美国文学习题
I.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items.
(10 x 1’= 10’)
1.In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment.
2.The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work
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II.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items.
(10 x 1’= 10’)
12._____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main
15.From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states
his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a
government.
A. Walden
B. Nature
C. Civil Disobedience
D. Common Sense
20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is
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II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):
1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose
name in unknown to us.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible Man
d. Go Tell It on
the Mountains
2.The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value of fine
appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in
which money is everything.
a.A Street Car Named Desire
b. The Hairy Ape
c.Long Day’s Journey
into Night
d. Death of Salesman
3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the
playwright himself.
a. Long Day’s Journey into Night
b. Henderson the Rain King
c. The Hairy Ape
d. The Glass Menageries
4.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how
the society is responsible for the murder.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible Man
d. Go Tell It on
the Mountains
5._________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second
World War.
a.A Farewell to Arms
b.The Catcher in the Rye
c.The Red Badge of
Courage
d. The Naked and the Dead
6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.
a.A Farewell to Arms
b.The Sun Also Rises
c.The Old Man and the Sea
d. The Naked and the Dead
7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and
travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.
a.T he Grapes of Wrath
b. U.S. A.
c.Babbitt
d. The Adventures of Augie March
8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with
such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.
a.B abbitt
b. Light in August
c. U.S.A.
d. The Grapes of Wrath
9.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose
title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
a. Absolom, Absolom!
b. The Sound and the Fury
c.A Farewell to Arms
d. The Great Gatsby
10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she
becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c. McTeague
d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in
the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.
a.Sister Carrie
b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
d.The Portrait of a Lady
12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in
the Civil War.
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c.The Red Badge of Courage
d. McTeague
13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the
universality and equality in value of all people and all things.
a.Cantos
b. The Raven
c. Song of Myself
d.Chicago
14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great
whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.
a.The Octopus
b. Moby-Dick
c. The Rise of Silas Lapham
d. Leaves of Grass
15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly
concerned with the four uses of nature.
a. Walden
b. Nature
c. The Scarlet Letter
d. The American Scholar
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I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):
1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.
a. The Pilgrims
b. Mayflower
c. America
d. Titanic
2._________ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.
a. Tennessee Williams
b. Eugene O’Neill
c. Arthur Miller
d. Elmer Rice
3._________ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Washington Irving
c. Mark Twain
d. Ernest Hemingway
4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Washington Irving
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson
d. Henry David Thoreau
5._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote
about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.
a. Pearl S. Buck
b.Harriet Bicher Stowe
c. Emily Dickenson
d. Walter Whitman
6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.
a. Washington Irving
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walt Whitman
d. Edgar Allan Poe
7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.
a. Stephen Crane
b. Frank Norris
c. Theodore Dreiser
d. Henry James
8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?
a. William Dean Howells
b. Mark Twain
c. Ernest Hemingway
d.Theodore Dreiser
9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is______.
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. William Faulkner
c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. Mark Twain
10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the
deep south. He is ______.
a. William Faulkner
b. John Steinbeck
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Mark Twain
11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews
are major characters.
a. Sinclair Lewis
b. Saul Bellow
c. Norman Mailer
d. Jerome David Salinger
12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Robert Frost
c. H.D.
d. Emily Dickinson
13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
a. John Steinbeck
b. William Faulkner
c. Eugene O’Neill
d. Arthur Miller
14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great
impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he?
a.Richard Wright
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. Langston Hughes
d.
Ralph Ellison
15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas ________
wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.
a.William Carlos Williams
b. William Faulkner
c. John Steinbeck
d. F.
Scott Fitzgerald
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I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):
2.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______.
a. N, S
b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries
c. Union, Confederacy
d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery
2._____________was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.
a.Anne Bradstreet
b. Edward Taylor
c. Thomas Paine
d. Philip Freneau
3.Mark Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature.
a. transcendentalism
b. naturalism
c. local colorism
d. imagism
4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Washington Irving
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson
d. Henry David Thoreau
5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________.
a. Washington Irving
b.Ezra Pound
c. Walt Whitman
d. Emily Dickinson
6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.
a. Washington Irving
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walt Whitman
d. Edgar Allan Poe
7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.
a. Stephen Crane
b. Frank Norris
c. Theodore Dreiser
d. William Dean Howells
8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?
a. William Dean Howells
b. Mark Twain
c. Ernest Hemingway
d.Theodore Dreiser
9. ________’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. William Faulkner
c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. Mark Twain
10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County
in the deep south. .
a. William Faulkner
b. John Steinbeck
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Mark Twain
11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews
are major characters.
a. Sinclair Lewis
b. Saul Bellow
c. Norman Mailer
d. Jerome David Salinger
12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Robert Frost
c. H.D.
d. Emily Dickinson
13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
a. John Steinbeck
b. William Faulkner
c. Eugene O’Neill
d. Arthur Miller
14. _______ was the first black American to write a book about black life with
great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.
b.Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. Langston Hughes
d. Ralph Ellison
15. ________ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short stories
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. William Faulkner
c. John Steinbeck
d. Ernest
Hemingway
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II. Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):
6.The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognized
by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.
a. The Hairy Ape
b. Henderson the Rain King
c. Long Day’s Journey into Night
d. The Glass Menageries
7.The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.
a.A Street Car Named Desire
b. The Hairy Ape
c.Long Day’s Journey
into Night
d.The Glass Menageries
8.The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his name is
unknown.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible Man
d. Go Tell It on
the Mountains
4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.
a. Long Day’s Journey into Night
b. Henderson the Rain King
c. The Hairy Ape
d. The Glass Menageries
5.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and
how he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible Man
d. Go Tell It on
the Mountains
6._________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second
World War.
a.A Farewell to Arms
b.The Catcher in the Rye
c.The Red Badge of
Courage
d. The Naked and the Dead
6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.
a.A Farewell to Arms
b.The Sun Also Rises
c.The Old Man and the Sea
d. The Naked and the Dead
10.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and
travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.
b.The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.
c.Babbitt
d. The Adventures of Augie March
11.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with
such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.
b.Babbitt b. Light in August
c. U.S.A.
d. The Grapes of Wrath
12.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose
title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
a. Absolom, Absolom!
b. The Sound and the Fury
c.A Farewell to Arms
d. The Great Gatsby
10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes with
Hurstwood and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c. McTeague
d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
11. It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group of people on a
whaling ship kill a great whale but they themselves are killed by the whale in the end, except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.
b.Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
c. Moby Dick
d. The Portrait of a Lady
12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in
the Civil War, in which wound is called the red badge which symbolizes courage.
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c.The Red Badge of Courage
d. McTeague
13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the
universality and equality in value of all people and all things.
a.Cantos
b. The Raven
c. Song of Myself
d.Chicago
14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially but who rises
morally because he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.
a.The Octopus
b. The Rise of Silas Lapham
c. Moby-Dick
d. Leaves of Grass
15. It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailed as the
“declaration of intellectual independence” in America.
a. The American Scholar
b. Nature
c. The Scarlet Letter
d. Walden
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II. Match the following (1×20%)
A. Match Works with Their Authors
1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
2.Walden
3. Autobiography
4. The Scarlet Letter
5.Leaves of Grass
6.The Raven
7. The Rise of Silas Lapham
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
9. Long Day’s Journey into Night
10. The Old Man and the Sea
a.Mark Twain b . Ernest Hemingway
c. Eugene O’Neill
d. William Dean Howells
e. Edgar Allan Poe
f. Walt Whitman
g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin Franklin
i.Henry David Thoreau j. Ezra Pound
k.Thomas Jefferson l. T.S. Eliot
B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.
1.Hester Prynne
2.Mrs. Touchett
3.Frederick Henry
4.Benjy Compson
5.the Joads
6.General Edward Cummings
7.Holden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas
8.Yank 9.Happy
a.The Portrait of a Lady
b. The Scarlet Letter
c. The Hairy Ape
d. A Farewell to Arms
e.The Sound and the Fury
f. The Grapes of Wrath
g. The Naked and the Dead
h. The Catcher in the Rye
i. Native Son
j. Death of a Salesman
k.Invisible Man
l.Catch-22
A. Match Works with Their Authors
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III. Match the following (1’×20=20’)
A. Match works with their authors
1.Nature
2.Rip Van Winkle
3. Nature
4. The Scarlet Letter
5.Leaves of Grass
6.The Raven
7. The Rise of Silas Lapham
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. Cantos
10. The Old Man and the Sea
a.Ezra Pound
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Mark Twain
d. William Dean Howells
e. Edgar Allan Poe
f. Walt Whitman
g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emerson
i.Washington Irving j. Waldo Emerson
k.T.S. Eliot l. Robert Frost
B. Match characters with the works in which they appear.
2.Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer
3.Frederic Henry and Catherine
4.Benjy Compson
5.the Joads
6.General Edward Cummings
7.Holden Caulfield 8.Bigger Thomas
9.The Tyrones 10.Willy Loman
a.The Portrait of a Lady
b. Moby-Dick
c. Death of a Salesman
d. A Farewell to Arms
e.The Sound and the Fury
f. The Grapes of Wrath
g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye
i. Native Son j. Long Day’s Journey into Night
k.Absalom, Absalom l. The Old Man and the Sea
A. Match Works with Their Authors
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B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.
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V. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 200 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.
1.To the best of your knowledge, analyze and make comments on Emerson’s
Nature
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/657810927.html,ment on any American poet you like.
3.Analyze and/or comment on any one of the American novels or plays you
have read.
V. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 200 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.)
4.Make comments on an American novel we have discussed in this course.
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6.Describe how your knowledge of American literature is improved after
taking this course..
IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)
1.Why do people think Franklin is the embodiment of American dream?
2.What is “Lost Generation”?
V. Discussion. (1 x 20’ = 20’)
State your own interpretations of Hemingway’s iceberg theory of writing? IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)
3.Wha t is Hawthorne’s style? Explain the style with examples.
4.At the end of the 19th century, there were three fighters for Realism. Who
are they? What are their differences?
________
True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)
1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.
2. Thomas Jefferson was the only American to sign the 4 documents that created the US.
3. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil.
4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology.
5. Hurstwood is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
6. Faulkner’s region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.
7. Placed in historical perspective, Howells is found lacking in qualities and depth. But anyhow he is a literary figure worthy of notice.
8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.
9. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.
10. Emily Dickinson expr esses her deep love in the poem “Annabel Lee”.
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II. Decide whether the statements are True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)
1. Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.
2. American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural elements.
3. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.
4. “Young Goodman Brown” wants to prove everyone possesses kindness in heart.
5. Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Twain or Howells.
6. The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality.
7. Frost’s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.
8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.
9. Roger Chillingworth is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
10. After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one.
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III. Please explain the following terms. (5 x 6’ = 30’)
1. Puritanism
2. Free verse
3. International novel: 4．Romanticism 5. Naturalism 6. American Realism 7.American Naturalism Modernism Imagism
1.Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.
2.Free verse: It is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that
attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure; instead, it uses the
cadences of natural speech.
3.International novel: IN brings together persons of various nationalities who
represent certain characteristics of their own countries.
4.Naturalism: It views human beings as animals in the natural world
responding to environmental forces and internal stresses and drives, over
none of which they have control and none of which they fully understand.
The literary naturalists have a major difference from the realists. They look
at a different spot to find real life.
III. Please explain the following terms. (5 x 6’ = 30’)
1. Puritanism
2. international novel
3. the lost
generation
Hemingway heroes
4. free verse
5.American
transcendentalism
1.Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.
2.international novel: IN brings together persons of various nationalities who
represent certain characteristics of their own countries.
3.the lost generation: reveals the huge destruction of the wars to the young
generation. It describes the Americans who remained in Paris as a colony of
“expatriates”. They were lost in disillusionment.
4.free verse: It is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that
attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure; instead, it uses the
cadences of natural speech.
5.transcendentalism: It stressed the power of intuition, believing that people
could learn things both from the outside world by means of the five senses
and from the inner world by intuition. It took nature as symbolic of spirit or God. All things in nature were sym bols of the spiritual, of God’s presence. It emphasized the significance of the individual and believed that the individual was the most important element in society and that the ideal kind of individual was self-reliant and unselfish. Transcendentalists envisioned religion as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “Oversoul”.
陶洁《美国文学选读》(第3版)章节题库-第十七章至第十八章【圣才出品】
第17单元20世纪美国诗人（1） I.Fill in the blanks. 1.Author_____Title_____（南京大学2007研） The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet,black bough. 【答案】Author:Ezra Pound；Title:“In a Station of the Metro” 【解析】题目节选自庞德的《在一个地铁车站》，该诗是以一个意象作为叙述语言的典型范例。 2.Ezra Pound’s lifelong endeavor had been devoted to the writing of_____,which contains_____poems.（国际关系学院2007研） 【答案】The Cantos;117 【解析】庞德把毕生精力都投入到写作《诗章》当中，《诗章》共包括117首诗。 3.Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the“_____”movement. 【答案】imagism 【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。 4._____was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with
one another:he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the same time.（人大2006研） 【答案】Wallace Stevens 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯(Wallace Stevens)是美国20世纪的著名诗人。他集企业家和诗人于一身。 5.Winner of the National Book Award in1950and the Pulitzer Prize in1963,______ is the author of the five-volume epic Paterson which is a lucid statement of the author’s aesthetics. 【答案】William Carlos Williams 【解析】威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯的代表作是《佩特森》，它清晰地表达了诗人的美学观点。 6.At the age of44,Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems,entitled_____. 【答案】Harmonium 【解析】1923年，44岁的华莱士-史蒂文斯出版了他的第一部诗集《风琴》（Harmonium）。 7.After his death,Wallace Stevens’s previously uncollected works appeared under the title_____. 【答案】Opus Posthumous 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯死后，其之前未收集的诗作集合成册于1957年发表，名为《遗作》(Opus Posthumous)。
美国文学试题库
美国文学试题库 注：试题库内容仅作为学习参考使用，并不代表考试内容。任何一道题均可能变化为其它形式的试题。 1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic 2.The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ . A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism 3. ____________were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. A. Calvinists B. Puritans C. Romanticists D. Transcendentalists 4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____. A. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices
美国文学史期末参考复习资料
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