英语专业八级人文知识 第34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