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IVe Exercises A? Multiple choices: ( )1. Of all the following issues, is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history? Puritan morality human bestiality noble savages D? divinity of man ( )2. Henry David Thoreaufs work, ，has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement. A. WaldenB A. Walden C. Nature ( )3. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind” is a famous quote from s writings. A. Walt WhitmanB. Henry David ThoreauC. Herman MelvilleD. Ralph Waldo Emerson A. Walt Whitman B. Henry David Thoreau C. Herman Melville D. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( )4. The famous 20-year sleep in “Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irvingfs ? involvement with the passage of time transient beauty laziness and corruptibility of human beings supernatural manipulation of mans life ( )5. According to Emerson, mans capacity is . ambiguous B. limited C. infinite D. subsidiary to God ( )6. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT . malignancy B. beauty ( )7. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, romance should be . both imaginative and creative B. full of adventures C. a true record of human life D. a mixture of facts and fancy ( )8. Which of the following is NOT emphasized by the New England Transcendentalism? Nature is not purely of matter, but alive with Gods overwhelming presence. Individual human beings are depraved, hence they should be improved. Material economy is good for spiritual wealth? In every single human being there dwells the divine spirit. ( )9. The pink ribbon appears three times in respectively three places in Young Goodman Brown, which might possibly suggest that . Goodman Browns night trial in the forest might be an illusion Faith is seen to be there with Brown at the witch meeting Hawthorne uses it as an indication of Browns physical presence in the forest The pink ribbon is not Faiths