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The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values and literature.

A. democracy
B. ideal
C. Puritanism
D. Romanticism

Which country has the specific experience that other nations did not have: the early Puritan settlement, the confrontation with the Indians, the frontiersmen’s life and the wild west

A. France.
B. England.
C. America.
D. Holland.

The literary characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they ______.

A. speak local dialects
B. are polite and elegant gentlemen
C. are simple and crude farmers
D. are noble savages (red and white) untainted by society

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In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature

A. The Sketch Book.
B. Leaves of Grass.
C. Leather Stocking Tales.
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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A preoccupation with the ______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers.

A. Optimistic
B. Calvinistic
C. Platonic
D. Socratic

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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.

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The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues except the ______ in the American literary history.

A. individual feeling
B. survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination
D. return to nature

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The believe that first, nature is ennobling~ and second, the individual is divine describes ______.

A. Romanticists
B. stream-consciousness novelists
C. Realists
D. Transcendentalists

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American Transcendentalists most typically believe that ______.

A. man is divine in nature
B. art is superior to life
C. man can transform nature
D. poetry is the highest form of art

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by’s ______ transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.

A. H.W. Longfellow
B. Walt Whitman
C. R.W. Emerson
D. Washington Irving

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The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his "black vision". The term "black" vision refers to ______.

A. Hawthorne’s observation that every man faces a black wall
B. Hawthorne’s belief that all men are by nature evil
C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story
D. that Puritans of Hawthorne’s time usually wore black clothes

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Compelled by an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man’s being, Hawthorne discusses ______ in almost every book he wrote.

A. love and hatred
B. sin and evil
C. frustration and self-denial
D. balance and self-discipline

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Statement ______ is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect
B. Hawthorne is a realistic writer
C. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist
D. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism

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According to Hawthorne, there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life, but ______ may rouse it to activity.

A. music
B. circumstances
C. memory
D. love

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Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in ______.

A. Transcendentalism
B. Puritanism
C. Humanism
D. Expressionism

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In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as ______.

A. commentators
B. observers
C. villains
D. saviors

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"The Custom House" is an introductory note to ______.

A. Moby-Dick
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Blithedale Romance

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The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in ______.

A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Young Goodman Brown
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Ambitious Guest

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Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely characters in ______.

A. The House of the Seven Gables
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Portrait of a Lady
D. The Pioneers

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Hawthorne means Brown in Young Goodman Brown is a(n) ______.

A. protagonist
B. Everyman
C. hero
D. spokesman

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Hawthorne intended to ______ in The Scarlet Letter.

A. tell a story of parental love
B. tell a story of sin and bloody violence
C. call the readers back to the plantation way of living
D. reveal the human psyche after they sinned

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In Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, a Satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches’ Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem’s Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne’s allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of ______."

A. blackness
B. whiteness
C. error
D. hypocrisy

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Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the "single" poem, ______.

A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. The Waste Land
C. Murder in the Cathedral
D. Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President ______, and one of the famous is "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d."

A. Washington
B. Lincoln
C. Franklin
D. Kennedy

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According to Whitman, poetry could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the ______ rule.

A. academic
B. official
C. colonial
D. legislative

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Before and during the Civil War, Whitman stood firmly on the side of the North and wrote a series of poems which were gathered as a collection under the title of ______.

A. Leaves of Grass
B. Drum Taps
C. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
D. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

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Walt Whitman believed, by means of "______, " he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.

A. free verse
B. strict verse
C. regular rhyming
D. standardized rhyming

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Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

A. blank verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
D. iambic pentameter

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Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Wait Whitman

A. Lyrical and well-structured.
B. Free-flowing.
C. Simple and rather crude.
D. Conversational and casual.

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In There Was a Child Went Forth, Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing ______.

A. America
B. England
C. Greece
D. Rome

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"The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day." The two lines are taken from ______.

A. There Was a Child Went Forth by Walt Whitman
B. In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
C. Cavalry Crossing a Ford by Walt Whitman
D. Ulysses by Joyce

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Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of "Song of Myself" by Whitman

A. This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.
B. This poem shows the author’s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.
C. This poem reflects the author’s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.
D. This poem reflects the author’s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.

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Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ______ proves to be the best.

A. Typee
B. Redburn
C. Moby-Dick
D. Omoo

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Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case

A. Typee.
B. Moby-Dick.
C. Omoo.
D. The Confidence-Man.

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In 1849, Herman Melville published ______, a semi-autobiographical novel, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.

A. Omoo
B. Mardi
C. Redburn
D. Typee

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______ turns out to be a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe, a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychology.

A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Great Gatsby
C. Moby-Dick
D. The Scarlet Letter

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The purpose of Melville’s fictional tales, exotic or philosophical, is to penetrate as deeply as possible into the metaphysical, theological, moral, psychological, and social truths of ______.

A. human existence
B. politics
C. religion
D. arts

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______ is regarded as the first American prose epic.

A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Moby-Dick
C. Sister Carrie
D. Daisy Miller

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Beside symbolism, all the following qualities except ______ are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick a world classic.

A. narrative power
B. psychological analysis
C. speculative agility
D. optimistic view of life

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Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possibly read as symbolic of all the following except ______.

A. malignancy
B. beauty
C. adultery
D. God

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In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes ______ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.

A. nature
B. human society
C. whaling industry
D. truth

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Like Nathaniel Hawthorne, ______ also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.

A. Mark Twain
B. Henry James
C. R.W. Emerson
D. Herman Melville

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For Melville, as well as for the reader and ______ the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

A. Ahab
B. Ishmael
C. Stubb
D. Starbuck

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"Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that ______.

A. nothing changes in the 5000 years of human history
B. man’s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction
C. nature is evil as it was 5000 years ago
D. nature has the ultimate creative power

"The Custom House" is an introductory note to ______.

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Before and during the Civil War, Whitman stood firmly on the side of the North and wrote a series of poems which were gathered as a collection under the title of ______.

Walt Whitman believed, by means of "______, " he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.

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Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of "Song of Myself" by Whitman

Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ______ proves to be the best.

Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case

In 1849, Herman Melville published ______, a semi-autobiographical novel, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.

______ turns out to be a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe, a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychology.

The purpose of Melville’s fictional tales, exotic or philosophical, is to penetrate as deeply as possible into the metaphysical, theological, moral, psychological, and social truths of ______.

______ is regarded as the first American prose epic.

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