couplets, blank verse---with a clear American local speech rhyme, the speech of ____________farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. A. southern B. western C. New Hampshire D. New England 89. In which of the following poem by Ezra pound did you find the allusion to Vishang?
A. In a Station of the Metro. B. The River-merchant?s Wife: A Letter C. A Pact D. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
90. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?
A. J.D. Salinger B. Ezra Pound C. Righard Wright D. Ralph Ellison 91. Sinclair Lewis? Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited ___________-.
A. up-class mind B. middle-class mind C. proletarian D. ordinary people
92. Yank?s sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man?s ___________.
A. love B. homey relations C. identity D. development
93. In A Rose For Emily, Faulkner makes best use of ___________devices in narration.
A. romantic B. realistic C. gothic D. modernist
94. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different fro its
predecessors. It is always referred to as “_____________”.
A. Imagism B. black humour C. new fiction D. the beat Generation 95. As an autobiographical play, O?Neill?s ______________(1915) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama. A. Long Day?s Journey Into Night B. The Hairy Ape C. Desire Under the Elms D. The Iceman Cometh 96. Tender is the Night is a _____________by Fitzgerald. A. short story B. novella C. poem D. novel
97. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _____________. A. Arthur Miller B. Tennessee William C. Robert Frost D. Eugene O?Neill
98. From Eugene O?Neill?s works, we can see he is _____________. A. a man of optimism B. a man of pessimism C. a man of apathy D. a man of inactivity
99. ____________-is Hemingway?s first true novel, which portrays “The Lost Generation”.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. The Old Man and the Sea C. The Sun Also /Rises D. A Farewell to Arms
100. _______________is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.
A. Sinclair Lewis B. Eugene O?Neille C. Arthur Miller D. Tennessee Williams
101. ___________is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner. A. Go Down, Moses B. Light in August C. The Sound and the Fury D Absalom, Absalom
102. _____________stems from the ambiguity of the speaker?s choice between safety and the unknown.
A. Mending the Wall B. Home ?Burial C. The Road Not Taken D. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
103. Hemingway?s writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly
and
permanently
influenced
by
his
experiences_________________-.
A. in his childhood B. in the war C. in America D. in Africa 104. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except________________.
A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway
105. __________fuses symbolism, poetry, and the affirmation of a pagan idealism to show how materialistic civilization denies the life---giving impulses and destroys the genuine artist. A.Desire Under the Elms B. the Emperor Jones C. Lazarus Laughed D. The Great God Brown
106. Most of Eugnen O?Neille?s plays are tragedies, dealing with ______________-.
A. class conflicts B. human existence and predicament C. racial discrimination D. domestic affairs
107. __________is not considered to be one of the masters in the field of American fiction in the modernistic period.
A. F.Scott Fitzgerald B. Ernest Hemingway C. Arthur Miller D. William Faulkner
108. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not 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 decision C. a middle-age crisis D. one?s course of life
109. The American “Thirties”, lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period _____________-.
A. poverty B. bleakness C. important social movements D. a new social consciousness
110. ____________showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost C. T.S. Eliot D. E.E. Cummings