美国文学秋季学期练习题8. 有答案

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美国文学史及作品选读练习7

I. Multiple Choice.(每小题1分，共20分)

1. Transcendentalists took their ideas from_________.

A. the romantic literature in Europe

B. neo-Platonism

C. German idealistic philosophy

D. All of the above

2. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A. modernism B. rationalism C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalism

3. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ________ And Thoreau.

A. Jefferson B. Emerson C. Freneau D. Oversoul

4. The appearance of The Scarlet Letter marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist. Soon he composed the other three important novels including ______, The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun.

A. The house of the Seven Gables

B. The Prairie

C. The Fall of the House of Usher

D. Walden

5. ________was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.

A. Thoreau

B. Emerson

C. Hawthorne

D. Whitman

6. Transcendentalists recognized _________as the ―highest power of the soul‖.

A. intuition

B. logic

C. data of the senses

D. thinking

7. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in ________.

A. James Fennimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales

B. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

C. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn

D. All of the above

8. Herman Melville’s ______ is not only an adventure story, but also a significant philosophical work on spiritual exploration.

A. Moby Dick

B. The Egg

C. Nature

D. The Over-Soul

9. In the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following items.

A. Moral enthusiasm

B. Faith in the value of inpidualism and intuitive perception

C. Adoration for the natural world

D. All of the above

10. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s first book________ is the fundamental document of his philosophy, and expresses his constant, deeply felt love for the natural scenes.

A. Walden B . Nature C. Daisy Miller D. Leatherstocking Tales.

11. Which essay is not written by Raqlph Waldo Emerson?

A. Of Studies

B. Self –Reliance

C.The American Scholar

D. The Divinity School Address

12. From Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, ____ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.

A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense

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13.The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in ________.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Young Goodman Brown

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Ambitious Guest

14.Nathaniel Hawthorne is a master of psychological insight and the central subject of his major works is the human soul. Choose his short story from the following ones.

A. Young Goodman Brown

B. Omoo

C. Uncle Tom’s cabin

D. The Pearl

15.Which is not Nathaniel Hawthorne’s long novel?

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. The Marble Faun

C. The House of Severn Gables

D. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

16.Choose form the following items the one written by Melville Herman.

A. Typee

B. The Sea-Wolf

C. The Spy

D. Twice-Told Tales

17. ________’s stories still had many unrealistic qualities: ―tall tales‖ and unlikely coincidences. He is never a pure realist.

A. Henry James

B. Mark Twain

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D Henry David Thoreau

18.______in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.

A. Mark Twain B. William Dean Howells C. Bret Harte D.Harriet Beecher Stowe

19. Mark Twain’s first novel, ______ was an artistic failure , but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.

A. The Giled Age

B. Life on the Mississippi

C.The Innocents Abroad

D. The Mysterious Stranger

20. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn was Mark Twain’s masterwork form which, as __________noted, ―all modern American literature comes.‖

A. Henry James

B. William Dean Howells

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. Theodore Dreiser

II Fill in the blanks.(每小题2 分，共20分)

1. Ralph _________ Emerson was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England.

2. Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories, was Henry ________ Thoreau.

3. A superb book ________ came out of Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden pond.

4. From Thoreau’s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay ________.

5. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel_________.

6. _________ was a great American Transcendentalist and revolutionary Romanticist, whose first book nature is the fundamental document of his philosophy.

7. Herman Melville’s novel________ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

8. In I Hear America Singing, _________ depicts the beauty of labor and laborers.

9. As one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists,________, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne. Clemens, usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experiences.

10. The poem I’m nobody! Who are you? is written by __________.

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