英美文学18秋在线作业2-0001 试卷总分:100 得分:0 一、 单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分) 1.In Hardys Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life． A.nostalg
英美文学18秋在线作业2-0001
试卷总分:100 得分:0
一、 单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)
1.In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life．
A.nostalgic
B.humorous
C.romantic
D.ironic
2.In his masterpieces ______ , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires and the moral and social chaos of the modern world .
A.Make It New
B.The Cantos
C.Polite Essays
3.One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is _____.
A.Lin Yutang
B.Sui Sin Far
C.Maxine Hong Kingston
4.The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .
A.ordinary country people and scenes
B.battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends
C.struggling masses and crowded urban quarters
D.fantasies and mythical happenings
5." ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.
A.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B.Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop
C.Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
D.Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
6.______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.
A.Edgar Ellen Poe
B.Walt Whitman
C.Henry David Thoreau
D.Washington Irving
7.A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．
A.morality
B.justice
C.property
D.humor
8.______ saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature in what has come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance .
A.1900s
B.1910s
C.1920s
9.Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ .
A.the author Henry James
B.the Italian youth Giovanelli
C.the American youth Winterbourne
D.her mother Mrs. Miller
10.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 .
A.Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate
B.there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
C.Huck is always an indecisive person
D.Huck has very little education
11.Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A.immortality
B.political
C.money
D.knowledge
12.Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except____.
A.Hamlet and King lear
B.Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
C.julius Caesar and Othello
D.the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream
13.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism，emphasizing that literary works should be judged by____rules of order,reason，logic，restrained emotion，good taste and decorum．
A.Classical
B.romantic
C.sentimental
D.allegorical
14.As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.
A.The Iceman Cometh
B.Long Day‘s Journey Into Night
C.The Hairy Ape
D.Desire Under the Elms
15.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .
A.1820
B.1850
C.1880
D.1920
16.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
17.Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas of
A.the 16th century
B.17th century
C.the 18th century
D.the19th century
18.Which is the movement that was popular in 1970s?
A.Women‘s Liberation Movement
B.Civil Rights Movement
C.McCarthy Era
19.The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _______, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.
A.Waiting for Godot
B.Murder in the Cathedral
C.Too True to Be Good
D.Mrs. Warren’s Profession
20.The English novelist_______ has been regarded as the “Prose Homer”.
A.Daniel Defoe
B.Jonathan Swift
C.Henry Fielding
D.Samuel Richardson
二、 判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)
1.Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .
A.错误
B.正确
2.Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .
A.错误
B.正确
3.On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.
A.错误
B.正确
4.As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .
A.错误
B.正确
5.Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.
A.错误
B.正确
6.The style of Lambs essays is characterized by its humor, familiarity and archaism.
A.错误
B.正确
7.Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and events .
A.错误
B.正确
8.The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.
A.错误
B.正确
9.The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
A.错误
B.正确
10.Beowulf was created in England.
A.错误
B.正确
11.Bellow‘s themes are concerned with the struggle of city dwellers to define their roles and responsibility in modern world .
A.错误
B.正确
12.Most of Saul Bellow‘s heroes are Jewish intellectuals or writers who try to discover the queerness of existence .
A.错误
B.正确
13.Wordsworth’s best poems are description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds .
A.错误
B.正确
14.Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.
A.错误
B.正确
15.Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.
A.错误
B.正确
16.Morrison is the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize .
A.错误
B.正确
17.In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .
A.错误
B.正确
18.Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century.
A.错误
B.正确
19.Amy Tan‘s first book published in 1976 called The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critic‘s Circle Award .
A.错误
B.正确
20.The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.
A.错误
B.正确
