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ming sound that made him just falter before crossing the threshold. Madame de Vionnet was already on the field…2. Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the lootive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no Sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.3. Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete,And e to the front door mother, here’s a letter from thy dear son.4. Thus advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless hunting. He began to fume with rage and exasperation. He beat his foot upon the ground, and scowled with hate at the swirling smoke that was approaching like a phantom flood.5. I’m nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell!They’d banish us, you know.6. I taste a liquor never brewed,From tankards scooped in pearl。 美國文學自測題及答案得分評分人I. Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each)Directions: In this part of the 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.