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AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chapter 2 The Realistic Period
I. Choose the right answer:
1. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of speech of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the______of death, the title of the poem is \heard a Fly buzz when I died\A. moment B. suffering C. happiness D. meaning Answer: A (P518)
2. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances. A. naturalism B. realism C. determinism D. humanism Answer: A (P524)
3. More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general _____about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed. A. scepticism B. eulogy C. happiness D. denial Answer: A (P518)
4. \is my letter to the World\is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson’s _____about her communication with the outside world. A. happiness B. anger C. anxiety D. sorrow Answer: C (P520)
5. Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as \see it lap the Miles\which describes a(n) ______, an embodiment of modern civilization. A. snake B. animal C. the road D. train
Answer: D (P521)
6. After \Adventure of Tom Sawyer\Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book called_____, and the book from which \literature comes\
A. Life on the Mississippi River B. The Gilded Age
C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. The Sun Also Rises Answer: C (P479---480)
7. Winterbourne is used as a ______in Henry James’s \A. Protagonist
B. Narrator of the events
C. A character of central consciousness D. Persona Answer: C (P499)
8. Emily Dickinson’s verse is most aptly characterized as ___________. A. exposing the evils of the society
B. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets
C. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman
D. exhibiting sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality and etc. Answer: D (P518)
9. The author of \A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human life
B. a truthful delineation of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women.
C. a dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on an international scene
D. disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War.
Answer: C (P496)
10. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____________. A. the Age of Realism B. the Age of Modernism C. the Age of Romanticism D. the Age of Colonicalism Answer: A (P471)
11. Who exerts the simple most important influence on literary naturalism? A. Emerson B. Jack London C. Theodore Dreiser D. Darwin Answer: D (P475)
12. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human \A. bestiality B. goodness C. compassion D. greed
Answer: A (P476)
13. ______is considered by H.L. Mencken as \true father of our national literature.\A. Hemingway B. Poe C. Irving D. Twain
Answer: D (P477)
14. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language. A. grand B. pompous C. simple D. vernacular Answer: D (P481)
15. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with________. A. international theme B. national theme C. European theme D. Regional theme Answer: A (P497)
16. In the following writers, who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century \realism______________. A. Henry James B. Mark Twain C. Emily Dickenson D. Theodore Dreiser Answer: A (P498)
17. In Henry James’ \an embodiment of ___________. A. the corruption of the newly rich B. the free spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the force of convention
Answer: B (P499)
18. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson’s? A. War and peace B. Love and marriage C. Life and death D. Religion Answer: A (P517)
19. The following titles are all related to the subject that escapes from the society and returns to nature except__________. A. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
B. Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales C. Thoreau’s Walden
D. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Answer: A (P401 / P526)
20. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is__________. A. Sister Carrie B. An American Tragedy C. The Financier D. The Titan Answer: B (P525)
21. Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning ___________. A. Childhood
B. Youth and happiness C. Loneliness
D. Death and immortality Answer: D (518)
22. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _________became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A. sentimentalism
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