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1 Basic Literary Knowledge Ⅱ. Multiple Choices 1. Edgar Allan Poe wrote poems which are marvels of beauty and craftsmanship such as ________. A. I Hear America Singing B. The Raven C. To a Waterfowl D. The Fall of the House of Usher 2. Which writer is not a poet? A. Michael Wigglesworth B. Anne Bradstreet C. Edward Taylor D. Thomas Hooker .3. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the _______ A. Revolutionism B. Reason C. Individualism D. Rationalism 4. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment, ______was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution 5. Who was considered as the “poet of American revolution”? A. Michael Wigglesworth B. Edward Taylor C. Anne Bradstreet D. Philip Freneau 6. Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call _______. A. Age of Evolution B. Age of Reason C. Age of Romanticism D. Age of Regionalism 7. Howells defined realism as “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”, and he best exemplified his theories in three novels: The Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Laphan, and ______. A. White Fang B. The last of the Mohicans C. A Hazard of New Fortunes D. The Prince and the Pauper 8．Mark twain created, in ______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature. A. Huckleberry Finn B. Tom Sawyer C. The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury D. The Gilded Age 9. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such American writers as ______. A. Mark Twain