浙江省2007年7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. F. S Fitzgerald a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
( ) 2. Henry David Thoreau b. An American Tragedy
( ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c. The Portrait of a Lady
( ) 4. Henry James d. Walden
( ) 5. Mark Twain e. This Side of Paradise
Group 2
Column A Column B
( ) 1. Huck a. A Rose for Emily
( ) 2. Carrie Meeber b. The Hairy Ape
( ) 3. Yank c. The Great Gatsby
( ) 4. Nick Carraway d. Sister Carrie
( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Part Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)
1. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____.【 】
A. rationality B. imagination
C. intuition D. individualism
2. The famous 20 years in Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving’s _____.【 】
A. concern with the passage of time
B. expression of transient beauty
C. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings
D. idea about supernatural manipulation of man’s life
3. _____ has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the “Transcendental Club”.【 】
A. Nature B. The American Scholar
C. Walden D. Civil Disobedience
4. _____ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature. 【 】
A. Puritanism B. New England Transcendentalism
C. Deism D. Unitarianism
5. _____ is a symbol of microcosm of the world we are living in. 【 】
A. The Pequod B. Moby Dick
C. The Scarlet Letter D. Nature
6. _____ held a “black” vision of life and human beings.【 】
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Edgar Allan Poe D. James Fenimore Cooper
7. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possible read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT_____.【 】
A. malignancy B. beauty
C. adultery D. God
8. According to Emerson, man’s capacity is _____.【 】
A. ambiguous B. limited
C. infinite D. subsidiary to God
9. _____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.【 】
A. Nature B. Walden
C. Moby Dick D. The Scarlet Letter
10. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT______.【 】
A. a strict poetic form
B. a simple and conversational language
C. a free and natural rhythmic pattern
D. an easy flow of feelings
11. Another fact that made _____ unique is his magic power with language, his use of vernacular. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.【 】
A. Twain B. Anderson
C. James D. Dreiser
12. While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, _____was an admirer of ancient European civilization.【 】
A. Theodore Dreiser B. Jack London
C. Henry James D. William James
13. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?【 】
A. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.
B. They portrayed misery and poverty of the “underdogs”, who were demonstrably victims of society and nature.
C. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme of human “bestiality,” especially an explanation of sexual desire.
D. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.
14. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style? 【 】
A. Exquisite and elaborate language B. Minute detailed description
C. Lengthy psychological analysis D. American colloquialism
15. _____ is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century.【 】
A. Emily Dickinson B. Emily Brontё
C. Anne Bradstreet D. George Eliot
16. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?【 】
A. Dickinson’s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way.
B. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.
C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.
D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.
17. It is not surprising to find in _____ fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.【 】
A. James’s B. Twain’s
C. Dreiser’s D. Anderson’s
18. The Catcher in the Rye written by _____ is regarded as a students’classic.【 】
A. J.D. Salinger B. John Updike
C. Ralph Ellison D. Richard Wright
19. _____ fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people.【 】
A. Eliot’s B. Hemingway’s
C. Fitzgerald’s D. Faulkner’s
20. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over _____.【 】
A. Ezra Pound B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert Frost D. Emily Dickinson
21. In Hemingway’s Indian Camp, Nick’s night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as _____.【 】
A. an essential lesson about Indian tribes
B. a confrontation with sin and evil
C. an initiation to the harshness of life
D. a learning process in human relationship
22. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _____.【 】
A. indestructible spirit B. pessimistic view of life
C. war experiences D. masculinity
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.
PartⅢ: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions.
Passage 1
With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose. He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveler knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps, he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.
Questions:
1. Identify the author and the title of the story from which this excerpt is taken.
2. What’s Brown’s purpose to go to the woods?
Passage 2
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Questions:
1. Who is the poet of this poem? Which poem is this stanza taken from?
2. What does sleep suggest?
Passage 3
The Eyes around-had wrung them dry-
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset-when the King
Be witnessed-in the Room-
Questions:
1. Who is the poet?
2. What does “the King” refer to?
Passage 4
... Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes. His tanned skin was drawn attractively tight on his face and his short hair looked as though it were trimmed every day. I could see nothing sinister about him. I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity.
Questions:
1. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?
2. Who is “I” ? And what is his role in the novel?
Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)
1. Give a brief account of Walt Whitman’s poetic style.
2. Please state the major principles of Imagism.
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