第1小题:

The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except ____.  参考答案

选项:

A.

mystery of the universe

B.

sin of the whale  

C.

power of the great nature  

D.

evil of the world  

第2小题:

The following works are about sea voyages and adventure except ____.   参考答案

选项:

A.

The Confidence-Man

B.

Omoo  

C.

Moby Dick  

D.

Typee  

第3小题

In 1837, Emerson made a speech entitled ____ at Harvard, which was regarded as American “intellectual declaration of independence”参考答案

选项:

A.

Self-reliance

B.

Divinity School Address  

C.

The American Scholar  

D.

Nature  

第4小题:

The publication of ____ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England transcendentalism.  参考答案

选项:

A.

Nature

B.

Self-reliance  

C.

The American  

D.

The Over-soul  

第5小题:

Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.  参考答案

选项:

A.

nature

B.

life  

C.

self  

D.

self-reliance  

第6小题:

Who is the author of Moby Dick?  参考答案

选项:

A.

Irving

B.

Cooper  

C.

Hawthorne  

D.

Melville  

第7小题:

Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Whitman?  参考答案

选项:

A.

Lyrical and well-structured

B.

Free-flowing  

C.

Simple and rather crude  

D.

Conversational and casual  

第8小题:

___believe that first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is important.  参考答案

选项:

A.

Puritans

B.

Realists  

C.

Naturalists  

D.

Transcendentalists  

第9小题:

Which of the following is not written by Hawthorne?  参考答案

选项:

A.

The Scarlet Letter

B.

White Jacket  

C.

The Marble Faun  

D.

The Blithedale Romance  

第10小题:

The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the ___period.  参考答案

选项:

A.

naturalist

B.

modern  

C.

romantic  

D.

realist  

第11小题:

Which of the following works marks the beginning of real American Literature?   参考答案

选项:

A.

The Sketch Book

B.

Leaves of Grass  

C.

Self-reliance  

D.

The Over-soul  

第12小题:

The idea that “There is evil in every human heart, which many remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity” is reflected in___.   参考答案

选项:

A.

“Young Goodman Brown”

B.

Moby Dick  

C.

“Rip Van Winkle”  

D.

Walden  

第13小题:

Irving was one of the first American writers to earn international fame and was regarded as___.  参考答案

选项:

A.

Father of American drama

B.

Father of American poetry  

C.

Father of American Literature  

D.

Father of short stories  
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