24. Choose the works which contain bitter attacks on the human race. A. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court B. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg C. The Mysterious Stranger D. The Autobiography
25. Mark Twain was a great social critic and a friend of the Chinese. His Disgraceful Percecution of a Boy is a scathing piece of criticism directed against the per secution of the___________ immigrants in California. A. Quakers B. Chinese
C. French D. Japanese
26. Mark Twain stood on the side of China in its struggle against foreign invasions.
His___________ and___________ are two notable examples of his vigorous at tacks on the imperialist behavior of the United States_____________ . A. The Treaty with China
B. To the Person Sitting in Darkness C. Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy D. Goldsmith' s Friend Abroad Again
27. Stephen Crane's best short stories include _________,
_________, all reinforcing the basic Crane motif of environment and heredity overwhelming man.
A. Open Boat B. The Blue Hotel
C. An Experiment in Misery D. The Red Badge of Courage
28. Which writers have naturalist tendency? A. Stephen Crane B. Benjamin Frank Norris
C. Theodore Dreiser D. Edwin Arlington Robinson
29. Theodore Dreiser was left-oriented in his views. He visited Russia and wrote and
_________ to express his new faith, and shortly before his death, he joined the Communist Party.
A. Dreiser Looks at Russia B. Tragic America
C. An American Tragedy D. The Titan
30. Choose Jack London' s works from the following. A. The Call of the Wild B. White Fang
C. The Sea Wolf D. Martin Eden
IV. Identify Hie fragments.
Passage 1
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I learn and loa, fe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Questions:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
These are the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled The name of the poet is___________ .
Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2 ~ 3 also include in the celebration? What is the verse, structure?
Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet' s completed collections of poems?
Passage 2
Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
Questions:
1. Who is the writer of these lines?
2. In which category would you place this poem?
A. narrative B. dramatic C. lyric
3. Emily Dickinson is noted for her use of_____________ to achieve special effects.
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A. perfect rhyme B. exact rhyme C. slant rhyme
Passage 3
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It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom' s cabin.
Questions:
1. This is taken from a famous novel. What is the name of the novel? 2. What is the name of the writer? 3. Who is Uncle Tom?
Passage 4
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Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the un-quenchable and indestructible \fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it. A ghastly stage fright seized him, his legs quaked under him, and he was like to choke. True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house----------- but he had the house' s silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy. The master frowned, and this completed the disaster. Tom struggled awhile and then retired, defeated.
Questions:
1. Which novel is this passage taken from? 2. Who is the author?
Passage 5
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I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved t, he vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I took all the coffee and suga, r there was, and all the
ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot. I took
fish-lines and matches and other things—everything that was worth a cent. I cleaned out the place. I wanted an ax, but there wasn' t any, only the one out at the woodpile, and 1 knew why I was going to leave that. I fetched out the gun, and now I was done.
Questions:
1. Which novel is this passage taken from? 2. Analyse the language style of this passage.
Passage 6
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On his bench in Madison Square, Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand.
Questions:
1. This passage is taken from a short story entitled____________ . 2. The author's name is William Sidney Porter. What is his pen name?
Passage 9
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When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the
circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is
accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
Questions:
1. 2. 3. 4.
From which novel is this paragraph taken? Who is the author of this novel?
How do you understand \Is there any naturalist tendency in this passage?
V. Anayfze Hie main works.
1. Analyze Walt Whitman' s Song of Myself.
2. Analyze Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (Chapter One).
Keys to Part IV.
I. Fill in the following blanks:
1. France
2. William Dean Howells 3. Henry James 4. Mark Twain 5. Darwinism 6. free verse 7. Walt Whitman 8. Amherst
9. Harriet Beecher Stowe 10. Uncle Tom's Cabin 11. Mark Twain
12. Life on the Mississippi 13. Innocents Abroad 14. Mark Twain
15. The Mysterious Stranger 16. O. Henry 17. New York
18. An Unfinished tory 19. De Maupassant 20. The Four Millions 21. Watch and Ward 22. Daisy Miller
23. A Passionate Pilgrim 24. The Portrait of a Lady 25. Henry James 26. Isabel Archer
27. A Daughter of the Snows 28. Martin Eden 29. Sister Carrie
30. An American Tragedy 31. Frank Cowperwood 32. Dreiser Looks at Russia 33. Sister Carrie 34. The Gilded Age
35. Life on the Mississippi
36. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 37. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 38. Stephen Crane
39. Maggi; A Girl of the Streets
40. The Red Badge of Courage 41. McTe-ague 41. Martin Eden