1. In his work Fire Next Time - James Baldwin argues for

2. Conflicts between characters with traditional Southern values and the aggressive - rapidlychanging world of modern America forms one of the major themes in

3. Sinclair Lewis’s tale of a middle class businessman’s discontent is entitled

4. Which author is known as 'the Chekhov of the Suburbs' for his writings about the social mores and emotional yearnings of upper-middle class suburban families?

5. Why can’t Black Elk Speaks be viewed as an authoritative text of Sioux culture?

6. Which of the following novels traces the rise and fall of a Southern politician?

7. How was the envelope in the story 'The Purloined Letter' hidden?

8. Which of the following authors is NOT classified as a member of the Romantic period in American fiction?

9. Which of the following is set among a cannibalistic tribe in the Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific?

10. Yoknapatawpha County appears in the works of

11. Which influential epic poem symbolizes Western civilization as a dry desert needing the rain of spiritual renewal?

12. What literary device does Mark Twain use to attack slavery and religion in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

13. The fictional village of Starkfield - setting of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome - is located in which state?

14. In which of the following novels does the protagonist Tyrone Slothrop undergo physiological conditioning to be able to detect things others cannot?

15. Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies - histories - and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we - through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition - and a religion by revelation to us - and not the history of theirs? This passage above is from the work of

16. The main character of Chopin’s The Awakening is

17. The former viewed nature as comprehensible and a source of divine inspiration and a new spirit of American individualism - while the later saw it as a savage force - beautiful but alien and perilous. The above text most likely refers to which two authors?

18. All of the following are poets known for their work after World War II EXCEPT

19. What is the setting for the protagonist’s walk with the devil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown?

20. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth - and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills - resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green - the army awakened - and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads - which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river - amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks - purled at the army’s feet; and at night - when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness - one could see across it the red - eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills. The passage above opens

21. The Beat poet who revolutionized American poetry with Howl was

22. Which poem describes the narrator’s 'sorrow for the lost Lenore'?

23. Holden Caulfield is the creation of which author?

24. Censorship by which of the following helped to determine the content of early American literature?

25. Which of the following was NOT common in early Puritan literature?