美国文学史及选读试卷 (4)(2)

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)