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美国文学试题库 注：试题库内容仅作为学习参考使用，并不代表考试内容。任何一道题均可能变化为其它形式的试题。 I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices looking upon themselves as a chosen people tolerating others’ beliefs and sought for a happy and an easy life wishing to restore simplicity to church serves and emphasized the image of a wrathful God The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in _____. James Fennimore Cooper Thomas Paine Benjamin Franklin Ralph Waldo Emerson Of the following works, ______ was not written by Thomas Paine. Rights of Man Civil Disobedience The Age of Reason Common Sense The “Father of American Poetry” is ____. William Cullen Bryant Philip Freneau Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Allan Poe The most outstanding writer of the Post-Revolutionary period, who wrote in his poems the indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, is _____. William Cullen Bryant Philip Freneau Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Allan Poe牋 The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _____ in the American literary history. individual feelings idea of survival of the fittest strong imagination return to nature Cooper’s story of the “frontier saga” is made up of 5 famous novels that comprise the ________ Tales, in which the main character is Natty Bumppo. Leaterstoking The Deer Slayer Sea Adventure The Romantic Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. But in the following ______is NOT the case. Typee Moby Dick Omoo The Confidence Man The following are correct for transcendentalism EXCEPT _____. It is a systematized philosophical and literary movement. It exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. It spoke for cultural rejuvenation against the materialism of American society. It