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 American’s first man of letters and he was usually called “the Father of American Literature.” A. Philip Freneau B. Thomas Paine C. Washington Irving D. William Cullen Bryant 2. ____ enduring fame rests on his frontier stories. A. Irving’s B. Cooper’s C. Poe’s D. Melville’s 3. The period before the American Civil War is Commonly referred to as ____ A. the Romantic Period B. the Realistic Period C. the Naturalist Period D. the Modern Period 4. It is on his ____ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European tours C. early poetry D. tales about America 5. Which of the following is NOT a theme revealed in Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle? A. Escape from one’s responsibilities and even one’s history. B. Man’s 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 O’Henry D. Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. 7. ____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism. A. Hawthorne B. Whitman C. Emerson D. Thoreau 8. Romantics shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in the value of ____ and intuitive perception. A. nationalism B. naturalism C. individualism D. regionalism 9. The problem evil is central to Melville’s work, which is shown in his famous work, ____. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Moby Dick C. Life in the Woods D. This Side of Paradise 10. Irving’s Sleeping Hollow talks about the ghost stories among _____ people. A. British B. Dutch C. French D. German 11. has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced.” A. Irving B. Hawthorne C. Melville D. Allan Poe 12. Which is not written by Washington Irving? A. The legend of Sleepy Hollow B. A History of York C. Rip Van Winkle D. The Black Cat 13. Which trend does not belong to American Romanticism? A. A great interest in the picturesque elements of the past B. A emphasis upon emotion in literature C. An attempt not to model their works upon English and European masters D. 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. Franklin 15. is not the member of Transcendental Club. A. Emerson B. Thoreau C. Whitman D. Fuller 16. The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was . A. Walden B. Nature C. Self-reliance D. The American Scholar 17. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for . A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. all the above 18. 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. Rationalism C. Puritanism D. Modernism 19. The Romantic Period in the history of American Literature began at . A. the beginning of the 18th century B. the end of the 18th century C. the civil War D. the beginning of the 19th century 20. Death is the theme of ____ literary writings. A. Allan Poe B. Hawthorne C. Thoreau D. Irving 21. In _____ writing, there isn’t much action, or physical movement going on in his works and he is good at exploring the complexity of human psychology. A. Hawthorne’s B. Mark Twain’s C. Poe’s D. Dreiser’s 22. Henry W. Longfellow was a poet in the ______ period. A. Realistic B. Modern C. Romantic D. Colonial 23. The Raven is written by ____. A. Emerson B. Whitman C. Allan Poe D. Longfellow 24. Which is not written by Henry Longfellow? A. The Song of Hiawatha B. The Song of Myself C. My Lost Youth D. The Tide Rises and the Tide Falls 25. Which is not written by Allan Poe? A. The Gold Bug B. The Fall of the House of Usher C. Annabel Lee D. I taste a liquor never brewed 26. 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. Poe B Hawthorne C. Emerson D. Hemingway 27. ____ 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 Twain C. Hawthorne D. Henry James 28. 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-culture C. 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. Longfellow 32. 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 Renaissance C. The American Gilded Age D. The American Enlightenment 33. ____ refers to a specific literary movement which attempted to penetrate to a deeper reality through suggestive symbols. A. Regionalism B. Romanticism C. Symbolism D. Naturalism 34. In Nature, Emerson employed the famous metaphor of “_____” to illustrate his philosophical discussion A. an innocent baby B. distant mountains C. transparent eyeball D. fields and woods 35. Emersonian Transcendentalism is actually a philosophical school which absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European ____. A. Realism B. Puritanism C. Symbolism D. Romanticism. 36. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter shows his ____ A. anti-Puritanism B. Puritanism C. Realism D. Impressionism 37. Which of the following works is not written by Washington Irving? A. The Sketch Book B. Rip Van Winkle C. The Devil and Tom Walker D. The Masque of the Red Death 38. One of Longfellow’s favorite subjects is ___. A. the man B. the sea C. the mind D. the animal 39. ___ 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 James 40. ____ is considered as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. A. Cooper B. Irving B. Franklin D. Emerson 41. Transcendentalism was put forward by the people from . A. Mid-West B. West C. New England D. England 42. A new romanticism spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the ___ century. A. 18th B. 19th C. 17th D. 20th 43. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as ____. A. commentators B. observers C. villains D. saviors 44. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is ____. A. divine B. vicious by nature C. 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. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. Divinity School Address D. 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. Cooper’s Leather-Stocking Tales B. Thoreau’s Walden C. Emerson’s Over-soul D. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 47. Henry David Thoreau’s works, ____, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. A. The Pioneers B. Walden C. Nature D. Song of Myself 48. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is ____. A. divine B. vicious by nature C. insignificant D. forward-looking 49. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s? A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Blithedale Romance C. The Marble Faun D. White Jacket 50. Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ____. A. The Scarlet Letter B. The House of the Seven Gablest C. The Portrait of a Lady D. 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 Sense C. The Declaration of Independence D. Self-reliance II. 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 Irving’s 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 American’s 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 Irving’s 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. Longfellow’s 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 author’s 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. Poe’s 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