美国文学秋季学期练习题6 有答案

美国文学史及作品选读练习6

I. Blank filling.（每小题2分，共20分)

1.The Puritan philosophy known as ____________ was important in New England during colonial time, and had a profound

influence on the early American mind for several generations.

2.The term “ Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of _________.

3.___________ was considered as the “ Poet of the American Rev olution”, because he wrote impassioned verse in support of

the American Revolution.

4.In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of _____________and Revolution.

5.In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Pioneers, the first of the five novels that make up___________.

6.In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote _________which became the first work by an American writer to win

financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.

7.The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is __________, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking,

Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.

8.The ________ is the most commonly used foot in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllable comes first, followed by a

stressed syllable.

9._________ is the repetition of similar vowel sounds situated in a sentence, a verse line or series of words.

10.____________’s poetry embodies his conviction that the function of poetry is not to summarize and interpret earthly

experience, but to create a mood in which the soul soars toward supernal beauty.

II. Make the best choice. （每小题2分，共20分)

1.The first American literature was neither American nor literature. It was not American because it was the work mainly of

immigrants from________

A.England

B.France

C.Dutch

D.Spain

2.Hard work , thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the __________values that dominated much of the early American writing.

A.Calvinism

B.Romantic

C.Puritan

D.British

3.Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ___________.

A.American Enlightenment

B.Sugar Act

C.Chartist

D.Romanticist

4.The appearance of _____________ marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist.

A. Young Goodman Brown

B The Prairie

C The Scarlet letter

D. The House of the Seven Gables

5.In the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Which statement is not the characteristic of

Romanticism?

A.Sobriety and simplicity

B.Faith in the value of individualism

C.Intuitive perception

D.Adoration for the natural world

6._____________ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.

A. The Wild Honey Suckle

B. Rip Van Winkle

C. The Pioneer

D. The Scarlet Letter

7. Choose the work written by Poe.