英语专业八级人文知识 第36讲

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1. Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by _____.

A James Fenimore Cooper

B Washington Irving

C Edgar Allan Poe

D Mark Twain

2. The Legend of Sleeping Hallow is a short story written by ____.

A James Fenimore Cooper

B Washington Irving

C Edgar Allan Poe

D Mark Twain

3. Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales consists of ____stories.

A 3                 B 4

C 5                  D 6

4. Which of the following is not one of the Leather Stocking Tales by James F. Cooper

A The Pioneers           B The Last of the Mohicans

C The Pathfinder       D The Crater

5. The Purloined Letter is a detective story by _____.

A Arthur Conan Doyle               B Edgar Allan Poe

C Washington Irving                   D James F. Cooper

6. The Romantic Period in American Literary history started with the publication of ____.

A Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book

B Washington Irving’s Tales of A Traveller

C Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

D James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales

7. “The American Renaissance” is the period of ____in the history of American literature.更多信息

A Local Colorism                        

B Romanticism

C New England Transcendentalism

D Colonism

8. Edgar Allan Poe is known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the ___ form.

A poem                      B drama

C short story            D essay

9. The Raven is a poem by ____.

A Edgar Allan Poe

B Walt Whitman

C Ralph Waldo Emerson

D Henry David Thoreau

10. The Philosophy of Composition was written by ____who also wrote The Poetic Principle

A Edgar Allan Poe

B Walt Whitman

C Ralph Waldo Emerson

D Henry David Thoreau