华师17春学期《英美文学》在线作业资料

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华师《英美文学》在线作业




一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 50 分。）  V 1. Eugene O’Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________.
A. poetry
B. drama
C. fiction
D. literature

2.  ______ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Lee Frost
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Emily Dickinson

3.  According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is _________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
A. evil
B. virtue
C. kindness
D. tragedy

4.  John Milton became blind mainly because of_______________.
A. reading
B. disease
C. hard work
D. accident

5.  _______ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers “the true father of our national literature.”
A. Henry James
B. Washington Irving
C. Mark Twain
D. Theodore Dreiser

6.  In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from _________________.
A. the simple country life
B. the urban life
C. the life on the sea
D. the adventures and trips

7.  The total number of the essays published by Bacon is_________________.
A. 10
B. 26
C. 45
D. 58

8.  Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _____________________.
A. dramatist
B. essayist
C. actor
D. fiction writer.

9.  In his poems, Whitman tends to use ______.
A. oral English
B. the King’s English
C. American English
D. old English

10.  The first comedy Sheridan wrote is __________________.
A. The School for Scandal
B. The Critic
C. A Trip to Scarborough
D. The Rivals

11.  The first volume of poems of Byron is “_______________________”.
A. Hours of Idleness
B. Don Juan
C. Childe Harold Pilgrimage
D. Cain

12.  _________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.
A. An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. The Financier
D. The Titan

13.  Paradise lost is a great __________ consisting of 12 books.
A. epic
B. story
C. lyric poem
D. narrative poem

14.  Percy Shelly was expelled from Oxford University because he wrote a pamphlet “ On the Necessity of _____________”.
A. Atheism
B. Aesthetics
C. Athletics
D. Ethics

15.  Jane Austen was the daughter of a ____________________.
A. landlord
B. merchant
C. lawyer
D. rector

16.  Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreiser’s style is correct?
A. Dreiser’s Cowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The Genius
B. His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.
C. His novels are written in refined language.
D. His style is not polished but very serious.

17.  “___________________” is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.
A. Tintern Abbey
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. Lyrical Ballads
D. Prelude

18.  Bacon is not only a essayist and philosopher, but also a _________________.
A. lawyer
B. scientist
C. historian
D. dramatist

19.  Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________.
A. modern time
B. young Americans
C. Jazz Age
D. Guilded Age

20.  The first long serious work of Shelly is ________________________.
A. The Necessity of Atheism
B. Queen Mab
C. The Spirit of Solitude
D. Ode to the West Wind

21.  Bronte Sisters are all outstanding ________________.
A. essayists
B. playwrights
C. poets
D. novelists

22.  Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of serious literature and _______.
A. American folk humor
B. English folklore
C. American traditional values
D. funny jokes

23.  Robert Frost’s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________________.
A. the West
B. American South
C. New England
D. Mississippi

24.  Mark Twain’s first successful literary work is _____________________________.
A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
B. Life on the Mississippi
C. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

25.  In 1689 Jonathan Swift became the __________________of Sir William.
A. House-keeper
B. servant
C. private secretary
D. steward




华师《英美文学》在线作业




二、判断题（共 25 道试题，共 50 分。）  V 1. In style, her poems are characterized by their brevity, directness and plainness
A. 错误
B. 正确

2.  Shakespeare'a prime creating period lies in his third period when his greatest tragedies were written.
A. 错误
B. 正确

3.  Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. the main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.
A. 错误
B. 正确

4.  Tess is arrested and hanged because she murders her seducer Clare.
A. 错误
B. 正确

5.  Emily Dickinson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way, covering love, death and nature.
A. 错误
B. 正确

6.  In “This is my letter to the World” Dickinson expressed her reluctance to communicate with the outside world.
A. 错误
B. 正确

7.  The poem “Song of Myself” got this title from the first edition.
A. 错误
B. 正确

8.  Eugene O’Neil, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are together called “founders of the American drama.”
A. 错误
B. 正确

9.  Walt Whitman is granted the honor of being “the American Goldsmith” for his literary craftsmanship.
A. 错误
B. 正确

10.  Walt Whitman follows only one theme in his Leaves of Grass, that is, the burgeoning life in cities.
A. 错误
B. 正确

11.  In his novels, William Faulkner exploits the modern steam-of –consciousness technique to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.
A. 错误
B. 正确

12.  Fitzgerald shows an interest both in the upper-class society and in the lower-class society.
A. 错误
B. 正确

13.  Emerson’s lasting reputation was established by his masterpiece Essays.
A. 错误
B. 正确

14.  Emily Dickinson’s poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys.
A. 错误
B. 正确

15.  The Romantic Age began in 1789 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work "The Lyrical Ballads".
A. 错误
B. 正确

16.  As a Puritan, Hawthorne embraced the Puritanical doctrines and expresses them in his novels.
A. 错误
B. 正确

17.  Emersonian Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of famous authors like Whitman, Dickinson and Mark Twain.
A. 错误
B. 正确

18.  Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form.
A. 错误
B. 正确

19.  Each of Emily Dickinson’s poems has a well-chosen title.
A. 错误
B. 正确

20.  English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama.
A. 错误
B. 正确

21.  Paradise Lost is Milton's masterpiece; the story is taken from the Old Testament: Satan and other angels rebel against God.
A. 错误
B. 正确

22.  Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.
A. 错误
B. 正确

23.  In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story of sin.
A. 错误
B. 正确

24.  In Robert Lee Frost’s poems, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form.
A. 错误
B. 正确

25.  Leaves of Grass established Walt Whitman as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
A. 错误
B. 正确

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