美国文学期中考试及答案

美国文学史及选读期中测试I. Multiple Choice 20 1. Who is different from others according to the division of writing period? A. Washington Irving B.William Cullen Bryant C. Captain John Smith D. James Fenimore Cooper 2. The American Romantic Period lasted roughly from _ to _. A. 1798-1832 B. 1810-1860 C. 1860-1864 D. 1776-17833. Moby Dick is considered as the first American A. Comic epic B. Dramatic epic C. Poetic fiction D. Prose epic4. What dominated the Puritan phase of American writing? A. theology B. literature C. esthetics D. revolution5. At the initial period of the spread of ideas of the Enlightenment was largely due to _. A. typography B. journalism C. revolution D. the development of paper-making industry6. Who has been called the “Father of American Literature”? A. Walt Scott B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Washington Irving D. Philip Freneau7. Who is the first American prose stylist that acquired international fame? A. Captain John Smith B. Washington IrvingC. Benjamin Franklin D. E. A. Poe8. Who is the writer of To a Waterfowl? A. Anne Bradstreet B. Thomas Hardy C. William Cullen Bryant D. Walt Whitman9. Thomas Paine is a _. A. novelist B. dramatist C. poet D. pamphleteer10. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes _ A. short stories B. literary critic theories C. poems D. dramas II. Blank-Filling 201._John Winthrop_s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as he first distinctly American literature to be written in English.2. Hard work, _thrift_, piety, and _sobriety_were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing, including the sermons, books and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather. 3. Most Puritan verse was decidedly plodding, but the work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of_real poetry4.From 1732 to 1785, Franklin wrote and published his famous _ Poor Richards Almanac_, an annual collection of proverbs.5.On January 10, 1776, Paines famous pamphlet _Common Sense _ appeared. It boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis.6.As a poet, _Freneau _heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects. 7 .Annabel Lee ,a poem from_Edgar Allan Poe_ ,mourns the death of a beautiful girl .8.Romantic writers placed increasing value on the _free_ expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the _ psychic _ states of their characters.9.Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: _the sea adventure tale_ and _the frontier saga_.10.The central figure in Coopers Novels, _Natty Bumppo_ goes by various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslyer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.III. Chinese Translation of English Literary Terms 20Puritanism 清教主义Romanticism浪漫主义Sketch Book 素描本Internal Rhyme行内韵Self-Reliance论自助Symbolism象征主义Salem Witch Trials塞勒姆审巫案Image 意象Allusion 典故,引喻,暗引Literary Comments文学评论IV. Identification .25author:_ work:_1. I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,【Anne Bradstreet 】【Contemplations】The black-clad cricket bear a second part;They kept one tune and played on the same string.Seeming to glory in their little art.Small creatures abject thus their voices raise,And in their kind resound their Makers praise,Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays? 2.At the next moment, the breech of Hawkeyes rifle fell on the naked head of his adversary, whose muscles appeared to wither under the shock, as he sank from the arms of Duncan, flexible and motionless.【James Fenimore Cooper】【The Last of the Mohicans】3.Standing on the bare groundmy head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted in to infinite spaceall mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. 【Emerson 】【Nature】4.I was a child and she was a childIn this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love-【Robert Westall 】【The Kingdom by the Sea】5. Tell me not in mournful numbers, 【Herry Wadsworth 】【A Psalm of Life】Life is but an empty dream!for the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;V. Answer the following questions. 15 1. Why say Moby Dick is the first American Epic? 5【Overview As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow, was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and Leaves of Grass, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the ultimate achievement of that stunning period in American letters. .】 2. W