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I． Multiple Choice:15%
1. The Age of Realism in the literary of the United States refers to the period from
_________to ___________.
A. 1964…1914 B. 1863…1918 C. 1865…1914 D. 1865…1918
2.The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in
_______________.
A. The Marble Faun B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Ambitious Guest D. Young Goodman Brow
3.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ____________ and
___________________.
A.The Fall of the House of Ursher B. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
C. Life of Goldsmith D. Life of Washington
4.Dreiser’s Trilogy of Dreiser includes three novels. Find them from the following.
___________________
A. The Financier B. The Titan C. The Genius D. The Stoic
5. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This
was ______________________.
A. Anne Bradstreet B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson D. Harriet Beecher
6.”The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces” is the sub-title of the Chapter I of one
chapter in Dreiser’s novel_________________.
.A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrier
C. The Financier D. Jannier Gerhardt
7.”The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.”
This is the shortest poem written by__________________.
A. T.S.Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. e.e.cummings
8. Ezra Pound’s long poem _____________________contained more than one hundred
poems loosely connected.
A. The Wasted Land B. The Cantos
C. Don Juan D. Queen Mab
9. In 1950, ___________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his modern
technique about the stories of the South.
A. T.S. Eliot B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faulkner
10. ______________tells the Joad family’s life from the time they were evicted from their
farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.
A. Of Mice and Man B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. The Great Gatsby D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
.11.___________, who became the editor of Harper’s Monthly in 1891, created the first
theory for American realism.
A. Emile Zola B. Hamlin Garland
C. Stephen Crane D. William Dean Howells
12. _____________in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide
popularity.
A. Mark Twain B. William Dean Howells
C. Bret Harte D. Harriet Beech Stowe
13.With the publication of _____________in 1900, Theodore Dreiser commited his literary
force to opening the new ground of American naturalism.
A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrier
C. The Bulwark D. The Stoic
14.The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn was Mark Twain’s masterpiece which, as
_____________noted, “all modern American literature comes.”
A. Henry James B. William Dean Howells
C. Ernest Heminway D. Theodore Dreiser
15.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their___________________.
A. indestructable spirit B. pessimistic view of life
C. war experience D. masculinity
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II. Fill in the Blanks: 15%
1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of _____________ and
Revolution.
2. The Civil War of 1861-1865 ended in the defeat of Southerners and the abolition of
____________________.
3. Melville is best known as the author of one book named _________________, which is,
critics have agreed, one of the world’s greatest masterpieces.
4. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his
masterpiece novel ______________________.
5. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name___________________.
6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the
“____________________” movement.
7. “After Apple-Picking” is a well-known poem written by __________________.
8. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named
___________, who shows triumphant even in defeat.
9._________________________ is generally regarded as Steinbeck’s masterpiece.
10.The works written by __________________ may be viewed as a culmination of the
development of twentieth-century southern fiction.
11.________________is a character in a story or poem who decives, frustrates, or works against the main
character.
12.William Faulkner was awarded _______________for literature in 1950 because he created a symbolic
picture of the remote past “to retell the recurrent story of human dreams, bravery and defeat, to make a
statement about the past and use that statement to talk about man’s lot in his world.”
13.In 1927, T.S. Eliot became a _______________citizen and converted from the Unitarian Church to the
Church of England.
14. The poem Howl is written by the Beat Generation writer ___________________.
15.The Catch-22 is a novel of using the device of _______________________.
III. Identification of Fragmens.20%
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When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a
sort of respectful affectation for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see
the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant—a combined gardener and
cook---had seen in at least ten years.
Questions:
1. Which story is this paragraph taken from?
2. Who is the writer of the work?
3. Is Miss Emily married or single when she died?
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When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things, Either she falls into
saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue
and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no
possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human
tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in
the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive
light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural
mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A Blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast
array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counselor
at hand to whisper cautious interpretation, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into
the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes,
the weaken then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
Questions:
1. From which novel is this paragraph taken?
2. Who is the author of this novel?
3. How do you understand “that cosmopolitan standard of virtue”?
4. Is there any naturalist tendency in this passage?
