大学外语英美文学答案(1)

1.Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.

A. Billy Budd

B. The Old Man and the Sea

C. White Jacket

D. Moby Dick

In addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil.

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Herman Melville

______ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones” and that evil will come out of evil though it may take generations to happen.

A. The Marble Faun

B. The Blithedale Romance

C. Young Goodman Brown

D. The House of Seven Gables

Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

A. The Conduct of Life

B. Representative Men

C. English Traits

D. The American Scholar

Which is generally as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?

A. Nature

B. Walden

C. On Beauty

D. Self-Reliance

There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually

on the Puritan soil.

A. Unitarianism

B. Mysticism

C. Romanticism

D. Puritanism

“The universe is composed of Nature and the soul… Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which pushed American romanticism into a new Phase, the phase of New England ______.

A. Romanticism

B. Transcendentalism

C. Symbolism

D. Naturalism

Washington Irving’s works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are ____ and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

A. A History of New York

B. The Pioneers

C. Rip Van Winkle

D. Leatherstocking Tales

Washington Irving’s first book appeared in 1809, titled ______.

A. The History of New York

B. The Marble Faun

C. The American Scholar

D. The Cop and the Anthem

In the early 19th century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did _____.

A. Rationalism

B. Romanticism

C. Sentimentalism

D. Puritanism

Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?

A. Hester Prynne

B. Pearl

C. Mr. Hooper

D. Ahab

Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne ______ in American literature.

A. The transcendentalist

B. The largest brain with the largest heart

C. The American scholar

D. Father of American poetry

Nathaniel Hawthorne is a master of psychological insight and central subject of his major works is the human soul. Choose his short story from the following ones.

A. Omoo

B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

C. Young Goodman Brown

D. The Pearl