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of New England Transcendentalism? a. Nature b. Walden c. On Beauty d. SelfReliance 8. 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 Dick c. White Jacket d. Billy Budd 9. 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 Sawyer c. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg d. The Gilded Age 10. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Jane Austen c. Emily Dickinson d. Harriet Beecher 11. 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. Romanticism c. realism d. naturalism 12. Leaves of Grass has _______ editions. a. nine b. five c. six d. seven 13. _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing. a. The use of the poetic “I” b. Free verse c. Musicality or rhythm d. Allegory 14. Melville’s _______ is a semiautobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors. a. Typee b. Redburn 3 c. White Jacket d. Billy Budd 15. _______ is not among the writing features of Melville’s works. a. symbolism b. allgory c. psychological analyses d. Dramatic monologue 16. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _______. a. Mark Twain b. Henry James c. Emily Dickinson d. Theodore Dreiser 17. _______ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of American national literature.” a. Emily Dickinson b. Henry James c. Mark Twain d. Theodore Dreiser 18. _______, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, is Mark Twain’s most representative book. a. Roughing It b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn c. Life on the Mississippi d. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 19. Henry James’s fame gen