美国文学答案2023秋

第二章测试

1.____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.（ ）
A:Hawthorne B:Emerson C:Whitman D:Thoreau
答案:B
2.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ___________.（ ）
A:Anne Bradstreet B:Emily Dickinson C:Harriet Beecher D:Jane Austen 3.The House of Seven Gables is a famous mystery-haunted novel written by _____.（ ）
A:Mark Twain B:Washington Irving C:Nathaniel Hawthorne D:Herman Melville 4.The following writers belong to the Romantic group in American literature except _____.（ ）
A:Nathaniel Hawthorne B:Henry David Thoreau C:William Blake D:Washington Irving 5.There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually _____ on the Puritan soil.（ ）
A:Unitarianism B:mysticism C:Puritanism D:Romanticism 6.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called blank verse, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（ ）
A:错 B:对 7.After his death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.（ ）
A:对 B:错 8.A superb book Nature came out of Henry David Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.（ ）
A:对 B:错 9.James Fenimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale, and the frontier saga.（ ）
A:对 B:错 10.No other American poet ever surpassed Edgar Allan Poe's ability in the use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty.（ ）
A:错 B:对