Transcendentalism..doc

Test Paper One PartⅠ：Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. 　　Group 1 　　 Column A Column B 　　1. Nathaniel Hawthorne A. White Jacket 　　2. Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book 　　3. Washington Irving C. The Scarlet Letter 　　4. Ernest Hemingway D. A Farewell to Arms 　　5. F. Scott Fitzgerald E. This Side of Paradise 　　Group 2 　 　Column A Column B 　　1. Homer Barren A. The Great Gatsby 　　2. George Hurstwood B. A Rose for Emily 　　3. Yank C. Moby Dick 　　4. Tom Buchanan D. Sister Carrie 　　5. Fedallah E. The Hairy Ape 　　Part Ⅱ： Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. 　　1. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving’s ______ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. 　　A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveller 　　C. A History of New York D. The Scarlet Letter 　　2. In the middle of 19th century， America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”。 　　A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance 　　C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance 　　3. As a philosophical and literary movement， the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______. 　　A. nature, man and the universe 　　B. the relationship between man and woman 　　C. the development of Romanticism in American literature 　　D. the cold， rigid rationalism of Unitarianism 　　4. In the history of American literature， ______ is usually agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism. 　　A. the Harlem Renaissance B. England Transcendentalism 　　C. New England Transcendentalism D. New Transcendentalism 　　5. About the novel The Scarlet Letter， which of the following statements is not right? 　　A. It’s very hard to say that it is a love story or a