1、1. It’s generally known that the “First book of American” is___ by John Smith.A A True Relation of VirginiaB The True Travels of Captain John SmithC Map of the Bay and the RiversD A Description of New England2. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America was written by___.A John Smit
2、h B John EllisC Anne Bradstreet D Nathaniel Morton3. A Funeral Elegy upon That Pattern and Patron of Virtue was written by John Norton in thememory of ___.A John Smith B Anne BradstreetC Nathaniel Morton D Benjamin Franklin4. Edward Taylor was a poet of ___.A Local ColorismB America
3、n RomanticismC New England TranscendentalismD Colonial American5. Poor Richard’s Almanac was written by ___ who also wrote ___.A Benjamin Franklin … AutobiographyB Washington Irving … AutobiographyC Washington Irving … History of New YorkD Benjamin Franklin … History of New York6. A
4、ll the following but ___ are the works of John Woolman.A Journal of John WoolmanB Some considerations upon the keeping of NegroesC A plea for the PoorD Poor Richard’s Almanac7. The series of “poems of romantic fancy” are poems written by ___.A Washington Irving B James Fenimore Coop
5、erC Edgar Allan Poe D Philip Freneau8.___ was the first black woman who published her collection of poems.A Philis Wheatley B Ralph EllisonC James Baldwin D Alex Haley9. Escape: or A Leap for Freedom written by black author John Wells Brown was a(n)___.A poem B novelC play D essay10
6、. Charles Brockden Brown wrote all the following novels but ___.A Wieland B OrmondC Edgar Huntley D The Pioneers答案1.选A一般认为，约翰.史密斯 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安妮.布拉德斯特里特Anne 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
7、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安妮.布拉德斯特里特Anne 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，其中较著名的有约翰.诺顿的《葬礼哀歌》（A Funeral Elegy upon ThatPattern and Patron of Virtue），以及约翰.罗斯杰的《致安妮.布拉德斯特里特》（AnneBradstreet）。这两首诗后来都被收入了布拉德斯特里特诗集作为该诗集序言的一部分。4.选
