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C. man and woman D. love and nature

( ) 16. ____ proves to be his greatest work and by entitling this book with such a name, Dreiser

intended to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde‘s downfall inevitable. A. The Titan B. Sister Carrie C. The Financier D. An American Tragedy

( ) 17. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the famous ____ Movement in the history of

American literature.

A. Symbolist B. Impressionist C. Existentialist D. Imagist ( ) 18. Allen Ginsburg‘s Howl became the manifesto of ____.

A. Postmodernism B. Imagism C. the Beat Generation D. the Lost Generation

( ) 19. ____ is a school of modern painting, whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints.

A. Expressionism B. Imagism C. Cubism D. Impressionism

( ) 20. ____ is often acclaimed a literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. A. F. Scott Fitzgerald B. Ezra Pound

C. Robert Lee Frost D. Ernest Hemingway

( ) 21. ____, Hemingway‘s first novel, casts light on a whole generation after the First World

War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of ―The Lost Generation.‖

A. The Old Man and the Sea B. The Sun Also Rises

C. In Our Time D. A Farewell to Arms ( ) 22. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner‘s novels? A. Cambridge. B. Oxford. C. Yoknapatawpha. D. Mississippi.

( ) 23. Robert Frost rejected ____ choosing ____ instead.

A. the conventional poetic principles… the revolutionary way B. the romantic way… the revolutionary principles C. the revolutionary principles… the romantic way

D. the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries… the old-fashioned way to be new ( ) 24. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?

A. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.

B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose works were set against the Jewish experience and tradition.

C. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the

artistic field.

D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its predecessors.

( ) 25. Which of the following can NOT be included in the thematic concerns of Robert Frost‘s

Poems?

A. The contradiction and misunderstanding between man and woman. B. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being.

C. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from working. D. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beauty.

( ) 1. ____ appeared as a literary trend against rationality.

A. Classicism B. Neo-Classicism C. Humanism D. Romanticism

( ) 2. The famous 20 years in Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving‘s ____.

A. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings B. expression of transient beauty C. concern with the passage of time

D. idea about supernatural manipulation of man‘s life

( ) 3. Nature has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the ―____ Club.‖

A. Natural B. Transcendental C. Soul D. Universal

( ) 4. ___ is unanimously claimed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature.

A. New England Transcendentalism B. Puritanism C. Unitarianism D. Deism

( ) 5. Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ____ based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.

A. realism B. romanticism C. surrealism D. naturalism ( ) 6. ___held a ―black‖ vision of life and human beings. A. Washington Irving B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Mark Twain D. James Fennimore Cooper

( ) 7. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT____.

A. evil B. adultery C. God D. beauty ( ) 8. According to ____, man‘s capacity is infinite. A. James Cooper B. Emily Dickinson C. Walt Whitman D. Ralph Emerson

( ) 9. ____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.

A. Walden B. Nature C. The Scarlet Letter D. Moby Dick

( ) 10. Whitman‘s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT____.

A. a free and natural rhythmic pattern B. a simple and conversational language C. a strict poetic form D. an easy flow of feelings

( ) 11. Another fact that made ____unique is his magic power with language, his use of vernacular. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.

A. Mark Twain B. Washington Irving C. Henry James D. Theodore Dreiser ( ) 12. The real name of Mark Twain is ____.

A. Samuel Langhorne Clemens B. Langhorne Clemens Samuel C. Langhorne Samuel Clemens D. Samuel Clemens Langhorne

( ) 13. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A. They portrayed misery and poverty of the ―underdogs,‖ who were demonstrably victims of society and nature.

B. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society. C. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.

D. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme of human ―bestiality,‖ especially an explanation of sexual desire.

( ) 14. Which of the following is a typical feature of Henry James‘s writing style? A. exquisite and elaborate language B. minute detailed description C. Lengthy psychological analysis D. all of them

( ) 15. Which of the following statements about Mark Twain is NOT true? A. He is a humorist. B. He is a realist.

C. He is a local colorist. D. He is a psychologist

( ) 16. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson‘s poetry?

A. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines. B. Dickinson‘s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way. C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.

D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.

( ) 17. Henry James‘ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the ____ theme.

A. Deep South B. local color C. international D. national

( ) 18. In the poem ―I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—‖ Emily Dickinson gives a tense description of the greatest rending of the moment of ____. A. death B. immortality C. love D. nature

( ) 19. ____ fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people.

A. Eugene O‘ Neill‘s B. Scott Fitzgerald‘s C. Ernest Hemingway‘s D. William Faulkner‘s

( ) 20. ____ poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over Ezra Pound. A. Chinese B. Japanese C. Indian D. Korean

( ) 21. Hemingway‘s first true novel____ casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of ―The Lost Generation.‖

A. The Sun Also Rises B. The Old Man and the Sea C. For Whom the Bell Tolls D. A Farewell to Arms

( ) 22. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their ____. A. pessimistic view of life B. indestructible spirit C. war experiences D. masculinity

( ) 23. Most of O‘Neill‘s plays are concerned about the following EXCEPT____. A. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration

B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality C. success and failure in man‘s literary career

D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament

( ) 24. In William Faulkner‘s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ____, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. A. naturalism B. imagism

C. symbolism D. stream of consciousness

( ) 25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner? A. He is a master of stream-of-consciousness narrative. B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand. C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago. D. He represents a new group of Southern writers. 1. C______ was the first colony in American history.

A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey C. Virginia D.Georgia

2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, ―His shadow lies heavier than any other man‘s on this young nation.‖

A. John Smith B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D.Thomas Paine 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. A. common sense B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ A. Philip Freneau B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson

5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Titanic

6. Melville‘s novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

A. Typee B. Omoo C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick 7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A.Modernism B.Rationalism C.Sentimentalism D.Transcendentalism

8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Sister Carrie

C. The Great Gatsby D. The Old Man and Sea