31. Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, ________ did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.
A. Walt Whitman B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound D.T. S. Eliot
32. While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, ________ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.
A. William Howells B. Henry James
C. Bret Harte D. Hamlin Garland
33. At the age of eighty -seven, ________ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
A. Robert Frost B. Walt Whitman
C. Ezra Pound D.T. S. Eliot
34. Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.
A. Typee B. Redburn
C. Moby – Dick D. Omoo
35. Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by ________.
A. Robert Frost B. Theodore Dreiser
C. Henry James D. Hamlin Garland
36. With the publication of ________, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.
A. Sister Carrie B. The Titan
C. An American Tragedy D. The Stoic
37. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.
A. H. W. Longfellow B. Walt Whitman
C. R. W. Emerson D. Washington Irving
38. Among the following writers ________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream - of - consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.
A. T. S. Eliot B. James Joyce
C. William Faulkner D. Henry James
39. Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President ______, and one of the famous is “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’ d. ”
A. Washington B. Lincoln
C. Franklin D. Kennedy
40. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a romance set in______, is concerned about the dark aberrations of the human spirit.
A. France B. Spain
C. England D. Italy
