浙江省2010年4月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题
课程代码：10055
Part I: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)
Group 1
Column A Column B
( ) 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. Nature
( ) 2. Washington Irving b. Rip Van Winkle
( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The House of Seven Gales
( ) 4. Mark Twain d. The Great Gatsby
( ) 5. Scott Fitzgerald e. The Gilded Age
Group 2
Column A Column B
( ) 1. Charles Drouet a. The Great Gatsby
( ) 2. Ishmael b. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
( ) 3. Jim c. Sister Carrie
( ) 4. George Wilson d. A Rose for Emily
( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. Moby Dick
Part Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)
1. The period of ______ started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. ( )
A. American Romanticism B. American Realism
C. American Transcendentalism D. American Classicism
2. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. Such a desire is particularly evident in ______ Leather-Stocking Tales.( )
A. Washington Irving’s B. Waldo Emerson’s
C. James Fennimore Cooper’s D. Walt Whitman’s
3. New England Transcendentalism was started by a group of people who were members of an informal club, i.e. the Transcendental Club in New England in the ______.( )
A. 1850s B. 1840s
C. 1830s D. 1860s
4. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.( )
A. Puritanism B. Unitarianism
C. Deism D. Protestantism
5. In his famous poem Song of Myself, Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs: the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value, and the theory of ______, which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things. ( )
A. nationality B. universality
C. nature D. community
6. Which of the following is NOT what Emerson put forward in his essays? ( )
A. the Over-Soul
B. the formal religion of the churches and the Deistic philosophy
C. Nature
D. the importance of individual
7. Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ______ based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.( )
A. romanticism B. naturalism
C. realism D. surrealism
8. Which of the following statements about Hawthorne is NOT right? ( )
A. The ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.
B. He is a master of realism.
C. He is a great allegorist.
D. He is a master of symbolism.
9. Which of the following is NOT regarded as the characteristics of Whitman’s poetic style?( )
A. The use of “free verse”
B. His strong tendency to use of formal language
C. The use of parallelism and phonetic recurrence at the beginning of the lines
D. The use of the poetic “I”
10. ______ and Emersonian Transcendentalism produced some positive effect on Melville’s writing.( )
A. Washington Irving’s conservative
B. Hawthorne’s moral courage
C. Thoreau’s Romanticism
D. Shakespearian tragic vision
