【正文】 Dead10. The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.b. The Grapes of Wrath b. . A. d. The Adventures of Augie March11. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye. b. Babbitt b. Light in August c. . d. The Grapes of Wrath12. It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Fury Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes with Hurstwood and how she bees a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally mits suicide. American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague , A Girl of the Streets11. It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog。 ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality. a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. Henry James8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway Dreiser9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is______. a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is ______. a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters. a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. . d. Emily Dickinson is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936. a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulkner c. Eugene O’Neill d. Arthur Miller14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he? a. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison15. Hemingway wrote about American patriots in Europe whereas ________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society. Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald15 bbccc the Best Answer for Each of the Following (115 %):2. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______.a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, AntiSlavery praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.a. Anne Bradstreet b. Edward Taylorc. Thomas Paine d. Philip Freneau Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature. a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism. a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________. a. Washington Irving Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe James is concerned with the upper class life。 you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.1. To the best of your knowledge, analyze and make ments on Emerson’s Nature2. Comment on any American poet you like. 3. Analyze and/or ment on any one of the American novels or plays you have read. V. Essay Questions (30%。 instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech.5. transcendentalism: It stressed the power of intuition, believing that people could learn things both from the outside world by means of the five senses and from the inner world by intuition. It took nature as symbolic of spirit or God. All things in nature were symbols of the spiritual, of God’s presence. It emphasized the significance of the individual and believed that the individual was the most important element in society and that the ideal kind of individual was selfreliant and unselfish. Transcendentalists envisioned religion as an emotional munication between an individual soul and the universal “Oversoul”.1314