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Multiple Choice (1
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1.
_
_____was the first colony
in American history.
A.
Massachusetts
B. New Jersey
C. Virginia
a
2.
______ was the only good American author before
the Revolutionary War. One
of his fellow Americans said,
“
His shadow lies heavier
than any other man
’
s on
this young
nation.
”
A. John
Smith
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Thomas Jefferson
Paine
3.
Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT
______.
A. common sense
B. imagination
C. intuition
D. individualism
4. The
Raven was written in 1844 by ________
A. Philip Freneau
B. Edgar Allan
Poe
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D. Emily
Dickinson
5. The ship ______ carried
about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to
beat
its way
across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put
the Pilgrims ashore at
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A.
Sunflower
B.
Armada
C. Mayflower
D. Titanic
6.
Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous
chronicle of a whaling voyage in
pursuit of a seemingly
supernatural white whale.
A. Typee
B. Omoo
C. White Jacket
D.
Moby Dick
7. As a philosophical and
literary movement, ______ flourished in New
England
from
the 1830s to the Civil War.
ism
alism
entalism
endentalism
8.
The theme of original sin is fully reflected in
_________.
A. The Scarlet
Letter
B.
Sister Carrie
C. The Great
Gatsby
D. The Old Man and Sea
9. In all his novels
Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the
______ American values. For example, in
Sister Carrie, there is not one
character whose status is
not determined
economically.
A. Puritan
B. materialistic
C. psychological
D. religious
10.
Realism was a reaction against______ or a move
away from the bias towards romance and self-
creating
fictions, and paved the way to
Modernism.
A. Rationalism
B. Romanticism
C.
Neoclassicism
D.
Enlightenment
11. ________ was a poet
in American modern period who was deeply influence
by eastern culture.
A. T. S Eliot
B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
D.
Walt Whitman
12. Which of the following
statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?
A.
After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving
her house nor seeing
close friends.
B.
She once felt a deep affection for Charles
Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved
to be a frustrated
love affair for
Dickinson.
C. She wrote about death, immortality,
nature, success and failure.
D. During her
lifetime, all her poems are published.
13. The realistic period is referred to
as
“
the Gilded
Age
”
by _______.
A. Mark Twain
B.
Henry James
C. Emily
Dickinson
D. Theodore
Dreiser
14. Which of the following
works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?
A.
The Old Man and Sea
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. Sound and Fury
D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
15. Which one is NOT the characteristic
of modernism?
A. Modernism in
literature
is
characterized by experimentation,
anti-realism,
individualism
and a stress
on the
cerebral rather than emotive aspects.
B. Modernism is
greatly influenced by the two world wars.
C.
The
work
of
Marx,
and
Freud,
had
mounted
an
assault
against
orthodox
religious
faith
that
lasted
into
the
twentieth century.
D. Modernists believe that
human nature is kind.
I.
Match the
Column A with Column B (1
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10=10
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Column A
Column B
(
) 1. Dimmesdale
a.
Robert Frost
(
)
2. Ahab
b.
Mark Twain
(
) 3. Drouet
c.
The Scarlet Letter
(
)
4. Pulitzer Prizer
d. Thomas Jefferson
(
) 5. Reclusive poet
e.
Moby Dick
(
) 6. humorist
and satirist
f. Ernest Heminway
(
) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence
g. Henry David Thoreau
(
) 8. transcendentalist
h. Emily Dickinson
(
) 9. The Great Gatsby
i. Sister Carrie
(
) 10. The Lost Generation
j. F. Scott
Fitzgerald
II.
Define the following words within one
phrase
(2
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5=10
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1.
free verse
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Mark Twain
4. Benjamin Franklin
5.
Ezra Pound
III.
Simple
questions (5
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×
4=2
0
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1.
What are Puritan thoughts?
2.
What is
Transcedentalism and list some representative
figures?
3.
Explain the symbolic
meanings of
“
A
”
in
The Scarlet Letter.
4.
Illustrate
the three principles of Imagist Poetry.
IV.
Interpreting the following texts
(45
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)
Text 1
When a girl
leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two
things. Either she falls into saving
hands
and
becomes
better,
or
she
rapidly
assumes
the
cosmopolitan
standard
of
virtue
and
becomes
worse.
Of
an
intermediate
balance,
under
the
circumstances,
there
is
no
possibility.
The
city
has
its
cunning wiles, no less than the
infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There
are large forces which
allure
with
all
the
soulfulness
of
expression
possible
in
the
most
cultured
human.
The
gleam
of
a
thousand
lights
is
often
as
effective
as
the
persuasive
light
in
a
wooing
and
fascinating
eye.
Half
the
undoing of the unsophisticated and
natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly
superhuman. A blare
of sound, a roar of
life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the
astonished senses in equivocal terms.
Without a counsellor at hand to whisper
cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not
these things
breathe
into
the
unguarded
ear!
Unrecognised
for
what
they
are,
their
beauty,
like
music,
too
often
relaxes, then weakens, then perverts
the simpler human perceptions.
Questions
1.
Please use one
phrase to summarize the above paragraph
(2
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2.
What are the
two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving
her home?(2
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)
3.
Please find
out the figures of speech
(2
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)
4.
What are the
attractive forces mentioned in a big city?
(4
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)
5.
How are
naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph?
Illustrate your points with examples
(5
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)
Text 2
Because I could not stop for Death
–
He kindly
stopped for me --
The Carriage held but
just Ourselves --
And Immortality.
We slowly drove -- He knew
no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility
–
We
passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess -- in the Ring --
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --
We passed the Setting Sun
–
…
Since then --
'tis Centuries -- and yet
Feels shorter
than the Day
I first surmised the
Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity
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Questions:
1.
Identify the poet and the title of this
poem? (2
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)
2.
Explain the
underlined words (4
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)
3.
What are the
implications of
“
the
School
”
,
“
the fields of Gazing
Grain
”
,
“
the Setting
Sun
”
?
(3
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)
4.
How do you
understand
“
Since then --
'tis Centuries -- and yet / Feels
shorter than the
Day
”
?
(3
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)
5.
What are the
speaker
’
s opinions about
death? (3
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)
Text 3
Two roads diverged in
a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not
travel both
And be one traveler, long I
stood
And looked down one as far as I
could