17. 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. Moby Dick

　　D. The Gilded Age

　　18. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteeth century . This was ________ .

　　A. Anne Bradsteet

　　B. Jane Austen

　　C. Emily Dickinson

　　D. Harriet Beecher

　　19 . In the 1920s decade ， O' Neil established an international reputation with such plays as ________ .

　　A. The Emperor Jones

　　B. Ann Christle

　　C. The Hairy Ape

　　D. All of the above

　　20 . The American Social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the “_____” .

　　A. First World War

　　B. Second world War

　　C. Civil War

　　D. War of Independence

　　21. The period of ______ literature extends from about 450 to 1066， the year of the Norman Conquest of England .

　　A. the old English

　　B. the Middle English

　　C. the modern English

　　D. Queen Victoria

　　22. The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of ________ which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 .

　　A. realism

　　B. humanism

　　C. romanticism

　　D. neoclassism

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