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英美文学选读自考题-4
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[单项选择]Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as "I like to see it lap the Miles", which describes a(n) ______ an embodiment of modern civilization.
A. snake
B. animal
C. the road
D. train
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[单项选择]Allen Ginsberg, whose "Howl" became the manifesto of ______.
A. the Utopian Movement
B. the Beat Movement
C. the Westward Movement
D. the Deistic Movement
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[简答题]It is when the feet weary and-hope seem s vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize
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[单项选择]______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.
A. Young Goodman Brown
B. Moby-Dick
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Daisy Miller
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[单项选择]______ clearly represents a new beginning in Hemingway's career as a writer, which concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. A Farewell to Arms
D. Indian Camp
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[单项选择]Hemingway's second big success is ______, which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation is the 1920s in telling us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.
A. The Old Man and the Sea
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. A Farewell to Arms
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[单项选择]______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Nature
C. In a Station of the Metro
D. After Apple-Picking
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[单项选择]Mark Twain's full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.
A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Gilded Age
C. Innocents Abroad
D. An American Tragedy
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[单项选择]"The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind", this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser's novel ______.
A. An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. Dreiser Looks at Russia
D. Jannie Gerhardt
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[多项选择]The Great Gatsby is an examination of American myth in the 20th century. Fitzgerald deliberately depicts Gatsby as a mysterious person so as to achieve the effect that Gatsby is American Everyman Please make a brief comment on The Great Gatsby.
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[单项选择]American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ______.
A. Anne Bradsteet
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher
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[单项选择]While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, ______ was an admirer of ancient European civilization.
A. Washington Irving
B. Henry James
C. Walt Whitman
D. Jack London
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[单项选择]In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his ______ and The Scarlet Letter.
A. Twice-Told Tales
B. The Blithedale Romance
C. The Marble Faun
D. The House of the Seven Gables
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[单项选择]The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the ______.
A. Civil War
B. World War Ⅱ
C. Independent War
D. World War Ⅰ
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[多项选择]William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize winner, has an important position in American literature. Name two of his major novels. Do you know anything about "Yoknapatawpha County" What is unique of Faulkner’s fiction, historically and geographically
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[单项选择]One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human
A. common life
B. spiritual breakup
C. bestiality
D. sadness
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[多项选择]Whitman has made radical changes in the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression. What are the characteristic of Whitman’s free verse
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson
A. War and peace.
B. Love and nature.
C. Life and death.
D. Religion.
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[单项选择]"Cavalry Crossing a Ford" by Whitman reminds its readers of a picture, or a photo, of a scene of ______.
A. the American War of Independence
B. the Westward Movement
C. the U. S. -Spanish War
D. the American Civil War
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[单项选择]______ exerts the most important influence on literary naturalism.
A. Emerson
B. Jack London
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. Darwin
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[多项选择]Sea adventures are Melville’s favorite subject; "Moby-Dick" is a great novel in the theme, which is also noted for its symbolism. Please analyze it in detail.
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[单项选择]______ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero-Nick Adams.
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. In Our Time
D. The Old Man and the Sea
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[单项选择]According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury is a story of "______."
A. lost generation
B. lost innocence
C. farmers
D. industrial labors
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[多项选择]This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me—
The simple News that Nature told—
With tender Majesty
Questions:
A. Who is the author
B. What does "the World" mean
C. What does the author think about "Nature"
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[单项选择]Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire" includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ______.
A. The Tycoon
B. The Stoic
C. The Genius
D. The Giant
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[单项选择]______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.
A. Wallace Stevens
B. Ezra Pound
C. E. E. Cummings
D. William Carlos Williams
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[单项选择]As ______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.
A. Emerson
B. Hawthorne
C. Whitman
D. Emily Dickinson
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[单项选择]The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic Period.
A. Puritanism
B. Atheism
C. Deism
D. Cynicism
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[单项选择]______ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students' classic.
A. Allen Ginsberg
B. E. E. Cummings
C. J. D. Salinger
D. Henry James
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[单项选择]"This is my letter to the World" is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson's ______ about her communication with the outside world.
A. happiness
B. anger
C. anxiety
D. sorrow
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[单项选择]Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with a double vision.
A. the Gilded Age
B. the Rational Age
C. the Jazz Age
D. the Magic Age
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[单项选择]Like Nathaniel Hawthorne, ______ also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.
A. Mark Twain
B. Henry James
C. R. W. Emerson
D. Herman Melville
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[单项选择]Fitzgerald wrote one novel ______ in which he traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.
A. Tender is the Night
B. The Great Gatsby
C. Red Burn
D. The Last Tycoon
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[单项选择]Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by ______.
A. short, clear sentences
B. highly refined language
C. ordinary American speech
D. abundance of local images
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[单项选择]Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man's being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed ______.
A. love and hatred
B. sin and evil
C. frustration and self-denial
D. balance and self-discipline
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[单项选择]______'s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme.
A. Mark Twain
B. Theodore Dreiser
C. Henry James
D. Ernest Hemingway
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[单项选择]"Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity; man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually." This notion is typically held by ______.
A. Mark Twain
B. Herman Melville
C. William Faulkner
D. Ernest Hemingway
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[单项选择]In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ devices in narration.
A. Gothic
B. realistic
C. romantic
D. modern
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[多项选择]Take Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.
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[多项选择]Please make a comment on American literary naturalist Theodore Dreiser’s writing style.
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[单项选择]______ evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.
A. This Side of Paradise
B. Tender is the Night
C. The American Dream
D. The Great Gatsby
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[单项选择]When he was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was ______.
A. Henry James
B. Robert Frost
C. William Faulkner
D. Wallace Stevens
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[单项选择]______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.
A. Innocents Abroad
B. Roughing It
C. The Gilded Age
D. The Middle Years
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[单项选择]Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards-romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ______.
A. Cynicism
B. Modernism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Neoclassicism
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[单项选择]Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th-century American writers, is well-known for his ______.
A. international theme
B. local color
C. symbolism
D. written language
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[单项选择]After Apple-Picking is a well-known poem written by ______.
A. Robert Lee Frost
B. Ezra Pound
C. Walt Whitman
D. T. S. Eliot
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[单项选择]______ is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Moby-Dick
C. Sister Carrie
D. Daisy Miller
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[多项选择]There was a child went forth every day,
A. Questions: Who’s the poet
B. From which poem and which collection of the poet is the quotation taken
C. What does the poet describe in the poem
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[单项选择]The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so she did, as a spinster.
A. Emily Bronte
B. Anna Dickinson
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Anne Bret
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[简答题]I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Questions:
A. Who is the author
B. What does "diverged" mean
C. What does the author try to tell us