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F i l l i n t h e b l a n k s.

1.American achievements in the short story have demanded

international respect and admiration for more than a century and a

half. The first successful American short stories came from

Washington Irving in the early 19t h century.

2.Edgar Allan Poe is generall y thought of as the tru e beginner of the

short stories because he was the first writer who formulated a

poetics of the short stories.

3.In the 20t h century, there have been many who have won fame

abroad as well as in the US for their short stories: Sherwood

Anderson, Hemingway Fau lkner, Anna Porter, and dozens of

others.

4.As you read from writer to writer, from Washington Irving’s ‘Rip

Van Winkle’ to O’Connner’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’, you

will see the coming of a short story age, growing from an

entertaining tale into a story which probes deep into human souls.

5.Modern literary fiction has been dominated by two forms: the short

story and the novel.

6.Washington Irving, the Father of American Literature, developed

the short story as a genre in American literature.

7.Allan Poe is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective

stories. He is also credited with developing many of the standard

features of detective fiction.

Multiple choice

8.Edgar Allan Poe wrote poems which are marvels of beaut y and

craftsmanship, such as ____.

A. I Hear America Singing

B. The Raven

C. To a waterfowl

D. The fall of the House of Usher

9.The common thread throughout American literature has been the

emphasis on the___.

A. revolutionism

B. reason

C. individualism

D. rationalism

10.In American literature, the 18t h century was the Age of the

Enlightenment, ___ was the dominant spirit.

A. humanism

B. rationalism

C. revolution

D. evolution

11.Who was considered the “Poet of American Revolution”

12.

A. Michael Wigglesworth

B. Edward Taylor

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Philip Freneau

13.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

14.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

15.The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded

the works of such American writers as___.

A. Mark Twain

B. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Walt Whitman

D. Stephen Crane

16.Although realism and naturalism were products of the 19t h

century, their final triumph came in the 20t h century, with the

popular and critical successes of such writers as Edwin Arlington, William Cather, Robert Frost, William Faulkner and_____.

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Sherwood Anderson

C. Washington Irving

D. Ralph Ellison

17.American literature produced only one female poet during the

19t h century. She was___.

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Harried Beecher

18.With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene,

____ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19t h century.

A. sentimentalism

B. romanticism

C. realism

D. naturalism

19.Choose from the following write rs a staunch advocate of the

19t h century American realism.

A. Mark Twain

B. Washington Irving

C. Stephen Crane

D. Jack London

20.Which writer has naturalist tendency?

21.

A. Frank Norris

B. William Dean Howells

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Both A and C