超星 - Test 9-Realism and James - 查题吧

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Which novel is considered as the first uncompromising American naturalistic novel?

A. Sister Carrie
B. Martin Eden
C. Maggie: a Girl of the Streets
D. The Octopus

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Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.

A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D. pessimistic

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The impact ofDarwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ .

A. local colorism
B. vernacularism
C. modernism
D. Naturalism

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______ was written by Henry James and brought him first international fame.

A. The Golden Bowl
B. The American
C. The Tragic Muse
Daisy Miller

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_______ is famous for psychological realism.

A. Mark Twain
B. WilliamDean Howells
C. Henry James
D. Walt Whitman

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With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene,______became the major trend in the 70s and 80s of the 19th century.

A. sentimentalism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. naturalism

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Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.

A. the inner life of human beings
B. small town life in backward regions
C. suffering of the aged
D. violent events in history

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The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.

A. the Age of Romanticism
B. the Age of Realism
C. the Age of Modernism
D. the Age of Colonialism

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The main theme of _______’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.

A. Mark Twain
B. Henry James
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. William Dean Howells

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Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?

A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.
B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.
C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.
D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.

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