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The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _______.
A.Mark Twain
B.Henry James
C.Emily Dickinson
D.Theodore Dreiser
Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.
A.Rationalism
B.Romanticism
C.Neoclassicism
D.Enlightenment
In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.
A.Puritan
B.materialistic
C.psychological
D.religious
The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.
A.The Scarlet Letter
B.Sister Carrie
C.The Great Gatsby
D.The Old Man and Sea
As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A.Modernism
B.Rationalism
C.Sentimentalism
D.Transcendentalism
Melville ’s novel ______ 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
The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlanti In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A.Sunflower
B.Armada
C.Mayflower
D.Titanic
The Raven was written in 1844 by ________
A.Philip Freneau
B.Edgar Allan Poe
C.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D.Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson
Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.
A. common sense
B. imagination
C. intuition
D. individualism
______ 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
______was the first colony in American history.
A. Massachusetts
B. New Jersey
C. Virginia
D.Georgia
Within Dickinson’s little lyrics, she addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which exclude ________.
A.religion
B.Friendship
C.love
D.immortality
Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.
A.the love and marriage theme
B.the theme of humor and satire on life
C.the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism
D.the international theme
_______, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, is Mark Twain’s most representative book.
A.Roughing It
B.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C.Life on the Mississippi
D.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
_______ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of American national literature.”
A.Emily Dickinson
B.Henry James
C.Mark Twain
D.Theodore Dreiser
Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.
A.Leaves of Grass
B.The Scarlet Letter
C.“Hymn to The Night”
D.“The Secret of the Sea”
______ is not among the writing features of Melville’s works.
A.symbolism
B.allgory
C.psychological analyses
D.Dramatic monologue
Melville’s _______ is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors.
A.Typee
B.Redburn
C.White Jacket
D.Billy Budd
_______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing.
A.The use of the poetic “I”
B.Free verse
C.Musicality or rhythm
D.Allegory
Leaves of Grass has _______ editions.
A.nine
B.five
C.six
D.seven
With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, ______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A.sentimentalism
B.Romanticism
C.realism
D.naturalism
American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.
A.Anne Bradstreet
B.Jane Austen
C.Emily Dickinson
D.Harriet Beecher
Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
A.Huckleberry Finn
B.Tom Sawyer
C.The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
D.The Gilded Age
Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
A.The Old Man and the Sea
B.Moby Dick
C.White Jacket
D.Billy Budd
Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
A.Nature
B.Walden
C.On Beauty
D.Self-Reliance
_____ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
A.New York
B.Chicago
C.California
D.Washington
Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and impressionisti
A.romantic
B.naturalistic
C.classical
D.imagining
Mark Twain’s ______ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.
A.Roughing It
B.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C.Life on the Mississippi
D.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature.
A.Sinclair Lewis
B.Theodore Dreiser
C.F. Scott Fitagerald
D.H.L.Mencken
Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his predecessor, ______, but his style and method are very different.
A.Mark Twain
B.Stephen Crane
C.Henry James
D.Emerson
______ is the father of American Literature.
A.Benjamin Franklin
B.Philip Freneau
C.Paine
D.Washington Irving
________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.
A.A Farewell to Arms
B.The Catcher in the Rye
C.The Red Badge of Courage
D.The Naked and the Dead
The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder.
A.Native Son
B.Uncle Tom ’s Cabin
C.Invisible Man
D. Go Tell It on the Mountains
It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.
A. Long Day ’s Journey into Night
B. Henderson the Rain King
C. The Hairy Ape
D. The Glass Menageries
The main conflict of the play is the protagonist ’s false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.
A.A Street Car Named Desire
B. The Hairy Ape
C.Long Day ’s Journey
D. Death of Salesman
The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us.
A.Native Son
B.Uncle Tom ’s Cabin
C.Invisible Man
D.Go Tell It on the Mountains
For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A.Ahab
B.Stubb
C.Ishmael
D.Starbuck
Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author ’tso ne in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.
A.rational
B.humorous
C.optimistic
D.pessimistic
What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
A.The Roaring 20s
B.The Gay 20s
C.The Jazz Age
D.The Lost Generation
Most of the poems in Whitman ’s Leaves of Grass sing of th-em ass” an“d en the ____ as well.
A.nature
B.self-reliance
C.self
D.life
Which is regarded as the “ Declaration of Intellectual Independence ”?
A.The American Scholar
B.English Traits
C.Oversoul
D.Self-reliance
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
Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain ’ s language?
A.vernacular
B.colloquial
C.elegant
D.humorous
_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Clu
A.Thoreau
B.Emerson
C.Hawthorne
D.Whitman
_____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.
A.“Ripa Vn Winkle ”
B.“The Pioneers ”
C.“ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ”
D.“ The Fall of the House of Usher ”
________ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.
A.T. S Eliot
B.Robert Frost
C.Ezra Pound
D.Walt Whitman
Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author ’ts one in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.
A.rational
B.humorous
C.optimistic
D.pessimistic
_____ is not among those greatest figures in “ Lost Generation ”.
A.Ezra Pound
B.Robert Frost
C.Walt Whitman
D.Hemingway
____ 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
Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____and Thoreau.
A.Jefferson
B.Emerson
C.Freneau
D.Mark Twain
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