英美文学16秋在线作业1

李老师

英美文学16秋在线作业1
试卷总分：100       测试时间：--
单选题

一、单选题（共 40 道试题，共 100 分。）V
1.  Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens except
A. novelist
B. clerk
C. reporter
D. dramatist
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2.  “Humor” according to Ben Jonson means
A. fun
B. comedy
C. thought
D. temperament
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3.  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
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4.  The 18th century is called Age of ______
A. Chaucer
B. Shakespeare
C. Pope
D. Reason
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5.  All of the following are written by Hemingway except _______ .
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. Sartoris
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6.  Who is the writer of Moby Dick ?
A. Irving
B. Cooper
C. Melville
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7.  Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical
A. mysticism
B. romanticism
C. lyricism
D. decadence
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8.  The first novel of Thomas Pynchon is ______ .
A. V.
B. The Crying of Lot 49
C. Entropy
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9.  In William Blake‘s poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ .
A. benevolence
B. admiration
C. love
D. tyranny
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10.  The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice," are found in __________.
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"
B. William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C. John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
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11.  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
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12.  The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .
A. mystery of the universe
B. sin of the whale
C. power of the Great Nature
D. evil of the world
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13.  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
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14.  ______ 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
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15.  “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”
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16.  ________ is famous for his international theme .
A. Howells
B. Mark Twain
C. Henry James
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17.  “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
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18.  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
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19.  Author of Gulliver’s Ttravels also wrote
A. A Modest Proposal
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Henry V
D. The Tyger
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20.  Dramatic monologue was created by the author who wrote
A. Crossing the Bar
B. Ode to the West Wind
C. The Ring and the Book
D. Jude the Obscure
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21.  Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?
A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.
B. Tolerance of human foibles.
C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.
D. Glorification of religious faith.
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22.  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
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23.  Hardy started as a poet and ended as a
A. playwright
B. novelist
C. poet
D. critic
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24.  “ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this , and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to ?
A. Lover
B. Time
C. Summer
D. Poetry
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25.  Of the following all were written by Dreiser except _______ .
A. Sister Carrie
B. McTeague
C. The Financier
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26.  Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats?
A. “Sailing to Byzantium.”
B. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
C. “Leda and the Swan.”
D. “The Waste Land.”
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27.  Macbeth is Shakespeare’s_______.
A. sonnet
B. comedy
C. history play
D. tragedy
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28.  Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style ?
A. Thomas Gray
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Johathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
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29.  The statement"Studies serve for delight，for ornament，and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by____.
A. Francis Bacon
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. Jonathan Swift
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30.  Chinese–American Literature can be defined as literature by and about ______ in America .
A. Chinese immigrants
B. Chinese students
C. Asian immigrants
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31.  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
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32.  Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"?
A. He is an man of a action.
B. He is a man of apathy.
C. He is a man of passion.
D. He is a man of inactivity
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33.  The pair not correctly associated is
A. Blake-engraver
B. Goldsmith-poem
C. Fielding-playwright
D. Richardson-essayist
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34.  All the characters appear in Sons and Lovers except
A. Clara
B. Gertrude
C. Miriam
D. Sue
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35.  The publication of _______ established Emerson as the spokesman of Transcendentalism .
A. Nature
B. Self—reliance
C. The American Scholar
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36.  The ______ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.
A. Enlightenment
B. Renaissance
C. Chartist
D. Romanticist
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37.  Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author‘s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _______ .
A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D. pessimistic
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38.  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
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39.  _______ is not the work by Robert Frost.
A. “I heard a Fly Buzz ---- when I died”
B. “ The Road Not Taken”
C. “Home burial”
D. “After Apple-picking”
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40.  In Hawthorne‘s novels and short stories , intellectuals usually appear as _______ .
A. saviors
B. villains
C. observers
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