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
____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
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
_____can be taken as an example of the employment of Black humor
A. Ernest Hemingway’s old man and sea
B. Joseph Heller’s Catch-22
C. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
D. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury