the Hindu castes.

B A movement that emerged from rebellion against Puritan religious ideas and systems.

C A group of New England writers known for their scholarship and/or conservative philosophy.

D A school of imaginative writing.

11. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous proverbs? A “A stitch in time saves nine”

B “God helps those who help themselves”

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