东师英美文学2022年秋学期在线作业2[参考答案]

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

1.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley‘s poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except _______ .

A.tamed

B.swift

C.proud

D.wild

 

2.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

 

3.______ is a play that concerns the problem of modern man‘s identity .

A.The Hairy Ape

B.Long Day‘s Journey into Night

C.The Iceman Cometh

 

4.Frost took a ______ style in his poetry .

A.simple

B.complicated

C.modern

 

5.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a“____in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A.tragic epic

B.comic epic

C.romance

D.lyric epic

 

6.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

 

7.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?

A.More time to play.

B.More food to eat.

C.More book to read.

D.More money to spend.

 

8.For quite sometime after its appearance , Catch–22 was seen as a structural ______ despite its narrative power .

A.success

B.failure

C.miracle

 

9.“...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

 

10.The plot of ______ is divided into three parts.

A.Native Son

B.Invisible Man

C.Song of Solomon

 

11.Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens except

A.novelist

B.clerk

C.reporter

D.dramatist

 

12.Black humor refers to the use of the morbid and the absurd for darkly _____ purposes .

A.comic

B.tragic

C.entertaining

 

13.The Pilgrim‘s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .

A.material wealth

B.spiritual salvation

C.universal truth

D.self-fulfillment

 

14._______ has been regarded as the “founder of the American Drama”.

A.Tennessee Williams

B.Eugene O’Neill

C.Arthur Miller

D.Hendrik Ibser

 

15.In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?

A.More time to play

B.More food to eat

C.More books to read

D.More money to spend

 

16.Beowulf is a national epic of

A.Germany

B.England

C.Scandinavia

D.France

 

17.The impact of Darwin‘s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ________ .

A.local colorism

B.vernacularism

C.modernism

D.naturalism

 

18.Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?

A.Real estate.

B.Prostitution.

C.House-keeping.

D.Farming.

 

19.John Bunyan‘s pilgrim`s progress is often regarded as a typical example of____.

A.allegory

B.romance

C.epic in prose

D.fable

 

20.______________ 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

 

二、判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

21.The “dark comedy” refers to those written by Jonson in his third period of dramatic career.

 

22.The Lost Generation was first named by Hemingway .

 

23.The most striking similarities between Milton and Samson Agonistes are their blindness and unhappy marriage.

 

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

 

25.Hardy had written and published many poems before he achieved a reputation with his novels.

 

26.Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.

 

27.Wordsworth’s best poems are description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds .

 

28.Black Humor is defined as modern humor caused by anger .

 

29.The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.

 

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

 

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

 

32.King Lear distributed his territory among his three daughters.

 

33.The Neo-classicism saw its decline in Johnson.

 

34.Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century.

 

35.Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and events .

 

36.The Celestial City in the Pilgrim’s Progress stands for an ideal happy society.

 

37.Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.

 

38.The Joy Luck Club is a group of separate stories happening in men‘s club located in San Francisco Chinatown .

 

39.Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .

 

40.Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies .