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美国文学史及选读试题

美国文学史及选读试题

I.MultipleChoice10’

1.Whoisdifferentfromothersaccordingtothedivisionof

writingperiod?

A.WashingtonIrving

B.WilliamCullenBryant

C.CaptainJohnSmith

D.JamesFenimoreCooper

2.TheAmericanRomanticPeriodlastedroughlyfrom____to

____.

A.1798-1832

B.1810-1860

C.1860-1864

D.1776-1783

3.HowmanysyllablesarethereinthisfirstlineofRaven?

(“Onceuponamidnightdreary,whileIpondered,weakand

weary,”)

A.11

B.12

C.13

D.16

4.WhatdominatedthePuritanphaseofAmericanwriting?

A.theology

B.literature

C.esthetics

D.revolution

5.Attheinitialperiodofthespreadofideasofthe

Enlightenmentwaslargelydueto____.

A.typography

B.journalism

C.revolution

D.thedevelopmentofpaper-makingindustry

6.Whohasbeencalledthe“FatherofAmericanLiterature”?

A.WaltScott

B.GeoffreyChaucer

C.WashingtonIrving

D.PhilipFreneau

7.WhoisthefirstAmericanprosestylistthatacquired

internationalfame?

A.CaptainJohnSmith

B.WashingtonIrving

C.BenjaminFranklin

D.

E.A.Poe

8.WhoisthewriterofToaWaterfowl?

A.AnneBradstreet

B.ThomasHardy

C.WilliamCullenBryant

D.WaltWhitman

9.ThomasPaineisa____?

A.novelist

B.dramatist

C.poet

D.pamphleteer

10.EdgarAllanPoemainlywrites____

A.shortstories

B.literarycritictheories

C.poems

D.dramas

II.Blank-Filling20’

1.____’sreportsofexploration,publishedintheearly1600s,

havebeendescribedasthefirstdistinctly

AmericanliteraturetobewritteninEnglish.

2.Hardwork,____,p