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he test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1. Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.a. Leaves of Grass b. The Scarlet Letterc. “Hymn to The Night” d. “The Secret of the Sea”2. 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 Cranec. Henry James d. Emerson3. Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature.a. Sinclair Lewis b. Theodore Dreiserc. F. Scott Fitagerald d. 4. Mark Twain’s ______ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to bee a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi.a. Roughing Itb. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnc. Life on the Mississippid. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer5. Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and impressionistic.a. romantic b. naturalisticc. classical d. imagining6. ______ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.a. New York b. Chicagoc. California d. Washington7. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?a. Nature b. Waldenc. On Beauty d. SelfReliance8. 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 Dickc. White Jacket d. Billy Budd9. 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 Sawyerc. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg d. The Gilded Age10. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.a. Anne Bradstreet b. Jane Austenc. Emily Dickinson d. Harriet Beecher11. 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. Romanticismc. realism d. naturalism12. Leaves of Grass has _______ editions.a. nine b. fivec. six d. seven13. _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing.a. The use of the poetic “I” b. Free versec. Musicality or rhythm d. Allegory14. Melville’s _______ is a semiautobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors.a. Typee b. Redburnc