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American Literature
Chapter 1 The Romantic
Period
I. Choose the right
answer:
1. Of all the following issues,
_____is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic
writers in
the
American
literary history.
A. Puritan morality
B. Human
bestiality
C. Noble savages D. Divinity
of man
2.
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.
3.
of your own
mind
A. Walt Whitman B.
Henry David ThoreauC. Herman Melville
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.
’Leaves
of Grass’ commands great
attention because of its uniquely poetic
embodiment of________,
which are
written in the founding documents of both the
Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.
A. the democratic ideals
B.
the romantic ideals C. the self-reliance spirits
D. the religious ideals
5. According to
Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a
common cultural effort was to behave as a
supreme_________.
A.
democrat
B. individualist
C.
romanticist D. leader
6. 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
7. In the
following works, which sign the beginning of the
American literature?
A. The Sketch Book
B. Leaves of Grass
C.
Leather Stocking Tales D. Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
8. _____is the author
of the work ’The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow’.
A. Washington
Irving
B. James Joyce C. Walt Whitman
D. William Butler Yeats
9. Washington Irving’s ’Rip Van Winkle’
is famous for_________.
A.
Rip’s escape into a mysterious B. The story’s
German legendary source material
C. Rip’s seeki
ng for
happiness
D.
Rip’s
20
-years sleep
10. Which of
the following statement is not true about
Washington Irving?
A. Washington Irving
is regarded as Father of the American short
stories.
B.
Irving’s
relationship
with
the
Old
World
in
terms
of
his
literar
y
imagination
can
hardly
be
ignored
considering his success both abroad and
at home.
C. I
rving’s taste
was essentially progressive or radical.
D.
Washington
Irving
has
always
been
regarded
as
a
writer
who
the
best
classic
style
that
American literature
ever produced.
11.
The
Publication
of
______established
Emerson
as
the
most
eloquent
spokesman
of
New
England
Transcendentalism.
A.
Nature
B. Self-Reliance C. The American
Scholar D. The Over-Soul
12.
The
phrase
transparent
eye-
ball’
compares
philosophical
mentation
of
Emerson’s.
It
appears
in_________.
A. The American Scholar
B.
Nature
C. The over Soul D. Essays:
Second Series
13. In 1837, Ralph Waldo
Emerson made a speech entitled _______at Harvard,
which was hailed by Oliver
Wendell
Holmeasas :Our Intellectual Declaration of
Independence
A.
C.
D.
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14. _____is the most
ambivalent (
有争议的
) writers in
the American literary history.
A.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Walt Whitman C.
Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Mark Twain
15.
is
evil
in
every
human
heart,
which
may
remain
latent,
perhaps,
through
the
whole
life;
but
circumstances
may
rouse
it
to
activity
which
author
of
the
following
authors
does
the
mention
belong
to________.
A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
16. In
Hawthorne’s novels and short stories,
intellectuals usually appear
as________.
A. saviors
B. villains
C. commentators
D. observers
17. 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
18.
Walt
Whitman
is
radically
innovative
in
the
form
of
his
poetry.
What
he
prefers
for
his
new
subject
is__________.
A
. free verse
B.
blank verse C. lyric poem D. heroic couplet
19. Which of the following features
cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?
A.
Lyrical and well-
structured
B. Free-flowing C. Simple
and rather crude D. Conversational and casual
20.
edge, the flying sea-
crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.
These became
part of that child who
went forth every day, and who now goes, and will
always go forth every day.
lines are
taken from____________.
A.
B.
C.
Answer: A (P454)
21.
A. Prose epic
B. Comic epic C. Dramatic fiction D. Poetic
fiction
Answer: A (P460)
22. 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
Answer: B (P461)
23. Which of the following comments on
the writings by Herman Melville is not true?
A.
C.
The
Confidence---Man has something to do with the sea
and sailors
. D. Moby-Dick is regarded
as the
first American prose epic.
Answer: C (P459---460)
24.
The
Transcendentalists
believe
that,
first,
nature
is
ennobling,
and
second,
the
individual
is____,
therefore, self-reliant.
A.
insignificant B. vicious by nature
C.
divine
D. forward-looking
10. It is on his____________ that
Washingt
on Irving?s fame mainly rested.
A. childhood recollections
B. sketches about his
European tours
C. early poetry
D.
tales about America
12.
As
a
philosophical
and
literary
movement,
the
main
issues
involved
in
the
debate
of
Transcendentalism are generally
concerning ____________________.
A.
nature, man
and the universe
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B. the
relationship between man and woman
C. the development of
Romanticism in American literature
D. the cold, rigid
rationalism of Unitarianism
13. 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
.
15. In his poems,
Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the
form of his poetry, which is called
“
____________________.
”
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A.
free verse
B. blank verse
C. alliteration
D. end rhyming
21. More than five hundred poems
Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her
general Skepticism
about the
relationship between ______ is well-expressed.
A. man and man
B.
men and women
C.
man and
nature
D.
men and God
22. Which of the following
is right about Emily
Dickinson
?
s poems about
nature?
A. In
them, she expressed her general affirmation about
the relationship between man and nature.
B. Some of them
showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical
bond between man and nature.
C. Her poems reflected her
feeling that nature is restorative to human
beings.
D.
Many
of
them
showed
her
feeling
of
nature
?
s
inscrutability
and
indifference
to
the
life
and
interests of human beings.
23. As a great innovator in American
literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an
unconventional
style which is now
called free verse, that is _________.
A. lyrical poetry with
chanting refrains
B.
poetry without a fixed
beat or regular rhyme scheme
C. poetry
without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a
fixed beat
D. poetry in an irregular
metric form and expressing noble feelings
31. Which of the following statements
can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a
spokesman of
the
“
Roaring
20s
”
?
38
. In Hawthorne?s novels
and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as
_
_____________.
A.
commentators
B. observers
C.
villains
D. saviors
39. Besides sketches, tales and essays,
Washington Irving also published a book on ______,
which is
also considered an important
part of his creative writing.
A. poetic
theory
B. French art
C.
history of New York
D. life of George Washington
43. 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
.
44. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a
speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was
hailed by
Oliver Wendell Holmes as
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A.
B.
C.
D.
46. 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
47. The American novelist Nathaniel
Hawthorne is known for
his
“
black
vision
．
”
The
Term
“black
vision”
refers to______________.
A. Hawthorne's observation that every
man faces a black Wall
B.
Hawthorne's belief that all men are by
nature evil
C. that
Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his
story
D. that Puritans of Hawthorne's
time usually wore black clothes
52. 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
53. The
Romantic writers would focus on all the following
issues EXCEPT the_______
in the American
literary history
．
A. individual feeling
B.
survival of the
fittest
C. strong
imagination
D. return to nature
61. American Romanticism stretches from
the end of the ________ century through the
outbreak of
______.
A.
18th, the Civil War
B. 18th, the War of Independence
C. 19th, WWI
D. 19th, WWII
62. ________
_ believes that
the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and
“the death 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
63
. 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
destination
64. 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
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. 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.
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.
?
Leaves
of
Grass
?
commands
great
attention
because
of
its
uniquely
poetic
embodiment
of________, which
are written in the founding documents of both the
Revolutionary War and the
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American Civil War.
A.
the democratic ideals
B. the romantic ideals
C.
the self-reliance spirits
D. the religious ideals
67. _______
_is the author of
the work “
The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow
”.
A.
Washington Irving
B. James Joyce
C. Walt Whitman
D. William Butler Yeats
70.
We
can
perhaps
summarize
that
Walt
Whitman?s
poems
are
characterized
by
all
the
following
features except that they are
_______________.
A. conversational and
crude
B.
lyrical and well-
structured
C. simple and rather crude
D. free-flowing
77.
The
Transcendentalists
believe
that,
first,
nature
is
ennobling,
and
second,
the
individual
is
____________.
A.
insignificant
B. vicious by nature
C.
divine
D. forward-looking
78. The
Publication of ______established Emerson as the
most eloquent spokesman of New England
Transcendentalism.
A.
Nature
B. Self-Reliance
C. The
American Scholar
D. The Over-Soul
Answer: C (P402)
II. Read the quoted part
and answer the questions:
1.
ime grew worse and worse with Rip Van
Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on: a tart
temper mellows
with age, and a sharp
tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by
constant use. For a long while he
used
to perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and
other idle personages of the village.
Questions:
1) Please identify the author and the
title of the work.2) What’s the meaning of this
passage?
参考答案
:
1) This is an excerpt from
2) With
his wife’s dominance
at home, the
situation became harder
and
harder for Rip Van Winkle. His
wife’s temper became worse and she
scolded him for more often. He had to stay in the
club with idle people.
(P407)
附
:Question:
Please describe the changes Rip Van Winkle
experienced.
Answer: 1) Rip Van Winkle
was the hero in Irving’s works. He was a
good
-natured man, a henpecked
(
惧内
的，妻管严的
)
husband.
2) Because his wife’s shrewish
(
泼妇一样的
) treatment, Rip had
to escape from his home to the little inn in
the village. When it failed to give him
some restful air, he had to go hunting in the high
mountain, where Rip
met a stranger, and
the man asked Rip to carry keg for him. Then Rip
reached the place in the valley, where
many strangers were playing nine-pins.
Later Rip got drunk after drinking the liquor,
which made him sleep
for 20 years.
3) Rip woke up as an old man, entering
the village learned that his wife had died, he got
the freedom of his
own,; and the
American had been dependent from the control of
Britain, he had changed from a subject of
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