东师英美文学18春在线作业1

(单选题) 1: “When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.”(T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest? A: Violence.

B: Horror.

C: Inactivity.

D: Indifference.

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(单选题) 2: American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.

A: Jane Austen

B: Watt Whitman

C: Emily Dickinson

D: Harriet Beccher Stowe

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(单选题) 3: the most significant idea of the Renaissance is____.

A: humanism

B: realism

C: naturalism

D: skepticism

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(单选题) 4: Willam Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following except____.

A: the using of everyday language Spoken by the common people

B: the expression of the Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C: the humble and rustic life as subject matter

D: elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

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(单选题) 5: The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _______ period . A: modern

B: naturalist

C: romantic

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(单选题) 6: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________.

A: being hereditarily either good or bad

B: being self-sufficient

C: having no control over his own fate

D: still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

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(单选题) 7: The lake poets include all the following members except the author of the following work

A: The Prelude

B: Don Juan

C: The Ancient Mariner

D: Joan of Arc

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(单选题) 8: “Ode to the West Wind” is the representative work of_______ .

A: P.B. Shelley’s

B: John Keats’s

C: Samuel Coleridge’s

D: Lord Byron’s

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(单选题) 9: Black humor refers to the use of the morbid and the absurd for darkly _____ purposes . A: comic

B: tragic

C: entertaining

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(单选题) 10: The first novel of Thomas Pynchon is ______ .

A: V.

B: The Crying of Lot 49

C: Entropy

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(单选题) 11: The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event ?

A: The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

B: England’s domestic rest.

C: New discovery in geography and astrology.

D: The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

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(单选题) 12: Daisy Miller is written by ________.

A: Hawthorne

B: Twain

C: Melville

D: James

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(单选题) 13: “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This novel is most probably .

A: Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield

B: James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

C: Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd

D: Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

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(单选题) 14: The realists of the 18th century and those of the 19th century have the following in common except both of them

A: use the form of novel fully

B: present social and political events in details

C: indicate the broad social conflicts

D: describe the fate of individuals and of social classes

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(单选题) 15: 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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(单选题) 16: It is on his _______ that Washington Irving‘s fame mainly rested.

A: childhood recollections

B: sketches about his European tours

C: early poetry

D: tales about America

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(单选题) 17: John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect ___

A: Paradise Lost

B: Paradise Regained

C: Samson Agonistes

D: Areopagitica