Chapter one

1.1测试

1、单选题:
When did the puritans come to the new world on the ship of Mayflower?‏
选项:
A: 1620
B: 1621
C: 1622
D: 1623
答案: 【 1620

2、多选题:
‍What is the life style of puritans?‍
选项:
A: pious
B: diligent and thrifty
C: austere
D: self-reliant 
答案: 【 pious;
diligent and thrifty;
austere;
self-reliant 

3、多选题:
​What are the influences of American Puritanism on American literature?‌
选项:
A: optimism
B: symbolism
C: simplicity
D: stream of consciousness
答案: 【 optimism;
symbolism;
simplicity

Chapter three

测试3

1、单选题:
‏When did Romanticism flourish in America?‍
选项:
A: The second half of 16th century  
B: The first half of 17th century  
C: The first half of 18th century  
D: The first half of 19th century
答案: 【 The first half of 19th century

2、多选题:
‏What are the major concerns of American Romanticism?‏
选项:
A: They tended to turn their interest to remote and faraway places, past traditions, folklore and legends, and nature and the common people.
B: They attached great importance to emotion, sensitivity, imagination and personal freedom of expression.    
C: The romantics were also drawn to the supernatural.           
D: They stressed reason rather than emotion.  
答案: 【 They tended to turn their interest to remote and faraway places, past traditions, folklore and legends, and nature and the common people.;
They attached great importance to emotion, sensitivity, imagination and personal freedom of expression.    ;
The romantics were also drawn to the supernatural.           

3、多选题:
Which of the following descriptions about American Romanticism are correct?‏
选项:
A: American Romanticism was both imitative and independent.
B: American Romanticism was imitative because some of the romantic writings were modeled on English and European works.
C: American Romanticism was in a sense independent because the American landscape, its pioneering to the West, Indian civilization, and the new nation's democracy and dreams constituted an incomparably superior source of inspiration for native American authors.
D: American Puritanism as a cultural heritage also shaped the taste of American Romanticism.
答案: 【 American Romanticism was both imitative and independent.;
American Romanticism was imitative because some of the romantic writings were modeled on English and European works.;
American Romanticism was in a sense independent because the American landscape, its pioneering to the West, Indian civilization, and the new nation's democracy and dreams constituted an incomparably superior source of inspiration for native American authors.;
American Puritanism as a cultural heritage also shaped the taste of American Romanticism.

4、多选题:
Which of the following descriptions about Washington Irving are correct?‌‏‌
选项:
A: He is father of American literature.
B: He is father of American short story.
C: He is father of American poetry.
D: He is father of American drama.
答案: 【 He is father of American literature.;
He is father of American short story.

5、多选题:
Which of the following works are written by Washington Irving?‌‌‌
选项:
A: The Autobiography
B: The Wild Honey Suckle
C: The Sketch Book
D: A History of New York
答案: 【 The Sketch Book;
A History of New York

6、多选题:
Which of the following stories are collected in The Sketch Book?‍
选项:
A: Young Goodman Brown
B: Vip Van Winkle
C: The Fall of the House of Usher
D: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
答案: 【 Vip Van Winkle;
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Chapter two

测试2

1、单选题:
What is Benjamin Franklin’s masterpiece?‍‍‍
选项:
A: Poor Richard’s Almanack
B: The Autobiography
C: The Way to Wealth
D: The Freedom of the Will
答案: 【 The Autobiography

2、单选题:
Whom was Franklin’s The Autobiography dedicated to?‏‏‏
选项:
A: His friend
B: His parents
C: His son
D: His wife
答案: 【 His son

3、单选题:
‏How many parts are there in The Autobiography?‍
选项:
A: One
B: Two
C: Three
D: Four
答案: 【 Four

4、单选题:
​How many virtues are listed in the second part of The Autobiography?​
选项:
A: Eleven
B: Twelve
C: Thirteen
D: Fourteen
答案: 【 Thirteen

5、单选题:
‏Which pseudonym has been used by Benjamin Franklin to publish essays?‌
选项:
A: Diedrich Knickerbocker
B: Silence Dogood
C: Mark Twain
D: Junto
答案: 【 Silence Dogood

一、课程介绍和清教主义

American Puritanism

1、单选题:
Emerson’s _____ is like a “continuous monologue”.‎
选项:
A: A. Nature
B:  B. Rip Van Winkle
C:  C. The Scarlet Letter 
D: D. Walden
答案: 【 A. Nature

2、单选题:
The Puritans dreamed of living under a perfect order and worked with indomitable courage and confident hope toward building a new_____ in America.‏​‏
选项:
A: A. city 
B: B. country
C: C. society
D: D. Garden of Eden
答案: 【 D. Garden of Eden

3、多选题:
‏What are the influences of Puritanism on American Literature?‎‏‎
选项:
A: A. Optimism
B: B. Symbolism
C: C. Simplicity
D: D. Black Humor
答案: 【 A. Optimism;
B. Symbolism;
C. Simplicity

4、多选题:
‌What are the two features of American Puritans?‎‌‎
选项:
A: A. ideal
B: B. practical
C: C. pride
D: D. modest. 
答案: 【 A. ideal;
B. practical

5、判断题:
‏In the 16th century, many Puritans emigrated to the New World, where they sought to found a holy Commonwealth in New England.​‏​
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

6、判断题:
Without some understanding of Puritanism, there can be no real understanding of American culture and literature.‌‍‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

7、填空题:
Puritanism refers to the beliefs and practices characteristic of _______.‍‍‍
答案: 【 Puritans

8、填空题:
The American values such as individualism, hard work, and respect of education owe very much to________.‌​‌
答案: 【 Puritan beliefs##%_YZPRLFH_%##Puritanism

三、美国现实主义时期文学

美国现实主义时期文学单元测试

1、单选题:
‎Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a             language.‍‎‍
选项:
A: grand
B: pompous
C: simple
D: vernacular 
答案: 【 vernacular 

2、单选题:
‌Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ________.‎‌‎
选项:
A:  transcendentalists
B: idealists
C: pessimists
D: impressionists
答案: 【 pessimists

3、单选题:
‏The literary characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they __________.‌
选项:
A: speak local dialects
B: are polite and elegant gentlemen
C: are simple and crude farmers
D: are noble savages (red and white) untainted by society
答案: 【 are polite and elegant gentlemen

4、单选题:
‌_______- is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience".​
选项:
A: Tom Sawyer
B: Huckleberry Finn
C: Jim
D: Tony
答案: 【 Huckleberry Finn

5、单选题:
‏The Age of Realism in the literary history of the America refers to the period from _______.​
选项:
A: 1861-1914  
B: 1863-1918
C: 1865-1914 
D: 1865-1918
答案: 【 1865-1914 

6、单选题:
‌Henry James is now considered one of the most important writers of the 20th-century for his _______.‏
选项:
A: international theme
B: psychological realism
C: refined language 
D: all of the above
答案: 【 all of the above

7、单选题:
‎While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the "life" of the Americans, ______ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the "inner world" of man.‍
选项:
A: William Howells
B: Henry James
C: Bret Harte
D: Hamlin Garland
答案: 【 Henry James

8、单选题:
‍The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the Mississippi valley and it has moved millions of people of different ages and conditions all over the world about the ________ American society.‌
选项:
A: early 16th century
B: late 16th century
C: post-Civil war  
D: pre-Civil War
答案: 【 pre-Civil War

9、单选题:
​The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all except _______.‌
选项:
A: a return to nature
B: an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized society
C: the American society in the early 19th century
D: a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily
答案: 【 the American society in the early 19th century

10、单选题:
‍In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that_________.​
选项:
A: Huck has a wrong understanding of love and hate
B: There is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
C: Huck is always an indecisive person
D: Huck has very little education
答案: 【 There is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck

11、判断题:
‌Mark Twain had led an active life in the very center of the American experience. He had been a printer, steam-boat pilot, soldier, silver miner, gold washer and novelist.‍‌‍
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

12、判断题:
‎Mark Twain is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th-century “stream-of-consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

13、判断题:
‌Mark Twain's earlier works are light, humorous and optimistic.‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

14、判断题:
​Mark Twain's greatness lies in that his success in creating this plain but evocative language precipitated the end of American reverence for British and European culture and for the more formal language associated with those traditions. ​
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

15、判断题:
‌The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is described by Hemingway to be the novel from which "all modern American literature comes".​‌​
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

16、填空题:
‏The Civil War of 1861-1865 ended in the defeat of Southerners and the abolition of _______.‍
答案: 【 slavery

17、填空题:
‍In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck's surrogate father is _______.​
答案: 【 Jim

18、填空题:
‌Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name_______.‍
答案: 【 Mark Twain

19、填空题:
‌In the late nineteenth century, although Americans continued to read the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne and Poe, the great age of American               had ended.‎
答案: 【 Romanticism

20、填空题:
​ The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to                .​
答案: 【 Gilded Age

随堂测验1

1、单选题:
‍After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called "reality" of life started a new period in the American literary writings known as the Age of ______.​
选项:
A: Realism        
B: Reason and Revolution
C: Romanticism
D: Modernism
答案: 【 Realism        

2、单选题:
‍_______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era.‍
选项:
A:  Innocents Abroad 
B: The Gilded Age
C: Roughing It  
D: The Middle Years
答案: 【 The Gilded Age

3、单选题:
‌Henry James experimented with many different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being_________.‎
选项:
A: nothingness   
B: disillusionment
C: international theme 
D: relationship between men and women
答案: 【 international theme 

4、单选题:
​Mark Twain shaped the world's view of America and made a combination of _____ and serious literature.‏
选项:
A: English folk lore
B: Funny jokes
C: American folk humor
D: American traditional values
答案: 【 American folk humor

5、单选题:
‍In the following writers, which is not the one whose work are characterized with local colors?‎
选项:
A: Mark Twain
B: Sarah Orne Jewett
C: William Dean Howells 
D: Hamlin Garland
答案: 【 William Dean Howells 

6、单选题:
‎ _____is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in

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