大学MOOC 美国文学(商丘学院)1206704836 最新慕课完整章节测试答案
I. Introduction and American Puritanism
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单元测试1
1、单选题：
The Puritans dreamed of living under a perfect order and worked with indomitable courage and confident hope toward building a new _____ in America.
选项：
A: city
B: country
C: society
D: Garden of Eden
答案: 【 Garden of Eden】
2、多选题：
What are the influences of Puritanism on American Literature?
选项：
A: Optimism
B: Symbolism
C: Simplicity
D: Black Humor
答案: 【 Optimism;
Symbolism;
Simplicity】
3、多选题：
What are the two features of American Puritans?
选项：
A: ideal
B: practical
C: pride
D: modest
答案: 【 ideal;
practical】
4、判断题：
In the 16th century many Puritans emigrated to the New World, where they sought to found a holy Commonwealth in New England.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
5、填空题：
Puritanism refers to the beliefs and practices characteristic of _______.
答案: 【 Puritans】
II. American Romantic Fictions
单元测试 2
1、单选题：
In the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following items.
选项：
A: Moral enthusiasm
B: Faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception
C: Adoration for the natural world
D: Presumption about the corrosive effect of human society
E: All of the above
答案: 【 All of the above】
2、单选题：
The appearance of The Scarlet Letter marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist. Soon he composed the other three important novels including ________, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun.
选项：
A: Fanshawe
B: The House of the Seven Gables
C: Twice-Told Tales
D: The Fall of the House of Usher
E: Moby Dick
答案: 【 The House of the Seven Gables】
3、单选题：
Because of the magic power of the drink, Rip Van Winkle falls into a ______ sleep. When he wakes up, everything has undergone a tremendous change.
选项：
A: ten-year
B: twenty-year
C: thirty-year
D: forty-year
答案: 【 twenty-year】
4、单选题：
The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne's symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in ________.
选项：
A: The Scarlet Letter
B: Young Goodman Brown
C: The Marble Faun
D: The Ambitious Guest
答案: 【 The Scarlet Letter】
5、单选题：
Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
选项：
A: Nature
B: Walden
C: On Beauty
D: Self-Reliance
答案: 【 Nature 】
6、单选题：
_______ insisted that a literary should strive for a single effect, that is, the creation of beauty, and immediate object of the writing is pleasure, not truth, which highly resounds with the key notion of Aesthetic Movement, namely, "Art for art's sake".
选项：
A: Nathaniel Hawthorne
B: Edgar Allan Poe
C: Herman Melville
D: Washington Irving
E: James Fenimore Cooper
答案: 【 Edgar Allan Poe】
7、单选题：
Herman Melville's ________ is not only an adventure story, but also a significant philosophical work on spiritual exploration.
选项：
A: Moby Dick
B: The Over-Soul
C: Nature
D: The Egg
答案: 【 Moby Dick】
8、单选题：
_______ is famous for his frontier stories, especially The Leather-stocking Tales, and is called to be “The American Scott”.
选项：
A: Washington Irving
B: James Fenimore Cooper
C: William Cullen Bryant
D: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
答案: 【 James Fenimore Cooper】
9、单选题：
______ 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.
选项：
A: Twice-Told Tales
B: The Scarlet Letter
C: The House of the Seven Gables
D: The Marble Faun
答案: 【 The Scarlet Letter】
10、单选题：
Allan Poe adopts Doubling and Doppelganger in his horror story named ______ where he shows us a state of being buried alive.
选项：
A: "The Raven"
B: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
C: "To Helen"
D: "Annabel Lee"
答案: 【 "The Fall of the House of Usher"】
11、单选题：
American achievement in the short story have demanded international respect and admiration for more than a century and a half. The first successful American short stories came from _______ in the early 19th century.
选项：
A: Washington Irving
B: Nathaniel Hawthorne
C: Herman Melville
D: Edgar Allan Poe
答案: 【 Washington Irving】
12、单选题：
At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________.
选项：
A: Chartist Movement
B: Romanticist Movement
C: Enlightenment Movement
D: Modernist Movement
答案: 【 Romanticist Movement】
13、单选题：
Which is regarded as the "Declaration of Intellectual Independence"?
选项：
A: "The American Scholar"
B: "English Traits"
C: "The Conduct of Life"
D: "Representative Men"
答案: 【 "The American Scholar"】
14、单选题：
Whitman's poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ________.
选项：
A: a strict poetic form
B: a simple and conversational language
C: a free and natural rhythmic pattern
D: an easy flow of feelings
答案: 【 a strict poetic form】
15、多选题：
In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for ______ for Chillingworth, while ______ for Dimmesdale.
选项：
A: Angel
B: Agony
C: Abomination
D: Art
E: amicable
答案: 【 Agony;
Abomination】
16、多选题：
Washington Irving if often considered as "The Father of American Literature" or "The Father of American letters", because ________.
选项：
A: he is the first American literary humorist.
B: he has introduced nonfiction prose as a literary genre.
C: he is the first American writer to gain international fame.
D: he is the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature.
答案: 【 he is the first American literary humorist.;
he has introduced nonfiction prose as a literary genre.;
he is the first American writer to gain international fame.】
17、多选题：
Rip Van Winkle is a fantasy tale about a man _________.
选项：
A: who is lazy
B: who is ambitionless
C: who steps outside the main stream of life
D: who loves laboring and diligent
答案: 【 who is lazy;
who is ambitionless;
who steps outside the main stream of life】
18、判断题：
Different from their European counterparts, American romantics to moralize, to edify rather than to entertain.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
19、判断题：
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow and Willia