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英语专业八级人文知识题--美国文学部分 1. _______ usually was regarded as the first American writer. a. Willian Bradford b. Anne Bradstreet c. Emily Dickinson d. Captain John Smith 2. “God help those who help themselves” is a citation from the work of _______ . a. Paine b. Franklin c. Freneau d. Jefferson 3. Which poem is not written by Freneau? a. The British Prison Ship b. The Wild Honey Suckle c. The Indian Burying Ground d. The Flood of Years 4. Thomas Jefferson’s atitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call _______ . a. Age of Evolution b. Age of Reason c. Age of romanticism d. Age of Regionalism 5. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19 th century. This was______. a. Anne Bradsteet b. Jane Austen c. Emily Dickinson d. Harriet Beecher 6. In early 19 th century,Washington Irving wrote _______which became the first work by an Amcrican writer to earn an intenational reputation. a. Nature b. The Sketch Book c. The Scarlet Letter d. Harriet Beecher The American Transcendentalists formed a club called “_______”. a. the Transcendental Club b. the Sentimental Club c. the Romantic Club d. the Symbolic Club _____and other Transcendentalists believed that there should be an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “oversoul”. a. Haethorne b. Melville c. Whitman d. Emerson _______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways. a. You Goodman Brown b. Moby Dick c. The Scarlet Letter d. Daisy Miller In his essay, ______ clearly expresses the main principles of his Transcendentalist pursuit and his love for nature. a. Hawthorne b. Melville c. Whitman d. Emerson Irviing was best known for his famous short stories such as________. a. Legends of the Alhambra