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美国文学史及作品选读习题集（3）3 The Literature of Reason and RevolutionI. Fill in the blanks.1. At the initial period the spread of ideas of the American Enlightenment was largely due to_____.2. Franklin edited the first colonial magazine, which he called____.3. Franklin‘s best writing is found in his masterpiece_____.4. Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of____.5. On January 10, 1776, P aine‘s famous pamphlet appeared.6. In Philadelphia, ______ the Pennsylvania magazine, and contributed to the Pennsylvania journal.7. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Paine was entitled_______.8. Paine‘s second most important work __ as an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy.9. The most outstanding poet in American of the 18th century was ____.10. Philip Freneau‘s famous poem ____was written about his imprisoned experience.11. Philip Freneau was a close friend and political associate of president _____12. ___was considered as the ―poet of the American Revolution‖,13. Philip Freneau was noteworthy first because of nature of his poem. They were truly American and very patriotic. In this respect, he reflected the spirit of his age. Therefore, he has been called the ―__ of American poetry‖.14. In 1791, probably with Jefferson‘s support, __established in Philadelphia the national gazette.15. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of__ and Revolution. II. Matching1. Benjamin Franklin a. The Age of reason2. Thomas Jefferson b. Common Sense3. Benjamin Franklin c. The Right of Man4. Thomas Paine d. The Autobiography5. Thomas Paine e. Poor R ichard’s Almanac6. Patrick Henry f. Women’s Rights Pioneer7. Thomas Paine g. Give me Liberty or Give me Death8. Abigail Smith Adams h. Letters from an American Farmer9. Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur i. The Declaration of Independence10. Joel Barlow j. The Hasty PuddingIII. Multiple Choice1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. __was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. In American literature, the Enlighteners were not opposed to _____.A. the colonial orderB. religious obscurantismC. the puritan traditionD. the secular literature3. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the continental congress adopted ___in 1776.A. The Declaration of IndependenceB. the Sugar ActC. The Stamp actD. the Mayflower Compact4. Which statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was s master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.5. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of ___.A. THOMAS Hood B .Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington6. Which of the following does not belong to this literary period?A. The American CrisisB. The FederalistC. Declaration of IndependenceD. The Waste Land7. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar actC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist8. From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _______, an annual collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor R ichard’s AlmanacC. Common SenseD. The General Magazine9. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common SenseB. The American crisisC. Pennsylvania MagazineD. The Autobiography10. Choose the works which is not written by Paine.A. Rights of ManB. The Age of ReasonC. Poor Richards AlmanacD. Common Sense11. The first pamphlet published in America to urge immediate independence from Britain is____.A. The Rights of ManB. Common SenseC. The American CrisisD. Declaration of Independence12. ―These are the times that try men‘s souls‖. These words were once read to Washington troops and much to shore up the spirits of the revolutionary soldiers. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas JeffersonC. Thomas PaineD. George Washington13. Which statement about Philip Freneau is not true?A. He was a satiristB. He was a pamphleteerC. He was a singerD. He was a bitter polemicist14. Which poem is not written by Philip Freneau?A. The British Prison ShipB. T he wild Honey SuckleC. The Indian burying groundD. The day of doom15. Who was considered as the ―poet of American revolution‖?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Annne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau16. It was not until January 1776 that a widely heard public voice demanded complete separation from England. The voice was that of ___, whose pamphlet Common Sense, with its heated language, increased the growing demand for separation.A. Thomas PaineB. Thomas JeffersonC. George WashingtonD. Patrick Henry17. At the reason and revolutionary period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the______.A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement18. T homas Jefferson‘s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical the period we now call_____.A. Age of RevolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Regionalism19. _____carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people. It is more than writing of the revolutionary period. It defined the meaning of the American Revolution.A. Common SenseB. The American CrisisC. Declaration of IndependenceD. Deface of the English People20. Benjamin Franklin shaped his writing after the ____by the English essayists Addison and Steele.A. Spectator PapersB. WaldenC. NatureD. The Sacred WoodIV. Literary Terms1. Autobiography2. Persuasion3. Aphorism4. The Hartford WitsV. IdentificationPassage 1These are the times that try men‘s souls; The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: ?tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a paperprice upon its goods.Questions:1. Which book is passage taken from?2. Who is the author of this book?3. Whom is the author praising? Whom is the author criticizing?4. What do you think of the language used in the book?Passage 2When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Law of Nature‘s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opini ons of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; That to secure these rights, Government are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any From of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.Questions:5. Which work is this passage taken from?6. What truths are self-evident? What is the purpose of government, and when shoulda government be replaced?Passage 3In a branch of willow hidSings the evening Caty-did:From the lofty locust boughFeeding on a drop of dewIn her suit of green array‘dHear her singing in the shadeCaty-did, Caty-did, Caty-did!Questions:7. Who is the writer of these verses?8. What is the title of this lyrical poem?9. What is a ―Caty-did‖?Passage 4It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by anther; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the followingmethod.In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalog more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the samename. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself,, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning.Questions:10. Which work is this passage taken from?11. Who is the author of this book?12. What is your understanding of the book?VI. Questions and Answers.1. What is a proverb? Which writer in his period liked to use proverbs?2. What are the characteristics of Benjamin Franklin‘s literary work?3. What work was The Federalist?4. Who said ―Give me library, or give me death‖? What was the impact of the quotation?5. Could you please give a brief account of American literature of this period?VII. Analysis of Literary W orks.1. Write an analysis of The Poor Richard’s Almanac.2. Write an analysis of The American Crisis.3. Write an analysis of Declaration of Independence.KeysI. Fill in the blanks.1. journalism 9. Philip Freneau2. The General Magazine 10. The British Prison Ship3. Autobiography11. Thomas Jefferson4. revolution 12. Philip Freneau5. Common Sense13. Father6. Thomas Paine 14. Philip Freneau7. The American Crisis15. Reason8. The Rights of ManII. Matching.1---e; 2---I; 3---d; 4---c; 5---a;6---g; 7---b; 8---f; 9---h; 10---j.III. Multiple Choice.1. B2. D3. A4. D5. B6. D7. A8. B9. D 10. C 11. B 12. C 13. C 14. D 15. D 16. A 17. C 18. B 19. C 20. AIII.Literary Terms.1. Autobiography: An autobiography is a person‘s ac count of his or her life. Generally written in the first person, with the author speaking as ―I‖, autobiographies present life events as the writer views them. In addition to providing inside details about the writer‘s life, autobiographies offer insights into the beliefs and perceptions of the author. Autobiographies also offer a glimpse of what it was like to live in the author‘s time period.Autobiographies often provide a view of historical events that you won‘t find in history books. Benjamin Franklin‘s Autobiography set the standard for what was then a new genre.2. Persuasion:Persuasion is writing meant to convince readers to think or act in a certain way. A persuasive writer appeals to emotions or reason, offers opinio ns, and urges action.3. Aphorism:An aphorism is a short, concise statement expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth. A variety of devices make aphorisms easy to remember. Some contain rhymes or repeated words or sounds; others use parallel structure to present contras ting ideas. The aphorism ―no pain, no gain‖ for instance, uses rhyme, repetition, and parallel structure.4. The Hartford Wits: Three Revolutionary poets of large and serious purpose, and widely famed in their generation, may be grouped together, not only because of some similarity in their verse, but also because they were all Connecticut men; two were conspicuous members of a coterie noted as ―the Hartford Wits.‖That Connecticut town, indeed, enjoyed a reputation as a literary centre through the exploits of this group. The two Hartford poets were John Trumbull and Joel Barlow; the third of this group was Timothy Dwight.V. Identification.1. The American Crisis2. Thomas Paine3. Paine is praising those who stand ―it‖, it referring to ―the service of their country‖. Inn the meantime, Paine is criticizing those who shrink from the service of their country in this crisis.4. The language is plain, impressive and forceful. Pain himself once said that his purpose as a writer was to use plain language to make those who can scarcely read understand.5. Declaration of Independence6. All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and among these rights are Life, Liberty he pursuit of Happiness. The purpose of government is to secure these ends. And when the government becomes destructive to these ends, it should be replaced.7. Philip Freneau8. To a Caty- Did9. According to Freneau‘s note, a Caty-did is a well-known insect, when full grown, it is about two inches in length, and of the exact color of a green leaf. It can sing sucha song as Caty-did n the evening, towards autumn.10. Autobiography11. Benjamin Franklin12. One of Franklin‘s literary successes was his famous Autobiography, which he began to write in 1771, resumed in 1778, and left incomplete at his death. The purpose of its author was to make the experiences of his own case, a source of help and inspiration to others. He therefore tells the story of his struggles, his errors, his experiments with himself, his accomplishment, with wonderful frankness and extreme simplicity.VI. Questions and Answers.1. Proverbs are nearly as old as language itself. They have many different purposes and are used in different types of situations—to amuse, to educate, to sanction, to make a point or a conversation.As expressions of basic principles of folk wisdom draw from the daily experiences of a group of people, proverbs exist in all societies. They reflect a particular culture‘s view of the worldand convey feelings about fate, the seasons, the natural world, word and effort, love, death, and other universal experiences. These memorable bits of wisdom have survived for centuries; perhaps they reflect unchanging truths about human nature.Most of Benjamin Franklin‘s aphorisms are adapted from anonymous traditional or folk saying, known as proverbs. Franklin, who believed that clarity and brevity were two of the most important characteristics of good prose, rewrote many proverbs, crafting short, direct, witty sayings that taught a lesson.2. The pr edominant quality in all of Benjamin Franklin‘s writing is its genuine humanness; this is what brought the Almanac into instant popularity, and what makes the Autobiography an enduring American classic. It is a quality that had been extremely rare in the earlier colonial literature. A keen sense of humor, also, homely and blunt but true, is constant in Franklin‘s work and one of the essential factors in its success. Noted examples of his wit are found in his anecdote of ―The Whistle and The Dialogue between Dr. Franklin and the Gout‖, which are among the papers entitled Bagatelles, written when Franklin was in France.Franklin‘s literary work was thoroughly typical of himself. Honest, plain, democratic, clear-headed, shrewd, worldly-wise, he was interested in the practical side of life. To him the matter of ―getting on‖in the world was o duty; and to enable others to see the advantages of integrity, application, and thrift was his self-appointed task. His influence in this direction was immense. The absence of ideality is obvious in all his compositions. He never reached the high levels of imaginative art, but on this lower plane of material interest and every-day life he was, and is, without a peer among writers. The works which have beenmentioned possess a universal charm.3. The FederalistAfter the conclusion of the war, during the critical period which preceded the adoption of a constitution, there appeared at intervals a very notable series of papers which were designed in their entirety to set forth the fundamental principles of government. These appeared as articles contributed to various New Y ork newspapers. There were eighty-five in all, and their authorship was concealedunder the pseudonym of ―Publius‖. In 1788, these papers were collected and published under the name of The Federalist—a collection which ranks as our chief political classic. Of these famous papers, five are attribute to John Jay, twenty-nine James Madison, and fifty-one to Alexander Hamilton.4. Remembered most for his fiery battle cry ―Give me liberty or give me death,‖Patrick Henry is considered the most powerful orator of the American Revolution. He helped to inspire colonists to unite in an effort to win their independence. Shortly after his 1765 election to the Virginia House of burgesses, Henry delivered one of his most powerful speeches, declaring his opposition to the Stamp Act. Over the protests of some of the most influential members, the Virginia House adopted Henry‘s resolutions.In 1775, Henry delivered his most famous speech at the Virginia Provincial Convention. While most of speakers that day argued that armed resistance to England. His speech had a powerful impact on the audience, feeding the Revolutionary spirit that led the singing of the Declaration of Independence.5. In contrast to the private soul-searching of the Puritans of New England, much of what was produced during the Revolutionary period was public writing. By the time of the warfor independence, nearly fifty newspapers had been established in the costal cities. At the time of Washington‘s inauguration, there were nearly forty magazines. Almanacs were popular from Massachusetts to Georgia.The mind of the nation was on politics. Journalists and printers provided a form for the expression of ideas. After 1763, those ideas were increasingly focused on relations with Great Britain and, more broadly, on the nature of government. The writing of permanent importance from the Revolutionary era is mostly political writing.The public writing and speaking of American statesmen in two tumultuous decades, the 1770‘s and 1780‘s, helped to reshape not the nation but also the world.Patrick Henry was a spellbinding orator whose speech against the Stamp Act in the Virginia House of burgesses brought cries of ―Treason!‖ Ten years later, his electrifying speech to the Virginia Convention expressed the rising sentiment foe independence.Thomas Paine was perhaps more influential than other in swaying public option in favor of independence. His 1776 pamphlet Common Sense swept the colonies, selling 100000copies in the months.The Declaration of independence was first drafted by Thomas Jefferson in June 1776. The finished document is largely his work, although a committee of five statesmen, including Benjamin Franklin, was involved in its creation. The Declaration, despite some exaggerated charges against King George III, is one of the most influential statements ever made.Another revolutionary period document written by committee that has stood the test of time is the Constitution ofthe United States, drafted in 1787. The framers, whose new nation boasted about four million people, hoped that the Constitution would last at least a generation. It still survives, amended only 27 times, as the political foundation of a nation of 50 states and more than 250 million people.While politics dominated the literature of the Revolutionary period, not every writer of note was a statesman. V erse appears in most of the newspapers, and numerous broadside ballads were published. One of the most popular broadside ballads was called ―The Dying Redcoat‖, supposedly written by a British sergeant mortally wounded in the Revolution.Two other poets of the day whose works were more sophisticated than the broadside ballads were Joel Barlow and Phillis Wheatley. Barlow, a 1778 Yale graduate, is best remembered for ―The Hasty Pudding‘, a mock –heroic tribute to cornmeal mush. Phillis Wheatley, born in Africa and brought to Boston in childhood as s slave, showed early signs of literary genius. A collection of her poems was published in England while she was still a young woman.Another writer of the Revolutionary period recorded his impressions of everyday American life. Born into an aristocratic French family, Michel Guillaume Crevecoeur became a soldier of f fortune, a world traveler, and a farmer. For fifteen years, he owned a plantation in Orange County, New Y ork, and his impressions of life there were published in London in 1782 as Letters from an American Farmer.Perhaps the best known writing of the period outside the field of politics was done by Benjamin Franklin. His P oor Richard’s Almanac became familiar to m ost households in the colonies. A statesman, printer, author, inventor, and scientist,Franklin was a true son of the Enlightenment. His Autobiography, covering only his early years, is regarded as one of the finest autobiographies in any language.By the early 1800‘s, America could boast a small body of national literature. The Native Americans has contributed haunting poetry and legends through their oral traditions. The puritans had written a number of powerful, inward-looking works. The statesmen of the Revolutionary period had produced political documents for the ages. A few poets and essayists had made a permanent mark on the literature of the young republic. There were, however, no American novels or plays of importance, and modern short story had yet to be invented.VII. Analysis of literary works1. Analysis of The poor Richard’s Almanac.Benjamin Franklin created a character, poor Richard, in whose name the work appeared, and whose real existence was debated humorously and seriously. Scatted among the calculations, were many crisp sayings introduced b y the phrase ―As Poor Richard says,‖----sayings which have taken their place among the maxims of the world.―Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep there.‖―One today id worth two tomorrows‖―Plow deep while sluggards sleep.‖―An empty sack cannot stand upright.‖―Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.‖―He that by the plow would thriveHimself must either hold or drive.‖These and sources o similar homely proverbs were incorporated in the Almanac. It w as Benjamin Franklin‘s idea to teach lessons of thrift to hiscountrymen. Some of the sayings he coined entire, others he quoted from various sources. They ere finally sifted and collected in permanent form in a lengthy discourse called Father Abraham’s Sp eech, which was included in the Almanac of 1758 and found its way thus into well-nigh every home in America. Father Abraham’s Speech was translated into every European language, and even to this day continues to teach its useful lesson of industry, frugality, and honesty, the world over.2. Analysis of The American crisisThomas Paine maintains that ―those‖ times will put men to a test. Those who will fight only during the summer and sunshine deserve no praise. We need soldiers who will fight anytime, who will make sacrifices for the noble cause of democratic revolution. Thomas Paine maintains that consolation foe those Americans who support the overthrow of tyranny is the belief that that they will win ―more glorious‖victory. In other words, people must app reciate what they believe in and fight hardest for. Britain‘s declaration that she may ―bind us in all cases whatsoever‖is nothing more than slavery, and only God may have such ―undiminished‖power. He believes that God will ―not give up ―or abandon a peopl e who have so steadfastly tried to avoid war. Certainly Britain cannot look to God for guidance; criminals have as much reason to look for guidance as the British; in fact, they are criminals.Thomas Paine quotes the Tory who states, ―Give me peace in my d ay‖. He is concerned only with immediate results so that he can reap the benefits, perhaps without care for the permanence of peace. Paine believes that the speaker should be willing to fight and suffer in his lifetime in order to insure a more permanent peace which his children may enjoy.The British government is compared to a house thief who causes destruction of life and property and who must be stopped. He does not care in what form the thief exists. In any situation, ―if we reason to the root of thing s‖, we shall find no difference.In short, The American Crisis is an Enlightenment, Deist document. Man relies on reason and indomitable optimism, not salvation, for deliverance from travail. However much the soldier, the scholar, the common man struggling for victory wants the support of god, he must rely on his devotion to his cause and to his fellow man first and foremost.3. Analysis of Declaration of IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence, adopted July 4, 1776, not only announced the birth of a new nation, also set forth a philosophy o human freedom which served as an important force in the western world. It rested upon particular grievances, but more, upon a broad base of individual liberty, of individual will, so cherished by Americans. Endurance of oppression could meet its threshold; after that, the people must form a new state. Its ideas inspired mass fervor for the American cause, for it instilled among the common people a sense of their own importance, and inspired struggle for personal freedom, self-government, and a dignified place in society. It is evident in American literature that Americansprotective of their freedoms, in however way they choose to interpret them.In addition, Jefferson‘s purpose in writing is to make the experiment of free government so successful that it would be an example to the rest of the world and a moral force in the destiny of mankind. The principles of decentralization of authority, agrarian economy, public education and flexible laws were all byproducts of the central doctrine of Lockian perfectibility.Against this doctrine and formal statement Alexander Hamilton and the other founders of the Federalist Party argued for a liberty which comes through submission to authority, in this case, a clear and firm system of civil formulated. Centralized government, an economy determined by financial and manufacturing rather than by agrarian interests, and firm laws strictly enforced were, in Hamilton‘s thinking the logical conclusions from a skepticism of man‘s basic goodness. Perhaps it is the very existence of conflicting ideas within a single practical frame of operation which, at times, makes American so dynamic. Man is not consistent in design or action, and the Constitution of the United States, with its added ―Bill of Rights‖by reflecting two such opposite views as those of Jefferson and Hamilton, probably conies as near to being a description of basic human nature as any document that lawmakers have formed. These views appear again and again, in different form, in America‘s national literature.。

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Multiple Choice (1’×15=1515=15’’) 1.______was the first colony in American history. A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey C. Virginia D.Georgia 2. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, ’s on “His shadow lies heavier than any other manthis young nation.”ArrayA. John Smith B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D.Thomas Paine 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______. A. common sense B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 4. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________ A. Philip Freneau B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson 5. The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Titanic 6. Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage inpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. A. Typee B. Omoo C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick 7. 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 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Sister Carrie C. The Great Gatsby D. The Old Man and Sea 9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For examplSister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious 10. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creafictions, and paved the way to Modernism. A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism D. Enlightenment 11. ________ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture. A. T. S Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. Walt Whitman 12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true? A. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing close friends. B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frus love affair for Dickinson. C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure. D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published. 13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age ” by _______. A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore Dreiser 14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway? A. The Old Man and Sea B. A Farewell to Arms C. Sound and Fury D. For Whom the Bell Tolls 15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism? A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, a nti-realism, anti-realism, anti-realism, individualism individualism individualism and a stress and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects. B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars. C. C. The The The work work work of of of Marx, Marx, Marx, and and and Freud, Freud, Freud, had had had mounted mounted mounted an an an assault assault assault against against against orthodox orthodox orthodox religious religious religious faith faith faith that that that lasted lasted lasted into into into the the twentieth century. D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind. I. Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=1010=10’’) Column A Column B ( ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost ( ) 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain ( ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter ( ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson ( ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick ( ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway ( ) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau ( ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson ( ) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie ( ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott Fitzgerald II. Define the following words within one phrase (2(2’’×5=105=10’’) 1. free verse 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 3. Mark Twain 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Ezra Pound III. Simple questions (5’×4=204=20’’) 1. What are Puritan thoughts? 2. What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures? 3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A ” in The Scarlet Letter. 4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry. IV . Interpreting the following texts (45’) Text 1 When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into s hands hands and and and becomes becomes becomes better, better, better, or or or she she she rapidly rapidly rapidly assumes assumes assumes the the the cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cosmopolitan standard standard standard of of of virtue virtue virtue and and and becomes becomes worse. worse. Of Of Of an an an intermediate intermediate intermediate balance, balance, balance, under under under the the the circumstances, circumstances, circumstances, there there there is is is no no no possibility. possibility. possibility. The The The city city city has has has its its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces w allure allure with with with all all all the the the soulfulness soulfulness soulfulness of of of expression expression expression possible possible possible in in in the the the most most most cultured cultured cultured human. human. human. The The The gleam gleam gleam of of of a a thousand thousand lights lights lights is is is often often often as as as effective effective effective as as as the the the persuasive persuasive persuasive light light light in in in a a a wooing wooing wooing and and and fascinating fascinating fascinating eye. eye. eye. Half Half Half the the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A bl of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these thi breathe breathe into into into the the the unguarded unguarded unguarded ear! ear! ear! Unrecognised Unrecognised Unrecognised for for for what what what they they they are, are, are, their their their beauty, beauty, beauty, like like like music, music, music, too too too often often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions. Questions 1. Please use one phrase to summarize the above paragraph (2’) 2. What are the two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving her home?(2’) 3. Please find out the figures of speech (2’) 4. What are the attractive forces mentioned in a big city? (4’) 5. How are naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph? Illustrate your points with examples (5’) Text 2 Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me -- The Carriage held but just Ourselves -- And Immortality. We slowly drove -- He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility –We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess -- in the Ring -- We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain -- We passed the Setting Sun –…Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity –Questions: 1.Identify the poet and the title of this poem? (2’) 2.Explain the underlined words (4’) “the School”, “the fields of Gazing Grain”, “the Setting Sun”? (3’) 3.What are the implications of 4.How do you understand “Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet / Feels shorter than the Day” ? (3’) 5.What are the speaker’s opinions about death? (3’) Text 3 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Questions: ’) 1.Please examine the poetic form (rhyme and meter) (2’) 2.Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one does the speaker take? (33.How do you understand the word “sigh”? (4’) 4.What might the two roads stand for in the speaker’s mind? (4’) ’) 5.What is the theme of this poem? (2V.Interpreting the following texts (45’) Text 1 ’) 1. Please use one phrase to summarize the above paragraph (2’) 2. What are the two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving her home?(2’) 3. Please find out the figures of speech (2’) 4. What are the attractive forces mentioned in a big city? (4’) 5. How are naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph? Illustrate your points with examples (5Text 2 1. Identify the poet and the title of this poem? (2’) ’) 2. Explain the underlined words (4“the School”, “the fields of Gazing Grain”, “the Setting Sun”? (3’) 3. What are the implications of “Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet / Feels shorter than the Day” ? (3’) 4. How do you understand 5. What are the speaker’s opinions about death? (3’) Text 3 ’) V.Please examine the poetic form (rhyme and meter) (2VI. Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one does the speaker take? (3’) VII. How do you understand the word “sigh ”? (4’) VIII. What might the two roads stand for in the speaker ’s mind? (4’) IX. What is the theme of this poem? (2’) 参考答案参考答案I. Multiple Choice (1’×15=1515=15’’) 1. _C___ 2._B__ 3.__A__ 4.__B__ 5.__C___ 6.__D_ 7.__D__ 8._A__ 9.__B__ 10.__B___ 11._C__ 12.__D__ 13._A_ 14._C __ 15._D__ II. Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=1010=10’’) 1.( c ) 2.( e ) 3.( i ) 4.( a ) 5.( h ) 6.( b ) 7.( d ) 8.( g ) 9.(j ) 10.( f ) III. Define the following words within one phrase (2’×5=105=10’’) (Any related information can be given marks) 1. poetry without a fived beat or regular rhyme scheme, produced by Walt Whitman 2. 2. is is is the the the representative representative of of transcedentalists, transcedentalists, who who believes believes in in individualism individualism and and self-reliance self-reliance and and brings brings transcedentalism to New England 3．is a humorist and satirist, who uses broad humor and biting social satire 4．is one of Thoreau’s masterpieces, which is the result of the author ’s two years of living near Walden lake. 5. 5. is is is regarded regarded regarded as as as the the the classical classical classical poem poem poem of of of imagist imagist imagist poetry poetry poetry by by by Ezra Ezra Ezra Pound, Pound, Pound, conveying conveying conveying the the the theme theme theme of of of the the the speaker speaker speaker’’s sudden pleasure of finding some beautiful faces in the subway IV . Simple Questions (5’×4=204=20’’) (Answers should be to the points. 1 score for time, 2 scores for features anscore for representative figures when defining the literary terms) a) Puritan thoughts: to make pure their religious beliefs and practices, to restore simplicity, to live a harddisciplined life and oppose pleasure and arts. b) Transcendentalism is the climax of American Romanticism. First, the Transcendentalist placed emphasis on spirit, or the oversoul, as the most important thing in the universe. Secondly, Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual. Thirdly, the Transcendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the spirit. 3. a. The letter ’s meaning shifts as time passes. Originally intended to mark Hester as an adulterer, the “A ” eventually comes to stand for “Able ” or “Angel Angel””. b. Besides Hester, Dimmesdale also ironed the letter A on his body, which provoked his self-consciousness and showed his repent for what he did. c. Pearl, their baby, wore a green letter a in a piece of seaweed while playing on the beach. This green letter A symbolizes vitality or new life, and also suggests her inheritance from her mother. 4. a. direct treatment of the “thing thing””（no fuss, frill, or ornament ）, b. exclusion of superfluous words （precision and economy of expression ）, c. the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome （free verse form and music ）. V . Interpreting the following texts (45’) Text 1 1. The attraction of big city (2’) 2. One is to fall into the saving hands and becomes better; secondly, she may admit the ’) moral value of big city and becomes worse. (2’) 3. Simile, metaphor and synecdoche (24. The gleam of lights, a blare of sound, a roar of life, and a vast array of human hives (4’) 5. Naturalist attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity. In this novel, the major fem character Carrie Meeber is deeply influenced by the present environment and heredity, which leads to result of her dynamic character.(5’) (the features of naturalism 3 scores, examples 2 scores) Text 2 ”(2(2’’) 1. Emily Dickinson and “Because I Could not Stop for Death2. He: death; civility: politeness; Recess: break Surmised: guessed (4’) 3. They represent three stages of life. The school is the childhood and young age; the fields of gazing grain ’s life. (3’) to the mature period and the setting sun the old age, that is the end of one’) 4. Because this day is towards death, immortal and eternal (35. Death is immortality (3’) Text 3 ’) 1. It is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymed abaab.(22. Similarities: both of the roads are beautiful (fair) Differences: one is quiet and grassy, less-traveled; the other is trodden by many people and flat ’) He took the less-travelled road (3is a tricky word. Because sigh can be interpreted into nostalgic relief or regret. If it is 3. The word “sigh”is a tricky word. Because sigh can be interpreted into nostalgic relief or regret. If it i relief sigh, then the difference means the speaker feels glad with the road he took. If it is the regret sig the difference would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. Hence, sigh is ambigous’) for the speaker is not showing whether his choice is right or wrong. (44. The real road; the life road and the road in career (4’) 5.Choice is inevitable but you never know what your choice will mean until you have lived it. This is altheme of the poem. (2’) 。

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美国文学史选择题1.Of all the following issues, _____is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history.（） [单选题] *A. Puritan moralityB.Human bestiality(正确答案)C.Noble savagesD.Divinity of man2. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.（） [单选题] *A. Walden Pond(正确答案)B.The PioneersC. NatureD."Song of Myself"3. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quotefrom______’s writings.（） [单选题] *A. Walt WhitmanB.Henry David ThoreauC.Herman MelvilleD.Ralph Waldo Emerson(正确答案)4. ’Leaves of Grass’ commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.（） [单选题] *A. the democratic ideals(正确答案)B.the romantic idealsC. the self-reliance spiritsD.the religious ideals5. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was to behave as a supreme_________.（） [单选题] *A. democratB.individualist(正确答案)C.romanticistD.leader6. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ___________.（） [单选题] *A. The Naturalist PeriodB.The Modern PeriodC.The Romantic Period(正确答案)D.The Realistic Period7. In the following works, which sign the beginning of the American literature?（） [单选题] *A. The Sketch Book(正确答案)B. Leaves of GrassC. Leather Stocking TalesD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn8. _____is the author of the work ’The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’.（） [单选题] *A. Washington Irving(正确答案)B.James JoyceC.Walt WhitmanD.William Butler Yeats9. Washington Irving’s ’Rip Van Winkle’ is famous for_________.（） [单选题] *A. Rip’s escape into a mysteriousB.The story’s German legendary source materialC.Rip’s seeking for happinessD.Rip’s 20-years sleep(正确答案)10. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?（） [单选题] *A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.B. Irving’s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.C. Irving’s taste was essentia lly progressive or radical.(正确答案)D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced."11. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.（） [单选题] *A. Nature(正确答案)B.Self-RelianceC.The American ScholarD.The Over-Soul12. The phrase "a transparent eye-ball’ compares philosophical mentation of Emerson’s. It appears in_________.（） [单选题] *A. The American ScholarB.Nature(正确答案)C.The over SoulD.Essays: Second Series13. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmeasas :Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence".（） [单选题] *A. "Self-Reliance"B."Divinity School Address"C. "The American Scholar"(正确答案)D."Nature"14. "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity", which author of the following authors does the mention belong to________.（） [单选题] *A. Washington IrvingB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Nathaniel Hawthorne(正确答案)D.Walt Whitman15. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as________.（） [单选题] *A. saviorsB.Villains(正确答案)C. CommentatorsD.observers16. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_______.（） [单选题] *A. The House of the Seven GablesB. White Jacket(正确答案)C.The Marble FaunD.The Blithedale Romance17. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject is__________.（） [单选题] *A. free verse(正确答案)B.blank verseC.lyric poemD.heroic couplet18. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?（）[单选题] *A. Lyrical and well-structured(正确答案)B.Free-flowingC.Simple and rather crudeD.Conversational and casual19. " The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day." The two lines are taken from____________.（） [单选题] *A. "There Was a Child Went Forth" by Walt Whitman(正确答案)B."In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra PoundC.C. "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" by Walt WhitmanD."Ulysses" by Joyce20. "Moby Dick" is regarded as the first American_________.（） [单选题] *A. Prose epic(正确答案)ic epicC.Dramatic fictionD.Poetic fiction21. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT________.（） [单选题] *A. mystery of the universeB.sin of the whale(正确答案)C.power of the great NatureD.evil of the world22. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true?（） [单选题] *A. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is a short story.B. "Benito Cereno" is a novella.C. The Confidence---Man has something to do with the sea and sailors.(正确答案)D. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American prose epic.23. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is____, therefore, self-reliant.（） [单选题] *A. insignificantB. vicious by natureC. divine(正确答案)D. forward-looking24. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of speech of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the______of death, the title of the poem is "I heard a Fly buzz when I died". （） [单选题] *A. moment(正确答案)B. sufferingC. happinessD. meaning25. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.（） [单选题] *A. naturalism(正确答案)B. realismC. determinismD. humanism26. More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general _____about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed.（） [单选题] *A. skepticism(正确答案)B. eulogyC. happinessD. denial27. "This is my letter to the World" is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson’s _____about her communication with the outside world.（） [单选题] *A. happinessB. angerC. Anxiety(正确答案)D. sorrow28. Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as "I like to see it lap the Miles", which describes a(n) ______, an embodiment of modern civilization.（） [单选题] *A. snakeB. animalC. the roadD. train(正确答案)29. After "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer", Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book called_____, and the book from which "all modern American literature comes".（） [单选题] *A. Life on the Mississippi RiverB. The Gilded AgeC. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(正确答案)D. The Sun Also Rises30. Winterbourne is used as a ______in Henry James’s "Daisy Miller".（） [单选题] *A. ProtagonistB. Narrator of the eventsC. A character of central consciousness(正确答案)D. Persona31. Emily Dickinson’s verse is most aptly characterized as ___________.（） [单选题] *A. exposing the evils of the societyB. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poetsC. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt WhitmanD. exhibiting sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality and etc.(正确答案)32. The author of "The Portrait of a Lady" is best at_______.（） [单选题] *A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human lifeB. a truthful delineation of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women.C. a dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on an international scene(正确答案)D. disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War.33. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____________.（）[单选题] *A. the Age of RealismB. the Age of Modernism(正确答案)C. the Age of RomanticismD. the Age of Colonicalism34. Who exerts the simple most important influence on literary naturalism? （） [单选题] *A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin(正确答案)35. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human"______".（） [单选题] *A. bestiality(正确答案)B. goodnessC. compassionD. greed36. ______is considered by H.L. Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."（） [单选题] *A. HemingwayB. PoeC. IrvingD. Twain(正确答案)37. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language.（） [单选题] *A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacular(正确答案)38. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with________.（）[单选题] *A. international theme(正确答案)B. national themeC. European themeD. Regional theme39. In the following writers, who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "Stream-of-consciousness" novels and the founder of psychologicalrealism______________.（） [单选题] *A. Henry James(正确答案)B. Mark TwainC. Emily DickensonD. Theodore Dreiser40. In Henry James’ "Daisy Miller", the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ___________.（） [单选题] *A. the corruption of the newly richB. the free spirit of the New World(正确答案)C. the decline of aristocracyD. the force of convention41. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson’s?（） [单选题] *A. War and peace(正确答案)B. Love and marriageC. Life and deathD. Religion42. The following titles are all related to the subject that escapes from the society and returns to nature except__________.（） [单选题] *A. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie(正确答案)B. Copper’s Leather-Stocking TalesC. Thoreau’s WaldenD. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn43. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is__________.（） [单选题] *A. Sister CarrieB. An American Tragedy(正确答案)C. The FinancierD. The Titan44. Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning___________.（） [单选题] *A. ChildhoodB. Youth and happinessC. LonelinessD. Death and immortality(正确答案)45. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,_________became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.（） [单选题] *A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realism(正确答案)D. naturalism46. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the_________.（） [单选题] *A. Imagist Movement(正确答案)B.Chartist MovementC. Modernist MovementD.Romantic Movement47 Strong affinity of the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the worksof_________.（） [单选题] *A. Mark TwainB.Ezra Pound(正确答案)C.Emily DickinsonD.Arthur Miller48.In Robert Frost’s famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to______.（） [单选题] *A. die(正确答案)B.calm downC. fall into sleepD.stop walking49. Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?（） [单选题] *A. Robert Frost(正确答案)B.Walt WhitmanC.Emily DickinsonD.Wallace Stevens50. "For I have had too much/ Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired" From these lines we can conclude that the speaker __________.（） [单选题] *A. is happy about the harvestB.is tired of the work of apple-picking\(正确答案)C.is not tired when seeing the harvestD.becomes indifferent of the job。

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美国文学史及选读练习题I. Choose the relevant match from Column II for each item in Column I.Section A I II( ) 1. Walt Whitman A. The Scarlet LetterB. The Sketch Book) 2. Herman Melville (C. ) 3. Washington Irving Typee (D. Leaves of Grass ( ) 4. O HenryE. The Gift of the Magi) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne (Section B I II( ) 1. Hester Prynne A. The Portrait of A LadyB. Uncle Tom') 2. George Hurstwood s Cabin (C. Moby Dick ( ) 3. Isabel ArcherD. Sister Carrie ) 4. Ahab (E. The Scarlet Letter ( ) 5. Eva ClareSection C I II( ) 1. Benjamin Franklin A. Martin EdenB. Leather-Stocking Tales ( ) 2. Thomas PaineC. ) 3. James Fenimore Cooper Rights of Man (D. Poor Richars's Almanac ( ) 4. Mark TwainE. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) 5. Jack London (II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phraseaccording to the textbook. (10%)1In Washington Irving's work appeared the first modern Short stories andthe first great American juvenile literature.2The first important American novelist was .3To a Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of ______'s work, it regarded as “the most perfectbrief poem in the language ”.4A superb book entitled ______ came out of Henry David Thoreau's two-year lifeexperience near a small lake.5William Sidney Porter，whose pen name was ______，was the author of The Cop and theAnthem．6Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much ofthe early American writing.7American Romanticism ended with the Walt Whiteman's .8was called “the father of the American detective stories”.9was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England.10Theodore Dreiser's first novel is.11The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its wayPlymouth,at ashore Pilgrims the put it 1620, of December In Atlantic. the across Massachusetts.______was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after 12theRevolutionary War．American Romanticism started with the publication of Washington Irving13 's ______ .The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way 14across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth,Massachusetts.Benjamin Franklin's best writing is found in his masterpiece15 .On January 10,1776, Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet 16appeared.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the 17values that dominated much ofthe early American writing.th century was 18The most outstanding poet in America of 18 .19 was the first American lyric poet.was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England. 20III: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternativeanswers. Choose the ONE that would best complete the statement.1. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was_______.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. HarrietBeecher2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of hisfellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD.Thomas Paine4. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism5. Melville's novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick6. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism7. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea8. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romanceand self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment9. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman10. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.Innocents AbroadB. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A.C. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham11. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men12. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in andThoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Oversoul13. Which of the following doesn't belong to Dreiser's “Trilogy of Desire”?A. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The StoicD. An American Tragedy14. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD. Daisy Miller15.Walden is written by .D. Hawthorne C. Poe A. Emerson B. Thoreau16. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain17. is famous for psychological realism.A. Mark TwainB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman18. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance19. Who was the ONLY good American author before the Revolutionary War.A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas PaineD. Thomas Jefferson20. As a literary and philosophical movement, flourished in New England from the1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism21. ____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience22.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace23. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the bookthat started this great war!” The book refers to ____.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom's Cabin24. In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above25. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what MarkTwain referred to as ____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age26. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This wasA. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD.HarrietBeecherWho was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”? 27.A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau28. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of hisfellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD.Thomas Paine29. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism30. Melville's novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick31. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism32. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea33. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romanceand self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment34. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman35. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham36. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men37. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in andThoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Oversoul38. Which of the following doesn't belong to Dreiser's “Trilogy ofA. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The StoicD. An American Tragedy39. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD. Daisy Miller40.Walden is written by .D. Hawthorne B. Thoreau C. Poe A. Emerson41. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain42. is famous for psychological realism.A. Mark TwainB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman43. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance44. Who was the ONLY good American author before the Revolutionary War.A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas PaineD. Thomas Jefferson45. As a literary and philosophical movement, flourished in New England from the1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism46. ____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience47.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace48. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the bookthat started this great war!” The book refers to ____.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom's Cabin49. In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above50. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what MarkTwain referred to as ____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. thePuritanAgeIV: Define the literary terms listed below.1Transcendentalism2Free Verse3 Local ColorV: Answer the following questions briefly based on your understanding of thetexts studied.To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I amnot solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone,let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separatebetween him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparentwith this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in athousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations theremembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out theseenvoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.Questions:a. This paragraph is taken from a famous essay. What is the name of the essay?b. Who is the author?c. What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousandyears?d. Give a specific term to cover the author's belief?。

美国文学试题及答案

美国文学试题及答案一、单项选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 马克·吐温的代表作是以下哪一部？A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《哈克贝利·芬历险记》C. 《白鲸》D. 《老人与海》答案：B2. 爱伦·坡的《乌鸦》属于什么文学流派？A. 浪漫主义B. 现实主义C. 哥特式D. 现代主义答案：C3. 《飘》的作者是谁？A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫B. 玛格丽特·米切尔C. 简·奥斯汀D. 乔治·艾略特答案：B4. 以下哪部作品不是亨利·詹姆斯的作品？A. 《贵妇人的画像》B. 《使节》C. 《简·爱》D. 《贵妇人的画像》答案：C5. 以下哪部作品是威廉·福克纳的代表作？A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《喧哗与骚动》C. 《老人与海》D. 《白鲸》答案：B二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）1. 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》的作者是________。

答案：哈丽叶特·比彻·斯托2. 《红字》的作者是________。

答案：纳撒尼尔·霍桑3. 《草叶集》的作者是________。

答案：沃尔特·惠特曼4. 《愤怒的葡萄》的作者是________。

答案：约翰·斯坦贝克5. 《太阳照样升起》的作者是________。

答案：欧内斯特·海明威三、简答题（每题5分，共20分）1. 简述《白鲸》中主人公艾哈布船长的形象。

答案：艾哈布船长是《白鲸》中的主人公，他是一个对捕鲸有着极端执着的船长，他的复仇心理和对白鲸的执念几乎占据了他整个人生。

他的形象代表了人类对自然的挑战和对未知的恐惧。

2. 描述《了不起的盖茨比》中盖茨比的美国梦。

答案：《了不起的盖茨比》中的盖茨比代表了20世纪20年代的美国梦，他通过自己的努力从贫穷中崛起，追求财富和社会地位，但最终因为追求一个无法实现的爱情和对过去的执着而走向悲剧。

美国文学史习题(可编辑修改word版)

I.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items.(10 x 1’= 10’)1.In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment.was the dominant.A.humanismB. rationalismC. romanticismD. evolution2.The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s worknamed .A.The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York3.Which of the following is not the characteristic of AmericanRomanticism?A.RationalismB. inner selfC. personal feelingsD. individualism4.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the attitude of its author.A.optimisticB. pessimisticC. conservativeD. ironic5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by .A.short, clear sentencesB. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD. highly refined language6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates inand Thoreau.A.JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Mark Twain7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A.The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. OversoulD. Self-reliance8.is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.A.The Gilded AgeB. Innocent AbroadC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9.is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.A.Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. Walt WhitmanD. Hemingway10.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writingbecomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more .A.rationalB. humorousC. optimisticD. pessimistic II.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items.(10 x 1’= 10’)11.is the father of American Literature.A.Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. PaineD. Washington Irving12.is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the mainstream of life.A.“Rip Van Winkle”B. “The Pioneers”C. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”D. “The Fall of the House of Usher”13.was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A.ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature o f Mark Twain’s language?A.vernacularB. colloquialC. elegantD. humorousFrom Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, which stateshis belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of agovernment.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. CommonSense16.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A.The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. OversoulD. Self-reliance17.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” andthe as well.A.natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life18.What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?A.The Roaring 20sB. The Gay 20sC. The Jazz AgeD. The Lost Generation19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writingbecomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more .A.rationalB. humorousC. optimisticD. pessimistic20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and , the narrator, Moby Dick isstill a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A.AhabB. StubbC. IshmaelD. StarbuckII.Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whosename in unknown to us.a.Native Sonb.Uncle Tom’s Cabinc.Invisible Mand. Go Tell It onthe Mountains2.The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value of fineappearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.a.A Street Car Named Desireb. The Hairy Apec.Long Day’s Journeyinto Night d. Death of Salesman3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on theplaywright himself.a.Long Day’s Journey into Nightb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries4.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and howthe society is responsible for the murder.a.Native Sonb.Uncle Tom’s Cabinc.Invisible Mand. Go Tell It onthe Mountains5.is one of the best works in American literature about the SecondWorld War.a.A Farewell to Armsb.The Catcher in the Ryec.The Red Badge ofCourage d. The Naked and the Dead6.The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Armsb.The Sun Also Risesc.The Old Man and the Sead. The Naked and the Dead7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma andtravel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.a.The Grapes of Wrathb. U.S. A.c.Babbittd. The Adventures of Augie March8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, withsuch techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.a.Babbittb. Light in Augustc. U.S.A.d. The Grapes of Wrath9.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whosetitle is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a.Absolom, Absolom!b. The Sound and the Furyc.A Farewell to Armsd. The Great Gatsby10.It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how shebecomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.a.An American Tragedyb. Sister Carriec. McTeagued.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11.The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story inthe local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.a.Sister Carrieb.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnd.The Portrait of a Lady12.T he novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions inthe Civil War.a.An American Tragedyb. Sister Carriec.The Red Badge of Couraged. McTeague13.The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of theuniversality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd.Chicago14.The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a greatwhale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopusb. Moby-Dickc. The Rise of Silas Laphamd.Leaves of Grass15.It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainlyconcerned with the four uses of nature.a.Waldenb. Naturec. The Scarlet Letterd. The American ScholarI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named .a.The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. Titanic2.is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.a.Tennessee Williamsb. Eugene O’Neillc. Arthur Millerd. Elmer Rice 3.was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Washington Irvingc. Mark Twaind. Ernest Hemingway4.was the leader of American transcendentalism.a.Benjamin Franklinb. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emersond. Henry David Thoreau5.was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wroteabout 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a.Pearl S. Buckb.Harriet Bicher Stowec. Emily Dickensond. Walter Whitman6. is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a.Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan Poe7.W illiam Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a.Stephen Craneb. Frank Norrisc. Theodore Dreiserd. Henry James8.Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a.William Dean Howellsb. Mark Twainc. Ernest Hemingwayd.Theodore Dreiser9.His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is .a.Ernest Hemingwayb. William Faulknerc. F. Scott Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain10.He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in thedeep south. He is .a.William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Ernest Hemingwayd. Mark Twain11.is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jewsare major characters.a.Sinclair Lewisb. Saul Bellowc. Norman Mailerd. Jerome David Salinger12. is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a.Anne Bradstreetb. Robert Frostc. H.D.d. Emily Dickinson13.is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a.John Steinbeckb. William Faulknerc. Eugene O’Neilld. Arthur Miller14.He was the first black American to write a book about black life with greatimpact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he?a.Richard Wrightb. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughesd.Ralph Ellison15.Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereaswrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.a.W illiam Carlos Williamsb. William Faulknerc. John Steinbeckd. F.Scott FitzgeraldI.C hoose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):2.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the and the .a. N, Sb. Revolutionaries, Reactionariesc. Union, Confederacyd. Slavery, Anti-Slavery2.was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.a.Anne Bradstreetb. Edward Taylorc. Thomas Pained. Philip Freneau3.M ark Twain was a representative of in American literature.a.transcendentalismb. naturalismc. local colorismd. imagism4.was the leader of American transcendentalism.a.Benjamin Franklinb. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emersond. Henry David Thoreau5.T he greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is .a.Washington Irvingb.Ezra Poundc. Walt Whitmand. Emily Dickinson6.is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a.Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan Poe7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a.Stephen Craneb. Frank Norrisc. Theodore Dreiserd. William Dean Howells8.Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a.William Dean Howellsb. Mark Twainc. Ernest Hemingwayd.Theodore Dreiser9.’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.a.Ernest Hemingwayb. William Faulknerc. F. Scott Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain10. wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha Countyin the deep south. .a.William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Ernest Hemingwayd.Mark Twain11.is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jewsare major characters.a.Sinclair Lewisb. Saul Bellowc. Norman Mailerd. Jerome David Salinger12. is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a.Anne Bradstreetb. Robert Frostc. H.D.d. Emily Dickinson13.is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a.John Steinbeckb. William Faulknerc. Eugene O’Neilld. Arthur Miller14.was the first black American to write a book about black life withgreat impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.b. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughesd. Ralph Ellison15.first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short storiesa.F. Scott Fitzgeraldb. William Faulknerc. John Steinbeckd. ErnestHemingwayII.Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):6.The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognizedby his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.a. The Hairy Apeb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. Long Day’s J ourney into Nightd. The Glass Menageries7.The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.a.A Street Car Named Desireb. The Hairy Apec.Long Day’s Journeyinto Nightd.The Glass Menageries8.The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his name isunknown.a.Native Sonb.Uncle Tom’s Cabinc.Invisible Mand. Go Tell It on the Mountains4.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on theplaywright himself.a. Long Day’s Journey into Nightb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries5.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident andhow he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.a.Native Sonb.Uncle To m’s Cabinc.Invisible Mand. Go Tell It onthe Mountains6.is one of the best works in American literature about the SecondWorld War.a.A Farewell to Armsb.The Catcher in the Ryec.The Red Badge ofCouraged. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Armsb.The Sun Also Risesc.The Old Man and the Sead. The Naked and the Dead10.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma andtravel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.b. The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.c.Babbittd. The Adventures of Augie March11.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, withsuch techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.b. Babbitt b. Light in Augustc. U.S.A.d. The Grapes of Wrath12.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whosetitle is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a.Absolom, Absolom!b. The Sound and the Furyc.A Farewell to Armsd. The Great Gatsby10.It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes withHurstwood and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.a.An American Tragedyb. Sister Carriec. McTeagued.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11.It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group of people on awhaling ship kill a great whale but they themselves are killed by the whale in the end, except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.b.Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc.Moby Dickd. The Portrait of a Lady12.T he novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions inthe Civil War, in which wound is called the red badge which symbolizescourage.a.An American Tragedyb. Sister Carriec.The Red Badge of Couraged. McTeague13.The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of theuniversality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd.Chicago14.The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially but who risesmorally because he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.a.The Octopusb. The Rise of Silas Laphamc. Moby-Dickd.Leaves of Grass15.It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailed as the“declaration of intellectual independence” in America.a. The American Scholarb. Naturec. The Scarlet Letterd. WaldenII.Match the following (1×20%)A.Match Works with Their Authors1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly2.W alden3.Autobiography4.The Scarlet Letter5.Leaves of Grass6.The Raven7.The Rise of Silas Lapham8.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer9.Long Day’s Journey into Night10.The Old Man and the Seaa.Mark Twain b . Ernest Hemingwayc. Eugene O’Neilld. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitmang. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin Franklini.Henry David Thoreau j. Ezra Poundk.Thomas Jefferson l. T.S. EliotB.Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1. Hester Prynne2.Mrs. Touchett3.Frederick Henry4.Benjy Compson5.the Joads6.General Edward Cummings7.H olden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas8.Y ank 9.Happya.The Portrait of a Ladyb. The Scarlet Letterc. The Hairy Aped. A Farewell to Armse.The Sound and the Furyf. The Grapes of Wrathg. The Naked and the Deadh. The Catcher in the Ryei. Native Sonj. Death of a Salesmank.Invisible Manl.Catch-22III.Match the following (1’×20=20’)A.Match works with their authors1.Nature2.R ip Van Winkle3.Nature4.The Scarlet Letter5.Leaves of Grass6.The Raven7.The Rise of Silas Lapham8.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9.Cantos10.The Old Man and the Seaa.Ezra Poundb. Ernest Hemingwayc. Mark Twaind. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitmang. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emersoni.Washington Irving j. Waldo Emersonk.T.S. Eliot l. Robert FrostB.Match characters with the works in which they appear.2. Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer3.Frederic Henry and Catherine4.Benjy Compson5.the Joads6.General Edward Cummings7.Holden Caulfield 8.Bigger Thomas9.The Tyrones 10.Willy Lomana.The Portrait of a Ladyb. Moby-Dickc. Death of a Salesmand. A Farewell to Armse.The Sound and the Furyf. The Grapes of Wrathg. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Ryei. Native Son j. Long Day’s Journey into Nightk.Absalom, Absalom l. The Old Man and the SeaV.Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.1.To the best of your knowledge, analyze and make comments on Emerson’sNaturement on any American poet you like.3.Analyze and/or comment on any one of the American novels or plays youhave read.V. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have atleast 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may givea title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics itbelongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.)4.Make comments on an American novel we have discussed in this course.ment on an American poet.6.Describe how your knowledge of American literature is improved aftertaking this course..IV.Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ =20’)1.Why do people think Franklin is the embodiment of American dream?2.What is “Lost Generation”?V.Discussion. (1 x 20’ =20’)State your own interpretations of Hemingway’s iceberg theory of writing?IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)3.What is Hawthorne’s style? Explain the style with examples.4.At the end of the 19th century, there were three fighters for Realism. Whoare they? What are their differences?True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)1.American literature is the oldest of all national literature.2.Thomas Jefferson was the only American to sign the 4 documents that created the US.3.All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil.4.Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology.5.Hurstwood is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.6.Faulkner’s region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.7.Placed in historical perspective, Howells is found lacking in qualities and depth. But anyhow he is a literary figure worthy of notice.8.Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.9.As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.10.Emily Dickinson expresses her deep love in the poem “Annabel Lee”.II.Decide whether the statements are True or False. (10 x 2’=20’)1.Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.2.American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural elements.3.As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.4.“Young Goodman Brown” wants to prove everyone possesses kindness in heart.5.Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Twain or Howells.6.The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality.7.Frost’s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.8.Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.9.Roger Chillingworth is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.10.After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one.。

美国文学史练习题

美国文学史练习题美国文学史练习题1、回答问题What are the features of American Puritanism?What is transcendentalism?Transcendentalism: is a philosophic and literary movement that flourished in New England, partic ular at Concord, as a reaction against Rationalism and Calvinism. Mainly it stressed intuitive unde rstanding of God, without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind. The re presentative writers are Emerson and Thoreau.What is the main idea of Walden?Thoreau’s work demonstrates how the abstract ideals of libertarianism and individualism can be effectively instilled in a person’s life. In Walden (1854) Thoreau explains his motives for living apart from society and devoting himself to a simple lifestyle and to the observation of nature. The book not only displays Emersonian ideas of self-reliance but also develops Thoreau’s own transcendental idea. For Thoreau, nature is not merely symbolic, but divine in itself and human beings can receive precise communication from the natural world by way of pure sense. T o achieve personal spiritual perfection he thinks the most important thing for man is to be self-sufficient.Wha t is the significance of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?The work has always been considered a monumental work because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideal. It has nine editions and the first edition was published in 1855.In the giant work, Whitman shows concern for the whole hardworking people and the burgeoning life of thecities. The realization of the individual value also found a tough position in his poems in a particular way. In celebrating the self, Whitman emphasizes the physical dimension of the self and openly celebrates sexuality. Some of his poems are politically committed. Stylistically, Whitman experiments with a mixture of the colloquial diction and prose rhythm of journalism. The direct address is another salient feature of his poetry. He constructs a democratic “I”, a voi ce that sets out to celebrate itself and the rapture of its sense experiencing the world. He initiated the form of free verse in America that endows his poems with a flow of musicality a sense of rhythm.What is James’ “international theme”?“The international theme” refers to the moral and psychological complications when the American innocence encountered the European sophisticationThe typical Americans in James: fresh, enthusiastic, eager to learn, and basically “good”, disregard of the conventions, sta nd for moralityThe Europeans in James : highly cultivated, elegant in manners, but sophisticated. stand for mannersWhat is ImagismThe Imagism came into being in Britain and U.S. around 19010 under the influnce of French symbolism, chinese poetry and Japanese literature. The imagists, with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the most effective means to express these momentary expression is through the use of image. The main priciples are direct treatment of thing; using words for presentation and the mu sical phrase. Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro is a well-known imagist poetry.2、评论1)In the Metro by Ezra Pound在地铁车站The apparition of these faces in the crowd,Petals on a wet, black bough.2) I’m Nobody! Who Are You? By Emily DickinsonI'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there’s a pair of us — don't tell!They’d b anish us, you know.How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!作者及作品的背景介绍、他人研究、作品内容、个人评价（意象、格律、修辞等）、影响及作用。

美国文学史期末考试资料

殖民时期的美国: Colonial America 17c早——18c末1. 从英国探险者和殖民者在新大陆的作品开始，描述他们在新大陆真实而精力充沛的冒险。

2. 另一类为清教作品Philip Freneau 菲利普·费瑞诺：第一位美国抒情诗人兼记者“Father of American Poetry”(美国诗歌之父)Puritanism: 清教主义American Puritanism influences on American literature:1. Idealism and optimism 理想主义和乐观主义2. Symbolism 象征主义3. Simplicity. 简洁1.Edwards爱德华兹：the first modern American can the country’s last medieval man.“the current of Transcendentalism, originating in the piety of the Puritans, vecoming a philosophy in Jonathan Ed wards, passing through Emerson.”超验论由清教徒的虔诚演变而来在乔纳森·爱德华兹的哲理得到发展继而传给爱默生4、典型的清教徒： John Cotton & Roger William他们的不同：John Cotton was much more concerned with authority than with democracy; William begins the history of religious toleration in America.5、William的宗教观点：Toleration did not stem from a lack of religious convictions. Instead, it sprang from the idea that simply to be virtuous in conduct and devout in belief did not give anyone the right to force belief on others. He also felt that no political order or church system could identify itself directly with God. 行为上的德，信仰上的诚，并没有给任何人强迫别人该如何行事的权利。

大学课程《美国文学史》期末试卷及参考答案

大学课程《美国文学史》期末试卷1.Darwinism2.Lost generation3.Imagism4.Free VerseⅡ. Matching （本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 1. John Steinbeck 2. T.S. Eliot 3. Carl Sandburg 4. F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe 6. O ’ Henry 7. Thomas Paine 8. Ernest Hemingway 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. A Farewell to Arms b. Common Sense c. Uncle Tom’s Cabind. The Cop and the Antheme. The Grapes of Wrathf. Fogg. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock h. Naturei. The Great Gatsby j. The Scarlet Letter.Ⅲ. Multiple choice.（本大题共 35 小题，每小题 1 分，共 35 分）1.In the early nineteenth century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothi ng has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did_______. A.Puritanism B Romanticism C Rationalism D Sentimentalism2. Franklin wrote and published his famous__________, an annul collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard‘s AlmanackC. Common SenseD. The Genera l Magazine3. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. _______was the dominant spirit.A. Humanism B Rationalism C Revolution D Evolution 4.________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A.William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC.Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith 5..Which is not Irving‘s works in the following.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a Traveller C .A History of New York D To A Waterfowl 6. Choose Freneau‘s poem from the following.A. The RavenB. To a WaterfowlC. To HellenD. The wild Honey Suckle7. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet___to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. Philip FreneauC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allan Poe pared with his contemporaries, _________was no doubt the best in exploring the wildness and frontier in fiction.A. Washington IrvingB. James Fenimore CooperC. William Cullen Bryant D Philip Freaneau9. Washington Irving‘s ‘Rip Van Winkle‘ is famous for_________. A.Rip‘s escape into a mysterious valleyB.The story‘s German legendary source materialC. Rip‘s seeking for happinessD. Rip‘s 20-years sleep 10. Choose Poe‘s work from the followingA. The Day of DoomB.The Last of the MohicansC. The Indian Burying Ground D The Fall of the House of Usher 11.Choose Irving‘s work from the following .A. The Sketch BookB. ThanatopsisC. The SpyD.The British Prison Ship 12._______ is the most commonly used in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllabl e comes first followed by a stressed.A. the trochaic footB. an anapestic footC. a quatrainD. a iambic foot 13. The Indian Burying Ground by___________ is the earliest poem which romanticizes the Indian as a child of nature.A. Washington IrvingB. Adgar Alan PoeC.Philip FreneauD.Nathaniel Hawthorne 14._______ is a poetic device used to increase the musical quality and link the lines and stanzas of a poem.A. meterB. repetitionC. rhymeD.foot15.Poetry is aimed at conveying and enriching human experience which is formed throu gh sense impressions. _____ is the representation of sense experience through language. A . meter B. image C. theme D. assonance16. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant.院系：专业班级：姓名：学号：装订线A. humanismB. rationalismC. romanticismD. evolution17. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ______.A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York18. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A. RationalismB. inner selfC. personal feelingsD. individualism19.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. conservativeD. ironic20. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___and ThoreauA. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Mark Twain21. Which is r egarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. OversoulD. Self-reliance22. ______ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. PaineD. Washington Irving23. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman24. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life25. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. AhabB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Starbuck26. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd. Chicago27. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopusb. Moby-Dickc. The Rise of Silas Laphamd. Leaves of Grass28. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.a. The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. Titanic29._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buckb. Harriet Bicher Stowec. Emily Dickensond. Walter Whitman30. ._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan Poe31. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. ——was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution 32.——Which statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.33.Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick34.The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's ——and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD.A history of New York35.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to asA. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic PeriodIV. Identification of Fragments（本大题共有7个诗歌或小说选段，请选5个选段并回答其后的问题，答题时请先注明选段, 再回答问题。

美国文学史期考试题

1. From 1732 to 1758, he wrote and published his famous Poor Richard's Almanack, an annual collection of proverbs2. Philip Freneau has been called the "Father ofAmerican Poetry", andof American Poetry", and it is ultimately in a historical estimate that Freneau is important.3. Cooper's "Leather-stocking Tale" are a series of five novels, including The Pioneers(1823),The Last of the Mohicans(1825),The Prairie(1827),The Pathfinder(1841),and The Deerslayer(1843)4. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.5. Henry David Thoreau's work, Walden, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.6. Hester Pryme, Dimmesdate, Chillingworth,and Pearl are most likely thenames of the characters in the novel The Scarlet Letter7. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and theinfluence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American naturalism.8. Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean Howells are the three strongadvocates of 19th century American realism.9. The poetic style Whitman devised is now called free verse , that is poetrywithout a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10. The Gilded Age (1873), written by Mark T wain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner.11. Mark Twain is aiso known as a local colorist who preferred to present social life through portraits of the local characters of his regions.12. In 1881, Henry James published his novel The Portrait of a Lady, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.13. Henry James is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator14. Theodore DreiserTrilogy of Desire”” includes The Financier, The Titan, Theodore Dreiser’’s s ““Trilogy of Desireand The Staic.15. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which was calledthe "Imagis t Movement".16. In Robert Frost's "The Road Not T aken", the speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon two roads that diverged ina wood17. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises,Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “Lost Generation”18. In 1954,Hemingway was awarded a Nobel Price for his Literature/ The Old Man and the Sea19. John Steinbeck gave a realistic account of farmers miserable experience during the Great Depression in his novel The Grapes of Wrath20. F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel The Great Gatsby, shattered the "American dream" that so many people craved.。

美国文学史期考试题

1.Almanack, an annual collection of proverbs2. Philip Freneau has been called the "Father of American Poetry", andit is ultimately in a historical estimate that Freneau is important.3. Cooper's "Leather-stocking Tale" are a series of five novels, includingThe Pioneers(1823),The Last of the Mohicans(1825),ThePrairie(1827),The Pathfinder(1841),and The Deerslayer(1843)4.Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whalingvoyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.5.Henry David Thoreau's work, Walden, has always been regarded as amasterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.6.Hester Pryme, Dimmesdate, Chillingworth,and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in the novel The Scarlet Letter.7.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and theinfluence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of lettersgave rise to yet another school of realism: American naturalism.8.Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean Howells are the three strongadvocates of 19th century American realism.9.The poetic style Whitman devised is now called free verse , that is poetrywithout a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10.The Gilded Age(1873), written by Mark T wain in collaboration withCharles Dudley Warner.11.Mark Twain is aiso known as a local colorist who preferred to present social life through portraits of the local characters of his regions.12.In 1881, Henry James published his novel The Portrait of a Lady, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.13.Henry James is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator14.Theodore Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire” includes The Financier,The Titan, and The Staic.15.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which was called the "Imagis t Movement".16.In Robert Frost's "The Road Not T aken", the speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon two roads that diverged ina wood17.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises,Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “Lost Generation”In 1954,Hemingway was awarded a Nobel Price for his Literature/ The Old Man and the Sea19.John Steinbeck gave a realistic account of farmers miserable experience during the Great Depression in his novel The Grapes of Wrath20. F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel The Great Gatsby, shattered the "American dream" that so many people craved.。

（完整版）美国文学史练习

（完整版）美国文学史练习Exercises of Chapter 2I. Multiple Choice1. Which of the following is NOT one part of The LeatherStocking Tales by Cooper?A. The SpyB. The PathfinderC. The PioneersD. The Deerslayer2. Which statement about Thoreau was NOT right?A. He was a lover of nature.B. He was a particular kind of romantic.C. He was a polemicist.D. He was a thorough transcendentalist.3. Which of the following has been called “the manifesto of American transcendentalism?”A. Divinity School AddressB. Self-RelianceC. NatureD. The American Scholar4. As a philosophical and literary movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. sentimentalismB. transcendentalismC. modernismD. rationalism5. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .A. the Modern PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Naturalist Period6. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT .A. The Marble FaunB. TypeeC. The Scarlet LetterD. Mosses form an Old Manse7. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson’s?A. I Heard a Fly Buzz When I DiedB. The RavenC. This is My Letter to the WorldD. I Like to See it Lap the Miles8. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT.A. the strict poetic formB. the free and natural rhythmC. the easy flow of feelingsD. the simple and conversational language9. Poe’s first collection of stories is .A. Tales of a TravelerB. Leather Stocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque10. Which book is not written by Emerson?A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. NatureD. Civil Disobedience11. The first example of Hawthorn’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in .A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest12. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is .A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Henry David ThoreauD. Washington Irving13. Transcendentalists recognized as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking14. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men15. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustinC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher16. Captain, My Captain is written for .A. LincolnB. WhitmanC. WashingtonD. Heminway17. Which of the following books is a tremendous chronicle of an appalling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale?A. The Scarlet LetterB. Moby DickC. The Marble FaunD. Moses from an Old Manse18. was the first man of letters from the United States to win and international reputation.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. James Fenimore CooperD. Longfellow19. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most outstanding of all the writers in literature.A. transcendental/ EnglishB. transcendental/ AmericanC. realistic/ EnglishD. realistic/ American20. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a .A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translator21. In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Henry David ThoreauD. Herman Melville22. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is in .A. England during World War IIB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. the Middle Ages in ItalyD. Puritan America23. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes .A. the microcosm of human societyB. a search for truthC. the unknown worldD. nature24. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with .A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings25. tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.A. Twice-told TalesB. The Scarlet LetterC. The House of the Seven GablesD. The Marble Faun26. is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick27. Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, .A. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”B. “Rip Van Winkle”C. “The Custom-House”D. “The Birthmark”28. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the Great NatureD. evil of the world29. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. all the above30. For Melville, as well as for the reader and , the narrator, Moby-Dick is stilla mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. StarbuckB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Arab31. was a romanticized account of Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville becomeknown as the “man who lived among cannibals”.A. Moby-DickB. TypeeC. OmooD. Billy Budd32. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except .A. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace33. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except .A. brevityB. directnessC. plainest wordsD. obscure34. is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Walt WhitmanC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain35. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear .A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers36. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as .A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experienceB. the thought that designates man as a social animalC. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD. the modes of thinking37. In the poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of .A. the theory of universalityB. singularity and equality of all beings in valueC. both A and BD. none above38. Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and theas well.A. natureB. lifeC. selfD. self-reliance39. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. Lyrical and well-structuredB. Free-flowingC. Simple and rather crudeD. Conversational and casual40. In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death .A. passionatelyB. pessimisticallyC. in despairD. peacefullyII. Bland Filling1. The Romantic period in the American literary history covers the time between the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war . It started with the publication of Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass . This period is also called Romanticism .2. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and the other is The Life of George Washington .3. In Song of Myself , Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.4. Typee by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.5. From Thoreau’s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay Civil Disobedience .6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter .7. Published in 1823, The Pioneer , the first of The Leatherstocking Tales, in their publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.8. Edgar Allan Poe can somewhat be called “the Father of the American detective story”.。

美国文学史及选读试题

美国文学史及选读试题美国文学历史悠久，涵盖了从殖民时期到现代的丰富多样的文学作品。

通过选读这些经典之作，我们可以深入了解美国的文化和历史发展。

下面是一些关于美国文学史和选读作品的试题，请读者根据自己的知识进行回答。

一、选择题1. 第一部英文小说《战争与和平》是哪位美国作家创作的？A. 小仲马B. 杰克伦敦C. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑D. 瓦尔特·司各特2. 下列哪位作家是美国现实主义文学的代表人物？A. 威廉·福克纳B. 马克·吐温C. 弗兰西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德D. 亨利·大卫·梭罗3. 著名的美国黑人女作家托妮·莫里森是哪位作家的学生？A. 马克·吐温B. 弗拉纳里欧·康拉德C. 托马斯·惠特塞D. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑4. “美国小说的诞生”被广泛认为是现代美国小说的开山之作，该小说的作者是：A. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔B. 弗兰西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德C. 马克·吐温D. 弗朗西斯·帕斯科尔·斯科特·凯·菲茨杰拉德5. 下列作品中，哪部是美国南方文学的代表作？A. 《老人与海》B. 《汤姆·索亚历险记》C. 《失乐园》D. 《白鲸记》二、简答题1. 简述美国现代主义文学的特点及代表作品。

2. 简述美国儿童文学的发展历程和重要作品。

3. 简述美国南方文学的特点及主要代表人物。

4. 阅读穆迪·爱伦·波尔的《黑猫》，简述其所具有的恐怖文学特色。

5. 简述哈兰·埃里森的《看不见的人》中所反映的黑人社会问题和意义。

三、论述题请根据你对美国文学史及选读作品的理解，选择一个主题或观点进行论述，并引用相关作品作为支持。

（提示：主题可以是美国梦、自由、社会问题等，观点可以是对某位作家、作品的评价、文学风格等。

美国文学史及选读试卷

美国文学史及选读试卷Ⅰ.Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (60points in all, 2 for each)1. Which of following can be said of the common features which are shared by the English and American Romanticists ?A. An increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions.B. An increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.C. An increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature.D. both A and B.2. Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of American literature is NOT true? （）A. In most of the American writings of this period there was a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature.B. The writers of this period placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.C. There was a strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man.D. Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of reason and nationality.3.______ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism in the history of American literature.A. New England TranscendentalismB. England TranscendentalismC. the Harlem RenaissanceD. New Transcendentalism4.Hawthorn e’s unique gift was for the creation of ______ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.A. symbolic storiesB. romantic storiesC. gothic storiesD. humorous stories5. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not right?A. It's very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.B. It's a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.C. It's mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.6. Which of the following statements is said about most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?A. They identify his ego with the conservative America.B. They celebrate the self and ignore sexuality.C. They sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.D. They reject the pursuit of love and happiness of individuals.7.Realism was a reaction against （）or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. SymbolismB. ImagismC. RomanticismD. Mysticism8. The subjects of Emily Dickinson’s poems are mainl y about .A. religionB. death and immortalityC. love and natureD. all of the above9. The three dominant figures in the period of Realism of American are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and_________. （）A. Henry JamesB. Tom JamesC. James JoyceD. Henry Joyce10. In his masterpiece The Portrait of A Lady Henry James _________ .A. incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environmentB. tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life as well as the American societyC. describes a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Ro meD. tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life11. Which of the following can be said about the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller?A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the new world.B. The author’s sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome was easily felt.C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new world.D. all of the above12. As Emily Dickinson’s poems about love are concerned, which of the following is not right ?A. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain of separation, and the futility of finding happiness.B. Some of her love poems treat the suffering and frustration love can cause.C. Her love poems show people’s feelings of rapture and happiness coming from their love experience.13. More than five hundred poems Emily Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general ________ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.（）A. denialB. eulogyC. skepticismD. happiness14. In his “Trilogy of Desire”, Theodore Dreiser’s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century. The “Trilogy of Desire”includes The Financial, The Titan and _________.（）A. The StoicB. The GeniusC. An American TragedyD. Jennie Gerhardt15.In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, which was still a big influence upon the writers of this period, there were two thinkers____whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.A. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund FreudB. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund FreudC. the Swiss Car Jung and the American William JamesD. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud16. Eugene O'Neill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about ______.A. the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrationsB. the moral nature of the modern mankindC. the relationship between man and nature as well as man and womanD. the inner contradiction of men before the real world17. In general terms, much serious American literature written from 1912 onwards attempted to convey ______.A. a vision of social breakdown and moral decayB. a vision of social continuity and harmonyC. the continuity and discontinuity between the past and the modern timeD. all of the above18. Which of the following is not said about the main principles of the Imagist Movement? ______A. a direct treatment of poetic subjectsB. the elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous wordsC. the rhythmical composition in the sequence of the musical phrase rather than in the sequence of a metronomeD. the treatment of the medium of poetry in agreement with Romanticism19. Most of O'Neill's plays are concerned about the following except______.A. success and failure in man's literary careerB. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and realityC. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustrationD. the basic issues of human existence and predicament20. Which of the following can be said about a typical modern literary work?A. It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.B. It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory.C. It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience.D. Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public.21. Which of following is not right about the thematic concerns of Robert Frost ?A. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beauty.B. His sense of failure and meaninglessness about human life.C. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from working.D. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being.22. Which of the following can be said about O’Neill’s plays?A. His plays concern especially the relationship between man and women of the modern age.B. His expressionistic experimentations contained his optimistic vision in some non-realistic forms.C. His plays of expressionistic experimentation daringly penetrate into race religions, class conflicts, sexual bondage, and social critiques.D. Many of them are attached with a profound insight into nature and tremendous skill and logic.23. Hemingway's first true novel （）casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The LostGeneration.”A. The Sun Also RisesB. The Old Man and the SeaC. For Whom the Bell TollsD.A Farewell to Arms24.In 1950, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist （）.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Intruder in the DustC. The UnvanquishedD. Light in August25. As to Ezra Pound, which of the following statements is not correct?A. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.B. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.D. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions.26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century _________ novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. localB. colorC. physicalD. stream-of-consciousness27. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of_________.A. the free spirit of the New WorldB. the corruption of the newly richC. the force of convictionD. the change of the social force28. “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated wi th cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street.” This is a detailed description of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply the person living in it_________.A. is an old womanB. has good tasteC. is a conservative aristocratD. is a prisoner of the past29. In his novels, Faulkner creates his own kingdom that mirrors _________.A. the frivolity and carelessness of the young generation and the sense of loss and despair of the whole society.B. the spiritual wasteland of the Southern society and the decline of the whole American societyC. the sense of loss and despair among the post-war generation and the decline of the whole American societyD. the decline of the Southern society and the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society30. Which of the following can be said about Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily ?A. The “stream of consciousness” technique is employed in it .B. The chronology of narration is displaced.C. Its language is too symbolic and the dialogues are fragmented.D. There are too many characters whose relations are too complicated.Ⅱ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 2 point for each)（）1. Theodore Dreiser A. The Cantos（）2. Mark Twain B. The Great Gatsby（）3. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Sister Carrie（）4 . F. S. Fitzgerald D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（）5. Ezra Pound E. The Scarlet LetterⅢ. Explain the following terms. (25points in total, 5 points for each)1.American naturalism2.Lost Generation3.Imagism4.Modernism5.Harlem RenaissanceⅣ. Answer the following question. (5points) What is the Chinese culture over Pound?。

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美国文学史及选读练习题I. Choose the relevant match from Column II for each item in Column I. Section A I II( ) 1. Walt Whitman A. The Scarlet Letter( ) 2. Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book( ) 3. Washington Irving C. Typee( ) 4. O Henry D. Leaves of Grass( ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne E. The Gift of the MagiSection B I II( ) 1. Hester Prynne A. The Portrait of A Lady( ) 2. George Hurstwood B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( ) 3. Isabel Archer C. Moby Dick( ) 4. Ahab D. Sister Carrie( ) 5. Eva Clare E. The Scarlet LetterSection C I II( ) 1. Benjamin Franklin A. Martin Eden( ) 2. Thomas Paine B. Leather-Stocking Tales( ) 3. James Fenimore Cooper C. Rights of Man( ) 4. Mark Twain D. Poor Richars’s Almanac( ) 5. Jack London E. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnII. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10%)1In Washington Irving’s work appeared the first modern Short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.2The first important American novelist was .3To a Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of ______’s work, it regarded as “the most perfect brief poem in the language ” .4 A superb book entitled ______ came out of Henry David Thoreau’s two-year lifeexperience near a small lake.5William Sidney Porter，whose pen name was ______，was the author of The Cop and the Anthem．6Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.7American Romanticism ended with the Walt Whiteman’s.8was called “the father of the American detective stories”.9was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England.10Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is.11The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth,Massachusetts.12______was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War．13American Romanticism started with the publication of Washington Irving’s ______ .14The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.15Benjamin Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece .16On January 10,1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared. 17Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.18The most outstanding poet in America of 18th century was .19was the first American lyric poet.20was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England.III: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the ONE that would best complete the statement.1. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD.Thomas Paine4. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism5. Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick6. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism7. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea8. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment9. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman10. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham11. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men12. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in andThoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Oversoul13. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”?A. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The StoicD. An American Tragedy14. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD. Daisy Miller15.Walden is written by .A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. PoeD. Hawthorne16. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain17. is famous for psychological realism.A. Mark TwainB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman18. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance19. Who was the ONLY good American author before the Revolutionary War.A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas PaineD. Thomas Jefferson20. As a literary and philosophical movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism21. ____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience22.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace23. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” The book refers to ____.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin24. In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above25. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what MarkTwain referred to as ____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age26. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher27. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau28. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD.Thomas Paine29. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism30. Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick31. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism32. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea33. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment34. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman35. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham36. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men37. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in andThoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Oversoul38. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”?A. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The StoicD. An American Tragedy39. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD. Daisy Miller40.Walden is written by .A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. PoeD. Hawthorne41. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain42. is famous for psychological realism.A. Mark TwainB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman43. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance44. Who was the ONLY good American author before the Revolutionary War.A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas PaineD. Thomas Jefferson45. As a literary and philosophical movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism46. ____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience47.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace48. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started thi s great war!” The book refers to ____.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin49. In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above50. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what MarkTwain referred to as ____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan AgeIV: Define the literary terms listed below.1Transcendentalism2Free Verse3 Local ColorV: Answer the following questions briefly based on your understanding of the texts studied.To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.Questions:a. This paragraph is taken from a famous essay. What is the name of the essay?b. Who is the author?c. What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years?d. Give a specific term to cover the author’s belief?。

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美国文学史考试题美国文学史概述自殖民时期起，美国文学就展现出其独特的风貌与精神。

从早期的宗教影响和对欧洲文学的依赖，到独立战争后的民族意识觉醒，再到现代多元化的文学探索，美国文学史是一部丰富多彩、波澜壮阔的历史。

本文将对美国文学史进行梳理，以期对这一重要领域的发展历程有一个清晰的认识。

殖民时期与早期文学美国文学的萌芽可以追溯到17世纪的殖民时期。

这一时期的文学作品主要以宗教布道和日记形式出现，反映了清教徒的信仰和对新世界的观察。

例如，约翰·温思罗普的《基督徒慈善的模范》和安妮·哈钦森的通信记录，都是早期文学的代表。

这些作品不仅传达了当时的宗教观念，也展现了移民们在新大陆的生活状态和心理感受。

启蒙时期与独立战争18世纪的启蒙运动对美国文学产生了深远的影响。

这一时期的作家开始摆脱宗教束缚，追求理性与个人自由。

本杰明·富兰克林的自传体作品《富兰克林自传》就是一个典型的例子，它不仅是一部个人奋斗史，也体现了美国梦的雏形。

此外，托马斯·潘恩的《常识》等政治小册子，更是激发了民众的独立意识，对美国革命起到了推波助澜的作用。

浪漫主义时期19世纪前半叶，美国文学进入了浪漫主义时期。

这一时期的作家强调个人情感的表达，对自然和超自然现象有着浓厚的兴趣。

华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷传奇》和詹姆斯·菲尼莫尔·库珀的《最后一个莫希干人》等作品，不仅描绘了美国边疆的风光，也反映了对印第安文化的同情和对自然和谐的向往。

此外，爱伦·坡的哥特式小说和诗歌，如《乌鸦》和《安娜贝尔·李》，以其独特的美学风格和深刻的心理探索，对后世产生了深远的影响。

现实主义与自然主义19世纪后半叶，随着工业化和城市化的进程，美国文学开始转向现实主义和自然主义。

威廉·迪恩·豪厄尔斯的《塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹》和亨利·詹姆斯的《贵妇人的画像》等作品，通过对中产阶级生活的细致描绘，展现了社会变迁对个人命运的影响。

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