美国文学之浪漫主义文学

Part

Ⅰ

The literature of Romanticism

Ⅰ

. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answer. Choose the one that

would complete the statement and put the letter in the blank.

16.

B

___.

A. Moby-Dick B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The Marble Faun D. The Blithedale Romance

17.

The

publication

of

___

A

____

established

Emerson

as

the

most

eloquent

spokesman

of

the

New

England Transcendentalism.

A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The Over- Soul D. The American Scholar

25. ___

D

____ is not a fictional character in the Scarlet Letter .

A. Hester B. Arthur Dimmersdale

C. Roger Chillingworth D. Ishmael

1837,Ralph waldo Emerson made a speech entitled at

D

Harvard

,whichwas

hailed

by

Oliver

Wendell

Holmes

as

intellectual

Declaration

of

Independence.

A.

C.

Melville as well as for the reader and

B

,the narrator ,

Moby dick

is still a mystery ,an

ultimate mystery of the universe.

A. Ahab B. Ishmael

C. Stubb D. Starbuck

is on his

D

that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested .

A. childhood recollections

B. sketches about his European tours

C. early poetry

D. tales about America

1. The Romantic Period in A

merican literature started from the publication of Washington Irving?s

___

A

___ and ended with Whitman?s Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveller

C. A History of New York D. The Scarlet Letter

2.

At

the

middle

of

19th

century

，

America

witnessed

a

cultural

flowering

which

is

called

“___

C

__”

。

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

___.

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.

In

the

history

of

American

literature

，

___

C

___

is

usually

agreed

to

be

the

summit

of

the

American Romanticism.

A. the Harlem Renaissance B. England Transcendentalism

C. New England Transcendentalism D. New Transcendentalism

5. About the novel The Scarlet Letter

，

which of the following statements is not right

D

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.

6. The great sea adventure story Moby- Dick is usually considered__

_B_

__.

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 nature

C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure

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

5.__

B

__is regarded as the first American prose epic.

and

-Dick

of Myself

Scarlet Letter

6.__

B

__has always been regarded as a writer who

“

perfected the best classic style that American

Literature ever produced.

”

gton Irving

n

rne

Romantic

writers

would

focus

on

all

the

following

issues

EXCEPT

the

_

D

__

in

the

American literary histrory.

dual feelings

of survival of the fittest

imagination

to nature

David Thoreau's work,_

A

_,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England

Transcendentalism.

A.

Walden

B.

The pioneers

C.

Nature

D.

Song of Myself

famous 20-years sleep in

“

Rip Van Winkle

”

helps to construct the story

in such a way

that we are greatly affected by Irving's _

A

__.

n with the passage of time

sion of transient beauty

on laziness and corruptibility of human beings

about supernatural manipulation of man's life

literary characters of the American type in early 19

th

century are generally characterized by

all the following features EXCEPT that they _

B

__.

local dialects

polite and elegant gentlemen

simple and crude farmers

noble savages( red and white) untainted by society

Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters

in __

A

_.

A.

The Scarlet Letter

B.

The House of the Seven Gablest

C.

The Portrait of a Lady

D.

The pioneers

hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around

B

.