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that were on the surface about something else entirely.He drew his readers into the argument by drawingthem into the story.Again and again,in the postwar years,Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race.Considerthe most controversial,at least today,of Twain's novels,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Only a few bookshave been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn.Twain's most widely read tale.Once upon atime,people hated the book because it struck them as rude.Twain himself wrote that those who banned thebook considered the novel“trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟).”More recently the book has beenattacked because of the character Jim,the escaped slave,and many occurrences of the word nigger.(The termNigger Jim,for which the novel is often severely criticized,never appears in it.But the attacks were and are silly-and miss the point.The novel is strongly anti-slavery.Jim's searchthrough the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic.As J.Chadwick haspointed out,the character of Jim was a first in American fiction-a recognition that the slave had twopersonalities,"the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual:Jim,thefather and the man,”There is much more.Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefsof even many of the liberals of his day.Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to beinferior (to whites,especially in intelligence,Twain's tale centered in part around two babiesswitched at birth.A slave gave birth to her master's baby and,for fear that the child should be sold South,switched him for the master's baby by his wife.The slave's light-skinned child was taken to be white andgrew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class.The master's wife's baby wastaken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.The point was difficult to miss:nurture ()not nature,was the key to social status.The features ofthe black man that provided the stuff of prejudice-manner of speech,for example-were,to Twain,indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.Twain's racial tone was not perfect.One is left uneasy,for example,by the lengthy passage in hisautobiography about how much he loved what were called"nigger shows"in his youth-mostly with whitemen performing in black-face-and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them.Yet there is no reasonto think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggesthis keen awareness that they did not.Was Twain a racist?Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln.Ifwe read the words and attitudes of the past through the "wisdom"of the considered moral judgments of thepresent,we will find nothing but error.Lincoln,who believed the black man the inferior of the white,foughtand won a war to free him.And Twain,raised in a slave state,briefly a soldier,and inventor of Jim,may havedone more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any othernovelist in the past century.28.How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's?A.Twain was more willing to deal with racism.B.Twain was openly concerned with racism.C.Twain's themes seemed to agree with the plots.D.Twain's attack on racism was much less open.29.What best proves Twain's anti-slavery stand according to the author?A.Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.B.The slave's voice was first heard in American novels.C.Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.高三英语试卷第5页共11页