Part I IdentificationDirections: Decide whether the following statements are true or false.1.( T ) Hurstwood is a character in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie.2.( F )In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the a rt ofmodern narration.”3.( T )Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing hisdeath with dignity and courage.4.( T )Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literaryrealism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.” The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.5.( F )Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to theschool of “Beat Generation”.6.( F )William Faulkner's woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moralin the American North.7.( F ) Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of theromantic period.8.( T )The narrator in T he Great Gatsby is a minor character named Nick Carraway,who is also a participant in the event.9.( T ) Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the wholegeneration, the lost generation.10.( F )In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, inwhich the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.Part II Multiple choice:Directions: Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetryof Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD.E. E. Cummings2. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poemsloosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab3. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished arevolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. James JoyceD. all of the above4. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more moneythan F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends andtraveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as_______.A The Jazz AgeB The Gilded AgeC The Roaring AgeD The Beat Age5. The “green light”in The Great Gatsby symbolizes __________.A. SexB. MoneyC. PowerD. The American Dream6. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?A Henry Wordsworth LongfellowB Amy LowellC Ezra PoundD Robert Frost7. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?a. Natureb. Waldenc. On Beautyd. Self-Reliance8. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted fromtheir farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls9. The realistic period is referred to as "the Gilded Age" by _______.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Emily DickinsonD. Theodore Dreiser10. The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Ezra PoundC T. S. Eliot D. William Carlos WilliamsPart III Match the following writers and their works: Writers:( j ) 1. Walt Whitman( a ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson( h ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald( i ) 5. Wallace Stevens( b ) 6. William Faulkner( g) 7. Arthur Miller( c ) 8. John Steinbeck( d ) 9. Ernest Hemingway( e ) 10. Robert FrostWorks:a.The Ravenb.Go Down, Mosesc.The Grapes of Wrathd.The Sun Also Risese.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningf.Natureg.Death of a Salesmanh.The Great Gatsbyi.The Emperor of Ice-Creamj.Leaves of GrassPart IV Comment.Directions: In this part of the. test, you are given FIVE topics. Choose THREE of them and give a comment on the Answer Sheet. Scores will be given according to the content, grammar and the completeness of the related knowledge. If you comment on all the three topics, additional points will be given to your final marks.1.Retell the story of Sister Carrie in your own words.Carrie is a beautiful rural girl, she envied material life metropolis came to Chicago to make a living. Grim reality shattered her dream to meet her, unemployment and disease. In desperation, she has done a salesman Drouet’s mistress, and later as a result of a greater desire to do the hotel manager Hurstwood mistress, after the elopement with Hurstwood, in New York as a result of chance, she became a star at the actor, got the upper reaches of society and realize her fantasy.2.Does Gatsby deserve to be called "the great"? Why? ( 美国文学简史，红本本P143)Yes, he does. Gatsby is great because he is a mythical figure whose personal experience approximates a state of mind that embodies America. Gatsby is the last of the hero, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal grail.3.Given your own comments on The Grapes of Wrath ( 美国文学简史，红本本P166)The grapes of wrath is one of the major American books. structurally, It’s consists of two blocks of materials which are portrays the Westering journey of the families like the Joads and the general picture of the Great Depression,also It’s dictated by the bible. There are obvious biblical influence in the novel. This novel demonstrates that there is distinction which tells Steinbeck apart from other crisis writers of the 1930s, he manages to keep a refreshing faith in humanity ,in the future when man will come to grips with his problems and come out all right.4.Introduce the history of American drama in your own words.(红本本，P177)American drama began in 1916 when the Province-town Players produced Eugene O’ Neil’s first play. Then, in the 1920s, there was a renaissance of drama. The late fifties saw a temporary decline in dramatic productions, but in the next decade, American drama picked up a good deal of fresh energy, and from the end of the sixties, American theater entered a new phase in its development when diversity became one of its salient features5.What is Hemingway’s writing style? And try to analyze the reasons.(红本本，P143)Typical of the “iceberg” analogy is Hemingway’s style, which he had been tryinghard to get.according to Hemingway, good literary writing should be able to make readers feel the emotion of the characters directly and the best way to produce the effect is to get down exactly every particular kind of feeling without any authorial comments, without conventionally emotive language, and with a bare minimum of adjective and adverbs. Seemingly and natural.。