【正文】 _____.A. Thomas Hood B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D. George WashingtonFrom 1732 to 1758 , Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _______, an annual collection of proverbs.A. The Autobiography B. Poor Richard’s Almanac C. Common Sense D. The General MagazineWhich poem is not written by Philip Freneau?A. The British Prison Ship B. The Wild Honey Suckle C. The Indian Burying Ground D. The Day of DoomAnswer: DCBDB BDChapter 2As a philosophical and literary movement, _______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernism B. rationalism C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalismTranscendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______ and Henry David Thoreau.A. Thomas Jefferson B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Philip Freneau D. OversoulTranscendentalists recognized _______ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuition B. logic C. data of the senses D. thinkingTranscendentalism appealed to those who disdained the harsh God of the Puritan ancestor, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of the New England_______.A. Humanism B. Naturalism C. Realism D. UnitarianismEdgar Allan Poe’s first collection of short stories is _______.A. Tales of a Traveller B. Leather stocking Tales C. Canterbury Tales D. Tales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueWhich essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Of Studies 　　　　　 B. SelfReliance C. The American Scholar D. The Divinity School AddressFrom Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay,_______, which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the mand of a government.A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common sense_______ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The success of the boot soon made Melville well known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.A. Moby Dick B. Typee C. Omoo D. Billy Budd”The universe if posed of Nature and the soul...Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England_______.A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism C. Naturalism D. SymbolismWhich is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. Nature B. Walden C. On Beauty D. SelfReliance1Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar B. English Traits C. Nature D. SelfReliance1_______ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones” and that evil will e out of evil though it may take many generations to happen. A. The Marble Faun B. The House of Seven Gables C. The Blithedale Romance D. Young Goodman BrownAnswers: DBADD ACBBA ABChapter 41. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ___.a. Anne Bradstreet b. Jane Austen c. Emily Dickinson d. Harriet Beecher2. The publication of the novel ____ stirred a great nation to its depths and hurried on a great war.a. My Bondage and My Freedom b. Stanzas of Freedomc. Voices of Freedom d. Uncle Tom’s Cabin3. Which statement about O. Henry is wrong?a. His stories are usually short and humorous and the ends of his stories are always surprisingb. The plots of his stories are exceedingly clever and interesting.c. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.d. He wrote about the rich people.4. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel ______.a. The Call of the Wild b. The Sea Wolf c. Martin Eden d. The Iron Heel5. Which is not one of the three staunch advocates of nineteenthcentury American realism.a. Mark Twain b. Henry James c. William Dean Howells d. Jack London6.The bestselling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were__________ .A. traveling books B. mercial booksC. historical romances D. news reports7. B. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostThe American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________ .A. First World WarThe American Thirties, lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period of_______A. poverty D. a new social consciousnessE. all of the aboveIn the prewar period, such writers as______________ , pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced.A. Mark Twain B. Jack LondonC. Stephen Crane D. Theodore DreiserE. all of the aboveIn the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote passionately about mon people, workers and farmers.A. Emily Dickinson13. Petals on a wet, black boug