美国文学史及选读试题上册

美国文学史及选读试题上册

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I. Multiple Choice 20’ I.

1. Who is different from others according to the division of writing period?

A. Washington Irving

B.William Cullen Bryant

C. Captain John Smith

D. James Fenimore Cooper

2. The American Romantic Period lasted roughly from ____ to ____.

A. 1798-1832

B. 1810-1860

C. 1860-1864

D. 1776-1783

3. How many syllables are there in this first line of Raven?

(“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,”)

A. 11

B. 12

C. 13

D. 16

4. What dominated the Puritan phase of American writing?

A. theology

B. literature

C. esthetics

D. revolution

5. At the initial period of the spread of ideas of the Enlightenment was largely due to ____.

A. typography

B. journalism

C. revolution

D. the development of paper-making industry

6. Who has been called the “Father of American Literature”?

A. Walt Scott

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. Washington Irving

D. Philip Freneau

7. Who is the first American prose stylist that acquired international fame?

A. Captain John Smith

B. Washington Irving

C. Benjamin Franklin

D.

E. A. Poe

8. Who is the writer of To a Waterfowl?

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Thomas Hardy

C. William Cullen Bryant

D. Walt Whitman

9. Thomas Paine is a ____.

A. novelist

B. dramatist

C. poet

D. pamphleteer

10. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes ____

A. short stories

B. literary critic theories

C. poems

D. dramas

II. Blank-Filling 20’

1. ____’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.

2. Hard work, ____, piety, and ____were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing, including the sermons, books and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather.

3. Most Puritan verse was decidedly plodding, but the work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of____

4. From 1732 to 1785, Franklin wrote and published his famous ____, an annual collection of proverbs.

5. On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet ____ appeared. It boldly advocated a

“Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis.

6. As a poet, ____heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.

1. Annabel Lee ,a poem from_____________ ,mourns the death of a beautiful girl .

7. Romantic writers placed increasing value on the ____ expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the ____ states of their characters.

8. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: ____ and ____.

9. The central figure in Cooper’s Novels, ____ goes by various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslyer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.

III. Chinese Alternation of English Literary Terms 10’

1. Puritanism

2. Romanticism

3. Sketch Book

4. Thanatopsis

5. Self-Reliance

IV.Identificaiton .25’

author:________________ work:_________________

1.I had begun in 1733 to study languages; I soon made my self so much a master of the French as to be able to read the books with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length refused to play any more…

2.At the next moment, the breech of Hawkeye’s rifle fell on the naked head of his adversary, whose muscles appeared to wither under the shock, as he sank from the arms of Duncan, flexible and motionless.

3.From morning suns and evening dews

At first thy little being came:

If nothing once, you nothing lose,

For when you die you are the same;”

4.I was a child and she was a child

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love---

5. On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes----it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze “ Surely,” thought Rip, “ I have not slept here all night.” He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep.

V. Answer the following q uestions. 25’

1. What does the word “Power” in To a Waterfowl refer to? 5’

2. What is your understanding on Helen in the poem To Helen? 5’

3. What is the tone of Thanatopsis? 5’

4. What is American Transcendentalism ?. 10’