45. Most of the poems in Whitman?s leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ___________as well. A. nature B. life C. self D. self-reliance

46. Emily Dickinson?s poems(441) “This is my letter to the World” expresses the poet?s _____________about her communication with the outside world.

A. indignation B. joy C. anxiety D. indifference

47. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?

A. lyrical and well-structured. B. free-flowing.

C. simple and rather crude D. conversational and casual

48. Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A. Nature B. Essays C. The Over-Soul D. Of Studies

49. In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death______________.

A. passionately B. pessimistically C. in despair D. peacefully 50. Which book is not written by Emerson?

A. Representative Men B. English Traits. C. Nature D. The Phodora.

51.The Age of Realism in the literary history of the America refers to the period from ____to ___________.

A. 1861-1914 B. 1863-1918 C. 1865-1914 D. 1865-1918

52. ___________is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.

A. Henry James B. Emily Dickinson C.William Dean Howells D. Mark Twain

53. ___________explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era.

A. Innocents Abroad B. The Gilded Age C. Roughing It D. The Middle Years

54. _________is considered to be Theodore Dreiser?s greatest work. A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. The Financier D. The Titan

55. ___________is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the writer in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.

A. The American B. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of a Lady

56. Stylistically, Henry James?s fiction is characterized by ___________--.

A. highly refined language B. ordinary American speech C. short, clear sentences D. abundance of local images

57. _________- is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”

A. Tom Sawyer B. Huckleberry Finn C. Jim D. Tony

58. ___________-- is not a novel by Henry James dealing with the international theme.

A. What Maisie Knows B. The Wings of the Dove C. The Ambassadors D. The Golden Bowl

59. The setting of __________is America, where some Europeans, who are actually expatriated Americans, learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life.

A. Middlemarch B. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of a Lady

60. Mark Twain?s ___________shows the disastrous effects of slavery on the victimizer and the victim alike.

A. The Mysterious Stranger B. Tragedy of Puff?nhead Wilson C. The Gilded Age D. Roughing It

61. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?

A. Freud B. Darwin C. W.D. Howells D. Emerson

62. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19 th century American writers, is well known for his _________________.

A. international theme B. wasteland imagery C. local color D. symbolism

63. In Henry James?s Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an ambodiment of __________.

A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich 64. The literary characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they __________--.

A. speak local dialects B. are polite and elegant gentlemen

C. are simple and crude farmers D. are noble savages (red and white) untainted by society

65. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,_________ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of 19th century.

A. sentimentalism B. romanticism C. realism D. naturalism 66. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _________________.

A. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionists 67.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___________language.

A. grand B. pompous C. simple D. vernacular