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Part one: Answer: 160A,B,D,D,C/ D,A,B,A,D/ A,A,D,D,B/ C,C,B,D,CD A B D B/ A C B C D/ C D C D A/ B,A,C,A,D B,C,C,B,A/ D,A,B,D,D/ A,A,D,D,B/ C,C,A,D,C11. Hawthornes masterpiece, one of the greatest novels of the world is The Scarlet Letter.2. Emersons first startling book is Nature. 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the chief spokesman of this spiritual movement of Transcendentalism.4. Washington Irving is worth the honor of being “for his literary craftsmanship for his literary craftsmanship.5. The colonial influence over American Romanticism made American Romantic writers more moralize than their English counter-parts.6. The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American Naturalism.7. In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud, whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.8. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial New England speech into a poetic expression.The theme of returning to nature could be read in Leather-Stocking Tales by Cooper.10. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not true? D A. Its very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin. B. Its a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism. C. Its mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general. D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.11. Ezra Pound showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Bai into English. 12. Eliots first major poem (1917 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock , has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English. 13. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as The Roaring Twenties,The Jazz age andThe Dollar Decade. 14. Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel A Farewell to Arms15. The Grapes of Wrath tells the Joad familys life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California. 16. Faulkner wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who laboured for both of them. 17. In Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called stream of consciousness , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of four characters. 18. Faulkners novel The Sound and the Fury describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view. 19. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should observe with no judgment whatsoever and reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum.20. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards? A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic field.1. The Beat Generation is a large group including San Francisco writers, the name referred simultaneously_, through drugs, and alcohol. A. to their sense that society was worn out B. to their interest in new forms of experience C. to the rhythm of jazz 2. In the Depression Age, John Steinbeck is the famous leftist for his sympathetic story about drifting farm laborers and factory workers. 3. The 1940s saw the flourishing of a new contingent of writers, including R. P. Warren, A. Miller, T. Williams, K. A. Porter and E. Welty. All but Miller were from the South4. The Great God Brown fuses symbolism, poetry, and the affirmation of a pagan idealism to show how materialistic civilization denies the lifegiving impulses to and destruction of the genuine art. 5. The realistic schools led by Mark Twain and Henry James differ in their understanding of the truth6. Eliots first major poem (1917) has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English. A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock B. The Waste LandC. Four Quartets D. Preludes 7. Which story is William Dean Howells masterpiece on the American spirit of the self-made man?A. A Modern Instance B. The Luck of Roaring Camp C. The Rise of Silas LaphamD. A Womans Reason 8. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkners novels?A. Cambridge. B. Yoknapatawpha C. Mississippi. D.Tagliamento9. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This line is the shortest poem written by _. A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E. E. Cummings 10. Which couple of the following are not written by Henry James? A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians D. The Genius and The Gilded Age11. _ is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner.A. Go Down, Moses B. Light in AugustC. Absalom, Absalom D. The Sound and the Fury12. Which of the following is said of the American naturalists?A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.C. Human should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh environment.D. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.13. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered_. A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty B. an adventurous exploration into mans relationship with nature C. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe D. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure14. The American 30s lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the 2nd World War 1939. This was a period of _. A. a new social consciousness B. bleakness C. important social movements D. All above 15. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following statements is not true?A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions.B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement. C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.D. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.16. Sinclair Lewis Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited _. A. up-class mind B. middle-class mind C. proletarian D. ordinary people17. In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of _ devices in narration. A. romantic B. realistic C. gothic D. modernist18. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors. It is always referred to as “_”. A. Imagism B. black humor C. new fiction D. the Beat Generation19. As an autobiographical play, ONeills _ (1951) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.A. Long Days Journey into Night B. The Hairy ApeC. Desire under the Elms D. The Iceman Cometh20. Tender Is the Night is a _ by Fitzgerald. A. short story B. novella C. poem D. novel1. Which of the following notions is not of literature? A. local color B. sub-consciousness C. stream of consciousness D. naturalism 2. As Fitzgeralds writing style is concerned, which of the following is true?A. The author dropped off the device of having events observed by a “central consciousness”. B. His intervening passages of narration leave the tedious process of transition to the authors imagination.C. His diction and metaphors are partially original and details accurate.D. The scenic methods are employed, each of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.3. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the U. S. refers to the period from _ to _. A. 18611914 B. 18631918 C. 18651914 D. 186519454. _ is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the U.S. A. Henry James B. Emily Dickinson C. William Dean Howells D. Mark Twain5. _ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era. A. Innocents Abroad B. The Gilded Age C. Roughing It D. The Middle Years6. The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature and the American men of letters gave rise to another powerful school of realism of American literature: American _. A. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism C. The Lost GenerationD. Naturalism7. In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, there were two important thinkers, _, whose ideas had the greatest impact on the writing of American modernist period.A. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund FreudB. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund FreudC. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William JamesD. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud 8. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial _ speech into a poetic expression.A. EnglandB. New England C. PlymouthD. Boston9. As the theme of New England Transcendentalism, returning to nature could be read in Walden by _.A. Cooper B. Twain C. Irving D. Thoreau10. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not true? A. Its very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin. B. Its a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism. C. Its mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general. D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.11. _ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Bai into English. A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost C. T. S. Eliot D. E. E. Cummings12. Psychological realists take the psychologist view that _ shapes up the social life.A. subconscious instinct B. intuitive and self-reliantC. evil in human heart D. the circumstance of no freedom of choice13. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It is this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as . A.The Roaring Twenties B.The Jazz age C.The Dollar Decade D.All of above14. Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. They later became the characters of his novel . A.The Old Man and the Sea B.For Whom the Bell TollsC.The Sun Also Rises D.A Farewell to Arms15. _ tells the Joad familys life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California. A.Of Mice and Men B.The Grapes of Wrath C.The Great Gatsby D.For Whom the Bell Tolls16. In the first half of the 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering period which is called “_”. A. the English RenaissanceB. the Second Renaissance C. the American RenaissanceD. the Salem Renaissance17. In Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of four characters. A.symbolism B.imagism C. the stream of consciousness D.naturalism18. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning _. A. nature, man and the universe B. the relationship between man and woman C. the development of Romanticism in American literature D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism19. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer is to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should _. A. observe with no judgment whatsoeverB. reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimumC. observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the eventsD. both A and B20. Which of the following just depicts the American fiction in the field of literature 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, seeking vitality in more widely popular material.D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its predecessors.Answer: 160A,B,D,D,C/ D,A,B,A,D/ A,A,D,D,B/ C,C,B,D,CD A B D B/ A C B C D/ C D C D A/ B,A,C,A,D B,C,C,B,A/ D,A,B,D,D/ A,A,D,D,B/ C,C,A,D,CPart Two1. Leather-stocking Tales F. Cooper frontier literature2. The Portrait of a Woman H. James psychological realism3. The Sketch Book W. Irving American short stories4. The 22 Catch J. Heller fiction of black humour 5. Leaves of Grass W. Whitman free verse 6. The Sound and the Fury W. Faulkner the stream of consciousness7. The Call of Wild J. London leftist and muckraker 8. Nature R. W. Emerson transcendentalism 9. The Great Gatsby F. S. Fitzgerald The Jazz Age10. The Grapes of Wrath J. Steinbeck Depression literature and mild leftist1. Howl A. Ginsberg the beat generation2. The Zoo Story E. Albee absurdist theatre 3. The Purloined Letter E. A. Poe detective stories4. The Native Son R. Wright Harlem Renaissance and black novels5. The Scarlet Letter N. Hawthorne black vision6. The Sun also Rises E. Hemingway the lost generation and war novels7. Autobiography B. Franklin individualism8. The Waste Land T. S. Eliot imagist poetry9. Sister Carrie T. Dreiser naturalism10. Adventures of Huckleberry Fin M. Twain local colorismPart Three1. Who are the forerunners of American naturalism?2. Who is considered the representative of the American literary school of last century: the Lost Generation and what did these men of letters call themselves?3. Which four fictional schools successively came into being in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 60s of the 20th century?4. Who is the most outstanding novelist of the 30th decade of last century and what are his earliest best seller and his greatest book?5. Which names are always associated with the stream-of-consciousness? 6. As the following naturalists example, which two novels are Stephen Cranes main works ?7. What four literary branches consist of the American realism?8. What skills of literary creation does the 20th century stream-of-consciousness of American literature often include?9. Which three periods consist of the main development of American literature?10. What special names are given to the 20s, 30s, and 50s of the 20th century?11. Who are the forerunners of the first three main branches of American realism? 12. By what historical events are the three main periods of American literature briefly divided?13. What renaissances successively appeared in the development of American literature?14. What expressive forms does post-modernism have?15. During the South Renaissance, what literary schools was formed one after another by nearly the same key members?16. What are the three main branches of knowledge covered by the Course of American Literature? 17. Which main literary schools played the role in American early modernism of the 20s to 30s of the 20th century?18. What features does romanticism have in its style?19. What are the features of expression of American Romanticism?20. Part Three answer 1. A. Stephen Crane, B. Frank Norris C. Theodore Dreiser 2. A. Ernest Hemingway, B. exiles/expatriates3. A. the Lost Generation fiction, B. the leftist fiction, C. the south fiction, D. the Beat Generation fiction4. A. John Steinbeck B. Of Mice and Men , C. The Grapes of Wrath5. A. William James, B. Henry Jame