【练习】
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe is most famous for her ___ that spoke for blacks.
A Voice of Freedom
B Uncle Tom’s cabin
C Clotel
D The Garies and Their Friends
2. The first novel published by the blacks in ___ Clotel.
A Harriet Beecher Stowe
B Harriet Wilson
C Williams Wells Brown
D John Brown
3. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published ___.
A when she was young
B after her failed love affair
C in her old age
D after her death
4. Palph Waldo Emerson, the American Transcendentalist, argued for the following ideas except ___.
A man’s dependence on himself for spiritual perfection
B Faith in Christianity
C direct intuition of a spiritual God in nature
D the importance of an independent American culture
5. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our intellectual Declaration of Independence”.
A “Nature”
B “Self-Reliance”
C “Divinity School Address”
D “The American Scholar”
6. In 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which expressed his disapproval to the faith in church and caused the protest by church.
A “Nature”
B “Self-Reliance”
C “Divinity School Address”
D “The American Scholar”
7. ___ is Mark Twain’s master work, the one book form which as Ernest Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes”.
A The Gilded Age
B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. Which of the following is NOT the fiction written by Mark Twain?
A Innocent Abroad
B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D The Golden Bowl
9. Mark Twain is the pseudonym of ___.
A Samuel Langhorne Clemens
B Henry James
C William Dean Howells
D Stephen Crane
10. The Wings of the Dove was written by ___ who also wrote ___.
A Mark Twain… Tom Sawyer
B Hawthorne… The Scarlet Letter
C Walt Whitman… Song of Myself
D Henry James… A Lady’s Portrait
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