美国文学综合练习2附标答
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
styl e 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, whic h 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 Lette r 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 s tories, 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. W hich 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 thou gh the tale itself
is fiction, the germ of t he 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 chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The
rays that come from those heavenly world, will separate between him and vulgar things.
5.It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there livd whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
6.Whoso would be a man must be a noncomformist. He who would gather
immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
7.Often I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea;
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of that dear old town,
And my youth comes back to me.
8.Hester Prynne’s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door
was thrown open, and she come forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast.
9.The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
10.From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its
inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW. Key to Chapter 3-4练习答案
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. C
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. C
9.B 10. B
11. A 12. D 13. C 14. A 15. D
16. B 17. A 18.A 19. B 20. A
21. A 22. C 23. C 24. B 25. D
26. B 27. A 28. C 29.A 30. B
31. C 32. A 33.C 34. C 35. D
36. A 37.D 38. B 39. A 40. B
41. C 42. B 43. C 44. A 45. D
46. C 47. B 48. A 49. D 50. A
51. A
II. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false. Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. T
6. F
7. T
8. F
9. T 10. F
11. F 12. F 13. T 14. T 15. T
16. T 17. F 18. F 19. T 20. F
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. Washington Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker
2. James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer
3. Emerson’s Nature
4. Thoreau’s Walden
5. Poe’s Annabel Lee
6. Emerson’s Self-Reliance
7. Longfellow’s My Lost Youth
8. Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter
9. Longfellow’s The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
10. Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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1.C aptain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.T he puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.T homas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.
5.T homas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.I n Washington Irving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
8.C ooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”.