2013-2014-1 美国文学史及选读期末复习材料
ⅠMultiple choices
1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?
A. Common Sense
B. The American Crisis
C. The Rights of Man
D. The Autobiography
2. “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
3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ______.
A. Chartist Movement
B. Romanticist Movement
C. Enlightenment Movement
D. Modernist Movement
4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable to______.
A. the colonial order
B. religious obscurantism
C. the Puritan tradition
D. the secular literature
5. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted ______ in 177
6.
A. Declaration of Independence
B. the Sugar Act
C. the Stamp Act
D. the Mayflower Compact
6. ______ usually was regarded as the first American writer.
A. William Bradford
B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Captain John Smith
7. 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
8. Who was considered as the “poet of American Revolution”?
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Edward Taylor
C. Michael Wigglesworth
D. Philip Freneau
9. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet ______ to appear in America up to that time.
A. Edward Taylor
B. Philip Freneau
C. William Cullen Bryant
D. Edgar Allen Poe
10. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in ______.
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Young Goodman Brown
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Ambitious Guest
11. “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul… Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England ______.
A. Romanticism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Naturalism
D. Symbolism
12. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
A. Nature
B. Walden
C. On Beauty
D. Self-Reliance
13. Mark Twain created, in _________, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
A. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
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