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1.Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry. A. Billy Budd B. The Old Man and the Sea C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick In addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil. A. Henry David Thoreau B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Herman Melville ______ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones” and that evil will come out of evil though it may take generations to happen. A. The Marble Faun B. The Blithedale Romance C. Young Goodman Brown D. The House of Seven Gables Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? A. The Conduct of Life B. Representative Men C. English Traits D. The American Scholar Which is generally as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism? A. Nature B. Walden C. On Beauty D. Self-Reliance There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually on the Puritan soil. A. Unitarianism B. Mysticism C. Romanticism D. Puritanism “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul… Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which pushed American romanticism into a new Phase, the phase of New England ______. A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism C. Symbolism D. Naturalism Washington Irving’s works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are ____ and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.