American Literature历年试题汇集.doc

American Literature
Chap1
Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.
feelings of survival of the fittest
imagination to nature
“Transcendentalists most typically believe that .
[A]man is divine in name [B]art is superior to life
[C]man can transform nature [D]poetry is the highest form of art
group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?
[A]Mark Twain and Henry James.
[B]Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.
[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
[D]Jack London and O’Henry.
hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .
[A]1820 [B]1850 [C]1880 [D]1920
Romantic Writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the( )in the American literary history.
A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest C. strong imagination D. return to nature
6. Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?
A. Stowe’s Uncle Ton’s Cabin B. James’s The Portrait of a Lady.
C. Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms D. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?
can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.
can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.
Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.
sprang from South America in the late 19th century.
the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.
A. fire B. water C. trees D. wilderness
fiction of the American _____ period ranges from ic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of a Harding Davis.
A. Romantic B. Revolutionary C. Colonial D. Modernistic
upation with the Calvinistic view of _____ a