奥鹏作业网20春《英美文学选读》作业3
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)
1.All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPT
A.Wordsworth
B.Coleridge
C.Robert Southey
D.Shelley
2.According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy＇s dream to some day grow up to be ______.
A.Methodist preacher
B.a justice of the peace
C.a riverboat pilot
D.a pirate on the Indian ocean
3.The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from____
A.A Witness Tree
B.Steeple Bush
C.New Hampshire
D.A Further Range
4.”Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.” The above quoted p
A.Pride and Prejudice
B.Jane Eyre
C.Wuthering Heights
D.Great Expectations
5.Virginia Woolf was born in___
A.1882
B.1767
C.1678
D.1890
6.In Hawthorne＇s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.
A.commentators
B.observers
C.villains
D.saviors
7.Which novel gave Woolf the reputation as an important psychological writer?
A.To the Lighthouse
B.The waves
C.Mrs.Dalloway
D.The Common Reader
8.The pen name Mark Twain means___
A.water
B.safe water
C.river
D.clear water
9.It is generally regarded that Keats＇s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .
A.ode
B.elegy
C.epic
D.sonnet
10.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.
A.life in New York
B.country life in New England
C.sea adventures
D.life on the Mississippi
11.After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom＇s buddy Huck in a book entitled ___
A.Life on the Mississippi
B.The Gilded Age
C.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur＇s Court
12.The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___
A.New York
B.England
C.Boston
D.Salt lake City
13.Which of the following is a comedy?
A.King lear
B.Macbeth
C.Hamlet
D.The Merry Wives of Windsor
14.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
A.Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B.Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie
C.Copper＇s Leather-Stocking Tales
D.Thoreau＇s Walden
15.Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about ______ who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.
A.a vagabond
B.an idealist
C.an eccentric
D.an opportunist
16.Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse?
A.Mrs. Ramsay
B.Mr.Ramsay
C.David
D.James
17.Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.
A.17th
B.18th
C.19th
D.20th
18.”I have no monarch in my life.” this was said by___
A.Walt Whitman
B.Robert Frost
C.John keats
D.Emily Dickinson
19.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of
A.Piers Plowman
B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C.Confessio Amantis
D.The Canterbury Tales
20.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?
A.It explores man＇s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.
B.It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.
C.It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.
D.It presents a p
