美国文学
I. The Colonial Period（Puritanism）
Multiple Choice
1.The Puritan dominating values were ____________. A. hard work B. thrift C. piety D. sobriety 2. Which statement about Cotton Mather is not true? A. He was a great Puritan historian. B. He was an inexhaustible writer.
C. He was a skillful preacher and an eminent theologian. D. He was a graduate of Oxford College.
3. Jonathan Edwards’ best and most representative sermon was_________. A. A True Sight of Sin
B. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God C. A Model of Christian Charity D. God’s Determinations
4. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the ___________.
A. Revolutionism B. Reason C. Individualism D. rationalism 5. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England
that she
became known as the “__________” who appeared in America. A. Ninth Muse B. Tenth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse
II. Period around The War of Independence (Enlightenment)
1. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. ____________was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution
2. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?
A. The American Crisis. B. The Federalist
C. Declaration of Independence D. The Age of Reason
3. “These are the times that try men’s souls”, these words were once read to
Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words? A. Benjamin Franklin B. Thomas Paine
C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington
4. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”? A. Anne Bradstreet B. Edward Taylor C. Michael Wigglesworth D. Philip Freneau
5. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the __________.
A. Charitist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement
III. Period of Romanticism
I. Multiple Choice
1. In Walt Whitman’s “There was a Child Went Forth,” the child refers to _________.
A. the poet himself as a child B. any American Child
C. the young America D. one of the poet’s neighbor 2. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes _______________. A. the Microcosm of human society B. a search for truth C. the unknown world D. nature
3. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ____________.
A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas C. human beings D. celestial beings
4. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ___________ A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington Irving C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman 5. _____________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 Tales B. The Scarlet Letter C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun
6. _____________ is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden D. Moby-Dick 7. Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story,_____________. A. The Legend of Sleep Hollow B. Rip Van Winkle C. The Custom-house D. The Birthmark
8. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT___________. A. mystery of the universe B. sin of the whale C. power of the Great Nature D. evil of the world
9. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ____________. A. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales B. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass D. Irving’s Rip Van Winkle 10. 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
11. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for_________. A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above 12. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as __________.
A. the Naturalist Period B. the modern Period C. the Romantic Period D. the Realistic Period 13. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Haw home except___________.
A. The House of the Seven Gables B. White jacket
C. The Marble Faun D. The Blithe dale Romance 14. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?
A. The Sketch Book. B. Leaves of Grass.
C. Leather stocking Tales D. Adventures of huckleberry Finn. 15. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____________. A. religion B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace 16. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except _________.
A. brevity B. directness C. plainest words D. obscure 17. It is on his ___________that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. A. tales about America B. early poetry C. childhood recollections D. sketches about his European tours 18. ____________ is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Walt Whitman C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Mark Twain 19. The publication of ____________established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of new England Transcendentalism. A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The American Scholar D. The Over-Soul 20. 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 experience.
b) The thought that designates man as a social animal.
c) The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common.
d) The modes of thinking. 21. In the poem “Some of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of ___________.
A. the theory of universality. B. singularity and equality of beings
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