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美国文学自测题及答案 得分 评分人 Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855. a. Leaves of Grass b. The Scarlet Letter c. “Hymn to The Night” d. “The Secret of the Sea” Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his predecessor, ______, but his style and method are very different. a. Mark Twain b. Stephen Crane c. Henry James d. Emerson Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature. a. Sinclair Lewis b. Theodore Dreiser c. F. Scott Fitagerald d. H.L.Mencken Mark Twain’s ______ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi. Roughing It The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Life on the Mississippi The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 5. Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and impressionistic. a. romantic b. naturalistic c. classical d. imagining ______ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. a. New York b. Chicago c. California d. Washington Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism? a. Nature b. Walden c. On Beauty d. Self-Reliance 8. Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry. a. The Old Man and the Sea b. Moby Dick c. White Jacket d. Billy Budd 9. Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature. a. Huckleberry Finn b. Tom Sawyer c. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg d. The Gilded Age American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Jan