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卷二
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 V an 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.
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 ________
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 Y ork 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 Y ork
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
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 Y ork
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 Y ears
18.“The Poetic Principle”
19.The Blithedale Romance
20.“The Indian Burying Ground”
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
标准答案A
I.Blanks: (10%)
(每题1分，共10分，答错不给分)
1. American literature
2. English
3. Puritans
4. short story
5. Autobiography
6. Philip Freneau
7. Washington Irving
8. Edgar Allan Poe
9. The Scarlet Letter
II.Multiple Choice: ( 20%)
(每题1分，共20分，答错不给分)
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. C
7. B
8. C
9. B 10. D
11. A 12. B 13. B 14. B 15. C
16.C 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. D III.Identification (20%)
（每题1分，共20分，答错不给分）
1.James Fenimore Cooper
2.Washington Irving
3.Anne Bradstreet
4.Michael Wigglesworth
5.Washington Irving
6.James Fenimore Cooper
7.Philip Freneau
8.William Cullen Bryant
9.Edgar Allan Poe
10.Edgar Allan Poe
11.Nathaniel Hawthorne
12.Edgar Allan Poe
13.Anne Bradstreet
14.Washington Irving
15.James Fenimore Cooper
16.Philip Freneau
17.William Cullen Bryant
18.Edgar Allan Poe
19.Nathaniel Hawthorne
20.Philip Freneau
IV.Terms (20%)
（每题4分，共20分。答案中给出多个知识点，答对其
中四个知识点即得满分，多于四个不加分，少则扣分。超
出所给出答案部分的，评卷人可根据相关内容和知识酌情
给分。）
1. Knickerbocker
Key words: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Irving, Cooper and Bryant, The History of New Y ork, New Y ork, etc.
2. Poor Richard’s Almanac
key words: Benjamin Franklin, sayings, hard work, thrift, Puritan, quotes, printed himself, etc.
3. Leatherstocking Tales
Key words: Cooper, five novels, Natty Bumppo, frontier, frontiersman, life from youth to old age, The Pioneer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, etc.
4. Puritanism
key words: Calvin, purify, hard work, thrift, predestination, salvation, sin, God, from England to America, immigration, etc.
5. Benjamin Franklin
key words: statesman, scientist and writer, Autobiography, Poor Richard’s Almanac, puritan, hard work and thrift, successful, contributions, printer, etc.
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