出自:信阳师范大学美国文学史

Rip Van Winkle is found in Irving ’s longer work, ________
A.The Sketch Book
B.History of New York
C.Tales of a Traveler
D.The Precaution
________ was often regarded as America ’s first man of letters, devoting much of his career to literature.
A.Benjamin Franklin
B.Philip Freneau
C.Washington Irving
D.James Fenimore Cooper
All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales except________
A.The Pioneers
B.The Prairie
C.The Deerslayer
D.The Spy
American literature is the oldest of all national literature.
A.正确
B.错误
Thomas Jefferson was the only American to sign the 4 documents that created the US.
A.正确
B.错误
All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil.
A.正确
B.错误
Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology.
A.正确
B.错误
Hurstwood is a character in Dreiser ’s An American Tragedy.
A.正确
B.错误
Faulkner’s region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.
A.正确
B.错误
Placed in historical perspective, Howells is found lacking in qualities and depth. But anyhow he is a literary figure worthy of notice.
A.正确
B.错误
Faulkner ’s works have been termed thoek Ynapatawpha Saga, “one connected story ”.
A.正确
B.错误
As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.
A.正确
B.错误
Emily Dickinson expresses her deep l ove in the poem “ Annabel Lee ”.
A.正确
B.错误
Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.
A.正确
B.错误
American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural elements.
A.正确
B.错误
“Young Goodman Brown” wan tso prove everyone possesses kindness in heart.
A.正确
B.错误
Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Twain or Howells.
A.正确
B.错误
The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality.
A.正确
B.错误
Frost ’s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.
A.正确
B.错误
Faulkner ’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.
A.正确
B.错误
Roger Chillingworth is a character in Dreiser ’s An American Tragedy.
A.正确
B.错误
After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “ Golden Age ” turned to be a “ Gilded ”
A.正确
B.错误
American achievements in the short story have demanded international respect and admiration for more than a century and a half. The first successful American short stories came from （） in the early 19 th century.
（） is generally thought of as the true beginner of the short stories because he was the first writer who formulated a poetics of the short stories.
In the 20 th century, there have been many who have won fame abroad as well as in the US for their short stories: （）, and dozens of others.
As you read from writer to writer, from （）‘s ?Rip Van Winkle ‘to O’Connner ‘s ?A Good Man is Hard to Find ‘, you will see the coming of a short story age,growing from an entertaining tale into a story which probes deep into human souls.
Modern literary fiction has been dominated by two forms: （）.
Washington Irving, the Father of American Literature, developed （） as a genre in American literature.
（） is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective stories. He is also credited with developing many of the standard features of detective fiction.
The term ―（） ‖ was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of England.
Harvard College was （） in 1636, with a printing press set up nearly in 1639.
Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the （） values that dominated much of the early American writing.
The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strange, new environment. （） Bradstreet was one of such poets.
Bradstreet used a word ―（） ‖ to describe the community of believers who sailed from Southampton England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620
The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period was （） .
The Puritan philosophy known as （） was important in New England during colonial time, and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations.
At the initial period the spread of ideas of the American Enlightenme nt was largely due to （）
Franklin edited the first colonial magazine, which he called .
Franklin ‘s beat writing is found in his masterpiece （） .
Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of （） .
On January 10, 1776, Paine ‘s famous pamphlet （） appeared.
Paine ‘s second most important work （） Man was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy.
The most outstanding poet in America of the 18 th century was （） .
Philip Freneau ‘s famous poem ―（） ” was written about his imprisoned experience.
Philip Freneau was a close friend and political associate of President （） Jefferson.
（） was considered as the ―poet of the American Revolution ‖, because he wrote impassioned verse in support of the American revolution.
Philip Freneau was noteworthy first because of the nature of his poems. They were truly American and very patriotic. In this respect, he reflected the spirit of his age. Therefore,he has been called the ―（） of American poetry ‖.
In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of （） and Revolution.
In the early 19 th century Rip Van Winkle established （） ‘s reputation at home and abroad, and designed the beginning of American Romanticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson ‘s first book in 1836 （） brought American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism.
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