19秋《英美文学选读》作业_1
1.[单选题]H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”
A.Hamlin Garland
B.Joseph Kirkland
C.Mark Twain
D.Henry James
2.[单选题]" Charles Drouet ", " George Hustwood ", " Julia Hustwood " are most likely the names of the characters in ________.
A.Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession
B.Dreiser’s Sister Carrier
C.Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
D.Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus
3.[单选题]The lines, "The only other sound’s the sweep/Of easy wind and downy flake" ,are found in __________.
A.Robert Frost’s Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening"
B.William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C.John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D.Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
4.[单选题]In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.
A.Dreiser
B.Faulkner
C.Fitzgerald
D.Jack London
5.[单选题]Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.
A.Hand Times
B.Great Expectations
C.Our Mutual Friend
D.Bleak House
6.[单选题]The title of the novel “ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ” written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .
A.autobiographical
B.sentimental
C.joyful
D.bitter
7.[单选题]Dreiser＇s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .
A.The Genius
B.The Tycoon
C.The Stoic
D.The Giant
8.[单选题]In I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ,“daffodil” stands for___.
A.woman
B.nature
C.love
D.spring
9.[单选题]In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.
A.iamb
B.anapest
C.trochee
D.dactyl
10.[单选题]Virginai Woolf has a____ health.
A.good
B.stable
C.poor
D.normal
11.[单选题]Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield is perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.
A.comic
B.tragic
C.round
D.sophisticated
12.[单选题]"Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, my wife, and all the world, Are not with me esteem＇d above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer." The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare＇s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate___
A.dramatic irony
B.personification
C.allegory
D.symbolism
13.[单选题]Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?
A.Robinson Crusoe
B.Gulliver's Travels
C.Jonathan Wild the Great
D.A Sentimental Journey
14.[单选题]“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.
A.J.Keats
B.W.Blake
C.W.Wordsworth
D.P.Shelley
15.[单选题]According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy＇s dream to some day grow up to be ______.
A.Methodist preacher
B.a justice of the peace
C.a riverboat pilot
D.a pirate on the Indian ocean
16.[判断题]Daniel Defoe was born in a teacher’s family.
A.对
B.错
17.[判断题]Critical realism is the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.
A.对
B.错
18.[判断题]In To the Lighthouse,Minta and Paul are happy together.
A.对
B.错
19.[判断题]“The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.”the author of this poem is Robert Frost.
A.对
B.错
20.[判断题]As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
A.对
B.错
21.[判断题]Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular
A.对
B.错
22.[判断题]Fitzgerald’s first novel brought his instant fame and money.
A.对
B.错
23.[判断题]In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters.
A.对
B.错
24.[判断题]Robert Frost left Harvard because he dislike the academic convention.
A.对
B.错
25.[判断题]David Copperfield was born into a wealthy family.
A.对
B.错
19秋《英美文学选读》作业_2
1.[单选题]"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you." The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .
A.Pride and Prejudice
B.Jane Eyre
C.Wuthering Heights
D.Great Expectations
2.[单选题]In Robert Frost＇s famous poems"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ,there are four lines like these:"The woods are lovely,dark and deep,/But I have promises to keep ,/And miles to go before I sleep ,/ And miles to go before I sleep ".The second sleep refers to( ).
A.calm down
B.fall into sleep
C.die
D.stop walking
3.[单选题]Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies？
A.Macbeth
B.King Lear
C.Hamlet
D.The Comedy of Errors
4.[单选题]Two roads diverged in a yellow wood \rAnd sorry I could not travel both ... In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A.a travel experience
B.a marriage decision
C.a middle-age crisis
D.one’s course of life
5.[单选题]In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?
A.Blindness
B.Partiality
C.Snobbishness
D.Prejudice.
6.[单选题]American literature produced only one female poet during the ninetheenth century ， This was _______ .
A.Anne Bradsteet
B.Jane Austen
C.Emily Dickinson
D.T. S. Eliot
7.[单选题]Robert Frost is the author of all the following books of poetry except ______.
A.A Witness Tree
B.Steeple Bush
C.A Masque of Mercy
D.Jude the Obscure
8.[单选题]"So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! /Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"/In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .
A.Heathcliff
B.Catherine
C.ghost
D.one's spiritual lift
9.[单选题]George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.
A.Widower’ s House
B.Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
C.The Apple Cart
D.Getting Married
10.[单选题]With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.
A.Hawthorne
B.Dreiser
C.James
D.Faulkner
11.[单选题]"O prince, O chief of many throned powers," /That led th＇embattled seraphim to war /Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds /Fearless, endangered Heaven＇s perpetual King." /In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton＇s Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to ( ).
A.Satan＇s
B.God＇s
C.Adam＇s
D.Eve＇s
12.[单选题]Many people today tend to regard the play “ The Merchant of Venice ” as a satire of the hypocrisy of __________ and their false standards of friendship and love ， their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _________ .
A.Christians / Jews
B.Jews / Christians
C.oppressors / oppressed
D.people / Jews
13.[单选题]In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
A.emptiness of life
B.the corruption of the upper class
C.contrast of the rich and the poor
D.the happy days of the Jazz Age
14.[单选题]With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A.Sentimentalism
B.romanticism
C.realism
D.naturalism
15.[单选题]Auld Lang Syne was written by
A.William Wordsworth
B.John Keats
C.Walt Whiteman
D.Robert Burns
16.[判断题]William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.
A.对
B.错
17.[判断题]David Copperfield use the first person singular.
A.对
B.错
18.[判断题]The life of school at Hawkshead greatly affected Wordsworth’s poetry.
A.对
B.错
19.[判断题]Darwin exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers.
A.对
B.错
20.[判断题]The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".
A.对
B.错
21.[判断题]The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.
A.对
B.错
22.[判断题]William Wordsworth was brought up by his relatives beacaus of the death of his parents.
A.对
B.错
23.[判断题]Stylistically,poems of Robert Frost is characterized by simple language, a graceful style, and traditional forms of poetry.
A.对
B.错
24.[判断题]Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.
A.对
B.错
25.[判断题]Augustus Carmichael of To the Lighthouse is an elderly musician and friends of the Ramsays.
A.对
B.错
19秋《英美文学选读》作业_3
1.[单选题]What does Wordsworth＇s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?
A.To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual＇s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
B.Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C.Romanticist are not patient people
D.they would leave before the revelation of the theme.
E.Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.
2.[单选题]The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.
A.Ⅸ
B.Ⅺ
C.Ⅹ
D.Ⅷ
3.[单选题]Here are some lines from a literary work:I shall be telling this with a sigh,/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference.The work is ___.
A.Robert Frost'sThe Road Not Taken
B.John Milton's Paradise Lost
C.Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism
D.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
4.[单选题]Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.
A.life in New York
B.country life in New England
C.sea adventures
D.life on the Mississippi
5.[单选题].Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .
A.The Genius
B.The Tycoon
C.The Stoic
D.The Giant
6.[单选题]It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.
A.F. Scott Fitzgerald
B.William Faulkner
C.Ernest Hemmingway
D.Gertrude Steinbeck
7.[单选题]The assertion that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” belongs to ______.
A.William Wordsworth
B.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C.Robert Southey
D.William Blake
8.[单选题]which of the following is NOT written by Hardy?
A.The Return of the native
B.A Tale of Two Cities
C.Tess of d＇Urbervilles
D.Jude the Obscure
9.[单选题]American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "______."
A.sons of liberty
B.fatherless children
C.a beat generation
D.a lost generation
10.[单选题]Dickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.
A.innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters
B.horrible and grotesque
C.broadly humorous or comical characters
D.simple, innocent and faithful women characters
11.[单选题]Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.
A.the former celebrates reason, rationality , order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences
B.the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C.the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.
D.the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models
12.[单选题]What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet.
A.Cousins
B.Father-in-law and son-in-law
C.Uncle and nephew
D.Father and son
13.[单选题]In Hardy＇s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A.humorous
B.romantic
C.nostalgic
D.sarcastic
14.[单选题]The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___
A.Dorothy Wordsworth
B.William Wordsworth
C.Coleridge
D.John Keats
15.[单选题]The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “______.”
A.the Beat Generation
B.the Lost Generation
C.the Babybooming Age
D.the Jazz Age
16.[判断题]"To be, or not to be"is one of the question put forward by Hamlet at the beginning of the soliloquy.
A.对
B.错
17.[判断题]Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened during Victorian period.
A.对
B.错
18.[判断题]In Robinson Crusoe，Crusoe read magazine everyday
A.对
B.错
19.[判断题]The Scarlet Letter relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.
A.对
B.错
20.[判断题]Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.
A.对
B.错
21.[判断题]The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.
A.对
B.错
22.[判断题]The name of the first and most successful section in To the Lighthouse is “Window”.
A.对
B.错
23.[判断题]While studying at Lawrence High School, Frost wrote poems and finished his studies at the top of his class.
A.对
B.错
24.[判断题]According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" originally stood for "adultery" .
A.对
B.错
25.[判断题]After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of simple character and poor understanding.
A.对
B.错
19秋《英美文学选读》作业_4
1.[单选题]Dofoe had flair for business and______.
A.farming
B.economy
C.politics
D.medicine
2.[单选题]"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A.a travel experience
B.a marriage decision
C.a middle-age crisis
D.one’s course of life
3.[单选题]In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
A.Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B.Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie
C.Copper＇s Leather-Stocking Tales
D.Thoreau＇s Walden
4.[单选题]Which of the following is a comedy?
A.King lear
B.Macbeth
C.Hamlet
D.The Merry Wives of Windsor
5.[单选题]The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.
A.individual feelings
B.idea of survival of the fittest
C.strong imagination
D.return to nature
6.[单选题]Charles Dickens’ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.
A.The Pickwick Paper
B.Oliver Twist
C.David Copperfield
D.Nicholas Nickleby
7.[单选题]Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A.Christian
B.knightly
C.Greek
D.primitive
8.[单选题]What kind of girl is Dora?
A.pretty and clever
B.pretty and empty-headed
C.plain-looking and understading
D.lovely and clever
9.[单选题]Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.
A.Charlotte Bronte
B.Jane Austen
C.Emily Bronte
D.Ann Radcliffe
10.[单选题]Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.
A.17th
B.18th
C.19th
D.20th
11.[单选题]All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.
A.The Return of the Native
B.Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
C.Jude the Obscure
D.Far from the Madding Crowd
12.[单选题]Dreiser once wrote, “It is not intended as a piece of literary craftsmanship, but as a picture of conditions done as simply and effectively as the English language will permit.”which works did Dreiser remarks about?
A.Jennie Gerhardt
B.An American Tragedy
C.The Genius
D.Sister Carrie
13.[单选题]The lines, "Two roads diverged in a wood. and l/l took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference. " are found in __________.
A.Robert Frost’s The Road Not taken"
B.William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C.John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D.Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
14.[单选题]The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___
A.New York
B.England
C.Boston
D.Salt lake City
15.[单选题]Jane Austen passed away when she was___
A.38
B.48
C.42
D.52
16.[判断题]The publication of Twice-told Tales marked a turning point both in Hawthorne’s career and personal life.
A.对
B.错
17.[判断题]To the Lighthouse is divided into three sections and each different from the others in the treatment of time and structure.
A.对
B.错
18.[判断题]There is a wild rosebush in chapter one of The Scarlet Letter beside the prison door, but it is withered.
A.对
B.错
19.[判断题]The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by Frost.
A.对
B.错
20.[判断题]Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.
A.对
B.错
21.[判断题]In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bingley and the eldest girl Jane Bennet fall in love.
A.对
B.错
22.[判断题]Crusoe got spiritual support from his daily reading of the Bible.
A.对
B.错
23.[判断题]To put the stress on traditional values is NOT a typical feature of Modernism
A.对
B.错
24.[判断题]The last section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “ The Lighthouse”.
A.对
B.错
25.[判断题]In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.
A.对
B.错
1.[单选题]H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”
A.Hamlin Garland
B.Joseph Kirkland
C.Mark Twain
D.Henry James
2.[单选题]" Charles Drouet ", " George Hustwood ", " Julia Hustwood " are most likely the names of the characters in ________.
A.Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession
B.Dreiser’s Sister Carrier
C.Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
D.Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus
3.[单选题]The lines, "The only other sound’s the sweep/Of easy wind and downy flake" ,are found in __________.
A.Robert Frost’s Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening"
B.William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C.John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D.Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
4.[单选题]In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.
A.Dreiser
B.Faulkner
C.Fitzgerald
D.Jack London
5.[单选题]Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.
A.Hand Times
B.Great Expectations
C.Our Mutual Friend
D.Bleak House
6.[单选题]The title of the novel “ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ” written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .
A.autobiographical
B.sentimental
C.joyful
D.bitter
7.[单选题]Dreiser＇s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .
A.The Genius
B.The Tycoon
C.The Stoic
D.The Giant
8.[单选题]In I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ,“daffodil” stands for___.
A.woman
B.nature
C.love
D.spring
9.[单选题]In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.
A.iamb
B.anapest
C.trochee
D.dactyl
10.[单选题]Virginai Woolf has a____ health.
A.good
B.stable
C.poor
D.normal
11.[单选题]Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield is perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.
A.comic
B.tragic
C.round
D.sophisticated
12.[单选题]"Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, my wife, and all the world, Are not with me esteem＇d above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer." The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare＇s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate___
A.dramatic irony
B.personification
C.allegory
D.symbolism
13.[单选题]Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?
A.Robinson Crusoe
B.Gulliver's Travels
C.Jonathan Wild the Great
D.A Sentimental Journey
14.[单选题]“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.
A.J.Keats
B.W.Blake
C.W.Wordsworth
D.P.Shelley
15.[单选题]According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy＇s dream to some day grow up to be ______.
A.Methodist preacher
B.a justice of the peace
C.a riverboat pilot
D.a pirate on the Indian ocean
16.[判断题]Daniel Defoe was born in a teacher’s family.
A.对
B.错
17.[判断题]Critical realism is the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.
A.对
B.错
18.[判断题]In To the Lighthouse,Minta and Paul are happy together.
A.对
B.错
19.[判断题]“The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.”the author of this poem is Robert Frost.
A.对
B.错
20.[判断题]As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
A.对
B.错
21.[判断题]Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular
A.对
B.错
22.[判断题]Fitzgerald’s first novel brought his instant fame and money.
A.对
B.错
23.[判断题]In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters.
A.对
B.错
24.[判断题]Robert Frost left Harvard because he dislike the academic convention.
A.对
B.错
25.[判断题]David Copperfield was born into a wealthy family.
A.对
B.错
19秋《英美文学选读》作业_2
1.[单选题]"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you." The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .
A.Pride and Prejudice
B.Jane Eyre
C.Wuthering Heights
D.Great Expectations
2.[单选题]In Robert Frost＇s famous poems"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ,there are four lines like these:"The woods are lovely,dark and deep,/But I have promises to keep ,/And miles to go before I sleep ,/ And miles to go before I sleep ".The second sleep refers to( ).
A.calm down
B.fall into sleep
C.die
D.stop walking
3.[单选题]Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies？
A.Macbeth
B.King Lear
C.Hamlet
D.The Comedy of Errors
4.[单选题]Two roads diverged in a yellow wood \rAnd sorry I could not travel both ... In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A.a travel experience
B.a marriage decision
C.a middle-age crisis
D.one’s course of life
5.[单选题]In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?
A.Blindness
B.Partiality
C.Snobbishness
D.Prejudice.
6.[单选题]American literature produced only one female poet during the ninetheenth century ， This was _______ .
A.Anne Bradsteet
B.Jane Austen
C.Emily Dickinson
D.T. S. Eliot
7.[单选题]Robert Frost is the author of all the following books of poetry except ______.
A.A Witness Tree
B.Steeple Bush
C.A Masque of Mercy
D.Jude the Obscure
8.[单选题]"So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! /Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"/In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .
A.Heathcliff
B.Catherine
C.ghost
D.one's spiritual lift
9.[单选题]George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.
A.Widower’ s House
B.Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
C.The Apple Cart
D.Getting Married
10.[单选题]With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.
A.Hawthorne
B.Dreiser
C.James
D.Faulkner
11.[单选题]"O prince, O chief of many throned powers," /That led th＇embattled seraphim to war /Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds /Fearless, endangered Heaven＇s perpetual King." /In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton＇s Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to ( ).
A.Satan＇s
B.God＇s
C.Adam＇s
D.Eve＇s
12.[单选题]Many people today tend to regard the play “ The Merchant of Venice ” as a satire of the hypocrisy of __________ and their false standards of friendship and love ， their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _________ .
A.Christians / Jews
B.Jews / Christians
C.oppressors / oppressed
D.people / Jews
13.[单选题]In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
A.emptiness of life
B.the corruption of the upper class
C.contrast of the rich and the poor
D.the happy days of the Jazz Age
14.[单选题]With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A.Sentimentalism
B.romanticism
C.realism
D.naturalism
15.[单选题]Auld Lang Syne was written by
A.William Wordsworth
B.John Keats
C.Walt Whiteman
D.Robert Burns
16.[判断题]William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.
A.对
B.错
17.[判断题]David Copperfield use the first person singular.
A.对
B.错
18.[判断题]The life of school at Hawkshead greatly affected Wordsworth’s poetry.
A.对
B.错
19.[判断题]Darwin exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers.
A.对
B.错
20.[判断题]The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".
A.对
B.错
21.[判断题]The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.
A.对
B.错
22.[判断题]William Wordsworth was brought up by his relatives beacaus of the death of his parents.
A.对
B.错
23.[判断题]Stylistically,poems of Robert Frost is characterized by simple language, a graceful style, and traditional forms of poetry.
A.对
B.错
24.[判断题]Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.
A.对
B.错
25.[判断题]Augustus Carmichael of To the Lighthouse is an elderly musician and friends of the Ramsays.
A.对
B.错
19秋《英美文学选读》作业_3
1.[单选题]What does Wordsworth＇s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?
A.To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual＇s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
B.Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C.Romanticist are not patient people
D.they would leave before the revelation of the theme.
E.Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.
2.[单选题]The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.
A.Ⅸ
B.Ⅺ
C.Ⅹ
D.Ⅷ
3.[单选题]Here are some lines from a literary work:I shall be telling this with a sigh,/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference.The work is ___.
A.Robert Frost'sThe Road Not Taken
B.John Milton's Paradise Lost
C.Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism
D.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
4.[单选题]Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.
A.life in New York
B.country life in New England
C.sea adventures
D.life on the Mississippi
5.[单选题].Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .
A.The Genius
B.The Tycoon
C.The Stoic
D.The Giant
6.[单选题]It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.
A.F. Scott Fitzgerald
B.William Faulkner
C.Ernest Hemmingway
D.Gertrude Steinbeck
7.[单选题]The assertion that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” belongs to ______.
A.William Wordsworth
B.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C.Robert Southey
D.William Blake
8.[单选题]which of the following is NOT written by Hardy?
A.The Return of the native
B.A Tale of Two Cities
C.Tess of d＇Urbervilles
D.Jude the Obscure
9.[单选题]American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "______."
A.sons of liberty
B.fatherless children
C.a beat generation
D.a lost generation
10.[单选题]Dickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.
A.innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters
B.horrible and grotesque
C.broadly humorous or comical characters
D.simple, innocent and faithful women characters
11.[单选题]Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.
A.the former celebrates reason, rationality , order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences
B.the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C.the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.
D.the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models
12.[单选题]What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet.
A.Cousins
B.Father-in-law and son-in-law
C.Uncle and nephew
D.Father and son
13.[单选题]In Hardy＇s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A.humorous
B.romantic
C.nostalgic
D.sarcastic
14.[单选题]The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___
A.Dorothy Wordsworth
B.William Wordsworth
C.Coleridge
D.John Keats
15.[单选题]The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “______.”
A.the Beat Generation
B.the Lost Generation
C.the Babybooming Age
D.the Jazz Age
16.[判断题]"To be, or not to be"is one of the question put forward by Hamlet at the beginning of the soliloquy.
A.对
B.错
17.[判断题]Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened during Victorian period.
A.对
B.错
18.[判断题]In Robinson Crusoe，Crusoe read magazine everyday
A.对
B.错
19.[判断题]The Scarlet Letter relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.
A.对
B.错
20.[判断题]Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.
A.对
B.错
21.[判断题]The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.
A.对
B.错
22.[判断题]The name of the first and most successful section in To the Lighthouse is “Window”.
A.对
B.错
23.[判断题]While studying at Lawrence High School, Frost wrote poems and finished his studies at the top of his class.
A.对
B.错
24.[判断题]According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" originally stood for "adultery" .
A.对
B.错
25.[判断题]After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of simple character and poor understanding.
A.对
B.错
19秋《英美文学选读》作业_4
1.[单选题]Dofoe had flair for business and______.
A.farming
B.economy
C.politics
D.medicine
2.[单选题]"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A.a travel experience
B.a marriage decision
C.a middle-age crisis
D.one’s course of life
3.[单选题]In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
A.Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B.Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie
C.Copper＇s Leather-Stocking Tales
D.Thoreau＇s Walden
4.[单选题]Which of the following is a comedy?
A.King lear
B.Macbeth
C.Hamlet
D.The Merry Wives of Windsor
5.[单选题]The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.
A.individual feelings
B.idea of survival of the fittest
C.strong imagination
D.return to nature
6.[单选题]Charles Dickens’ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.
A.The Pickwick Paper
B.Oliver Twist
C.David Copperfield
D.Nicholas Nickleby
7.[单选题]Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A.Christian
B.knightly
C.Greek
D.primitive
8.[单选题]What kind of girl is Dora?
A.pretty and clever
B.pretty and empty-headed
C.plain-looking and understading
D.lovely and clever
9.[单选题]Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.
A.Charlotte Bronte
B.Jane Austen
C.Emily Bronte
D.Ann Radcliffe
10.[单选题]Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.
A.17th
B.18th
C.19th
D.20th
11.[单选题]All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.
A.The Return of the Native
B.Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
C.Jude the Obscure
D.Far from the Madding Crowd
12.[单选题]Dreiser once wrote, “It is not intended as a piece of literary craftsmanship, but as a picture of conditions done as simply and effectively as the English language will permit.”which works did Dreiser remarks about?
A.Jennie Gerhardt
B.An American Tragedy
C.The Genius
D.Sister Carrie
13.[单选题]The lines, "Two roads diverged in a wood. and l/l took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference. " are found in __________.
A.Robert Frost’s The Road Not taken"
B.William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C.John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D.Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
14.[单选题]The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___
A.New York
B.England
C.Boston
D.Salt lake City
15.[单选题]Jane Austen passed away when she was___
A.38
B.48
C.42
D.52
16.[判断题]The publication of Twice-told Tales marked a turning point both in Hawthorne’s career and personal life.
A.对
B.错
17.[判断题]To the Lighthouse is divided into three sections and each different from the others in the treatment of time and structure.
A.对
B.错
18.[判断题]There is a wild rosebush in chapter one of The Scarlet Letter beside the prison door, but it is withered.
A.对
B.错
19.[判断题]The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by Frost.
A.对
B.错
20.[判断题]Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.
A.对
B.错
21.[判断题]In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bingley and the eldest girl Jane Bennet fall in love.
A.对
B.错
22.[判断题]Crusoe got spiritual support from his daily reading of the Bible.
A.对
B.错
23.[判断题]To put the stress on traditional values is NOT a typical feature of Modernism
A.对
B.错
24.[判断题]The last section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “ The Lighthouse”.
A.对
B.错
25.[判断题]In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.
A.对
B.错
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