C．Henry David Thoreau D．Washington Irving
25．The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.
A．the 17th century…the American War of Independence
B．the 18th century…the American Civil War
C．the 17th century…the American Civil War
D．the 18th century…the U.S. – Mexican War
26．Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?
A．It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.
B．It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.
C．Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.
D．It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.
27．The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is ______________.
A．the conflict of human psyche B．the fight against racial discrimination
C．the familial conflict D．the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past
28．The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______________, Emerson’s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A．The American Scholar B．Self— reliance
C．Nature D．The Over—Soul
29．Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart ”of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______________.
A．love and hatred B．sin and evil
C．frustration and self—denial D．balance and self—discipline |
