第一章 单元测试

1、单选题:
The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of _______. ( )
选项:
A:Anglicans
B:Puritans
C:Catholics
D:Quakers
答案: 【Puritans

2、单选题:
The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the _______.( )
选项:
A:Rationalism
B:Revolutionism
C:Individualism
D:Reason
答案: 【Individualism

3、单选题:
The ship “________”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.( )
选项:
A:Sunflower
B:Titanic
C:Mayflower
D:Armada
答案: 【Mayflower

4、单选题:
The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted ________.( )
选项:
A:The Mayflower Compact
B:the Stamp Act
C:the Declaration of Independence
D:the Sugar Act
答案: 【the Declaration of Independence

5、单选题:
Which of the following works is not connected with Thomas Paine?( )
选项:
A:The Rights of Man
B:The American Crisis
C:Common Sense
D:The Autobiography
答案: 【The Autobiography

6、单选题:
Which of the following works is written by Philip Freneau?( )
选项:
A:The Day of Doom
B:The Rights of Man
C:Poor Richard’s Almanac
D:The Wild Honey Suckle
答案: 【The Wild Honey Suckle

7、判断题:
The English began to settle down in the early 17th century.( )
选项:
A:对
B:错
答案: 【

8、判断题:
Poor Richard''s Almanac was written by Philip Freneau.( )
选项:
A:对
B:错
答案: 【

9、判断题:
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin can be divided into four parts.( )
选项:
A:对
B:错
答案: 【

10、判断题:
Philip Freneau is called the“Father of American Poetry”.( )
选项:
A:错
B:对
答案: 【

第二章 单元测试

1、单选题:
____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.( )
选项:
A:Thoreau
B:Emerson
C:Hawthorne
D:Whitman
答案: 【Emerson

2、单选题:
American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ___________.( )
选项:
A:Anne Bradstreet
B:Emily Dickinson
C:Harriet Beecher
D:Jane Austen
答案: 【Emily Dickinson

3、单选题:
The House of Seven Gables is a famous mystery-haunted novel written by _____.( )
选项:
A:Herman Melville
B:Washington Irving
C:Nathaniel Hawthorne
D:Mark Twain
答案: 【Nathaniel Hawthorne

4、单选题:
The following writers belong to the Romantic group in American literature except _____.( )
选项:
A:Washington Irving
B:Henry David Thoreau
C:William Blake
D:Nathaniel Hawthorne
答案: 【William Blake

5、单选题:
There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually _____ on the Puritan soil.( )
选项:
A:Romanticism
B:Puritanism
C:mysticism
D:Unitarianism
答案: 【Unitarianism

6、判断题:
The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called blank verse, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.( )
选项:
A:对
B:错
答案: 【

7、判断题:
After his death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.( )
选项:
A:错
B:对
答案: 【

8、判断题:
A superb book Nature came out of Henry David Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.( )
选项:
A:对
B:错
答案: 【

9、判断题:
James Fenimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale, and the frontier saga.( )
选项:
A:对
B:错
答案: 【

10、判断题:
No other American poet ever surpassed Edgar Allan Poe's ability in the use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty.( )
选项:
A:错
B:对
答案: 【

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