常耀信《美国文学简史》(第3版)章节题库-第七章至第八章【圣才出品】

第7章埃德加·爱伦·坡

Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks.

1.In consideration of the beauty of poems,_____concludes that“the death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”[天津外国语学院2007研]

【答案】Edgar Allan Poe

【解析】爱伦·坡认为，美的效应在于使灵魂激动而变得高尚；无论哪种美，其最高形式必然使敏感的灵魂悲泣。因此，诗的基调应该是“忧郁”。人最感到忧郁的事莫过于死，而最富于诗意的死莫过于心爱的年轻美女离世。

2._____is regarded as the father of psychoanalytic criticism and the detective story. [首师大2008研]

【答案】Edgar Allan Poe

【解析】爱伦·坡被认为是精神分析批评之父和侦探小说的鼻祖。

3._____is generally thought of as the true beginner of the short stories because he was the first writer who formulated poetics of the short stories.

【答案】Edgar Allan Poe

【解析】爱伦·坡被视作短篇小说的真正始祖因为他是第一个在小说中赋予了诗意的作家。

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4._____is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective stories.He is also credited with developing many of the standard features of detective fiction.His detective M August Dupin of Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined letter is the forerunner of a long line of fictional detectives who are eccentric and brilliant.

【答案】Edgar Allan Poe

【解析】爱伦·坡被视作侦探小说的鼻祖。

5._____’s poems have the musical quality and romantic beauty.The Raven is his best-known poem.

【答案】Edgar Allan Poe

【解析】爱伦·坡的诗歌富有音乐感和浪漫主义色彩，《乌鸦》是最知名的一首。

6.Author_____Title_____.[南京大学2009研；南京大学2008研]

It was now midnight,and my task was drawing to a close.I had completed the eighth,the ninth and the tenth tier.I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh;there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in.

【答案】Author:Edgar Allan Poe;Title:The Cask of Amontillado

【解析】题目节选自爱伦坡的The Cask of Amontillado（《阿芒提拉多的酒桶》）。《阿芒提拉多的酒桶》是美国作家爱伦·坡的一部短篇小说佳作。

7.Edgar Allan Poe’s stories fall into two categories:_____and“tales of

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ratiocination”.[天津外国语2010研]

【答案】tales of mystery and the macabre

【解析】埃德加·爱伦·坡（Edgar Allan Poe)，十九世纪美国诗人、小说家和文学评论家，他的小说分为“神秘恐怖故事”和“推理故事”两类。

8.Edgar Allan Poe’s poem_____is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.

【答案】The Bells

【解析】埃德加·爱伦·坡（Edgar Allan Poe)（1809～1849）的诗《钟》（The Bells）是英语语言中成功运用拟声法的范例。

9.Edgar Allan Poe’s poem_____was published in1845as the title poem of a collection.

【答案】The Raven

【解析】《乌鸦》The Raven是美国作家埃德加·爱伦·坡所著的一首叙事诗，于1845年1月首次出版。它的音调优美，措辞独具风格，诗句并有着超自然的氛围。

11._____’s“The Raven”is a dark reflection on lost love,death,and loss of hope.【答案】Edgar Allen Poe

【解析】《乌鸦》是埃德加·爱伦·坡于1844年创作的诗集，诗歌主题除了爱情就是死亡、幻灭和伤悼。

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12.Edgar E.Poe’s influence is world-wide in modem literature.His aesthetics and conscious craftsmanship,his attack on“the heresy of the didactic,”and his call for“the rhythmical creation of beauty have influenced French symbolists and the devotees of“_____.”

【答案】art for art’s sake

【解析】艾伦·坡对现代文学的影响是世界性的。他的美学观点和精湛的写作技艺，对文学说教功能的抨击，以及他倡导的“诗是美的节奏性创作”对法国象征主义者和“为艺术而艺术”的信徒产生影响。坡是精神分析之父和侦探小说之父。

13.Standing apart from his contemporary romantic writers but being no less

important in the19th c American literature is_____,the author of The Fall of the House of Usher.

【答案】Edgar Allan Poe

【解析】《厄舍古屋的倒塌》是艾伦·坡的作品。

Ⅱ.Multiple Choice

1.Mark the novelist whose major works are characterized by the elements of the “grotesque”?[四川大学2008研]

A.Philip Freneau

B.Edgar Allan Poe

C.Washington Irving

D.Emily Dickson

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【答案】B

【解析】Edgar Allan Poe（爱伦·坡），美国著名诗人、短篇小说家、文学评论家。他的短篇小说着意描写人的内心世界，对表现人的思想病态尤其感兴趣。其后期的短篇小说，经常充满一种恐怖气氛，情节阴森古怪，令人毛骨悚然。

2.Edgar Allan Poe’s first collection of short stories is_____.

A.Tales of a Traveller

B.Leatherstocking Tales

C.Canterbury Tales

D.Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

【答案】D

【解析】埃德加·爱伦·坡（Edgar Allan Poe)（1809～1849）十九世纪美国诗人、小说家和文学评论家，在世时长期担任报刊编辑工作。《怪异故事集》（Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque）是爱伦·坡的第一部短篇小说集。

3.Which ONE of the following is also an influential writer of detective stories?[四川大学2007研]

A.Harriet Beecher Stowe

B.William Dean Howells

C.Edgar Allan Poe

D.Herman Melville

【答案】C

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【解析】题目考查下列作家中谁还是一位有影响的侦探小说家，毫无疑问是爱伦·坡，他是西方侦探小说的鼻祖。

4.The following selection is from a poem entitled_____by Edgar Allen Poe.[大连外

国语2008研]

A.“Annabel Lee”

B.“To Helen”

C.“Romance”

Raven”

D.“The

【答案】B

【解析】题中的诗歌节选自爱伦·坡的名诗《致海伦》。该段译文如下：在绝望的海面，亘古波涛无边，/你飘飘的秀发，你典雅的脸庞，/你水中仙女般的丰姿让我想见/希腊的荣光/罗马的庄严。

5.According to Poe,the artistry of the poem lies in_____.

A.what is being said

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B.the way it is said

C.the morality

D.the rhythm and rhyme

【答案】B

【解析】爱伦坡认为诗的艺术性在于它所说的方式。

6.Edgar Ellen Poe is a writer including the followings except_____.

A.detective

B.psychological

C.romantic

D.realistic

【答案】D

【解析】埃德加·爱伦坡（1809—1849）是美国著名诗人、短篇小说家、文学评论家，他的小说分为“神秘恐怖故事”和“推理故事”两类，被认为是“精神分析批评之父”和“侦探小说的鼻祖”。

7.Edgar Allan Poe’s first collection of short stories is_____.

a.Tales of a Traveller

b.Leatherstocking Tales

c.Canterbury Tales

d.Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

【答案】d

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【解析】《怪异故事集》是爱伦坡的第一个短篇故事集。

Ⅲ.Read the following quotations and answer the questions.

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Passage1[人大2007

Questions:

(1)Give the title of the work and the full name of the author.

Key:The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

(2)Explain the implications of the underlined parts.

Key:Prophet:The speaker here calls the raven as a prophet,who can give him some clues to his puzzle of his beloved one.

implore:This word means that the speaker appeals the raven to tell him whether there are ways to cure his pain.

balm in Gilead:This sentence is quoted from the Bible,which means that whether there are some medicines to reduce the speaker’s pain.

Passage2[北航2007研]

Although,as boys,we had been even intimate associates,yet I really knew little

of my friend.His reserve had been always excessive and habitual.I was aware,

however,that this very ancient family had been noted,time out of mind,for a

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peculiar sensibility of temperament,displaying itself through long ages,in many works of exalted art,and manifested,of late,in repeated deeds of munificent yet unobtrusive charity,as well as in a passionate devotion to the intricacies,perhaps even more than to the orthodox and easily recognizable beauties,of musical science.I had learned,too,the very remarkable fact,that the stem of the Usher race, all time-honored as it was,had put forth,at no period,any enduring branch;in other words,that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent,and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation,so lain.It was this deficiency,I considered,while running over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people,and while speculating upon the possible influence which the one,in the long lapse of centuries,might have exercised upon the other—it was this deficiency,perhaps,of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission,from sire to son,of the patrimony with the name,which had,at length,so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the“House of Usher”—an appellation which seemed to include,in the minds of the peasantry who used it,both the family and the family mansion.

Questions:

(1)Which fiction is this excerpt from?

Key:This excerpt is from“The Fall of the House of Usher”.

(2)Who is the author?What are the artistic features of the author?

Key:The author is Edgar Allan Poe.As a remarkable poet and critic,Poe stresses

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