美国文学一、二章练习doc

I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’) 1. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the

dominant.

A. humanism B. rationalism ______.

A. The Leather-stocking Tales C. The Autobiography A. Rationalism B. inner self B. The Sketch Book D. The History of New York C. personal feelings D. individualism C. romanticism D. evolution 2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named

3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism? 4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author. A. optimistic B. pessimistic A. Jefferson B. Emerson A. The American Scholar B. English Traits 8. ______ is the father of American Literature. A. Benjamin Franklin B. Philip Freneau A. “Rip Van Winkle” C. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” A. Thoreau B. Emerson C. Paine D. Washington Irving B. “The Pioneers” D. “The Fall of the House of Usher” C. Hawthorne D. Whitman C. conservative D. ironic C. Freneau D. Mark Twain C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance 6. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau. 7. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

9. _____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.

10. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.

11. From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government. A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense 12. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? A. The American Scholar B. English Traits C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance 13. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620

and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.

a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic

14._________ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.

A. Anne Bradstreet B. Washington Irving C. Mark Twain D. Ernest Hemingway 15. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism. A. Benjamin Franklin B. Washington Irving

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Henry David Thoreau

16._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700

short lyric poems in her life time.

A. Pearl S. Buck B.Harriet Bicher Stowe C. Emily Dickenson D. Walter Whitman 17. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South

states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______. A. N, S B. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries C. Union, Confederacy D. Slavery, Anti-Slavery

18.._____________was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.

A. Anne Bradstreet B. Edward Taylor C. Thomas Paine D. Philip Freneau 19. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism. A. Benjamin Franklin B. Washington Irving

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Henry David Thoreau

20.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________. A. Washington Irving B.Ezra Pound C. Walt Whitman D. Emily Dickinson II. Essay Questions (30%; choose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short

essay of at least 200 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.

1. To the best of your knowledge, analyze and make comments on Emerson’s Nature 2. Comment on any American poet you like.

3. Analyze and/or comment on any one of the American novels or plays you have read. 4. Make comments on an American novel we have discussed in this course. 5. Comment on an American poet.

6. Describe how your knowledge of American literature is improved after taking this course..

III. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)

1. Why do people think Franklin is the embodiment of American dream? 2. What is “Lost Generation”?

IV. Decide whether the statements are True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)

1. Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we

recognize as the American national history.

2. American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural

elements.

3. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. 4. “Young Goodman Brown” wants to prove everyone possesses kindness in heart.

V. Please explain the following terms. (5 x 6’ = 30’) 1. Puritanism 2. Free verse 4．Romanticism 7. transcendentalism

5. Imagism

3. International novel: 6.American Naturalism