______ is regarded as the first Americ...

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The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the ______.

A. Civil War

B. World War Ⅱ
C. Independent War

D. World War Ⅰ

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The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic Period.

A. Puritanism

B. Atheism
C. Deism
D. Cynicism

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______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

A. Young Goodman Brown

B. Moby-Dick
C. The Scarlet Letter

D. Daisy Miller

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In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his ______ and The Scarlet Letter.

A. Twice-Told Tales

B. The Blithedale Romance
C. The Marble Faun

D. The House of the Seven Gables

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As ______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.

A. Emerson
B. Hawthorne
C. Whitman
D. Emily Dickinson

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Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man's being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed ______.

A. love and hatred

B. sin and evil
C. frustration and self-denial

D. balance and self-discipline

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______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.

A. Leaves of Grass

B. Nature
C. In a Station of the Metro

D. After Apple-Picking

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______ clearly represents a new beginning in Hemingway's career as a writer, which concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

A. For Whom the Bell Tolls

B. The Sun Also Rises
C. A Farewell to Arms

D. Indian Camp

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"Cavalry Crossing a Ford" by Whitman reminds its readers of a picture, or a photo, of a scene of ______.

A. the American War of Independence
B. the Westward Movement
C. the U. S. -Spanish War

D. the American Civil War

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______ is regarded as the first American prose epic.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Moby-Dick
C. Sister Carrie

D. Daisy Miller

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Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards-romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ______.

A. Cynicism

B. Modernism
C. Transcendentalism

D. Neoclassicism

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One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human

A. common life

B. spiritual breakup
C. bestiality

D. sadness

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（）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. Roughing It
C. The Gilded Age
D. The Middle Years

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______'s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme.

A. Mark Twain

B. Theodore Dreiser
C. Henry James

D. Ernest Hemingway

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Mark Twain's full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.

A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. The Gilded Age
C. Innocents Abroad

D. An American Tragedy

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Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th-century American writers, is well-known for his ______.

A. international theme

B. local color
C. symbolism
D. written language

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______ exerts the most important influence on literary naturalism.

A. Emerson
B. Jack London
C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Darwin

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Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by ______.

A. short, clear sentences

B. highly refined language
C. ordinary American speech

D. abundance of local images

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Like Nathaniel Hawthorne, ______ also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James
C. R. W. Emerson

D. Herman Melville

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American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ______.

A. Anne Bradsteet

B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson

D. Harriet Beecher

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Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as "I like to see it lap the Miles", which describes a(n) ______ an embodiment of modern civilization.

A. snake
B. animal
C. the road
D. train

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While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, ______ was an admirer of ancient European civilization.

A. Washington Irving

B. Henry James
C. Walt Whitman

D. Jack London

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Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson

A. War and peace.

B. Love and nature.
C. Life and death.

D. Religion.

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"This is my letter to the World" is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson's ______ about her communication with the outside world.

A. happiness
B. anger
C. anxiety
D. sorrow

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Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire" includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ______.

A. The Tycoon

B. The Stoic
C. The Genius

D. The Giant

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"The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind", this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser's novel ______.

A. An American Tragedy

B. Sister Carrie
C. Dreiser Looks at Russia

D. Jannie Gerhardt

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______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.

A. Wallace Stevens

B. Ezra Pound
C. E. E. Cummings

D. William Carlos Williams

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Allen Ginsberg, whose "Howl" became the manifesto of ______.

A. the Utopian Movement

B. the Beat Movement
C. the Westward Movement

D. the Deistic Movement

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______ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students' classic.

A. Allen Ginsberg

B. Ｅ. Ｅ. Cummings
C. Ｊ. Ｄ. Salinger

D. Henry James

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The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so she did, as a spinster.

A. Emily Bronte

B. Anna Dickinson
C. Emily Dickinson

D. Anne Bret

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When he was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was ______.

A. Henry James

B. Robert Frost
C. William Faulkner

D. Wallace Stevens

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After Apple-Picking is a well-known poem written by ______.

A. Robert Lee Frost

B. Ezra Pound
C. Walt Whitman

D. T. S. Eliot

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Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with a double vision.

A. the Gilded Age

B. the Rational Age
C. the Jazz Age

D. the Magic Age

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Fitzgerald wrote one novel ______ in which he traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.

A. Tender is the Night

B. The Great Gatsby
C. Red Burn

D. The Last Tycoon

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______ evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.

A. This Side of Paradise

B. Tender is the Night
C. The American Dream

D. The Great Gatsby

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______ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero-Nick Adams.

A. The Sun Also Rises

B. A Farewell to Arms
C. In Our Time

D. The Old Man and the Sea

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Hemingway's second big success is ______, which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation is the 1920s in telling us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.

A. The Old Man and the Sea

B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Sun Also Rises

D. A Farewell to Arms

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"Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity; man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually." This notion is typically held by ______.

A. Mark Twain

B. Herman Melville
C. William Faulkner

D. Ernest Hemingway

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In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ devices in narration.

A. Gothic
B. realistic
C. romantic

D. modern

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According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury is a story of "______."

A. lost generation

B. lost innocence
C. farmers
D. industrial labors

______ is regarded as the first American prose epic.

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The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the ______.

The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic Period.

______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his ______ and The Scarlet Letter.

As ______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man's being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed ______.

______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.

______ clearly represents a new beginning in Hemingway's career as a writer, which concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

"Cavalry Crossing a Ford" by Whitman reminds its readers of a picture, or a photo, of a scene of ______.

______ is regarded as the first American prose epic.

Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards-romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ______.

One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human

（）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.

______'s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme.

Mark Twain's full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.

Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th-century American writers, is well-known for his ______.

______ exerts the most important influence on literary naturalism.

Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by ______.

Like Nathaniel Hawthorne, ______ also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.

American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ______.

Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as "I like to see it lap the Miles", which describes a(n) ______ an embodiment of modern civilization.

While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, ______ was an admirer of ancient European civilization.

Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson

"This is my letter to the World" is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson's ______ about her communication with the outside world.

Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire" includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ______.

"The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind", this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser's novel ______.

______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.

Allen Ginsberg, whose "Howl" became the manifesto of ______.

______ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students' classic.

The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so she did, as a spinster.

When he was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was ______.

After Apple-Picking is a well-known poem written by ______.

Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with a double vision.

Fitzgerald wrote one novel ______ in which he traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.

______ evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.

______ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero-Nick Adams.

Hemingway's second big success is ______, which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation is the 1920s in telling us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.

"Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity; man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually." This notion is typically held by ______.

In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ devices in narration.

According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury is a story of "______."