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华南农业大学美国文学史期末考 Ⅰ. Explain the following literary terms.（本大题共2小题，每小题5分，共10分） 1.Darwinism 2.Lost generation 3.Imagism 4.Free Verse Ⅱ. Matching（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） John Steinbeck T.S. Eliot Carl Sandburg F. Scott Fitzgerald Harriet Beecher Stowe O’ Henry Thomas Paine Ernest Hemingway Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne a. A Farewell to Arms b. Common Sense c. Uncle Tom’s Cabin d. The Cop and the Anthem e. The Grapes of Wrath f. Fog g. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock h. Nature i. The Great Gatsby j. The Scarlet Letter. Ⅲ.Multiple choice.（本大题共 35 小题，每小题 1 分，共 35 分） 1.In?the?early?nineteenth?century?American?moral?values?were?essentially?Puritan.?Nothing?has?left?a?deeper?imprint?on?the?character?of?the?people?as?a?whole?than?did_______.? A.Puritanism?B?Romanticism?C?Rationalism?D?Sentimentalism????????????????????? 2.?Franklin?wrote?and?published?his?famous__________,?an?annul?collection?of?proverbs.? A.?The?Autobiography???B.?Poor?Richard‘s?Almanack?C.?Common?Sense?D.?The?General?Magazine? 3.?In?American?literature,?the?eighteenth?century?was?the?age?of?the?Enlightenment.?_______was?the?dominant?spirit.? A.?Humanism??B?Rationalism??C?Revolution??D?Evolution?????? 4.________?usually?was?regarded?as?the?first?American?writer. ?A.William?Bradford???B.?Anne?Bradstreet??? C.Emily?Dickinson??D.?Captain?John?Smith??????????? 5..Which?is?not?Irving‘s?works?in?the?following.? A.?The?Sketch?Book?B.?Tales?of?a?Traveller?C?.A?History?of?New?York?D?To?A?Waterfowl?? 6.?Choose?Freneau‘s?poem?from?the?following.? A.?The?Raven?B.?To?a?Waterfowl?C.?To?Hellen? D.?The?wild?Honey?Suckle??? 7.?In?1817,?the?stately?poem?called?Thanatopsis?introduced?the?best?poet___to?appear?in?America?up?to?that?time.? A.?Edward?Taylor??B.?Philip?Freneau???C.?William?Cullen?Bryant??D.?Edgar?Allan?Poe???????????? 8.Compared?with?his?contemporaries,?_________was?no?doubt?the?best?in?exploring?the?wildness?and?frontier?in?fiction.? A.?Washington?Irving?B.?James?Fenimore?Cooper?C.?William?Cullen?Bry