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
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