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1、1.Herman Melvilles _ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry. A. Billy Budd B. The Old Man and the Sea C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick In addition to his novels, _ wrote about 120 short stories and

2、 sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Ministers Black Veil. A. Henry David Thoreau B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Herman Melville _ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthornes belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive one

3、s” and that evil will come out of evil though it may take generations to happen. A. The Marble Faun B. The Blithedale Romance C. Young Goodman Brown D. The House of Seven Gables Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? A. The Conduct of Life B. Representative Men C. Engli

4、sh Traits D. The American Scholar Which is generally as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism? A. Nature B. Walden C. On Beauty D. Self-Reliance There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually on the Puritan soil. A. Unitarianism B. Mysticism C. Romanticism D. Pu

5、ritanism “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul Spiri t is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which pushed American romanticism into a new Phase, the phase of New England _. A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism C. Symbolism D. Naturalis

6、m Washington Irvings works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are _ and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A. A History of New York B. The Pioneers C. Rip Van Winkle D. Leatherstocking Tales Washington Irvings first book appeared in 180

7、9, titled _. A. The History of New York B. The Marble Faun C. The American Scholar D. The Cop and the Anthem In the early 19th century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did _. A. Rationalism B. Romanticism

8、 C. Sentimentalism D. Puritanism Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick? A. Hester Prynne B. Pearl C. Mr. Hooper D. Ahab Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne _ in American literature. A. The transcendentalist B. The largest brain with the largest heart C. The Amer

9、ican scholar D. Father of American poetry Nathaniel Hawthorne is a master of psychological insight and central subject of his major works is the human soul. Choose his short story from the following ones. A. Omoo B. Uncle Toms Cabin C. Young Goodman Brown D. The Pearl The finest example of Nathaniel

10、 Hawthornes symbolism is the recreation of Puritan in _. A. The Marble Faun B. The Ambitious Guest C. The Scarlet Letter D. Young Goodman Brown From Henry David Thoreaus jail experience came his famous essay, _ which states Thoreaus belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of

11、a government. A. Common Sense B. Civil Disobedience C. Walden D. Nature Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson? A. Self-Reliance B. The American Scholar C. The Divinity School Address D. Of Studies Which book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson? A. Nature D. The Rhodora B. English Trait

12、s C. Nature D. The Rhodora C. The Rhodora D. Representative Men B. English Traits C. Nature D. The Rhodora Form the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emersons poetry. A. Being highly individual B. Harsh rhythms C. Lack of form and polish D. All of the above Ralph Waldo Emersons fi

13、rst book _ is the fundamental document of his philosophy, and expresses his constant, deeply felt love for he natural scenes. A. Leatherstocking Tales B. Walden C. Nature D. Daisy Miller Choose William Cullen Bryants poem from the following ones. A. Voices of the Night B. Ligeia C. Song of Myself D.

14、 Thanatopsis In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced he best poet _ to appear in America up to that time. A. Edward Taylor B. William Cullen Bryant C. Edgar Allan Poe D. Philip Freneau Choose Washington Irvings works from the following items. A. Walden B. A History of New York C. Sel

15、f-Reliance D. Sister Carrie In the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following items. A. Moral enthusiasm B. Faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception C. Presumption about the corrosive effect of human socie

16、ty D. All of the above Herman Melvilles _ is not only an adventure story, but also a significant philosophical work on spiritual exploration. A. The Egg B. The Over-Soul C. Nature D. Moby Dick A new _ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and

17、then came to America early in the 19th century. A. Realism B. Romanticism C. Naturalism D. . Critical realism Transcendentalism appealed to those who disdained the hash God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New England _. A. Naturalism B. Transcendental

18、ism C. Humanism D. Unitarianism Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _, there arose a kind of teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century. A. Mark Twain B. Theodore Dreiser C. Henry David Thoreau D. Herman Melville Transcendentalists recognized _ as the “highest power of t

19、he soul”. A. intuition B. thinking C. logic D. date of the senses _ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club. A. Hawthorne B. Thoreau C. Whitman D. Emerson The appearance of The Scarlet letter marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist. Soon he composed the other three im

20、portant novels including _, The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun. A. Walden B. The House of the Seven Gables C. The Prairie D. The Fall of the House of Usher Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _ and Thoreau. A. Jefferson B. Oversoul C. Freneau D. Emerson Ral

21、ph Waldo Emersons essay The American Scholar_ has been regarded as “Americas Declaration of Intellectual Independence”. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American. At 19 in 1802_ Washington Irving _began to write a series of sketches or essays on the theatre an

22、d the New York society, using the name of Jonathan Oldstyle. _Herman Melville_is famous for writing stories about the sea and the islands of the Southern Pacific. In his masterpiece Moby Dick, he tells a story of a Whaling voyage which is set a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fa

23、te. Herman Melvilles world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to _Nathaniel Hawthorne_, a novelist. Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named _Moby Dick_, which is, critics have agreed, one of the worlds greatest masterpieces. Ralph _Waldo_ Emerson was responsible for bringing

24、 Transcendentalism to New England. The civil war of 18611865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of_Slavery_. _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ was a great American Transcendentalist and revolutionary Romanticist, whose first book Nature is the fundamental document of his philosophy. In the

25、 early 19th century Rip Van Winkle had established _Washington Irving_s reputation at home and abroad, and designated the beginning of American Romanticism. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was _Henry David Thoreau_, a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his junior by some 14 years. _Was

26、hington Irving_s Rip Van Winkle is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life. 27. The Transcendental Club often met at _Ralph Waldo Emerson_s home in Concord. In The Pioneers, _Natty Bumppo_ represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life in Gods w

27、orld. In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote The Sketch Book_which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic . The first important American novelist was _James Fenimore Cooper_. In 1823 Cooper James Fenimore wrote The Pioneers, the

28、 first of the five novels that make up _The Leatherstocking Tales_.The remaining four books: The Last of Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841), continue the story of Natty Bumppo, one of the most famous characters in American fiction. In 1845, Thoreau

29、began a two year residence at _Walden_ Pond. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irvings work named_The Sketch Book_. Emersons truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emersons theories, was Henry _David_ Thoreau. _Edgar Allan Poe_s poems have the music

30、al quality and romantic beauty. The Raven is his best-known poem. Published in 1823, _The Pioneers_ was the first of the Leatherstcoking Tales, in their order of publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature. Washington Irvings works are numerous, but h

31、is most successful work is The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, of which the most famous and anthologized is_Rip Van Winkle_. _Washington Irving_was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. _Washington Irving_was the first American to achieve an international literary reputa

32、tion after the Revolutionary War. Washington Irvings first book appeared in 1809.It was entitled _The History of New York_. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by _Ralph Waldo Emerson_. The way in which _Nathaniel

33、 Hawthorne_ wrote The Scarlet letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism. The American Romantic Period stretches form the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the _Civil War_. To A Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of _William Cullen Bryant_s work, i

34、t has been called by an eminent English critic “the most perfect brief poem in the language.” Emersons first book in 1836_Nature_brought American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is Natty Bumppo_, who goes by th

35、e various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthornes novel _The Scarlet Letter_. Herman Melvilles novel_Moby Dick_ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. The English author named

36、_Sir Walter Scott_ was, in a way, responsible for the romantic description of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverly novels were models for American historical romance. Leaves of Grass, either in content or form, is an epoch-making work in Americ

37、an literature; its democratic content marked the shift from romanticism to realism, and its free verse_form broke from old poetic conventions to open a new road for American poetry. In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece _The Scarlet Letter_, the story of a triangular love affair i

38、n colonial America. . In Washington Irvings work _The Sketch Book_appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. For the whole 19th century _Emily Dickinson_was the only woman poet who enjoys high academic esteem today. She has been acclaimed as a poet of p

39、hilosophical and tragic dimensions, a poet who was responsive to the challenging questions of man, nature and human consciousness. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called_the Transcendental Club_. As a philosophical and literary movement, _ flourished in New England form the 1830s to the Civil War. A. modernism B. sentimentalism C. rationalism D. transcendentalism