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

【答案】

1. 选B

斯托夫人（Harriet Beecher Stowe）是废奴文学的杰出代表，她的《汤姆大叔的小屋》（Uncle Tom’s cabin）被林肯总统称为“发动了一场大战的小说”。

2. 选C

威廉.布朗于1853年出版的《克罗特尔》被认为是美国黑人发表的第一部小说。

3. 选D

埃米莉.狄金森（Emily Dickinson）的诗歌远远超出了她所在的时代局限，虽然她留给后人1775首诗歌，但其中只有很少的一部分是在他生前发表的。

4. 选B

拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson）主张打破神学统治，摈弃以身为中心的请教主义，强调人再宇宙万物中的地位，人能超越感觉获得知识，人有能力凭直觉直接认识真理。更多信息

5. 选D

1837年，拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson）在哈佛大学发表了著名的《美国学者》（The American Scholar）的演讲，指出真正的“美国学者”应当是“思维者”，即具有独立思想的人，而不应该盲从任何约束，讲演引起了轰动。

6. 选C

1837年，拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson）在哈佛大学发表了震动人心的《神学院毕业班演说》（Divinity School Address），将批评的矛头直指因循守旧的教会，再获得革命者欢呼的同时，遭到了教会人士的强烈反对和抗议，此后将近30年时间，哈佛大学再也没有邀请他们这位著名的校友回母校演讲。

7. 选D

海明威（Ernest Hemingway）曾给予马克.吐温极高的评价，他断言“一切的当代美国文学都来自于马克.吐温的一本书，即《哈克贝里.费恩》（The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn）……它是所有书中最好的书，它是所有美国作品文学作品的源头，它之前没有作品可以和它相比，它之后也没有作品可以和它媲美”。

8. 选D

《金碗》（The Golden Bowl）是亨利.詹姆斯（Henry James）的小说。《傻子国外旅行记》（Innocent Abroad）是马克.吐温的幽默游记。《卡拉维拉县驰名的跳蛙》(The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)是马克.吐温发表的第一篇幽默小说。《汤姆.索亚历险记》（The Adventures of Tom Sawyer）则是马克.吐温一部儿童文学小说。

9. 选A

马克.吐温（Mark Twain）是萨繆尔.郎荷恩.克莱门斯（Samuel Langhorne Clemens）的笔名。

10.选D

《鸽翼》（The Wings of the Dove），《一位女士的画像》（A Lady’s Portrait）都是亨利.詹姆斯（Henry James）的代表作。