一．           Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each)

1.      Whitman published his first edition of __ a ____ in 1855.

a. Leaves of Grass                           b. The Scarlet Letter

c. “Hymn to The Night”                 d. “The Secret of the Sea”

2.      Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his predecessor, ___.b ___, but his style and method are very different.

a. Mark Twain                          b. Stephen Crane

c. Henry James                         d. Emerson

3.      Sister Carrie written by ____ b __ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature.

a. Sinclair Lewis                       b. Theodore Dreiser

c. F. Scott Fitagerald                d. H.L.Mencken

4．Mark Twain’s __ b ____ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.

a.       Roughing It

b.      The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

c.       Life on the Mississippi

d.      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

5. Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, _ b _____ and impressionistic.

a. romantic                                        b. naturalistic

c. classical                                         d. imagining

6.      ____b__ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.

a. New York                              b. Chicago

c. California                                    d. Washington

7.      Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?a

a. Nature                                           b. Walden

c. On Beauty                                     d. Self-Reliance

8. Melville’s ___b____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.

a. The Old Man and the Sea     b. Moby Dick

c. White Jacket               d. Billy Budd

9. Mark Twain created, in ___a____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.

a. Huckleberry Finn                 

b. Tom Sawyer

c. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg  

d. The Gilded Age

10.  American literature produced only one female poet during the 19^th century. This was ___c____.

a. Anne Bradstreet             b. Jane Austen

c. Emily Dickinson            d. Harriet Beecher

11. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, ____c__ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19^th century.

a. sentimentalism              b. Romanticism

c. realism                    d. naturalism

12. Leaves of Grass has _____a__ editions.

a. nine                       b. five

c. six                        d. seven

13.  __d_____ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing.

a. The use of the poetic “I”          b. Free verse

c. Musicality or rhythm            d. Allegory

14.  Melville’s _____b__ is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors.

a. Typee                     b. Redburn

c. White Jacket               d. Billy Budd

15.  _____d__ is not among the writing features of Melville’s works.

a. symbolism                 b. allgory

c. psychological analyses      d. Dramatic monologue

16.  The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by ___a____.

a. Mark Twain                b. Henry James

c. Emily Dickinson            d. Theodore Dreiser

17.  ___c____ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of American national literature.”

a. Emily Dickinson            b. Henry James

c. Mark Twain                d. Theodore Dreiser

18.  ___b____, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, is Mark Twain’s most representative book.

a. Roughing It               

b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

c. Life on the Mississippi

d. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

19.  Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _____d___.

a. the love and marriage theme

b. the theme of humor and satire on life

c. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism

d. the international theme

20.  Within Dickinson’s little lyrics, she addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which exclude ____b____.

a. religion                b. Friendship

c. love                    d. immortality

II.                Match. (20 points, 1 point for each)

Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for the following works and put them onto the Answer Sheet.

 

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson                   B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Herman Melville                              D. Henry W. Longfellow

E. Walt Whitman                                 F. Emily Dickinson

G. Mark Twain                                     H. Stephen Crane

I. Henry James

1.A              2.E              3.E              4.C              5.C                     

6.G               7. I               8.I                 9. F              10.F

11. H           12.B             13. D           14.G             15. D                  

16. H           17.G            18.F              19. A            20.E

 

1.        Self-reliance                                           (  A )

2.        There Was a Child Went Forth                     ( E  )

3.        There Was a Child Went Forth                     ( E  )

4.        White Jacket                                                 (  C )

5.        Moby Dick                                             (  C )

6.        Life on the Mississippi                           (  G )

7.        Daisy Miller                                           ( I  )

8.        What Maisie Knew                                ( I )

9.        This is My Letter to the World                     (  F )

10.    I Like to See It Lap the Miles                (  F )

11.    A Red Badge of Courage                      (   H)

12.    Civil Disobedience                                 (   D)

13.    Voices of the Night                                ( D  )

14.    The Gilded Age                                     (  G )

15.    Hiawatha                                                ( D  )

16.    Maggie, A Girl of the Streets                 ( H  )

17.    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer            ( G  )

18.    I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died              ( F  )

19.    The American Scholar                            (  A )

20.    Song of Myself                                      (  E )

III.   Terms (20 points, 4 points for each)

Free Verse

Key words: without fixed beat, regular rhyme scheme, Whitman, Leaves of Grass, etc.

Transcendentalism

Key words: Emerson, Thoreau, nature, intuition, oversoul, individualism, spirit, idealism, Romanticism, etc.

American Realism

Mark Twain, Henry James and Howells; reality; the depressed; tragedy, etc

American Naturalism

Key words: Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory; environment and heredity; Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie, Stephen Crane, etc.

Local Colorism

Key words: Mark Twain, local, people and landscape, realism, language, custom, etc.

 

V.                Identification (20 points, 2 point for each)

Directions: In this part of the test, there are ten excertps. Judge the authors and titles of these works and fill them on the Answer Sheet.

As the door of Mrs. Pocock’s salon was pushed open for him, the next day, well before noon, he was reached by a voice with a charming sound that made him just falter before crossing the threshold. Madame de Vionnet was already on the field…Henry James                    The Ambassadors

 

 

  Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no Sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. 这是个充满交易的世界，永远忙忙碌碌。几乎每晚，我都被机车的声音吵醒，它侵扰我的梦境。这样的世界也没有了安息日，若能看到人类再次闲逸该多好！现在除了工作就是工作Henry D. Thoreau             Life Without Principle

 

 

Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete,

And come to the front door mother, here’s a letter from thy dear son. Walt Whitman                  Come Up From the Fields Father

 

 

Thus advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless hunting. He began to fume with rage and exasperation. He beat his foot upon the ground, and scowled with hate at the swirling smoke that was approaching like a phantom flood. Stephen Crane                 The Red Badge of Courage

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2.        I’m nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell!

They’d banish us, you know.

Emily Dickinson                     I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

 

 

3.        I taste a liquor never brewed,

From tankards scooped in pearl;

Not all the vats upon the Rhine

1.      Yield such an alcohol! Emily Dickinson             I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed

 

 

Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. Mark Twain                       Life on the Mississippi

 

 

VI.             Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind…Ralph Waldo Emerson       Self-reliance

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VII.          Whether fagged by the three days’ running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale’s way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale’s last start had not been so long a one as before. Herman Melville               Moby Dick

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2.        Ah! what pleasant visions haunt me

As I gaze upon the sea!

All the old romantic legends,

2.      All my dreams, come back to me. Henry W. Longfellow The Secret of the Sea