常耀信《美国文学简史》(第3版)章节题库-霍桑&183;麦尔维尔【圣才出品】

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Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks.

1.Pearl is a character in_____written by_____.[大连外国语学院2007研]

【答案】The Scarlet Letter,Nathaniel Hawthorne

【解析】Pearl是美国作家Nathaniel Hawthorne小说《红字》中的人物。

2.As a reflection of Hester Prynne’s moral development,the_____symbolically undergoes a gradual and imperceptible change from“_____”to“able”and last to“angel”.[天津外国语学院2008研]

【答案】scarlet letter A,adultery

【解析】霍桑的小说《红字》中海斯特·白兰经历了道德的洗礼，红字A的含义也逐渐由“通奸”转变为“能干”以至后来的“天使”

3.Tashtego,Daggoo and Queequeg are the three main harpooners in the novel _____.[首师大2008研]

【答案】Moby Dick

【解析】这三个人是《莫比·狄克》里的捕鲸手。

4.The way in which_____wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.

【答案】Nathaniel Hawthorne

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【解析】纳撒尼尔·霍桑的小说《红字》暗示了美国浪漫主义遵循美国清教伦理道德。

5.Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel_____.

【答案】The Scarlet Letter

【解析】海斯特·白兰是霍桑小说《红字》中的女主人公。

6._____is famous for writing stories about the sea and the islands of the Southern Pacific.In his masterpiece_____,he tells a story of a whaling voyage which is set a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate.

【答案】Herman Melville;Moby Dick

【解析】赫尔曼·麦尔维尔因写南太平洋的大海和岛屿的故事而著名。他的代表作《白鲸》讲述了以人与他自己命运的冲突作为象征的捕鲸航程。

7._____is the narrator in Moby-Dick.

【答案】Ishmael

【解析】以实玛利是小说《白鲸》的叙述者。

8.Herman Melville’s novel_____is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

【答案】Moby Dick

【解析】白鲸记（Moby Dick)是世上伟大的小说之一。是一部以捕鲸生涯为题材的小说，一位名叫亚哈（Ahab）的“皮廓德号”（Pequod）捕鲸船船长带领全体船员，追捕一条

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叫做“莫比·狄克”的大白鲸的历险过程。

9.Herman Melville’s world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to_____,a novelist.

【答案】Nathaniel Hawthorne

【解析】梅尔维尔在创作《白鲸记》的过程中受到霍桑的诸多指导和建议，因而小说成书后，梅尔维尔在书中提及该书是献给霍桑的。

10.Author_____Title_____.[南京大学2008研]

The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly ascribed to a kindred cause.And so too,all the added moodiness which always afterwards,to the very day of sailing in the Pequod on the present voyage,sat brooding on his brow.

【答案】Author:Herman Melville,Title:Moby Dick

【解析】题目节选自Herman Melville的Moby Dick（《白鲸》）。《白鲸》刻画了捕鲸人与巨鲸搏斗的真实画面，人与宗教之间的关系，以及人性的挣扎与考验。

11.The way in which_____wrote“The Scarlet Letter”suggests that American

Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.

【答案】Nathaniel Hawthorne

【解析】纳撒尼尔·霍桑（1804—1864）是美国十九世纪最有影响力的浪漫主义小说家，代表作品为《红字》，该书表明美国浪漫主义适应了美国的清教伦理道德。

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12.All his life,Hawthorne seems to be haunted by the theme of_____.Evil exist in

the human heart.Everyone possesses some evil secret as tales like_____set out to show.

【答案】sin and evil;Young Goodman Brown

【解析】霍桑一生心中都萦绕着罪恶感，因此我们可以在他的作品中感受到“黑色视觉”——邪恶的力量。他认为罪恶是人生来所带的标记。几乎他的每一部作品都涉及到了罪与恶。

13.Moby Dick represents the sum total of Melville’s bleak view of the world.Man in it lives a meaningless and futile life.He must place himself at the mercy of nature.Once he attempts to seek power over it he is doomed.The idea that man can make the world for himself is nothing but a_____folly.

【答案】meaningless

【解析】《白鲸》代表了麦尔维尔对他所生活的时代悲凉的世界观。这里没有上帝也毫无意义可言。西方现代生活中信仰的丢失、无用感及无意义等淋漓尽致地表现在梅尔维尔的这部作品中，因此20世纪人们发现它伟大且引人入胜。

Ⅱ.Multiple Choice

1.The most influential novelist in Romantic period is_____.[北二外2009研]

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne

B.Edgar Allan Poe

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C.Emily Dickinson

D.Fennimore Cooper

【答案】A

【解析】美国十九世纪最有影响的浪漫主义小说家是霍桑。

2.In_____,Captain Ahab is obsessed with the revenge on a whale which sheared off his leg on a previous voyage,and his crazy chasing of it eventually brings death to all on board the whaler except Ishmael,who survives to tell the tale.[天津外国语学院2007研]

A.Typee

B.White Jacket

C.Moby Dick

D.Billy Budd

【答案】C

【解析】Captain Ahab（亚哈船长）是梅尔维尔的小说Moby Dick（《白鲸》）里的主人公。

3._____is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne

B.Walt Whitman

C.Ralph Waldo Emerson

D.Mark Twain

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【答案】A

【解析】纳撒尼尔·霍桑是美国文学历史上最为矛盾的作家。

4.The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in_____.

A.The Scarlet Letter

B.Young Goodman Brown

C.The Marble Faun

D.The Ambitious Guest

【答案】A

【解析】《红字》（The Scarlet Letter）是美国19世纪影响最大的浪漫主义小说家和心理小说家纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)的代表作。该小说是成功运用象征手法的典范。

5.“There is evil in every human heart,which may remain latent,perhaps,through the whole life;but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”The thought is reflected in_____.

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

【答案】A

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【解析】霍桑认为罪恶是人生来所带的标记。几乎他的每一部作品都涉及到了罪与恶。

6._____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 many generations to happen.

A.The Marble Faun

B.The House of Seven Gables

C.The Blithedale Romance

D.Young Goodman Brown

【答案】B

【解析】《红字》（The Scarlet Letter）发表后获得巨大成功，霍桑继而创作了不少作品。其中《带有七个尖角阁的房子》(The House of Seven Gables)描写品钦家族的祖先(Colonel Pyncheon)谋财害命而使后代遭到报应的故事，说明财富是祸患，“一代人的罪孽要殃及子孙”；这部小说也反映了资本主义发展初期的血腥掠夺。

7.Which is not Nathaniel Hawthorne’s long novel?

A.The Marble Faun

B.The Blithedale Romance

C.The House of Seven Gables

D.Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment

【答案】D

【解析】《黑德格医生的实验》(Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment)是霍桑的中短篇小说。其

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余三项《玉石雕像》(The Marble Faun)，《福谷传奇》（The Blithedale Romance），《带有七个尖角阁的房子》（The House of Seven Gables）都是霍桑的长篇小说。

8.In Moby Dick,the voyage symbolizes_____.

A.the microcosm of human society

B.a search for truth

C.the unknown world

D.nature

【答案】B

【解析】小说《白鲸》中航程象征了对真理的探寻。

9.The author of the following selection is_____.[大连外国语2007研]

A.Herman Melville

B.Thomas Hardy

C.Theodore Dreiser

D.Jack London

There is a wisdom that is woe;but there is a woe that is madness.And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.And even if he forever flies within the gorge,that gorge is in the mountains;so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain,even though they soar.

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【答案】A

【解析】题中片段选自美国著名小说家Herman Melville的著名小说《白鲸》（Moby-Dick）。

10.The House of Seven Gables is a famous mystery-haunted novel written by_____.

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne

B.Herman Melville

C.Washington Irving

D.Henry James

【答案】A

【解析】《红字》（The Scarlet Letter）发表后获得巨大成功，霍桑继而创作了不少作品。

其中《带有七个尖角阁的房子》(1851)(The House of Seven Gables)描写品钦家族的祖先(Colonel Pyncheon)谋财害命而使后代遭到报应的故事，说明财富是祸患，“一代人的罪孽要殃及子孙”；这部小说也反映了资本主义发展初期的血腥掠夺。

11.Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne_____in American literature.

A.the largest brain with the largest heart

B.father of American poetry

C.the transcendentalist

D.the American scholar

【答案】A

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