31. It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.

　　A. F. Scott Fitzgerald

　　B. William Faulkner

　　C. Ernest Hemmingway

　　D. Gertrude Steinbeck

　　32. The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the ______ Mississippi valley.

　　A. pre - War of Independence

　　B. post - War of Independence

　　C. pre - Civil War

　　D. post - Civil War

　　33. In Moby-Dick, for the character Ahab, the white whale represents only ______.

　　A. evil

　　B. nature

　　C. society

　　D. purity

　　34. Melville’s semi- autobiographical novel, ______, concerns the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.

　　A. Moby-Dick

　　B. Redburn

　　C. Mardi

　　D. Typee

　　35. Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning ______, ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.

　　A. love and nature

　　B. death and universe

　　C. death and immortality

　　D. family and happiness

　　36. The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest” was shattering in ______ ’s fictional world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.

　　A. Mark Twain

　　B. Henry James

　　C. Theodore Dreiser

　　D. Walt Whitman

　　37. Though Robert Frost’s subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______, he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man’s life in his long poetic career.

　　A. the South

　　B. the West

　　C. England

　　D. New England

　　38. Like all naturalists, ______ was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.

　　A. Theodore Dreiser

　　B. Henry James

　　C. Washington Irving

　　D. Walt Whitman

　　39. “The Birthmark” drives home symbolically Hawthorne’s point that ______ is man’s birthmark, something he is born with.

　　A. purity

　　B. generosity

　　C. evil

　　D. love

　　40. The Blithedale Romance is a novel ______ wrote to reveal his own experiences on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a psychological novelist.

　　A. Herman Melville

　　B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

　　C. Washington Irving

　　D. Walt WhitmanPART TWO (60 POINTS)