练习题： 1 As a philosophical and literary moment, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. A modernism B rationalism C sentimentalism D transcendentalism 2 Poe’s first collection of stories is _____. A Tales of Traveler B Leather Stocking Tales C Canterbury Tales D Tales of the Goteque and Arabesque 3 Which book is not written by Emerson? A The American Scholar B Self-Reliance C Nature D Civil Disobedience 4 The finest example of Hawthorn’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _____. A The Scarlet Letter B Young Goodman Brown C The Marble Fawn D The Ambitious Guest 5 The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is _____. A Nathaniel Hawthorn B Ralph Waldo Emerson C Henry David Thoreau D Washington Irving 6 Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “highest power of the soul”. A intuition B logic C data of senses D thinking 7 Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? A The American Scholar B English Traits C The Conduct of Life D Representative Men 8 American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____. A Anne Bradstreet B Jane Austin C Emily Dickinson D Harriet Beecher 9 Captain, My Captain is written for _____. A Lincoln B Whitman C Washington D Hemingway 10 _____ is not written by Washington Irving. A The Sketch Book B Rip Van Winkle C The Legend of Sleep Hollow D The Autobiography
练习题答案及题解: 1 D, 从19世纪30年代到内战期间的主要文学流派是超验主义，以爱默生为代表。 2 D, 坡的第一部故事集是《怪诞奇异故事集》。 3 D, 《论市民之不服从》是梭罗的作品。其他全为爱默生的作品。 4 A, 霍桑作品中的象征主义手法主要体现在他的著作《红字》中。 5 B, 超验主义以爱默生为代表。 6 A, 超验主义认为人类精神的最高力量存在于人的直觉中。 7 A, 被称为“美国精神独立宣言”的是爱默生的《美国学者》。书中表达了美国人追求自己的文化独立以及文学独立身份的要求。 8 C, 19世纪美国的杰出女诗人是艾米莉•.迪金森（1830—1886）。 9 A, 《阿，船长啊，我的船长！》是惠特曼为纪念林肯总统而作的。 10 D, 《见闻札记》、《睡谷的传说》、《瑞普•.凡•.温克尔》都是华盛顿•.欧文的作品，但是《自传》是本杰明•.富兰克林的作品。