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浙江万里学院继续教育学院2017第一学期 《英美文学史》 考试形式：闭卷 考试时间：90分钟 I. Fill in the Following Blanks: Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10×1.5′= 15′) 1. The _______ style of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has impacted American literature so much that the books before and after it are quite different. 2. Writers who are ___________ tend to develop and promote mannerism, dress, speech, customs of a particular region. They try to be informative about the peculiarities of a given region and emphasize verisimilitude of details about dialect, local geographical feature and the like. 3. In his novel ________________, Theodore Dreiser portrays a girl who is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot control. Alone and helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities as offered first by Druet and then by Hurst wood. 4. Pound’s definition of ___________, “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time”, is an agreement with his perception of the Chinese ideogram. 5. Although they are originally Americans, Henry James and _____ became British subjects later. 6. In the poem __________________, T.S. Eliot portrays the image of an ineffectual, sorrowful, tragic twentieth-century Western man, possibly the modern intellectual who is divided between passion and timidity, between desire and impotence. 7. In Fitzgeralds great fiction, theres always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the ______, especially in The Great Gatsby (1925). 8. Most of ___________ works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County. 9. The protagonist in The Old Man and the Sea is _____________. 10. Arthur Dimmesdale is a character in Hawthorne’s novel_____________. II. Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative