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1、A. Ninth Muse B. Tenth Muse C. Best Muse D. First MusePart II. The Literature of Reason and RevolutionI. Fill in the blanks.3. Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called _. 4. Benjamin Franklin s best writing is found in his masterpiece _ . 9. The most outstanding poe

2、t in America of the 18th century was _. 10. Philip Freneau s famous poem_ was written about his imprisoned experience. 11. _ was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution.” 12. _ has been called the Father of American Poetry.” 14. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of

3、 _ and Revolution. 1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. _ was the dominant spirit.A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution2. In American literature, the Enlighteners were opposed to _.A. the colonial order B. religious obscurantism C. the P

4、uritan tradition D. the secular literature4. Which statement about Benjamin Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer. B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy. D. He was a Puritan.6. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?

5、A. The American Crisis B. The Federalist C. Declaration of Independence D. The Waste Land7. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the_ .A. American Enlightenment B. Sugar Act C. Chartist movement D. Romanticist8. From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _ , an annal collect

6、ion of proverbs.A. The Autobiography B. Poor Richards Almanac C. Common Sense D. The General Magazine13. Which statement about Philip Freneau is true?A .He was a satirist .B. He was a pamphleteer .C. He was a poet. D. He was a bitter polemicist.14. Which poem is not written by Philip Freneau?A. The

7、British Prison Ship B. The Wild Honey Suckle C. The Indian Burying Ground D. The Day of Doom15. Who was considered as the Poet of American Revolution?A. Michael Wigglesworth B. Edward Taylor C. Anne Bradstreet D. Philip Freneau17. During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by

8、 the European movement called the_ .A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement20. Benjamin Franklin shaped his writing after the_ of the English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.A. Spectator Papers B. Walden C. Nature D. The Sacred WoodPar

9、t III. The Literature of RomanticismI. Fill in the blanks1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote _ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.2. In 1828, _ published his An American Dictionary of the English Language.3

10、. In 1755, _ published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language.4. The Civil War of 18611865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of_ .5. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called _ .6. The Transcendental Club often met at_ s Concord home.7. _

11、 was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.8. At nineteen_ published in his brothers newspaper, his Jonathan Old style satires of New York life.9. In Washington Irvings work_ appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.10. In P

12、aris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor, with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy_, or The Merry Monarch.11. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irvings work named _.12. _ was the first American to achieve an internat

13、ional literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.13. Washington Irving s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled _.14. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and the other is_.15. The first important American novelist was_.16. James Fenimore Coop

14、ers novel _ was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.17. The best of James Fenimore Coopers sea romances was_. The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.18. The central figure in the Leather stocking

15、Tales is_ , who goes by the various names of Leather stocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.19. To a Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of_ s work, it has been called by an eminent English critic the most perfect brief poem in the language. 20. _ was the first American to gain the stature of a majo

16、r poet in the world literature.21. Among William Cullen Bryants most important later works are his translations of the Iliad and the_ into English blank verse.22. Edgar Allan Poes poem_ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.23. Edgar Allan Poes poem_ was published in 18

17、45 as the title poem of a collection.24. Ralph_ Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to New England.25. Ralph Waldo Emersons truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emersons theories, was_.26. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at _ Pond.27. A su

18、perb book entitled_ came out of Henry David Thoreaus two-year experiment at Walden Pond.28. From Henry David Thoreaus Concord jail experience, came his famous essay _.29. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthornes novel _.30. Herman Melvilles novel_ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling v

19、oyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellows first collection of poems entitled _ appeared in 1838.32. The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellows writings is his translation of Dantes _.33. Besides lyrics and longer poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

20、wrote dramatic works, among which_ is the most conspicuous.34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and _ are the only two American poets commemorated in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey.35. After his death, _ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet36. The American Romantic period

21、stretches from the end of the eighteenth century through the outburst of the_ .37. The English author named_ was, in a way, responsible for the romantic description of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverley novels were models for American histor

22、ical romances.38. Published in 1823, _ was the first of the Leather stocking Tales, in their order of publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.39. In the Pioneers, _ represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life in Gods world.40. I

23、n 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by_.41. Ralph Waldo Emersons essay_ has been regarded as Americas Declaration of Intellectual Independence. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiar

24、ly American.42. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was_, a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson s and his junior by some fourteen years.43. The way in which_ wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.44. Herman Melvilles world classi

25、c novel Moby Dick was dedicated to_, a novelist.45. It is said that in his late years, Herman Melville stopped writing novels and stories and turned to poetry, _ is his most famous poetic work.46. Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named_, which is, critics have agreed, one of t

26、he worlds greatest masterpieces.II. Make multiple choices.1. In 1837, the first college-level institution for women, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, was established in_ to serve the muslin sex.A. New England B. Virginia C. Massachusetts D. New York2. Transcendentalism took their ideas from_.A. the ro

27、mantic literature in Europe B. neo-PlatonismC. German idealistic philosophy D. the revelations of oriental mysticism3. As a philosophical and literary movement, _ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernism B. rationalism C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalism4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in_ and Henry David Thoreau.A. Thomas Jefferson B