美国文学史及作品选读练习 6
I。 Blank filling。(每小题2分，共20分)
1.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。
2.The term “ Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of _________.
3.___________ was considered as the “ Poet of the American Revolution", because he wrote impassioned verse in support of the American Revolution。
4.In American literature， the eighteenth century was an Age of _____________and Revolution。
5.In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Pioneers, the first of the five novels that make up___________.
6.In the early 19th century， Washington Irving wrote _________which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic。
7.The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is __________, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking， Deerslayer， Pathfinder and Hawkeye.
8.The ________ is the most commonly used foot in English poetry， in which an unstressed syllable comes first, followed by a stressed syllable.
9._________ is the repetition of similar vowel sounds situated in a sentence, a verse line or series of words.
10.____________’s poetry embodies his conviction that the function of poetry is not to summarize and interpret earthly experience, but to create a mood in which the soul soars toward supernal beauty。
II。 Make the best choice。 (每小题2分，共20分）
1.The first American literature was neither American nor literature. It was not American because it was the work mainly of immigrants from________
A.England
B.France
C.Dutch
D.Spain
2.Hard work , thrift， piety and sobriety, these were the __________values that dominated much of the early American writing.
A.Calvinism
B.Romantic
C.Puritan
D.British
3.Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ___________.
A.American Enlightenment
B.Sugar Act
C.Chartist
D.Romanticist
4.The appearance of _____________ marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist.
A.  Young Goodman Brown
B  The Prairie
C  The Scarlet letter
D。  The House of the Seven Gables
5.In the 19th century America， Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Which statement is not the characteristic of Romanticism？
A.Sobriety and simplicity
B.thriftFaith in the value of individualism
C.Intuitive perception
D.Adoration for the natural world
6._____________ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life。
A. The Wild Honey Suckle
B. Rip Van Winkle
C. The Pioneer
D. The Scarlet Letter
7. Choose the work written by Poe。
A。 The Wild Honey Suckle
B。 Israfel
C。 The Indian Burying Ground
D. The Day of Doom
8.In the poem____________， the poet expresses a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature。
A. Israfel
B. Annabel Lee
C. The Wild Honey Suckle
D。The Indian Burying Ground
9。__________ is the representation in poetry of sensory experiences； in other words， it is a device by which poets appeal to our senses。
A. rhyme
B. meter
C。stanza
D。 imagery
10. The best known two-line stanza form is called the ___________ which is written in iambic pentameter with an end rhyme。
A。 tercet
B。 terza rima
C. heroic couplet
D. quintain
III. Decide whether the statements are true or false。
（每小题 1 分，共10分)
1.Among the colonists in the seventeenth century could be found poets and essayists, but no novelists。
2.In Poor Richard’s Almanac， Benjamin Franklin talks first of all about how he studied language。
3.Many of the Puritans migrated to the colonies in order to find freedom from religious persecution。
4.The sound of Poe’s words casts a magic spell over the readers。 His tone is awesome， sad and melancholy.
5.Young Goodman Brown seems to prove everyone possesses some evil secrets.
6. The Last of the Mohicans， written in 1826, is the first novel in Cooper's the Leatherstocking Series.
7。In American literature， The Cask of Amontillado written by Hawthorne is one of the great tales of revenge。
8.  Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of strongly symbolic stories which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.
9.  Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.
10.The plot is the main idea that the writer communicates to the reader.
 
IV . Identification of fragments。 （每小题4分，共20分)

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