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一 选择题（20个共20分） James Fenimore Cooper 作品The Leatherstocking Tales, 《皮袜子故事集》 Philip Freneau The wild Honey Suckle《野忍冬花》 Edgar Allan Poe To Helen Henry David Thoreau Walden《瓦尔登湖》 American Romanticism 浪漫主义 Period: from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 《红字》 美国内战（南北战争）时间 1861.4.12—1865.4.9 Westward Movement 西进运动，开始于18世纪末，终于19世纪末20世纪初。 Henry James The Portrait of a Lady 《一个女人的画像》 Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature 《论自然》 John Smith First American writer Herman Melville Moby-Dick 《大白鲸》 二 连线题（作者和作品 10分） Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography O.Henry The Cop and the Anthem 《警察与赞美诗》 Jack London The Sea Wolf 《海狼》 三 名词解释2个（以下四选二，共10分） American Dream“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” to encompass all that is available in American . It’s the opportunity to make individual choices without the restrictions of class, race or religion. (2分) American Puritanism 美国清教主义 A religious movement in the late 16th century，It sent an offshoot(分支) in the third and fourth decades of the 17th century to the northern English colonies in the New World，It laid the foundation for the religious, intellectual and social order of the New World。Puritans wanted to “purify the church” to its original state, because they thought the church was corrupted and had too many rituals。To be a Puritan: taking religion as the most important thing; living for glorifying God. American Romanticism 浪漫主义 The Romanticism Period stretches from the end of 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a period of the great flowering of American literature. It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass . It was rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism. American Literature mainly refers to literature produced in American English by people living in the U.S.. It