美国文学第一册练习

美国文学第一册练习
1. “God helps them that help themselves.” is found in ____________work.
A. Paine’s
B. Franklin’s
C. Freneau’s
D. Jefferson’s
2. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic
A. The American Crisis.
B. The Federalist.
C. Declaration of Independence.
D. The Age of Reason.
3. “These are the times that try men’s souls”, these words were once read to Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Paine
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington
4. Which work is written by Freneau
A. The Right of Man
B. The Wild honey Suckle
C. Poor Richard’s Almanac
D. The Day of Doom
5. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Edward Taylor
C. Michael Wiggleworth
D. Philip Freneau
6. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ___________.
A. the microcosm of human society
B. the search for truth
C. the unknown world
D. nature
was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with _________________.
A. nature
B. transcendentalist ideas
C. human beings
D. celestial beings
8. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ____________-.
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Washington Irving
C. Nathanel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
9. ___________is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature
B. The Scarlet letter
C. Walden
D. Moby Dick
10. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s ___________ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book
B. Tales of a Traveler
C. The Alhambra
D. A History of New York
11. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ___________________.
A. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales
B. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
D. Irving’s Ri p Van Winkle.
12. As a philosophical and literary movement, _________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A. modernism
B. rationalism
C. sentimentalism
D. transcendentalism
13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A. Starbuck
B. Stubb
C. Ishmael
D. Arab
14. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.
A. The House of Seven Gables
B. White Jacket
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Blithdale Romance
15. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature
A. The Sketch Book
B. Leaves of Grass
C. Leatherstocking Tales..
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
16. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except_______________.
A. religion
B. love and marriage
C. life and death
D. war and peace
17. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except_____________.
A. brevity
B. directness
C. plainest
D. obscure
18. “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, trough the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” Which of the following writings is the thought reflected in
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Yo ung Goodman Bro wn.
B. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
C. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
D. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
19. The publication of ____________established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature
B. Self-Reliance
C. The American Scholar
D. The Over Soul
20. Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ___________as well.
A. nature
B. life
C. self
D. self-reliance
II. Fill into the blanks with suitable phrase or term. (2x10=20%)
1.The American of Scholar is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual
Independence”.
2.In 1620, a number of Puritans who tried to purify or reform the church
of England stepped on the New England shore at Plymouth in the ship named Mayflower
3.Among all the settlers in the New Continent, English settlers were the
most influential.
4.In American Literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of Reason
and Revolution.
5.In Franklin’s Autobiography he talks first of all about how he studied
language.
6.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as Rip Van
Winkle which is about a good-natured lazy husband who falls into
a 20-year sleep.
7．Published in 1823, The Pioneers was the first of the
Leatherstocking Tales, in their order.
8．Philip Freneau was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution” and the “Father of American Poetry.”
9．A superb book Walden came out of Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden pond.
10．As one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain , the pen name of Samuel Langhorne. Clemens, usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experiences.
III. Match the writer in Column A with the works in Column B (1X10=10%)
Column A Column B
a. Franklin
b. John Smith
c. William Cullen Bryant
d. James Fennimore Cooper
e. Philip Freneau
f. Washington Irving
g. Nathaniel Hawthorne
h. Edgar Allan Poe
i. Ralph Waldo Emerson
j. Walt Whitman
1.( b ) A Description of New England
2.( h ) The Raven
3.( g ) The Scarlet Letter
4.( a ) Autobiography
5.( e ) The Wild Honey Suckle
6.( c ) To a Waterfowl
7.( d ) The Deerslayer
8 ( j ) Leaves of Grass
9.( f ) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
10.( i ) Nature。