专八人文知识模拟题.doc

专八人文知识模拟题(1)
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. 选A
一般认为, John Smith 是美国文学的第一位作者,他的《关于弗吉尼亚的真实叙述》(A True Relation of Virginia)则是美国文学的“第一书”,其实也是整个美国历史的“第一书”。
2. 选C
Bradstreet 是殖民地时期的第一位诗人,她的第一部诗集《最近在北美出现的第十位缪斯》The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America是移民在北美创作的第一部诗集。
3. 选B
Bradstreet 去世后,人们纷纷以“哀歌”的形式来表达对这位北美首位殖民地诗人的敬仰和哀悼,《葬礼哀歌》(A Funeral Elegy upon That Pattern and