21. Samson Agonistes by ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.

　　A. John Milton

　　B. William Blake

　　C. Henry Fielding

　　D. William Wordsworth

　　22. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision,” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to ______.

　　A. William Blake

　　B. William Wordsworth

　　C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

　　D. George Gordon Byron

　　23. Two people could be “twain yet one” : their paths could be different, and yet they could achieve a kind of transcendent contact, ______ believed.

　　A. Walt Whitman

　　B. Ezra Pound

　　C. Washington Irving

　　D. Nathaniel Hawthorne

　　24. Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with a double vision.

　　A. the Jazz Age

　　B. the Age of Reason and Revolution

　　C. the Babybooming Age

　　D. the Post- Modern Age

　　25. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful styleforming mastery of the art” of creating modern fiction.

　　A. T. S. Eliot

　　B. Ernest Hemingway

　　C. William Faulkner

　　D. Mark Twain

　　26. The attitude towards life that ______ had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure”.

　　A. William Faulkner

　　B. Theodore Dreiser

　　C. Ernest Hemingway

　　D. F·Scott Fitzgerald

　　27. In 1841, ______ went to the South Seas on a whaling ship, where he gained the first- hand information about whaling that he used later in Moby -Dick.

　　A. Herman Melville

　　B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

　　C. Robert Lee Frost

　　D.T.S. Eliot

　　28. In most of his writings, ______ deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present, in the way the montage does in a movie.

　　A. Walt Whitman

　　B. William Faulkner

　　C. Ernest Hemingway

　　D.F. Scott Fitzgerald

　　29. In 1950, one of the leading American writers ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.

　　A. Robert Frost

　　B. Theodore Dreiser

　　C. William Faulkner

　　D.F. Scott Fitzgerald

　　30. Walt Whitman ’s ______ is a collection of poems incorporating his emotions and feelings before and during the Civil War when he stood firmly on the side of the North.

　　A. Leaves of Grass

　　B. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”

　　C. “Song of Myself”

　　D. Drum Taps