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Exercise:
Multiple choices:
1.
America
as
a
nation
was
founded
in
the
year_______________.
A. 1776
B. 1783
C. 1778
D.
1780
2.
________
was
regarded
as
a
poet
of
the
American Revolution.
A. Philip Freneau
B. Walt Whitman
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. Thomas Jefferson
3.
The
ship
______
carried
about
one
hundred
Pilgrims
and
took
66
days
to
beat
its
way
across
the
Atlantic.
In
December
of
1620,
it
put
the
Pilgrims
ashore at Plymouth,
Massachusetts.
A. Sunflower
B. Armada
C. Mayflower
D. Titanic
4.
Among
the
following
writers,
who
is
not
in American romanticism?
A. Poe
B. Emerson
C. Hawthorne
D.
Anne Bradstreet
5.
Washington
Irving
got
his
idea
for
his
most
famous story,
Rip Van
Winkle
, from
a ________
A.
Greek
legend
B.
German
legend
C. French
legend
D.
English legend
6.
Rip Van
Winkle
is found in Irving’s
longer
work, ________
A.
The
Sketch
Book
B.
History
of
New
York
C. Tales of a Traveler
D.
The Precaution
7.
Which
of
the
following
is
not
true
of
Benjamin Franklin?
A. printer and author
B.
inventor and scientist
C. professor and
journalist
D. diplomat and philosopher
8.
American___________
as
a
cultural
heritage
exerted
great
influences
over
American
moral
values
and
literary
traditions and
works.
A.
Atheism
B.
Puritanism
C. Deism
D. Cynicism
9. Which of the
following is not true of
The
Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin
?
A. It was the
first and only work written
about
American Civil War.
B.
It
is
considered
the
first
popular
self-help book ever published.
C.
It
was
the
first
major
secular
American autobiography.
D.
It
is
the
first
real
account
of
the
American Dream in action as told from
a man who experienced it firsthand.
10. Which of the following is not true
about
American Puritanism?
A. All men have original sin.
B. The atonement is
limited.
C.
Women
should
be
controlled
by
men
for women have evil nature.
D. God decided every thing before
things
occurred.
11.
The Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin
is considered a
record of all the following
except
______.
A. self-persecution
B. self-improvement
C. self-
cultivation
D.
self-examination
12.
Washington
Irving’s
contribution
to
American literature is unique in more
ways
than one. He did all of the
following except
__________.
A. the reverence for nature
B. the worship of the headless horseman
C. the exhibition of the supernatural
D. the longing for the good old days
13. Which of the following may
not
be the
ideas
of Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A.“Trust
thyself”
B. “Make
thyself”
C. “Avoid extremes”
D. “Build your own world”
14. Among the following facts, which is
true
about Allan Poe?
A.
He
liked
to
write
on
beautiful
but
dead
women.
B. He impressed his readers
by his peaceful,
light hearted and
funny scenes.
C.
He
lived
an
uneventful
and
comfortable
life.
D. He thought
writing should teach readers
moral
lessons.
15.
The
meanings
of
the
letter
“A”
in
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous novel
The
Scarlet
Letter
may
include
all
of
the
following except ______.
A. absence
B. ambiguity
C. able
D. angel
16.
Walt
Whitman
is
a
poet
with
a
strong
sense
of
mission,
having
devoted
all
his
life
to
the
creation
of
the
“single”
poem,
______.
A
．
The Love Song
of J
．
Alfred Prufrock
B
．
The Waste Land
C
．
Murder in the
Cathedral
D
．
Leaves of Grass
17.
Which
of
the
following
statements
is
NOT
true
of
American
Transcendentalism?
A
．
It
can
be
clearly
defined
as
a
part
of
American
Romantic literary movement.
B
．
It can be
defined philosophically as “the
recognition
in
man
of
the
capacity
of
knowing truth intuitively”.
C
．
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
was
the
chief
advocate of this spiritual movement.
D
．
It
sprang from South America in the late
19th century.
18.
The
unofficial
manifesto
for
the
Transcendental
Club
was
______________,
Emerson’s
first
little
book, which
established him ever since as
the
most
eloquent
spokesman
of
New
England Transcendentalism.
A
．
The American
Scholar
B
．
Self
—
reliance
C
．
Nature
D
．
The
Over
—
Soul
19.
Which of the following statements might
be true of the theme of
Song
of Myself
by
Whitman?
A
．
This
poem
describes
the
growth
of
a
child
who
learned
about
the
world
around
him
and
improved
himself
accordingly.
B
．
This
poem
shows
th
e
author’s
cynical
sentiments
against
the
American
Civil
War.
C
．
This poem
reflects the author’s belief in
Unitarianism or Deism.
D
．
This poem
reflects the author’s belief in
the
singularity
and
equality
of
all
beings
in value.
21.
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
22.
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
23.
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
24.
In
_______,
Washington
Irving
agrees
with the protagonist
on his preference of
the
past
to
the
present,
and
of
a
dream-like world to the
real world.
A. “Young Goodman
Brown”
B.
“Rip Van Winkle”
C. “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
D.
“Bartleby, the Scrivener”
25.
Like
Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
_________
also
manages
to
achieve
the
effect
of
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