I. Directions: Please fill in the blanks with the appropriate answers. (10%)1. Born in Boston in 1706, ______ _ (author) is the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. He published his famous Poor Richard’s Almanac, an annual collection of proverbs. But his best writing is found in his own Autobiography, one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. 2. ______ (author), the first important American novelist, wrote historical novels known as The Leatherstocking Tales. His master work is considered The Last of the Mohicans (1826), set in 1757 during the French and Indian War. 3.______ refers to a burst of literary achievement in the 1920s by Negro playwrights, poets, and novelists who presented new insights into the American experience and prepared the way for the emergence of numerous black writers after mid-century. 4. The publication in 1922 of T.S. Eliot’s ______ (poem), the most significant American poem of the twentieth century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 5. ______ (1830-1886) is hailed as “the greatest female poet since Sappho,” and considered the precursor of the Imagist Movement. In America, perhaps only Walt Whitman is her equal in legend and in degree of influence. Her famous poems include “Because I could not stop for Death-.” 6. As a poet of nature,______ (author) frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. His famous poems include “The Road Not Taken,” “Fire and Ice,” and “Mending Wall”. 7. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, ______ (author), established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones (1920), Anna Christie (1921) and the Hairy Ape (1922). 8. Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Many consider American writers, ______ (poet), Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville to be the major Dark Romantic authors. 9. ______ (author), American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay “Civil Disobedience” (1849). 10. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the poem written by ______ (poet).