美国文学 Mark Twain.ppt

北京第二外国语大学2006年硕士研究生入学考试试卷英语专业文学专业综合考试1卷 (???? ) 11. The term of the gilded age comes from??????? \s work with the same name. A. F. S. Fitzgerald???????? B. William FaulknerC. Mark Twain???????????????D. James Joyce (???? ) 15. Mark Twain\s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that his works reflect the keynote of localism at????????? A. the Romantic Age?????? B. the Age of ModernismC. the Age of Realism????? D. the Jazz Age * first published in England in 1884 taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Considered as one of the Great American Novels widely known as one of the first true “American Novels” among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular characterized by local color regionalism 2. The Plot Huck is motherless, and his father Pap is a drunkard and good-for-nothing. For that reason, Huck is brought up to hate “civilization” and “rules”. He smokes, swears(咒骂), and roams(闲逛) outside his home without restraint. However, he is good, innocent, and upright(正直的). He is adopted by Widow Douglas and her spinster sister Miss Watson, who together try to rehabilitate him, but in vain. One day, Pap comes to ask him for the money and does not get it, so he put Huck in a cabin. Huck is beaten and hungry. Pap even threatens to kill Huck. One night, Huck uses pig blood to pretend that he is killed, so he escapes the drunkard father. On Jackson Island, Huck sees Jim, a runaway slave of Miss Watson’s, who flees on overhearing that his mistress is going to sell him to the south. Since his escape is right after the death of Huck, it is believed that he kills Huck, so there is a 300-dollar reward offered to get him. They plan to go to the free north and Canada, but in a fog they miss the port they are planning to go to: Cairo. One day, their raft is wrecked. Jim missing, Huck swims ashore. Huck is saved by the Grangerfords who are at the time having a feud with the Shepherdsons. With the slave