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but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate. b Octopus b. MobyDick c. The Rise of Silas Lapham d. Leaves of Grass 15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned with the four uses of nature. b a. Walden b. Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d. The American Scholar I. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’15=15’): 1. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named _______. a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays. a. Tennessee Williams b. Eugene O’Neill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice was the first American writer to write entirely American literature. 5 a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway 4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism. a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. S. Buck Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitman is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism. a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe 7. William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life。 ______ 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 James 8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway Dreiser 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 14. 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 Ellison 15. Hemingway wrote about American patriots in Europe whereas ________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society. 6 a. William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald 15 bbccc I. Choose 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. Sl