华师17秋《英美文学》在线作业题目
华师《英美文学》在线作业一、单选题:【25道,总分:50分】
1.Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary ( )( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. realists B. naturalists
C. romantists D. modernists
2.As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s art is concerned, which of the following statement is true? (满分:2)
A. His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.
B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.
C. Young Goodman Brown is a story about superstition.
D. Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.
3.Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning ( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. Childhood
B. youth and happiness
C. loneliness
D. death and immortality
4.Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a ( )( )( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. merchant
B. businessman
C. clergyman
D. writer
5.Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is ( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. blank verse
B. free verse
C. heroic couplet
D. sonnet
6.Percy Shelly’s greatest achievement is his four- act poetic drama “( )( )( )”. (满分:2)
A. Men of England
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Ode to the West Wind
D. The Revolt of Islam
7.In a tragic sense, ( ) is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible. (满分:2)
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls
B. In Our Time
C. The Old Man and the Sea
D. A Farewell to Arms
8.“I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up —And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then —…” (Emily Dickinson, “I like to see it lap the Miles—“)Here “it” refers to ( ) . (满分:2)
A. love
B. death
C. a fly
D. the train
9.The story of Paradise lost is taken from ( )( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. a legend
B. Bible
C. an epic
D. a folklore
10.Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the ( )( )( )( )( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. American Dream
B. ruling classes
C. American Capitalists
D. American bourgeoisie
11.Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of serious literature and ( ). (满分:2)
A. American folk humor
B. English folklore
C. American traditional values
D. funny jokes
12.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is “( )( )( )( )”. (满分:2)
A. A Tale of a Tub
B. The Battle of the Books
C. A Modest Proposal
D. Gulliver’s Travels
13.( ) is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.” (满分:2)
A. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C. The Gilded Age
D. Life on the Mississippi
14.Francis Bacon is not only a great ( )( )( ), but also the founder of modern science. (满分:2)
A. poet
B. essayist
C. dramatist
D. novelist
15.Robert Frost’s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in ( )( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. the West
B. American South
C. New England
D. Mississippi
16.In ( ), Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America. (满分:2)
A. “A Pact”
B. “Song of Myself”
C. “There was a Child Went Forth”
D. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”
17.An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it may probably refer to ( ). (满分:2)
A. Irene in The Man of Property
B. Emily in A Rose for Emily
C. Catherine in Wuthering Heights
D. the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
18.Jane Austen was the daughter of a ( )( )( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. landlord
B. merchant
C. lawyer
D. rector
19.Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ( ) poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime. (满分:2)
A. 1145
B. 1775
C. 897
D. 785
20.Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. Peasant
B. carpenter
C. captain
D. printer
21.( )( )( )( )( )( )( ) is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which is about the oldfisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin. (满分:2)
A. Farewell to Arms
B. For whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. The Old Man and The Sea
22.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is ( )( ) (满分:2)
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Washington Irving
23.Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ( )( )( )( )( ). (满分:2)
A. modern time
B. young Americans
C. Jazz Age
D. Guilded Age
24.Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreiser’s style is correct? (满分:2)
A. Dreiser’s Cowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The Genius
B. His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.
C. His novels are written in refined language.
D. His style is not polished but very serious.
25.Paradise lost is a great ( )( ) consisting of 12 books. (满分:2)
A. epic
B. story
C. lyric poem
D. narrative poem
二、判断题:【25道,总分:50分】
1.The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are discontinuity and fragmentation. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
2.Each of Emily Dickinson’s poems has a well-chosen title. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
3.In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story of sin. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
4.In his novels, William Faulkner exploits the modern steam-of –consciousness technique to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
5.Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are written in heroic couplet. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
6.Byron's masterpiece is Tom Jones. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
7.In 1805, Southey completed a long autobiographical poem entiled "The Prelude". (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
8.In “This is my letter to the World” Dickinson expressed her reluctance to communicate with the outside world. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
9.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. the main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
10.In Robert Lee Frost’s poems, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
11.Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on Hawthorne’s writing. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
12.Emerson’s lasting reputation was established by his masterpiece Essays. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
13.Philosophically, the naturalists believe that the real and true is always completely hidden from the understanding of the individual or beyond his control. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
14.Walt Whitman is granted the honor of being “the American Goldsmith” for his literary craftsmanship. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
15.According to Emerson, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
16.The Romantic Age began in 1789 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work "The Lyrical Ballads". (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
17.Paradise Lost is Milton's masterpiece; the story is taken from the Old Testament: Satan and other angels rebel against God. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
18.Tess is arrested and hanged because she murders her seducer Clare. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
19.In style, her poems are characterized by their brevity, directness and plainness (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
20.Emersonian Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of famous authors like Whitman, Dickinson and Mark Twain. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
21.Eugene O’Neil, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are together called “founders of the American drama.” (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
22.The poem “Song of Myself” got this title from the first edition. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
23.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
24.Leaves of Grass established Walt Whitman as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
25.Theodore Dreiser is greatly influenced by Darwinism and it is not surprising to find in his fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” is the law. (满分:2)
A. 错误
B. 正确
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