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 = 1 \* ROMAN I. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are not allowed to change the letter given. 1. Samuel Richardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first epistolary (书信) novel in English literature. 2. Paradise Lost took its material from Bible(圣经). 3. Jane Austen’s masterpiece is Pride and Prejudice(傲慢与偏见). 4. George G. Byron is chiefly remembered for his two long poems. One is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is Don Juan(唐·璜). 5. As a poet, William Blake’s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems, Songs of Innocence(天真之歌)and Songs of Experience. 6. The relationship between Claudius and Hamlet in Hamlet is uncle and nephew(叔叔和侄子). Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece autobiography(自传). Martin(马丁) is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself. Edgar Allan Poe(埃德加·爱伦坡) can somewhat be called “the Father of the American detective story”. The way in which Hawthorne(霍桑) wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism. Choose the relevant match from the box for each blank. a. Natty Bumppo b. The Red Badge of Courage c. black humour d.Jerome Salinger e. loss and despair War in Crane’s novel ____b____ is a plain slaughterhouse. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anthing, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run from danger. The Catch-22 is a novel of using the device of __________c_____________. _______d_______is the author of the work: “The Catcher in the Rye”. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is __a_, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye. In his novels, Hemingway dramatizes the sense of ___e___ among the post-war generation who are physically and psychologically scared.  = 2 \* ROMAN II. Multiple Choices: Sel