美国文学吴伟仁版第三 - 模拟练习与答案

第三章 模拟练习与答案

Blank Filling

1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote .which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.

2. The Romantic period in the American literary history covers the time between the end of the century to the outbreak of the . It started with the publication of Irving's and ended with Whitman's . This period is also called.

3. Irving's The Sketch Book is a collection of essays, sketches and tales, of which the most famous and frequently anthologized are and . 4. The Transcendental Club often met at 's Concord home.

5. Emersonian Transcendentalism is actually a philosophical school which absorbed some ideological concerns of American and Euro pean Romanticism.

6. was regarded as Father of the American short stories. 7. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and the other is .

8. Cooper's novel was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.

9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is. , who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.

10. In , Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln's death. 11. The great work not only demonstrates Emersonian ideas of self-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreau's own transcendental philosophy.

12. In , Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.

13. \with an inquiring imagination, an intensely meditative mind, and unceasing interest in the ntenor of the heart' of man's being\is used to describe . 14. by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.

15. A superb book came out of Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.

16. From Thoreau's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay 17. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne's novel . 18. Melville's novel is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

19. The best of Cooper's sea romances was .The hero of the novel represents John Pall Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.

20. is the narrator in Moby-Dick.

21. Transcendentalism was put forward by the people from . 22. has been regarded as \Declaration of Intellectual Independence.\

23. Published in 1823, was the first of the Leatherstocldng Tales, in their publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.

24. The way in which wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.

25. can somewhat be called \story\

II. Multiple Choice

1. Statement is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect

B. Hawthorne is a realistic writer C. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist D. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism

2. In Walt Whitman's \ . A. the poet himself as a child B. any American child

C. the young America D. one of the poet's neighbor 3. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes . A. the microcosm of human society B. a search for truth C. the unknown world D. nature

4. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with . A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas C. human beings D. celestial beings

5. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and . A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington Irving C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Wait Whitman

6. tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

A. Twice-Told Tales B. The Scarlet Letter C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun 7. is regarded as the first American prose epic. A. Nature B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden D. Moby-Dick

8. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass. A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveler C. The Alhambra D. A history of New York

9. Washington Irving's social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, .

A. \C. \ D. \

10. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true?

A. \B. \

C. The Confidence -Man has something to do with the sea and sailors. D. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American Prose epic. 11. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT . A. mystery of the universe B. sin of the whale C. power of the Great Nature D. evil of the world

12. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in .

A. Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales B. Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter C. Whitman's Leaves of Grass D. Irving's Rip Van Winkle

13. As a philosophical and literary movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A. modernism B. rationalism C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalism

14. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, \ . A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above 15. is not the member of Transcendental Club. A. Emerson B. Thoreau C. Whitman D. Fuller 16. Poe's first collection of short stories is . A. Tales of a Traveller B. Leatherstocking Tales C. Canterbury Tales

D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

17. For Melville, as well as for the reader and , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

A. Starbuck B. Stubb C. Ishmael D. Arab

18. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter.

A. Hester Prynne B. Atthur Dimmesdale

C. Roger Chillingworth D. Pearl

19. was a romanticized account of Melville's stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville become known as the\who lived among cannibals\

A. Moby Dick B. Typee C. Omoo D. Billy Budd

20. 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 Period

21. 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

22. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature? A. The Sketch Book. B. Leaves of Grass.

C. Leatherstocking Tales. D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 23. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except . A. religion B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace

24. Emily Dickinson's poetic idiom is noted for the following except . A. brevity B. directness C. plainest words D. obscure

25. \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

26. It is on his that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested. A. tales about America B. early poetry

C. childhood recollections D. sketches about his European tours

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