美国文学试题2.doc

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at?? ? Jamestown, Virginia in??1607????? .? 2.????John Smith???????became the first American writer.? 3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the??Puritan???? values that dominated much of the early American writing. 4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of?Reason???? and Revolution. 5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece??The Autobiography????? . 6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet?????? appeared. ? 7. The signing of????????? symbolized the birth of an independent American nation. 8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was????????? . 9. Washington Irving’s???????????? became the first work by an American writer to win international fame. 10. ??????????????is the summit of American Romanticism.?? 11. With the publication of Emerson’s????????? in 1836, American Romanticism reached its summit. 12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel??????????????? . 13. Henry James’ major fictional theme is?????????????? . 14. ???????????????brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into existence. 15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called???????????? ?. 16.? “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by????????????? . 17. The term The Gilded Age is given by??????????????? to describe the post-civil war years. 18.? Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is???????????????????? . 19.? The leader of the literary movement Imagism is???????????? . 20.? ?????????is the spokesman for Lost Generation. ?? ? 1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was????? . ? A. Bret Harte???????????????????????????????????????????? B. Mark Twain ? C. Henry James?????????????????????????????????? ?? D. William Dean Howells 2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain? ? A. The Gilded Age ???????????? ???????????????????? B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer