美国文学之浪漫主义文学

PartⅠ The literature of Romanticism

Ⅰ. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answer. Choose the one that would complete the statement and put the letter in the blank.

16. "The Custom-House" is an introductory note to ___B___.

A. Moby-Dick

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Blithedale Romance

17. The publication of ___A____ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.

A. Nature

B. Self-Reliance

C. The Over-Soul

D. The American Scholar

25. ___D____ is not a fictional character in the Scarlet Letter .

A. Hester

B. Arthur Dimmersdale

C. Roger Chillingworth

D. Ishmael

23.In 1837,Ralph waldo Emerson made a speech entitled at D

Harvard ,whichwas hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."

A. "Nature"

B. "Self-Feliance"

C. "Divinity School Address"

D."The American Scholar"

25.For Melville as well as for the reader and B,the narrator ,Moby dick is still a mystery ,an ultimate mystery of the universe.

A. Ahab

B. Ishmael

C. Stubb

D. Starbuck

34.It is on his D that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested .

A. childhood recollections

B. sketches about his European tours

C. early poetry

D. tales about America

1. The Romantic Period in A merican literature started from the publication of Washington Irving‘s ___A___ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Tales of a Traveller

C. A History of New York

D. The Scarlet Letter

2. At the middle of 19th century，America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “___C__”。

A. the English Renaissance

B. the Second Renaissance

C. the American Renaissance

D. the Salem Renaissance

3. As a philosophical and literary movement，the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ___A___.

A. nature ，man and the universe

B. the relationship between man and woman

C. the development of Romanticism in American literature

D. the cold，rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

4. In the history of American literature，___C___ is usually agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism.

A. the Harlem Renaissance

B. England Transcendentalism

C. New England Transcendentalism

D. New Transcendentalism

5. About the novel The Scarlet Letter，which of the following statements is not right D

A. It‘s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.

B. It‘s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.

C. It‘s mainly about the moral，emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main

characters and the people in general.

D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.

6. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered___B___.

A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.

B. an adventurous exploration into man‘s relationship with nature

C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure

D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty

5.__B__is regarded as the first American prose epic.

A.Wasteland

B.Moby-Dick

C.Song of Myself

D.The Scarlet Letter

6.__B__has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced.”

A.Washington Irving

B.Emerson

C.Hawthorne

D.Joyce

23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _D__ in the

American literary histrory.

A.individual feelings

B.idea of survival of the fittest

C.strong imagination

D.return to nature

24.Henry David Thoreau's work,_A_,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England

Transcendentalism.

A.Walden

B.The pioneers

C.Nature

D.Song of Myself

25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a way

that we are greatly affected by Irving's _A__.

A.concern with the passage of time

B.expression of transient beauty

C.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings

D.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life

27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by

all the following features EXCEPT that they _B__.

A.speak local dialects

B.are polite and elegant gentlemen

C.are simple and crude farmers

D.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society

28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters

in __A_.

A.The Scarlet Letter

B.The House of the Seven Gablest

C.The Portrait of a Lady

D.The pioneers

23.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around B.