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 ____.