浙江省2011年4月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. Scott Fitzgerald a. After Apple-Picking
( ) 2. Herman Melville b. Daisy Miller
( ) 3. Henry James c. Indiam Camp
( ) 4. Ernest Hemingway d. Billy Budd
( ) 5. Robert Frost e. The Great Gatsby
Group 2
Column A Column B
( ) 1. Grierson a. Sisiter Carrie
( ) 2. George Hurstwood b. A Rose for Emily
( ) 3. Nick c. Goodman Brown
( ) 4. Faith d. Indiam Camp
( ) 5. Jim 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. ______ appeared as a literary trend against rationality.( )
A. Classicism B. Neo-Classicism
C. Humanism D. Romanticism
2. The Rip’s 20-year sleep in Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving’s ______.( )
A. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings
B. expression of transient beauty
C. concern with the passage of time
D. idea about supernatural manipulation of man’s life
3. Nature has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the “______ Club.”( )
A. Natural B. Transcendental
C. Soul D. Universal
4. ______ is unanimously claimed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature.( )
A. New England Transcendentalism B. Puritanism
C. Unitarianism D. Deism
5. Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ______ based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.( )
A. realism B. romanticism
C. surrealism D. naturalism
6. ______held a “black” vision of life and human beings.( )
A. Washington Irving B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Mark Twain D. James Fenimore Cooper
7. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT______.( )
A. evil B. adultery
C. God D. beauty
8. According to ______, man’s capacity is infinite.( )
A. James Cooper B. Emily Dickinson
C. Walt Whitman D. Ralph Emerson
9. ______ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.( )
A. Walden B. Nature
C. The Scarlet Letter D. Moby Dick
10. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT______.( )
A. a free and natural rhythmic pattern B. a simple and conversational language
C. a strict poetic form 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. Mark Twain B. Washington Irving
C. Henry James D. Theodore Dreiser
12. Mark Twain’s pen name is ______.( )
A. Samuel Langhorne Clemens B. Langhorne Clemens Samuel
C. Langhorne Samuel Clemens D. Samuel Clemens Langhorne
13. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?( )
A. They portrayed misery and poverty of the “underdogs”, who were demonstrably victims of society and nature.
B. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.
C. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.
D. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme of human “bestiality,” especially an explanation of sexual desire.
14. Which of the following is a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?( )
A. exquisite and elaborate language
B. minute detailed description
C. Lengthy psychological analysis
D. all of them
15. 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
16. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?( )
A. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.
B. Dickinson’s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way.
C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.
D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.
17. Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the ______ theme.( )
A. Deep South B. local color
C. international D. national
18. 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. death B. immortality
C. love D. nature
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. Eugene O’ Neill’s B. Scott Fitzgerald’s
C. Ernest Hemingway’s D. William Faulkner’s
20. ______ poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over Ezra Pound.( )
A. Chinese B. Japanese
C. Indian D. Korean
21. 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
22. The Hemingway Code Heroes are best remembered for their ______.( )
A. pessimistic view of life B. indestructible spirit
C. war experiences D. masculinity
23. Most of O’Neill’s plays are concerned about the following EXCEPT ______.( )
A. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration
B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality
C. success and failure in man’s literary career
D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament
24. In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ______, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.( )
A. naturalism B. imagism
C. symbolism D. stream of consciousness
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.
Part III: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions briefly.
Passage 1
When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.
Questions:
1. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
2. Why Emily is regarded as “a fallen monument”?
Passage 2
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Choken:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.
At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back….
Questions:
1. Who is the original writer of this verse? Who adapted the verse into English?
2. What can we learn from this verse?
Passage 3
…
We slowly drove—He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility—
….
Questions:
1. Please identify the poet and the title of this stanza.
2. What does “He” refer to? Why does the writer capitalize the word?
Passage 4
A lime in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,
They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,
Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,
Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person, a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
Some emerge on the opposite banks, others are just entering the ford— while,
Scarlet and blue and snowy white,
The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.
Questions:
1. Please identify the poet and the title of the verse.
2. What can we learn from this verse?
Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)
1. Briefly state the major features of narrative techniques used by William Faulkner in his writing.
2. Please give a brief account of the major features of American Romanticism.
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