英语专业八级人文知识 第35讲

【练习】

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