time and timelessness, written in four parts.
34. F. Scott Fitzgerald' s first novel____________ , with its portrayal of casual dissipations
of \
35. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his best novel_____________ . It is the story of an
idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.
36. F. Scott Fitzgerald' s second novel______________ describes a handsome young man
and his beautiful wife, undoubtedly modelled after himself and Zelda.
37. The hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel_____________ is a psychiatrist who marries a
rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth. 38. F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel_____________ remained unfinished.
39. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, _____________ became the spokes man for
what Gertrude Stein had called \
40. Emest Hemingway' s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his
novel___________ in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love. 41. Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel_____________ stated again Hemingway ' s
view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common people. 42. In the story The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman
named___________ , who shows triumphant even in defeat.
43. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a_______________ for his \
of modem narration\
44. Numerous parallels exist between the events of Ernest Hemingway's life and those of his
characters, but fewer were closer than those of Richard Cantwell, the hero of the work _________ .
45. In 1952, Ernest Hemingway published a successful novel entitled_____________ , which
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954. 46. In the same way that F. Scott Fitzgerald' s Tales of the Jazz Age became the symbol for
an age, Ernest Hemingway' s novel ______ painted the image of a whole generation, the Lost Generation.
47. Ernest Hemingway' s___________ can be read as a footnote to The Sun Also Rises in that
it explains how people, like Jake Barnes, come to behave the way they do.
48. The Spanish war was conductive to Ernest Hemingway' s writing_____________ , a play
which was universally deplored.
49. ___________ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s. 50. In the short novel___________ , John Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between
two migrant workers.
51. In the work___________ John Steinbeck described the fate of the lowly whose
instinctive responses to life led only to destruction.
52. __________ is generally regarded as John Steinbeck' s masterpiece.
53. In 1935, John Steinbeck published_____________ , a collection of short stories which
vividly described the life of poor Mexican-Americans with affection and humor.
54. John Steinbeck' s post-war novel ______________ reflected his bitter feelings against
those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible. 55. Quentin is a character in William Faulkner's novel____________ .
56. Joe Christmas is a character in William Faulkner's novel____________ .
57. The works written by___________ may be viewed as a culmination of the development
of twentieth-century southern fiction.
58. Katherine Ann Porter's novel Ship of Fools consists of three parts, ____________,
________ and____________ .
59. In her essay \
for literary creations. She is noted for her fidelity to the American South, so her major theme relate to____________ .
60. Carson McCullers was said to touch William Faulkner in writing, and her well-known
novels are___________ and____________ .
61. One of the important figures in the 1930s who tried to adapt European avantgardism to
American writing is
62. The New Criticism first emerged in 1920s as a reaction against the prevailing
time-honored critical tendency to focus on the theme often in disregard of the form of the work. The name is given by John Crowe Ransom' s collection of critical essays__________ . III. Make multiple choices.
1. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were__________ .
A. traveling books B. commercial books
C. historical romances D. news reports
2. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.
A. Ezra Pound B. T. S. Eliot
C. Robert Frost D. Both A and B
3. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________ . A. First World War B. Second World War
C. Civil War D. War of Independence
4. The American \the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period of__________ . A. poverty B. bleakness
C. important social movements
D. a new social consciousness E. all of the above
5. In the pre-war period, such writers as______________ , pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced. A. Mark Twain B. Jack London
C. Stephen Crane D. Theodore Dreiser E. all of the above
6. In the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote compassionately about common people, workers and farmers. A. Emily Dickinson B. Ezra Pound
C. Robert Frost D. Langston Hughes
7. The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are _________ . A. direct treatment B. economy of expression
C. clear rhythm D. blank verse
8. \poem written by____________ .
A. Thomas Stearns Eliot B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound D. E. E. Cummings
9. __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas. A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost
C. T. S. Eliot D. E. E. Cummings
10. 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
11. \s ______ attitude.
A. romantic B. fantastic
C. realistic D. materialistic
12. \Robinson. It is a brilliant commentary on _____________'s character. A. Ben Jonson B. William Shakespeare
C. John Milton D. Samuel Johnson
13. In his long works Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote the most extensive poems based on_____________ since Tennyson. A. the Arthurian Legends B. the Biblical Stories
C. the Greek Mythologies D. Indian Legends
14. When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President__________ .
A. Thomas Jefferson B. Theodore Roosevelt
C. Abraham Lincoln D. John F. Kennedy
15. Choose the books written by Robert Frost. A. Mountain Interval B. New Hampshire
C. West-Running Book D. A Further Range
16. Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost? A. \ B. \
C. \ D. \
17. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poems was not written by Robert Frost? A. \
B. \C. \D. \E. \
18. The poems that made Carl Sandburg famous appeared in four volumes. Choose them from the following.
A. Chicago Poems B. Comhuskers<, /F, , ONT>
C. Smoke and Steel D. Slabs of the Sunburn West E. Design
19. As a poet, Carl Sandburg was associated with the, Imagists and wrote well-known Imagist poems such as
A. \ B. \
C. \ D. \E. all of the above
20. Carl Sandburg had also taken interest in folk songs which he tried to collect and sing during his travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well-known___________ . A. Good Morning, America B. The People, Yes
C. In Reckless Ecstasy D. The American Songbag
21. Thomas Sutpen is a character in William Faulkner's novel _______________ . A. Absalom, Absalom! B. Light in August
C. Go Down, Moses D. The Sound and the Fury
22. Wallace Stevens' s poetry is primarily motivated by the belief that true ideas correspond with an innate order in nature. Many of his good poems derive their emotional power from reasoned revelation. This philosophical intention is supported by the titles Wallace Stevens gave to his volumes such as_____________ .
A. Harmonium B. Ideas of Order
C. Parts of a World D. all of the above
23. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticism