奥鹏教育北京语言大学《英美文学选读》在线作业一

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19秋《英美文学选读》作业1

In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
A:emptiness of life
B:the corruption of the upper class
C:contrast of the rich and the poor
D:the happy days of the Jazz Age
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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
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The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___
A:Dorothy Wordsworth
B:William Wordsworth
C:Coleridge
D:John Keats
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Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse?
A:Mrs. Ramsay
B:Mr.Ramsay
C:David
D:James
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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
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Hamlet is a prince of ___
A:England
B:Ireland
C:Britain
D:Denmark
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Virginia Woolf was born in a____
A:poor family
B:small family
C:rich family
D:talented family
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Virginai Woolf has a____ health.
A:good
B:stable
C:poor
D:normal
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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
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___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
A:Jane Eyre
B:Emma
C:Wuthering Heights
D:Middlemarch
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The essence of humanism is to ______.
A:restore a medieval reverence for the church
B:avoid the circumstances of earthly life
C:explore the next world in which men could live after death
D:emphasize human qualities
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Pride and Prejudice is mainly about the love between___
A:Jane and Bingley
B:Elizabeth and Darcy
C:Jane and Darcy
D:Kitty and Bingley
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Which of the following is NOT written by Jane Austen?
A:Sense and Sensibility
B:Pride and Prejudice
C:Jane Eyre
D:Emma
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The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in the American literary history.
A:individual feelings
B:idea of survival of the fittest
C:strong imagination
D:return to nature
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In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is
A:happy about the harvest
B:still very much interested in apple-picking
C:expecting a greater harvest
D:indifferent to what he once desired
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The pen name Mark Twain means___
A:water
B:safe water
C:river
D:clear water
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After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a litera奥鹏教育北京语言大学平时在线作业ry 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
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Dreiser＇s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .
A:The Genius
B:The Tycoon
C:The Stoic
D:The Giant
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The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they
A:speak local dialects
B:are polite and elegant gentlemen
C:are simple and crude farmers
D:are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society
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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
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