北语17春《英美文学选读》作业4

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2017秋北语17春《英美文学选读》作业4 一、单选题(共 20 道试题,共 100 分。) 1. When did William Faulkner win Nobel Price for Literature? A. 1939 B. 1949 C. 1940 D. 1950 正确答案: 2. You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____ A. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress B. Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels D. Henry Fielding's tom Jones 正确答案: 3. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ . A. comedies B. tragedies C. sonnets D. histories 正确答案: 4. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A. bland verse B. heroic couplet C. free verse D. iambic pentameter 正确答案: 5. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line by A. J. Keats B. W. Blake C. W. Wordsworth D. P. B. Shelley 正确答案: 6. The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they A. speak local dialects B. are polite and elegant gentlemen C. are simple and crude farmers D. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society 正确答案: 7. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their A. indestructible spirit B. pessimistic view of life C. war experiences D. masculinity 正确答案: 8. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in the American literary history. A. individual feelings B. idea of survival of the fittest C. strong imagination D. return to nature 正确答案: 9. ___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. A. Jane Eyre B. Emma C. Wuthering Heights D. Middlemarch 正确答案: 10. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century. A. Sentimentalism B. romanticism C. realism D. naturalism 正确答案: 11. 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 正确答案: 12. "I have no monarch in my life." this was said by___ A. Walt Whitman B. Robert Frost C. John keats D. Emily Dickinson 正确答案: 13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of___ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. A. poetry B. drama C. prose D. epic prose 正确答案: 14. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______. A. Robert Frost B. Allen Ginsberg C. Ezra Pound D. E. E. Cummings 正确答案: 15. Henry David Thoreau's work___, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. A. Walden B. The Pioneers C. Nature D. Song of Myself 正确答案: 16. which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser? A. Jennie Gerhardt B. Go down, Moses C. An American Tragedy D. Sister Carrie 正确答案: 17. 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?" 正确答案: 18. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? A. Religion and immortality B. Life and death C. Love and marriage D. War and peace 正确答案: 19. 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 正确答案: 20. 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 正确答案: