1. 美国文学之父华盛顿·欧文

quiz 1

1、单选题:
‏ Early in           , the English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts started the main stream of the American national history.​‏​
选项:
A: 14th century   
B:  15th century
C: 16th century
D: 17th century
答案: 【 17th century

2、单选题:
‏ The first permanent English settlements in North America was established at          .​‏A. Jamestown   B. New York     C. Boston    D. Concord​
选项:
A:  Jamestown  
B:  New York  
C: Boston   
D: Concord
答案: 【  Jamestown  

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

4、单选题:
‌ It is a critical commonplace now that American literature is based on a myth, that is,           .‌
选项:
A:  the ancient Greek myth of Zeus
B: the British myth of the Saint Grail
C: the Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden
D: the Legend of the Sleepy Hollow
答案: 【 the Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden

5、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: Armada  
C: Mayflower    
D: Titanic
答案: 【 Mayflower    

6、单选题:
‏Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the         who appeared in America.‌
选项:
A: Ninth Muse 
B: Tenth Muse    
C: Best Muse   
D:  First Muse 
答案: 【 Tenth Muse    

7、单选题:
‎Which one in the following is not included in the doctrines codified by the Synod of Dort? ​
选项:
A: total depravity 
B: conditional elect
C: limited atonement
D: irrestitible grace
答案: 【 conditional elect

8、单选题:
‎Which one in the following is not one of the first three leaders in English settlement in North America?‍
选项:
A: John Smith
B: Thomas Paine
C: William Bradford
D: John Winthrop
答案: 【 Thomas Paine

9、单选题:
‍American Puritanism exerted enduring influence on American literature. Then the most three prominent characteristic exclude _____? ‌
选项:
A: Optimism 
B: Sentimentalism
C: Symoblism
D: Simplicity
答案: 【 Sentimentalism

10、单选题:
‌Which work is written by Philip Freneau?​
选项:
A: Common Sense
B: The Wild Honey Suckle
C: Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
D: The Flesh and the Spirit
答案: 【 The Wild Honey Suckle

13. “第一位真正的美国作家”马克•吐温

Test 5

1、单选题:
‏In _____, Whitman’s own early experience might be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.‎
选项:
A: “A Pact”
B:  “Song of Myself”
C: “There was a Child Went Forth” 
D: “Mending the Wall”
答案: 【 “There was a Child Went Forth” 

2、单选题:
‏Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional way which is now called free verse, that is _____.‍
选项:
A: lyrical poetry with chanting refrains
B: poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
C: poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat
D: poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
答案: 【 poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme

3、单选题:
‌Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.  ‍
选项:
A: “The Secret of the Sea”
B: The Scarlet Letter
C: “Hymn to the Night”
D: Leaves of Grass 
答案: 【 Leaves of Grass 

4、单选题:
‎“I Hear America Singing” was written by ____. ‍‏
选项:
A: Mark Twain
B: Walt Whitman
C: Emily Dickinson
D: Ezra Pound
答案: 【 Walt Whitman

5、单选题:
‌Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _____. ‍
选项:
A: blank verse 
B: free verse 
C: heroic couplet 
D: sonnet
答案: 【 free verse 

6、单选题:
‌By means of “free verse,” _____ believes that he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play. ‏
选项:
A: Emily Dickinson
B: Ezra Pound
C: Robert Frost
D: Walt Whitman
答案: 【 Walt Whitman

7、单选题:
‏Which one is NOT written by Walt Whitman?‏
选项:
A: “Song of of Myself”
B: “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
C: “I Hear America Singing”
D: “Because I Could not Stop for Death

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