I fill in the blanks with proper words. (1×20)
1. ___’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.
2. Hard work, ___, piety, and ____were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing, including the sermons, books and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather.
3. From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous ___, an annual collection of proverbs.
4. On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet ____ appeared. It boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis.
5. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: ____ and ____.
6. If Freneau can be considered one of the America’s first _____poets, William Cullen Bryant merits a claim to be one of America’s first ______poets.
7. The first American literature was neither American nor really literature. It was not literature as we know it ---in the form of poetry, essays, or______--but rather an interesting mixture of _______ and religious writings.
8. Edgar Allan Poe was also a master of the prose tale. A gifted, tormented man, Poe thought about the proper function of literature for more than any of his predecessors, with the result that he became the first great American literary ______. Besides the Romantic writing that he did so effectively, Poe also pioneered in the developing of the _____story.
9. Emerson’s ________________ is taken as the second declaration of American culture and thought in American history.
10. Washington Irving is the father of _______________, who developed the ___________as a genre in American literature.
11. Under the strong influence of Calvinism, American Puritan accepted the doctrine of predestination, __________, total depravity, and limited atonement (or the salvation of __________through a special infusion of grace from God.
12. Transcendentalists placed emphasis on __________ as the most important thing in the universe and stressed __________ as the most important element of society.
II Choose the best answers. (1×20)
1. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution
2. The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's ________ and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveler
C. The Alhambra D. A history of New York
3. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .
A. the Naturalist Period B. the Modern Period
C. the Romantic Period D. the Realistic Period
4. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”.
A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance
C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance
5. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______.
A. nature , man and the universe
B. the relationship between man and woman
C. the development of Romanticism in American literature
D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism
6. In the history of American literature, ______ is usually agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism.
A. the Harlem Renaissance B. England Transcendentalism
C. New England Transcendentalism D. New Transcendentalism
7. The American Romantic Period lasted roughly from ____ to ____.
A. 1798-1832 B. 1810-1860
C. 1860-18 D. 1776-1783
8. Who has been called the “Father of American Literature”?
A. Walt Scott B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Washington Irving D. Philip Freneau
9. Who is the first American prose stylist that t acquired international fame?
A. Captain John Smith B. Washington Irving
C. Benjamin Franklin D. E. A. Poe
10. Who is the writer of To a Waterfowl?
A. Anne Bradstreet B. Thomas Hardy
C. William Cullen Bryant D. Walt Whitman
11. Thomas Paine is a ____.
A. novelist B. dramatist C. poet D. pamphleteer
12. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes ____
A. short stories B. literary critic theories
C. poems D. dramas
13. Of all the following issues, ______ is definitely not the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history.
A. Puritan morality B. human bestiality
C. noble savages D. divinity of man
14. Henry David Thoreau’s work, _______ , has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendentalism Movement.
A. Walden B The Pioneer
C. Nature D. “Song of Myself”
15. “ Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind” is a famous quote from ______’s writings.
A Walt Whitman B. Henry David Thoreus
C. Herman Melville D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. The famous 20-year sleep in “Rip Van Winkle” helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving’s _________
A. involvement with the passage of time
B. transient beauty
C. laziness and corruptibility of human beings
D. supernatural manipulation of man’s life
17. According to Emerson, man’s capacity is _______.
A. ambiguous B. limited
C. infinite D. subsidiary to God
18. Who is different from others according to the division of writing period?
A. Washington Irving B.William Cullen Bryant
C. Captain John Smith D. James Fenimore Cooper
19. _____ is a predominant theme of Poe’s poetry.
A. death B. nature C .love D. reason
20. In the following works,_______ is not produced by Poe.
A. To Helen B. Annabel Lee
C. She walks in beauty D. The raven
III. Explain the following the terms. (20points)
1.transcendentalism
2. American Puritanism
IV. Essay questions: (40points)
Some of the big issues that the 19th-century American writers are generally concerned about are the relationships between man and nature, man and society, and sometimes the relationship between head and heart. Please focus on one issue and discuss it in relation to at least two individual works.下载本文
