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美国文学期中测试卷Mid –term Examination Put the following literary terms into English. (1*20=20*) 1. 清教主义 2.史诗3.诗节4.押头韵5.浪漫主义 6.现实主义7.当代文学8.十四行诗9.民谣10.挽歌 11.超验主义12.科幻小说13.启蒙主义文学14.独白15.自传 16.抒情诗17.哥特式小说18.人物角色19.题材20.寓言诗歌 II． Name the authors of the following works. (1*20=20*) 1. My Lost Youth/ A Psalm of Life 2.Billy Budd 3.Self-Reliance 4.The Blithedale Romance 5. To a Waterfowl 6.The Fall of the House of Usher 7.The Deerslayer 8.Walden 9. Rip Van Winkle 10.The Indian Buying Ground 11.The Autobiography 12.To Helen 13.Uncle Tom′s Cabin 14. The Scarlet Letter 15. The Old man and the Sea 16.The Cop and The Anthem 17. A Farewell to Arms 18.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 19. Moby Dick 20.The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America III. Fill in the blanks. (1*10=10*) 1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at ______, Virginia in 1607. For the puritans, they have led a way of life that stressed hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety. _______, the main representative of American Enlightenment, is generally regarded as the embodiment of the American Dream. As a poet, ______ heralded American literary independence for he has produced many natural lyrics like The Wild Honey Suckle. For those New England Transcendentalists, their main belief is the ________, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things are a part. The publication of the book _____, written by Emerson in 1836 announced the birth of Transcendentalism. It is generally acknowledged that Washington Irving is the father of American short stories. He established his reputation with the publication of his ________. James Fenimore Cooper has launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale and the ________ saga. The father of American gothic novels is _________. The famous novel The Scarlet Letter uses a puritanical background that is ________ century (time) Boston. IV. Multiple choices. (1*20=20*) 1. Which of the followi