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III Multiple choice (20%)1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became known as the “______” who appeared in America.A Ninth MuseB Tenth MuseC Best MuseD First Muse2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature.A purple proseB waste-land imageryC local colorD symbolism3. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money thanF. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______.A The Jazz AgeB The Gilded AgeC The Glorious AgeD The Beat Age4. ___________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.A RomanticismB RealismC NaturalismD Modernism5. Although only few of her poems were published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a major impact on 20th century poetry.A Anne BradstreetB Gertrude SteinC Emily DickinsonD Amy Lowell6. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?A Henry Wordsworth LongsfellowB Amy LowellC Ezra PoundD Robert Frost7. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.A International themeB Waste-land imageryC Local colorD Symbolism8. Ezra Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______.A French symbolismB The Beat GenerationC confessional poetryD Imagism9. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A sentimentalismB romanticismC realismD naturalism10. ___ wrote a series of historical novels set in the American Midwest and was known as “the American Sir Walter Scot.”A Nathaniel HawthorneB Mary RenaltC Stephan CraneD James Fenimore Cooper11. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau.A JeffersonB EmersonC FreneauD Over-soul12. 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 18thB the 19thC the 20thD 21th13. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist14. Rip Van Winkle was written by ________A. James Fenimore CooperB. Benjamin FranklinC. Washington IrvingD. Walt Whitman15. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________A. The PrecautionB. The SpyC. The Gleanings in EuropeD. Leatherstocking Tales16. ________ was regarded as a poet of the American RevolutionA. Philip FreneauB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Cal Sandburg17. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson18. 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. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Titanic19. 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. RealismB. Critical realismC. RomanticismD. Naturalism20. All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales except ________A. The PioneersB. The PrairieC. The DeerslayerD. The SpyIV Blank filling (20%)1. In the novel , Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named Santiago who shows triumphant even in defeat.2. When it was first published, Walt Whitman’s collection of poems ___________, failed to gain acceptance from either the majority of critics or the general public.3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _______ values that dominated much of the early American writing.4. In the early 19th century Rip Van Winkle had established _______’s reputation at home and abroad, and designated the beginning of American Romanticism.5. Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories, was Henry _______ Thoreau.6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel _______.7. After his death, _______ became the only American to be honored with a bust inthe Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.8. Ernest Hemingway, whose own style is based on Twain’s, once said, “All modern American literature comes from_______.”9. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel _______.10. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece _______.参考答案：III. Multiple choices (20%)1. B2.C3. A4. A5. C6. A7. C8. D9. C 10. D 11. B 12. A13. A 14. C 15. D 16.A 17. B 18. C 19. C 20. DIV. Blank filling1.The Old Man and the Sea2.Leaves of Grass3.puritan4.Washington Irving5.David6.The Scarlet Letter7.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow8.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9.The Great Gatsby\10.Autobiography。