美国文学期中考试及答案

《美国文学史及选读》期中测试

I. Multiple Choice 20’

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. Moby Dick is considered as the first American

A. Comic epic

B. Dramatic epic

C. Poetic fiction

D. Prose epic

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

2. Hard work, _thrift___, piety, and _sobriety___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____real poetry

4.From 1732 to 1785, Franklin wrote and published his famous _ Poor Richard’s Almanac

___, an annual collection of proverbs.

5.On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet __Common Sense __ appeared. It boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis.

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

7 .Annabel Lee ,a poem from____Edgar Allan Poe_________ ,mourns the death of a beautiful