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I.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)
1.In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. b______ was the
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II.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)
14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s lang uage? c
15.From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, __c___ which states his belief that no
man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A. Walden
B. Nature
C. Civil Disobedience
D. Common Sense
19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and
20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and __c__, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an
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II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):
10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous
actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide. b
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c. McTeague
d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It
is a representative work of local colorism. c
a.Sister Carrie
b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
d.The Portrait of a Lady
12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War. c
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c.The Red Badge of Courage
d. McTeague
13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in
value of all people and all things. c
a.Cantos
b. The Raven
c. Song of Myself
d.Chicago
14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are
killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate. b
a.The Octopus
b. Moby-Dick
c. The Rise of Silas Lapham
d. Leaves of Grass
15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned with the four uses
of nature. b
a. Walden
b. Nature
c. The Scarlet Letter
d. The American Scholar
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I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):
1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived
in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____b________.
a. The Pilgrims
b. Mayflower
c. America
d. Titanic
2.______b___ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.
a. Tennessee Williams
b. Eugene O’Neill
c. Arthur Miller
d. Elm er Rice
3.______c___ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Washington Irving
c. Mark Twain
d. Ernest Hemingway
4. ____c___ was the leader of American transcendentalism.
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Washington Irving
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson
d. Henry David Thoreau
5.____c___was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric
poems in her life time.
a. Pearl S. Buck
b.Harriet Bicher Stowe
c. Emily Dickenson
d. Walter Whitman
6.____d_____ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.
a. Washington Irving
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walt Whitman
d. Edgar Allan Poe
7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ___d___ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.
a. Stephen Crane
b. Frank Norris
c. Theodore Dreiser
d. Henry James
8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? d
a. William Dean Howells
b. Mark Twain
c. Ernest Hemingway
d.Theodore Dreiser
12._______d__ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Robert Frost
c. H.D.
d. Emily Dickinson
14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the
consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he? a
a.Richard Wright
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. Langston Hughes
d. Ralph Ellison
15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas _d_______ wrote about the
Jazz age, life in American society.
a.William Carlos Williams
b. William Faulkner
c. John Steinbeck
d. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):
2.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states,
which are known respectively as the ___c___and the______.
a. N, S
b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries
c. Union, Confederacy
d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery
3.Mark Twain was a representative of ____c____ in American literature.
a. transcendentalism
b. naturalism
c. local colorism
d. imagism
5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____c________.
a. Washington Irving
b.Ezra Pound
c. Walt Whitman
d. Emily Dickinson
14. ___b____ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the
consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.
b.Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. Langston Hughes
d. Ralph Ellison
15. __a______ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short stori es
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. William Faulkner
c. John Steinbeck
d. Ernest Hemingway
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II. Match the following (1×20%)
A. Match Works with Their Authors
1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
2.Walden
3. Autobiography
4. The Scarlet Letter
5.Leaves of Grass
6.The Raven
7. The Rise of Silas Lapham
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
9. Long Day’s Journey into Night
10. The Old Man and the Sea
a.Mark Twain b . Ernest Hemingway
c. Eugene O’Neill
d. William Dean Howells
e. Edgar Allan Poe
f. Walt Whitman
g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin Franklin
i.Henry David Thoreau j. Ezra Pound
k.Thomas Jefferson l. T.S. Eliot
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B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.
1.Hester Prynne
2.Mrs. Touchett
3.Frederick Henry
4.Benjy Compson
5.the Joads
6.General Edward Cummings
7.Holden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas
8.Yank 9.Happy
a.The Portrait of a Lady
b. The Scarlet Letter
c. The Hairy Ape
d. A Farewell to Arms
e.The Sound and the Fury
f. The Grapes of Wrath
g. The Naked and the Dead
h. The Catcher in the Rye
i. Native Son
j. Death of a Salesman
k.Invisible Man
l.Catch-22
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III. Match the following (1’×20=20’)
A. Match works with their authors
1.Nature
2.Rip Van Winkle
3. Nature
4. The Scarlet Letter
5.Leaves of Grass
6.The Raven
7. The Rise of Silas Lapham
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. Cantos
10. The Old Man and the Sea
a.Ezra Pound
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Mark Twain
d. William Dean Howells
e. Edgar Allan Poe
f. Walt Whitman
g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emerson i.Washington Irving j. Waldo Emerson
k.T.S. Eliot l. Robert Frost
A. Match Works with Their Authors
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B. Match characters with the works in which they appear.
2.Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer
3.Frederic Henry and Catherine
4.Benjy Compson
5.the Joads
6.General Edward Cummings
7.Holden Caulfield 8.Bigger Thomas
9.The Tyrones 10.Willy Loman
a.The Portrait of a Lady
b. Moby-Dick
c. Death of a Salesman
d. A Farewell to Arms
e.The Sound and the Fury
f. The Grapes of Wrath
g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye
i. Native Son j. Long Day’s Journey into Night
k.Absalom, Absalom l. The Old Man and the Sea
B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.
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True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)
1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.
2. Thomas Jefferson was the only American to sign the 4 documents that created the US.
3. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil.
4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology.
5. Hurstwood is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
6. Faulkner’s region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slave ry, civil war and destruction.
7. Placed in historical perspective, Howells is found lacking in qualities and depth. But anyhow he is a literary figure worthy of notice.
8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.
9. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.
10. Emily Dickinson expresses her deep love in the poem “Annabel Lee”.
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II. Decide whether the statements are True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)
1. Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.
2. American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural elements.
3. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.
4. “Young Goodman Brown” wants to prove everyone possesses kindness in heart.
5. Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Twain or Howells.
6. The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality.
7. Frost’s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.
8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.
9. Roger Chillingworth is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
10. After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one.
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III. Please explain the following terms. (5 x 6’ = 30’)
1.Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.
2.Free verse: It is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid
any predetermined verse structure; instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech.
3.International novel: IN brings together persons of various nationalities who represent certain
characteristics of their own countries.
4.Naturalism: It views human beings as animals in the natural world responding to
environmental forces and internal stresses and drives, over none of which they have control and none of which they fully understand. The literary naturalists have a major difference from the realists. They look at a different spot to find real life.
5.transcendentalism: It stressed the power of intuition, believing that people could learn things
both from the outside world by means of the five senses and from the inner world by intuition. It took nature as symbolic of spirit or God. All things in nature were symbols of the spiritual, of God’s presence. It emphasized the significance of the individual and believed that the individual was the most important element in society and that the ideal kind of individual was self-reliant and unselfish. Transcendentalists envisioned religion as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “Oversoul”
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