專八人文知識模擬試題(15)
1、Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by _____.
A James Fenimore Cooper
B Washington Irving
C Edgar Allan Poe
D Mark Twain
2、The Legend of Sleeping Hallow is a short story written by ____.
A James Fenimore Cooper
B Washington Irving
C Edgar Allan Poe
D Mark Twain
3、Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales consists of ____stories.
A 3
B 4
C 5
D 6
4、Which of the following is not one of the Leather Stocking Tales by James F. Cooper.
A The Pioneers
B The Last of the Mohicans
C The Pathfinder
D The Crater
5、The Purloined Letter is a detective story by _____.
A Arthur Conan Doyle
B Edgar Allan Poe
C Washington Irving
D James F. Cooper
6、The Romantic Period in American Literary history started with the publication of ____.
A Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book
B Washington Irving’s Tales of A Traveller
C Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
D James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales
7、“The American Renaissance” is the period of ____in the history of American literature.
A Local Colorism
B Romanticism
C New England Transcendentalism
D Colonism
8、Edgar Allan Poe is known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the ___ form.
A poem
B drama
C short story
D essay
9、The Raven is a poem by ____.
A Edgar Allan Poe
B Walt Whitman
C Ralph Waldo Emerson
D Henry David Thoreau
10、The Philosophy of Composition was written by ____who also wrote The Poetic Principle
A Edgar Allan Poe
B Walt Whitman
C Ralph Waldo Emerson
D Henry David Thoreau
參考答案：
1. B.《瑞普.凡.溫克而》(Rip Van Winkle)是華盛頓.歐文短篇(Washington Irving)小說集《札記集》(The Sketch Book)中的一篇。
2. B.《睡谷的傳說》(The Legend of Sleeping Hallow)是華盛頓.歐文短篇(Washington Irving)小說集《札記集》(The Sketch Book)中的一篇。
3. C. 《皮裹腿故事集》(the Leather Stocking Tales)包括5部小說，這五部小說根據(jù)發(fā)表的時間先后順序依次為《開拓者》(The Pioneers)，《最后一個莫西干人》(The Last of the Mohicans)，《大草原》(The Prairie)，《探路人》(The Pathfinder)，《獵鹿人》(The Deerslayer)。
4. D.《皮裹腿故事集》(the Leather Stocking Tales)包括5部小說，這五部小說根據(jù)發(fā)表的時間先后順序依次為《開拓者》(The Pioneers)，《最后一個莫西干人》(The Last of the Mohicans)，《大草原》(The Prairie)，《探路人》(The Pathfinder)，《獵鹿人》(The Deerslayer)?！痘鹕娇凇?The Crater)是庫柏的另一部小說。
5.B. 《丟失的信》(The Purloined Letter)是愛德加.艾倫.坡(Edgar Allan Poe)創(chuàng)作的著名偵探小說。
6.A. 美國文學的浪漫主義時期指從18世紀末到美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)爆發(fā)這段時期，它的起止分別以華盛頓.歐文(Washington Irving)的《見聞札記》(The Sketch Book)與惠特曼(Whitman)的《草葉集》(Leaves of Grass)為標志。
7.B. 美國文學的浪漫主義時期指從18世紀末到美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)爆發(fā)這段時期，它的起止分別以華盛頓.歐文(Washington Irving)的《見聞札記》(The Sketch Book)與惠特曼(Whitman)的《草葉集》(Leaves of Grass)為標志。這是美國文學空前繁榮的時期，也被稱為美國文學的“文藝復興時期”。
8.C. 愛德加.艾倫. 坡(Edgar Allan Poe)是美國著名的詩人和評論家，但他還是以“第一位短篇小說大師”的身份最為人所知，特別是他的神秘恐怖小說。
9. A.《烏鴉》(The Raven)是艾倫.坡(Edgar Allan Poe)最著名的詩歌代表作之一。
10.A. 愛德加.艾倫.坡()是美國第一位文藝理論家，著有《創(chuàng)作哲學》(Philosophy of Composition)和《詩歌原理》(The Poetic Principle)等論著
