美国文学2013-2014（下）期末试题题型说明
(2014.6.20)
I.选择题（60%）：（共40个题目，每个题目各1.5分）其中背景10个题目，识
别作家作品10个题目，以及文本分析20个题目。
Part One
Section One: Each of the questions below is followed by four alternative answers marked A, B, C and D.You are to choose the one that best answers the question.Then on the answer sheet, find the number of the question and mark the letter of the answer you have chosen.（30%，20*1.5 points）
Section Two: Each of the following excerpts is followed by two questions.Choose the one that best answers the question from the four alternatives given to each question.Then on the answer sheet, find the number of the question and mark the letter of the answer you have chosen.(30%, 20*1.5points)
例题：
1.Which of the followings is a prominent influence on American naturalism?
A.Marxist theory
B.Determinism
C.Transcendentalism
D.Puritanism
2.Who is the author of the novel Moby Dick?
A.Herman Melville
B.Edgar Allan Poe
C.Washington Irving
D.James Fennimore Cooper
3.“There is nothing that keeps wicked men out of hell at any one moment，but the mere pleasure of God.”
The author of the eay thinks that -------
A.God enjoys nothing but casting wicked men into hell.
B.God enjoys nothing but keeping wicked men out of hell.
C.God’s only pleasure is to keep wicked men out of hell.
D.only God’s arbitrary will can keep wicked men out of hell.
II.简答题（20%）：（共4个题目，每个题目5分）考前给学生划6个文本的范围，
实际考为4个文本。（答题时不能只给出要点单词，需要用完整的句子回答问题。）（文本范围: Poe-“The Raven”; Hawthorne-“The Minister’s Black Veil”;
Dickinson-“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”; London-“The Law of Life”; Frost-“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”; Faulkner-“A Rose for Emily”.）
Part Two: Each of the excerpts below is followed by two questions that are related to each other.You are to write a short paragraph that answers these two questions.Write your answers on the answer sheet.（20%, 4*5 points） 例题：
“Alas, poor boy, he will never be better (nor maybe needs to be better, that brave and simple soul),
While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
The only son is dead.”
Questions: Who makes the comment in the bracket? What does it mean?
III.问答题（20%）：（共2个题目，二选一，每个题目20分）根据戏剧或小说中
的选篇回答问题，每个问题有2-3个选篇不等。选篇后面有两个问题，每个问题10分。（答题时把各个问题答案的要点联系起来，根据选篇内容回答问题。）
Part Three: In this part, you will find two sections of questions, one based on the three excerpts from Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms, and the other, on the three excerpts from J.D.Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.You may choose either Section
A OR Section B to work on.Read the three excerpts in the section that you choose first, and then write a short comment of 150-200 words, answering the two questions in that section.Your comment should be well developed, consisting of a topic sentence and supporting details from the related excerpts.(20％)
