美国文学学习指南：填空选择题总结Part1
美国文学学习指南
美国文学史及选读综合练习（第二版）
李正栓
Exercise on American Literature
Part 1 The Literature of Colonial America (P3)
填空题
1.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and literature was
______. (American Puritanism)
2.Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was _____, an
English soldier of fortune, whose reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinct American literature written in English. (Captain John Smith)
3.Almost a hundred years earlier the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and other
parts of Central and South America were occupied by the _____. (Spanish)
4.The term “Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout
members of the Church of ______. (England)
5.______ College was established in 1636, with a printing press set up nearly in
1639. (Harvard)
6.Among all the settlers in the New Continent, ______ settlers were the most
influential. (English)
7.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at
_____, Virginia. (Jamestown)
8._____ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established Jamestown. (Captain
John Smith)
9.In the book _____ John Smith wrote that “here nature and liberty afford us that
freely which in England we want, or it costs us dearly.” (A Description of New England)
10.General history of Virginia contains Smith’s most famous tale of how the
Indian princess named _______ saved him from the wrath of her father.
(Pocahontas)
11.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the ______ values that
dominated much of the early American writing. (Puritan)
12.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 such port. (Anne) 13.William Bradford himself used a word “_______” to describe the community of
believers who sailed from Southampton, England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. (Pilgrims)
14.In 1620, ______ was elected Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts. (William
Bradford)
15.From 1621 until his death, _____ probably possessed more power than any
other colonial governor. (William Bradford)
16.William Bradford’s work _____ consists of two works. The first book deals with
the persecutions of the Separatists in Scrooby, England, and the second book describes the signing of the “Compact”. (Mayflower) compact
17.T he History of New England is a gift left us by _____. (John Winthrop)
18.________ wrote his most impressive work The Magnalia Christi America.
(Cotton Mather)
19.The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period was
_______. (John Winthrop)
20.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. (Puritanism)
21.Many Puritans wrote verse, but the work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and
_____, rose to the level of real poetry. (Edward Taylor)
22.A representative sermon A True Sight of Sin is ______’s main work. (Thomas
Hooker)
23.Before his death, _______ had gained a position as America’s first systematic
philosopher. (Jonathan Edwards)
24.Jonathan Edward’s masterpiece is _______. (Freedom of the Will)
25.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems
composed by _______. (Anne Bradstreet)
26._______’s best verse is to be found in a series called “Preparatory Meditations”.
(Edward Taylor)
27.The Day of Doom, a long-standing best-seller both in America and in England,
was written by _______. (Michael Wiggleworth)
28.Charles Brockden Brown’s first novel ______, or _______ has been regarded as
the first American novel. (Wieland, The Transformation; An American Tale) 29.With his elaborate metaphors, _______ was reminiscent of Richard Crashaw
and George Herbert in English. (Edward Taylor)
选择题
1.English literature in America is only about more than _____ years old. (200)
2.The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist ______.
(John Smith)
3.The Puritan dominating values were _____. (hard work, thrift, piety, sobriety)
4.The early history of _____ Colony was the history of B radford’s leadership.
(Plymouth)
5.Choose those names that were named after English monarch or land.
(Georgia, New York, Carolina, New Hampshire)
6._______ usually was regarded as the first American writer. (Captain John Smith)
7.Cotton Mather was a graduate of Oxford College.
8.Jonathan Edwards’ best and most representative sermon was ______. (Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry God)
9.Which writer is not a poet? Michael Wigglesworth, Anne Bradstreet, Edward
Taylor, Thomas Hooker. (D)
10.The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis
on the ______. (Individualism)
11.Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England
th at she became known as the “_____” who appeared in America. (Tenth Muse) 12.The ship “_____” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat
its way across the Atlantics. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Mayflower)
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History And Anthology of American Literature （6） 附：作者及作品 一、殖民主义时期The Literature of Colonial America 1．船长约翰·史密斯Captain John Smith 《自殖民地第一次在弗吉尼亚垦荒以来发生的各种事件的真实介绍》 “A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony” 《弗吉尼亚地图，附：一个乡村的描述》 “A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country” 《弗吉尼亚通史》“General History of Virginia” 2．威廉·布拉德福德William Bradford 《普利茅斯开发历史》“The History of Plymouth Plantation”3．约翰·温思罗普John Winthrop 《新英格兰历史》“The History of New England” 4．罗杰·威廉姆斯Roger Williams 《开启美国语言的钥匙》”A Key into the Language of America” 或叫《美洲新英格兰部分土著居民语言指南》 Or “A Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New England ” 5．安妮·布莱德斯特Anne Bradstreet 《在美洲诞生的第十个谬斯》 ”The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America” 二、理性和革命时期文学The Literature of Reason and Revolution 1。本杰明·富兰克林Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ※《自传》“ The Autobiography ” 《穷人理查德的年鉴》“Poor Richard’s Almanac” 2。托马斯·佩因Thomas Paine (1737-1809) ※《美国危机》“The American Crisis” 《收税官的案子》“The Case of the Officers of the Excise”《常识》“Common Sense” 《人权》“Rights of Man” 《理性的时代》“The Age of Reason” 《土地公平》“Agrarian Justice” 3。托马斯·杰弗逊Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ※《独立宣言》“The Declaration of I ndependence” 4。菲利浦·弗瑞诺Philip Freneau (1752-1832) ※《野忍冬花》“The Wild Honey Suckle” ※《印第安人的坟地》“The Indian Burying Ground” ※《致凯提·迪德》“To a Caty-Did” 《想象的力量》“The Power of Fancy” 《夜屋》“The House of Night” 《英国囚船》“The British Prison Ship” 《战争后期弗瑞诺主要诗歌集》 “The Poems of Philip Freneau Written Chiefly During the Late War” 《札记》“Miscellaneous Works” 三、浪漫主义文学The Literature of Romanticism 1。华盛顿·欧文Washington Irving (1783-1859) ※《作者自叙》“The Author’s Account of Himself” ※《睡谷传奇》“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” 《见闻札记》“Sketch Book” 《乔纳森·欧尔德斯泰尔》“Jonathan Oldstyle” 《纽约外史》“A History of New York” 《布雷斯布里奇庄园》“Bracebridge Hall” 《旅行者故事》“Tales of Traveller” 《查理二世》或《快乐君主》“Charles the Second” Or “The Merry Monarch” 《克里斯托弗·哥伦布生平及航海历史》 “A History of the Life and V oyages of Christopher Columbus” 《格拉纳达征服编年史》”A Chronicle of the Conquest of Grandada” 《哥伦布同伴航海及发现》 ”V oyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus” 《阿尔罕布拉》“Alhambra” 《西班牙征服传说》“Legends of the Conquest of Spain” 《草原游记》“A Tour on the Prairies” 《阿斯托里亚》“Astoria” 《博纳维尔船长历险记》“The Adventures of Captain Bonneville” 《奥立弗·戈尔德史密斯》”Life of Oliver Goldsmith” 《乔治·华盛顿传》“Life of George Washington” 2．詹姆斯·芬尼莫·库珀James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) ※《最后的莫希干人》“The Last of the Mohicans” 《间谍》“The Spy” 《领航者》“The Pilot” 《美国海军》“U.S. Navy” 《皮袜子故事集》“Leather Stocking Tales” 包括《杀鹿者》、《探路人》”The Deerslayer”, ”The Pathfinder” 《最后的莫希干人》“The Last of the Mohicans” 《拓荒者》、《大草原》“The Pioneers”, “The Praire” 3。威廉·卡伦·布莱恩特William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) ※《死之思考》“Thanatopsis” ※《致水鸟》“To a Waterfowl” 4。埃德加·阿伦·坡Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ※《给海伦》“To Helen” ※《乌鸦》“The Raven” ※《安娜贝尔·李》“Annabel Lee” ※《鄂榭府崩溃记》“The Fall of the House of Usher” 《金瓶子城的方德先生》“Ms. Found in a Bottle” 《述异集》“Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque” 5。拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ※《论自然》“Nature” ※《论自助》“Self-Reliance” 《美国学者》“The American Scholar” 《神学院致辞》“The Divinity School Address” 《随笔集》“Essays” 《代表》“Representative Men” 《英国人》“English Traits” 《诗集》“Poems” 6。亨利·戴维·梭罗Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ※《沃尔登我生活的地方我为何生活》 1
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5. Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of ________ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. A. romantic stories B. symbolic stories C. gothic stories D. humorous stories 7. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____. A. rationality B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 12. _____ held a “black”vision of life and human beings. A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Edgar Allan Poe D. James Fenimore Cooper 16. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features..._______, with the English Romanticists. A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions B. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters C. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature D. both A and B 17. _______ was the first great American writer to earn international fame. A. Irving B. Cooper C. Emerson D. Whitman 21. Pearl is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel _________ . A. Moses from an Old Manse B. Twice-Told Tales C. The Scarlet Letter D. The Blithedale Romance 7. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, ang Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in __________. A.The Scarlet Letter B. The House of the Seven Gables C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The Pioneers 24. Being a period of the flowering of American literature, the Romantic period is also called “_____”. A. the American Renaissance B. the English Renaissance C. the Harlem Renaissance D. the Second Renaissance 5. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “_______” f inally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 13. F. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________.