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the sexes. I sing for the modern man of their life full of passion, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed under the divine laws. VI. Comment: 20%

1. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation. Answer the following questions:

(1) Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? (5%)

(2) What kind of person do you think the narrator is according to the above passage? (5%)

2. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. Answer the following questions:

(1) What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of the letter A so elaborate?

(5%)

(2) How does this tell us about her character? (5%) ____________________________________________

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二

True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)

(T ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting,

so as to ensure the totality of impression.

(F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in

Jefferson and Thoreau.

(T ) 3. Williams’ poem ―The Red Wheelbarrow‖ is considered an example of the

Imagist movement's style and principles.

(F ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms.

(T ) 5. The quotation — ―Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy

might…‖ is the theme of ―Looking for Mr. Green‖.

(T ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel

Catch-22.

(T ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the

IV.

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story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.

(F ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about his life, he is

taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past.

(F ) 9. The jar in ―Anecdote of the Jar‖ symbolizes social regulation.

(F ) 10. In ―The Cask of Amontillado‖, Fortunato decides to use Montresor’s fondness

for wine against him.

(T ) 11. Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story of a good woman’s

downfall and destruction in a slum environment.

(T ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of

consciousness to probe into the inner world of human reality.

(T ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. (F ) 14. The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is considered as the

representative of his short story.

(T ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man

shows triumphant event in defeat.

(T ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole

generation, the lost generation.

(T ) 17. In ―I Shot an Arrow‖, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms — the

sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.

(F ) 18. In ―Sonnet — To Science‖, Poe praised science for it emancipated the poet’s

imagination.

(T ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson’s poems.

(T ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize. V. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each

item)

Writers: Works: ( j ) 1. Walt Whiteman a. The Man with the Blue Guitar ( b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe b. The Raven ( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Desire under the Elms ( h ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald d. For Whom the Bell Tolls ( a ) 5. Wallace Stevens e. Fine Clothes to the Jew ( i ) 6. Joseph Heller f. Nature ( c ) 7. Eugene Glastone O’Neill g. The Leaning Tower ( d ) 8. Ernest Hemingway h. The Side of Paradise ( g ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter i. God Knows ( e ) 10. Langston Hughes j. Leaves of Grass

VI.

Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the

works: 20% (1 points for each item)

1. I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my

ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook

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for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements.

Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby

2. I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato bowed

him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.

Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography

3. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it

scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, -- under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance

4. The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.

She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.

Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden

5. In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued as to the

difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook had said: \

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soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up.\

Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett

6. ―Get along and doctor your sick,‖ said Granny Weatherall. ―Leave a well

woman alone. I’ll call for you when I want you…Where were you forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You weren’t even born. Don’t let Cornelia lead you on,‖ she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. ―I pay my own bills, and I don’t throw my money away on nonsense!‖

Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner

7. It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed,

bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day. His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.

Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby

8. \the Justice said. \louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckon anybody

named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they?\could not even see, could not see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: \want me to question this boy?\But he could hear, and during those subsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.

Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince

9. The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from the counter inside

the cafe and marched out to the old man's table. He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe. He sat down at the table with his colleague again.

Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif

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