尔雅英美文学_2答案(学习通2023题目答案)
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Test for Unit 1 (The Early and Medieval Age)
1、Which of the following is 英美not a characteristic of Old English period literature?
A、The文学 literature of this period is rather primitive.
B、The答案 literature of this period mainly deals with the pagan tradition of Anglo-Saxons.
C、The学习 early stories of the Anglo-Saxon ancestors were written down by poets in their home country.
D、Old English literature provides precious materials for modern study and research.
2、通题Which of the following is 目答called the “national epic of the Anglo-Saxons” ?
A、Beowulf
B、尔雅The英美 Canterbury Tales
C、Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
D、文学Morte d’Arthur
3、答案Which of the following is 学习not true about Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?
A、In the work,通题 Chaucer assimilated foreign influence into English tradition.
B、It was written in English.
C、目答Chaucer employed heroic couplet in The尔雅 Canterbury Tales.
D、Chaucer depicted a variety of figures from different classes and occupations, but he described no women figures.
4、How would you describe the writer’s attitude towards “the prioress”?
A、admiring
B、satirical
C、positive
D、respectful
5、Which of the statements is true about the prioress?
A、The prioress is extremely beautiful.
B、The prioress speaks French like a native speaker.
C、The prioress takes pains to imitate courtly manners.
D、The prioress is charitable and sympathetic to the poor.
2.The English Renaissance
Test for Unit 2 (The English Renaissance)
1、Which play is about a daring scholar’s great thirst for knowledge?
A、Everyman
B、Doctor Faustus
C、Volpone
D、The Jew of Malta
2、Which of the following plays is NOT Shakespeare’s historical play?
A、Herny IV
B、Richard II
C、Henry V
D、The Tempest
3、Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the essay “Of Studies”?
A、frequent use of parallelism and balanced structure
B、logical, rational and objective tone
C、clear and concise language
D、emotional and passionate tone
4、Francis Bacon wrote many essays to teach the scholars and the upper class how to be efficient and make their way in public life.
5、The Faerie Queen is a great allegorical epic to celebrate Queen Elizabeth.
3.The Early 17th Century
Test for Unit 3 (The Early 17th Century)
1、1. Which king was executed during the English Civil War?
A、James I
B、Henry VIII
C、Charles I
D、Charles II
2、2. Which poem below is written by John Donne?
A、Illiad
B、"To Fortune"
C、"Death, Be not Proud"
D、"Lycidas"
3、3. Which work inspired Milton to compose his poem, Paradise Lost?
A、The Old Testament
B、Illiad
C、The Canterbury Tales
D、King Arthur
4、4. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey, Paradise Lost is also a/an _____, which is a very long and detailed poem that tells a story in dramatic detail.
A、Sonnet
B、Drama
C、Lyric
D、Epic
5、5.What was taken away from Adam and Eve after they’ve bitten the forbidden fruit against God's will ?
A、Health
B、Knowledge
C、Immortality
D、Happiness
4.The Restoration and the 18th Century
Test for Unit 4 (The Restoration and the 18th Century）
1、Which of the following statements is CORRECT about the prose“A Modest Proposal”?
A、The intention of the prose is to support cannibalism.
B、One of Swift’s genuine intention is to encourage fair treatment of the rich to the poor.
C、The speaker did a demographical and financial study of the issue, so this proposal is rational and scientific.
D、What the speaker suggested is a modest proposal.
2、Alexander Pope was an eminent poet enormously popular in his own day, which is during _____.
A、Sixteenth century
B、Seventeenth century
C、Eighteenth century
D、Nineteenth century
3、Which work cemented Alexander Pope's literary fame at the age of 23 ?
A、Pastorals
B、Windsor Forest
C、An Essay on Man
D、Essay on Criticism
4、Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in the West, which instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy and politics.
5、The Neo-classical literature imitates the style of the ancient Greek and Roman, which is passionate and imaginative.
5. The Romantic Period
Test for Unit 5 (The Romantic Period)
1、What movements can be seen as the social background for the rise of Romanticism in England?
A、the Enclosure Movement and the French Revolution
B、the Greece’s War of independence and the Industrial Revolution
C、the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution
D、the Commercial Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
2、What is the main characteristic attitude of the English Romantic literature?
A、reason over emotion
B、emotion over reason
C、justice over evil
D、nature over industry
3、Which figure of speech does the poet apply in the line“I wandered lonely as a cloud”?
A、exaggeration
B、metaphor
C、reverse personification
D、metonymy
4、What figure of speech does the poet apply in this line: “One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace”?
A、hyperbole
B、understatement
C、metaphor
D、synaesthesia
5、In Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”, from which phrase can we sense the swelled ego and arrogance of the pharaoh?
A、“Two vast and trunkless legs of Stone”
B、“frown”, “sneer of cold command”
C、“decay of” the “wreck”, nothing “remains”
D、“king of kings”, “Mighty”
6. The Novel: 1720-1880
Test for Unit 6 (The Novel:1720-1880)
1、Which literary genre enables people to read at home and also keeps them occupied for a long time?
A、poetry
B、drama
C、novel
D、prose
2、One of the first English novel written by Daniel Defoe in the Eighteenth century is _____.
A、Captain Singleton
B、Robinson Crusoe
C、Captain Jack
D、Moll Flanders
3、The novel Pamela written by Samuel Richardson is an epistolary novel as the entire story is told in the form of _____.
A、letters
B、diaries
C、poems
D、dialects
4、Which novel as below is written by Jane Austen?
A、Jane Eyre
B、Wuthering Heights
C、Persuasion
D、Agnes Grey
5、In Mansfield Park, there is very limited mention of the issue of _____ which is a backdrop of this novel.
A、the royal hierarchy
B、the industrial revolution
C、the Napoleonic Wars
D、slavery
7. The Victorian Age
Test for Unit 7 (The Victorian Age)
1、1. What is the most important thing we could learn from Tennyson’s Ulysses?
A、Never give up
B、The greatest adventures remaining to us are individual triumphs
C、A. Taking adventures bravely
D、A. Working hard to achieve the goal
2、2.In which poem the status of Victorian women in the society was discussed?
A、Ulysses (by Tennyson)
B、"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
C、"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point"
D、"My Last Duchess"
3、3. The Victorian writers were strongly vested in employing literature as a vehicle for _____.
A、aesthetics
B、social commentary
C、reward
D、entertainment
4、The short novel A Christmas Carol, which is written by ____, is probably the most famous modern Christmas story in the English language.
A、William Wordsworth
B、Dickens Charles
C、Jane Austen
D、Alfred Lord Tennyson
5、5. In Great Expectations, ____ was the benefactor from whom Pip got the chance to receive education and and rise in social mobility.
A、Magwitch
B、Mrs. Joe Gargery
C、Mrs. Havisham
D、Estella
8. Into the 20th Century
Test for Unit 8 (Into the 20th Century)
1、1. Which movement in the twentieth century was particularly associated with Ezra Pound?
A、Romanticism
B、Imagism
C、Symbolism
D、Futurism
2、2. The lines “Think how it wakes the seeds, woke once the clays of a cold star.” is taken from the poem _____ written by Wilfred Owen.
A、The Prelude
B、"Futility"
C、"In a Station of the Metro"
D、Ulysses
3、3. Which of the following is NOT James Joyce’s work?
A、Dubliners
B、Finnegen's Wake
C、Ulysses
D、The Portrait of a Lady
4、4. "Eveline" is told in _____, which refers to a story told by a narrator who is not a character in the action.
A、first-person
B、second-person
C、third-person
D、all above
5、5. Eveline has very little prospect for the future if she stays in Dubline, but it is difficult for her to cut her bonds. Which is wrong in the following about her past?
A、Eveline loves her family despite all the problems.
B、Eveline's father does not like her boyfriend.
C、Her father used to be very kind to her.
D、She promised to her dead mother to keep the family together.
9. Colonial American literature
Test for Unit 9 (Colonial American literature)
1、The concepts of the Age of Reason and Enlightenment can be found in the philosophy of _________ and the writing of ________.
A、Descartes; Voltaire;
B、Rousseau; Bacon
C、Rousseau; Voltaire
D、Descartes; Bacon
2、The most important work by Benjamin Franklin is ___________.
A、Of Plymouth Plantation
B、Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
C、The Autobiography
D、Pocahontas
3、In the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Jonathan took a line from the Bible. The line is ________.
A、Surely God is my salvation.
B、Their foot shall slide in due time.
C、God is the one who saves me.
D、The Lord is my shepherd.
4、The basic theological doctrines are _________.
A、total depravity
B、limited atonement
C、irresistible grace
D、predestination
5、Edwards describes sinners as __________, and ___________.
A、heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind
B、dry stubble before devouring flames
C、dark valley far from the villages
D、thorns of the crown worn by Jesus
10. American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Test for Unit 10 (American Romanticism and Transcendentalism)
1、Edgar Allan Poe believes that ____________ is the most poetical topic.
A、everlasting love
B、fluttering flowers beside the lake
C、the in-vain seeking of truth
D、the death of a beautiful woman
2、The short story “The Minister’s Black Veil” reviews Hawthorne’s view of sin and evil, that is, everyone is born with the __________.
A、Original Sin
B、Saving grace
C、Internal conflicts
D、Atheist tendency
3、Whitman once said to a journal editor, “I was simmering, simmering, simmering. ________ brought me to a boil”.
A、Hawthorne
B、Thoreau
C、Edgar Allan Poe
D、Emerson
4、Which of the followings is Emily Dickinson’s work?
A、“In the Station of the Metro”
B、“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
C、“A Bird came down the Walk”
D、“O Captain! My Captain!”
5、Emily Dickinson was widely acknowledged as a _________ poet.
A、pre-modernist
B、realist
C、romantic
D、naturalist
6、The slow rhythm of “Because I could not stop for death...” indicates_____ .
A、the speaker’s tiredness of the worldly life.
B、the disenchanted death.
C、the unavoidable death.
D、the speaker’s fear of death.
7、The speaker of “A Bird came down the Walk...”_________ .
A、is feeding and playing with the bird for pleasure.
B、is going to catch the bird for cage raising.
C、is timid and cautious approaching the bird.
D、is indifferent to the little bird.
8、In the Age of Romanticism, American writers of imaginative literature include ________.
A、Washing Irving, James Cooper
B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
C、Herman Melville
D、Edgar Allan Poe
9、Emerson urges his readers to _________.
A、be a nonconformist
B、follow one’s own voice
C、be self-reliant
D、be consistent
10、The Transcendentalism movement was an amalgam of ______________.
A、Buddhism
B、German and English Romanticism
C、Hindu teachings
D、Confucianism
11. American Realism and Naturalism
Test for Unit 11 (American Realism and Naturalism)
1、Which of the followings is not a characteristic of realism?
A、favoring a close observation of outward appearances
B、preferring passion over reason
C、showing concern for the commonplace
D、seeking to portray ordinary life as it really is
2、Mark Twain’s “______” refers to works that fictionalize people and events that he was familiar with.
A、“historical romances”
B、“tall tales”
C、“travel fiction”
D、“personalized fiction”
3、Which of the followings is not a work of Mark Twain?
A、The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C、Great Expectations
D、“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
4、According to the story "The Law of Life" , all the following except _________ is the law of life.
A、the inevitability of death
B、the indifference of Nature towards individuals
C、a person should face challenges to life on his own
D、nature is not concerned with the survival of any individual
5、Is the following statement true or false? Realists tend to emphasize the role of individual choice while naturalists view nature as indifferent in which human behavior is determined by biological, economic, and environmental forces.
12. American Modernism
Test for Unit 12 （American Modernism）
1、_________ describes America’s cultural attitude in America’s literary community after World War One.
A、Being triumphant
B、Being lost
C、Being angry
D、Being arrogant
2、___________ was not associated with modernism.
A、Thomas Pynchon
B、Ernest Hemmingway
C、William Carlos Williams
D、William Faulkner
3、The theme of “A Rose for Emily” emphasized in this lesson is _________.
A、America’s dark past
B、the loss of tradition
C、the dangers of small town life
D、the joy of southern life
4、In the story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, the old man attempt __________ last week?
A、
B、reconciliation with family
C、a new job
D、to write a book
5、Williams was interested in ___________________.
A、the “wasteland” of the 20th century
B、America’s loss of tradition
C、the beauty of everyday life
D、war
6、William’s most famous poem is___________.
A、“The red wheel barrow”
B、“To a Poor Old Woman’
C、“The Desolate Field”
D、“The Goldfish”
7、The narrator of “A Rose for Emily” is ________.
A、Emily
B、a police officer
C、Homer Barron
D、the collective “we” of the town
8、The most outstanding American novelist in the 1930s is ______ whose The Grapes of Wrath(1939) truthfully represent the poverty of the American farmers.
A、William Faulkner
B、John Steinbeck
C、Sherwood Anderson
D、F. Scott Fitzgerald
9、Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” belongs to the category of ______ ?
A、dramatic narratives
B、philosophical poems
C、satirical poems
D、nature lyrics
10、Is the following statement true or false? “In the Station of the Metro” is Ezra Pound’s most famous imagist poem.
13. Post-war American Literature
Test for Unit 13 ( Post-war American Literature)
1、The lesson says Bukowski is stylistically most similar to _______ .
A、William Carlos Williams
B、William Faulkner
C、Ernest Hemmingway
D、Thomas Pynchon
2、" A Smile to Remember " is about the deaths of ________.
A、Mother
B、Goldfish
C、Father
D、Grandfather
3、Mel is most accurately described as __________.
A、a very nice guy
B、a romantic who believes in true love
C、skeptical about love
D、a businessman
4、________ was a threat to Terri in her previous relationship.
A、Her ex husband
B、Mel
C、The narrator
D、A police officer
5、__________ was the only difference the Westcott’s had from other couples.
A、The size of their home
B、An interest in serious music
C、Large debts
D、Good taste in food
6、The radio seems most likely to represent ____________.
A、modern communication technology
B、the atomic bomb
C、plastic surgery
D、cultural communication
7、The theme of the story “The Glass Tower” is________.
A、money
B、tradition
C、nature
D、art
8、The “beautiful symbol” at the top of the mountain turn into _________.
A、a princess
B、a mountain of gold
C、a weapon
D、a door
9、The narrator of “My Life” finds _______ in his room.
A、a strange creature
B、money
C、an overdue bill
D、a letter
10、What does the speaker discover about “My Life”?
A、It is helpless without him
B、It will someday kill him
C、He will someday escape it
D、It is unhappy
Final Exam of British and American Literature
Final Exam of British and American Literature
1、What was NOT a typical genre of Anglo-Saxon literature?
A、War song
B、Heroic poem
C、Chronicle
D、Novel
2、In Canterbury Tales, at the beginning the pilgrims meet _________.
A、At the theatre
B、At church
C、At a pub
D、In the forest
3、The Renaissance is the time of ________.
A、Queen Victoria
B、Queen Elizabeth
C、King George
D、King James
4、Robinson Crusoe is a novel from the _________ century.
A、16th
B、17th
C、18th
D、19th
5、What was Shakespeare’s theatre called?
A、The Globe
B、The Earth
C、The Circle
D、Stratford-upon-Avon
6、How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
A、130
B、154
C、164
D、200
7、Shakespeare’s plays fall into three genres. They are _________.
A、Comedies, tragedies and romances
B、Romances, tragedies and histories
C、Histories, mysteries and romances
D、Comedies, tragedies and histories
8、The main religious conflict during Renaissance time was between ________.
A、Puritans and Protestants
B、Catholics and Puritans
C、Catholics and Protestants
D、The Pop and Puritans
9、The author of Lycidas and Paradise Lost is considered the last great poet of the English Renaissance. Who is he?
A、John Donne
B、Edmund Spencer
C、Richard Lovelace
D、John Milton
10、Which two English poets are responsible for the collection known as the Lyrical Ballads?
A、William Wordsworth and Robert Southey
B、Robert Burns and William Blake
C、William Wordsworth and Samuel Tayler Coleridge
D、Robert Southey and Walter Scott
11、Name the novel from the synopsis: A young man harbors ambitions of becoming a gentleman and living in London. One day these become reality when a mystery benefactor steps in to provide the funds.
A、Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
B、Persuasion by Jane Austin
C、Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
D、Pamela by Samuel Richardson
12、What marked the Victorian literary movement?
A、Romantic ideal
B、Exploration of the individual
C、Fear of War
D、Change and upheaval
13、Which of the Bronte sisters wrote Wuthering Heights?
A、Charlotte Bronte
B、Emily Bronte
C、Anne Bronte
D、Jane Bronte
14、The 18th century produced the best satires in English literature, and the most famous satirists include Alexander Pope and ________.
A、Jonathan Swift
B、Samuel Johnson
C、Thomas Gray
D、John Bunyan
15、Which of the following are famous poems by Lord Byron?
A、Prometheus Unbound and Queen Mab
B、The Eve of St. Agnes and Don Juan
C、Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan
D、Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Kubla Khan
16、The most accomplished writer of dramatic monologue in the 19th century is _______.
A、Alfred Tennyson
B、Robert Browning
C、Oscar Wilde
D、John Webster
17、A good definition of American Realism is__________.
A、A romantic portrayal of life
B、An examination of the countryside versus the city.
C、An examination of life as it actually is.
D、A sad and depressing view of reality.
18、During the American Revolutionary period, what great document was written?
A、Confessional poetry
B、The first romance novel
C、The great American novel
D、The Declaration of Independence
19、Postmodern writing often uses _______ and _______ as literary devices.
A、Black humor, metafiction
B、Metaphor, verbal irony
C、Symbolism, imagery
D、Biblical allusion, mythical allusion
20、Who is the author of the novel Moby Dick?
A、Edgar Allan Poe
B、Washington Irving
C、Herman Melville
D、James Fennimore Cooper
21、William Shakespeare wrote only theatre plays.
22、Gulliver’s Travels is an autobiography by Jonathan Swift.
23、Jane Austin combined romantic and realistic features in her novels.
24、William Shakespeare is one of the most influential figures in human civilization.
25、Early forms of the novel in the 1700s were disguised as true tales to garner credibility with readers. The prime examples include Robinson Crusoe and Pamela.
26、Poetry of unrhymed iambic pentameter lines is known as free verse.
27、The American Renaissance overlapped the Romanticism, in which American writers were trying to define themselves and their writing style as independent from England.
28、Writers in the Romantic period were concerned with love and romance.
29、Henry David Thoreau was one of the leading members of the Transcendental Club.
30、“A Rose for Emily” emphasized the joy of southern life.
31、Geoffrey Chaucer’s work ______________ gives us a picture of the condition of English life of his day, such as its work and play, its deeds and dreams, its fun and sympathy.
32、Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and _____________ are generally regarded as William Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.
33、The Romantic movement in England had two significant movements as its background: the French Revolution and __________ .
34、“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is a line from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” composed by ______________.
35、_________ is the author of “A Clean, Well-lighted Place”.
学习通英美文学_2
学习通英美文学是一段精彩的旅程，它带我们进入到文学世界中，探究不同国家和文化的文学经典。本文将着重介绍英美文学的一些代表作品。
英国文学
英国文学源远流长，其文学代表作品琳琅满目。其中，莎士比亚的戏剧作品是备受世人瞩目的，他的《哈姆雷特》、《李尔王》、《麦克白》、《奥赛罗》等经典作品都被誉为文学史上的里程碑。
而查尔斯·狄更斯的小说作品也同样具有极高的文学价值，他的《双城记》、《呼啸山庄》、《远大前程》等作品，描绘了英国维多利亚时期社会的真实生活。
美国文学
美国文学也有许多优秀的代表作品，其中，马克·吐温的《汤姆·索亚历险记》、《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》等作品，是美国文学史上不可或缺的经典之作。
而海明威的小说作品也同样具有极高的文学价值，他的《老人与海》、《太阳照常升起》等作品，描绘了人性与生命的深刻思考。
总结
英美文学代表作品丰富多彩，每一部作品都蕴含着深刻的人性思考和文化内涵。通过对这些经典作品的阅读和学习，可以拓宽我们的视野，增长我们的知识，更好地理解和欣赏文学之美。
学习通英美文学_2
学习通英美文学是一段精彩的旅程，它带我们进入到文学世界中，探究不同国家和文化的文学经典。本文将着重介绍英美文学的一些代表作品。
英国文学
英国文学源远流长，其文学代表作品琳琅满目。其中，莎士比亚的戏剧作品是备受世人瞩目的，他的《哈姆雷特》、《李尔王》、《麦克白》、《奥赛罗》等经典作品都被誉为文学史上的里程碑。
而查尔斯·狄更斯的小说作品也同样具有极高的文学价值，他的《双城记》、《呼啸山庄》、《远大前程》等作品，描绘了英国维多利亚时期社会的真实生活。
美国文学
美国文学也有许多优秀的代表作品，其中，马克·吐温的《汤姆·索亚历险记》、《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》等作品，是美国文学史上不可或缺的经典之作。
而海明威的小说作品也同样具有极高的文学价值，他的《老人与海》、《太阳照常升起》等作品，描绘了人性与生命的深刻思考。
总结
英美文学代表作品丰富多彩，每一部作品都蕴含着深刻的人性思考和文化内涵。通过对这些经典作品的阅读和学习，可以拓宽我们的视野，增长我们的知识，更好地理解和欣赏文学之美。
