11美国文学A卷1美国文学A卷.doc

201 3–201 4年第 一 学期武昌理工学院试题 课程名称：美国文学名著选读 适用专业班级：英语1101-1104班 考试时间：90分钟 A √ B 卷 开 闭 √ 卷 题号 I II III IV V VI 总分 阅卷人 题分 10 30 20 10 10 20 100 得分 Part I. True or false statements. ( 10 points, 1 point for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are 10 statements. Decide whether they are true or false; if they true, write T; if false, write F. 1. Early in the sixth century, the English settlements in California and Massachusetts began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history. 2. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and journals of the native Indians. 3. The colonies that became the first United States were for the most part English. 4. At the initial period the spread of ideas of the American Enlightenment was largely due to journalism. 5. Benjamin Franklin seemed to represent the age of reason and revolution in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change. 6. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. 7. Romantic writers in the 19th century placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. 8. With a vast group of supporting characters, virtuous or villainous, James Fenimore Cooper made the America conscious of his past, and made the European conscious of America. 9. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his first book, Nature, which met with a wild reception. 10. All his literary life, Nathaniel Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life. Part II. Multiple choices.(30 points, 1 point for each) 1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of ________ century. A. the 18th B. the 19th C. the 20th D. the 21st 2. New-England’s Plantation wa