Exercise Four

美国文学自测题及参考答案 得分 评分人 I. Blanks: ( 10points, 1 point for each blank)

Directions: In this part of the test, there are 9 items and 10 blanks. Fill in the best answer on the Answer Sheet according to the knowledge you have learned.

1. The first American literature was neither ____ nor really ____.

2. Of the immigrants who came to America in the first three quarters of the seventeenth

century, the overwhelming majority was _____.

3. The English immigrants who settled on America’s northern seacoast were called _____,

so named after those who wished to “purify” the Church of England.

4. Washington Irving, the Father of American literature, developed the _____ as a genre in

American literature.

5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece _____.

6. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was _____.

7. In the early 19th century, “Rip Van Winkle” had established _____’s reputation at home

and abroad, and designated the beginning of American Romanticism.

8. _____ has sometimes been considered the father of the modern short story.

9. In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece _____, the story of a

triangular love affair in colonial America. 得分 评分人 II. Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement of America in

the early 17th century through the end of ________ century. A. the 18th B. the 19th C. the 20th D. 21th

2. New-England’s Plantation was published in 1630 by ________

A. Francis Higginson B. William Bradford C. John Smith

D. Michael Wigglesworth

3. Of all the books written by Michael Wigglesworth the beat known is ________

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A. The Flesh and the Spirit B. The True Travels C. The Day of Doom D. Christopher Columbus

4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______. A. American Enlightenment B. Sugar Act

C. Chartist movement D. Romanticist

5. In the first section of Autobiography the writer addressed to ________

A. his son B. his friends C. his wife D. himself

6. During 1807-1808, Washington Irving wrote for his brother’s newspaper called ________

A. New York Times B. Washington Post C. Salmagundi D. Daily News

7. History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of ________

A. Washington Irving B. Diedrich Knickerboker C. James Fenimore Cooper D. John Whittier

8. Rip Van Winkle was written by ________

A. James Fenimore Cooper B. Benjamin Franklin C. Washington Irving D. Walt Whitman

9. The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is a novel about ________

A. American Civil War B. American Revolution C. American West Expansion D. The First World War

10. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________

A. The Precaution B. The Spy

C. The Gleanings in Europe D. Leatherstocking Tales

11. ________ was regarded as a poet of the American Revolution

A. Philip Freneau B. Walt Whitman C. Robert Frost D. Cal Sandburg

12. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________

A. Philip Freneau B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson

13. The Minister’s Black Veil was written by ________

A. Edgar Allan Poe B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Henry David Thoreau D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. 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

15. The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Titanic

16. A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century. A. Realism

B. Critical realism C. Romanticism D. Naturalism

17. Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, Rip Van Winkle, from a ________

A. Greek legend B. German legend C. French legend D. English legend

18. Rip Van Winkle is found in Irving’s longer work, ________

A. The Sketch Book B. History of New York C. Tales of a Traveler D. The Precaution

19. ________ was often regarded as America’s first man of letters, devoting much of his career to

literature.

A. Benjamin Franklin B. Philip Freneau C. Washington Irving

D. James Fenimore Cooper

20. All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales except ________

A. The Pioneers B. The Prairie C. The Deerslayer D. The Spy 得分 评分人 III. Identification (20 points, 1 point for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty titles. Judge the authors of these works and fill them on the Answer Sheet. 1. Gleanings in Europe 2. Oliver Goldsmith

3. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America 4. “The Day of Doom” 5. A History of New York 6. The Last of the Mohicans 7. The House of the Night 8. A Forest Hymn 9. “The Raven”

10. “The Cask of Amontillado” 11. Mosses from an Old Manse 12. “Israfel”

13. “The Flesh and the Spirit” 14. Life of George Washington 15. The Pathfinder

16. “the Wild Honey Suckle” 17. The Flood of Years 18. “The Poetic Principle” 19. The Blithedale Romance

20. “The Indian Burying Ground” 得分 评分人 IV. Terms (20 points, 4 points for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are five terms. Please give the definition for these terms. Scores will be given for the related contents. Four individual contents will be enough for four points. 1. Knickerbocker

2. Poor Richard’s Almanac

3. Leatherstocking Tales

4. Puritanism

5. Benjamin Franklin 得分 评分人 V. Appreciation (10 points, 5 points for each)

Directions: In this part of the test, there are two excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by three questions. Read the excerpts and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.

Part A

From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

1. Who is the poet of the poem and what is the title of the poem? (2 points)

2. Tell the metrical structure and rhyme scheme of the poem. (1 point)

3. What does the “little being” refer to? What meaning is suggested by the phrase “but an hour”? (2 points)

Part B

The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sundial. It is true he was rarely heard to speak, but smoked his pipe incessantly. His adherents, however (for every great man has his adherents), perfectly understood him, and knew how to gather his opinions. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation.

From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife,