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18. Which of the following comments on the novel ’The Great Gatsby’ is not true?

A. The Great Gatsby is a novel that is a set against the ending of the war.

B. Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies American itself.

C. Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes. D. Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.

Answer: D (P581-582)

19. _____is Hemingway’s masterpiece.

A. Farewell to Arms B. For Whom the bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and the Sea Answer: D (P601)

20. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of William Faulkner’s "A Rose for Emily"?

A. She is a conservative aristocrat. B. She is a wealth lady. C. She is a prisoner of the past. D. She has good taste.

Answer: C (P617)

21. Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "I" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance?

A. Cummings B. Wallance Stevens C. Fitzgerald D. Ernest Hemingway

Answer: A (P548)

22. Who is the author of the writing "The Grapes of Wrath"?

A. John Steinbeck B. Eugene O’Neill C. Fitzgerald D. Theodore Dreiser

Answer: A (P548-549)

II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:

1. "The apparition of these faces in the crowded; / Petals on a wet, black bough."

1) From which poem does the stanza come? Who is the author?2) What does the “petals”mean?3) Briefly interpret the two lines.

Answers: 1) The lines are taken from "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound. (P557) 2) Here "petals" stands for "human faces". (P557)

3) The two lines compare human faces to petals on a wet, black bough. This way of making poetry comes from Chinese poetics. (P557)

2. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth"

Questions:

1) Please identify the poem and the poet; 2) Please briefly interpret this poem.

Answers:

1) It is taken from Robert Lee Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" (P566)

2) In this meditative poem, the speaker tells us how the course of his life determined when he came upon two rods that diverged in a wood. Forced to choose, he “took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader: "Make good choice of your life." (P555-556)

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3. "The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home. I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby’s house, making his still glowing