自考英美文学选读00604考前串讲(7)

英美文学考前串讲（7）

American Literature

Chapter 1 The Romantic Period

I. Choose the right answer:

1. Of all the following issues, _____is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history. A. Puritan morality B. Human bestiality C. Noble sav ages D. Divinity of man Answer: B (P401)

2.Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcende ntal Movement.

A. Walden

B. The Pioneers

C. Nature

D. "Song of Myself" Answer: A (P402)

3. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote fr om______’s writings. A. Walt Whitman B. Henry David Thoreau C. Herman Melville D. Ralph Waldo Eme rson Answer: D (P402)

4. Leaves of Grass’commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of ________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and t he American Civil War.

A. the democratic ideals

B. the romantic ideals

C. the self-reliance spirits

D. the relig ious ideals Answer: A (P447)

5. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort

was to behave as a supreme_________. A. democrat B. individualist C. romanticist D. lead er Answer: B (P448)

6. 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 Pe riod Answer: C (P399)

7. In the following works, which sign the beginning of the American literature? A. The S ketch Book B. Leaves of Grass C. Leather Stocking Tales D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B (P399)

8._____is the author of the work ’The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. A. Washington Irving B. James Joyce C. Walt Whitman

D. William Butler Yeats Answer: A (P404)

9. Washington Irving’s ’Rip Van Winkle’is famous for_________. A. Rip’s escape into a mysterious

B. The story’s German legendary source material

C. Rip’s seeking for happiness

D. Rip’s 20-years sleep Answer: D (P406)

10. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?

A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.

B. Irving’s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ign

ored considering his success both abroad and at home. C. Irving’s taste was essentially progressive or radical.

B.D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best class ic style that American literature ever produced." Answer: C (P403---406)

11. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New Eng land Transcendentalism. A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The American Scholar D. The Over-Soul Answer: A (P420)

12. The phrase "a transparent eye-ball’compares philosophical mentation of Emerson’s. It appears in_________.

A. The American Scholar

B. Nature

C. The over Soul

D. Essays: Second Series Answer: B ( P423)

13. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______at Harvard, which was hail ed by Oliver Wendell Holmeasas :Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence".

A. "Self-Reliance"

B. "Divinity School Address"

C. "The American Scholar"

D. "Nature" Answe r: C (P423)

14. _____is the most ambivalent (有争议的) writers in the American literary history.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Walt Whitman

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Mark Twain Answer: A (P 429)

15. "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the w hole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity", which author of the following aut hors does the mention belong to________.

A. Washington Irving

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Walt Whitman Answe r: C (P431)

16.InHawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as________.

A. saviors

B. villains

C. commentators

D. observers Answer: B (P432)

17. 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 Answer: B (P431)

18. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in the form of his poetry. What he prefers for

his new subject is__________. A. free verse B. blank verse C. lyric poem D. heroic cou plet Answer: A (P450)

19. 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 Answer: A (P450---451)

20.The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became par t of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day." The two lines are taken from____________. A. "There Was a Child Went Forth" by Walt Whitman B. "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound C. "Cavalry Crossing a Fo rd" by Walt Whitman D. "Ulysses" by Joyce Answer: A (P454)