东北师范大学英美文学21秋在线作业1

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

1.All the qualities can be contributed to Portia except

A.nosy

B.cultured

C.courteous

D.kind-hearted

2.Angry Young Man of the 1950’s most came from

A.the lower class

B.the upper class

C.peasants

D.workers

3.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .

A.simple character and quick wit

B.simple character and poor understanding

C.intricate character and quick wit

D.intricate character and poor understanding

4.In Hardy’s Tess of D’urbervilles , the heroine’s tragic ending is due to .

A.her weak character

B.her ambition

C.Angel Clare’s selfishness

D.a hostile society

5.________ is famous for his international theme .

A.Howells

B.Mark Twain

C.Henry James

6.Hardy started as a poet and ended as a

A.playwright

B.novelist

C.poet

D.critic

7.“ 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

8._______ believe that nature is ennobling and that the individual is important .

A.Puritans

B.realists

C.Transcendentalists

9.Backbite，Sneerwell，and Lady Teazle are characters in the play the School for Scandal by____.

A.Christopher Marlowe

B.Ben Jonson

C.Richard Brinsley Sheridan

D.George Bernard Shaw

10.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?

A.More time to play.

B.More food to eat.

C.More book to read.

D.More money to spend.

11.G.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.

A.slum landlordism

B.inequality between men and women

C.political corruption

D.economic exploitation of women

12.Irving was regarded as ______ .

A.father of American drama

B.father of American poetry

C.father of American Literature

13.It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .

A.ode

B.elegy

C.epic

D.sonnet

14.The publication of _______ established Emerson as the spokesman of Transcendentalism .

A.Nature

B.Self—reliance

C.The American Scholar

15.In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.

A.individualism

B.the spirit of democracy

C.freedom

D.all the above

16.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

17.“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

18.As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope’s .

A.“The Dunciad”

B.“An Essay on Man”

C.“An Essay on Criticism”

D.“The Rape of the lock”

19.“Rip Van Winkle” reveals the theme of _______ the past.

A.nostalgia for

B.rejection to

C.detachment from

D.nothing related to

20.Who is the writer that wrote about frontier adventures ?

A.Irving

B.Cooper

C.Melville

二、判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

21.Pynchon‘s novel Gravity‘s Rainbow won the Faulkner Foundation Award .

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

23.Irving was best known for his short stories such as Rip Van Winkle .

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

25.Morrison is the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize .

26.Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.

27.Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.

28.Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .

29.Pynchon‘s fascination with popular culture is overwhelmingly evident in the novel V.

30.Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies .

31.Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on the writing of Hawthorne .

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

33.Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.

34.The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.

35.In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .

36.With Bellow and Singer as Nobel Prize winners , the status of Jewish Literature as an important part of American Literature has been firmly established .

37.The stories in the Canterbury Tales are only connected by the host of Tabard Inn.

38.The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.

39.Bellow‘s themes are concerned with the struggle of city dwellers to define their roles and responsibility in modern world .

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