美国文学秋季学期练习题1--有答案

美国文学史及作品选读练习1I. Match the works with the authors given below. (10%)a.Michael Wigglesworth b. .Franklin c. John Smith d. William Cullen Bryant e. James Fennimore Cooper f. Philip Freneau g. Washington Irving1.( ) A Description of New England 2.( ) Rip Van Winkle3.( ) The Day of Doom4.( ) Autobiography 5.( ) The Wild Huoney suckle6.( ) To a Waterfowl7.( ) The Deerslayer8 ( ) The Thanatopsis9.( ) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow10.( ) The SpyII. Blank Filling. （20%）1. The first permanent English settlement in North American was established at_, Virginia.2. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _values that dominated much of the early American writing.3. The first American Literature was neither American nor really literature It was not American because it was the work mainly immigrants from _.4. _ was regarded as the “Poet of the American Revolution.”5. In American Literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of _ and Revolution.6. Annabel Lee ,a poem from_ ,mourns the death of a beautiful girl .7. The first important American novelist is _.8. _was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War. 9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is _, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathinder and Hawkeye.10. Thanatopsis is Bryants best known poem. The title of the poem means_.III.Multiple Choice （30%）1. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist_.A. John Winthrop B. John Smith C. William Bradford D. John Goodwin2. The Puritan dominating values were: A. hard work B. thrift C. piety D. sobriety3. Which writer is not a poet?A. Michael Wigglesworth B. Anne Bradstreet C. Edward Taylor D. Thomas Hooker4.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 Muse5. 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. Pequod6._ another important colonial poet, achieved wide popularity among his contemporaries with his gloomy entitled “ The Day of Doom”.A. Edward Taylor B. Michael Wigglesworth C. Anne Bradstreet D. Cotton Mather7.Franklin was the epitome of the _. A.American Enlightenment B. Sugar Act C. Chartist movement D. Romanticist 8.The following proverbs- There are no gains without pains.- One today is worth two tomorrows. come from_.A. Autobiography B Poor Richards Almanack C The Sketch Book D A Description of New England 9. Much of the beauty of the poem_ lies in the sounds of the words and the effect created through changes in rhythm. A. To a Waterfowl B. Thanatopsis C The Wild Honey suckle D.The Indian Burying Ground 10. _usually start with standard characters- the lazy husbands or the termagant wife.A. Washington Irving B. James Fennimore Cooper C. William Cullen Bryant D Philip Freaneau 11.Which poem is not written by Freneau?A .the British Prison Ship B. The Wild Honey Suckle C. The Indian Burying Ground D. The Day of Doom12. _is the author of the work The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.A. Washington Irving B. James Joyce C. Walt Whitman D. William Butler Yeats13. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.B. Irvings relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.C. Irvings taste was essentially progressive or radical.D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced.14. In the early nineteenth century, American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did _.A. Puritanism B. Romanticism C Rationalism D. Sentimentalism15.Poes first collection of short stories is _.A. Tales of a Traveller B. Leatherstoking Tales C. Canterbury Tales D. Tales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueIV. Decide Whether the Statements Are True or False.(10%)1.American literature is the oldest of all national literature. 2. The colonies that became the first United States were for the most part English. 3.In 1620 a number of Puritans came to settle in Massachusetts . 4.The seventeenth century American poets adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strangely new environment.5.In Franklins Poor Richards Almanack, he talked first of all about how he studied language.6. Philip was the first American Lyric poet of distinction , he could make his poems sing melodies that might be stately. 7.The Wild Honey Suckle was suggested by the fact that some Indian tribes buried their dead in a sitting. .8. The Last of The Mohicans were the best work by Adgar Allan Poe.9.Freneau wrote impassioned verse in support of the American Revolution.10.In the poem Israfel , Poe expresses a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature.V. Explain the following literature terms.(10%)PuritanismVI .Identification of Fragments. ( 4%)1. I had begun in 1733 to study languages; I soon made my self so much a master of the French as to be able to read the books with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length refused to play any more author:_ work:_2.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. Author:_ work: _VII. Read the quoted part and answer the questions: (16%). Time grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on: a tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village. Questions: 1) Please identify the author and the title of the work. (2%)2）Please give a summary of the story. 8%3) Give a brief analysis of the symbolic meaning of this work. (6%) 参考答案1) This is an excerpt from Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. (2%)2) (a) Rip Van Winkle was the hero in Irvings works. 1 He was a good-natured man, a henpecked husband. 1 (b) Because his wifes shrewish (泼妇一样的) treatment, Rip had to escape from his home to the little inn in the village. 1 When it failed to give him some restful air, he had to go hunting in the high mountain, 1 where Rip met a stranger, and the man asked Rip to carry keg for him. Then Rip reached the place in the valley, where many strangers were playing nine-pins. 1 Later Rip got drunk after drinking the liquor, which made him sleep for 20 years. 1 (c) Rip woke up as an old man, entering the village learned that his wife had died, he got the freedom of his own, 1 and the American had been dependent from the control of Britain, he had changed from a subject of the King (George III) into a citizen of the independent new U.S. 1 ( 8%)3).Rip Van Winkle has been seen as a symbol of several aspects of America. 1 Rip, like America, is immature, self-centered, careless, anti-intellectual, imaginative, and jolly as the overgrown child. 1 The Dame is another symbol of puritanical discipline and the work ethic of Franklin. 1 The town itself is emproblematic of America-forever and rapidly changing. 1 Washington Irving has Rip sleep through his own countrys history, and return to the “busy, bustling, disputatious” self-consciously adult United States of America. His conflicts and dreams are those of the nation-the conflict of innocence and experience, work and leisure, the old and the new, the head and the heart. 2参考答案： I (10%): 1.-5 C. G A .B F 6-10 D E D G EII. (20%)1. Jamestown 2. Puritan 3. England 4. Philip Freneau 5. reason 6. Adgar Allan Poe 7.James Fenimore Cooper 8. Washington Irving 9. Natty Bumppo 10. view of deathIII. (30%) 1-5 B A D B C 6-10 B A B C A 11-15 D A C A DIV.(10%) F T T T F F F F T FV. (10%)1. Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans. The Puritans were originally members of a division of he Protestant Church. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the Americ