DOC云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三.doc

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三 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. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.” The sentence shows the opinion of Joseph Heller. ( ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James, Franklins wife. ( ) 3. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby trapping Fortunato inside forever. ( ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale?in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen of Hawthorne’s chilling, cold-blooded human animals. ( ) 5. The lines ?,“A poem should not mean / But be” comes from “Ars Poetica” by MacLeish. ( ) 6. O’Neill’s great purpose was to try and discover the root of human desires and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment. ( ) 7. Catch-22 combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others. ( ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. ( ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism. ( ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau. ( ) 11. In The Open Boat, Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat natural disasters with natural and impressionistic approaches. ( ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers. ( ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night. ( ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character named Nick Carraway, who is also a participant in the event. ( ) 15. Will