美国文学史及作品选读练习 6
I。 Blank filling。(每小题2分，共20预防疾病知识分)
1.交警手势The Puritan philosophy known as ____________ was important in New England during colonial time， and had a profound influence on the early American mind for veral generations。
2.The term “简单的项目建议书 Puritan” was applied to tho ttlers who originally were devout members of the Church of _________.
3.___________ was considered as the “ Poet of the American Revolution", becau he wrote impassioned ver in support of the American Revolution。
4.In American literature， the eighteenth century was an Age of _____________and Revolution。
5.In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Pioneers, the first of the five novels that make up___________.
6.In the early 19th century， Washington Irving wrote _________which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic。
7.The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is __________, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking， Deerslayer， Pathfinder and Hawkeye.
8.The ________ is the most commonly ud foot in English poetry， in which an unstresd syllable comes first, followed by a stresd syllable.
9._________ is the repetition of similar vowel sounds situated in a ntence, a ver line or ries of words.
10.桂林海拔____________’s poetry embodies his conviction that the function of poetry is not to summarize and interpret earthly experience, but to create a mood in which the soul soars toward supernal beauty。
II。 Make the best choice。 (每小题2分，共20分）
1.The first American literature was neither American nor literature. It was not American becau it was the work mainly of immigrants from________
A.England
B.France
C.Dutch
D.Spain
2.Hard work , thrift， piety and sobriety, the were the __________values that dominated much of the early American writing.
A.Calvinism
B.Romantic
C.Puritan
D.British
3.Benjamin Franklin was the巨大地震 epitome of the ___________.
A.尊敬American Enlightenment
B.Sugar Act
C.Chartist
D.Romanticist
4.The appearance of _____________ marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist.
A. Young Goodman Brown
B The Prairie
C The Scarlet letter
D。 The Hou of the Seven Gables
5.In the 19th century America， Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Which statement is not the characteristic of Romanticism？
A.Sobriety and simplicity
B.Faith in the value of individualism
C.Intuitive perception
D.Adoration for the natural world
6._____________ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life。
A. The Wild Honey Suckle
B. Rip Van Winkle
C. The Pioneer
D. The Scarlet Letter
7. Choo the work written by Poe。
A。 The Wild Honey Suckle
B。 Israfel
C。 The Indian Burying Ground
D. The Day of Doom
8.In the poem____________， the poet express a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature。
A. Israfel
B. Annabel Lee
C. The Wild Honey Suckle
D。The Indian Burying Ground
9。__________ is 断想the reprentation in poetry of nsory experiences； in other words， it is a device by which poets appeal to our ns。
A. rhyme
B. meter
C。stanza
D。 imagery
10. The best known two-line stanza form is called the ___________ which is written in iambic pentameter with an end rhyme。
A。 tercet
B。 terza rima
C. heroic couplet
D. quintain
III. Decide whether the statements are true or fal。
（每小题 1 分，共10分)
1.Among the colonists in the venteenth century could be found poets and essayists, but no novelists。
2.In Poor Richard’s Almanac， Benjamin Franklin talks first of all about how he studied language。
3.Many of the Puritans migrated to the colonies in order to find freedom from religious percution。
4.The sound of Poe’s words casts a magic spell over the readers。 His tone is awesome， sad and melancholy.冠心病的症状
5.Young Goodman Brown ems to prove everyone posss some evil crets.
6. The Last of the Mohicans， written in 1826, is the first novel in Cooper's the Leatherstocking Series.
7。In American literature， The Cask of Amontillado written by Hawthorne is one of the great tales of revenge。
8. Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of strongly symbolic stories which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.
9. Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.
10.The plot is the main idea that the writer communicates to the reader.
IV . Identification of fragments。 （每小题4分，共20分)
