云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题.doc

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五 学院:外语学院　专业:英语　 年级：________　班次: 学号：　 姓名：　　 考试方式(闭卷)：　　　考试时量：150　分钟　 试卷编号( 卷) 题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 总分 评卷人 复分人 得分 评卷人 True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item) ( ) 1. Hawthorne concludes that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the word.” ( ) 2. Transcendentalists recognized intuition as the “highest power of the soul.” ( ) 3. The misshapen scholar mentioned in Chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne’s husband. ( ) 4. The finest example of Hawthorne’s expressionism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in The Scarlet Letter. ( ) 5. MacLeish often wrote his poetry with short lines and the strong rhythm of jazz. ( ) 6. The poet compares hatred to fire in “Fire and Ice”. ( ) 7. Heller’s sardonic novel, Catch-22 is considered to be one of the most significant works of “protest literature” to appear since the Second World War. ( ) 8. The bulk of The Autobiography was written in 1771, 1784 and 1788. ( ) 9. Through his efforts, the American theatre grew up during the 1920s; O’Neill had a great influence on American playwrights. ( ) 10. The narrator, Fortunato, opens the story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by stating that he has been irreparably insulted by his acquaintance, Montresor, and that he seeks revenge. ( ) 11. William Dean Howells thinks The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s beast work and praises it as “a real Crane’s work”. ( ) 12. One of Porter’s contributions is that she described the women’s liberation from the perspective of feminism. ( ) 13. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is a story of an idealist who was destroyed by the disillusion of American Dream. ( ) 14. Sarty is one of the main characters in Barn Burning created by Faulkner. ( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway revealed his life values and standards in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and was awarded the Nobel Prize for