I、True or false choices: 20% (One point for each
item)
( ) 1. The early settlers in the New world
wrote in diary and journals; Captain John Smith was one of
theme.
( ) 2. The
Autobiography was written by Thomas Jefferson.
( ) 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. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel
Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and
1962.
( ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is
Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait
of “the lost generation”.
( ) 17. Hemingway’s writing style, together
with his theme and hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by
his experience in the war.
( ) 18. In Walt Whiteman’s poem “O Captain! My
Captain!”, captain refers to President Lincoln.
( ) 19. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is
noted for obscure.
( ) 20. Invisible Man explores the
theme of the white man from the lower social class strive for their
identity.
II、Match the following writers and their works: 10%
(One point for each item
Writers:
( ) 1. Walt Whiteman
( ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe
( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
( ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald
( ) 5. Wallace Stevens
( ) 6. Joseph Heller
( ) 7. Eugene Glastone O’Neill
( ) 8. Ernest Hemingway
( ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter
( ) 10. Langston Hughes
Works:
a.
The Man with the Blue Guitar
b.
The Raven
c.
Desire under the Elms
d.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
e.
Fine Clothes to the Jew
f.
Nature
g.
The Leaning Tower
h.
The Side of Paradise
i.
God Knows
j.
Leaves of Grass
III Identify the following by choosing the author’s
names: 20% (1 points for each item)
1.
That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to
say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection
to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking
the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some
faults of the first. So I might, besides
correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of
it for others more favorable.
A. William
Faulkner B.
Benjamin
Franklin C.
Ralph Waldo Ellison
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.
A. Edgar Allan
Poe B.
William
Faulkner C.
Ralph Waldo Ellison
3.
The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized
the eyes of nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the
mutual reverence that is due from man to man. The joyful loyalty
with which men have everywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the
great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own, make his
own scale of men and things, and reverse theirs, pay for benefits
not with money but with honor, and represent the law in his person,
was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified their
consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every
man.
A. Walt
Whitman B.
William
Faulkner C.
Ralph W. Emerson
4.
A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators.
Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of
stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set
forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of
eager and curious schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in
hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her
progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face
and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter
on her breast. It was no great distance, in those days, from the
prison door to the market-place.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. William
Faulkner
C. Emily Dickenson
5. As the boat bounced from the top of each
wave, the wind tore through the hair of the hatless men, and as the
craft plopped her stern down again the spray splashed past them.
The crest of each of these waves was a hill, from the top of which
the men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining
and wind-riven. It was probably splendid. It was probably glorious,
this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white
and amber
A. Henry James
B. William
Faulkner
C.
Stephen Crane
6. Well, she could just hear Cornelia telling her husband that
Mother was getting a little childish and they’d have to humor her.
The thing that most annoyed her was that Cornelia
thought she was deaf, dumb, and blind. Little hasty glances and
tiny gestures tossed around here and over her head saying, “Don’t
cross her, let her have her way, she’s eighty years old,” and she
sitting there as if she lived in a thin glass cage.
A. Oscar Wilde
B.H. W.
Longfellow
C.
Katherine Anne Porter
7. A little before three the Lutheran minister
arrived from Flushing, and I began to look involuntarily out the
windows for other cars. So did Gatsby’s
father. And as the time passed and the servants
came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink
anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain
way. The minister glanced several times at his
watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an
hour. But it wasn’t any use.
Nobody came.
A. F. S. Fitzgerald
B. Arther
Miller
C. H.
W. Longfellow
8. "No!" Harris said violently, explosively. "Damnation! Send
him out of here!" Now time, the fluid world, rushed beneath him
again, the voices coming to him again through the smell
of cheese and sealed meat, the fear and despair and the old
grief of blood…
A. F. S. Fitzgerald
B. William
Faulkner
C. Robert Frost
9. "Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light
he continued the conversation with himself. It is the light of
course, but it is necessary that the place be clean and
pleasant.
You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can
you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is
provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or
dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing
and a man was nothing too. It was only that the light was all it
needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and
never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues
nada.
A. Wallace Stevens
B. William
Faulkner
C. Ernest Hemingway
10. ABBIE--(gives him a furious push which sends him
staggering back and springs to her feet--with wild rage and
hatred) Don't ye dare tech me! What right hev ye t' question me
'bout him? He wa'n't yewr son! Think I'd have a son by yew? I'd die
fust! I hate the sight o' ye an' allus did! It's yew I should've
murdered, if I'd had good sense! I hate ye! I love Eben. I did from
the fust. An' he was Eben's son--mine an' Eben's--not your'n!
A.W. C. Williams
B.
E. G.
O’neill
C. Saul Bellow
IV: Complete the following: 10%
1.
Some say the world will end in _____,
Some say in _____.
From what I’ve tasted of _____
I hold with those who favor _____.
But if it had to _____ twice,
I think I know enough of _____ (6%)
4 Hold fast to _____
For if _____ die
Life is a broken-winged _____
That cannot _____. (4%)
V. Define the following literary terms:
20%
1. local color
2. stream of consciouness
3. Puritanism
4. Southern literature
5. imagism
VI.
Comment: 20%
1. He opened it at the back cover and turned
it around for me to see. On the last
fly-leaf was printed the word SCHEDULE, and
the date September 12, 1906. And
underneath:
Rise from bed …………………………………
6.00
A.M.
Dumbell exercise and wall-scaling ……….......
6.15 –
6.30
..
Study electricity, etc. …………………………. 7.15 –
8.15
..
Work ………………………………………….. 8.30 –
4.30
P.M.
Baseball and sports …………………………… 4.30 -
5.00
..
Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it
… 5.00 –
6.00
..
Study needed inventions ……………………… 7.00 –
9.00
..
What does Gatsby’s Schedule reveal about him
and how does it relate to
the American Dream.(10%).
2. It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place
be clean and pleasant. You
do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Not can you
stand before a bar
with dignity although that is all that is provided for these
hours. What did he fear? It
was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well.
It was all a nothing and
a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it
needed and a certain
cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he
knew it all was nada y
pues nada y nada y pues nada.
Answer the following questions:
(1)What do you see from the older waiter’s view of life?
(5%)
(2) How do you interpret the irony of the title “A Clean,
Well-Lighted Place” after reading the above passage? (5%)
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