1 As a philosophical and literary moment, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A modernism B rationalism C sentimentalism D transcendentalism
2 Poe’s first collection of stories is _____.
A Tales of Traveler
B Leather Stocking Tales
C Canterbury Tales
D Tales of the Goteque and Arabesque
3 Which book is not written by Emerson?
A The American Scholar B Self-Reliance
C Nature D Civil Disobedience
4 The finest example of Hawthorn’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _____.
A The Scarlet Letter B Young Goodman Brown
C The Marble Fawn D The Ambitious Guest
5 The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is _____.
A Nathaniel Hawthorn B Ralph Waldo Emerson
C Henry David Thoreau D Washington Irving
6 Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “highest power of the soul”.
A intuition B logic C data of senses D thinking
7 Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
A The American Scholar B English Traits
C The Conduct of Life D Representative Men
8 American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.
A Anne Bradstreet B Jane Austin
C Emily Dickinson D Harriet Beecher
9 Captain, My Captain is written for _____.
A Lincoln B Whitman C Washington D Hemingway
10 _____ is not written by Washington Irving.
A The Sketch Book B Rip Van Winkle
C The Legend of Sleep Hollow D The Autobiography
练习题答案及题解:
1 D, 从19世纪30年代到内战期间的主要文学流派是超验主义，以爱默生为代表。
2 D, 坡的第一部故事集是《怪诞奇异故事集》。
3 D, 《论市民之不服从》是梭罗的作品。其他全为爱默生的作品。
4 A, 霍桑作品中的象征主义手法主要体现在他的著作《红字》中。
5 B, 超验主义以爱默生为代表。
6 A, 超验主义认为人类精神的最高力量存在于人的直觉中。
7 A, 被称为“美国精神独立宣言”的是爱默生的《美国学者》。书中表达了美国人追求自己的文化独立以及文学独立身份的要求。
8 C, 19世纪美国的杰出女诗人是艾米莉•迪金森（1830—1886）。
9 A, 《阿，船长啊，我的船长！》是惠特曼为纪念林肯总统而作的。
10 D, 《见闻札记》、《睡谷的传说》、《瑞普•凡•温克尔》都是华盛顿•欧文的作品，但是《自传》是本杰明•富兰克林的作品。
