【正文】 Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and the Sea( ) 20. The first which presents a Hemingway hero – Nick Admas is ______.A. A Farewell to Arms B. In Our TimeC. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and the Sea( ) 21. _______ is Hemingway’s first true novel.A. The Sun Also Rises B. In Our TimeC. The Old Man and the Sea D. Death in the Afternoon( ) 22. Which of the following description of Ernest Hemingway is appropriate?A. In Our Time is the first book to present a Hemingway hero—Nick Adams.B. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s first big success.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls is Hemingway’s masterpiece.D. A Farewell to Arms represents his climax in writing.( ) 23. “It was a big, sequarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lighted style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street …” these sentences are taken from ________.A. A Rose for Emily by William FaulknerB. Indian Camp by Ernest HemingwayC. The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald D. The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neil( ) 24. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”?A. She is a conservative aristocrat.B. She is a wealthy lady.C. She is a prisoner of the past.D. She has good taste.( ) 25. The author of “The Sound and the Fury” is ________.A. William Faulkner B. George Gordon ByronC. F. S. Fitzgerald D. Ernest Hemingway( ) 26. Among the following sentences about William Faulkner, which is NOT true?A. Most of his works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subject and consciousness.B. Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.C. Faulkner has always been regarded as a man with might of invention and experimentation.D. The Old Man and the Sea is Faulkner’s masterpiece.( ) 27. Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?A. Ezra Pound B. WILLIAN Carlos WilliamsC. Robert Frost D. Theodore Dreiser( ) 28. Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used “i” instead of “I” to refer to himself as a protest against selfimportance?A. E. E. Cummings B. Wallace StevensC. Ezra Pound Robert Frost( ) 29. Who is the author of the writing “The Grapes of Wrath”?A. John Steinbeck B. Eugene O’ Neil C. F. S. Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser( ) 30. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could travel both … In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to __________.A. a travel experience B. a marriage decisionC. a middleage crisis D. one’s course of life( ) 31. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is to show _________.A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper classC. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age( ) 32. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?A. The Sound and the Fury B. Uncle Tom’s CabinC. Daisy Miller D. The Gilded Age( ) 33. In “After ApplePicking,”, Robert Frost wrote: “For I have had too much / Of applepicking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.” From these lines we can concluded that the speaker is ___________.A. happy about the harvest B. still very much interested in applepickingC. expecting a greater harvest D. indifferent to what he once desired( ) 34. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ______.A. Ezra Pound B. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert Frost D. Emily Dickinson( ) 35. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _________.A. indestructible spirit B. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experience D. masculinity( ) 36 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O’Neil adopted the expressionist technique to portray the ________ of human beings in hostile universe.A. helpless situation B. uncertaintyC. profound religious faith D. courage and perseverance( ) 37. In Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”, Nick’s night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as __________.A. an essential lesson about Indian tribes.B. a confrontation woth evil and sinC. an initiation to the harshness of lifeD. a learning process in human relationship( ) 38. Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily”, is NOT true?A. She is a distorted personality.B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D. She is the victim of the past glory.( ) 39. In the following writers, who is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age?A. Theodore Dreiser B. F. S. FitzgeraldC. Herman Melville D. Ernest Hemingway( ) 40. Robert Frost bined traditional verse forms – the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse – with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ____Farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. Southern B. westernC. New Hampshire D. New England( ) 41. In Hemingway’s short story Indian Camp, through a story of woman giving birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of __