美国文学秋季学期练习题3

2021年1月22日发(作者：冯梯云)
美国文学史及作品选读练习

3


I. Make the best choice.
（每小题
1.5
分，共
30
分
)


nism is the attitude of a party which stresses the following except__c_____

a. restoration of the church







b. predestination and original sin
c .hardworking and thrift









d. loose morality

first American literature was the work ___a_____
a. mainly of immigrants from England.







b. of great literary merits
c. in the form of poetry, essays or fiction






d. about the native subjects of America.


of the following is NOT true of colonial American literature?
a.

full of religious sermons










b..

showing a distrust of the mystical



b.

mainly in the form of diary, autobiography and travel account
c.

characterized with logical structure and simplic
ity of diction.

th
4.. With an unshakable belief in the power of reason, the 18
century Enlighteners regarded
__________ as the principal means of the development of society
a.
education and reason
b. hard working
c. self-inspection
d. free thinking


Franklin
was
a
universal
genius
whose
masterpiece_______
became
a classic
of
its
kind.


a.

Poor Richard’s Almanac





b.
Autobiography





c.

Rip Van Winkle












d.
The Sketch Book




following words best describe Rip V
an Winkle except_______
a. kind

















b. gentle
c. hardworking










d. lazy

first American writer of imaginative literature and short stories was ________
a.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
b.

Benjamin Franklin
c.

James Fenimore Cooper



d.

Washington Irving

8.
Natty Bumppo’s friendship with C
hingachgook is symbolic of ________.
the understandings between two different peoples.
the relationship between the civilized and the savages
the conflict between the whites and the American Indians
the development of the frontiers

9. Romanticism can best be described by which of the following words?
a.

realism









b. logic
c. imagination





d. reason

10. James Fenimore Cooper was a Romanticist because he ________
a.

glorified nature




b. loved people
c. loved society






d. wrote poetry

11. James Fenimore Cooper was the first American writer to write about_________
a. the American South


















b. the American frontiers life





c. the American legends
















d. the American culture

12.__________ was known as “the poet of American Revolution”.

a. Franklin







b. Irving








c. Freneau







d. Poe



13.
Phillip Freneau’s poem
The Wild Honey Suckle
is about________
a. the death of a flower









b. the beauty of nature
c. the transience of life









d. the bless of God

14.
“And planted here the guardian shade







and sent soft waters murmuring by”



The forms of rhyming in these two lines are ______________
a.

assonance and consonance
b.

alliteration and consonance
c.

assonance and alliteration
d.

slant rhyme and alliteration

15.
There’s a certain slant of light,

On winter afternoons,
That appears like the weight
Of cathedral tunes”



The images used in these few lines are mainly_____




___


a.

visual and olfactory
b.

visual and tactile
c.

visual and auditory
d.

kinesthetic


16.. Poetry is a literary genre that uses metrical form to chiefly _____________


a. communicate information













b. create imagery


c. reveal character





















d. express emotional experience.




17. Poe believed the greatest theme for poetry is ___________
a.

death of a relative.
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