美国文学模拟试题四.doc

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四 学院:外语学院　专业:英语　 年级：________　班次: 学号：　 姓名：　　 考试方式(闭卷)：　　　考试时量：150　分钟　 试卷编号( 卷) 题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 总分 评卷人 复分人 得分 评卷人 True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item) ( ) 1. Modern poetry is “the poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice.” This is the opinion of Walt Whitman. ( ) 2. Robert Frost experimented with form, as many poets did in the 1920s. ( ) 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. ( ) 4. “Looking for Mr. Green” is a story of Mosby’s Memories and other Stories. ( ) 5. Bellow will be remembered for the biting social criticism of his novels, and of course, for his riotous sense of humor. ( ) 6. Hester’s letter “A” eventually comes to represent “Angel” and “Able” to the townspeople. ( ) 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.” ( ) 8.All three parts of Franklins autobiography were published and released together in English for the first time in 1868. ( ) 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. ( ) 10. The setting of “Looking for Mr. Green” is Depression Columbus. ( ) 11. There are four survivors in The Open Boat: the captain, the oiler, the cook and the correspondent. ( ) 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. ( ) 13. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in The Roaring Twenties. ( ) 14. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962. ( ) 15. The point of view in Barn Burning