《英美文学整理复习》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《英美文学整理复习（13页珍藏版）》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、.Quiz on Benjamin Franklin1. God help them that help themselves is found in As work. A.Franklin B.Freneau C.Jefferson D.Paine2. Which statement about Franklin is not true DA. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He wasa Unitarian.3. Poor
2、Richards Almanac contained A.A. many proverbs B. Franklins autobiographyC. voyages to the new land D. climate and crops4. In his last years and for a generation after his death, _A_ was more often referred to as the father of his country than was George Washington himselfA. Benjamin Franklin B. Wash
3、ington IrvingC. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Nathaniel Hawthorne5._A_ is outstanding as a tradesman, citizen, scientist, statesman and political revolutionary. He aided Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of the Independence. A. Benjamin Franklin B. Washington IrvingC. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Natha
4、niel Hawthorne6. Benjamin Franklins best writing is found in his masterpiece A.A. Autobiography B. Poor Richards AlmanacC. Common Sense D. The Way to Wealth7. Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called C.A. Time B. PeopleC. the General MagazineD. Redbook8. If we say J
5、onathan Edwards represents the upper levels of the American mind, represents the lower levels. BA. Thomas Paine B. Benjamin FranklinC. Philip FreneauD. Washington IrvingPhilip Freneau: The Poet of American Revolution.9. The ideals of the American Enlightenment were e*emplified in the life and career
6、 ofB .A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington10. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome(representative) of the A.A. American Enlightenment B. Sugar ActC. Chartist Movement D. Romanticist11. Benjamin Franklin shaped his writing after the Aof the English essayists Joseph
7、Addison and Richard Steele.A. Spectator PapersB. WaldenC. NatureD. The Sacred Wood12. Benjamin Franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassic ideal ofD .A. clarity B. restraint C. simplicity D. all the above13. Franklins claim to a place in literature rests chiefly on his Aand A
8、.A. Poor Richards Almanac, AutobiographyB. Common Sense, American CrisisC. The Wild Honeysuckle, The Indian Burying GroundD. Rights of Man, The Age of ReasonPhilip Freneau1752-1832美国殖民时期著名诗人，美国革命战争后期最出色的作家。生于纽约一酒商家庭。1768年进入普林斯顿大学，次年发起建立北美第一个革命学生组织。他写于战时期的诗集战时期及其他(1864)，歌颂战时期反蓄奴制斗争中的英雄主义精神，欢庆黑奴解放，以鼓励
9、士气。1781年发表英国囚船一诗，揭露英军虐待战俘的暴行。1786年出版弗瑞诺诗集，被誉为美国独立革命的诗人。战后，他支持杰弗逊，为美国政府做出巨大奉献但50岁后，他在贫穷中度过余生。主要作品The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲；The British Prison Ship英国囚船； To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士- The Wild Honeysuckle野生的金银花； The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地14. Which statement is not true abou
10、t Autobiography DA. It is recognized as a classic of its kind.B. It epitomizes the spirit of Franklin.C. It is pervaded with a pragmatic philosophy and the teaching of ethical principles.D. It describes the whole life of Franklin.Quiz on Ralph Waldo Emerson1. In the early 19th century The Sketch Boo
11、k had established _Washington Irving_s reputation at home and abroad, and designated the beginning of American Romanticism. 2. Ralph Waldo Emersons first book in 1836 _Nature_ brought American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism. 3. The American Transcendeatalist
12、s formed a club called _The Transcendental Club_.4. _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England.5. Emersons truest disciple门徒, the man who put into practice many of Emersons theories, was _Henry David Thoreau_6. THe American Scholar_was called the Intellectual
13、 Declaration of Independence.7. Nature_ is regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism. 1. Transcendentalists took their ideas from _E_.A. the romantic literature in Europe B. neo-PlatonismC. German idealistic philosophy D. The revelation of oriental mysticismE. All of the above2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _B_ and Thoreau.A. Jefferson B. EmersonC. Freneau D. Oversoul3. Philip Freneau_ was considered as the Poet of American Revolution4. _B_ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Thoreau
