美国文学秋季学期练习题3有答案
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)
1.Puritanism is the attitude of a party which stress the following except_______
a. restoration of the church
b. predestination and original sin
c .hardworking an
d thrift d. loos
e morality
2.The first American literature was the work ________
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.
3.Which of the following is NOT true of colonial American literature?
a.full of religious rmons
b.. showing a distrust of the mystical
b.mainly in the form of diary, autobiography and travel account
c.characterized with logical structure and simplicity of diction.
4.. With an unshakable belief in the power of reason, the 18th century Enlighteners regarded __________ as the principal means of the development of society
a. education and reason
b. hard working
c. lf-inspection
d. free thinking
5.Ben Franklin was a universal genius who masterpiece_______ became a classic of its kind.
a. Poor Richard’s Almanac
b. Autobiography
c. Rip Van Winkle
d. The Sketch Book
6.The following words best describe Rip Van Winkle except_______
a. kind
b. Gentle
c. hardworking
d. lazy
7.The 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 Chingachgook i s symbolic of ________.
A.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 becau he ________
a.glorified nature
b. loved people
c. loved society党风廉政建设总结
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
大三学年自我鉴定d. the American culture
12.__________ was known as “the poet of American Revolution”.
a. Franklin
b. Irving
深圳税收c. Freneau
d. Poe
13. Phillip Freneau’s poem The Wild Honey Suckle is about________
a. the death of a flower
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b. the beauty of nature
c. the transience of life
d. the bless of God
14. “And planted here the guardian shade
and nt soft waters murmuring by”
The forms of rhyming in the 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 ud in the 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 us metrical form to chiefly _____________
a. communicate information
b. create imagery
c. reveal character
d. express emotional experienc
e.
17. Poe believed the greatest theme for poetry is ___________
a.death of a relative.
b.death of a honorable man.
c.death of a lover
d.death of a beautiful woman..
18. According to Poe, all elements of a story or a poem should have one purpo. That is __________
a . to tell the story b. to create an effect. C.to keep the reader in suspen. d.. to be humorous
19. In the development of the plot, _____ ,which pushes the story forward, is of the primary importance
a. conflict
b. point of view
c. theme
d. climax
20.Edgar Allan Poe’s poems are of the following features except__________
a. being melancholic
b. being musical
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c. being brief一万字检讨书
d. being moralistic
II. Match the works with the authors given below. The works given are more than the authors given. (每
小题1 分，共10分)
a. Ben Franklin
b. Washington Irving
c. James Fenimore Cooper怎么做ppt
d. Phillip Freneau
e. Edgar Allan Poe
啼笑往事1.( ) Poor Richard’s Almanac
2.( ) Rip Van Winkle
3.( ) The Sketch Book
4.( ) Autobiography
5.( ) The Wild Honey suckle
6.( ) Israfel
7.( ) The Deerslayer
8 ( ) The Cask of Amontillado
9.( ) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
10.( ) The Indian Burying Ground
III. Decide the following statements are true or fal.
Write T for true and F for fal. (每小题 1 分，共20分)
1．The colonial American literature was in the form of poetry, novels and short stories
