Part Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)
1. At the middle of the 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “______.”( )
A. the English Renaissance B. the American Renaissance
C. the New England Renaissance D. the Salem Movement
2. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s ______.( )
A. Tales of a Traveller B. Leaves of Grass
C. A History of New York D. The Scarlet Letter
3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerned with ______.( )
A. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism
B. the American Puritanism
C. the development of Romanticism in American literature
D. nature, man, and the universe
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in ______.( )
A. Unitarianism B. Protestantism
C. Cathelic Church D. Puritanism
5. The most important feature of the American Romantic literature is ______.( )
A. the Harlem Renaissance B. England Transcendentalism
C. New England Transcendentalism D. New Transcendentalism
6. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered______.( )
A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty
B. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with nature
C. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe
D. a merely whaling tale or sea adventure
7. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “______.”( )
A. alliteration B. blank verse
C. free verse D. rhymed verse
8. Realism is a literary movement against ______.( )
A. Romanticism B. Modernism
C. Neoclassicism D. Humanism
9. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human ______.( )
A. “Bestiality” B. “Benignity”
C. “Pessimism” D. “Optimism”
10. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style?( )
A. His sentence structures are long and ungrammatical.
B. His words are colloquial, concrete, and direct in effect.
C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition,and anti-climax.
D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on contemporary writers.
