(完整版)美国文学史练习

Exercises of Chapter 2

I. Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following is NOT one part of

The

LeatherStocking Tales

by Cooper?

A.

The Spy

B.

The Pathfinder

C.

The Pioneers

D.

The Deerslayer

2. Which statement about Thoreau was NOT right?

A. He was a lover of nature.

B. He was a particular kind of romantic.

C. He was a polemicist.

D. He was a thorough transcendentalist.

3.

Which

of

the

following

has

been

called

“

the

manifesto

of

American

trans cendentalism?

”

A.

Divinity School Address

B.

Self- Reliance

C.

Nature

D.

The American Scholar

4. As a philosophical and literary movement,

flourished in New England from

the 1830s to the Civil War.

A. sentimentalism

B. transcendentalism

C. modernism

D. rationalism

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

.

A. the Modern Period

B. the Realistic Period

C. the Romantic Period

D. the Naturalist Period

6. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT

.

A.

The Marble Faun

B.

Typee

C.

The Scarlet Letter

D.

Mosses form an Old Manse

7. Which of the following is

not

a work of Emily Dickinson

’

s?

A.

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

B.

The Raven

C.

This is My Letter to the World

D.

I Like to See it Lap the Miles

8. Whitman

’

s poems are characterized by all the following features

EXCEPT

.

A. the strict poetic form

B. the free and natural rhythm

C. the easy flow of feelings

D. the simple and conversational language

9. Poe

’

s

first

collection of stories is

.

A.

Tales of a Traveler

B.

Leather Stocking Tales

C.

Canterbury Tales

D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

10. Which book is

not

written by Emerson?

A.

The American Scholar

B.

Self-Reliance

C.

Nature

D.

Civil Disobedience

11. The first example of Hawthorn

’

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

12. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is

.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Washington Irving

13. Transcendentalists recognized

as the

“

highest power of the soul

”

.

A. intuition

B. logic

C. data of the senses

D. thinking

14. Which is regarded as the

“

Declaration of Intellectual Independence

”

?

A.

The American Scholar

B.

English Traits

C.

The Conduct of Life

D.

Representative Men

15. American literature produced

only one female poet

during the nineteenth century.

This was

.

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Jane Austin

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Harriet Beecher

16.

Captain, My Captain

is written for

.

A. Lincoln

B. Whitman

C. Washington

D. Heminway

17. Which of the following books is a tremendous chronicle of an appalling voyage in

pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale?

A.

The Scarlet Letter

B.

Moby Dick

C.

The Marble Faun

D.

Moses from an Old Manse

18.

was the

first

man of letters from the United States to win and international

reputation.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Washington Irving

C. James Fenimore Cooper

D. Longfellow

19. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most outstanding of all the

writers in

literature.

A. transcendental/ English

B. transcendental/ American

C. realistic/ English

D. realistic/ American

20. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet

and a

.

A. short story writer

B. novelist

C. dramatist

D. translator

21.

In

Walden

,

who

urges

people

to

simplify

their

lives

and

look

to

nature

for

meaning?

A. Robert Frost

B. Walt Whitman

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Herman Melville

22. The setting of the novel

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne is in

.

A. England during World War II

B. Paris during the French Revolution

C. the Middle Ages in Italy

D. Puritan America

23. In

Moby-Dick

, the voyage symbolizes

.

A. the microcosm of human society

B. a search for truth

C. the unknown world

D. nature

24.

Thoreau

was

often

alone

in

the

woods

or

by

the

pond,

lost

in

spiritual

communication with

.