美国文学练习题答案,剩下的部分
1. ____ could be considered the first American writer.
A. John Cotton
B. Captain John Smith
C. William Bradford
D. John Winthrop
2. ____ was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published.
A. Thomas Paine
B. Captain John Smith
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Jonathan Edwards
3. ______ is not Melville’s work.
A. Pierre
B. The Raven
C. White Jacket
D. Moby Dick
4. In Hawt horne’s The Scarlet Letter, ‘A’ may stand for ____.
A. Angel
B. Adultery
C. Able
D. all the above
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5. In the poem Song of Mylf, Whitman ts forth the principle beliefs of ____
A. The theory of universality
B. Singularity and equality of all beings in value
C. both A and B
D. none above
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6. 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
7. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth are most likely the names of the characters in
A.The Scarlet Letter
B. The Hou of the Seven Gables
C. The Portrait of a Lady
D. The Pioneers
8. What kind of narrative of view is adopted in Moby-Dick?
A. The first person
B. The cond person
C. The third person
D. The third person limited
9. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and individual is ____.
A. insignificant
B. vicious by nature
C. divine
D. forward-looking
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10. Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Emerson?
A. Nature
B. Essays
C. The Over-Soul
D. Of Studies
11. ‘’In spite of all the learned have said,
I still my old opinion keep;
The posture, that we give the dead,
Points out the soul’s eternal sleep.’’
Who could have written the lines?
A. Philip Freneau
B. Edgar Allen Poe
C. Walt Whitman
D. Ralph Emerson
12. Which of the following cannot be ud to describe Whitman’s poetry?
A. Elegant and gentle
B. Simple and open
C. Unconventional
D. Colloquial
13. Which of following works is NOT written by Thomas Paine?
A. Common Sen
B. The Autobiography
C. Rights of Man
D. The Age of Reason
14. Poor Richard’s Almanac is a (an)____
A. Collection of poems
B. Annual collection of proverbs高德交通
C. Gothic novel
D. Pamphlet
15. I heard a Fly buzz—When I died--, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death____
A. passionately
B. pessimistically
C. desperately
D. peacefully
16. The Fall of the Hou of Usher is a short story written by _______.
A. Mark Twain
B. Edgar Allen Poe
C. Walt Whitman
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
17. One typical feature of Irving’s writing is____.
A. always preaching
B. his best classic style
C. short and difficult understand
D. symbolic
18. The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ____.
A. Walden
小心翼翼B. Nature
C. Self-Reliance
D. The American Scholar
19. Which of the following accounts is NOT true for Ralph Emerson?
A. He is the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.收据英文
350gaOB. Emerson is generally known as a dramatist.
C. His works were usually derived from his journals or lectures he had already given.
D. In Nature, he employed ‘a transparent eyeball’ to illustrate his p hilosophical discussion.
20. Leaves of Grass commands great attention becau of its uniquely poetic embodiment of ____, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.
A. the democratic ideals
B. the romantic ideals
C. the lf-reliant spirits
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