B. Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter. C. Whitman?s Leaves of Grass. D. Irving?s Rip Van Winkle.
23. As a philosophical and literary movement, _________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A. modernism B. rationalism C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalism
24. In Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for ______________.
A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above 25. ______is not the member of Transcendental Club. A. Emerson B. Thoreau C. Whitman D. Fuller 26. Poe?s first collection of short stories is _______________. A. Tales of a Traveller B. Leatherstocking Tales
C. Canterbury Tales D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque 27. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. A. Starbuck B. Stubb C. Ishmael D. Arab
28. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter? A. Hester Prynne B. Arthur Dimmesdale C. Roger Chillingworth D. Pearl
29. __________was a romanticized account of Melville?s stay among the
Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville become known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.
A. Moby Dick B. Typee C. Omoo D. Billy Budd
30. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as _________.
A. The naturalist Period B. The Modern Period C. The Romantic Period D. the Realistic period
31. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.
A. The House of Seven Gables B. White Jacket
C. The Marble Faun D. The Blithdale Romance
32. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?