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美国文学史及选读考试试题（卷）
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I.
Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best
answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1.
Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.
a.
Leaves of Grass
b.
The Scarlet Letter
c. “Hymn to The Night”
d. “The Secret
of the Sea”
2.
Dreiser’s
naturalism
and
his
choice
of
subject
often
echo
his
predecessor, ______, but his style and method are very different.
a. Mark Twain
b. Stephen Crane
c. Henry James
d. Emerson
3.
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. n
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Mark
Twain’s
______
tells
a
story
of
his
boyhood
ambitious
to
become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.
a.
Roughing It
b.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c.
Life on the Mississippi
d.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5.
Stephen
Crane’s
style
has
been
called
realistic,
______
and
impressionistic.
a. romantic
b. naturalistic
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c. classical
d. imagining
6.
______ is the scene of Dreiser’s
Sister Carrie
.
a. New York
b. Chicago
c. California
d. Washington
7.
Which
is
generally
regarded
as
the
Bible
of
New
England
Transcendentalism?
a. Nature
b. Walden
c. On Beauty
d. Self-Reliance
8.
Melville’
s
_______
is
an
encyclopedia
of
everything,
history,
philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations
of the whaling industry.
a.
The Old Man and the Sea
b.
Moby Dick
c.
White Jacket
d.
Billy Budd
9.
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
10.
American
literature
produced
only
one
female
poet
during
the
19
th
century. This was _______.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Jane Austen
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Harriet Beecher
11.
With
Howells,
James,
and
Mark
Twain
active
on
the
scene,
______
became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19
th
century.
a. sentimentalism
b. Romanticism
c. realism
d. naturalism
12.
Leaves of Grass
has _______ editions.
a. nine
b. five
c. six
d. seven
13.
____
___ 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
14.
Melville’s
_______
is
a
semi
-autobiographical
novel
concerning
the
sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors.
a.
Typee
b.
Redburn
c.
White Jacket
d.
Billy Budd
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15.
_______ is not among the writing features of Melville’s works.
a. symbolism
b. allgory
c. psychological analyses
d. Dramatic monologue
16.
The
realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _______.
a. Mark Twain
b. Henry James
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Theodore Dreiser
17.
_______ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of American
national literature.”
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Henry James
c. Mark Twain
d. Theodore Dreiser
18.
_______, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, is Mark
Twain’s most representative book.
a.
Roughing It
b.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c.
Life on the Mississippi
d.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
19.
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
20.
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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II.
Match. (20 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for
the following works and put them onto the Answer Sheet.
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A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Herman Melville
D. Henry W. Longfellow
E. Walt Whitman
F. Emily Dickinson
G
. Mark Twain
H. Stephen Crane
I. Henry James
1.
Self- reliance
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2.
There Was a Child Went Forth
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3.
There Was a Child Went Forth
(
)
4.
White Jacket
(
)
5.
Moby Dick
(
)
6.
Life on the Mississippi
(
)
7.
Daisy Miller
(
)
8.
What Maisie Knew
(
)
9.
This is My Letter to the World
(
)
10.
I Like to See It Lap the Miles
(
)
11.
A Red Badge of Courage
(
)
12.
Civil Disobedience
(
)
13.
Voices of the Night
(
)
14.
The Gilded Age
(
)
15.
Hiawatha
(
)
16.
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
(
)
17.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(
)
18.
I Heard a Fly Buzz
—
When I Died
(
)
19.
The American Scholar
(
)
20.
Song of Myself
(
)
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III.
Terms (20 points, 4 points for each)
Directions:
In
this
part
of
the
test,
there
are
five
terms.
Please
give
the
definition
for
these
terms.
Scores
will
be
given
for
the
related
contents.
Four individual contents will be enough for four points.
1.
Free Verse
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Transcendentalism
American Realism
American Naturalism
Local Color
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IV
. Appreciation (10 points, 5 points for each)
Directions:
In
this
part
of
the
test,
there
are
two
excerpts.
Each
of
the
excerpts is followed by three questions. Read the excerpts and answer the
questions on the Answer Sheet.
Part A
Success
Success is counted sweetest
Those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag today
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.
1.
Who is the author of the poem? (1’)
2.
According to the poem, what best understands success? (1’)
3.
In your opinion, who wants most t
o succeed? (1’)
4.
Translate the first stanza into Chinese. (2’)
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