自考美国文学选读试题_浙江省2009年4月自考试卷

浙江省2009年4月自考美国文学选读试题

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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
(     )1. James F. Cooper
(     )2. Washington Irving
(     )3. Herman Melville
(     )4. Emily Dickinson
(     )5. Mark Twain

Group 2
Column A
(     )6. Charles Drouet
(     )7. Homer Barron
(     )8. Yank
(     )9. Mrs. Phelps
(     )10. Tom Buchanan

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 and write the letter. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)
11.  Being a period of the flowering of American literature, the Romantic period is also called “_____”.(     )
A. the American Renaissance  B. the English Renaissance
C. the Harlem Renaissance D. the Second Renaissance
12.  With a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good” of the whole nation, a spectacular outburst of _____ was brought about in the first half of the 19th century in the history of America.(     )
A. classic feeling　　　 B. romantic feeling
C. nationalistic feeling  D. realistic feeling
13.  With such a surge of exalting the individual and the common man throughout the United States in the middle of the 19th century, Freneau showed a great interest in external nature in his works. The literary use of the more colorful aspects of the past could be found in Philip Freneau’s use of the “_____”.(     )
A. ruins of human beings B. ruins of Americans
C. ruins of empire D. ruins of common people
14. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage had exerted great influences over American Romanticism. One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to _____ than their English and European counterparts.(     )
A. idealize　 B. moralize
C. classicize  D. realize
15. In the period of Romanticism in the history of American literature, Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far. The two writers are 
(     )
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
C. James F. Cooper and Henry David Thoreau
D. James F. Cooper and Walt Whitman
16. New England Transcendentalism is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature. And the chief spokesman of this spiritual movement is(     )
A. Henry David Thoreau  B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Walt Whitman  D. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
17. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Washington Irving?(     )
A. He was regarded as Father of the American short stories.
 B. His taste was essentially conservative.
C. He had the honor of “the American O’ Henry”. 
D. He has been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.

18. In his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne fully displayed all the following EXCEPT
(     )
A. his remarkable sense of the Puritan past.
B. his understanding of the colonial history in Deep South.
C. his apparent preoccupation with the moral issues of sin and guilt.
D. his keen psychological analysis of people.
19. Herman Melville had written many sea adventure stories, among which _____ proves to be the best.(     )
A. Typee    B. Omoo
C. Redburn  D. Moby-Dick
20. Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of _____, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.(     )
A. the democratic ideals  B. the religious ideals
C. the romantic ideals  D. the self-reliance spirits
21. Which of the following statements about the three dominant figures in the history of American literature is right? (     )
A. Henry James had laid a great emphasis on the “inner world” of man. 
B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Europeans.
C. Howells focused his discussion on the lower class and the way they lived.
D. Twain preferred to have the other regions and people at the forefront of his stories.
22. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language? (     )
A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct.
B. His sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical.
C. His characters speak with a strong accent, which is true of his local colorism.
D. His style of language was later exerted little influence on his descendants.
23. Mark Twain’s late works unmistakably shaved his change from an optimist and _____ to an almost despairing determinister.(     )
A. realist   B. romanticist
C. humorist   D. pessimist
24. “I confess I do not care to judge any work of the imagination without first applying this test to it. We must ask ourselves before anything else, Is it true?—true to the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the life of actual men and women?” This principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life comes from (     )
A. Mark Twain   B. Henry James
C. William Dean Howells    D. Theodore Dreiser
25. In which of the following novels can you find the proper names “Winterbourne”, “Giovanelli”, and “Randolph”?(     )
A. Daisy Miller   B. The Turn of the Screw
C. The Middle Years   D. The Death of a Lion
26. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of Henry James’ literary techniques?(     )
A. stream-of-consciousness  B. narrative “point of view”
C. psychological realism  D. local colorism
27. The little poem I like to see it lap the Miles— is generally regarded as an interesting study of how Dickinson makes the train part of _____ by animalizing it.(     )
A. nature   B. man
C. love  D. death
28. Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of dreams and the theories of _____ have infused modern American literature and made it possible for most of the writers in the modern period to probe into the inner world of human reality. (     )
A. William James’ “stream of consciousness” and Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious”
B. Carl Jung’s “stream of consciousness” and William James’ “collective unconscious”
C. William James’ “archetypal symbol” and Carl Jung’s “individual consciousness”
D. Carl Jung’s “archetypal symbol” and William James’ “individual consciousness”
29. Chinese poetry and philosophy had exerted great influence on  (     )
A. Robert Frost  B. Ezra Pound
C. Emily Dickinson  D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. O’Neill’s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when _____ was in full swing.(     )
A. Symbolism   B. Realism
C. Expressionism  D. Surrealism
31. In Robert Frost’s f