【正文】 rallel, 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。 Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)1. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant.A. humanism B. rationalismC. romanticism D. evolution2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ______.A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A. Rationalism B. inner selfC. personal feelings D. individualism4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.A. optimistic B. pessimisticC. conservative D. ironic5. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _____.A. short, clear sentencesB. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD. highly refined language6. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.A. Jefferson B. EmersonC. Freneau D. Mark Twain7. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. Oversoul D. Selfreliance8. ____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.A. The Gilded AgeB. Innocent AbroadC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. _____ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.A. Ezra Pound B. Robert FrostC. Walt Whitman D. Hemingway10. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing bees less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.A. rational B. humorousC. optimistic D. pessimistic15，BBACD 610 BADCDI. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)11. ______ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin Franklin B. Philip FreneauC. Paine D. Washington Irving12. _____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.A. “Rip Van Winkle”B. “The Pioneers”C. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”D. “The Fall of the House of Usher”13. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Thoreau B. EmersonC. Hawthorne D. Whitman14. Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language?A. vernacular B. colloquialC. elegant D. humorous 15. From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the mand of a government.A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense 16. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. Oversoul D. Selfreliance17. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “enmass” and the ____ as well.A. nature B. selfrelianceC. self D. life18. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?A. The Roaring 20s B. The Gay 20sC. The Jazz Age D. The Lost Generation19. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing bees less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.A. rational B. humorousC. optimistic D. pessimistic20. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. Ahab B. StubbC. Ishmael D. Starbuck15 D A B C C 610 A C C D C II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’15 =15’): 1. The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us. Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains 2. The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything. Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape Day’s Journey into Night d. Death of Salesman 3. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Day’s Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain King c. The Hairy Ape d. The Glass Menageries4. The nove