英美文学复习题
Part One The Age of Romanticism
I．Multiple-choices:
1.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century.
This was ________.
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Jane Austen
C. Katherie Anne Porter
D. Emily Dickinson
2.In the middle of the 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is
called “______”.
A. the English Renaissance
B. the American Renaissance
C. the Second Renaissance
D. the Salem Renaissance
3.The main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally
philosophical, concerning ______.
A. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism
B. the relationship between man and woman
C. the development of Romanticism in America
D. nature, man and the universe
4.______ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism in
the history of American literature.
A. New England Transcendentalism
B. England Transcendentalism
C. the Harlem Renaissance
D. New Transcendentalism
5.Moby-Dick is usually considered ______.
A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the
universe
B. a spiritual exploration into man's deep reality and psychology
C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure
D. both A and B
6.Dickinson's poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and
joys. But many of her little lyrics concern ______.
A. the whole human beings, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and
nature
B. the lower-class working people who live a life of poverty and sordidness
C. the middle-class people who live in confusion and in void of faith
D. the upper-class people who live in comfort and idleness
7.As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an
unconventional style which is now called ______, that is ______.
A. hymn…poetry with chanting refrains
B. blank verse…poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat
C. free verse…poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
D. ode…poet ry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
8.One of the features of Emily Dickinson's poetry is that ______.
A. they are long and whimsical in imagery
B. they are short and often based on one single image
C. they are very musical and colorful
D. they are very political and situational
9.Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some
common features…______, with the English Romanticists.
A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions
B. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters
C. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature
D. both A and B
10.As a philosophical and literary movement, transcendentalism flourished in New
England from the 1830s to the Civil War, whose most important representatives are ______.
A. Emerson and Thoreau
B. Emerson and Whitman
C. Hawthorne and Melville
D. Edgar Poe and James Cooper
11.Which of the following is not written by Herman Melville?______
A. Typee and Omoo
B. Mardi and White Jacket
C. Moby-Dick and Pierre
D. The Bostonians and Billy Budd
12.The novel Moby Dick shows the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against
______.
A. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forces
B. the gliding great demon of the seas of life
C. the white whale
D. the savage harpooners and the motley crew
13.In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of ______.
A. a happy and active life
B. adventurous experiences
C. a single household and an inactive life
D. a hard and suffering life
14.The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of
Washington Irving's ______ 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
15.As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate
of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______.
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
16.Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson?s
poetry?
A. Dickinson?s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way.
B. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.
C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.
D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.
17.The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered______.
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
18.In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry,
which is called “______”.
A. free verse
B. blank verse
C. alliteration
D. end rhyming
19.More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her
general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed.
A. man and man
B. men and women
C. man and nature
D. man and God
20.Washington Irving?s ______ became the first work by an Ame rican writer to win
financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the 19th century.
A. Sketch Book
B. Charles the Second
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Moby Dick
21.In the well-known story “Rip Van Winkle”Rip falls into sleep for 20 years,
during which __________ takes place.
A. the Revolutionary War
B. the Civil War
C. the War for Independence
D. World War I
22.According to Emerson, which of the following is said about nature?
A. Nature is emblematic of the material world, alive with Go d?s overwhelming
presence.
B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human mind.
C. Without nature man can improve himself and become spiritually whole.
D. Both A and B.
23.Which of the following cannot be said of American literature from the early
1800s to the beginning of the Civil War?
A. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction.
B. There was a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the
ennobling nature.
C. There was a stress on law and reason in literary writings of the time.
D. There was faith in the value of individualism and self-reliance.
24.Which of the following statements is said about most of the poems in Whitman?s
Leaves of Grass?
A. They identify his ego with the conservative America.
B. They celebrate the self and ignore sexuality.
C. They sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.
D. They reject the pursuit of love and happiness of individuals.
25.The subjects of Emily Dickinson?s poems are mainly about the following
except__________.
A. religion
B. death and immortality
C. love and nature
D. man and morality
26.Which of the following statements about American Romantic literature is right?
A. Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe are the forerunners of the literary movement of
New England Transcendentalism in the 19th century.
B. The forest Young Goodman Brown goes to during his night journey is literally
a place where the evil beings rustle about.
C. For Emerson and his disciples, material economy is good for spiritual.
D. Rip Van Winkle feels happy and fortunate to be with his family again after he
comes back from the woods.
27.In his famous poem Song of Myself, Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs:
the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value, and the theory of ______, which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things.
A. nationality
B. universality
C. nature
D. community
28.Moby Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ________based upon the South Pacific
whaling industry.
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. surrealism
29.In the poem “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” Emily Dickinson gives a tense
description of the greatest rending of the moment of ________.
A. love
B. immortality
C. death
D. nature
30.Which of the following is not right about the characteristics of Emily Dickinson?s
poetic writing?
A. Her poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way.
B. Her poems have no titles and a particular stress pattern.
C. Her poems are usually rather long and rarely less than 20 lines.
D. Her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness.
31.Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of
American literature is NOT true?
A. In most of the American writings of this period there was a new emphasis upon
the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature.
B. The writers of this period placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression
of emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.
C. There was a strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man.
D. Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of
reason and nationality.
32.The New England Transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local
phenomenon restricted only to those people living in New England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _________ in Boston.
A. Classicism
B. Calvinism
C. Unitarianism
D. Puritanism
33.In the following statements, _________ is NOT true about Washington Irving?s
famous story “Rip Van Winkle” .
A. The story is not only well-known fo r Rip?s 20-year sleep but also considered a
model of perfect English in American literature.
B. The story is set against the background of the inevitably changing America.
C. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past are revealed, to
some extent, in the story.
D. Irving describes Rip?s response and reaction in a dramatic way, so that we see
clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past.
34.As one of Hawthorne?s most profound tales, Young Goodman Brown is written in
the manner of its concern with_________.
A. guilt and evil
B. good and bad
C. moral and corruption
D. destruction and hope
35.Which of the following is NOT among the artistic features of Whitman?s writing?
A. Free verse.
B. The use of the poetic “I”.
C. Allegory.
D. Musicality and rhythm.
36.More than five hundred poems Emily Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which
her general _________ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.
A. denial
B. eulogy
C. skepticism
D. happiness
37.The most important representatives of American transcendentalism, which once
flourished in New England as a philosophical and literary movement, are ________.
A. Edgar Poe and James Cooper
B. Emerson and Whitman
C. Hawthorne and Melville
D. Emerson and Thoreau
38.Ralph W. Emerson?s first little book _________ established him as the most
eloquent spokesman of Transcendentalism.
A. Essays
B. Nature
C. The American Scholar
D. The Over-Soul
39.In her quiet and partially isolated life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry
out of_________.
A. a single household and an inactive life
B. a few adventurous experiences
C. a happy and active life
D. a hard and suffering life
40.Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.
A. common sense
B. imagination
C. intuition
D. individualism
41.Which of the following statements concerning the basic tenets of American
Transcendentalism is NOT correct?
A. Individualism is elevated by the Transcendentalists.
B. Intuition is less important than experience.
C. Nature is only another side of God.
D. Transcendentalists have a new and delightful thrill in nature.
42.Melville?s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit
of a seemingly supernatural white whale.
A. Typee
B. Omoo
C. White Jacket
D. Moby Dick
43.Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne?s novel ______.
A. Moses from an Old Manse
B. Twice-Told Tales
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. The Blithedale Romance
44.As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England
from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A. Modernism
B. Rationalism
C. Sentimentalism
D. Transcendentalism
45.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ______.
A. Rip Van Winkle
B. Legend of the Alhambra
C. Life of Goldsmith
D. Life of Washington
46.We can summarize that Walt Whitman?s poems are characterized by all the
following features EXCEPT that they are ______.
A. conventional and casual
B. lyrical and well structured
C. simple and rather crude
D. free-flowing
47._____ has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial
manifesto for the “Transcendental Club”.
A. Nature
B. The American Scholar
C. Walden
D. Civil Disobedience
48._____ is a symbol of microcosm of the world we are living in.
A. The Pequod
B. Moby Dick
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Nature
49._____ held a “black” vision of life and human beings.
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. James Fenimore Cooper
50.Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possible read as symbolic of all the following
EXCEPT_____.
A. malignancy
B. beauty
C. adultery
D. God
51.According to Emerson, man?s capacity is _____.
A. ambiguous
B. limited
C. infinite
D. subsidiary to God
52._____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history,
etc.
A. Nature
B. Walden
C. Moby Dick
D. The Scarlet Letter
53.Whitman?s poems are characterized by all the following features
EXCEPT______.
A. a strict poetic form
B. a simple and conversational language
C. a free and natural rhythmic pattern
D. an easy flow of feelings
54._____ is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a
poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century.
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Emily Brontё
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. George Eliot
55.The main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally
philosophical, concerning ______.
A. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism
B. the relationship between man and woman
C. the development of Romanticism in America
D. nature, man and the universe
56.According to Emerson, which of the following is said about nature?
A. Nature is emblematic of the material world, alive with God?s overwhelming
presence.
B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human mind.
C. Without nature man can improve himself and become spiritually whole.
D. Both A and B.
57.Which of the following cannot be said of American literature from the early
1800s to the beginning of the Civil War?
A. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction.
B. There was a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the
ennobling nature.
C. There was a stress on law and reason in literary writings of the time.
D. There was faith in the value of individualism and self-reliance.
58.Henry David Thoreau?s work, ________, has always been regarded as a
masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.
A. Walden
B. The Pioneers
C. Nature
D. "Song of Myself"
59.…Leaves of Grass? commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic
embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.
A. the democratic ideals
B. the romantic ideals
C. the self-reliance spirits
D. the religious ideals
60.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as
___________.
A. The Naturalist Period
B. The Modern Period
C. The Romantic Period
D. The Realistic Period
61.In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?
A. The Sketch Book
B. Leaves of Grass
C. Leather Stocking Tales
D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
62._____is the author of the work ?The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?.
A. Washington Irving
B. James Joyce
C. Walt Whitman
D. William Butler Yeats
63.Washington Irving?s “Rip Van Winkle” is famous for_________.
A. Rip?s escape into a mysterious
B. The story?s German legendary source material
C. Rip?s seeking for happiness
D. Rip?s 20-years sleep
64.Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?
A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.
B. Irving?s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can
hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.
C. Irving?s taste was essentially progressive or radical.
D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the
best classic style that American literature ever produced”.
65.The publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman
of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature
B. Self-Reliance
C. The American Scholar
D. The Over-Soul
66.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______at Harvard,
which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmeasas: Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence".
A. “Self-Reliance”
B. “Divinity School Address”
C. “The American Scholar”
D. “Nature”
67._____is the most ambivalent (有争议的) writers in the American literary history.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Walt Whitman
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Mark Twain
68.________is the writer of “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain
latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity”.
A. Washington Irving
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
69.All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_______.
A. The House of the Seven Gables
B. White Jacket
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Blithedale Romance
70.Walt Whitman is radically innovative in the form of his poetry. What he prefers
for his new subject is__________.
A. free verse
B. blank verse
C. lyric poem
D. heroic couplet
71.Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?
A. Lyrical and well-structured.
B. Free-flowing.
C. Simple and rather crude.
D. Conversational and casual.
72.“The horizon?s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore
mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.” The two lines are taken from____________.
A. “There Was a Child Went Forth” by Walt Whitman
B. “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pou nd
C. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” by Walt Whitman
D. “Ulysses” by Joyce
73.“Moby Dick” is regarded as the first American_________.
A. Prose epic
B. Comic epic
C. Dramatic fiction
D. Poetic fiction
74.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT________.
A. mystery of the universe
B. sin of the whale
C. power of the great Nature
D. evil of the world
75.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the
individual is____, therefore, self-reliant.
A. insignificant
B. vicious by nature
C. divine
D. forward-looking
88.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______ and
Thoreau.
A. Jefferson
B. Emerson
C. Freneau
D. Over-soul
89.Transcendentalists recognized _______ as the “highest power of the soul”.
A. intuition
B. logic
C. data of the senses
D. thinking
90.Herman Melville?s _______ is not only an adventure story, but also a significant
philosophical work on spiritual exploration.
A. Moby Dick
B. The Egg
C. Nature
D. The Over-Soul
91.In the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics.
Choose such characteristics from the following items.
A. moral enthusiasm
B. faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception
C. adoration for the natural world
D. all of the above
92.Ralph Waldo Emerson?s first book _______ is the fundamental document of his
philosophy, and expresses his constant, deeply felt love for love for the natural scenes.
A. Walden
B. Nature
C. Daisy Miller
D. Leaterstocking Tales
93.F rom the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson?s poetry.
A. being highly individual
B. lack of form and polish
C. striking images
D. all of the above
94.Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A. “Of Studies”
B. “Self-Rel iance”
C. “The American Scholar”
D. “The Divinity School Address”
95.Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?
A. Hester Prynne
B. Mr. Hooper
C. Ahab
D. Pearl
96. History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of ________.
A. Washington Irving
B. Diedrich Knickerboker
C. James Fenimore Cooper
D. John Whittier
97. “Rip Van Winkle” was written by _______.
A. James Fenimore Cooper
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Washington Irving
D. Walt Whitman
98. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________
A. Philip Freneau
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D. Emily Dickinson
99. The Minister’s Black Veil was written by ________.
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
100. The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A. Sunflower
B. Armada
C. Mayflower
D. Titanic
101. A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.
A. Realism
B. Critical realism
C. Romanticism
D. Naturalism
102. Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, “Rip Van Wi nkle”, from a ________.
A. Greek legend
B. German legend
C. French legend
D. English legend
103. “Rip Van Winkle”is found in Irving?s longer work, ________.
A. The Sketch Book
B. History of New York
C. Tales of a Traveler
D. The Precaution
II．Work-author pairing up
( )1. The Scarlet Letter A. Henry David Thoreau ( )2. Nature B. Edgar Ellen Poe
( )3. Song of Myself C. Herman Melville
( )4.Moby-Dick D. Washington Irving
( )5. The Raven E. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( )6. Walden F. Walt Whitman
( )7. The Sketch Book G. Nathaniel Hawthorn ( )8.Billy Bud
( )9. The Fall of the House of Usher
( )10. Young Goodman Brown
III. Define the literary terms listed below
1.American Puritanism
2.Transcendentalism
3.Free verse
IV. Reading Comprehension:
Directions: For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (Note: Possible answers are suggested in brief fro reference, but hey are not the complete and the only answers. You need to extend them and wok out your own.
1.“ We passed the school, where the Children strove
At recess---in the Ring----
We passed the Field of Gazing Grain---
We passed the Setting Sun---”
2.“I celebrated myself, and sing myself.
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
V. Give brief answers to the following questions?
1. In The Raven, What do you think the raven symbolizes? Why?
2. What are the unique characteristics of American Romanticism?
3.What is the story of Moby Dick? What writing style does the writer use in his Moby Dick? What does the ship, the Captain, and the white whale each symbolize? What is the theme of the story? And what ideas does the writer have about human being and society and nature?
4. What is generally the view Washington expressed in his “Rip Van Winkle” about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time?
VI. Essay questions:
1. Symbolism is an extremely important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by the American writers from the colonial times onwards, especially by those who were writing in the Romantic period. Please discuss the significance of the use of symbolism and the ways it is used in one or two books of those you have covered so far.
2. Some of the big issues that the 19th-century American writers are generally concerned about are the relationships between man and nature, man and society, and sometimes the relationship between head and heart. Please focus on one issue and discuss it in relation to one individual works.
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