东师英美文学20春在线作业2[答案]答案
英美文学20春在线作业2题目
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)
1.The term tone in literature means__________.
A.sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B.the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C.the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject
D.a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
2.Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except____.
A.Hamlet and King lear
B.Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
C.julius Caesar and Othello
D.the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream
3.“Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from
A.The Forsyte Saga
B.Jude the Obscure
C.The picture of Dorian Gray
D.Tess of D’ Urbervilles
4.In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life．
A.nostalgic
B.humorous
C.romantic
D.ironic
5.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
6.“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.
7.Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.
A.William Wordsworth
B.Thomas Gray
C.Alfred Tennyson
D.Ben Jon son
8.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
A.Simile．
B.Metonymy．
C.Pun．
D.Synecdoche．
9.“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.
10.A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．
A.morality
B.justice
C.property
D.humor
11.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?
A.More time to play
B.More food to eat
C.More books to read
D.More money to spend
12.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _______ period .
A.modern
B.naturalist
C.romantic
13.The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _______, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.
A.Waiting for Godot
B.Murder in the Cathedral
C.Too True to Be Good
D.Mrs. Warren’s Profession
14.Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for_________.
A.planning a revolt to dethrone God
B.misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C.prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
D.stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man
15.Dickinson’s poems include poems of _________.
A.nature
B.love
C.death
D.all the above
16.Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .
A.pastoral lyric
B.elegy
C.eulogy
D.epic
17.Macbeth is Shakespeare’s_______.
A.sonnet
B.comedy
C.history play
D.tragedy
18.The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .
A.Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B.Women in love
C.Sons and Lovers
D.The Plumed Serpent
19.The Idylls of the King is written by
A.Browning
B.Tennyson
C.George Eliot
D.Carlyle
