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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 【答案】 1. 选B 斯托夫人(Harriet Beecher Stowe)是废奴文学的杰出代表,她的《汤姆大叔的小屋》(Uncle Tom’s cabin)被林肯总统称为“发动了一场大战的小说”。 2. 选C 威廉.布朗于1853年出版的《克罗特尔》被认为是美国黑人发表的第一部小说。 3. 选D 埃米莉.狄金森(Emily Dickinson)的诗歌远远超出了她所在的时代局限,虽然她留给后人1775首诗歌,但其中只有很少的一部分是在他生前发表的。 4. 选B 拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)主张打破神学统治,摈弃以身为中心的请教主义,强调人再宇宙万物中的地位,人能超越感觉获得知识,人有能力凭直觉直接认识真理。更多信息 5. 选D 1837年,拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)在哈佛大学发表了著名的《美国学者》(The American Scholar)的演讲,指出真正的“美国学者”应当是“思维者”,即具有独立思想的人,而不应该盲从任何约束,讲演引起了轰动。 6. 选C 1837年,拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)在哈佛大学发表了震动人心的《神学院毕业班演说》(Divinity School Address),将批评的矛头直指因循守旧的教会,再获得革命者欢呼的同时,遭到了教会人士的强烈反对和抗议,此后将近30年时间,哈佛大学再也没有邀请他们这位著名的校友回母校演讲。 7. 选D 海明威(Ernest Hemingway)曾给予马克.吐温极高的评价,他断言“一切的当代美国文学都来自于马克.吐温的一本书,即《哈克贝里.费恩》(The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)……它是所有书中最好的书,它是所有美国作品文学作品的源头,它之前没有作品可以和它相比,它之后也没有作品可以和它媲美”。 8. 选D 《金碗》(The Golden Bowl)是亨利.詹姆斯(Henry James)的小说。《傻子国外旅行记》(Innocent Abroad)是马克.吐温的幽默游记。《卡拉维拉县驰名的跳蛙》(The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)是马克.吐温发表的第一篇幽默小说。《汤姆.索亚历险记》(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)则是马克.吐温一部儿童文学小说。 9. 选A 马克.吐温(Mark Twain)是萨繆尔.郎荷恩.克莱门斯(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)的笔名。 10.选D 《鸽翼》(The Wings of the Dove),《一位女士的画像》(A Lady’s Portrait)都是亨利.詹姆斯(Henry James)的代表作。 |