奥鹏远程教育北京语言大学《英美文学选读》在线作业4

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20秋《英美文学选读》作业4

Which book marked the turning point of Hawthornw＇ career and his personal life?
A:Twice-Told Tales
B:Fanshawe
C:The Scarlet Letter
D:Mosess from an Old Manse
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In David Copperfield, little David＇s second father treated him and his mother___
A:badly
B:kindly
C:nicely
D:well
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Virginia Woolf was born in___
A:1882
B:1767
C:1678
D:1890
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Which of the following is a tragedy?
A:Antony and Cleopatra
B:Twelfth Night
C:Julius Caesar
D:Much ado about Nothing
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both …"In the above two lines of Robert Frost＇s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A:a travel experience
B:a marriage decision
C:a middle-age crisis
D:one＇s course of life
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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 ______＇s thematic concern in his fiction writing.
A:Henry James
B:Scott Fitzgerald
C:Ernest Hemingway
D:William Faulkner
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Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.
A:comic
B:tragic
C:round
D:sophisticated
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O Captain, My Capain is written by___
A:Robert Burns
B:Robert Frost
C:Walt Whitman
D:John Keats
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In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.
A:iamb
B:anapest
C:trochee
D:dactyl
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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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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.
A:Senti奥鹏教育北京语言大学平时在线作业mentalism
B:romanticism
C:realism
D:naturalism
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What kind of girl is Dora?
A:pretty and clever
B:pretty and empty-headed
C:plain-looking and understading
D:lovely and clever
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Henry David Thoreau＇s work___, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
A:Walden
B:The Pioneers
C:Nature
D:Song of Myself
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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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"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line by
A:J. Keats
B:W. Blake
C:W. Wordsworth
D:P. B. Shelley
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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
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Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?
A:Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.
B:F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C:Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
D:Most writers were politically radical.
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After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .
A:simple character and quick wit
B:simple character and poor understanding
C:intricate character and quick wit
D:intricate character and poor understanding
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The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___
A:New York
B:England
C:Boston
D:Salt lake City
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which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?
A:Jennie Gerhardt
B:Go down, Moses
C:An American Tragedy
D:Sister Carrie
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