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Part I
Identification
Directions:
Decide whether the following statements
are true or false.
1.
( T ) Hurstwood is a character in
Theodore Dreiser's
Sister Carrie.
2.
( F
)
In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a
Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the a
rt
of
modern narration.”
3.
(
T
)Hemingway
believed
that
a
man
could
find
meaning
in
life
by
facing
his
death with dignity and courage.
4.
(
T
)Literary
naturalism
may
be
regarded
as
the
new
development
of
literary
realism, and was
sometimes called
“
pessimistic
realism.
”
The naturalistic
writers
were philosophical pessimists.
5.
(
F
)Hemingway,
Pound,
Cummings,
Dos
Passos,
and
Fitzgerald,
belong
to
the
school of
“
Beat
Generation
”
.
6.
( F )William
Faulkner's woks mainly concerned the decay in
economy and moral
in the American
North.
7.
(
F
)
Fitzgerald's
fictional
world
is
the
best
embodiment
of
the
spirit
of
the
romantic
period.
8.
( T
)The narrator in T
he Great Gatsby
is a minor character named Nick
Carraway,
who is also a participant in
the event.
9.
(
T
)
Hemingway's
novel
The
Sun
Also
Rises
pained
the
image
of
the
whole
generation, the lost generation.
10.
(
F )In Faulkner's
The Sound and the
Fury
, he used a technique called
imagism, in
which the whole story was
told through the thoughts of one character.
Part II
Multiple choice:
Directions:
Choose the best
answer and write the corresponding letter on the
Answer
Sheet.
1.
___________ showed great interest in
Chinese literature and translated the poetry
of Li Po into English, and was
influenced by Confucian ideas.
A.
Ezra Pound
B.
Robert
Frost
C.
T. S. Eliot
D.
E. E. Cummings
2. Ezra
Pound's
long
poem____________
contained
more
than
one
hundred
poems
loosely connected.
A.
The Waste
Land
B.
The Cantos
C.
Don Juan
D.
Queen Mab
3. In
Paris,
Ernest
Hemingway,
along
with
_____________,
accomplished
a
revolution in literary
style and language.
A.
Gertrude Stein
B.
Ezra Pound
C.
James Joyce
D.
all of the above
4.
The Fitzgeralds lived so
extravagantly that they frequently spent more
money
than F. Scoot Fitzgerald
earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their
friends and
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traveling. It was this
living style that nicknamed the decade of the
1920s as
_______.
A
The Jazz Age
B
The Gilded Age
C
The Roaring Age
D
The Beat Age
5. The
“
green
light
”
in The
Great Gatsby symbolizes __________.
A.
Sex
B.
Money
C.
Power
D.
The
American Dream
6. Who of the following
is NOT a 20
th
century
American poet?
A
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
B
Amy Lowell
C
Ezra
Pound
D
Robert Frost
7.
Which is generally regarded as the
Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
a. Nature
b. Walden
c. On Beauty
d. Self-Reliance
8.
__________
tells the Joad family' s life from the time they
were evicted from
their farm in
Oklahoma until their first winter in California.
A.
Of Mice and
Men
B.
The Grapes of Wrath
C.
The Great
Gatsby
D.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
9. The realistic period is referred to
as
A. Mark Twain
B. Henry James
C. Emily
Dickinson
D. Theodore Dreiser
10.
The Waste Land
was dedicated
to another poet who was __________.
A. Ernest
Hemingway
B. Ezra Pound
C T. S. Eliot
D.
William Carlos Williams
Part
III
Match
the
following
writers
and
their
works:
Writers:
( j ) 1. Walt Whitman
( a )
2. Edgar Allan Poe
( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
( h ) 4. F·
Scott
Fitzgerald
( i ) 5. Wallace Stevens
( b ) 6. William Faulkner
(
g) 7. Arthur Miller
( c ) 8. John
Steinbeck
( d ) 9. Ernest Hemingway
( e ) 10. Robert Frost
Works:
a.
The Raven
b.
Go
Down, Moses
c.
The Grapes of Wrath
d.
The Sun Also Rises
e.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
f.
Nature
g.
Death of a Salesman
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