第十二章
The ______ rations of many families during the Great Depression led to near-starvation conditions in both urban and rural areas. （ ）
答案:meagerThe wild, ________ music and style of dress during the 1920s gave way to the desperate and ________ days of the 1930s. ( )
答案:animated . . morose
The 1916 performance of Eugene O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff by the Provincetown Players marked the rise of American drama. （ ）
答案:对
O’Neill’s plays, including ________ reflect his New England background, his Irish American heritage, his reading of the Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, and his fascination with the theories and discoveries of modern psychology. ( )
答案:Strange Interlude ;The Iceman Cometh ;Long Day’s Journey into Night
Along with William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Tennessee Williams, ________ is sometimes classified as a Southern Gothic writer because of her detailed renderings of small town Southern life and her flair for creating eccentric—even grotesque—characters. （ ）
答案:O’Connor
Faulkner’s style often makes his writing difficult to follow because he experimented with repetition, ________, and ________. （ ）
答案:multiple points of view;stream of consciousness
Steinbeck’s greatest work, ________, was among the most widely read novels of the twentieth century. （ ）
答案:The Grapes of Wrath
Unlike the local colorists of the late 1800s, the Regionalists of the mid-twentieth century were less concerned with peculiarities of local dialect or dress than with the deeper impact of setting on character. （ ）
答案:对
In order to analyze the effects that Southern history had on its people, Faulkner wrote stories based on his hometown Yoknapatawpha County. （ ）
答案:错
While people in the United States were ________ in the economic recovery effort, Europe was about to ________ to another deadly war. （ ）
答案:engrossed . . succumb
