美国文学习题：

1． In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of

Enlightenment. _____________was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution

2. “God helps them that help themselves.” is found in ____________work.

A. Paine?s B. Franklin?s C. Freneau?s D. Jefferson?s 3. Which statement about Franklin is not true? A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer. B. He was a scientist.

C. He was a master of diplomacy. D. He was a Puritan.

4. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?

A. The American Crisis. B. The Federalist.

C. Declaration of Independence. D. The Age of Reason. 5. Which is connected with Thomas Paine?

A. Common Sense B. American Crisis. C. The Right of Man D. The Autobiography.

6. “These are the times that try men?s souls”, these words were once read to Washington?s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?

A. Benjamin Franklin B. Thomas Paine C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington

7. Which statement about Freneau is true?

A. He was a scientist B. He was a pamphleteer C. He was a poet D. He was a bitter polemicist 8. Which work is written by Freneau?

A. The Right of Man B. The Wild honey Suckle C. Poor Richard?s Almanac D. The Day of Doom

9. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?

A. Anne Bradstreet B. Edward Taylor C. Michael Wiggleworth D. Philip Freneau

10. At the Reason and Revolution Period, American were influenced by the European movement called _____________. A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement

11.Stetement ____________ is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A. Hawthorne is a realist writer. B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist. C. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism.

D. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect.

12. In Walt Whitman?s “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to ___________.

A. the poet himself as a child B. any American child C. the young America D. one of the poet?s neighbor 13. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ___________. A. the microcosm of human society B. the search for truth C. the unknown world D. nature

14.Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with _________________.

A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas C. human beings D. celestial beings

15. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ____________-. A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington Irving C. Nathanel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman

16. _____________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. Twice-Told Tales B. The Scarlet Letter C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun

17. ___________is regarded as the first American prose epic. A. Nature B. The Scarlet letter C. Walden D. Moby Dick

18. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving?s ___________ and ended with Whitman?s Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveler C. The Alhambra D. A History of New York

19. Washington Irving?s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed to some extent, in his famous story_____________. A. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” B. Rip Van Winckle C. The Custom-House D. The Birthmark

20. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Merville is not true?

A. Bartleby, the Scrivener is a short story. B. Benito Cereno is a novella.

C. The Confidence-Man has something to do with the sea and sailors. D. Moby Dick is regarded as the first American Prose epic.

21. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except______________. A. mystery of the universe B. sin of the whale C. power of the Great Nature D. evil of the world

22. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ___________________.

A. Cooper?s Leatherstocking Tales