美国文学综合练习进步2附标答.doc

.-Test Two (Chapter3-4 with answers)I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1. _ was Americans first man of letters and he was usually called “the Father of American Literature.”A. Philip Freneau B. Thomas PaineC. Washington Irving D. William Cullen Bryant2. _ enduring fame rests on his frontier stories.A. Irvings B. CoopersC. Poes D. Melvilles3. The period before the American Civil War is Commonly referred to as _A. the Romantic Period B. the Realistic PeriodC. the Naturalist Period D. the Modern Period4. It is on his _ that Washington Irvings fame mainly rested.A. childhood recollectionsB. sketches about his European toursC. early poetryD. tales about America 5. Which of the following is NOT a theme revealed in Washington Irvings Rip Van Winkle? A. Escape from ones responsibilities and even ones history. B. Mans ease in facing his advancing age. C. Nostalgia for the unrecoverable past. D. The loss of identity.6. Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?A. Mark Twain and Henry James.B. Ernst Hemingway and William Faulkner.C. Jack London and OHenry D. Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving.7. _ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.A. HawthorneB. WhitmanC. Emerson D. Thoreau8. Romantics shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in the value of _ and intuitive perception.A. nationalismB. naturalismC. individualism D. regionalism9. The problem evil is central to Melvilles work, which is shown in his famous work, _. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Moby Dick C. Life in the Woods D. This Side of Paradise10. Irvings Sleeping Hollow talks about the ghost stories among _ people.A. British B. DutchC. FrenchD. German11. has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced.”A. Irving B. HawthorneC. MelvilleD. Allan Poe12. Which is not written by Washington Irving?A. The legend of Sleepy HollowB. A History of YorkC. Rip Van WinkleD. The Black Cat13. Which trend does not belong to American Romanticism?A. A great interest in the picturesque elements of the pastB. A emphasis upon emotion in literatureC. An attempt not to model their works upon English and European mastersD. An enthusiasm about portraying national life and character.14. _ was the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame. A. Irving B. Emerson B. Jefferson D. Franklin15. is not the member of Transcendental Club.A. Emerson B. ThoreauC. WhitmanD. Fuller16. The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was .A. Walden B. NatureC. Self-relianceD. The American Scholar17. In Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for .A. Adultery B. AngelC. AmiableD. all the above18. In the early 19th century, nothing has left a deeper imprint on the characters of the American people as a whole than did .A. Romanticism B. RationalismC. PuritanismD. Modernism19. The Romantic Period in the history of American Literature began at .A. the beginning of the 18th centuryB. the end of the 18th centuryC. the civil WarD. the beginning of the 19th century20. Death is the theme of _ literary writings. A. Allan Poe B. Hawthorne C. Thoreau D. Irving21. In _ writing, there isnt much action, or physical movement going on in his works and he is good at exploring the complexity of human psychology. A. Hawthornes B. Mark Twains C. Poes D. Dreisers22. Henry W. Longfellow was a poet in the _ period. A. Realistic B. Modern C. Romantic D. Colonial23. The Raven is written by _. A. Emerson B. Whitman C. Allan Poe D. Longfellow24. Which is not written by Henry Longfellow?A. The Song of HiawathaB. The Song of MyselfC. My Lost YouthD. The Tide Rises and the Tide Falls25. Which is not written by Allan Poe?A. The Gold BugB. The Fall of the House of UsherC. Annabel LeeD. I taste a liquor never brewed26. According to _, “there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”A. PoeB HawthorneC. EmersonD. Hemingway27. _ is known as a poet and critic, but most famous as the first master of the short-story form, especially tales of the mysterious and macabre.A. Allan Poe B. Mark TwainC. Hawthorne D. Henry James28. Which line is from Emerson?A. The whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.B. We have, it is true, our great men in America: not a city but has an ample share of them.C. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.D. My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.29. In technique, writers of American Romanticism loved traditional meters and stanza forms. In language their English was usually _. A. British B. American C. formal D. informal 30. Which of the following features does not belong to Transcendentalism?A. Transcendentalists place emphasis on spirit.B. Transcendentalists stress the negligence of human self-cultureC. Transcendentalists stress the importance of the individual.D. Transcendentalists offer a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of God.31. _ is not the member of the Romantic Movement. A. Cooper B. Emerson C. Frost D. Longfellow32. Romantic Period is a period of the great flowering of American literature. It is also called _.A. The first American Renaissance B. The second American RenaissanceC. The American Gilded AgeD. The American Enlightenment33. _ refers to a specific literary movement which attempted to penetrate to a deeper reality through suggestive symbols.A. RegionalismB. RomanticismC. Symbolism D. Naturalism34. In Nature, Emerson employed the famous metaphor of “_” to illustrate his philosophical discussionA. an innocent baby B. distant mountainsC. transparent eyeball D. fields and woods35. Emersonian Transcendentalism is actually a philosophical school which absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European _.A. Realism B. PuritanismC. Symbolism D. Romanticism.36. Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter shows his _A. anti-Puritanism B. PuritanismC. RealismD. Impressionism37. Which of the following works is not written by Washington Irving?A. The Sketch BookB. Rip Van WinkleC. The Devil and Tom WalkerD. The Masque of the Red Death38. One of Longfellows favorite subjects is _.A. the man B. the seaC. the mind D. the animal39. _ holds that in the whole composition a writer should have in mind the unity of effect and pre-established design. A. Allan Poe B. Mark Twain C. Hawthorne D. Henry James40. _ is considered as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. A. CooperB. IrvingB. FranklinD. Emerson41. Transcendentalism was put forward by the people from .A. Mid-West B. WestC. New EnglandD. England42. A new romanticism spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the _ century. A. 18thB. 19th C. 17th D. 20th 43. In Hawthornes novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _.A. commentators B. observersC. villains D. saviors 44. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _.A. divine B. vicious by natureC. insignificant D. forward-looking 45. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our intellectual Declaration of Independence”.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar 46. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject EXCEPT _. A. Coopers Leather-Stocking TalesB. Thoreaus WaldenC. Emersons Over-soulD. Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn47. Henry David Thoreaus works, _, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.A. The PioneersB. WaldenC. NatureD. Song of Myself48. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _.A. divine B. vicious by natureC. insignificant D. forward-looking 49. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthornes?A. The House of the Seven GablesB. The Blithedale RomanceC. The Marble FaunD. White Jacket50. Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in _.A. The Scarlet LetterB. The House of the Seven GablestC. The Portrait of a LadyD. The Pioneers 51. _ is regarded as “intellectual Declaration of Independence” by Oliver Wendell Homes, the title of which is now carried by one of the finest magazines in America.A. The American Scholar B. Common SenseC. The Declaration of IndependenceD. Self-relianceII. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false. Write a “T” for true and “F” for false. 1. Some of Washington Irvings works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales. ( )2. William Cullen Bryant was regarded one of the earliest naturalist poets in American history. ( )3. Thomas Paine was Americans first man of letters and he was usually called “the Father of American Literature.”( )4. Edgar Allan Poe is known as a poet and critic, but most famous as the first master of the short-story form. ( )5. One of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism, is that nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human beings. ( )6. Henry David Thoreau was the leader of American Transcendentalism. ( )7. Transcendentalism stressed the power of intuition, believing that people could learn things both from the outside world by means of the five senses and from the inner world by intuition. ( )8. Washington Irvings works are characteristic of death, terror, mystery, illusion and fate. ( )9. American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works ( )10. Longfellows poetical reputation was established before the appearance of Song of Hiawatha in 1855. ( )11. Irving was humorous and gentle, but he was not urbane and sophisticated. ( )12. “The Scarlet Letter” deals with the effects of a curse, and though the tale itself is fiction, the germ of the story sprang from the authors family history. ( )13. Irving declined a nomination to Congress, and also refused to run for mayor of New York, but he served as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1845. ( )14. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematized. ( )15. Emerson was one of the most influential of American thinker, yet he had no elaborate, formal system of thought and he never attempted to create one. ( ) 16. Allan Poe manifests the theme of death through excellent creation of atmosphere. ( )17. The writings of Washington Irving and James Cooper, unlike those of Franklin and Jefferson, are utilitarian. ( )18. Instead of short stories and poetry, the most writings the Romantic writers wrote are factual articles and speeches. ( )19. Poes poetry profoundly affected the development of French symbolist verse. ( )20. Hawthorne reestablished links between the Old World and the new nation. He brought the spirit of romance to American letters. ( )III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.1. Tom Walker never returned to foreclose the mortgage. A countryman, who lived on the border of the swamp, reported that in the height of the thundergust he had heard a great clattering of hoofs and a howling along the road, and running to the window caught sight of a figure, such as I have described, on a horse that galloped like mad across the fields, over the hills, and down into the black hemlock swamp toward the old Indian fort; and that shortly after, a thunderbolt falling in that direction seemed to set the whole forest in a blaze. 2. When Deerslayer saw the chosen warriors step into the circle with their arms prepared for service, he felt some such relief as the miserable sufferer who had long endured the agonies of disease feels at the certain approach of death. Any trifling variance in the aim of this formidable weapon would prove fatal, since, the head being the target, or rather the point it was desired to graze without injury, an inch or two of difference in the line of projection must at once determine the question of life or death. 3. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. 4. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his