23. Perhaps Emily Dickinson’s greatest interpretation of the moment of _____ is to be found in “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died—”, a poem universally regarded as one of her masterpieces.

　　A. fantasy           B. birth             C. crisis              D. death

　　24. The fiction of the American _____ period ranges from the comic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis.

　　A. Romantic                               B. Revolutionary

　　C. Colonial                                 D. Modernistic

　　25. The modern _____ technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by Faulkner to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

　　A. stream - of - consciousness                  B. flashback

　　C. mosaic                                                  D. narrative and argumentative

　　26. By means of “_____,” Whitman believed, he has turned the poem into an open  field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.

　　A. balanced structure                               B. free verse

　　C. fixed verse                                           D. regular rhythm

　　27. In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for “his powerful style -forming mas tery of the art” of creating modern fiction.

　　A. Ernest Hemingway                              B. Sherwood Anderson

　　C. Stephen Crane                                      D. Henry James

　　28. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of _____ in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature.

　　A. Rationalism                                          B. Romanticism

　　C. Realism                                                 D. Modernism

　　29. When he was eighty - seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was_____.

　　A. Ezra Pound                                           B. Robert Frost

　　C. E. E. Cummings                                    D. Wallace Stevens

　　30. The renowned American critic H. L. Mencken regarded _____ as “the true father of our national literature.”

　　A. Bret Harte                                            B. Walt Whitman

　　C. Washington Irving                                D. Mark Twain

　　31. We can easily find in Theodore Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law. Dreiser’s _____ found expression in almost every book he wrote.

　　A. naturalism                                            B. romanticism

　　C. cubism                                                 D. classicalism

　　32. A preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of _____ and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers.

　　A. love and mercy                                    B. bitterness and hatred

　　C. original sin                                            D. eternal life

　　33. “He possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters. ” This is a description most suitable to the American writer_____.

　　A. Henry James                                       B. Theodore Dreiser

　　C. W. D. Howells                                    D. Nathaniel Hawthorne

　　34. People generally considered _____ to be Henry James’ masterpiece, which incar nates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment.

　　A. The Europeans                                   B. Daisy Miller

　　C. The Portrait of A Lady                      D. The Private Life