英美文學(xué)2022年春學(xué)期在線作業(yè)2題目

試卷總分:100  得分:100

一、單選題 (共 20 道試題,共 50 分)

1.“For I have known them all already, known them all--／Have known the evenings，mornings，afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons．”The abovelines are taken from____.

A.Wordsworth‘s“The Solitary Reaper”

B.Eliot‘s“The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock，”

C.Coleridge‘s“Kubla Khan”

D.Yeats‘s“The Lake Isle of lnnisfree”

2.Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?

A.John Bunyan

B.Daniel Defoe

C.Alexander Pope

D.Jonathan Swift

3.______ 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

4.“You and the girls may go ,or you may send them by themselves , which perhaps will be still better , for as you are as handsome as any of them , Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part ?

A.Paradox

B.Simile

C.Irony

D.Antithesis

5.In his poem“Tyger,Tyger，”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful Symmetry”of the big cat．The phrase“fearful Symmetry”Suggests____.

A.the tiger‘s two eyes Which are dazzlingly bright and Symmetrically set

B.the poet‘s fear of the predator

C.the analogy of the hammer and the anvil

D.the harmony of the two opposte aspects of God’s creation

6.______ 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

7.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

8.In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” .

A.refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived

B.vividly describes a building of poor quality

C.is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian

D.symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious

9.The following are all Steinbeck‘s works except ______ .

A.Winesburg , Ohio

B.Of Mice and Men

C.Grapes of Wrath

10.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .

A.1820

B.1850

C.1880

D.1920

11.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

12.“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ______________.

A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language

B.excellent choice of words

C.mastering of the metrical devices

D.use of the dramatic monologue

13.In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?

A."Sailing to Byzantium"

B." Leda and the Swan"

C."The Lake Isle if Innisfree".

D." Sown by the Sally Garden"

14.The lake poets include all the following members except the author of the following work

A.The Prelude

B.Don Juan

C.The Ancient Mariner

D.Joan of Arc

15.Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.

A.Leaves of Grass

B.Go Down, Moses

C.The Marble Faun

D.As I Lay Dying

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.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .

A.normal contemporary speech patterns

B.humble and rustic life as subject matter

C.elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

D.intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience

18.Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?

A.Pound

B.Eliot

C.Frost

19.Dreiser‘s language style includes the following aspects except ______ .

A.being polished and graceful

B.lack of concision

C.massive detailed description

20.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens‘s _______ .

A.David Copperfield

B.Bleak House

C.Great Expectations

D.Oliver Twist

二、判斷題 (共 20 道試題,共 50 分)

21.Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.

22.Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .

23.Amy Tan‘s first book published in 1976 called The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critic‘s Circle Award .

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

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

26.Williams‘ sister Rose became the model for Laura in The Glass Menagerie .

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

28.Stephen Crane was also a poet who influenced Imagist poetry .

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

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

31.Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.

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

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

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

35.It was Maud Gonne who helped Yeats establish Abbey Theatre.

36.Steinbeck is a sociological writer and his Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited middle class mind .

37.Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.

38.In Shakespeare’s comedies the heroes and heroines attained their victory without much struggle.

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

40.Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.