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美国文学一期末复习资料 I. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. 1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. A. Ahab B. Ishmael C. Stubb D. Starbuck 8. Stylistically, Henry James? fiction is characterized by____________. A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images C. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language 9. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ . A. vernacular B. interior monologue C. point of view D. photographic description 10. It is on his____________that Washington Irving?s fame mainly rested. A. childhood recollections B. sketches about his European tours C. early poetry D. tales about America 11. At 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 12. 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 13. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statementsis NOT right? A. It ?s very hard to say that it