I. Match the works with the authors given below. (每小题1分,共10分)
a.Michael Wigglesworth b. .Franklin
c. John Smith d. William Cullen Bryant
e. James Fennimore Cooper f. Philip Freneau
g. Washington Irving
1. A Description of New England John Smith
2. Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving
3. The Day of Doom Michael Wigglesworth
4. Autobiography Franklin
5. The Wild Honey suckle Philip Freneau
6. To a Waterfowl Williliam Cullen Bryant
7. The Deerslayer James Fennimore Cooper
8 The Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant
9. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving
10. The Spy James Fennimore Cooper
II. Blank Filling. (每小题2分,共20分)
1.The first permanent English settlement in North American was established at________, Virginia.
2.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the ________values that dominated much of the early American writing.
3.The first American Literature was neither American nor really literature. It was not American because it was the work mainly immigrants from __________.
4.__________ was regarded as the “Poet of the American Revolution.”
5.In American Literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of ________ and Revolution.
6.Annabel Lee ,a poem from_____________ ,mourns the death of a beautiful girl .
7.The first important American novelist is ____________.
8._________was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.
9.The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is __________, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathinder and Hawkeye.
10. Thanatopsis is Bryant’s best –known poem. The title of the poem means________.
III. Multiple Choice (每小题2分,共30分)
1. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist_____B__.
A. John Winthrop B. John Smith C. William Bradford D. John Goodwin
2. The Puritan dominating values were: A
A. hard work B. thrift C. piety D. sobriety
3. Which writer is not a poet? D
A. Michael Wigglesworth B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Edward Taylor D. Thomas Hooker
4. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “_______B____” who appeared in America.
A. Ninth Muse B. Tenth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse
5. The ship “__C_____”carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Pequod
6._____B______ another important colonial poet, achieved wide popularity among his contemporaries with his gloomy entitled “ The Day of Doom”.
A. Edward Taylor B. Michael Wigglesworth
C. Anne Bradstreet D. Cotton Mather
7.Franklin was the epitome of the ___A____.
A.American Enlightenment
B. Sugar Act
C. Chartist movement
D. Romanticist
8.The following proverbs
------ There are no gains without pains.
------ One today is worth two tomorrows.
come from___B_____.
A. Autobiography
B. Poor Richard’s Almanac
C. The Sketch Book
D. A Description of New England
9. Much of the beauty of the poem__C_______ lies in the sounds of the words and the effect created through changes in rhythm.
A. To a Waterfowl
B. Thanatopsis
C. The Wild Honey suckle
D. The Indian Burying Ground
10. ___A___usually starts with standard characters----- the lazy husbands or the termagant wife.
A. Washington Irving
B. James Fennimore Cooper
C. William Cullen Bryant
D. Philip Freneau
11. Which poem is not written by Freneau? D
A .The British Prison Ship
B. The Wild Honey Suckle
C. The Indian Burying Ground
D. The Day of Doom
12. __A__is the author of the work The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
A. Washington Irving
B. James Joyce
C. Walt Whitman
D. William Butler Yeats
13. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving? C
A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.
B. Irving’s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination
can hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.
C. Irving’s taste was essentially progressive or radical.
D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the
best classic style that American literature ever produced."
14. 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____.
A. Puritanism
B. Romanticism
C Rationalism
D. Sentimentalism
15.Poe’s first collection of short stories is ______D___.
A. Tales of a Traveller
B. Leatherstoking Tales
C. Canterbury Tales
D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
I. Make the best choice. (每小题1.5分,共30分)
1.Puritanism is the attitude of a party which stresses the following except__c_____
a. restoration of the church b. predestination and original sin
c .hardworking and thrift d. loose morality
2.The first American literature was the work ___a_____
a. mainly of immigrants from England. b. of great literary merits
c. in the form of poetry, essays or fiction d. about the native subjects of America.
3.Which of the following is NOT true of colonial American literature? B
a.full of religious sermons
b.. showing a distrust of the mystical
b.mainly in the form of diary, autobiography and travel account
c.characterized with logical structure and simplicity of diction.
4.. With an unshakable belief in the power of reason, the 18th century Enlighteners regarded _______A___ as the principal means of the development of society
a. education and reason
b. hard working
c. self-inspection
d. free thinking
5.Ben Franklin was a universal genius whose masterpiece____B___ became a classic of its kind.
a. Poor Richard’s Almanac b. Autobiography
c. Rip Van Winkle d. The Sketch Book
6.The following words best describe Rip Van Winkle except___C____
a. kind b. gentle
c. hardworking d. lazy
7.The first American writer of imaginative literature and short stories was _____D___
a.Nathaniel Hawthorne
b.Benjamin Franklin
c.James Fenimore Cooper
d.Washington Irving
8. Natty Bumppo’s friendship with Chingachgook is symbolic of ___A_____.
the understandings between two different peoples.
the relationship between the civilized and the savages
the conflict between the whites and the American Indians
the development of the frontiers
9. Romanticism can best be described by which of the following words? C
a.realism b. logic
c. imagination d. reason
10. James Fenimore Cooper was a Romanticist because he ____A____
a.glorified nature b. loved people
c. loved society d. wrote poetry
11. James Fenimore Cooper was the first American writer to write about____B_____
a. the American South b. the American frontiers life
c. the American legends d. the American culture
12.__C________ was known as “the poet of American Revolution”.
a. Franklin b. Irving c. Freneau d. Poe
13. Phillip Freneau’s poem The Wild Honey Suckle is about___C_____
a. the death of a flower b. the beauty of nature
c. the transience of life d. the bless of God
14. “And planted here the guardian shade
and sent soft waters murmuring by”
The forms of rhyming in these two lines are ________C______
a.assonance and consonance
b.alliteration and consonance
c.assonance and alliteration
d.slant rhyme and alliteration
15. There’s a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That appears like the weight
Of cathedral tunes”
The images used in these few lines are mainly_____ C ___
a.visual and olfactory
b.visual and tactile
c.visual and auditory
d.kinesthetic
16.. Poetry is a literary genre that uses metrical form to chiefly ______D_______
a. communicate information b. create imagery
c. reveal character d. express emotional experience.
17. Poe believed the greatest theme for poetry is ___________
a.death of a relative.D
b.death of a honorable man.
c.death of a lover
d.death of a beautiful woman..
18. According to Poe, all elements of a story or a poem should have one purpose. That is _______B___
a . to tell the story b. to create an effect.
a.to keep the reader in suspense. d.. to be humorous
19. In the development of the plot, __A___ ,which pushes the story forward, is of the primary importance
a. conflict b. point of view c. theme d. climax
20.Edgar Allan Poe’s poems are of the following features except___D_______
a. being melancholic b. being musical c. being brief d. being moralistic
1-5 c a b a b 6-10 c d a c a 11-15 b c c c c 16-20 d d b a d
IV. Decide Whether the Statements Are True or False.(每小题2分,共20分)
1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature. F
2. The colonies that became the first United States were for the most part English. T
3. In 1620 a number of Puritans came to settle in Massachusetts . T
4. The seventeenth century American poets adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strangely –new environment.T
5. In Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac, he talked first of all about how he studied language..F
6. Philip was the first American Lyric poet of distinction, he could make his poems sing melodies that might be stately. F
7. The Wild Honey Suckle was suggested by the fact that some Indian tribes buried their dead in a sitting. .F
8. The Last of The Mohicans were the best work by Adgar Allan Poe. F
9. Freneau wrote impassioned verse in support of the American Revolution. T
10. In the poem Israfel , Poe expresses a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature. F
F T T T F F F F T F
1.The colonial American literature was in the form of poetry, novels and short stories
2.American poetry of the eighteenth century has an imitative character, imitating the reigning English models of the 18th century.
3. The early American romanticism stressed emotion, feeling, intuition instead of reason.
4. Philip Freneau was a most important poet in the 18th century American literature.
5. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale, and the frontier stories.
6. American Puritanism derived its theological principles from Calvinism and aimed at a thorough reform of the church.
7. The first American settlers came to America to escape religious persecution.. .
8.Ben Franklin was versatile in every possible field and he was chiefly noted as .a man of civic mind.
9. Autobiography by Franklin was a fascinating record of the age of American Revolution, in which great political turmoil was faithfully depicted.
10. American Romantic literary movement was characterized with an interest in nature, imagination as well as the a tendency to depict the grotesque .
11. Washington Irving was the first American writer who wrote poetry in its true sense.
12. .James F, Cooper was notable for his first exploration of the native theme of American frontier life.
13. The Leather Stocking Tales consists .of three novels-----The Pioneers, The Prairie and The Last of the Mohicans.
14. Philip Freneau was remembered mostly for his patriotic poems such as The Wild Honey Suckle and the Indian Burial Ground.
15. The Wild Honey Suckle is a poem on the theme of glorifying the Indian Culture.
16. The only standard by which we designate a short story is its length.
17. .Poe is a poet of the first rank, a literary critic of great insight and a short story writer of large popularity.
18. .Poe defined poetry as the rhythmic creation of beauty.
19. Israfel expresses the poet’s deep regret for the earthly existence and strong longing for superior beauty. .
20.. “The death of a beautiful woman” is the most legitimate poetic theme to Poe.
V. .Identification of Fragments. (每小题2分,共4分)
1. I had begun in 1733 to study languages; I soon made my self
so much a master of the French as to be able to read the books with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length refused to play any more…
author:________________ work:_________________
2.If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same
The space between , is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.
Author:_______________ work: ________________
VI. Read the quoted part and answer the questions: (共16分)
Time grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on: a tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village.
Questions:
1) Please identify the author and the title of the work. (2%)
2)Please give a summary of the story. 8%
3) Give a brief analysis of the symbolic meaning of this work. (6%)
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I (10%): 1.-5 C. G A .B F 6-10 D E D G E
II. (20%)
1. Jamestown 2. Puritan 3. England 4. Philip Freneau 5. reason 6. Adgar Allan Poe
7.James Fenimore Cooper 8. Washington Irving 9. Natty Bumppo 10. view of death
III. (30%) 1-5 B A D B C 6-10 B A B C A 11-15 D A C A D
IV.(20%) F T T T F F F F T F
V (4%) 1.Franklin Autobiography 2. Freneau The Wild Honey suckle
VI. (16%)
1) This is an excerpt from "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. (2%)
2) Rip Van Winkle was the hero in Irving’s works. 1’ He was a good-natured man, a henpecked husband. 1’ Because his wife’s shrewish (泼妇一样的) treatment, Rip had to escape from his home to the little inn in the village. 1 ‘ When it failed to give him some restful air, he had to go hunting in the high mountain, 1’ where Rip met a stranger, and the man asked Rip to carry keg for him. Then Rip reached the place in the valley, where many strangers were playing nine-pins. 1’ Later Rip got drunk after drinking the liquor, which made him sleep for 20 years. 1’ Rip woke up as an old man, entering the village learned that his wife had died, he got the freedom of his own, 1’ and the American had been dependent from the control of Britain, he had changed from a subject of the King (George III) into a citizen of the independent new U.S. 1’ ( 8%)
3).Rip Van Winkle has been seen as a symbol of several aspects of America. 1’ Rip, like America, is immature, self-centered, careless, anti-intellectual, imaginative, and jolly as the overgrown child. 1’ The Dame is another symbol –of puritanical discipline and the work ethic of Franklin. 1’ The town itself is emproblematic of America-forever and rapidly changing. 1’ Washington Irving has Rip sleep through his own country’s history, and return to the “busy, bustling, disputatious” self-consciously adult United States of America. His conflicts and dreams are those of the nation-the conflict of innocence and experience, work and leisure, the old and the new, the head and the heart. 2 (6%)