美国文学试题模拟卷及答案
美国文学期末考试模拟试题及答案
I.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)
(T ) 1. Franklin’s autobiography, published after his death, has become one of the classics of the genre.
(F ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions, but the military
bureaucracy is always able to find a way to make him stay.
(F ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crime in the end of the
play.
(T ) 4. ―Dreams‖ has the meaning to encourage other black people not to give up hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable.
(T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work.
(F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the
Imagist movement in the early 19th century.
(F ) 7. ―The Fall of the House of Usher‖ is one of Poe’s poems.
(F ) 8. Saul Bellow’s perceptions center around the black people, the big city, and the spirit of
American life in the second half of the 20th century.
(T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hester’s illegitimate daughter.
(T ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound’s Cantos the best long poem in modern literature.
(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street, which exerted great influence on Theodore Dreiser’s realism.
( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s.
(F ) 13. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the romantic period.
(F ) 14. William Faulkner’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral in the
American North.
(F ) 15. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, in which the
whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
(T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman of the lost generation.
(T ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love.
(F ) 18. The famous poem ―A Psalm of Life‖ was written by Edgar Allen Poe.
(F ) 19. ―The Raven‖ is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.
(F ) 20. Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel The Bluest Eye.
II.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)
Writers:
( g ) 1. Benjamin Franklin Works:
a.Ars Poetica
( d ) 2. Toni Morrison ( f ) 3. William Faulkner ( a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish
( c ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne
( e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( b ) 7. Stephen Crane
( j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter
( h ) 9. William Carlos Williams
( i ) 10. Saul Bellow
b.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
c.Twice-told Tales
d.Beloved
e. A Psalm of Life
f.Barn Burning
g.Poor Richard’s Almanac
h.Paterson
i.Anderson the Rain King j.The Flowering Judas
III.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)
1.And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owe
the mentioned happiness of my past life to his kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done, the complexion of my future fortune being known to him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.
Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison
Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
2.It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt
my good will. I continued as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at the thought of his immolation.
Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo Ellison
Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C.The Cask of Amontillado
3.Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man
_and_ his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.
Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, -- as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.
Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson
Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance
4.The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared, in the first place, like a
black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.
Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson
Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden
5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one
wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slatey wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water.
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane
Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett
6.Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forked green
vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. ―Now, now, be a good girl, and we’ll have you up in no time.‖
Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter
Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner
7.But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. I found myself on Gatsby’s side,
and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me. At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow
Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
8. The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy,
crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver cur ve of fish…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost
Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince
9.It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the
leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.
Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway
Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif
10.CABOT--Thunder 'n' lightnin', Abbie! I hain't slept this late in fifty year! Looks 's if the
sun was full riz a'most. Must've been the dancin' an' likker. Must be gittin' old. I hope Eben's t' wuk. Ye might've tuk the trouble t' rouse me, Abbie. (He turns--sees no one there--surprised) Waal--whar air she? Gittin' vittles, I calc'late. (He tiptoes to the cradle and peers down--proudly) Mornin', sonny. Putty's a picter! Sleepin' sound. He don't beller all night like most o' 'em. (He goes quietly out the door in rear--a few moments later enters kitchen--sees Abbie--with satisfaction) So thar ye be. Ye got any vittles cooked?
Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow
Work:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22
IV: Complete the following: 20%
1.I shot an __ arrow ___ into the air.
It fell to __ earth ___ I knew not ___ where __;
For so swiftly it __ flew ___ the sight
Could not __ follow ___ it in its __ flight ___. (6%)
2.Life is __ real ___! Life is __ earnest ___!
And the grave is not its __ goal ___;
__ Dust __ thou art, to ___ dust __ returnest,
Was not spoken of the __ soul ___. (6%)
3.Helen, thy ___ beauty __ is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore
That gently, o’er a __ perfumed ___ sea,
The weary, way-worn ___ wanderer __ bore
To his own native _ shore ____. (4%)
4.My captain does not answer, his lips are __ pale ___ and __ still ___,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no ___ pulse __ nor __ will ___ (4%)
V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%
Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the
Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
I sing for physiology from top to toe. Neither looks alone nor intelligence is worthy for the praise. I say the form is far worthier. I also sing for the equality between
the sexes. I sing for the modern man of their life full of passion, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed under the divine laws.
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1.The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.
Answer the following questions:
(1) Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? (5%)
(2) What kind of person do you think the narrator is according to the above passage? (5%)
2.On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. Answer the following questions:
(1)What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of the letter A so elaborate?
(5%)
(2)How does this tell us about her character? (5%)
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美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二
IV.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)
(T ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression.
(F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in
Jefferson and Thoreau.
(T ) 3. Williams’ poem ―The Red Wheelbarrow‖ is considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles.
(F ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms.
(T ) 5. The quotation—―Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might…‖ is the theme of ―Looking for Mr. Green‖.
(T ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.
(T ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the
story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to
name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
(F ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about his life, he is
taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past.
(F ) 9. The jar in ―Anecdote of the Jar‖ symbolizes social regulation.
(F ) 10. In ―The Cask of Amontillado‖, Fortunato decides to use Montresor’s fondness
for wine against him.
(T ) 11. Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story of a good woman’s downfall and destruction in a slum environment.
(T ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of human reality.
(T ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. (F ) 14. The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is considered as the
representative of his short story.
(T ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat.
(T ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation.
(T ) 17. In ―I Shot an Arrow‖, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms—the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.
(F ) 18. In ―Sonnet—To Science‖, Poe praised science for it emancipated the poet’s
imagination.
(T ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson’s poems.
(T ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize. V.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)
Writers:
( j ) 1. Walt Whiteman
( b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe
( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( h ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald
( a ) 5. Wallace Stevens
( i ) 6. Joseph Heller
( c ) 7. Eugene Glastone O’Neill ( d ) 8. Ernest Hemingway
( g ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( e ) 10. Langston Hughes Works:
a.The Man with the Blue Guitar
b.The Raven
c.Desire under the Elms
d.For Whom the Bell Tolls
e.Fine Clothes to the Jew
f.Nature
g.The Leaning Tower
h.The Side of Paradise
i.God Knows
j.Leaves of Grass
VI.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)
1.I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my
ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook
for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements.
Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
2.I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato bowed
him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.
Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography
3.The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it
scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, -- under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.
Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance
4.The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.
She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.
Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden
5.In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued as to the
difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook had said: "There's a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as
soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up."
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane
Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett
6.―Get along and doctor your sick,‖ said Granny Weatherall. ―Leave a well
woman alone. I’ll call for you when I want you…Where were you forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You weren’t even born. Don’t let Cornelia lead you on,‖ she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. ―I pay my own bills, and I don’t throw my money away on nonsense!‖
Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner
7.It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed,
bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day. His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
8."Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckon anybody
named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they?" The boy said nothing. Enemy! Enemy! he thought; for a moment he could not even see, could not see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: "Do you want me to question this boy?" But he could hear, and during those subsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost
Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince
9.The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from the counter inside
the cafe and marched out to the old man's table. He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe.
He sat down at the table with his colleague again.
Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif
10.ABBIE--(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him--wildly) I killed him, I tell
ye! I smothered him. Go up an' see if ye don't b'lieve me! (Cabot stares at her
a second, then bolts out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs,
and rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk back
lifelessly into her former position. Cabot puts his hand down on the body in the crib. An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.)
Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-22 IV: Complete the following: 20%
1.To make a __ prairie ___ it takes a __ clover ___ and one ___ bee __,
One ___ clover __ and a _ bee ____.
And __ revery ___.
__ Revery ___ alone will do,
If ___ bees __ are few. (8%)
2.How ___ dreary __ to be somebody!
How public, like a ___ frog __
To tell your name the __ livelong ___ day
To an __ admiring ___ bog! (4%)
3.The __ apparition ___ of these faces in the crowd;
__ Petals ___ on a wet, black __ bough ___. (3%)
4.So much __ depends ___
upon
a red __ wheel ___
__ barrow ___
__ glazed ___ with rain
water
besides the ___ white __
chickens (5%)
V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
In a yellow wood, I could see two roads diverged, but I felt sorry because I could not walk on both of them. As a traveler, I stood there for a long time and tried to look down one road as far as I could to the place where it changed the direction in the deep wood. Then I chose the other road just as beautiful as this. And perhaps it would be more attractive, because it was covered with grass and very quiet, even though I could see that these two roads bore almost the same amount of footprints.
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1. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.
…
When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.
Answer the following questions:
(1)What does the opening sentence imply? (5%)
(2)In what way could the survivors be interpreters? (5%)
2.I want you to pick all the fruit this year and see that nothing is wasted. There’s always someone who can use it. Don’t let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. Don’t let things get lost. It’s bitter to lose things. Now, don’t let me get to thinking, not when I am tired and taking a little nap before supper…
Answer the following questions:
(1) What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family? (5%)
(2) What do you see from behind her words? (5%)
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三
VII.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)
(F ) 1. ―To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your
private heart is true for all men —that is genius.‖The sentence shows the opinion of Joseph Heller.
(F ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James,
Franklin's wife.
(T ) 3. In ―The Cask of Amontillado‖, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby trapping Fortunato inside forever.
(F ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen of Hawthorne’s
chilling, cold-blooded human animals.
(T ) 5. The lines—―A poem should not mean / But be‖ comes from ―Ars Poetica‖by MacLeish.
(T ) 6. O’Neill’s great purpose was to try and discover the root of human desires and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment.
(T ) 7. Catch-22 combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.
(F ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
(T ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism.
(T ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau.
(T ) 11. In The Open Boat, Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat natural disasters with natural and
impressionistic approaches.
(T ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers.
(F ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in
his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night.
(F ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character named Nick Carraway,
who is also a participant in the event.
(F ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the
Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.
(T ) 16.A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of ―the lost generation‖.
(T ) 17. Hemingway’s writing style, together with his theme and hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experience in the war.
(F ) 18. In Walt Whiteman’s poem ―O Captain! My Captain!‖, captain refers to
President Lincoln.
(F ) 19. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for obscure.
(F ) 20. Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class
strive for their identity.
VIII.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)
Writers:
( a ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
( e ) 2. Robert Frost
( i ) 3. Saul Bellow
( h ) 4. Joseph Heller
(b ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison
( j ) 6. Ezra Pound
( d ) 7. Ernest Hemingway
( f ) 8. Emily Dickinson
( c ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter
( g ) 10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Works:
a.Self-Reliance
b.Invisible Man
c.Pale Horse, Pale Rider
d.The Sun Also Rises
e.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening
f.Success is Counted Sweetest
g.Song of Myself
h.Catch-22
i.Looking for Mr. Green
j.Canto
IX.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)
1.That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that
were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the
same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a
second edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others
more favorable.
Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
2.It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the
eighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and the
eleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I
struggled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now
there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head.
It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognising as that
of the noble Fortunato.
Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography
3.The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes
of nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man. The joyful loyalty with which men have
everywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the great proprietor to walk
among them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things, and
reverse theirs, pay for benefits not with money but with honor, and represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified
their consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every man. Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance
4. A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by the
beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed
for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understanding
little of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter on her breast. It was
no great distance, in those days, from the prison door to the market-place. Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden
5.As the boat bounced from the top of each wave, the wind tore through the hair
of the hatless men, and as the craft plopped her stern down again the spray splashed past them. The crest of each of these waves was a hill, from the top of which the men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven. It was probably splendid. It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white and amber. Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane
Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett
6.Well, she could just hear Cornelia telling her husband that Mother was getting a
little childish and the y’d have to humor her. The thing that most annoyed her was that Cornelia thought she was deaf, dumb, and blind. Little hasty glances and tiny gestures tossed around here and over her head saying, ―Don’t cross her, let her have her way, she’s eighty years old,‖ and she sitting there as if she lived in a thin glass cage.
Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner
7. A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I began
to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. So did Gatsby’s father. And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain way. The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
8."No!" Harris said violently, explosively. "Damnation! Send him out of here!"
Now time, the fluid world, rushed beneath him again, the voices coming to him again through the smell of cheese and sealed meat, the fear and despair and the old grief of blood…
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost
Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince
9."Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued the
conversation with himself. It is the light of course, but it is necessary that the
place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It
was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was
nothing too. It was only that the light was all it needed and a certain cleanness
and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues
nada y nada y pues nada.
Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif
10.ABBIE--(gives him a furious push which sends him staggering back and
springs to her feet--with wild rage and hatred) Don't ye dare tech me! What right hev ye t' question me 'bout him? He wa'n't yewr son! Think I'd have a son by yew? I'd die fust! I hate the sight o' ye an' allus did! It's yew I should've murdered, if I'd had good sense! I hate ye! I love Eben. I did from the fust. An' he was Eben's son--mine an' Eben's--not your'n!
Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-22 IV．Complete the following: 20%
1.Some say the world will end in __ fire ___,
Some say in ___ ice __.
From what I’ve tasted of __ desire ___
I hold with those who favor ___ fire __.
But if it had to __ perish ___ twice,
I think I know enough of ___ hate __ (6%)
2. Whose woods these are I think I ___ know __.
His _ house ____ is in the village, though;
He will not see me __ stopping ___ here
To watch his __ woods ___ fill up with __ snow ___. (5%)
3.Two roads __ diverged ___ in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not __ travel ___ both.
…
I __ took ___ the one less ___ traveled __ by,
And that has made all the _ difference ____. (5%)
4.Hold fast to ___ dreams __
For if __ dreams ___ die
Life is a broken-winged _ bird ____
That cannot _ fly ____. (4%)
V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag today
Can tell the definition,
So clearly, of victory.
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst, agonized and clear.
For the people who have never succeeded, success is so sweet. To understand the delicious wine, we need to suffer from the thirst sorely. Even the noble army who won the battle today can not clearly define what victory is. For the defeated and dying soldier, whose ears could not hear anything, how could he hear the distant triumph, which is so painfully achieved and clear?
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1.He opened it at the back cover and turned it around for me to see. On the last fly-leaf was printed the word SCHEDULE, and the date September 12, 1906. And underneath:
Rise from bed ………………………………… 6.00 A.M.
Dumbell exercise and wall-scaling ………....... 6.15 – 6.30 ..
Study electricity, etc. …………………………. 7.15 – 8.15 ..
Work ………………………………………….. 8.30 – 4.30 P.M.
Baseball and sports …………………………… 4.30 - 5.00 ..
Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it … 5.00 – 6.00 ..
Study needed inventions ……………………… 7.00 – 9.00 ..
What does Gatsby’s Schedule reveal about him and how does it relate to the American Dream? (10%)
2. It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Not can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
Answer the following questions:
(1)What do you see from the older waiter’s view of life? (5%)
(2)How do you interpret the irony of the title ―A Clean, Well-Lighted Place‖after
reading the above passage? (5%)
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X.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)
(F ) 1. Modern poetry is ―the poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will
suffice.‖ This is the opinion of Walt Whitman.
(F ) 2. Robert Frost experimented with form, as many poets did in the 1920s.
(F ) 3. Emperor Jones represents one of O’Neil’s attempts to place plot elements and
themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting.
(T ) 4. ―Looking for Mr. Green‖ is a story of Mosby’s Memories and other Stories. (F ) 5. Bellow will be remembered for the biting social criticism of his novels, and of
course, for his riotous sense of humor.
(T ) 6. Hester’s letter ―A‖ eventually come s to represent ―Angel‖ and ―Able‖ to the townspeople.
(T ) 7. Poe stresses rhythm, defines true poetry as ―the rhythmical creation of beauty,‖and declares that ―music is the perfection of the soul, or idea, of poetry.‖
(F ) 8.All three parts of Franklin's autobiography were published and released together
in English for the first time in 1868.
(T ) 9. New England Transcendentalism was important to American literature. It inspired a whole new generation of famous authors such as Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
(F ) 10. The setting of ―Looking for Mr. Green‖ is Depression Columbus.
(T ) 11. There are four survivors in The Open Boat: the captain, the oiler, the cook and the correspondent.
(F ) 12. In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Porter narrated the story sometimes in
chronological order and sometimes in flashback, and the chronological time
is more important than the psychological time.
(T ) 13. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in The Roaring Twenties.
(T ) 14. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.
(T ) 15. The point of view in Barn Burning is the third person narration and the narrator is omniscient.
(F ) 16. ―The dignity of movement of iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being
above water‖ is put forward by Fitzgerald.
(F ) 17. In ―A Psalm of Life‖, the poet sings a song for the everlasting friendship.
(T ) 18. In ―To Helen‖, Poe employed a lot similes, metaphors and allusions to portray Helen’s beauty.
(T ) 19. Walt Whiteman’s poems are noted for the free verse.
(F ) 20. Ralph Waldo Ellison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953.
XI.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)
Writers:
( e ) 1. Edgar Allan Poe
( a ) 2. Walt Whiteman
( i ) 3. F·Scott Fitzgerald
( f ) 4. William Carlos Williams ( b ) 5. Toni Morrison
( j ) 6. Ralph Waldo Ellison ( h ) 7. Langston Hughes ( c ) 8. Ezra Pound
( g ) 9. Stephen Crane
( d ) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne Works:
a.O Captain! My Captain!
b.The Bluest Eye
c.In a Station of the Metro
d.The House of the Seven Gables
e.The Fall of the House of Usher
f.The Red Wheelbarrow
g.The Open Boat
h.Dreams
i.The Great Gatsby j.Shadow and Act
XII.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)
1.Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking
of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing, since this may be read or not as any one pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity. Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
2.I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that the
intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was NOT the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones.
Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography
3.It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his
parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest. It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to die upon the gallows.
Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden
4.None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were
fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger
than the boat which here rode upon the sea.
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett
5.Canton flannel gulls flew near and far. Sometimes they sat down on the sea,
near patches of brown seaweed that rolled on the waves with a movement like carpets on a line in a gale. The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingey, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland. Often they came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes.
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett
6.Lighting the lamps had been beautiful. The children huddled up to her and
breathed like little calves waiting at the bars in the twilight. Their eyes followed the match and watched the flame rise and settle in a blue curve, then they moved away from her. The lamp was lit, they didn’t have to be scared and hang on to mother any more. Never, never, never more. God, for all my life, I thank Thee. Without Thee, my God, I could never have done it. Hail, Mary, full of grace.
Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner 7. About five o’clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby’s station wagon, all wet to the skin. As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around. It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby’s books in the library one night three months before.
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
8.His father turned, and he followed the stiff black coat, the wiry figure walking a
little stiffly from where a Confederate provost's man's musket ball had taken him in the heel on a stolen horse thirty years ago, followed the two backs now, since his older brother had appeared from somewhere in the crowd, no taller than the father but thicker, chewing tobacco steadily, between the two lines of grim-faced men and out of the store and across the worn gallery and down the sagging steps and among the dogs and half-grown boys in the mild May dust, where as he passed a voice hissed…
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost
Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince
9."No, thank you," said the waiter and went out. He disliked bars and bodegas. A
clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it was probably only insomnia.
Many must have it.
Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif 10.CABOT--(considers this--a pause--then in a hard voice) Waal, I'm thankful fur
him savin' me the trouble. I'll git t' wuk. (He goes to the door--then turns--in a voice full of strange emotion) He'd ought t' been my son, Abbie. Ye'd ought t' loved me. I'm a man. If ye'd loved me, I'd never told no Sheriff on ye no matter what ye did, if they was t' brile me alive!
Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-22 IV: Complete the following: 20%
1.Hold fast to __ dreams ___
For when __ dreams ___ go
Life is a barren _ field ____
Frozen with __ snow ___. (4%)
2.My old ___ mule __,
He’s got a _ grin ____ on his _ face ____.
He’s been a __ mule ___ so long
He’s forgot about his __ race ___. (5%)
3.I used to __ wonder ___
About __ living ___ and __ dying ___—
I think the _ difference ____ lies
Between __ tears ___ and ___ crying __. (6%)
4.I breathed a _ song ____ into the air,
It fell to __ earth ___ I knew not where;
For who has the sight so __ keen ___ and __ strong ___
That can follow the flight of a __ song ___. (5%)
V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb,driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no future. howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,act in the living Present!
Let us,then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing
Learn to labour and to wait.
In the broad battle field of our life, do not act as the dumb cattle that are driven by other people, but be a hero in the strife! Do not trust your future, no matter how pleasant it may be. Let the past be buried and be forgotten. Take actions now. Let’s stand up and do something with a determined heart to face whatever will happen to us. We should always try to achieve something and pursue for something, and learn to work hard and wait for the final result.
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1. Abbie: Don’t ye dare tech me! What right hev ye t’ question me ’bout him? He wa’n’t yewr son! Think I’d have a son by yew? I’d die fust! I hate the sight o’ ye an’allus did! It’s yew I should’ve murdered, if I’d had good sense! I hate ye! I love Eben.
I did from the fust. An’ he was Eben’s so n—mine an’ Eben’s—not your’n!
Answer the following questions:
(1)What tragic elements are there in the play? (5%)
(2)How do you interpret them? (5%)
2.All had to be said, each memorized nuance considered, rendered. Nor was that all.
Whenever I uttered a word of three or more syllables a group of voices would yell for me to repeat it. I used the phrase ―social responsibility‖ and they yelled:
―What’s that word you say, boy?‖
―Social responsibility,‖ I said.
―What?‖
―Social…‖
―Louder.‖
―… responsibility.‖
―More!‖
―Respon —‖
―Repeat!‖
―— sibility.‖
The room filled with the uproar of laughter until, no doubt, distracted by having to gulp down my blood, I made a mistake and yelled a phrase I had often seen denounced in newspaper editorials, heard debated in private.
―Social…‖
―What?‖ they yelled.
―… equality —‖
When making the speech, the protagonist inadvertently pronounced “social equality”where “social responsibility”is intended, thus causing a menacing
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