美国文学选读试题库.doc

浙江师范大学外国语学院 美国文学选读试题库 Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%) Write your answers on the Answer sheet. Section A Column A Column B ( ) 1.Nathaniel Hawthorne A. This Side of Paradise ( ) 2.Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book ( ) 3.F.Scott Fitzgerald C. The Scarlet Letter ( ) 4.Ernest Hemingway D.A Farewell to Arms ( ) 5.Washington Irving E.White Jacket Section B Column A Column B ( ) 1.Fedallah A. The Great Gatsby ( ) 2.Mildred Douglas B. A Rose for Emily ( ) 3.George Hurstwood C. Moby Dick ( ) 4.Tom Buchanan D.Sister Carrie ( ) 5.Homer Barren E.The Hairy Ape Ⅱ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(10%) Write your answers on the Answer sheet. ( ) 1.To Hawthorne and Melville every person is a sinner, therefore great moral ______ is indispensable for the improvement of human nature. ( ) 2.In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry. In his Leaves of Grass he sings of the “______” and the self as well. ( ) 3.The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William Dean Howells, ______, and Henry James. ( ) 4.Henry Jamess emphasis on psychology and on the human consciousness proves to be a big breakthrough in novel writing and had great influence on the coming generations. That is why he is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th-century “______”. ( ) 5.More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general ______ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed. ( ) 6.The expatriate writers in American modern literature were later called “______”. ( ) 7.In his novels, Hemingway dramatizes the sense o