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一．选择题
1. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as
___C________. （东北师大2006研）
A. The Naturalist Period B. The Modern Period
C. The Romantic Period D. The Realistic Period
2. Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is famous for____D_____.（天外2008研）
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
3. Rip Van Winkle reveals the theme of ____A_ the past.
A. nostalgia B. rejection to
C. detachment from D. dislike for
4. Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle got ideas from _C____ legends.
（西南大学2004研）
A. British B. Italian C. German D. French
5. ___C__ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best
classic style that American literature ever produced.”
A. Melville B. Whitman C. Irving D. Hawthorne
6. In Rip Van Winkle the drastic political changes in the lapsed 20 years
are suggested by all the following except __C___. （北二外2005研） A. the flag of the US B. the portrait of George Washington
C. the graves of the dead Union soldiers
D. the mention of election and Congress
7．Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?
（中南2006研）C
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."
8. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ____A____, has always been regarded as
a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.
A. Walden B. The Pioneers C. Nature D. "Song of Myself"
9. "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps,
through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity", which
author of the following authors does the mention belong to__C______.
A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
10. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear
as ____B____. A. saviors B. villains C. commentators D. observers
11. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a
famous quote from__D____’s writings.
A. Walt Whitman B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Herman Melville D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. The Publication of _A_____established Emerson as the most
eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The American Scholar D. The Over-Soul
13. The phrase "a transparent eye-ball’ compares philosophical
mentation of Emerson’s. It appears in____B_____.
A. The American Scholar B. Nature C. The over Soul
D. Essays: Second Series
14. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled __C_____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"
15. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and
second, the individual is__C__, therefore, self-reliant.
A. insignificant B. vicious by nature
C. divine D. forward-looking
16. In the following works, which sign the beginning of the American literature? A
A. The Sketch Book B. Leaves of Grass
C. Leather Stocking Tales D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
17. ____C_ is the first American to achieve an international literary
reputation in the American literary history.
A. Cooper B. Whitman C. Irving D. Hawthorne.
18. __A___ is the author of the work The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
A. Washington Irving B. James Joyce
C. Walt Whitman D. William Butler Yeats
19. Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is famous for_______D__.
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
20.Rip Van Winkle reveals the theme of ___A__ the past.
A. nostalgia B. rejection to C. detachment from D. dislike for
21. Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle got ideas from __C___ legends.
A. British B. Italian C. German D. French
22. __C___ has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the
best classic style that American literature ever produced."
A. Melville B. Whitman C. Irving D. Hawthorne
23. In Rip Van Winkle the drastic political changes in the lapsed 20 years
are suggested by all the following except __C___.
