英美文学2.Frost took a ( ) style in his poetry .

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英美文学16秋在线作业2
一、单选题：
1."My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s (    )(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    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
2.Frost took a (    ) style in his poetry .          (满分:2.5)
    A. simple
    B. complicated
    C. modern
3.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .          (满分:2.5)
    A. John Keats
    B. William Blake
    C. William Wordsworth
    D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.“In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
    B. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
    C. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”
    D. John Donne’s “A Valediction
5.If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by(    ).          (满分:2.5)
     Forbidding Mourning”
6.Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. J．Keats
    B. W．Blake
    C. W. Wordsworth
    D. P.B．Shelley
7.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include (    ) , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Genius
    B. The Tycoon
    C. The Stoic
    D. The Giant
8.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?          (满分:2.5)
    A. impressionism
    B. expressionism
    C. multiple points of view
    D. first person point of view
9.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. James Joyce’s Ulsses.
    B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.
    C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
    D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.
10.Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    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.
11.Who is not considered a Beat Generation writer?          (满分:2.5)
    A. the author Henry James
    B. the Italian youth Giovanelli
    C. the American youth Winterbourne
    D. her mother Mrs. Miller
12.John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect           (满分:2.5)
    A. Kerouac
    B. Ginsberg
    C. Mailer
13.As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s (    ) （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Paradise Lost
    B. Paradise Regained
    C. Samson Agonistes
    D. Areopagitica
14.In Leaves of Grass, (    ) is all that concerned Whitman.          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Iceman Cometh
    B. Long Day‘s Journey Into Night
    C. The Hairy Ape
    D. Desire Under the Elms
15.Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. individualism
    B. the spirit of democracy
    C. freedom
    D. all the above
16.“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s (    )(    )(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. Pound
    B. Eliot
    C. Frost
17.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .          (满分:2.5)
    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.Which of the following information about John Milton is NOT true?          (满分:2.5)
    A. mystery of the universe
    B. sin of the whale
    C. power of the Great Nature
    D. evil of the world
19.Dreiser‘s language style includes the following aspects except (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. John Milton was the greatest English Poets after Shakespeare.
    B. Milton was born in a Roman Catholic family and both his parents were understanding parents.
    C. He received education at Cambridge and in 1632 he completed his M.A
    D. His masterpiece is Paradise Lost
20.The plot of (    ) is divided into three parts.          (满分:2.5)
    A. being polished and graceful
    B. lack of concision
    C. massive detailed description
21.In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Native Son
    B. Invisible Man
    C. Song of Solomon
22.In Hawthorne‘s "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches‘ Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem‘s Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne‘s allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of (    ) ."          (满分:2.5)
    A. More time to play
    B. More food to eat
    C. More books to read
    D. More money to spend
23.The first novel of Thomas Pynchon is (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. blackness
    B. whiteness
    C. terror
    D. hypocrisy
24.(    ) deals with a limited range of characters in quite similar circumstances and measures     them against an unvarying code , known as ‘‘ grace under pressure ‘‘ .          (满分:2.5)
    A. V.
    B. The Crying of Lot 49
    C. Entropy
25.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Eliot
    B. Lewis
    C. Hemingway
26.Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions
27.“I will drink / life to the lees .” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he till the end of his life .          (满分:2.5)
     "God is dead"
    B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
    C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
    D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
28.Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?          (满分:2.5)
    A. he was born in a Roman Catholic family
    B. he received his education at Oxford and Cambridge
    C. later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.
    D. he wrote only religious poems.
29.Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas of          (满分:2.5)
    A. will keep traveling and exploring
    B. will go on drinking and being happy
    C. would like to toast to his glorious life
    D. would like to drink the cup of wine
30.In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Mark Twain and Henry James.
    B. Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.
    C. C Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
    D. Jack London and O’Henry.
31.In his masterpieces (    ) , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires and     the moral and social chaos of the modern world .          (满分:2.5)
    A. the 16th century
    B. 17th century
    C. the 18th century
    D. the19th century
32.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. "Sailing to Byzantium"
    B. " Leda and the Swan"
    C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".
    D. " Sown by the Sally Garden"
33.“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?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Make It New
    B. The Cantos
    C. Polite Essays
34.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Thomas Gray
    B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    C. Johathan Swift
    D. Henry Fielding
35.Chinese–American Literature can be defined as literature by and about (    ) in America .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Violence.
    B. Horror.
    C. Inactivity.
    D. Indifference.
36.After WWⅠ, many disillusioned American writers and artists left for Paris and formed a small community . They were (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. normal contemporary speech patterns
    B. humble and rustic life as subject matter
    C. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
    D. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
37.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism，emphasizing that literary works should be judged by(    )rules of order,reason，logic，restrained emotion，goodtaste and decorum．          (满分:2.5)
    A. Chinese immigrants
    B. Chinese students
    C. Asian immigrants
38.It is alone who , for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.          (满分:2.5)
    A. emigrants
    B. expatriates
    C. immigrants
39.In 1704, (    )(    )founded the periodicals “the Review”.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Classical
    B. romantic
    C. sentimental
    D. allegorical
40.Maxine Hong Kingston‘s first novel is (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Geoffrey Chaucer
    B. Martin Luther
    C. William Langland
    D. John Gower