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一． Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each)
1. Whitman published his first edition of __ a ____ in 1855.
a. Leaves of Grass b. The Scarlet Letter
c. “Hymn to The Night” d. “The Secret of the Sea”
2. Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his predecessor, ___.b ___, but his style and method are very different.
a. Mark Twain b. Stephen Crane
c. Henry James d. Emerson
3. Sister Carrie written by ____ b __ 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
4．Mark Twain’s __ b ____ 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
5. Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, _ b _____ and impressionistic.
a. romantic b. naturalistic
c. classical d. imagining
6. ____b__ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
a. New York b. Chicago
c. California d. Washington
7. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?a
a. Nature b. Walden
c. On Beauty d. Self-Reliance
8. Melville’s ___b____ 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
9. Mark Twain created, in ___a____, 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
10. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ___c____.
a. Anne Bradstreet b. Jane Austen
c. Emily Dickinson d. Harriet Beecher
11. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, ____c__ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
a. sentimentalism b. Romanticism
c. realism d. naturalism
12. Leaves of Grass has _____a__ editions.
a. nine b. five
c. six d. seven
13. __d_____ 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
14. Melville’s _____b__ 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
15. _____d__ is not among the writing features of Melville’s works.
a. symbolism b. allgory
c. psychological analyses d. Dramatic monologue
16. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by ___a____.
a. Mark Twain b. Henry James
c. Emily Dickinson d. Theodore Dreiser
17. ___c____ 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

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