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Quiz 1

1. Long before European settlers arrived in North America, Asians, known as the ancestors of

American Indians or Native Americans, had been living there for thousands of years.

2. America was rediscovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492.

3. The early Puritans who arrived in New England in 1620 on a ship called the Mayflower were called

the Pilgrim Fathers.

4. Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influence over American moral values and American

literature.

5. American Puritans accepted as their theological foundation the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination,

original sin, total depravity, and salvation of a selected few through a special infusion of grace from God.

6. For its early colonial years American literature reflected the settlement and growth of the American

colonies, largely through diaries, travel books, letters, journals, sermons, and histories.

7. Anne Bradstreet is the first female poet in North America.

8. George Washington is the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the War of

Independence against the British colonial rule and the first President of the United States.

9. Thomas Jefferson is the chief author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of

the United States.

10. Benjamin Franklin did an experiment with a kite to prove that lightning was electricity;

11. The revolutionary period of the American literature is called the age of revolution, as well as the Age

of Reason because of the American Enlightenment.

12. Benjamin Franklin summarized 13 virtues as a project of arriving at moral perfection in his work

The Autobiography.

Quiz 2 (Week 8): The Literature of the Romantic Period

1. The Romantic Period in American Literature started with the p ublication of B .

A. Washington Irving’s Tales of A Traveler

B. Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book

C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

D. James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales

2. Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by A .

A. Washington Irving

B. James Fenimore Cooper

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. Mark Twain

3. “The American Renaissance” is the period of C in the history of American literature.

A. Local Colorism

B. Colonism

C. Romanticism

D. New England Transcendentalism

4. Which of the following features of American Romanticism is different from that of British Romanticism?B

A. Expression of the artist’s imaginations, emotions, impressions, or beliefs.

B. A strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good” of the whole nation.

C. Love for the remote, supernatural, mysterious, exotic and illogical quality of things.

D. To see nature as a source of mental cleanness and spiritual understanding.

5. The Publication of D established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.

A. Self-Reliance

B.The Over-Soul

C.The American Scholar

D. Nature

6. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled C at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmeasas: “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence”.

A. “Self-Reliance”

B. “Divinity School Address”

C. “The American Scholar”

D. “Nature”

7. Henry David Thoreau’s work, B , has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.

A. Nature

B. Walden

C.The Pioneers

D. “Song of Myself”

8. Hawthorne is generally preoccupied with such issues as D in his writings.

A. cultural conflicts of different races.

B. pursuit of material interest

C. social injustice and inequality

D. sin and evil in man’s heart

9. Which of the following statement about Scarlet Letter is NOT true?A

A. It explores man’s never-ending search for satisfaction of materialistic desires.

B. It relates the conflict between intellect and natural emotion.

C. It is about the effect of the sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.