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l tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder. Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains5. _________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War. Farewell to Arms Catcher in the Rye Red Badge of Courage d. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I. Farewell to Arms Sun Also Rises Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead7. 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.a. The Grapes of Wrath b. . A. d. The Adventures of Augie March8. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye. a. Babbitt b. Light in August c. . d. The Grapes of Wrath9. 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 how she bees a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally mits suicide. American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague , A Girl of the Streets11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.a. Sister Carrie Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Portrait of a Lady novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War. American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie Red Badge of Courage d. McTeague 13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things. b. The Raven c. Song of Myself 14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate. 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.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. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway4. _______ 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. a. Pearl 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 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 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 wit