(完整版)美国文学吴伟仁版第三模拟练习与答案

第三章

模拟练习与答案

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1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote

.which became the first work by an

American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.

2.

The

Romantic

period

in

the

American

literary

history

covers

the

time

between

the

end

of

the

century

to

the

outbreak

of

the

.

It

started

with

the

publication

of

Irving's

and

ended

with

Whitman's

. This period is also called.

3.

Irving's

The

Sketch

Book

is

a

collection

of

essays,

sketches

and

tales,

of

which

the

most

famous

and

frequently anthologized are

and

.

4. The Transcendental Club often met at

's Concord home.

5.

Emersonian

Transcendentalism

is

actually

a

philosophical

school

which

absorbed

some

ideological

concerns of American

and Euro pean Romanticism.

6.

was regarded as Father of the American short stories.

7. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and

the other is

.

8. Cooper's novel

was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary

War.

9.

The

central

figure

in

the

Leatherstocking

Tales

is.

,

who

goes

by

the

various

names

of

Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.

10. In

, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln's death.

11.

The

great

work

not only

demonstrates

Emersonian

ideas of

self-reliance

but

also

develops

and tests Thoreau's own transcendental philosophy.

12.

In

,

Whitman's

own

early

experience

may

well

be

identified

with

the

childhood of

a

young

growing America.

13.

with

an

inquiring

imagination,

an

intensely

meditative

mind,

and

unceasing

interest

in

the

ntenor of the heart' of man's being

.

14.

by

Melville

is

a

novella

about

a

ship

whose

black

slave

cargo

mutiny

holds their

captain

a

terrorized hostage.

15. A superb book

came out of Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.

16. From Thoreau's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay

17. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne's novel

.

18.

Melville's

novel

is

a

tremendous

chronicle

of

a

whaling

voyage

in

pursuit

of

a

seemingly

supernatural white whale.

19. The best of Cooper's sea romances

was

.The hero of the novel represents John Pall Jones, the

great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.

20.

is the narrator in Moby-Dick.

21. Transcendentalism was put forward by the people from

.

22.

has been regarded as

23. Published

in

1823,

was

the

first

of

the

Leatherstocldng

Tales,

in

their publication time,

and

probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.

24. The way in which

wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself

to American puritan moralism.

25.

can somewhat be called

II. Multiple Choice

1. Statement

is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect

B. Hawthorne is a realistic writer

C. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist

D. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism

2. In Walt Whitman's

.

A. the poet himself as a child

B. any American child

C. the young America

D. one of the poet's neighbor

3. In Moby- Dick, the voyage symbolizes

.

A. the microcosm of human society B. a search for truth

C. the unknown world

D. nature

4. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with

.

A. nature

B. transcendentalist ideas

C. human beings

D. celestial beings

5.

The

Transcendentalist

group

includes

two

of

the

most

significant

writers

America

has

produced

so

far,

Emerson and

.

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Washington Irving

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Wait Whitman

6.

tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are

involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

A. Twice-Told Tales

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun

7.

is regarded as the first American prose epic.

A. Nature

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. Walden

D. Moby-Dick

8.

The

Romantic

Period

of

American

literature

started

with

the

publication

of

Washington

Irving's

and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Tales of a Traveler

C. The Alhambra

D. A history of New York

9. Washington Irving's social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous

story,

.

A.

C.

D.

10. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true?

A.

B.

C. The Confidence -Man has something to do with the sea and sailors.

D. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American Prose epic.

11. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT

.

A. mystery of the universe

B. sin of the whale

C. power of the Great Nature

D. evil of the world

12. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is

particularly evident in

.

A. Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales B. Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

C. Whitman's Leaves of Grass

D. Irving's Rip Van Winkle

13. 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

14. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,

.

A. Adultery

B. Angel

C. Amiable

D. All the above

15.

is not the member of Transcendental Club.

A. Emerson

B. Thoreau

C. Whitman

D. Fuller

16. 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

17.

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

18. Choose the characters

which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter.

A. Hester Prynne

B. Atthur Dimmesdale

C. Roger Chillingworth

D. Pearl

19.

was

a

romanticized

account

of

Melville's

stay

among

the

Polynesians.

The

success

of

the

book soon made Melville become known as the

A. Moby Dick

B. Typee

C. Omoo

D. Billy Budd

20. 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

21. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except

.

A. The House of the Seven Gables B. White Jacket

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Blithedale Romance

22. 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.

23. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except

.

A. religion

B. love and marriage

C. life and death

D. war and peace

24. Emily Dickinson's poetic idiom is noted for the following except

.

A. brevity

B. directness

C. plainest words

D. obscure

25.

is

evil

in

every

human

heart,

which

may

remain

latent,

perhaps,

through

the

whole

life;

but

circumstances may rouse it to activity.

.

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

26. It is on his

that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested.

A. tales about America

B. early poetry

C. childhood recollections

D. sketches about his European tours

27.

is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Walt Whitman

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Mark Twain

28. In Hawthorne's novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as

.

A. saviors

B. villains

C. commentators D. observers

29. Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle is famous for

.

A. Rip's escape into a mysterious place

B. The srory's German legendary source material

C. Rip's seeking for happiness

D. Rip's 20-year sleep

30.

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

31. 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.

32. 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 thought that designates man as a social animal

C. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common

D. the modes of thinking

33. Which three novels drew from Melville's adventures among the people of the South Pacific islands?

A. Typee.

B. Omoo.

C. Mardi.

D. Redburn.

34. In the poem

.

A. the theory of universality

B. singularity and equality of all beings in value

C. both A and B

D. none above

35. Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the

as well.

A. nature

B. life

C. self

D. self-reliance

36. Emily Dickinson's poems (441)

about

her communication with the outside world.

A. indignation

B. joy

C. anxiety

D. indifference

37. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?

A. Lyrical and well-structured.

B. Free-flowing.

C. Simple and rather crude.

D. Conversational and casual.

38. Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A. Nature.

B. Essays.

C. The Over-Soul.

D. Of Studies.

39. In

.

A. passionately

B. pessimistically

C. in despair

D. peacefully

40. Which book is not written by Emerson?