美国文学自测题及参考答案

美国文学自测题及参考答案I

Directions: In this part of the test, there are 9 items and 10 blanks. Fill in the best answer on the Answer Sheet according to the knowledge you have learned.

1.The first American literature was neither ____ nor really

____.

2.Of the immigrants who came to America in the first three

quarters of the seventeenth century, the overwhelming

majority was _____.

3.The English immigrants who settled on America’s northern

seacoast were called _____, so named after those who wished

to “purify” the Church of England.

4.Washington Irving, the Father of American literature,

developed the _____ as a genre in American literature.

5.Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece _____.

6.The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was

_____.

7.In the early 19th century, “Rip Van Winkle”had established

_____’s reputation at home and abroad, and designated the

beginning of American Romanticism.

8._____ has sometimes been considered the father of the

modern short story.

9.In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece

_____, the story of a triangular love affair in colonial

America.

Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from

the settlement of America in the early 17th century through

the end of ________ century.

A. the 18th

B. the 19th

C. the 20th

D. 21th

2. New-England’s Plantation was published in 1630 by ________

A. Francis Higginson

B. William Bradford

C. John Smith

D. Michael Wigglesworth

3. Of all the books written by Michael Wigglesworth the beat known

is ________

A. The Flesh and the Spirit

B. The True Travels

C. The Day of Doom

D. Christopher Columbus

4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.

A. American Enlightenment

B. Sugar Act

C. Chartist movement

D. Romanticist

5. In the first section of Autobiography the writer addressed to

________

A. his son

B. his friends

C. his wife

D. himself

6. During 1807-1808, Washington Irving wrote for his brother’s

newspaper called ________

A. New York Times

B. Washington Post

C. Salmagundi

D. Daily News

7. History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of

________

A. Washington Irving