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The Triumph of the Egg by _____________ shows the author's sympathy and care for the marginalized, uncommunicative town people.

A. Sherwood Anderson
B. Ralph Ellison
C. Toni Morrison
D. William Faulkner

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Willa Cather is famous for her portrait and eulogization of strenuous and independent female characters in the ______________.

A. south
B. north
C. west
D. Prairie erea

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Granny __________ in the short story by Katherine Anne Porter is a strong and hardy woman.

A. Kate
B. Weatherall
C. Smiley
D. Antonia

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The statement that a poor young man from the West trying to make his fortune in the East but disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream may well sum up the story of ___________.

A. The Hairy Ape
B. The Open Boat
C. The Jolly Corner
D. The Great Gatsby

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Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion in its title?

A. The Sound and the Fury
B. Light in August
C. Go Down, Moses
D. Absalom, Absalom!

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Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled ______________ .

A. The Sun Also Rises
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. The Old Man and the Sea
D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

单选题

"Grace under pressure" is a major feature of __________' s novel.

A. Saul Bellow
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Toni Morrison
D. Henry James

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William Faulkner was worldly famous not only for his ingenuous mastery of the stream of consiousness technique, but also for his imaginative creation of a mythic kingdom called ____________.

A. The Mississippi River
B. The Town of Jefferson
C. Oxford County
D. Yoknapatawpha County

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Nick Carraway is both a character and a narrator in the novel entitled ____________ .

A. This Side of Paradise
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. The Great Gatsby
D. Tender is the Night

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"The Woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have Promise to keep,And miles to go before I sleep."The above four lines are taken from ___________.

A. Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
B. Frost's "After Apple Picking"
C. Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
D. A Streetcar Names Desire

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