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 Smi
2、th 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 Ameri
3、can 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
4、. All 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
5、CooperC 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 es
6、say10. 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
7、《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
