美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet。 (15％, 1 point for each)1. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. 2。 Hard work, thrift， ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing。3。 At 87， ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F。 Kennedy。4. Jack London's masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical。5。 ______， the tragic hero of Moby Dick， burning with a baleful fire， becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “________" movement.7。 “The Custom House" is an introductory note to the novel _______. 8. Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece。9。 Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ________， poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme。10 。 In 1954 ， _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.11。 In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst" since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life。12. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______。13. _______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14。 The publication of T。 S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922， the most significant American poem of the 20th century， helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich wi...