Unit 5: American Literature

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Exercise Ⅱ

II. Choose the correct answer to each of the following.

1. _______________ was a writer of the post-Revolutionary period.
　(a) Edgar Allan Poe
　(b) Natty Bumppo
　(c) Washington Irving
　(d) Rip Van Winkle
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2. _______________ is considered an American masterpiece.
　(a) The Last of the Mohicans
　(b) The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow
　(c) "The Masque of the Red Death"
　(d) Moby Dick
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3. ______________ was written by Thoreau.
　　(a) Nature
　　(b) Walden
　　(c) The Scarlet Letter
　　(d) The Fall of the House of Usher
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4. Whitman's poetry has the following characteristics except_____________.
　(a) fragmented haunting images
　(b) long irregular lines
　(c) celebrating the American spirit
　(d) free-flowing structure
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5. Mark Twain's works are characterized by the following except____________.
　(a) sense of humor
　(b) egotism
　(c) jokes
　(d) tall tales
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6.	Three of the following are characteristics of Emily Dickinson's poems. Which one is not?
	(a) Her poems mix gaiety and gloom. (b) Her verses are filled with the names of faraway, exotic places. (c) Her poems are very long and powerful. (d) Her poems show that she was fascinated by both life and death.   Answer:

7.	____________was mainly interested in writing about Americans living in Europe.
	(a) Henry James (b) Mark Twain (c) William Dean Howells (d) Stephen Crane 　　Answer:

8. ___________is NOT included in the group of naturalists.
　(a) Sherwood Anderson
　(b) Stephen Crane
　(c) Jack London
　(d) Theodore Dreiser
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9. Three of the following authors are Nobel Prize winners. Which one is not?
　(a) Ernest Hemingway
　(b) Eugene O'Neill
　(c) William Faulkner
　(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10. _____________does NOT belong to the "Lost Generation".
　(a) John Dos Passos
　(b) Ernest Hemingway
　(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
　(d) John Steinbeck
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11. _____________was NOT written by Hemingway.
　(a) Light in August
　(b) The Sun Also Rises
　(c) A Farewell to Arms
　(d) For Whom the Bell Tolls
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12.________________ is NOT a black author.
　(a) Richard Wright
　(b) Alan Ginsberg
　(c) James Baldwin
　(d) Ralph Ellison
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13.	The following authors were women writers who wrote novels in the late 19th and early 20th century with the exception of _____________.
	(a) Emily Dickinson (b) Edith Wharton (c) Willa Cather (d) Kate Chopin 　　Answer:

14. The following writers represent new American voices except_____________.
　　(a) Toni Morrison
　　(b) Alice Walker
　　(c) T. S. Eliot
　　(d) Maxine Long Kingston
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