美国文学试题模拟卷及答案.doc

美国文学期末考试模拟试题及答案 True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item) (T ) 1. Franklin’s autobiography, published after his death, has become one of the classics of the genre. (F ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions, but the military bureaucracy is always able to find a way to make him stay. (F ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crime in the end of the play. (T ) 4. “Dreams” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to give up hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable. (T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work. (F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Imagist movement in the early 19th century. (F ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Poe’s poems. (F ) 8. Saul Bellow’s perceptions center around the black people, the big city, and the spirit of American life in the second half of the 20th century. (T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hester’s illegitimate daughter. (T ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound’s Cantos the best long poem in modern literature. (T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street, which exerted great influence on Theodore Dreiser’s realism. ( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s. (F ) 13. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the romantic period. (F ) 14. William Faulkner’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral in the American North. (F ) 15. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. (T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman of the lost generation. (T ) 17. The novel A