北语网院17秋《英美文学选读》作业_1234参考
17秋《英美文学选读》作业_1第1题（单选题）Of all the novels written by Dickens, which one did he like best?
A.Oliver Twist
B.David Copperfield
C.A tale of Two Cities
D.Pickwick Papers
第2题（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.
第3题（单选题）Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “_______” .
A.A Tale of Two Cities
B.Great Expectations
C.Hard Times
D.David Copperfield
第4题（单选题）As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.
A.Nathaniel Hawthorne
B.Charles Darwin
C. Henry James
D.Ralph Waldo Emerson
第5题（单选题）Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland2 Lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!The above lines are taken from ______.
A.Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism
B.Wordsworth's “The Solitary Reaper”
C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”
D.Coleridge's “Kubla Khan”
第6题（单选题）Pride and Prejudice is mainly about the love between___
A.Jane and Bingley
B.Elizabeth and Darcy
C.Jane and Darcy
D.Kitty and Bingley
第7题（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
第8题（单选题）quot;Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ...quot;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
第9题（单选题）Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
A.Father of the English Novel
B.Father of the English Poetry
C.Father of the English Drama
D.Father of the English Short Story
第10题（单选题）Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy？
A.The Merchant of Venice
B.A Midsummer Night's Dream
C.As you like It
D.Romeo and Juliet
第11题（单选题）Which of the following is a tragedy?
A.Antony and Cleopatra
B.Twelfth Night
C. Julius Caesar
D. Much ado about Nothing
第12题（单选题）The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in the American literary history.
A.individual feelings
B. idea of survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination
D. return to nature
第13题（单选题）Charles Dicken＇s early years were___
A.happy
B.difficult
C.rich
D.sunny
第14题（单选题）which of Woolf＇ novels was adapted into movie named The Hours?
A.Mrs.Dalloway
B. The Waves
C. The Common Reader
D. To the Light house
第15题（单选题）In Shakespeare＇s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.
A.his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B.his enterprise went bankrupt
C.Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost
第16题（判断题）Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719
A.对
B.错
第17题（判断题）The character of Robinson Crusoe saves a savage and names him Friday.
A.对
B.错
第18题（判断题）In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Darcy dislike Elizabeth.
A.对
B.错
第19题（判断题）Each individual unit it collection of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot.
A.对
B.错
第20题（判断题）Robinson Crusoe was as popular among the English readers as Bible
A.对
B.错
第21题（判断题）Crusoe travelled on the other side of the island for three month.
A.对
B.错
第22题（判断题）It was said that Shakespeare was forced to leave his hometown to seek refuge in London.
A.对
B.错
第23题（判断题）Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.
A.对
B.错
第24题（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
第25题（判断题）There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known areSherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.
A.对
B.错
17秋《英美文学选读》作业_2
第1题（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
第2题（单选题）The English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1978 with the publication of ___.
A.Religion and immortality
B.Life and death
C.Lyrical Ballads
D.War and peace
第3题（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
第4题（单选题）The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___
A.New York
B.England
C. Boston
D. Salt lake City
第5题（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
第6题（单选题）The sentence quot;Shall I compare thee to a summer＇s day?quot; is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare＇s ________ .
A.comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
第7题（单选题）Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of
A.Piers Plowman
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis
D. The Canterbury Tales
第8题（单选题）We can easily find in Dreiser’ s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.
A.naturalism
B.romanticism
C.transcendentalism
D.cubism
第9题（单选题）It is generally regarded that Keats＇s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .
A.ode
B. elegy
C. epic
D. sonnet
第10题（单选题）William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT
A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
第11题（单选题）Here are two lines from a ling poem: quot;Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave.quot; The poem must be_____.
A.Beowulf
B.John Milton’s Samson Agonistes
C.Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County Churchyard
D. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
第12题（单选题）When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___
A.Bush
B. Kennedy
C. Clinton
D. Fort
第13题（单选题）Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?
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.
第14题（单选题）Dofoe had flairfor business and______.
A.farming
B.economy
C.politics
D.medicine
第15题（单选题）In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n） ______ of the Bennet family.
A.high opinion
B.great admiration
C.low opinion
D.erroneous view
第16题（判断题）Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular
A.对
B.错
第17题（判断题）In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.
A.对
B.错
第18题（判断题）“American dream”refers to “An American ideal of a happy and successful life to which all may aspire”.
A.对
B.错
第19题（判断题）As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
A.对
B.错
第20题（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
第21题（判断题）Frost had rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new”.
A.对
B.错
第22题（判断题）The heroine of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne
A.对
B.错
第23题（判断题）The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.
A.对
B.错
第24题（判断题）Robert Frost left Harvard because he dislike the academic convention.
A.对
B.错
第25题（判断题）The Scarlet Letter relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.
A.对
B.错
17秋《英美文学选读》作业_3
第1题（单选题）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 _______.
A.New York
B.London
C. Paris
D.Geneva
第2题（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
第3题（单选题）When Shakespeare arrived in London in 1586 or 1587, which in following was popularity among the people.
A.drama
B.poetry
C.prose
D.fiction
第4题（单选题）The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was___
A.Heathcliff
B. Rochester
C. James
D. David
第5题（单选题）Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.
A.reason
B.sense
C.rationality
D. sensibility
第6题（单选题）The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they
A.speak local dialects
B. are polite and elegant gentlemen
C. are simple and crude farmers
D. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society
第7题（单选题）Auld Lang Syne was written by
A.William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. Walt Whiteman
D. Robert Burns
第8题（单选题）Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse?
A.Mrs. Ramsay
B.Mr.Ramsay
C.David
D. James
第9题（单选题）quot;Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ...quot; 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
第10题（单选题）Eliot＇spoem，TheWasteLand，ismainlyconcernedwiththe（）ofamoderncivilization.
A.social corruption
B.spiritual breakup
C.physical breakup
D.religious corruption
第11题（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
第12题（单选题）quot;I have no monarch in my life.quot; this was said by___
A.Walt Whitman
B. Robert Frost
C. John keats
D. Emily Dickinson
第13题（单选题）quot;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.quot; 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
第14题（单选题）Jane Austen passed away when she was___
A.38
B.48
C. 42
D. 52
第15题（单选题）How many plays Shakespeare wrote in the first period
A.25
B.20
C.30
D.21
第16题（判断题）F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize in 1920s.
A.对
B.错
第17题（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
第18题（判断题）Fitzgerald’s first novel is The Beautiful and Damned.
A.对
B.错
第19题（判断题）Robert Frost loved farming and wrote poetry about countryside because he was a good farmer.
A.对
B.错
第20题（判断题）The first chapter of The Scarlet Letter depicts the prison door.
A.对
B.错
第21题（判断题）The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by Frost.
A.对
B.错
第22题（判断题）In To the Lighthouse,Minta and Paul are happy together.
A.对
B.错
第23题（判断题）Jane Austen’s novels deal with country landed gentry and world events.
A.对
B.错
第24题（判断题）American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called quot;a beat generationquot;.
A.对
B.错
第25题（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
17秋《英美文学选读》作业_4
第1题（单选题）quot; Charles Drouet quot;, quot; George Hustwood quot;, quot; Julia Hustwood quot; 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
第2题（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
第3题（单选题）Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost?
A.To Autumn
B. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C. Mending Wall
D. A Boy＇s Will
第4题（单选题）The ______ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.
A.Lost
B.Jazz
C.Reason
D.Gilded
第5题（单选题）In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.
A.commentators
B.observers
C.villains
D. saviors
第6题（单选题）A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral ______ , exposing all kinds of social evils.
A.revolutionaries
B.idealists
C.critics
D.defenders
第7题（单选题）Lots of people rushed to Gatsby＇s party at the weekend and they clustered around Castsby＇s wealth like（ ）.
A.gluttons
B. flies
C.insects
D.moths
第8题（单选题）Which of the following is NOT written by Wordsworth.
A.Lines Written in Early Spring
B.To the Cuckoo
C.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
D.Moll Flanders
第9题（单选题）Robert Frost described ______as “a book of people,” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.
A.North of Boston
B.A Boy’s Will
C.A Witness Tree
D. A Further Range
第10题（单选题）quot;This is my letter to the Worldquot; is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson＇s___ about her communication with the outside world.
A.indifference
B. anger
C. anxiety
D. sorrow
第11题（单选题）In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.
A.Emerson
B.Melville
C.Whitman
D.Hawthorne
第12题（单选题）Elizabeth Bennet was the___ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.
A.First
B.Second
C.Third
D.Fourth
第13题（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
第14题（单选题）Virginia Woolf was born in___
A.1882
B. 1767
C. 1678
D. 1890
第15题（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
第16题（判断题）In To the Lighthouse,the relationship between James and Mrs. Ramsay is son and mother .
A.对
B.错
第17题（判断题）Realism is true depiction of life as it really is.
A.对
B.错
第18题（判断题）The second section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “Time Passes”.
A.对
B.错
第19题（判断题）William Wordsworth was brought up by his relatives beacaus of the death of his parents.
A.对
B.错
第20题（判断题）By the end of his life Robert Frost had become a national bard and he received honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four Pulitzer Prizes.
A.对
B.错
第21题（判断题）Fitzgerald became “the angel of the twenties” and his writings those of a man inside that legendary period.
A.对
B.错
第22题（判断题）Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.
A.对
B.错
第23题（判断题）Augustus Carmichael of To the Lighthouse is an elderly musician and friends of the Ramsays.
A.对
B.错
第24题（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
第25题（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
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