东师《英美文学》2023年春学期在线作业2[答案][答案]

《英美文学》2023年春学期在线作业2题目

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

1.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.

正确答案:C

A.the 17th century … the American War of Independence

正确答案:C

B.the 21th century … the American Civil War

C.the 17th century … the American Civil War

D.the 21th century … the U.S. – Mexican War

正确答案:B

2.The one who translated Homer’s epics into English is

正确答案:D

A.Shakespeare

B.Marlowe

C.Chapman

D.Sidney

正确答案:A

3.“The Forsyte Saga” is a trilogy by _______.

正确答案:C

A.John Galsworthy

B.Thomas Hardy

正确答案:C

正确答案:B

C.Charles Dickens

正确答案:A

D.Lawrence

正确答案:C

4.Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel .

正确答案:D

A.Best writer of the English novel

B.Father of the English novel

C.the most gifted writer of the English novel

正确答案:A

D.conventional writer of English novel

正确答案:D

5.“In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .

正确答案:C

A.Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

正确答案:D

B.William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

正确答案:C

C.Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”

正确答案:B

D.John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”

正确答案:C

6.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?

正确答案:B

A.Simile．

B.Metonymy．

C.Pun．

D.Synecdoche．

正确答案:A

7.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?

正确答案:D

A.Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"

正确答案:B

B.Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.

正确答案:A

C.Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".

正确答案:A

D.Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis

正确答案:D

8.“Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.” (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”) What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?

正确答案:A

A.Synecdoche.

正确答案:B

B.Metaphor.

C.Simile.

D.Onomatopoeia.

正确答案:C

9.Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ .

正确答案:D

A.the author Henry James

B.the Italian youth Giovanelli

C.the American youth Winterbourne

D.her mother Mrs. Miller

正确答案:B

10.Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except

正确答案:C

A.search for Cup

B.life of King Arthur

C.fight against Roman invasion

D.illicit love

正确答案:A

11.the most significant idea of the Renaissance is____.

正确答案:D

A.humanism

B.realism

C.naturalism

D.skepticism

正确答案:C

12.G.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.

A.slum landlordism

正确答案:A

B.inequality between men and women

正确答案:C

C.political corruption

D.economic exploitation of women

正确答案:D

13.One of the following events played an important part in Chaucer’s writing:

正确答案:A

A.his marriage with a girl of noble family

B.his visit to Italy

C.his duty as a controller of the Customs

正确答案:B

D.his participation in the Hundred Years’ War

正确答案:D

14.Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?

A.Singer‘s

B.Salinger‘s

C.Vonnegut‘s

15.provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.

正确答案:C

A.The puritan heritage

B.Howells’ ideas of realism

正确答案:D

C.Darwin’s theory of evolution

正确答案:A

D.The pioneer spirit of the wild west

正确答案:C

16.The novelist who was born in Poland wrote

正确答案:C

A.The portrait of A Lady

B.A Passage to India

正确答案:D

C.The Heart of Darkness

正确答案:B

D.Dubliners

正确答案:D

17.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .

正确答案:B

A.John Keats

B.William Blake

C.William Wordsworth

正确答案:C

D.Percy Bysshe Shelley

正确答案:B

21.Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical

正确答案:A

A.mysticism

B.romanticism

C.lyricism

D.decadence

正确答案:A

19._______is the essence of the Renaissance.

A.Individualism

正确答案:C

B.Reason

C.Irrationalism

D.Humanism

正确答案:B

20.In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .

正确答案:C

A.Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate

正确答案:D

B.there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck

正确答案:D

C.Huck is always an indecisive person

正确答案:A

D.Huck has very little education

正确答案:B

东师《英美文学》2023年春学期在线作业2[答案]多选题答案

正确答案:C

二、判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

21.Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .

正确答案:C

22.Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on the writing of Hawthorne .

正确答案:C

23.As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .

24.On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.

正确答案:A

25.Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.

正确答案:B

26.The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.

正确答案:D

27.Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies .

正确答案:D

28.Mark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .

正确答案:D

29.The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby .

正确答案:B

30.The story of Catch–22 develops chronologically in a traditional structure .

正确答案:B

31.Irving was best known for his short stories such as Rip Van Winkle .

32.According to Emerson , man is divine in nature .

正确答案:A

33.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .

正确答案:D

34.One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.

正确答案:C

35.The protagonist of Catch–22 is called Herzog .

正确答案:D

36.The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.

正确答案:B

37.Essays of Elia was written by Mary Lame when she worked in East India House.

正确答案:B

38.All My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .

39.Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.

正确答案:D

40.The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.

正确答案:D