21. One of Dickens' later works, ______ in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.
A. Bleak House B. Little Dorrit
C. Hard Times D. A Tale of Two Cities
22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______.
A. Brobdingnag B. Lilliput
C. Flying Island D. Houyhnhnm
23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include ______ and mythological and biblical allusions.
A. symbolism B. free indirect speech
C. contrast D. dialogue
24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as “______,” which is actually an attitude towards life.
A. facing the reality B. grace under pressure
C. honesty with benevolence D. security coming first
25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a ______ novelist.
A. naturalist B. imagist
C. psychological D. feminist
26. Theodore Dreiser' s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work ______.
A. The Genius B. An American Tragedy
C. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. “Trilogy of Desire”
27. Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and ______ to vivify some abstract ideas.
A. images B. metaphor
C. symbols D. personification
28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the ______, in which he admits, one must live by rules.
A. women B. world of man
C. family D. politicians
29. Walt Whitman' s ______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress B. Leaves of Grass
C. A Passage to India D. Rip Van Winkle
30. Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.
A. Innocents Abroad B. The Portrait of A Lady
C. The Grapes of Wrath D. The Great Gatsby
31. With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the ______ approach, Henry James' s importance, as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.
A. deconstruction B. romantic
C. Freudian D. analytic
32. Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems, which include religion, death, ______, love, and nature.
A. immortality B. wealth
C. power D. politics
33. In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his ______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.
A. romantic B. realistic
C. naturalistic D. modernistic
34. Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of ______.
A. the plain language and the simple form B. the vivid descriptions
C. metaphors D. the complicated narration
35. In ______ Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.
A. The Green Hills of Africa B. Death in the Afternoon
C. The Snows of Kilimanjaro D. To Have and Have Not
36 Of Faulkner’s literary works, four novels are masterpieces by any standards: The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom ! and ______.
A. Go Down, Moses B. The Fable
C. The Snows of Kilimanjaro D. To Have and Have Not
37. As Whitman saw it, ______ could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.
A. music B. fiction
C. poetry D. painting
38. In many of Hawthorne' s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and ______.
A. Go Down, Moses B. The Scarlet Letter
C. As I Lay Dying D. Song of Myself
39. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the ______ and the founder of psychological realism.
A. “stream-of-consciousness” novels B. metaphysical poems
C. short stories D. literary criticism
40. Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece, ______ incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.
A. The Ambassadors B. Daisy Miller
C. The American D. The Portrait of A Lady
