I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1 ’=
10’)
1. In American literature, the 18 th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the
dominant.
A. humanism
B. rationalism
C. romanticism
D. evolution
2. The short story “TheLegend of Sleepy Hollow ”is taken from Irving ’w sork named
______.
A. The Leatherstocking Tales
B. The Sketch Book
C. The Autobiography
D. The History of New York
3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?
A. Rationalism
B. inner self
C. personal feelings
D. individualism
4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle ” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.
A. optimistic
B. pessimistic
C. conservative
D. ironic
5. Stylistically, Henry James ’ fiction is characteriz_e_d_b. y __
A. short, clear sentences
B. abundance of local images
C. ordinary American speech
D. highly refined language
6. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.
A. Jefferson
B. Emerson
C. Freneau
D. Mark Twain
7. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence ”?
A. The American Scholar
B. English Traits
C. Oversoul
D. Self-reliance
8. ____ is considered Mark Twain ’s greatest achievement.
A. The Gilded Age
B. Innocent Abroad
C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. _____ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation ”.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. Walt Whitman
D. Hemingway
10. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author ’t osne in writing becomes less
serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.
A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D. pessimistic
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II. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1 ’= 10’)
11. ______ is the father of American Literature.
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Philip Freneau
C. Paine
D. Washington Irving
12. _____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of
life.
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A. “Rip Van Winkle ”
B. “The Pioneers ”
C. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ”
D. “The Fall of the House of Usher ”
13. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A. Thoreau
B. Emerson
C. Hawthorne
D. Whitman
14. Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain ’s language?
A. vernacular
B. colloquial
C. elegant
D. humorous
15. From Thoreau ’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that
no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A. Walden
B. Nature
C. Civil Disobedience
D. Common Sense
16. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence ”?
A. The American Scholar
B. English Traits
C. Oversoul
D. Self-reliance
17. Most of the poems in Whitman ’s Leaves of Grass sing of t-h m e a s s”and“t hen____ as
well.
A. nature
B. self-reliance
C. self
D. life
18. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
A. The Roaring 20s
B. The Gay 20s
C. The Jazz Age
D. The Lost Generation
19. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author ’t osne in writing becomes less
serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.
A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D. pessimistic
20. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery,
