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2000年4月 48.William Faulkner, a Nobel Priza winner, has an important position in American literature. Name two of his Major novels. Do you know anything aboutYoknapatawpha County? What is unique of Faulkners fiction, historically and geographically? Answers: A.下列作品中任何两本：SoldiersPay, Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, and Intruder in the Dust. B.Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkners own hometown, a place that he took for the setting of 15 of his 19 novels and many short stories. This small region in the American South becomes in Faulkners fiction an allegory or a parable of the Old South. C.His literary representation of the Old South; and his theme of the deterioration, loss and moral decay of the Old South when it was falling apart. 50.What makes Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a childs adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character（s）, the theme and the style. Answers: A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the local color. B.Language: He uses simple, direct language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people. C.Character（s）: The author recreates two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization, especially Huckleberry Finn, an innocent boy who refuses to accept the conventional village morality. D.Theme: The novel is a criticism of social injustice, hypocrisy, conservativeness and narrow-mindedness of the American small town society. E.Style: The novel employs a humorous style of narration and is also highly symbolic with the central symbol. 2001年4月 45.’My boy!’ said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and