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1、福建师范大学外国语学院英语专业03级2005-2006学年度下学期《美国文学选读》试题册（A卷）（2007年1月）Ⅰ.MultipleChoice（30points,1pointforeach）Selectfromthefourchoicesofeachitemtheonethatbestanswersthequestionorcompletesthestatement.WriteyourchoiceontheAnswerSheet.1.Americanwritersofthefirstpostwarer

2、awhoweredevoidoffaithandalienatedfromthecivilizationwerecommonlycalledthe“______.”A.sonsoflibertyB.fatherlesschildrenC.beatgenerationD.lostgeneration2.OfthefollowingAmericanpoetsinthetwentiethcentury,theonewhohasthebestknowledgeofChinesecultureis_______.A

3、.RobertFrostB.AllenGinsbergC.EzraPound.D.Cummings3.Inhisessays,RalphWaldoEmersonexpoundsallofthephilosophicalviewsexcept.A.traditionalreligionB.theover-soulC.theimportanceoftheindividualD.nature4.TheperiodbeforetheAmericanCivilWarisgenerallyreferredtoas__

4、_________.A.TheNaturalistPeriod.B.TheModernPeriod.C.TheRomanticPeriod.D.TheRealisticPeriod5.WhichofthefollowingfeaturescannotcharacterizepoemsbyWaltWhitman?A.Lyricalandwell-structured.B.Free-flowing.11A.Simpleandrathercrude.B.Conversationalandcasual6.Whic

5、hofthefollowingisclaimedtheforerunnerofthemodernnovelsbecauseofhisgiftedpenprobingintothepsycheofcharacters?_____.A.SherwoodAndersonB.MarkTwainC.EmilyDickinsonD.TheodoreDreiser7.“Heketchedafrogoneday,andtookhimhome,andsaidhecal’latedtoeducatehim;andsohene

6、verdonenothingforthreemonthsbutsetinhisback-yardandlearnthatfrogtojump.”Here“learn”means_____..A.instructB.findoutC.cometoseeD.guess8.WaltWhitman’spoeticcatalogues(enumerateobjects,people,places,andnamesingreatlists)findstheirechointhepoemsof_____.A.Allen

7、GinsbergB.TheodoreRoethkeC.WallaceStevensD.WilliamCarlosWilliams9.Inmuchofhispoetry,____aimsfortheeffectofbeautyandmelancholy,ashesaid,“ifbeautyistheprovinceofthepoem,thenthetoneshouldbeoneofsadness....Melancholyisthusthemostlegitimateofallthepoeticaltone

8、s”(“ThePhilosophyofComposition”).A.MelvilleB.HawthorneC.DickinsonD.Poe10.Melville’sMobyDickisnarratedby____,thesolememberofthecrewwhosurvived.A.AhabB.StarbuckC.QueequegD.Ishmael11.ThethreefigureswhofortheirAmericanc