1. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."
A. "Nature"
B. "Self-Reliance"
C. "Divinity School Address"
D. "The American Scholar"
2. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
leftist
A. Ahab
B. Ishmael
C. Stubb
D. Starbuck
3. Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the "mass" and the _______ as well.
A. nature
B. self-reliance
C. self
D. life
4. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _______ .
A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D. pessimistic
5. Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .
A. The Genius
B. The Tycoon
C. The Stoic
D. The Giant
6. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ________ .
A. local colorism
B. imagism
C. modernism
D. naturalism
7. It is on his _______ that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested.
A. childhood recollections
B. sketches about his European tours
C. early poetry
D. tales about America
8. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?
A. The Wasteland.
B. The Scarlet Letter.
C. Leaves of Grass.
D. As I Lay Dying
9. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______.
A. conversational and crude
B. lyrical and well-structured
C. simple and rather crude
D. free-flowing
10. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?
A. Freud
B. Darwin.
C. W. D. Howells.
D. Emerson
11. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.
A. international theme
B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
12. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______.
A. the Romantic Period
B. the Realistic Period
C. the Naturalist Period
D. the Modern Period
13. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by（  　）.
A. e.e. Cummings                    C. Ezra Pound
B. T.S. Eliot                        D. Robert Frost
14. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______.
A. the force of convention
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the corruption of the newly rich
15. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both ..."
In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. one’s course of life
16. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______.
A. insignificant
B. vicious by nature
C. divine
D. forward-looking
17. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?
A. The House of the Seven Gables.
B. The Blithedale Romance.
C. The Marble Falun.
D. White Jacket.
18. _________is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A. Carl Sandburg
B. Edwin Arlington Robinson
C. William Faulkner
D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.
A. commentators
B. observers
C. villains
D. saviors
20. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.
A. poetic theory B. French art C. history of New York D. life of George Washington
21. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is to show _______.
A. emptiness of life
B. the corruption of the upper class

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