超星 - 4. W13 Assignment - 查题吧

单选题

In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ____________.

A. the microcosm of human society
B. the search for truth
C. the unknown world
D. Nature

单选题

Identify the author of the following excerpt.From the ship's bows, nearly all the seamen now hung inactive; hammers, bits of plank, lances, and harpoons, mechanically retained in their hands, just as they had darted from their various employments; all their enchanted eyes intent upon the whale, which from side to side strangely vibrating his predestinating head, sent a broad band of overspreading semicircular foam before him as he rushed.

A. Herman Melville
B. Ralph Emerson
C. Washington Irving
D. Edgar Allan Poe

单选题

The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ________.

A. Walden
B. Nature
C. Self-Reliance
D. The American Scholar

单选题

__________ is the narrator in Moby Dick.

Ahab
B. Ishmael
C. Starbuck
D. Queequeg

单选题

Transcendentalism was put forward by the people from __________.

A. the Mid-West
B. the West
C. New England
D. England

单选题

In his essays, ____________ put forward his philosophy of the over-soul, the importance of the Individual and Nature.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Washington Irving
C. Mark Twain
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

单选题

_______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.

Ahab
B. Moby Dick
C. Queequeg
D. Starbuck

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