26. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern fiction.( )
A. John Steinbeck B. Henry James
C. William Faulkner D. Ernest Hemingway
27. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by R. W. Emerson’s ______ theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.( )
A. transcendentalist B. egoist
C. post-modernist D. imagist
28. Robert Frost’s first collection ______ is marker by an intense but restrained emotion and the characteristic flavor of New England life.( )
A. North of Boston B. A Boy’s Will
C. A Witness Tree D. A Further Range
29. One of F·Scott Fitzgerald’ s best short stories is “______,” which depicts an American’ s return to Paris in the 1930s and his regretful realization that the past is beyond his reach.( )
A. The Birthmark B. To Build a Fire
C. Death in the Woods D. Babylon Revisited
30. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ______ with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. ( )
A. New England farmers B. England farmers
C. the Western cowboys D. the Southerners
