美国文学综合练习进步2附标答

Test Two(Chapter3-4 with answers)I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choosethe 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 “theFather of American Literature.”A. Philip FreneauB. Thomas PaineC. Washington IrvingD. William Cullen Bryant2.____ enduring fame rests on his frontier stories.A. Irving’sB. Cooper’sC. Poe’sD. Melville’s3.The period before the American Civil War is Commonly referred to as ____A. the Romantic PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Naturalist PeriodD. the Modern Period4.It is on his ____ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested.A.childhood recollectionsB.sketches about his European toursC.early poetryD.tales about America5.Which of the following is NOT a theme revealed in Washington Irving’s RipVan 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 ofAmerican literature?A.Mark Twain and Henry James.B.Ernst Hemingway and William Faulkner.C.Jack London and O’HenryD.Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving.7.____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.A. HawthorneB. WhitmanC. EmersonD. Thoreau8.Romantics shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith inthe value of ____ and intuitive perception.A. nationalismB. naturalismC. individualismD. regionalism9.The problem evil is central to Melville’s work, which is shown in his famouswork, ____.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Moby DickC. Life in the WoodsD. This Side of Paradise10.Irving’s Sleeping Hollow talks about the ghost stories among _____ people.A. BritishB. DutchC. FrenchD. German11.has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classicstyl e that American Literature ever produced.”A. IrvingB. HawthorneC. MelvilleD. Allan Poe12.Which is not written by Washington Irving?A.The legend of Sleepy HollowB. A History of YorkC.Rip Van WinkleD.The Black Cat13.Which trend does not belong to American Romanticism?A.A great interest in the picturesque elements of the pastB. A emphasis upon emotion in literatureC.An attempt not to model their works upon English and European mastersD.An enthusiasm about portraying national life and character.14.____ was the first American writer of imaginative literature to gaininternational fame.A. IrvingB. EmersonB. Jefferson D. Franklin15.is not the member of Transcendental Club.A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. WhitmanD. Fuller16.The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was .A. WaldenB. NatureC. Self-relianceD. The American Scholar17.In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. all the above18.In the early 19th century, nothing has left a deeper imprint on the characters ofthe American people as a whole than did .A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. PuritanismD. Modernism19.The Romantic Period in the history of American Literature beganat .A.the beginning of the 18th centuryB.the end of the 18th centuryC.the civil WarD.the beginning of the 19th century20.Death is the theme of ____ literary writings.A. Allan PoeB. HawthorneC. ThoreauD. Irving21.In _____ writing, there isn’t much action, or physical movement going on inhis works and he is good at exploring the complexity of human psychology.A. Hawthorne’sB. Mark Twain’sC. Poe’sD. Dreiser’s22.Henry W. Longfellow was a poet in the ______ period.A. RealisticB. ModernC. RomanticD. Colonial23.The Raven is written by ____.A. EmersonB. WhitmanC. Allan PoeD. Longfellow24.Which is not written by Henry Longfellow?A.The Song of HiawathaB.The Song of MyselfC.My Lost YouthD.The Tide Rises and the Tide Falls25.Which is not written by Allan Poe?A.The Gold BugB.The Fall of the House of UsherC.Annabel LeeD.I taste a liquor never brewed26.According to ____, “there is evil in every human heart, whic h may remainlatent, perhaps, through the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”A. Poe B HawthorneC. EmersonD. Hemingway27.____ is known as a poet and critic, but most famous as the first master of theshort-story form, especially tales of the mysterious and macabre.A. Allan PoeB. Mark TwainC. HawthorneD. Henry James28.Which line is from Emerson?A.The whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of theseends, 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 ampleshare of them.C.Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it, so that one babecommonly 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 theaccumulated treasures of age.29.In technique, writers of American Romanticism loved traditional meters andstanza forms. In language their English was usually ____.A. BritishB. AmericanC. formalD. informal30.Which of the following features does not belong to Transcendentalism?A.Transcendentalists place emphasis on spirit.B.Transcendentalists stress the negligence of human self-cultureC.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. CooperB. EmersonC. FrostD. Longfellow32.Romantic Period is a period of the great flowering of American literature. It isalso called ____.A.The first American RenaissanceB.The second American RenaissanceC.The American Gilded AgeD.The American Enlightenment33.____ refers to a specific literary movement which attempted to penetrate to adeeper reality through suggestive symbols.A. RegionalismB. RomanticismC. SymbolismD. Naturalism34.In Nature, Emerson employed the famous metaphor of “_____” to illustratehis philosophical discussionA. an innocent babyB. distant mountainsC. transparent eyeballD. fields and woods35.Emersonian Transcendentalism is actually a philosophical school whichabsorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European ____.A. RealismB. PuritanismC. SymbolismD. Romanticism.36.Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Lette r shows his ____A. anti-PuritanismB. PuritanismC. RealismD. Impressionism37.Which of the following works is not written by Washington Irving?A.The Sketch BookB.Rip Van WinkleC.The Devil and Tom WalkerD.The Masque of the Red Death38.One of Longfellow’s favorite subjects is ___.A. the manB. the seaC. the mindD. the animal39.___ holds that in the whole composition a writer should have in mind theunity of effect and pre-established design.A. Allan PoeB. Mark TwainC. HawthorneD. Henry James40.____ is considered as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.A. CooperB. IrvingB. Franklin D. Emerson41.Transcendentalism was put forward by the people from .A. Mid-WestB. WestC. New EnglandD. England42.A new romanticism spread to continental Europe and then came to Americaearly in the ___ century.A. 18thB. 19thC. 17thD. 20th43.In Hawthorne’s novels and short s tories, intellectuals usually appear as ____.A. commentatorsB. observersC. villainsD. saviors44. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is ____.A. divineB. vicious by natureC. insignificantD. forward-looking45. 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. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar46. 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 TalesB. Thoreau’s WaldenC. Emerson’s Over-soulD. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn47. Henry David Thoreau’s works, ____, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.A. The PioneersB. WaldenC. NatureD. Song of Myself48. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is ____.A. divineB. vicious by natureC. insignificantD. forward-looking49. W hich of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?A. The House of the Seven GablesB. The Blithedale RomanceC. The Marble FaunD. White Jacket50. Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ____.A. The Scarlet LetterB. The House of the Seven GablestC. The Portrait of a LadyD. The Pioneers51. ____ 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 ScholarB. Common SenseC. The Declaration of IndependenceD. Self-relianceII. 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 Europeanlegendary tales. ( )2.William Cullen Bryant was regarded one of the earliest naturalist poets inAmerican 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 firstmaster of the short-story form. ( )5.One of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of NewEngland 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 couldlearn 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, illusionand fate. ( )9.American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English andEuropean works ( )10.Longfellow’s poetical reputation was established before the appearance of Songof 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 itselfis 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 ofNew 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 noelaborate, formal system of thought and he never attempted to create one. ( ) 16.Allan Poe manifests the theme of death through excellent creation ofatmosphere. ( )17.The writings of Washington Irving and James Cooper, unlike those of Franklinand Jefferson, are utilitarian. ( )18.Instead of short stories and poetry, the most writings the Romantic writers wroteare 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. Hebrought 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, wholived 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 theirarms 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, anduplifted 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 theessential 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 cuta broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to itslowest 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. Therays 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 seaThat a maiden there livd whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;6.Whoso would be a man must be a noncomformist. He who would gatherimmortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.7.Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe 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-doorwas 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 brownThe 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 itsinhabitants, 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. C2. B3. A4. C5. B6. D7. C8. C9.B 10. B11. A 12. D 13. C 14. A 15. D16. B 17. A 18.A 19. B 20. A21. A 22. C 23. C 24. B 25. D26. B 27. A 28. C 29.A 30. B31. C 32. A 33.C 34. C 35. D36. A 37.D 38. B 39. A 40. B41. C 42. B 43. C 44. A 45. D46. C 47. B 48. A 49. D 50. A51. AII. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false. Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1. T2. T3. F4. T5. T6. F7. T8. F9. T 10. F11. F 12. F 13. T 14. T 15. T16. T 17. F 18. F 19. T 20. FIII. 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 Walker2. James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer3. Emerson’s Nature4. Thoreau’s Walden5. Poe’s Annabel Lee6. Emerson’s Self-Reliance7. Longfellow’s My Lost Youth8. Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter9. Longfellow’s The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls10. Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow。