美国文学作业10

卷号：（A ） （ 2016 年 7 月 5日） 机密

济宁学院2015-2016学年第2学期

2013级及2015级专升本英语专业美国文学期末考试试卷

I. Multiple Choices . (40%)（本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分）

1. It is on his____________ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European tours C. early poetry D.tales about America

2. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “____________________”.

A. the English Renaissance

B. the Second Renaissance

C. the American Renaissance

D. the Salem Renaissance

3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________. A. nature, man and the universe

B. the relationship between man and woman

C. the development of Romanticism in American literature

D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

4. About the novel The Scarlet Letter , which of the following statements is NOT right? A. It’s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.

B. It’s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.

C. It’s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.

D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel. 5. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered____________.

A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.

B. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with natu re

C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure

D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty

6. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”

A. free verse

B. blank verse

C. alliteration

D. end rhyming

7. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?

A. Religion.

B. Life and death.

C. Love and marriage.

D. War and peace.

8. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."

A. "Nature"

B. "Self-Reliance"

C. "Divinity School Address"

D. "The American Scholar"

9. In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is_______________. A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman

10. Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas

Whitman likes to keep his eye on human Society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as_______, immortality, religion, love and nature. A. progress B. freedom C. beauty D. death

11. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography ? A. Temperance B. Humanity (Humility) C. Frugality D. Immoderation

12. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the dea th of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” A. Walt Whitman B. Edgar Allen Poe

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. In Emily Dickinson’s Because I Could Not Stop for Death , ______________. A. death is personified as a devil

B. death is described as the tragic end of a person’s life

C. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortality

D. death is described as a beautiful girl who couldn’t find her final destinati on

14. Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism? A. Thoreau’s Walden B. Emerson’s Nature C. Poe’s Poetic Principle D. Thoreau’s Nature

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

A. Walden

B. The Pioneers

C. Nature

D. "Song of Myself"

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