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

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.