英语专业八级人文知识 第38讲

【练习】

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe is most famous for her ___ that spoke for blacks.
　　A voice of Freedom
　　B Uncle Tom’s cabin
　　C Clotel
　　D The Garies and Their Friends

2. The first novel published by the blacks in ___ Clotel.
　　A Harriet Beecher Stowe
　　B Harriet Wilson
　　C Williams Wells Brown
　　D John Brown

3. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published ___.
　　A when she was young
　　B after her failed love affair
　　C in her old age
　　D after her death

4. Palph Waldo Emerson, the American Transcendentalist, argued for the following ideas except ___.
　　A man’s dependence on himself for spiritual perfection
　　B Faith in Christianity
　　C direct intuition of a spiritual God in nature
　　D the importance of an independent American culture

5. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our intellectual Declaration of Independence”.
　　A “Nature”
　　B “Self-Reliance”
　　C “Divinity School Address”
　　D “The American Scholar”

6. In 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which expressed his disapproval to the faith in church and caused the protest by church.
　　A “Nature”
　　B “Self-Reliance”
　　C “Divinity School Address”
　　D “The American Scholar”

7.  ___ is Mark Twain’s master work, the one book form which as Ernest Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes”.
　　A The Gilded Age
　　B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
　　C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
　　D The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

8. Which of the following is NOT the fiction written by Mark Twain?
　　A Innocent Abroad
　　B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
　　C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
　　D The Golden Bowl

9. Mark Twain is the pseudonym of ___.
　　A Samuel Langhorne Clemens
　　B Henry James
　　C William Dean Howells
　　D Stephen Crane

10. The Wings of the Dove was written by ___ who also wrote ___.
　　A Mark Twain… Tom Sawyer
　　B Hawthorne… The Scarlet Letter
　　C Walt Whitman… Song of Myself
　　D Henry James… A Lady’s Portrait