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