浙江省2005年4月高等教育自学考试
美国文学选读试题
课程代码：10055
Part Ⅰ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)
Group 1
Column A Column B
（ ） 1. Henry David Thoreau A. The American Scholar
（ ） 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Mosses from an Old Manse
（ ） 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Walden
（ ） 4. Mark Twain D. The Turn of the Screw
（ ） 5. Henry James E. The Gilded Age
Group 2
Column A Column B
（ ） 6. Nicholas Vedder A. The Hairy Ape
（ ） 7. Daisy Buchanan B. A Rose for Emily
（ ） 8. Randolph C. The Great Gatsby
（ ） 9. Emily Grierson D. Daisy Miller
（ ） 10. Yank E. Rip Van Winkle
Part Ⅱ. Select from the four choices A, B, C and D of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.(50 points in all, 2 points for each)
11.Most of the writings in the period of Romanticism in the history of American literature emphasize upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature, which included the following romantic qualities EXCEPT （ ）.
A. the exotic B. the sensuous
C. the sensational D. the surrealistic
12.Which of the following poet is NOT a romanticist in the history of American literature? （ ）
A. Walt Whitman B. James Russel Lowell
C. Edgar Ellen Poe D. Emily Dickinson
13.The essay （ ）, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the “Transcendental Club.”
A. Nature B. Walden
C. The Over-Soul D. Self-Reliance
14.Which of the following statements about American Romantic literature is right? （ ）
A. Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe are the forerunners of the literary movement of New England Transcendentalism in the 19th century.
B. The forest Young Goodman Brown goes to during his night journey is literally a place where the evil beings rustle about.
C. For Emerson and his disciples, material economy is good for spiritual.
D. Rip Van Winkle feels happy and fortunate to be with his family again after he comes back from the woods.
15.In his famous poem Song of Myself, Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs: the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value, and the theory of （ ）, which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things.
A. nationality B. universality
C. nature D. community
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.The pen name of Mark Twain is （ ）.
A. Samuel Langhorne Clemens B. Langhorne Clemens Samuel
C. Langhorne Samuel Clemens D. Samuel Clemens Langhorne
20.Which of the following statements about Mark Twain is NOT true? （ ）
A. He is a humorist. B. He is a realist.
C. He is a local colorist. D. He is a psychologist.
21. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the （ ） theme.
A. Deep South B. local color
C. international D. national
22. In the poem “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” Emily Dickinson gives a tense description of the greatest rending of the moment of （ ）.
A. love B. immortality
C. death D. nature
23. In all his novels Dreiser set himself to project the materialistic American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined （ ）.
A. hereditarily B. by her or his literalness
C. historically D. economically
24. Theodore Dreiser was influenced by many writers whose works he had read. But his true literary influences did not come from （ ）.
A. Balzac B. Charles Darwin
C. Herbert Spencer D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. In the following statements, （ ） is NOT true as to the backgrounds for the American literature between the two world wars.
A. The United States had become the most powerful industrialized nation in the world.
B. The Crash marked the beginning of “The Great Depression” in the 1920s.
C. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.
D. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life of the American people.
26. “The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind” this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser’s novel （ ）.
A. An American Tragedy B. The Titan
C. Sister Carrie D. Jennie Gerhardt
27. （ ） is a school of modern painting, whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints.
A. Cubism B. Imagism
C. Expressionism D. Impressionism
28.In a class which discusses the Imagism Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include （ ）.
A. William Carlos Williams B. Gary Snyder
C. Wallance Stevens D. Ezra Pound
29.In the 1920s decade, O’Neill established an international reputation with such play (or plays) as（ ）.
A. The Hairy Ape B. Ann Christle
C. The Emperor Jones D. All of the above
30.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitude of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece （ ）.
A. This Side of Paradise B. Tender Is the Night
C. The American Dream D. The Great Gatsby
31. The speaker of “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” describes （ ）.
A. the history of her parents’ village
B. the effect of the changing seasons on her garden
C. her marriage and her husband’s absence
D. her life on the river
32. Which of the following statements about Robert Frost is right? （ ）
A. His achievement in poetic form is his combination of the traditional verse patterns and the refined language.
B. The very elements of war and famine are found in Frost’s poetical natural world.
C. His first collection of poetry is North of Boston.
D. His poems are mostly concerned with his contemplation on nature, and relationship between man and nature.
33. Hemingway’s first true novel （ ） casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”
A. The Sun Also Rises B. The Old Man and the Sea
C. For Whom the Bell Tolls D.A Farewell to Arms
34.In 1950, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist （ ）.
A. The Sound and the Fury B. Intruder in the Dust
C. The Unvanquished D. Light in August
35.Which of the following statements about Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses is right? （ ）.
A. It is a serious and moving examination of the shame and sadness of white and black relationships.
B. It is in a sense a companion piece to Light in August.
C. In this book, Faulkner illuminates the problem of man and nature in the American society
D. It is another attempt to deal with the Northern reality of land, family and the industrialization as a form of life.
Part Ⅲ. Interpretation
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)
36.“Because I could not stop for Death——
He kindly stopped for me——
The Carriage held but just Ourselves——
And Immortality.”
Questions:
A. Who is the Author of this poem?
B. What do “He” and “Carriage” refer to?
37.Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’d got to be a slave, and so I’d better write a leter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Waston where he was. But I soon give up that notion, for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he’d feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of me! It would get all round, that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was to ever see anybody from that town again, I’d be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the novel.
B. Give a brief comment on this part.
38. “Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.”
Questions:
A. Which poem is this stanza taken from? Who is the author?
B. What do “that” and “there” mean in the fourth line of the stanza?
39.“The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home. I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation figure the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.”
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the novel.
B. Explain the symbolic meaning of the “moon” in it.
Part Ⅳ.Topic Discussion
Give brief answers to the following questions.(20 points in all,10 points for each)
40. Write a character sketch of Rip Van Winkle and compare him with his wife.
41.Name the three general principles of the Imagist Movement led by Pound and please explain them briefly.
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