《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷.doc

外国语学院20— 20 学年第 二 学期《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）适用班级 050511-13 考试时间 120 分钟学院 班级 学号 姓名 题号一二三四五六七八九十总分分数得分 I. Write the names of the authors.(10%) 1. Leaves of Grass ( )2. Raven ( )3. Anecdote of the Jar ( )4. The Octopus ( )5. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )6. A Rose for Emily ( )7. Arrowsmith ( )8. Of Mice and Men ( )9. The Weary Blues ( )10. The Streetcar Named Desire ( )得分 II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%）1. Emily Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual and pays attention to only one region “____________”. Her poetry characterizes with the concise, direct and simple diction and syntax.2. Simply ______________ means the use of regional detail in a literary or artistic work. The name is given especially to a kind of American literature that in its most characteristic form made its appearance just after the Civil War and for nearly three decades was the single most popular form of American literature.3. Martin Eden, one of Londons most important books, is this __________ account of a young sailor who struggles to improve himself and achieves eventual success as a writer, but grows disenchanted with fame and wealth. It represents both an indictment of the American dream and an important reflection on Londons own background and career.4. Modernism in literature is not easily summarized, but the key elements are experimentation, __________, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.5. The __________ manifesto came out in 1912 showed three poetic principles: direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）, exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）, the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）.6. In The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells us a story of an old Cuban fisherman, __________, who is a perfectionist when it comes to fishing.7. William Faulkner wrote works of psychological drama and emotional depth, typically with long serpentine prose and high, meticulously-chosen diction, also using groundbreaking literary devices such as stream of consciousness, ______________, and time-shifts within narrative.8. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in __________ for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.9. ____________ was more than just a literary movement: it included racial consciousness, "the back to Africa" movement led by Marcus Garvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others. It was a huge leap for black liberation and culture.10. ____________ received the Pulitzer Prize four times and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy, making him the first US dramatist to do so.得分 III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. （20%）1.Mark Twain created, in____________, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A.Huckleberry FinnB.Tom SawyerC.The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD.The Gilded Age2. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham3.With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalism B. romanticismC. realism D. naturalism4.The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________.A. First World War B. Second World WarC. Civil War D. War of Independence5.Ezra Pound s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste Land B. The CantosC. Don Juan D. Queen Mab6. __________, a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas a Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power.A. "The Confidential Clerk"B. "The Cocktail Party"C."The Family Reunion" D. "Murder in the Cathedral"7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent mor。