美国文学史及选读第一册---练习题

美国文学史及选读第一册 练习题 I Multiple Choice 1 Who is different from others according to the division of writing period A Washington Irving B William Cullen Bryant C Captain John Smith D James Fennimore Cooper 2 The American Romantic Period lasted roughly from to A 1798 1832 B 1810 1860 C 1860 1864 D 1776 1783 3 Who has been called the Father of American Literature A Walt Scott B Geoffrey Chaucer C Washington Irving D Philip Freneau 4 Who is the first American prose stylist that acquired international fame A Captain John Smith B Washington Irving C Benjamin Franklin D E A Poe 5 Thomas Paine is a A novelist B dramatist C poet D pamphleteer 6 Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes A short stories B literary critic theories C poems D dramas 7 Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson A Importance of the Individual B Faith in Christianity C The Over Soul D Self Reliance 8 Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature A Ralph Emerson B Walt Whitman C Nathaniel Hawthorne D Henry Thoreau 9 In 1837 Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled at Harvard which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence A Declaration of Independence B Self Reliance C Divinity School Address D The American Scholar 10 Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true A It explores man s never ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires B It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual C It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters D It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole 11 According to Hawthorne the scarlet Letter A which originally stands for finally obtains the meaning of able or angel through Hester s efforts A arrogance B adultery C agony D accomplishment 12 is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter A Pearl B Arthur Dimmesdale C Roger Chillingworth D Santiago 13 usually was regarded as the first American writer A Emily Bradford B Ann Bradstreet C Emily Dickinson D John Smith 14 Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the A American Enlightenment B Sugar Act C Chartist movement D Romanticist 15 As a literary and philosophical movement flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War A modernism B rationalism C sentimentalism D transcendentalism 16 The Custom House is an introductory note to A Moby Dick B The Scarlet Letter C The Marble Faun D The Blithedale Romance 17 The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in A England during World War I B Paris during the French Revolution C Puritan America D America after the Revolutionary War II Identify the author of the following works 1 Moby Dick 2 On Self reliance 3 The Last of Mohicans 4 The