B
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It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.
C
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.
D
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It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.
27
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The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is ______________.
A
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the conflict of human psyche
B
．
the fight against racial discrimination
C
．
the familial conflict
D
．
the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past
28
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The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______________, Emerson’s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A
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The American Scholar
B
．
Self
—
reliance
C
．
Nature
D
．
The Over
—
Soul
29
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Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart ”of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______________.
A
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love and hatred
B
．
sin and evil
C
．
frustration and self
—
denial
D
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balance and self
—
discipline
30
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In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown’s wife is ______________, which also contains many symbolic meanings.
A
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Ruth
B
