【正文】 Hemingway D. William Howells18. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” Who is this woman referred to? ______.A. Mrs. Stowe B. Emily DickinsonC. George Eliot D. Jane Austen19. It is not surprising to find in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark Twain B. Emily Dickinson C. Theodore Dreiser D. Henry James20. “Let’s portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life.” This may be a principle for the characterization of _______.A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each) 1. Local color fiction2. Captain John Smith3. “Annabel Lee”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1. What’s the difference between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2. What’s the symbolic significance of The Scarlet Letter?美國文學(xué)期末考試試卷模擬試題二I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. _____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2. The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. 3. Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.4. _________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.5. Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself.6. The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.7. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd。 Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.8. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.9. “The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______. 10. Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.11. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.12. ______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, bees evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.13. As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14. The publication of Washington Irving’s _________, a collection of essays, sketches and tales, marks the beginning of American romanticism.15. “The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best plete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualism B. freedom C. democracy D. all the above2. ______ is the narrator of Moby Dick.A. Ahab B. Ishmael C. Flask D. Queequeg3. In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declaration of Independence B. SelfRelianceC. Divinity School Address D. The American Scholar 4. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling。 and second, the individual is ______.A. vicious by nature B. insignificant C. forwardlooking D. divine5. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviors B. villains C. mentators D. observers6. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a mon subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A. Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper’s LeatherStocking TalesD. Thoreau’s Walden7. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”Who could have written these lines? _____.A. Edgar Allan Poe B. Ralph Emerson C. Walt Whitman D. Henry Thoreau8. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph Emerson B. Walt Whitman C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Henry Thoreau9. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? _____.A. It explores man’s neverending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.D. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.10. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle11. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. Religion16