英美文学18秋在线作业1-0005 试卷总分:100 得分:0 一、 单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分) 1.My Last Duchess is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Brownings ________. A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
英美文学18秋在线作业1-0005
试卷总分:100 得分:0
一、 单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)
1."My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s ________.
A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B.excellent choice of words
C.mastering of the metrical devices
D.use of the dramatic monologue
2.Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?
A.John Bunyan
B.Daniel Defoe
C.Alexander Pope
D.Jonathan Swift
3.“To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?
A.By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
B.By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.
C.By removing God from His throne.
D.By corrupting man and woman created by God.
4.Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes 3 novels : The Financier , The Titan and ______ .
A.The Tycoon
B.The Giant
C.The Stoic
5.______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age .
A.Hemingway
B.Fitzgerald
C.Steinbeck
6.The one who translated Homer’s epics into English is
A.Shakespeare
B.Marlowe
C.Chapman
D.Sidney
7.The ______ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.
A.Enlightenment
B.Renaissance
C.Chartist
D.Romanticist
8.American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.
A.Jane Austen
B.Watt Whitman
C.Emily Dickinson
D.Harriet Beccher Stowe
9.“The Forsyte Saga” is a trilogy by _______.
A.John Galsworthy
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Charles Dickens
D.H. Lawrence
10.The lake poets include all the following members except the author of the following work
A.The Prelude
B.Don Juan
C.The Ancient Mariner
D.Joan of Arc
11.For quite sometime after its appearance , Catch–22 was seen as a structural ______ despite its narrative power .
A.success
B.failure
C.miracle
12.“I will drink / life to the lees .” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he till the end of his life .
A.will keep traveling and exploring
B.will go on drinking and being happy
C.would like to toast to his glorious life
D.would like to drink the cup of wine
13.Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.
A.the evil in man’s heart
B.the material pursuit
C.the racial conflict
D.the social inequality
14.(The)____was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century．
A.Romandcism
B.Humanism
C.Enlightenment
D.Sentimentalism
15.Chaucer is called the founder of English realism because he portrays all the classes of English feudal society except_______
A.businessmen and scholars
B.nobles and serfs
C.plowmen and priests
D.knights and franklins
16.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .
A.mystery of the universe
B.sin of the whale
C.power of the Great Nature
D.evil of the world
17.Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .
A.pastoral lyric
B.elegy
C.eulogy
D.epic
18.In his poem“Tyger,Tyger，”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful Symmetry”of the big cat．The phrase“fearful Symmetry”Suggests____.
A.the tiger‘s two eyes Which are dazzlingly bright and Symmetrically set
B.the poet‘s fear of the predator
C.the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D.the harmony of the two opposte aspects of God’s creation
19.Romanticism extended from 1798 when Lyrical Ballads was published and in 1832 when
A.Austen died
B.Wordsworth died
C.Scott died
D.Shelley died
20.______ makes the climax of O‘Neill‘s literary career and the coming of age of American drama .
A.The Hairy Ape
B.Long Day‘s Journey into Night
C.The Iceman Cometh
二、 判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)
1.Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.
A.错误
B.正确
2.Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
A.错误
B.正确
3.Steinbeck is a sociological writer and his Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited middle class mind .
A.错误
B.正确
4.Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.
A.错误
B.正确
5.The Neo-classicism saw its decline in Johnson.
A.错误
B.正确
6.King Lear distributed his territory among his three daughters.
A.错误
B.正确
7.Essays of Elia was written by Mary Lame when she worked in East India House.
A.错误
B.正确
8.Pynchon‘s novel Gravity‘s Rainbow won the Faulkner Foundation Award .
A.错误
B.正确
9.Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.
A.错误
B.正确
10.Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.
A.错误
B.正确
11.Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.
A.错误
B.正确
12.The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.
A.错误
B.正确
13.The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.
A.错误
B.正确
14.The Lost Generation was first named by Hemingway .
A.错误
B.正确
15.In Shakespeare’s comedies the heroes and heroines attained their victory without much struggle.
A.错误
B.正确
16.One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.
A.错误
B.正确
17.The Celestial City in the Pilgrim’s Progress stands for an ideal happy society.
A.错误
B.正确
18.Black Humor is defined as modern humor caused by anger .
A.错误
B.正确
19.Stephen Crane was also a poet who influenced Imagist poetry .
A.错误
B.正确
20.Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies .
A.错误
B.正确
