专八人文知识冲刺(6)

练习题：

1 As a philosophical and literary moment, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A modernism
B rationalism
C sentimentalism
D transcendentalism

2 Poe’s first collection of stories is _____.

A Tales of Traveler
B Leather Stocking Tales
C Canterbury Tales
D Tales of the Goteque and Arabesque

3 Which book is not written by Emerson?

A The American Scholar
B Self-Reliance
C Nature
D Civil Disobedience

4 The finest example of Hawthorn’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _____.

A The Scarlet Letter
B Young Goodman Brown
C The Marble Fawn
D The Ambitious Guest

5 The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is _____.

A Nathaniel Hawthorn
B Ralph Waldo Emerson
C Henry David Thoreau
D Washington Irving

6 Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “highest power of the soul”.

A intuition
B logic
C data of senses
D thinking

7 Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

A The American Scholar
B English Traits
C The Conduct of Life
D Representative Men

8 American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.

A Anne Bradstreet
B Jane Austin
C Emily Dickinson
D Harriet Beecher

9 Captain, My Captain is written for _____.

A Lincoln
B Whitman
C Washington
D Hemingway

10 _____ is not written by Washington Irving.

A The Sketch Book
B Rip Van Winkle
C The Legend of Sleep Hollow
D The Autobiography