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Exercises of Chapter 2I. Multiple Choice1. Which of the following is NOT one part of The LeatherStocking Tales by Cooper?A. The Spy B. The Pathfinder C. The Pioneers D. The Deerslayer2. Which statement about Thoreau was NOT right?A. He was a lover of nature.B. He was a particular kind of romantic.C. He was a polemicist.D. He was a thorough transcendentalist.3. Which of the following has been called “the manifesto of American transcendentalism?”A. Divinity School Address B. Self-RelianceC. Nature D. The American Scholar4. As a philosophical and literary movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. sentimentalism B. transcendentalism C. modernism D. rationalism5. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .A. the Modern Period B. the Realistic PeriodC. the Romantic Period D. the Naturalist Period6. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT .A. The Marble Faun B. Typee C. The Scarlet Letter D. Mosses form an Old Manse7. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinsons?A. I Heard a Fly Buzz When I DiedB. The RavenC. This is My Letter to the WorldD. I Like to See it Lap the Miles8. Whitmans poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT .A. the strict poetic formB. the free and natural rhythmC. the easy flow of feelingsD. the simple and conversational language9. Poes first collection of stories is .A. Tales of a TravelerB. Leather Stocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque10. Which book is not written by Emerson?A. The American Scholar B. Self-RelianceC. Nature D. Civil Disobedience11. The first example of Hawthorns symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in .A. The Scarlet Letter B. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble Faun D. The Ambitious Guest12. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is .A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Henry David Thoreau D. Washington Irving13. Transcendentalists recognized as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuition B. logic C. data of the senses D. thinking14. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. The Conduct of Life D. Representative Men15. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was .A. Anne Bradstreet B. Jane AustinC. Emily Dickinson D. Harriet Beecher16. Captain, My Captain is written for .A. Lincoln B. Whitman C. Washington D. Heminway17. Which of the following books is a tremendous chronicle of an appalling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale?A. The Scarlet Letter B. Moby DickC. The Marble Faun D. Moses from an Old Manse18. was the first man of letters from the United States to win and international reputation.A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Washington IrvingC. James Fenimore Cooper D. Longfellow19. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most outstanding of all the writers in literature.A. transcendental/ English B. transcendental/ AmericanC. realistic/ English D. realistic/ American20. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a .A. short story writer B. novelist C. dramatist D. translator21. In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?A. Robert Frost B. Walt WhitmanC. Henry David Thoreau D. Herman Melville22. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is in .A. England during World War IIB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. the Middle Ages in ItalyD. Puritan America23. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes .A. the microcosm of human society B. a search for truthC. the unknown world D. nature24. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with .A. nature B. transcendentalist ideasC. human beings D. celestial beings25. tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.A. Twice-told Tales B. The Scarlet LetterC. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun26. is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. Nature B. The Scarlet LetterC. Walden D. Moby-Dick27. Washington Irvings social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, .A. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” B. “Rip Van Winkle”C. “The Custom-House” D. “The Birthmark”28. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .A. mystery of the universe B. sin of the whaleC. power of the Great Nature D. evil of the world29. In Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for .A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. all the above30. 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. Arab31. was a romanticized account of Melvilles 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 Budd32. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except .A. religion B. love and marriageC. life and death D. war and peace33. Emily Dickinsons poetic idiom is noted for the following except .A. brevity B. directness C. plainest words D. obscure34. is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Walt Whitman C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Mark Twain35. In Hawthornes novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear .A. saviors B. villains C. commentators D. observers36. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as .A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experienceB. the thought that designates man as a social animalC. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD. the modes of thinking37. In the poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of .A. the theory of universalityB. singularity and equality of all beings in valueC. both A and BD. none above38. Most of the poems in Whitmans leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the as well.A. nature B. life C. self D. self-reliance39. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. Lyrical and well-structured B. Free-flowingC. Simple and rather crude D. Conversational and casual40. In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death .A. passionately B. pessimistically C. in despair D. peacefullyII. Bland Filling1. The Romantic period in the American literary history covers the time between the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war . It started with the publication of Irvings The Sketch Book and ended with Whitmans Leaves of Grass . This period is also called Romanticism .2. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and the other is The Life of George Washington .3. In Song of Myself , Whitmans own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.4. Typee by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.5. From Thoreaus Concord jail experience, came his famous essay Civil Disobedience .6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthornes novel The Scarlet Letter .7. Published in 1823, The Pioneer , the first of The Leatherstocking Tales, in their publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.8. Edgar Allan Poe can somewhat be called “the Father of the American detective story”.