《英美文学》2023年秋学期在线作业1

试卷总分:100  得分:97.5

一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

1.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?

A.Simile．

B.Metonymy．

C.Pun．

D.Synecdoche．

2.____ believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.

A.Charles Dickens

B.Thomas Hardy

C.Bernard Shaw

D.George Eliot

3.Best known for his novels about the adventure is

A.Dickens

B.Goldsmith

C.Defoe

D.Scott

4.Most of ______ works are set in the American South, with emphasis on the southern subjects and consciousness .

A.Hemingway‘s

B.Fitzgerald‘s

C.Faulkner‘s

5.“Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from

A.The Forsyte Saga

B.Jude the Obscure

C.The picture of Dorian Gray

D.Tess of D’ Urbervilles

6.Irving‘s Rip Van Winkle is famous for ______ .

A.Rip‘s escape into the mountain

B.Rip‘s seeking for happiness

C.Rip‘s 20–year sleep

7.“The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This novel is most probably .

A.Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield

B.James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

C.Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd

D.Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

8.Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with_______.

A.political problems

B.religious problems

C.moral problems

D.all the above

9.Chinese–American Literature can be defined as literature by and about ______ in America .

A.Chinese immigrants

B.Chinese students

C.Asian immigrants

10.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include _______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A.impressionism

B.expressionism

C.multiple points of view

D.first person point of view

11.Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by

A.Chaucer

B.Langland

C.Bede

D.None of the above

12._______ first collection of short stories is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque .

A.Irving‘s

B.Cooper‘s

C.Poe‘s

13._______ pen name was Mark Twain .

A.Samuel Langhorne Clemens‘

B.Henry James‘

C.William Dean Howells‘

14.“...This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether....” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that .

A.the Duchess was killed by her husband

B.the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order

C.the Duchess died of laughing too much

D.the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested

15.Mark Twain‘s first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize.

A.The Gilded Age

B.The Age of Innocence

C.The Roughing Time

D.The Jazz Age

16.“The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book

A.Heroes and Hero-worship

B.The French Revolution

C.A Modern Comedy

D.Life of Schiller

17.In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.

A.Swift

B.Blake

C.Milton

D.Defoe

18.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

19.Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.

A.humor

B.satire

C.passion

D.metaphor

20."Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak‘st thy knife keen." In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_______ .

A.oxymoron

B.pun

C.simile

D.synecdoche

二、判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

21.As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .

22.The imaginary place of Yoknapatawpha functions as an allegory of the American South .

23.The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.

24.The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.

30.Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.

26.Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.

23.Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters

34.The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby .

29.Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.

30.Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.

31.Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .

32.Thoreau , Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century .

33.Fitzgerald shows an interest both in upper–class society & lower–class society .

34.The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.

37.A ballad is written in 4-line stanza with the first and third lines rhymes.

36.Mark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .

37.According to Emerson , man is divine in nature .

38.In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .

39.Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.

40.The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution .

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