美国文学史及选读试卷 (3)

美国文学史及选读试卷

Ⅰ

. Multiple choice. (60 points in total, 2 points for each)

1.

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

2.

As

a

philosophical

and

literary

movement,

transcendentalism

flourished

in

New

England from the 1830s to the Civil War, whose most important representatives are

______.

A. Emerson and Thoreau

B. Emerson and Whitman

C. Hawthorne and Melville

D. Edgar Poe and James Cooper

3.

Washington Irving’s ______ became the first work by an American writer t

o win

financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of 19th century.

A.

Sketch Book

B.

Charles the Second

C.

The Scarlet Letter

D.

Moby Dick

4. Which of the following is not right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?

A.

A

group

of

new

writers

who

survived

the

war

wrote

about

their

traumatic

experience within the military machine and on European and Pacific battlefields.

B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose work drew

on the Jewish experience and tradition.

C. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.

D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from

its predecessors.

5.

Which

of

the

following

is

reflected

in

the

hero

of

The

Great

Gatsby

by

F.S.

Fitzgerald?

A. The hypocrisy and materialism of small town life in the Middle West.

B. The moral confusion and social decay of the South after the Civil War.

C. The contradictions and disillusionment of the American dream.

D. The cynicism among American veteran soldiers.

6.

In

spite

of

strong

foreign

influences,

American

romantic

writings

are

typically

American which can be revealed in the following except

.

A. a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling nature

B. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction

C. the American national experience of “pioneering into the west”

D. an emphasis on the free expression of emotions

7. Which of the following is not written by Herman Melville?

A.

Typee

and

Omoo

B.

Mardi

and White

Jacket

D.

Moby-Dick

and

Pierre

C.

The Bostonians

and

American Tragedy

8. In the novel Moby Dick, the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab was thought to be

against.

A. the white whale

B. the gliding great demon of the seas of life

C. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forces

D. the savage harpooners and the motley crew

9. In the post- Civil War society the American realists portrayed the harsh realities and

pressures by _________.

A.

a

comprehensive

picture

of

modern

life

in

its

various

occupations,

class

stratifications and manners

B. a narrative exploration of man’s sub

-consciousness

C. a disillusion of heroism resulting from the dark memories of the Civil War

D.

a

revival

of

heroism

resulting

from

the

glorious

memories

of

the

Revolutionary

War

10. In his masterpiece

The Portrait of A Lady

Henry James _________ .

A. incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an

American girl in a European cultural environment

B. tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of

the European life as well as the American society

C. describes a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome

D. tells

about

some Europeans who learn with

difficulty to

adapt

themselves to

the

American life

11. Which of the following can be said about the titular heroine in the novel

Daisy

Miller

?

A.

She

has

become

a

celebrated

cultural

type

who

embodies

the

spirit

of

the

new

world.

B.

The

author’s

sympathy

for

her,

a

tender

flower

crushed

by

the

harsh

winter

in

Rome was easily felt.

C.

Her

innocence

turns

out

to

be

an

admiring

but

a

dangerous

quality

in

the

new

world.

D. all of the above

12. As Emily Dickinson’s poems about love are conce

rned, which of the following is

not right?

A. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain

of separation, and the futility of finding happiness.

B. Some of her love poems treat the suffering and frustration love can cause.

C.

Her

love

poems

show

people’s

feelings

of

rapture

and

happiness

coming

from

their love experience.

D. Some of them emphasize the power of physical attraction and expressing a mixture

of fear and fascination for the mysterious magnetism between sexes.

13.

The

novel

Moby

Dick

shows

the

rebellious

struggle

of

Captain

Ahab

against

.

A. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forces

B. the gliding great demon of the seas of life