Ⅰ. Multiple choices. (60 points in total, 2 for each)
1. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving's ______ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass. A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveller C. A History of New York D. The Scarlet Letter
2. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”.
A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance
3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______. A. nature , man and the universe
B. the relationship between man and woman
C. the development of Romanticism in American literature D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism
14. In the following statements, _________ is NOT true about Washington Irving’s famous story “Rip Van Winkle.”
A. The story is not only well-known for Rip’s 20-year sleep but also considered a model of perfect English in American literature.
B. The story is set against the background of the inevitably changing America. C. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.
D. Irving describes Rip’s response and reaction in a dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past.
15. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Experience is a serous discussion about the conflict between _________ and ordinary life.
A. nationalism B. universalism C. idealism D. communism
16. As one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales, Young Goodman Brown is written in the manner of its concern with_________. A. guilt and evil B. good and bad C. moral and corruption D. destruction and hope 7. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?
A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories. B. Their characteristic setting is an isolated town.
C. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.
D. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing environmental conditions.
8. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain's style of language? A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.
B. His sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.
C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition and anti-climax.
D. His style of language had exerted only a limited influence on the contemporary writers.
9.Which of the following is not written by Henry James? A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors C. The Marble Faun and The Gilded Age D. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians
10. About the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller, which of the following is not right?______
A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.
B. She comes from the new world but remains traditional and conservative.
C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new world
D. The author’s sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome was easily felt.
11. Which of the following is not right about Emily Dickinson’s poems about love?______
A. Her love poems show people’s feelings of rapture and happiness coming from their love experience.
B. Some of her love poems treats the suffering and frustration love can cause. C. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain of separation, and the futility of finding happiness.
D. Some of them emphasizes the power of physical attraction and expresses a mixture of fear and fascination for the mysterious magnetism between sexes. 12. In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of ______. A. a happy and active life
B. adventurous experiences
D. a hard and suffering life
C. a single household and an inactive life
13. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed. A. man and man
B. men and women D. men and God
C. man and nature
14. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson's poems about nature? A. In them, she expressed her general affirmation about the relationship between man and nature.
B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature.
C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings. D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature's inscrutability and indifference to the life and interests of human beings.
15. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an
unconventional style which is now called free verse, that is ______. A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains
B. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
C. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat D. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
16.Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and （ ） based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.
A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. surrealism
17.Realism was a reaction against （ ） or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. A. Symbolism B. Imagism C. Romanticism D. Mysticism
18.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to a school of realism（ ）.
A. American naturalism B. American nationalism C. American internationalism D. American transcendentalism 19. After the Civil War America had been transformed from to . A. an agrarian community…a society of freedom and equality
B. an agrarian community…an industrialized and commercialized society C. an industrialized and commercialized society…a highly developed society D. a poor and backward society…an industrialized and commercialized society 20. Which of the following is not right about Emily Dickinson’s poems of nature? A. In them, she expressed her general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature.
B. Some of them showed her belief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature.
C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings. D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature’s inscrutability and indifference to the
life and interests of human beings.
21. Eugene O’Neill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about . A. the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrations B. the moral nature of the modern mankind
C. the relationship between man and nature as well as man and woman D. the inner contradiction of men before the real world 22. As a poet in the 20th century, Robert Frost _________.
A. rejected the conventional poetic principles and chose the revolutionary way B. rejected the romantic way choosing instead the revolutionary principles C. rejected the revolutionary principles choosing instead the romantic way
D. rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries choosing instead the old-fashioned way to be new
23. Pound’s translations cast light on his affinity to the Chinese and his strenuous effort in the study of _________.
A. ancient Asian literature B. ancient Roman literature C. Oriental literature
D. ancient Indian literature
24. Which of the following is not written by Eugene O’Neill? A. Long Day’s Journey into Night and The Great Gatsby B. The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape
C. Desire Under the Elms and The Great God Down D. Beyond the Horizon and Anna Christie
23. Most of O’Neill’s plays are concerned about the following EXCEPT_____. A. success and failure in man’s literary career
B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality
C. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament
24. Traditional fiction featured an authoritative narrator in telling a story, while modern fiction tended to employ the first person narration or limit the reader to “_____”.
A. one character’s point of view B. the central consciousness C. more characters points of view D. both A and B
25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner? A. He is a master of stream-of-consciousness narrative. B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand. C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago. D. He represents a new group of Southern writers.
23. ______ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class, the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites”, and the Negroes who labored for both of them.
A. Faulkner B. Fitzgerald C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck
24. “For I have too much /Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired”. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker ______. A. is happy about the harvest B. is tired of the work of apple-picking C. is not tired when seeing the harvest D. becomes indifferent to the job 25. Which of the following statements about Hemingway’s works is Not true? A. Man can be physically destroyed and spiritually defeated.
B. Hemingway’s style is actually polished and tightly controlled, but highly suggestive and connotative.
C. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.
D. “Grace under pressure” is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his works.
Ⅱ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 2 point for each) 1. O. Henry
A. The Cop and Anthem B. The Sea Wolf
2. Jack London
3. John Steinbeck 4. Eugene O’ Neil 5. Richard Wright
C. Tortilla Flat D. The Emperor Jones E. Native Son
Ⅲ. Explain the following terms. (25 points, 5 for each) 1. the Beat Generation 2. Symbolism
3. American Romanticism 4. Legend 5. Romance
Ⅳ. What are the unique features of American Romanticism? (5 points)
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