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3.RomanticsputemphasisonthefollowingEXCEPT______.
A.commonsenseB.imaginationC.intuitionD.individualism
4.TheRavenwaswrittenin1844by________
A.PhilipFreneauB.EdgarAllanPoe
C.HenryWadsworthLongfellowD.EmilyDickinson
5.Theship______carriedaboutonehundredPilgrimsandtook66daystobeat
itswayacrosstheAtlantic.InDecemberof1620,itputthePilgrimsashoreat
Plymouth,Massachusetts.
A.SunflowerB.ArmadaC.MayflowerD.Titanic
6.Melville’snovel______isatremendouschronicleofawhalingvoyagein
pursuitofaseeminglysupernaturalwhitewhale.
A.TypeeB.OmooC.WhiteJacketD.MobyDick
7.Asaphilosophicalandliterarymovement,______flourishedinNewEngland
fromthe1830stotheCivilWar.
A.ModernismB.RationalismC.SentimentalismD.Transcendentalism
8.Thethemeoforiginalsinisfullyreflectedin_________.
A.TheScarletLetterB.SisterCarrie
C.TheGreatGatsbyD.TheOldManandSea
9.InallhisnovelsTheodoreDreisersetshimselftoprojectthe______Americanvalues.Forexample,inSisterCarrie,thereisnotonecharacterwhosestatusis
notdeterminedeconomically.
A.PuritanB.materialisticC.psychologicalD.religious
10.Realismwasareactionagainst______oramoveawayfromthebiastowardsromanceandself-creatingfictions,andpavedthewaytoModernism.
A.Rationalism
B.Romanticism
C.Neoclassicism
D.Enlightenment
11.________wasapoetinAmericanmodernperiodwhowasdeeplyinfluencebyeasternculture.
A.T.SEliotB.RobertFrostC.EzraPoundD.WaltWhitman
12.WhichofthefollowingstatementsaboutEmilyDickinsonisNOTtrue?
A.After1862shebecameatotalrecluse,notleavingherhousenorseeing
closefriends.
B.SheoncefeltadeepaffectionforCharlesWadsworth,amarriedagedminister,butitprovedtobeafrustratedloveaffairforDickinson.
C.Shewroteaboutdeath,immortality,nature,successandfailure.
D.Duringherlifetime,allherpoemsarepublished.
13.Therealisticperiodisreferredtoas“theGildedAge”by_______.
A.MarkTwainB.HenryJamesC.EmilyDickinsonD.TheodoreDreiser
14.WhichofthefollowingworksisNOTbyErnestHemingway?
A.TheOldManandSeaB.AFarewelltoArms
C.SoundandFuryD.ForWhomtheBellTolls
15.WhichoneisNOTthecharacteristicofmodernism?
A.Modernisminliteratureischaracterizedbyexperimentation,anti-realism,individualismandastressonthecerebralratherthanemotiveaspects.
B.Modernismisgreatlyinfluencedbythetwoworldwars.
C.TheworkofMarx,andFreud,hadmountedanassaultagainstorthodoxreligiousfaiththatlastedintothetwentiethcentury.
D.Modernistsbelievethathumannatureiskind.
I.MatchtheColumnAwithColumnB(1’×
10=10’)
ColumnAColumnB
()1.Dimmesdalea.RobertFrost
()2.Ahabb.MarkTwain
()3.Drouetc.TheScarletLetter
()4.PulitzerPrizerd.ThomasJefferson
()5.Reclusivepoete.MobyDick
()6.humoristandsatiristf.ErnestHeminway
()7.TheDecalrationofIndepenenceg.HenryDavidThoreau
()8.transcendentalisth.EmilyDickinson
()9.TheGreatGatsbyi.SisterCarrie
()10.TheLostGenerationj.F.ScottFitzgerald
II.Definethefollowingwordswithinonephrase
(2’×
5=10’)
1.freeverse2.RalphWaldoEmerson3.MarkTwain
4.BenjaminFranklin5.EzraPound
III.Simplequestions(5’×
4=20’)
1.WhatarePuritanthoughts?
2.WhatisTranscedentalismandlistsomerepresentativefigures?
3.Explainthesymbolicmeaningsof“A”inTheScarletLetter.
4.IllustratethethreeprinciplesofImagistPoetry.
IV.Interpretingthefollowingtexts(45’)
Text1
Whenagirlleavesherhomeateighteen,shedoesoneoftwothings.Eithershefallsintosavinghandsandbecomesbetter,orsherapidlyassumesthecosmopolitanstandardofvirtueandbecomesworse.Ofanintermediatebalance,underthecircumstances,thereisnopossibility.Thecityhasitscunningw