were___________ .
A. the failure of communication among Americans B. the failures of American society C. the extreme prosperity of America D. the paradise of New Land
24. Choose the poems written by Wallace Stevens. A. \ B. \
C. \ D. \
25. __________ , one of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of Thomas Stearns Eliot' s aesthetics, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism. A. \
B. \C. \D. \
26. Thomas Stearns Eliot used a form, that is, the orchestration of related themes in successive movements, in such works as __________ . A. The Waste Land B. 77k? Hollow Men
C. Ash-Wednesday D. Four Quartets
27. Thomas Stearns Eliot' s second volume of criticism_____________ (1914) was much admired for its critical method.
A. The Function of Criticism B. The Metaphysical Poets
C. Homage to John Dryden D. The Sacred Wood
28. __________ , a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas a Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power.
A. \The Confidential Clerk\ B. \The Cocktail Party\C. \ D. \Murder in the Cathedral\
29. The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name was_________________ .
A. Sinclair Lewis B. Thomas Stearns Eliot
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
30. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a _____.
A. poet B. playwright
C. literary critic D. novelist
31. Thomas Stearns Eliot's first major poem____________ (1917), has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English. A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock B. The Waste Land C. Four Quartets D. Preludes
32. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______. A. The Roaring Twenties B. The Jazz Age
C. The Dollar Decade D. all of the above
33. Choose the collections of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A. Flappers and Philosophers B. Tales of the Jazz Age
C. All the Sad Young Men D. Taps at Reveille
34. Choose the novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A. The Great Gatsby B. Tender Is the Night
C. This Side of Paradise D. The Beautiful and the Damned
35. Point out the three poets who opened the way to Modern poetry. A. Ezra Pound B. Thomas Stearns Eliot
C. E. E. Cummings D. Robert Frost
36. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.
A. Gertrude Stein
B. Ezra Pound
C. Thomas Stearns Eliot D. James Joyce E. all of the above
37. In 1954,___________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his \of modern narration\
A. Thomas Stearns Eliot B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck D. William Faulkner
38. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel__________ . A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Sun Also Rises D. A Farewell to Arms
39. During the Depression, Ernest Hemingway first went to Spain and then , to the American West and to Africa on hunting expeditions. In the novels written in this period such as___________ , he wrote about bullfighting, hunting and his personal anecdote. A. Death in the Afternoon B. The Green Hills of Africa
C. Men without Women D. The Old Man and the Sea
40. Which authors committed suicide?
A. Ernest Hemingway B. Jack London
C. Robert Frost D. Mrs. Stowe
41. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California. A. Of Mice and Men B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. The Great Gatsby D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
42. wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which re
presented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the \A. William Faulkner
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Ernest Hemingway D. John Steinbeck
43. In William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called_____________ , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. A. stream of consciousness B. imagism
C. symbolism D. naturalism
44. William Faulkner's novel___________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, toid from four different points of view. A. The Sound and the Fury B. Startoris
C. The Unvanquished D. The Town
45. William Faulkner's novel___________ is about a poor white family' s journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown, Yoknapatawpha. A. Intruder in the Dust B. As I Lay Dying
C. Absalom, Absalom! D. Light in August
46. Which three novels form a trilogy which tells the saga of the unscrupuloussnopes family? A. The Hamlet B. The Town
C. The Mansion D. The Unvanquished
47. William Faulkner wrote altogether 18 novels and three volumes of short stories. Of these three novels, ___________ , _________ and ___________ are master pieces by any literary standards. A. The Sound and the Fury B. Absalom, Absalom]
C. Go Down, Moses D. The Wrath of the Grapes
48. William Faulkner wrote about the histories of a number of Southern aristocratic families such as the___________ , the___________ , the __________ and the McCaslins, and traces them back to the very beginning when Chickasaw Indians were still lawful owners of the land. A. Compsons B. Sartorises
C. Sutpens
D. Joads
49. Most of the important twentieth-century American poets were related with Imagist movement, including___________ .
A. Ezra Pound B. Wallace Stevens
C. E. E. Cummings D. Carl Sandburg
E. Thomas Stearns Eliot
IV. Identify the fragments.
Passage 1: In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
Questions:
1. Who is the author of this short poem?
2. What two images are juxtaposed, or placed next to each other in this poem? 3. How do you appreciate this poem? Passage 2:
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king— And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Questions:
1. 2. 3. 4.
What is the title of the poem? Who wrote this poem?
How are the \
Do you think the use of the adjective \verbal irony? What is verbal irony?
5. There is an element of dark humor in the mistaken ideas that the townspeople have of
Richard Cory, do you think so?