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Naturalism was a term created by the ____ novelist, Emile Zola.

A. French
B. American
C. British
D. Germany

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Black humor mostly is employed to describe baleful, naive, or inept characters in a fantastic or nightmarish modern world playing out their roles in what Ionesco called a “____”, in which the events are often simultaneously comic, horrifying, and absurd.

A. tragic farce
B. epic
C. sonnet
D. American dream

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Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their works?

A. Fragmentation and alienation.
B. Courage and honor.
C. Tradition and faith.
D. Poverty and desperation.

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Among the African American writers of the first half of the 20th century, ___ was the most durable and versatile: he was a poet, playwright, novelist, song writer, biographer, editor, newspaper columnist, translator and lecturer.

A. Counte Cullen
B. Cloude McKay
C. Jean Toomer
D. Langston Hughes

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American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were“____” given by Gertrude Stein．

A. Beat Generation
B. Great Generation
C. LostGeneration
D. Beatles Generation

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William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.

A. Eastern
B. Western
C. Southern
D. Northern

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The impact of Darwin’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:

A. maxism
B. naturalism
C. local colorism
D. symbolism

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____led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.

A. The Second World War
B. The First World War
C. American Civil War
D. Indenpendence War

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Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style?

A. His sentence structures are long and ungrammatical.
B. His words are colloquial, concrete, and direct in effect.
C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition, and anti-climax.
D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on contemporary writers

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