Unit 1
Colonial & Revolutionary Period
1.The history of American literature is only about ____ years old.
A.200 B. 300 C. 400 D. 500
2.Early in the ____, the English ttlements in Virginia and Massachutts started the main stream of the American national history. (北二外2007研)
A. 14th century B. 15th century C. 17th century D. 16th century
3.The first permanent English ttlement in North America was established at ______(北二外2009研)
A. Jamestown B. New York C. Boston D. Concord
4.The ship _______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way a
cross the Atlantic. In December 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachutts.
A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Titanic
5.The first ttlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them_____
A. Quakers B. Anglicans C. Catholics D. Puritans
6.Which of the following is not one of the dominating values of the Puritans?
A. ntimentality B. hard work C. thrift D. piety E. sobriety
7.At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ____
A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment D. Modernist Movement
8.The cular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of _____.
A. Thomas Hood B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington
泰国国花9.The English colonies in North America ro in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted _____ in 1776.
A. the Declaration of Independence B. the Sugar Act
C. the Stamp Act D. the Mayflower Compact废物英语
10.The first symbol of the lf-made American man is _____ (北二外2009研)
A. George Washington B. Washington Irving
C. Thomas Jefferson D. Benjamin Franklin
11.From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous ______, an annual collection of proverbs.
A. The Rights of Man B. The Wild Honey Suckle.
C. Poor Richard’整人s Almanac D. The Day of Doom
12.Benjamin Franklin’s masterpiece is ______, a Puritan document of lf-improvement and lf-examination—a way of communicating with God.
A.Poor Richard’s Almanac
B.The Declaration of Independence
C.Autobiography
D.The Constitution
Romantic Period
I.Multiple-choice questions.
1.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century throug
h the outburst of the ____.
A.Revolutionary War
B.Civil War
C.World War I
D.World War II
2.Which one of the following concepts is related to the understanding of American Romanticism?
A. survival of the fittest B. indifference of the univer
C. exaltation of emotion over reason D. the human beast
3.未尝不可____ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.
A.Washington Irving
B.Ralf Waldo Emerson
C.Henry David Thoreau
D.Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.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
5.Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ____ and ____, both were collected in his highly successful The Sketch Book.
A.Rip Van Winkle
B.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
C.Life of Goldsmith
D.Life of Washington
6.Washington Irving’s social conrvatism is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, _____ .
留侯论翻译A. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow B. Rip Van winkle
C. The Custom-Hou D. The Birthmark
7.As a philosophical and literary movement, ____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A.Modernism
刑事上诉状范文B.Rationalism
C.Sentimentalism
D.Transcendentalism
8.Transcendentalists recognized ____ as the “highest power of the soul”?
A.Intuition
B.Logic
C.Data of the ns
D.Thinking
9.Which one of the following statements is applicable to the understanding of Transcendentalism?
A.It is strongly influenced by Social Darwinism (社会达尔文主义).
B.Belief in individualism, independence of mind, and lf-reliance.
C.Man has no free will.
D.It holds that determinism (决定论) governs everything.
文君司马10.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ___ and Henry David Thoreau.
A. Thomas Jefferson B. Ralf Waldo Emerson
