Week 1 Introduction and Early Romanticism Quiz for Week 1
1、 Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the__.
答案: American Enlightenment
2、 Who was NOT regarded as the “School-room Poets”
答案: Edgar Allen Poe.
3、 Which of the following is a work by Washington Irving
答案: A History of New York
4、 From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous__, an annual collection of proverbs.
答案: Poor Richard’s Almanac
5、 Which of the following is a poem by William Cullen Bryant
答案: “Thanatopsis”
6、 Which of the following is NOT a writer of American Romanticism
答案: Mark Twain
7、 Washington Irving’s works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are_and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
答案: “Rip Van Winkle”
8、 Which of the following is a unique feature of American Romanticism
答案: American landscape as the subject matter.
9、 __ is said to be the father of American short story and American Goldsmith.
答案: Washington Irving
10、 The early settlers came to America for different reasons. They do NOT include__.
答案: climatic reason
11、 The American Puritans were mainly__.
答案: Calvinists
12、 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” revealed the Calvinist belief of__.
答案: Jonathan Edwards
13、 “God’s excellency … seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon and stars; in the clouds, and the blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees…” This is the quotation of__.
答案: Jonathan Edwards
14、 The 13 virtues, which are temperance, silence, order, resolution…and chastity, are recorded in__.
答案: The Autobiography
15、 A History of New York was supposed to be written by a Dutch historian named__.
答案: Diedrich Knickerbocker
16、 Which of the following is a proper description of Rip’s personality
答案: He is an idler who refuses to labor in his own
farm.
17、 The first novel by James F. Cooper is__.
答案: Precaution.
18、 Which of the following is true about Cooper’s reputation
答案: By 1851, he was more criticized in the U. S.
than in Europe.
19、 __ was the last of the Mohican tribe in The Last of the Mohicans.
答案: Chingachgook
20、 Fireside poets got the name mainly because__.
答案: their poems were read by people at fireside
during the family reading hour
Week 2 Transcendentalism and Romantic Poets Quiz for Week 2
1、 Who wrote the little book Nature, which is a long essay
答案: Ralph Waldo Emerson
2、 Which poem contains the lines, ” And I had put away / My labor and my leisure too, / For His Civility-“
答案: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
3、 Who wroteLeaves of Grass
答案: Walt Whitman
4、 In what century did Walt Whitman live
答案: nineteenth
5、 Who did Whitman memorialize in “O Captain My Captain”
答案: Abraham Lincoln
6、 Other than singing, what are the good folks of the poem “I Hear America Singing” up to
答案: Working
7、 What are the mechanics’ voices in the poem “I Hear America Singing” like
答案: ”blithe and strong”
8、 What does the carpenter do in the poem “I Hear America Singing”, besides singing
答案: ”measures his plank or beam”
9、 Where is the boatman singing in the poem “I Hear America Singing”
答案: In his boat
10、 How long does the ploughboy work in the poem “I Hear America Singing”
答案: From morning till sundown
11、 How do the workers in the poem “I Hear America Singing” feel about their songs
答案: They feel a sense of ownership about them
12、 Who lived in the woods of Massachusetts and wrote a book calledWaldenabout the experience
答案: Henry David Thoreau
13、 Emily Dickinson lived the life of a recluse by the Pond Walden.
答案: 错误
14、 The Dial was the journal founded by the Transcendentalists.
答案: 正确
15、 Unlike Whitman, Dickinson didn’t extol an emergent America, its expansion, its individualism and its Americanness in her poems.
答案: 错误
16、 Among Dickinson’s 1775 poems, only a few were published after she died.
答案: 错误
17、 Death is personified as a gentleman caller or suitor in the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”.
答案: 正确
18、 Walt Whitman likes capitalizing many words and using dashes here and there in his poems.
答案: 错误
19、 Compared with Thoreau who was a great thinker, Emerson was a great experimentalist who put Transcendental doctrines into practice in the actual life.
答案: 错误
20、 The famous metaphor “transparent eye-ball” appears in the “Introduction” of Nature.
答案: 错误
作业Week 3 Dark Romanticism Assignment for Week 3
1、 What is the symbolic meaning of the whale inthenovelMobyDick Try to illustrate your points with examples from the novel.
评分规则: 参考答案：1）For Captain Ahab,
the whale symbolizes pure evil, and he feels that it is his duty to take that
evil out of the world. 2）For the crew of
the ship, the whale is a convenient subject for legend and an easy scapegoat
for all of their worries. Instead of talking about their own fears, they talk
about the whale.3）Other interpretations of the whale have included seeing it as Death,
given its white color and its fatal effects on all who encounter it; as a
distant, deist view of a distant God; as the coming growth of white colonialism
and economic pillaging of the undeveloped world.评分指导1清晰明确地写出了白鲸的象征。 (3分)
对两部分的评价都列举了2-3条理由进行说明，并有文本细节或其他材料支撑。答题不足100字，扣3分；答题在100字以上，不足200字，扣2分。
语言准确，逻辑清晰。不能用完整句子答题的扣2分。
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