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Exercises for American Literature Part Ⅳ Ⅰ. Multiple choice: 1.The end of _____ marked the beginning of what Mark Twain called The Gilded Age. A. The American War of Independence B. World War One C. World War Two D. The Civil War 2. “A Psalm of Life” is a famous poem written by _____. A. Edgar Allan Poe B. Walt Whitman C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson 3. By the 1870s _____ had waned. A. Puritanism B. the New England Renaissance C. Realism D. Classicism 4. By the end of the Civil War, _____ became the nation’s literary center. A. New York B. Boston C. Jamestown D. Los Angeles 5. _____ had originated in France, a literary doctrine that called for reality and truth in the depiction of ordinary life. A. Puritanism B. New England Renaissance C. Realism D. Classicism 6. Local color began to decline _____ . A. after 1920 B. by the turn of 19th century C. after 1910 D. in the 1870s 7. The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was _____ . A. William Dean Howells B. Mark Twain C. Bret Harte D. Hamlin Garland 8. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called _____, that is, poetry without fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A. free verse B. blank verse C. lyrics D. sonnet 9. “Song of myself” is a famous poem written by _____ . A. Emily Dickinson B. Walt Whitman C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Edgar Allan Poe 10. _____ was the first book of Mark Twain. A. Jumping frog B. Innocents Abroad C. Roughing It D. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 11. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is the masterpiece of _____ . A. Henry James B. William Dean Howells C. Mark Twain D. Nathaniel Hawthorne 12. In “The Cop and the Anthem” the main reason for Soapy to deliberately commit one crime after another is that _____ . A. he hates the wealthy people B. he just wants to