要想提高英语专业八级水平，掌握必要的人文知识也是必不可少的。
练习题：
1 As a philosophical and literary moment, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A modernism B rationalism C sentimentalism D transcendentalism
2 Poe’s first collection of stories is _____.
A Tales of Traveler
B Leather Stocking Tales
C Canterbury Tales
D Tales of the Goteque and Arabesque
3 Which book is not written by Emerson?
A The American Scholar B Self-Reliance
C Nature D Civil Disobedience
4 The finest example of Hawthorn’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _____.
A The Scarlet Letter B Young Goodman Brown
C The Marble Fawn D The Ambitious Guest
5 The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is _____.
A Nathaniel Hawthorn B Ralph Waldo Emerson
C Henry David Thoreau D Washington Irving