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西安翻译学院 2012-2013学年第二学期期末考试 《美国文学选读》试卷(A) 层次 本科 考试方式 闭卷 年级 2010 专业 英语 I. Identify each of the authors in Column A with his or her work in Column B by putting the appropriate letter in the brackets. (10%) A B 1.William Faulkner A. To Helen 2. Robert Frost B. The Sound and the Fury 3. Benjamin Franklin C. Autobiography 4. Theodore Dreiser D. The Triumph of the Egg 5.Edgar Allan Poe E. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 6. Henry David Thoreau F. Success is Counted Sweetest 7.Sherwood Anderson G. A Psalm of Life 8. Emily Dickinson H. Sister Carrie 9. Henry James I. Daisy Miller 10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow J. Walden II. Fill in the blanks in the following summary statements according to what you have learnt of American history and literature. (20%) The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at??Jamestown, Virginia in ?????? .? The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. Walt Whitman’s_______, acclaimed America’s first genuine personal epic poem, ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in free verse form,. The three dominant figures of the American Realistic period are William Dean Howells, _________ and Mark Twain. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances. The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortest poem written by ?????? .?? In 1925, F. Sco