11. The impact of ______ theory on American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American Naturalism. ( )
A. Marxist B. Henry James’
C. Mark Twain’s D. Darwin’s
12. Which of the following is not written by Henry James?( )
A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans
B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors
C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians
D. The Genius and The Gilded Age
13. More than five hundred poems Emily Dickinson wrote are about ______, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.( )
A. man B. nature
C. woman D. God
14. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson’s poem, “This is my letter to the World”?( )
A. A description of death. B. An expression of anxiety.
C. A description of nature. D. An expression of happiness.
15. Whitman was able to put forward his own set of ______ principles in Leaves of Grass.( )
A. natural B. poetic
C. aesthetic D. human
16. By the end of the 20th century, the American realists sought to ______ and therefore rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and events in their writings.( )
A. describe the wide range of American experience
B. show animal nature of human beings
C. present the subtleties of human personality
D. both A and C
17. In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers: ______, whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.( )
A. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud
B. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud
C. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James
D. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud
18. Which of the following can be said about Eugene O’Neill’s plays?( )
A. Most of his plays are concerned about the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrations.
B. His tragic view of life is reflected in many of his works.
C. His plays are concerned about the relationship between man and nature as well as man and woman.
D. both A and B.
19. Most of O’Neill’s plays are concerned about the following except ______.( )
A. success and failure in man’s literary career
B. the basic issues of human existence and predicament
C. alienation and communication, self and society , desire and frustration
D. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality
20. William James, an American psychologist famous for his theory of ______.( )
A. “stream of consciousness” B. “collective unconscious”
C. “archetypal symbols” D. “interpretation of dreams”
