美国文学史及选读练习题I. Choose the relevant match from Column II for each item in Column I. Section A I II ( ) 1. Walt Whitman A. The Scarlet Letter( ) 2. Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book( ) 3. Washington Irving C. Typee( ) 4. O Henry D. Leaves of Grass( ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne E. The Gift of the MagiSection B I II ( ) 1. Hester Prynne A. The Portrait of A Lady ( ) 2. George Hurstwood B. Uncle Tom ’s Cabin( ) 3. Isabel Archer C. Moby Dick( ) 4. Ahab D. Sister Carrie( ) 5. Eva Clare E. The Scarlet LetterSection C I II ( ) 1. Benjamin Franklin A. Martin Eden( ) 2. Thomas Paine B. Leather-Stocking Tales( ) 3. James Fenimore Cooper C. Rights of Man( ) 4. Mark Twain D. Poor Richars ’s Almanac( ) 5. Jack London E. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnII. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10%) 1In Washington Irving’s work appeared the first modern Short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. 2The first important American novelist was . 3To a Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of ______ ’s work, it regarded as “the most perfect brief poem in the language ” . 4A superb book entitled ______ came out of Henry David Thoreau ’s two-year life experience near a small lake. 5William Sidney Porter，whose pen name was ______ ，was the author of The Cop and the Anthem ．6Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing. 7American Romanticism ended with the Walt Whiteman’s. 8was called “the father of the American detective stories”. 9was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England. 10Theodore Dreiser’ s first novel is. 11The ship __...
