北语网教答案《英美文学选读》16秋作业3
北语网教答案《英美文学选读》16秋作业3一、单选题：
1.Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost? (满分:5)
A. To Autumn
B. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C. Mending Wall
D. A Boy＇s Will
2.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ( ). (满分:5)
A. international theme
B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
3.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ( )＇s thematic concern in his fiction writing. (满分:5)
A. Henry James
B. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
4.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the ( ). (满分:5)
A. life in New York
B. country life in New England
C. sea adventures
D. life on the Mississippi
5.What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter? (满分:5)
A. Amy
B. Pearl
C. Nina
D. Berry
6.The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from( ) (满分:5)
A. A Witness Tree
B. Steeple Bush
C. New Hampshire
D. A Further Range
7.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? (满分:5)
A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
D. Most writers were politically radical.
8.American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "( )." (满分:5)
A. sons of liberty
B. fatherless children
C. a beat generation
D. a lost generation
9.In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for ( ). (满分:5)
A. New York
B. London
C. Paris
D. Geneva
10.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 ( ). (满分:5)
A. Methodist preacher
B. a justice of the peace
C. a riverboat pilot
D. a pirate on the Indian ocean
11."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 ( ). (满分:5)
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. one＇s course of life
12.Which book marked the turning point of Hawthornw＇ career and his personal life? (满分:5)
A. Twice-Told Tales
B. Fanshawe
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Mosess from an Old Manse
13.In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show ( ). (满分:5)
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.The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in (满分:5)
A. New York
B. England
C. Boston
D. Salt lake City
15.Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about ( ) who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him. (满分:5)
A. a vagabond
B. an idealist
C. an eccentric
D. an opportunist
16.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ( ) farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. (满分:5)
A. Southern
B. Western
C. New Hampshire
D. New England
17.Dreiser＇s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ( ) . (满分:5)
A. The Genius
B. The Tycoon
C. The Stoic
D. The Giant
18.As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by ( ). (满分:5)
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Charles Darwin
C. Henry James
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
19.The pen name Mark Twain means (满分:5)
A. water
B. safe water
C. river
D. clear water
20.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true? (满分:5)
A. It explores man＇s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.
B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.
C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.
D. It presents a p
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