非常全的美国文学习题

B. Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter. C. Whitman?s Leaves of Grass. D. Irving?s Rip Van Winkle.

23. 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

24. In Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for ______________.

A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above 25. ______is not the member of Transcendental Club. A. Emerson B. Thoreau C. Whitman D. Fuller 26. Poe?s first collection of short stories is _______________. A. Tales of a Traveller B. Leatherstocking Tales

C. Canterbury Tales D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque 27. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. A. Starbuck B. Stubb C. Ishmael D. Arab

28. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter? A. Hester Prynne B. Arthur Dimmesdale C. Roger Chillingworth D. Pearl

29. __________was a romanticized account of Melville?s stay among the

Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville become known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.

A. Moby Dick B. Typee C. Omoo D. Billy Budd

30. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as _________.

A. The naturalist Period B. The Modern Period C. The Romantic Period D. the Realistic period

31. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.

A. The House of Seven Gables B. White Jacket

C. The Marble Faun D. The Blithdale Romance

32. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?

A. The Sketch Book B. Leaves of Grass

C. Leatherstocking TAles..D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

33. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except_______________.

A. religion B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace 34. Emily Dickinson?s poetic idiom is noted for the following except_____________.

A. brevity B. directness C. plainest D. obscure

35. “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent,

perhaps, trough the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” Which of the following writings is the thought reflected in? A. Nathaniel Hawthorne?s Young Goodman Brown. B. Mark Twain?s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. C. Walt Whitman?s Leaves of Grass. D. Herman Melville?s Moby Dick.

36. It is his _________that Washington Irving?s fame mainly rested. A. tales about America B. early poetry C. childhood recollections D. sketches about his European tours

37. ________is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Walt Whitman C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Mark Twain

38. In Hawthorne?s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as __________________.

A. saviors B. villains C. commentators D. observers 39.

Washington

Irving?s

Rip

Van

Winckle

is

famous

for__________________.

A. Rip?s escape into a mysterious place B. The story?s German legendary source material C. Rip?s seeking for happiness D. Rip?s 20-year sleep

40. The publication of ____________established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.

A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The American Scholar D. The Over Soul

41. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson?s? A. This is my letter to the world B. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died C. The Road Not Taken D. I like to see it lap the Miles 42. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _________. A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience B. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common

C. the modes of thinking

D. the thought that designates man as a social animal

43. Which three novels drew from Melville?s adventures among the people of the South Pacific island?

A. Typee B. Omoo C. Mardi D. Redburn

44. In the poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of ______________.

A. the theory of universality B. singularity and equality of all beings in value

C. both A and B D. none above