美国文学选择
1.Emerson was the most leading spirit of the
Transcendental Club.
2.The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in
American literature is particularly evident in Cooper's Leather-stocking Tales.
3.Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation in the American literary history
4.Hawthorne's works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic
5.Irving's Rip Van Winkle got ideas from German legends.
6.Irving has been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced.”
7.Rip Van Winkle reveals the theme of nostalgia for the past.
8.Whitman is not the mumber of Transcendental Club.
9.The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was Nature.
10.In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,“A” may stand for all the above.
11.In Leaves of Grass, all the above is all that concerned Whitman.
12.In the early 19th century, nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the American people as a whole than did Puritanism.
13.Fire an Ice is not the work by Whitman.
14.In the poem ‘ song of myself',Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of both A and B.
15.which of the following had influence on Melville’s writing? All the above
16.The private life is not melville’s work.
17.the white whale Moby dick is a symbol of nature.
18.Ishmael is the narrator in Moby Dick.
19.the Romantic Period in the history of American literature began at the end of the 18th century. 20.Transcendentalism was put forward by the peoplr from New England.
21.the romantic period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s leaves of grass.
22.Washington irving’s social conservation
and ……, to some extent, in his famous story,Rip Van Winkle.
23.The chief spokesman of new england transcendentalism is Ralph Waldo Emerson.
24.in his essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson put forward his philosophy……Individual and Nature.
25.Nathaniel Hawthorne’s literary world turns out to be a most disturbed,……，……human beings.
26.most of the poem in Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.
27.in when lilacs last in the Dooryard
Bloom’d,Whitman airs his sorrow at President lincoln’s death.
28.in There Was a Child Went Forth,Whitman own early experience ……growing American.
29.the poem Cavalry Crossing a Ford reminds its reader ……civil war.
30.Moby Dick is regarded as the first American prose epic.
31.Ahab , the tragic hero of moby
dick,……,becomes ……destroy evil.
32.in Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone ……secret.
33.in 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled The American Scholar at Harvard,...........Independence.
34.in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”,.............the “power of blackness.
35.For Melville ,as well as for the reader and Ishmael,the narrator,.....universe.
36.Most of poems in whitman’s leaves of grass sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.
37.the giant moby dick may symbolize all EXCEPT sin of the whale.
38.which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson,....American Romanticism? Faith in Christianity.
39.which may not be one of the cause for the rise of American Romantic movement?The victory of the settlers in the Indian war.
40.in Irving Rip Van Winkle the drastic changes in the lapsed 20 years .....except the graves of the dead Union soldiers.
41.in moby dick after the whaling ship the Pequod sink ,Melville writes:”...then all “the author might imply that man’s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction
42.after the night in the forest in Hawthorne’s Young .....his eloquent sermon.the
reason ..perhaps that Brown had committed a sinful act. 43.which of the work concerns ...original sin?The
Scarlet Letter.
44.we can perhaps summarize that Whitman’s
poems ....EXCEPT that they are lyrical and
well-structured.
45.the period before the American civil war is
commonly referred to as the Romantic period.
46.most of Herman melville’s novels are based on
sea voyages and sea....NOT the case? The
Confidence-man.
47.the transcendentalists believe that ,first, nature
is ennobling;and second ,the individual is divine.
48.which of the following is not a work of
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?White Jacket.
49.in hawthorne’s novel and shot
stories,intellectuals usually appears as villains.
50.Besides sketches,tales.....a book on history of
New York ,which... writing.
51. In American literature,escaping from the
society....subject.the following titles... , ...., to the
subject EXCEPT Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
52.Melville’s Moby Dick is an encyclopedia of
everything.......whaling industry.
53.”The universe is composed of nature and the
soul...”,the phase of New England
Transcendentalism.
54.Irving was best known for his shot story such as
Rip Van Winkle.
55.THe finest example of Hawthorne’s
symbolism ...in The scarlet letter.
56.Led by Hawthorne,Emerson and Thoreau,there
arose ......nineteenth century.
57.Transcendentalists recognized intuition as the
“.....soul”
58. Transcendentalists doctrines
found .....advocate in Emerson and Thoreau.
59.AS a philosophical and literary
movement,transcendentalism flourished (ivi)
war.
60.which of the following is NOT a famous concept
of transcendentalism? Man is corrupted in nature.
61.which of the following works began to make
Irving internationally known?The sketch book.
62.which of the following is NOT true concerning
Washington Irving?He is the first American writer
to declare the independence of American
literature.
63.The Scarlet letter by Hawthorne is mainly
concerned with the consequence of sin and guilt
64.what is Hawthorne’s attitude toward
Puritanism?MIxed
65.one typical feature of Irving writing is his best
classic style.
66.”I celebrate myself ,and sing myself.......”who
could have written these lines?Walt Whitman.
67.what kind of narrative point of view...in Moby
Dick ?The first person.
68.which of ....is NOT about the human
nature?Nathaniel Hawthorne.
69.which of the ...cannot be used to describe
Whitman poetry?Elegance and gentle.
70.when Emerson states in the introduction to his
nature:”our age is retrospective”We see this world
through our ancestors’ eyes.
71.which of ...NOT a typical feature of the
American Romantic writings?Emphasis on rules of
orde r,reason......decorum
72.the statement that a man’s journey to the dark
forest .....,may well sum up ...themes of
Hawthone’s Young Goodman Brown.
73.here is a short passage from a story :”he
recognized on the sign,...., GENERAL
WASHINGTON”the story must be Irving Rip Van
Winkle
74.which of the following is NOT a typical feature
of Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown?interior
monologue
75.in Rip Van Winkle ,Washington irving agrees
with the protagonist ....the real world.
76.Whitman is noted for his use of oral language.
77.according to Whitman,the genuine
participation of a poet....as a supreme
individualist.
78.Leaves of grass commands great attention
because of ......embodiment of the democratic
ideals,.......civil war.
79.Walt Whitman was a founding figure.....his use
of free verse,poetry....scheme.
80.The pink ribbon appears ....which might
possibly suggest that Goodman Brown’s night trial
in the forest might be an illusion.
81.Moby Dick,the big white whale,....EXCEPT
adultery.
82.the famous 20-years sleep in Rip Van
Winkle ........greatly affected by Irving’s
involvement with the passage of time.
83.according to Nathaniel Hawthorne,romance
should be a mixture of facts and fancy.
84.Henry David Thoreau’s work,Walden,has
always ....transcendentalism movement.
85.”nothing is at last sacred but the
integrity...mind”is a famous quote from Ralph
Waldo Emerson’s.
86.the romantic writers would focus on all the
following issues EXPECT the idea of survival of the
fittest.
87.the literary characters of American type in early
19th centry ....EXCEPT that they are polite and
elegant gentlemen.
88.Hester Prymne,Dimmesdale
Chilingworth,....characters in The Scarlet Letter.
89.the belief that first,nature is ennobling;and
second ,....divine describes transcendentalists.
90.The horizon’s edge,the flying sea-crow,....will
always go forth every day. The two line are taken
from There Was a Child Went Forth by Walt
Whitman.
91.Washington Irving was one of the first American.
as Father of the American short stories.
92.It is on his tales about America that
Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested.
93.Nathaniel Hawthorne is the most ambivalent
writer in the American literary history.
94.Washington Irving’s Rip Van Wrinkle is famous
for Rip’s 20-year sleep.
95.The publication of Nature established Emerson
as the most eloquent......Transcendentalism.
96.Which of following accounts is NOT true for
Ralph Waldo Emerson? Emerson is generally
known as dramatist.
97.Statement”Hawthorne is a realistic writer”is
wrong in describing most is over-reaching intellect.
98.Which of .......by Herman Melville is NOT true?
The Confidence-Man has something to do with
the sea and sailors.
99.Which of....is not finished by Ralph Waldo
Emerson? Of Studies.
100.Statement”Washington Irving is regarded as
Father of the American long stories.”is NOT true.
101.Thoreau was often alone in the woods
https://www.360docs.net/doc/8511371991.html,munication with nature.
102.By Brown in Young Goodman Brown,
Hawthorne means he is an everyman.
103.Which of the following statements about The
Scarlet Letter is NOT true?It explores man’s
never-ending search for.....
104.”Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of
your mind”......from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s
writings.
105.The theme of Walt Whitman’s Song of
Myself may be well started as “It sings of....”
106.The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage
benefited the Americans in strengthening their
moral values.
107.”strange names were over the doors....”the
above passage is taken from Irving’s Rip Van
Wrinkle.
108.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter”A”
which originally stood for Adultery finally
obtained ...
109.The phrase “a transparent eye-ball”....of
Emerson’s.It appears in Nature.
110.Irving was best known for his famous short
stories such as Rip Van Wrinkle and The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow.
111.Emerson,Thoreau and Whitman are
considered three great transcendental figures.
112.The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism
is reflected in his The Scarlet Letter
113.In”perched upon a bust of Pallas just above
my chamber door...”refers to a raven
114.In Walt Whitman’s”There was a Child Went
Forth.”The child refers to the young America.
115.The writer known for his frontier novels was
Jame Fenimore Cooper.
116.The author of Civil Disobedience is Henry
David Thoreau.
117.The chief spokesman of New England
Transcendentalism is Ralph Waldo Emerson.
118.Whitman wrote the poem “O! Captain!My
Captain！”in memory of Abraham Emerson.
119.Washington Irving”s contribution to America
does NOT included he paved the way towards
Realism.
120.”Success is counted sweetest/By those who
ne’er succeed.”is written by Dickinson.
121.Diaries,histories,journals,letters,commonplace
,travel books.......of the colonial period.
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