《英美文学》2023年秋学期在线作业2

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

1.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.

A.the 17th century … the American War of Independence

B.the 18th century … the American Civil War

C.the 17th century … the American Civil War

D.the 18th century … the U.S. – Mexican War

2.The one who translated Homer’s epics into English is

A.Shakespeare

B.Marlowe

C.Chapman

D.Sidney

3.“The Forsyte Saga” is a trilogy by _______.

A.John Galsworthy

B.Thomas Hardy

C.Charles Dickens

D.Lawrence

4.Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel .

A.Best writer of the English novel

B.Father of the English novel

C.the most gifted writer of the English novel

D.conventional writer of English novel

5.“In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .

A.Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

B.William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C.Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”

D.John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”

6.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．

7.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?

A.Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"

B.Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.

C.Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".

D.Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis

8.“Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.” (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”) What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?

A.Synecdoche.

B.Metaphor.

C.Simile.

D.Onomatopoeia.

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.Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except

A.search for Cup

B.life of King Arthur

C.fight against Roman invasion

D.illicit love

11.the most significant idea of the Renaissance is____.

A.humanism

B.realism

C.naturalism

D.skepticism

12.G.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.

A.slum landlordism

B.inequality between men and women

C.political corruption

D.economic exploitation of women

13.One of the following events played an important part in Chaucer’s writing:

A.his marriage with a girl of noble family

B.his visit to Italy

C.his duty as a controller of the Customs

D.his participation in the Hundred Years’ War

14.Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?

A.Singer‘s

B.Salinger‘s

C.Vonnegut‘s

15.provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.

A.The puritan heritage

B.Howells’ ideas of realism

C.Darwin’s theory of evolution

D.The pioneer spirit of the wild west

16.The novelist who was born in Poland wrote

A.The portrait of A Lady

B.A Passage to India

C.The Heart of Darkness

D.Dubliners

17.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .

A.John Keats

B.William Blake

C.William Wordsworth

D.Percy Bysshe Shelley

18.Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical

A.mysticism

B.romanticism

C.lyricism

D.decadence

19._______is the essence of the Renaissance.

A.Individualism

B.Reason

C.Irrationalism

D.Humanism

20.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

二、判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

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

22.Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on the writing of Hawthorne .

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

24.On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.

25.Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.

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

27.Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies .

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

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

30.The story of Catch–22 develops chronologically in a traditional structure .

31.Irving was best known for his short stories such as Rip Van Winkle .

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

33.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .

34.One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.

35.The protagonist of Catch–22 is called Herzog .

36.The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.

37.Essays of Elia was written by Mary Lame when she worked in East India House.

38.All My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .

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

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

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