11. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ______ in the literary history of the United States.( )

　　A. the Age of Romanticism B. the Age of Enlightenment

　　C. New England Transcendentalism D. the Age of Realism

　　12. The three dominant figures of the period of Realism in American literature are ______.( )

　　A. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Jack London

　　B. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Theodore Dreiser

　　C. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Jack London

　　D. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James

　　13. ______ once described the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”( )

　　A. Ernest Hemingway B. Henry James

　　C. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser

　　14. ______ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international themes.( )

　　A. Washington Irving B. Henry James

　　C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Mark Twain

　　15. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings EXCEPT______.( )

　　A. religion and death B. immortality

　　C. man and woman D. love and nature

　　16. ______ proves to be his greatest work and by entitling this book with such a name, Dreiser intended to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde’s downfall inevitable.( )

　　A. The Titan B. Sister Carrie

　　C. The Financier D. An American Tragedy

　　17. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the famous ______ Movement in the history of American literature.( )

　　A. Symbolist B. Impressionist

　　C. Existentialist D. Imagist

　　18. Allen Ginsburg’s Howl became the manifesto of ______.( )

　　A. Postmodernism B. Imagism

　　C. the Beat Generation D. the Lost Generation

　　19. ______ is a school of modern painting, whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints. ( )

　　A. Expressionism B. Imagism

　　C. Cubism D. Impressionism

　　20. ______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. ( )

　　A. F. Scott Fitzgerald B. Ezra Pound

　　C. Robert Lee Frost D. Ernest Hemingway