actor, with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy______________ , or The Merry Monarch.

11. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving' s

work named _______.

12. _________ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation

after the Revolutionary War.

13. Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled _____________ . 14. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold smith,

and the other is____________ .

15. The first important American novelist was____________ .

16. James Fenimore Cooper' s novel ___________ was a rousing tale about espionage

against the British during the Revolutionary War.

17. The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was_____________ . The hero

of the novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.

18. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is____________ , who goes by the

various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.

19. \

called by an eminent English critic \20. __________ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world

literature.

21. Among William Cullen Bryant's most important later works are his translations of

the Iliad and the____________ into English blank verse.

22. Edgar Allan Poe' s poem____________ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia

in the English language.

23. Edgar Allan Poe's poem____________ was published in 1845 as the title poem of a

collection.

24. Ralph___________ Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to New

England.

25. Ralph Waldo Emerson's truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of

Emerson's theories, was____________ .

26. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at _________________

Pond.

27. A superb book entitled____________ came out of Henry David Thoreau' s two-year

experiment at Walden Pond.

28. From Henry David Thoreau' s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay

______.

29. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel _____________ . 30. Herman Melville' s novel____________ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling

voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first collection of poems entitled ______________

appeared in 1838.

32. The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' s writings is his translation of

Dante' s ______.

33. Besides lyrics and longer poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote dramatic

works, among which____________ is the most conspicuous.

34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and _____________ are the only two American

poets commemorated in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

35. After his death, __________ became the only American to be honored with a bust in

the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

36. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century

through the outburst of the___________ .

37. The English author named___________ was, in a way, responsible for the romantic

description of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverley novels were models for American his torical romances.

38. Published in 1823, __________ was the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, in their

order of publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.

39. In The Pioneers, __________ represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and

free life in God' s world.

40. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual

life of America. It was entitled Nature by______________ .

41. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as \

Declaration of Intellectual Independence\It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.

42. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was_____________ , a friend of

Ralph Waldo Emerson' s and his junior by some fourteen years.

43. The way in which___________ wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American

Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.

44. Herman Melville's world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to____________ ,

a novelist.

45. It is said that in his late years, Herman Melville stopped writing novels and stories

and turned to poetry, ___________ is his most famous poetic work.

46. Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named______________ ,

which is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces. II. Make multiple choices.

1. In 1837, the first college-level institution for women, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, was established in____________ to serve the \A. New England B. Virginia

C. Massachusetts D. New York

2. Transcendentalism took their ideas from___________ . A. the romantic literature in Europe B. neo-Platonism

C. German idealistic philosophy

D. the revelations of oriental mysticism

3. As a philosophical and literary movement, ____________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A. modernism B. rationalism

C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalism

4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___________ and Henry David Thoreau.

A. Thomas Jefferson B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Philip Freneau D. Oversoul

5. Who were regarded as the \A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow B. Lowell

C. Oliver Russel Holmes D. John Greenleaf Whittier

6. American statesmen such as__________ slowly won for their country the respect of European powers.

A. Washington B. Jefferson

C. Madison D. Monroe

7. _________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club. A. Henry David Thoreau B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman

8. Transcendentalists recognized__________ as the \A. intuition B. logic

C. data of the senses D. thinking

9. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _______________ , there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.

A. Herman Melville B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser

10. Transcendentalism appealed to those who disdained the harsh God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New England A. Transcendentalism B. Humanism

C. Naturalism D. Unitarianism

11. In the early 19th century America, statesmen such as _________ , came to dominate American politics not with their prose but with the emotional force of their oratory. A. Daniel Webster B. Daniel Defoe

C. Philip Freneau D. Thomas Paine

12. A new___________ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century. A. realism B. critical realism

C. romanticism D. naturalism

13. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in _________ . A. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales B. Henry David Thoreau' s V/alden C. Mark Twain' s Huckleberry Finn

D. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

14. A preoccupation with the demonic and the mystery of evil marked the works of _________ , and a host of lesser writers.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Herman Melville D. Mark Twain

15. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by_____ A. Samuel Johnson B. Noah Webster

C. Daniel Webster

D. Daniel Defoe

16. In the nineteenth century America, Romantics often shared certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following. A. moral enthusiasm

B. faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception C. adoration for the natural world

D. presumption about the corrosive effect of human society

17. Choose Washington Irving' s works from the following. A. The Sketch Book B. Bracebridge Hall

C. Tales of a Traveller D. A History of New York

18. In James Fenimore Cooper's novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal , come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following. A. the Mohican Chief Chingachgook B. Uncas

C. Tom Jones D. Kubla Khan

19. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet___________ to appear in America up to that time.

A. Edward Taylor B. Philip Freneau

C. William Cullen Bryant D. Edgar Allan Poe

20. Choose William Cullen Bryant's poems from the following. A. To a Caty-Did B. To a Waterfowl

C. Thanatopsis D. The Wild Honey Suckle

21. From the following, choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe. A. To Helen B. The Raven

C. Annabel Lee D. The Bells

22. In his post on the Messenger, Edgar Allan Poe showed his true talents as A. an editor B. a poet