北京语言大学《英美文学选读》在线作业二

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Jane Austen passed away when she was___
A:38
B:48
C:42
D:52
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Virginia Woolf was born in___
A:1882
B:1767
C:1678
D:1890
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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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What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter?
A:Amy
B:Pearl
C:Nina
D:Berry
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Charles Dickens was born in___
A:1765
B:1889
C:1812
D:1870
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When did William Faulkner win Nobel Price for Literature?
A:1939
B:1949
C:1940
D:1950
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Whitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .
A:the strict poetic form
B:the free and natural rhythm
C:the easy flow of feelings
D:the simple and conversational language
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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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Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare＇s Sonnet 18?
A:The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
B:The speaker satirizes human vanity
C:The speaker praises the power of artistic creation
D:The speaker meditates on man＇s salvation.
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The pen name Mark Twain means___
A:water
B:safe water
C:river
D:clear water
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Virginai Woolf has a____ health.
A:good
B:stable
C:poor
D:normal
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Which of the following is NOT written by Defoe?
A:Captain Singleton
B:Sailor
C:Moll Flanders
D:Rubinson Crusoe
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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
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Elizabeth Bennet was the___ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.
A:First
B:Second
C:Third
D:Fourth
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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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Which of the following is taken from John Keats＇Ode to a Nightingale?
A:"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
B:"Earth has not anything to show more fair."
C:"They are both gone up to the church to pray."
D:"was it a vision, o奥鹏教育北京语言大学平时在线作业r a waking dream?"
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As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.
A:Nathaniel Hawthorne
B:Charles Darwin
C:Henry James
D:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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
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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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When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___
A:Bush
B:Kennedy
C:Clinton
D:Fort
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