A
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Twice-Told Tales
B
．
The Blithedale Romance
C
．
The Marble Faun
D
．
The House of the Seven Gables
31
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The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes ________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.
A
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society
B
．
nature
C
．
ocean animals
D
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both A and C
32
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After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of ______.
A
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Realism
B
．
Reason and Revolution
C
．
Romanticism
D
．
Modernism
33
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H
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L
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Mencken considered ______ “the true father of our national literature”.
A
．
Bret Harte
B
．
Mark Twain
C
．
Washington Irving
D
