1. It’s generally known that the “First book of American” is ___ by John Smith.
A A True Relation of Virginia
B The True Travels of Captain John Smith
C Map of the Bay and the Rivers
D A Description of New England
2. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America was written by ___.
A John Smith B John Ellis
C Anne Bradstreet D Nathaniel Morton
3. A Funeral Elegy upon That Pattern and Patron of Virtue was written by John Norton in the memory of ___.
A John Smith B Anne Bradstreet
C Nathaniel Morton D Benjamin Franklin
4. Edward Taylor was a poet of ___.
A Local Colorism
B American Romanticism
C New England Transcendentalism
D Colonial American
5. Poor Richard’s Almanac was written by ___ who also wrote ___.
A Benjamin Franklin … Autobiography
B Washington Irving … Autobiography
C Washington Irving … History of New York
D Benjamin Franklin … History of New York
6. All the following but ___ are the works of John Woolman.
A Journal of John Woolman
B Some considerations upon the keeping of Negroes
C A plea for the Poor
D Poor Richard’s Almanac
7. The series of “poems of romantic fancy” are poems written by ___.
A Washington Irving B James Fenimore Cooper
C Edgar Allan Poe D Philip Freneau
8. ___ was the first black woman who published her collection of poems.
A Philis Wheatley B Ralph Ellison
C James Baldwin D Alex Haley
9. Escape: or A Leap for Freedom written by black author John Wells Brown was a(n) ___.
A poem B novel
C play D essay
10. Charles Brockden Brown wrote all the following novels but ___.
A Wieland B Ormond
C Edgar Huntley D The Pioneers
答案
1. 選A
一般認為,約翰.史密斯 John Smith 是美國文學的第一位作者,他的《關于弗吉尼亞的真實敘述》(A True Relation of Virginia)則是美國文學的“第一書”,其實也是整個美國歷史的“第一書”。
2. 選C
安妮.布拉德斯特里特Anne Bradstreet 是殖民地時期的第一位詩人,她的第一部詩集《最近在北美出現(xiàn)的第十位繆斯》The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America是移民在北美創(chuàng)作的第一部詩集。
3. 選B
安妮.布拉德斯特里特Anne Bradstreet 去世后,人們紛紛以“哀歌”的形式來表達對這位北美首位殖民地詩人的敬仰和哀悼,其中較著名的有約翰.諾頓的《葬禮哀歌》(A Funeral Elegy upon That Pattern and Patron of Virtue),以及約翰.羅斯杰的《致安妮. 布拉德斯特里特》(Anne Bradstreet)。這兩首詩后來都被收入了布拉德斯特里特詩集作為該詩集序言的一部分。
4. 選D
艾德華.泰勒Edward Taylor 是北美殖民時期的重要詩人之一,他的詩作體現(xiàn)了宗教精神和詩歌藝術的高度結合,主要詩作有《內(nèi)省錄》(Preparatory Meditations),《上帝對其選民有影響的決定》(Gods Determinations Touching His Elect),《詩體基督教史》(Metrical History of Christianity)。
5. 選A
《窮查理歷書》(Poor Richard’s Almanac)是富蘭克林(Benjamin Franklin)廣受歡迎的第一部作品,他的另一部代表作是《自傳》(Autobiography)。
6. 選D
約翰伍爾曼的作品有《日記》(Journal of John Woolman),《關于占有黑人的幾點思考》(Some considerations upon the keeping of Negroes),《為窮人請愿》(A plea for the Poor),《窮查理歷書》(Poor Richard’s Almanac)是富蘭克林(Benjamin Franklin)的作品。
7. 選D
菲力普.福瑞諾(Philip Freneau)創(chuàng)作的一系列描述美國美麗自然風光的詩歌被成為“浪漫奇想詩”,作品有《美麗的圣克魯斯》(The beauties of Anta Curz),《印第安人墓地》(The Indian Burying Ground),《鄉(xiāng)間小舍廢墟旁有感》(Stanzas Occasioned by the Ruins of a Country Inn)。
8. 選A
菲麗絲.惠特利(Philis Wheatley)是美國文學史上第一位出版詩集的黑人女詩人,由于可以想見的原因,在相當?shù)囊欢螘r間內(nèi)被有意無意地無視了。
9. 選C
黑人作家布朗John Wells Brown 所創(chuàng)作的《逃亡;又名奔向自由》(Escape; or A Leap for Freedom)是廢奴時期較受歡迎的黑人戲劇。
10.選D
查爾斯.布朗(Charles Brockden Brown)是美國18、19世紀之交的重要作家之一,因畢生從事文學創(chuàng)作和 評論而被譽為“美國第一職業(yè)文學家”,他創(chuàng)作的小說有《威蘭德》(Wieland),《奧蒙德》(Ormond),《艾德加.亨特利》(Edgar Huntley),《開拓者》是庫柏(James Fenimore Cooper)的小說。