[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser set forth his _____ concept of the American society in his early works.


A. romantic
B. historical
C. naturalistic
D. realistic

[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser set forth his _____ concept of the American society in his early works.


A. romantic
B. historical
C. naturalistic
D. realistic

[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser set forth his ______ concept of the American society in his early works.
A. romantic
B. historical
C. naturalistic
D. realistic

[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser set forth his______concept of the American society in his early works.
A. romantic
B. historical
C. naturalistic
D. realistic

[单项选择]In all his novels, Theodore Dreiser set himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.


A. puritan
B. materialistic
C. psychological
D. religious

[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers of literary ______, which is greatly influenced by Darwin.


A. naturalism
B. sentimentalism
C. romanticism
D. transcendentalism

[单项选择]Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is a(n)
A. autobiography
B. short story
C. poem
D. novel

[单项选择]______ is written by Theodore Dreiser.


A. A Psalm of Life
B. Sister Carrie
C. Moby Dick
D. Emma

[单项选择]

Theodore Dreiser is old — he is very, very old. I do not know how many years he has lived, perhaps forty, perhaps fifty, but he is very old. Something gray and bleak and hurtful, that has been in the world perhaps forever, is personified in him.
When Dreiser is gone, men shall write books. Many of them, in the books, shall write there will be so many of the qualities Dreiser lacks. The new, the younger man shall have a sense of humor, and everyone knows Dreiser has no sense of humor. More than that, American prose writers shall have grace, lightness of touch, a dream of beauty breaking through the husks of life.
Of those who follow him shall have many things that Dreiser does not have. That is a part of the wonder and beauty of Theodore Dreiser, the things that others shall have because of him,
Long ago, when Dreiser was an editor of the Delineator, he went one day, with a woman friend, to visit an orphan asylum. The woman once told me the story of t
A. he folded and refolded the pocket-handkerchief
B. he felt pity for the children there
C. his tears ran down
D. All of the above.