北京语言大学《英美文学选读》作业4答卷

1、20秋英美文学选读作业4试卷总分:100 得分:100一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)Which book marked the turning point of Hawthornw career and his personal life?Twice-Told TalesFanshaweThe Scarlet LetterMosess from an Old Manse答案:A2.In David Copperfield, little Davids second father treated him and his mother_badlykindlynicelywell答

2、案:A3.Virginia Woolf was born in_1882176716781890答案:A4.Which of the following is a tragedy?Antony and CleopatraTwelfth NightJulius CaesarMuch ado about Nothing答案:A5.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both .In the above two lines of Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken, the p

3、oet, by implication, was referring to _.a travel experiencea marriage decisiona middle-age crisisones course of life答案:D6.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about _

4、s thematic concern in his fiction writing.Henry JamesScott FitzgeraldErnest HemingwayWilliam Faulkner答案:B7.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best _ characters created by Charles Dictragicroundsophisticated答案:A8.O Captain, My Capain is written by_Robert

5、 BurnsRobert FrostWalt WhitmanJohn Keats答案:C9.In English poetry the _ is regarded as the most common foot.iambanapesttrocheedactyl答案:A10.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _.life in New Yorkcountry life in New Englandsea adventureslife on the M

6、ississippi答案:B11.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.Sentimentalismromanticismrealismnaturalism答案:C12.What kind of girl is Dora?pretty and cleverpretty and empty-headedplain-

7、looking and understadinglovely and clever答案:B13.Henry David Thoreaus work_, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.WaldenThe PioneersNatureSong of Myself答案:A14.In After Apple- Picking, Robert Frost wrote: For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired

8、/ Of the great harvest I myself desired. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker ishappy about the harveststill very much interested in apple-pickingexpecting a greater harvestindifferent to what he once desired答案:D15.If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? is an epigrammatic line byKea

9、tsW. BlakeW. WordsworthP. B. Shelley答案:D16.Defoes Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _ century.17th18th19th20th答案:B17.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?Mark Twain published his last and most import

10、ant novel.Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.Most writers were politically radical.答案:C18.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _ .simple character and quick witsimple character and poor understandingintricate character and quick witintricate character and poor understanding答案:B19.The story of the Scarlet Letter i