美国文学练习题

美国文学练习题1

Part One Fill in the blanks with the correct information

1.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at _________,

Virginia in the year of _____、

2._________________ was the first American writer、

3.The Mayflower voyage was taken in the year of _____、

4.With _____________ begins the history of religious toleration in America, and with him, too,

the history of the separation of church and state、

5.The best of the Puritan poets was ______________、

6.The most interesting works of New England Puritan literature were ___________、

7.The Declaration of Independence was signed on _____________ (month/date/year)、

8.The writers held vitally important places in the movement for American independence、

Without the writings of ______________, there might have been no army for Washington to lead; without the writings of ________________, France might never have aided the cause、9.The writings of ___________________ show the Enlightenment spirit in America at its best

and most optimistic、

10.___________________ has been respected as “the father of the Yankees”、

11.The most historically important pamphlet in American history is __________________、Its

clear thinking and exciting language quickly united American feelings against England、12.The most important document in the political history of the United States is ______________

________________________, which is also a fine work of literature、

13.The United States achieved its independence in ______(year)、

14.__________________ has been called the Father of American Poetry、

15.__________________was the first American to earn his living through literature、

16.__________________ was the first American novels, who made the American conscious of

his past, and made the European conscious of America、

17.______________________became known in Europe as “the American Walter Scott”、

18.The national anthem of the U、S、A、is ______________________, written by Francis Scott

Key、

19.The five novels that comprise the Leatherstocking Tales are:

(1)______________________________________

(2)______________________________________

(3)______________________________________

(4)______________________________________

(5)______________________________________

20、__________________________was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New

England、In 1836, he published __________, the clearest statement of Transcendentalist ideas、_______________________ was his truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of his theories and who, in 1854, wrote his world-famous __________, about his stay in the pond side hut、

21、________________ is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and

________________ is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter、

22、______________________ created the first theory for American realism, and the greatest of

America’s realists were ___________________ and __________________、

23、__________________ was the first American naturalist whose greatest novel is ____________

_________________________、

24、______________________ was America’s greatest naturalist’s writer, whose greatest and most

successful novel is _____________________________________、

25、Soapy is the hero in ______________’s short story The Cop and the Anthem、

26、Carrie Meeber is the heroine in _________________’s novel entitled ________________、

27、Hester Prynne and the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale are the two main characters in

________ __________’s novel______________________、

28、President Lincoln once said “so you’re the little woman who made the book that made the

great war、”Here “the little woman”is ________________________________, and “the book” is _______________________________、

29、______________ in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide

popularity、

30、Mark Twain’s greatest novel is ________________________________________________、

31、______________________was the most famous of the Muckrakers, and his greatest novel is

________________、

32、______________ was the leader of the “Imagist” school of poetry in America、

33、F、Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is _______________________、

34、The title of Ernest Hemingway’s famous novel For Whom the Bell Tolls comes from

________ _________’s Meditations、

35、The Sound and the Fury is one of __________________’s “modernist” masterpieces、

36、_________________ was the most joyful poet of the Lost Generation、In the poetry we can

see the clear influence of the Cubist painters、

37、________________ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s,

whose masterpiece was ____________________________, a novel about the great “dust bowl” disaster in Oklahoma、

38、In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Senator ____________________ led America on a “witch

hunt” against “Communist” intellectuals, writers and Hollywood figures、

39、Joseph Heller’s novel ______________ introduces the “black humor” literature in America、

40、_____________________ made American drama develop into a form of literature in

America、

41、Arthur Miller’s best-known play is ________________________________________、

Part Two Supply the sources of the following citations、

(1)、、、though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never ex pire…

From The American Crisis by ___________________

(2) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness、–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed、–That whether any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness、

From _________________________________________ (3) Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder

the conflict, the more glorious the triumph、What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: --This dearness only that gives everything its value、

From ______________________ by ____________________ (4) A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines… To be great is to be misunderstood、

From ___________________________’s Self Reliance (5) It was many and many years ago,

In a kingdom by the sea

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of ANNABEL LEE;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me、

From _____________________’s Annabel Lee (6) There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that limitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion、

From Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ______________________ (7) Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough、

From ___________________’s Poor Richard’s Almanac (8) The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep、

From ________________’s Stoppong by Woods on a Snowy Evening (9) The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough、

From ________________’s In a Station of the Metro Part Three Match the writers in Column A with their works in Column B、

Column A (writers) Column B (works)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Sketch Book

Henry James Walden

Washington Irving The Scarlet Letter

Jack London Moby-Dick

Theodore Dreiser Leaves of Grass

Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Walt Whitman The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Henry David Thoreau The Portrait of A Lady

Herman Melville Martin Eden

Mark Twain An American Tragedy

Ernest Hemingway The Road Not Taken

Theodore Dreiser Desire Under the Elms

Robert Frost The Old Man and the Sea

Eugene O’Neill The Titan

Part Four Answer the following questions

1.What are the beliefs and ideas of the Puritans in Colonial America?