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1。 Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less rious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________。
A. rational B. humorous
C. optimistic D。 pessimistic
2.The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave ri to yet another school of realism: American___________ 。
A. local colorism B。 vernacularism
C。 modernism D。 naturalism
3. ____________were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth。
A。 Calvinists B。 Puritans
C. Romanticists D. Transcendentalists
4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____.
A。 wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices
B. looking upon themlves as a chon people
C. tolerating others’ beliefs and sought for a happy and an easy life
D。 wishing to restore simplicity to church rves and emphasized the image of a wrathful God
5。 Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_______.
A。 The Hou of the Seven Gables B。 The Scarlet Letter我的马克思主义观
C。 The Portrait of a Lady D。 The pioneers
6。 American writers after World War I lf-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)
“_______,” devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.
A. 潘少素描工具Lost Generation B。 Beat Generation
C。 Sons of Liberty D。 Angry Young Men
7。 In James Fenimore Cooper's novels, clo after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal, come the two noble red men。 Choo them from the following items.
A。 The Mohican Chief Chingachgook B。 Uncas
C。 Tome Jones D。 Both A and B
8。 The “Father of American Poetry" is ____。
A。 William Cullen Bryant
图书角标语B。 Philip Freneau
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D. Edgar Allan Poe
9. Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry。
A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby Dick
C。 White Jacket D. Billy Budd
10。 In addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Am
ong them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil.运营计划方案
A。 Henry David Thoreau B。 Nathaniel Hawthorne
C。 Ralph Waldo Emerson D。 Herman Melville
11. Robert Frost combined traditional ver forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank ver -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax。
A. Southern B。 Western
C。 New Hampshire D。 New England
12. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _____ in the American literary history。
A. individual feelings
B。 idea of survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination海底捞员工工资
D。 return to nature
13. Cooper’s story of the “frontier saga” is made up of 5 famous novels that compri the ________ Tales, in which the main character is Natty Bumppo.
A. Leather stocking tales
B. The Deer Slayer
C。 Sea Adventure
D。 The Romantic
14。 More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expresd。
A。 man and man B. men and women
C。 man and nature D. men and God
15。 From Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience came his famous essay, ______ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A. Walden B. Nature 毛驴配种
C。 Civil Disobedience D。 Common Sen
16. Choo the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature。
A。 Ralph Waldo Emerson B。 Henry David Thoreau 宇宙结构
C。 Nathaniel Hawthorne D。 Herman Melville
E 。Walt Whitman F。 All of the above