美国文学习题
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美国文学习题
1．In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of Enlightenment.
_____________was the dominant spirit.
A.Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
2. “God helps them that help themselves.” is found in ____________work.
A. Paine‟s
B. Franklin‟s
C. Freneau‟s
D. Jefferson‟s
3. Which statement about Franklin is not true?
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.
B. He was a scientist.
C. He was a master of diplomacy.
D. He was a Puritan.
4. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?
A. The American Crisis.
B. The Federalist.
C. Declaration of Independence.
D. The Age of Reason.
5. Which is connected with Thomas Paine?
A. Common Sense
B. American Crisis.
C. The Right of Man
D. The Autobiography.
6. “These are the times that try men‟s souls”, these words were once read to Washington‟s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Paine
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington
7. Which statement about Freneau is true?
A. He was a scientist
B. He was a pamphleteer
C. He was a poet
D. He was a bitter polemicist
8. Which work is written by Freneau?
A. The Right of Man
B. The Wild honey Suckle
C. Poor Richard‟s Almanac
D. The Day of Doom
9. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Edward Taylor
C. Michael Wiggleworth
D. Philip Freneau
10. At the Reason and Revolution Period, American were influenced by the European movement called _____________.
A. Chartist Movement
B. Romanticist Movement
C. Enlightenment Movement
D. Modernist Movement
11. Stetement ____________ is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A. Hawthorne is a realist writer.
B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist.
C. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism.
D. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect.
12. In Walt Whitman‟s “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to ___________.
A. the poet himself as a child
B. any American child
C. the young America
D. one of the poet‟s neighbor
13. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ___________.
A. the microcosm of human society
B. the search for truth
C. the unknown world
D. nature
14. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with