北语18秋《英美文学选读》作业2（参考资料）

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【奥鹏】[北京语言大学]18秋《英美文学选读》作业2
试卷总分:100    得分:100
第1题,Jane Austen passed away when she was___
A、38
B、48
C、42
D、52



第2题,Virginia Woolf was born in___
A、1882
B、1767
C、1678
D、1890



第3题,"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost＇s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A、a travel experience
B、a marriage decision
C、a middle-age crisis
D、one＇s course of life



第4题,What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter?
A、Amy
B、Pearl
C、Nina
D、Berry



第5题,Charles Dickens was born in___
A、1765
B、1889
C、1812
D、1870



第6题,When did William Faulkner win Nobel Price for Literature?
A、1939
B、1949
C、1940
D、1950



第7题,Whitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .
A、the strict poetic form
B、the free and natural rhythm
C、the easy flow of feelings
D、the simple and conversational language



第8题,In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
A、Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B、Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie
C、Copper＇s Leather-Stocking Tales
D、Thoreau＇s Walden



第9题,Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare＇s Sonnet 18?
A、The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
B、The speaker satirizes human vanity
C、The speaker praises the power of artistic creation
D、The speaker meditates on man＇s salvation.



第10题,The pen name Mark Twain means___
A、water
B、safe water
C、river
D、clear water



第11题,Virginai Woolf has a____ health.
A、good
B、stable
C、poor
D、normal



第12题,Which of the following is NOT written by Defoe?
A、Captain Singleton
B、Sailor
C、Moll Flanders
D、Rubinson Crusoe



第13题,After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom＇s buddy Huck in a book entitled ___
A、Life on the Mississippi
B、The Gilded Age
C、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D、A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur＇s Court



第14题,Elizabeth Bennet was the___ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.
A、First
B、Second
C、Third
D、Fourth



第15题,Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of
A、Piers Plowman
B、Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C、Confessio Amantis
D、The Canterbury Tales



第16题,Which of the following is taken from John Keats＇Ode to a Nightingale?
A、"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
B、"Earth has not anything to show more fair."
C、"They are both gone up to the church to pray."
D、"was it a vision, or a waking dream?"



第17题,As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.
A、Nathaniel Hawthorne
B、Charles Darwin
C、Henry James
D、Ralph Waldo Emerson



第18题,"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?...And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you." The above quoted p
A、Pride and Prejudice
B、Jane Eyre
C、Wuthering Heights
D、Great Expectations



第19题,___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
A、Jane Eyre
B、Emma
C、Wuthering Heights
D、Middlemarch



第20题,When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___
A、Bush
B、Kennedy
C、Clinton
D、Fort