26 ． The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence ______ proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.

A ． The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn               B ． Life on the Mississippi

C ． The Gilded Age                                            D ． Roughing It

27 ． The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ______ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ________ in a European cultural environment.

A ． Henry Adams’ … widow                                 B ． William James’ … girl

C ． Henry James’ … girl                                       D ． Theodore Dreiser’s … widow

28 ． Hawthorne intended to ______ in The Scarlet Letter.

A ． tell a story of parental love                            

B ． tell a story of sin and bloody violence

C ． call the readers back to the plantation way of living      

D ． reveal the human psyche after they sinned

29 ． “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ______.

A ． Mark Twain                                                 B ． Ezra Pound

C ． William Faulkner                                           D ． Ernest Hemingway

30 ． In many of Hawthorne ’s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his ______ and The Scarlet Letter.