专八人文知识冲刺(8)

练习题：

1 Which poem is not written by Freneau?

A The British Prison Ship
B The Wild Honey Suckle
C The Indian Burying Ground
D The Flood of Years

2 Thomas Jefferson’s attitude ,that is , a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call _____.

A Age of Evolution
B Age of Reason
C Age of Romanticism
D Age of Regionalism

3 Which of the following is NOT one part of the Leather Stocking Tales by Cooper?

A The Spy
B The Pathfinder
C The Pioneers
D The Deerslayer

4 Which statement about Thoreau is NOT right?

A He was a lover of nature.
B He was particular kind of romantic.
C He was polemicist.
D He was a thorough transcendentalist.

5 Which of the following has been called “the manifesto of American Transcendentalism” ?

A Divinity School Address
B Self-reliance
C Nature
D The American Scholar

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

A sentimentalism
B transcendentalism
C modernism
D rationalism

7 The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as _____.

A the Modern Period
B the Realistic Period
C the Romantic Period
D the Naturalist Period

8 All the following are the works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT _____.

A The Marble Faun
B Typee
C The Scarlet Letter
D Mosses from an Old Manse

9 Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickson’s?

A I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died.
B The Raven
C This is My Letter to the World.
D I Like to See it Lap the Miles.

10 Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ____.

A the strict poetic form
B the free and natural rhythm
C the easy flow of feelings
D the simple and conversational language