MOOC 美国文学导读(华中农业大学)1454780167 最新慕课完整章节测试答案

Quiz for Week 1

1、单选题：
​Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ________.​
选项：
A: American Enlightenment
B: Sugar Act
C: Chartist Movement
D: Romanticist
答案: 【 American Enlightenment】

2、单选题：
‌Who was NOT regarded as the “School-room Poets?”‎
选项：
A: Edgar Allen Poe.
B: Henry W. Longfellow.
C: William Cullen Bryant.
D: John Greenleaf Whittier.
答案: 【 Edgar Allen Poe.】

3、单选题：
‍Which of the following is a work by Washington Irving?‍
选项：
A: A History of New York
B: Self-reliance
C: The Prairie
D: Walden
答案: 【 A History of New York】

4、单选题：
‌From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous ________, an annual collection of proverbs.‍
选项：
A: Poor Richard’s Almanac
B: The Autobiography
C: Common Sense
D: The General Magazine
答案: 【 Poor Richard’s Almanac】

5、单选题：
‍Which of the following is a poem by William Cullen Bryant?‎
选项：
A: “Thanatopsis”
B: “Song of Myself”
C: “Annabel Lee”
D: “A Psalm of Life”
答案: 【 “Thanatopsis”】

6、单选题：
‏Which of the following is NOT a writer of American Romanticism?​
选项：
A: Mark Twain
B: Walt Whitman
C: Nathaniel Hawthorn
D: Herman Melville
答案: 【 Mark Twain】

7、单选题：
‍Washington Irving’s works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are _______ and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”​
选项：
A: “Rip Van Winkle”
B: A History of New York
C: Leatherstocking Tales
D: “The Cask of Amontillado”
答案: 【 “Rip Van Winkle”】

8、单选题：
‏Which of the following is a unique feature of American Romanticism?‏
选项：
A: American landscape as the subject matter.
B: A return to nature.
C: Stress on emotion and imagination.
D: A love to the past and abnormal.
答案: 【 American landscape as the subject matter.】

9、单选题：
​________ is said to be the father of American short story and American Goldsmith.‌
选项：
A: Washington Irving
B: Benjamin Franklin
C: James Fennimore Cooper
D: William Cullen Bryant
答案: 【 Washington Irving】

10、单选题：
‎The early settlers came to America for different reasons. They do NOT include ________.‎
选项：
A: climatic reason
B: economic reason
C: spiritual reason
D: religious reason
答案: 【 climatic reason】

11、单选题：
‌The American Puritans were mainly ________.‎
选项：
A: Calvinists
B: Protestants
C: Catholics
D: Judaist
答案: 【 Calvinists】

12、单选题：
‎“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” revealed the Calvinist belief of ________.‏
选项：
A: Jonathan Edwards
B: Benjamin Franklin
C: Thomas Jefferson
D: John Cotton
答案: 【 Jonathan Edwards】

13、单选题：
‎“God’s excellency … seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon and stars; in the clouds, and the blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees…” This is the quotation of ________.‏
选项：
A: Jonathan Edwards
B: Ralph Waldo Emerson
C: Washington Irving
D: Benjamin Franklin
答案: 【 Jonathan Edwards】

14、单选题：
‍The 13 virtues, which are temperance, silence, order, resolution…and chastity, are recorded in ________.‎
选项：
A: The Autobiography
B: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
C: Poor Richard’s Almanac
D: A History of New York
答案: 【 The Autobiography】

15、单选题：
‎A History of New York was supposed to be written by a Dutch historian named ________.​
选项：
A: Diedrich Knickerbocker
B: Rip Van Winkle
C: Ichabod Crane
D: Geoffrey Crayon
答案: 【 Diedrich Knickerbocker】

16、单选题：
‎Which of the following is a proper description of Rip’s personality?‍
选项：
A: He is an idler who refuses to labor in his own
farm.
B: He is always ready to do his house work.
C: He will refuse to help a housewife if it is a
hard work.
D: He refuses to work because it is too hard.
答案: 【 He is an idler who refuses to labor in his own
farm.】

17、单选题：
‍The first novel by James F. Cooper is ________.‍
选项：
A: Precaution.
B: The Spy.
C: The Pioneers.
D: The Pathfinder.
答案: 【 Precaution.】

18、单选题：
​Which of the following is true about Cooper’s reputation?‍
选项：
A: By 1851, he was more criticized in the U. S.
than in Europe.
B: By the time when he died in 1851, he was already
forgotten by European readers.
C: By 1851, he was severely criticized in Europe.
D: By 1851, nobody talked about Cooper in America.
答案: 【 By 1851, he was more criticized in the U. S.
than in Europe.】

19、单选题：
‍________ was the last of the Mohican tribe in The Last of the Mohicans.‌
选项：
A: Chingachgook
B: Magua
C: Uncas
D: Hawkeye
答案: 【 Chingachgook】

20、单选题：
‍Fireside poets got the name mainly because ________.‎
选项：
A: their poems were read by people at fireside
during the family reading hour
B: these poets wrote at fireside
C: these poets gathered at fireside to discuss
their ideas of poem writing
D: these poets thought fire was a symbol of
inspiration
答案: 【 their poems were read by people at fireside
during the family reading hour】

Quiz for Week 2

1、单选题：
‍Who wrote the little book Nature, which is a long essay?‏
选项：
A: Henry David Thoreau
B: Walt Whitman
C: Ralph Waldo Emerson
D: Emily Dickinson
答案: 【 Ralph Waldo Emerson】

2、单选题：
‍Which poem contains the lines, " And I had put away / My labor and my leisure too, / For His Civility-"?‏
选项：
A: “I’m Nobody”
B: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
C: “I Hear America Singing”
D: “O Captain My Captain”
答案: 【 “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”】

3、单选题：
‎Who wrote Leaves of Grass?‍
选项：
A: Emily Dickinson
B: Henry W. Longfellow
C: Walt Whitman 
D: James Cooper
答案: 【 Walt Whitman 】

4、单选题：
‍In what century did Walt Whitman live?‏
选项：
A: eighteenth
B: nineteenth
C: twentieth
D: seventeenth
答案: 【 nineteenth】

5、单选题：
‌Who did Whitman memorialize in "O Captain My Captain"?​
选项：
A: Captain John Smith
B: Captain America
C: George Washington
D: Abraham Lincoln
答案: 【 Abraham Lincoln】

6、单选题：
‍Other than singing, what are the good folks of the poem “I Hear America Singing” up to?‌
选项：
A: Eating
B: Researching time machines
C: Playing baseball
D: Working
答案: 【 Working】

7、单选题：
‎What are the mechanics' voices in the poem “I Hear America Singing” like?‎
选项：
A: "deep and soulful"
B: "delicious"
C: "blithe and strong" 
D:  "weak sauce"
答案: 【 "blithe and strong" 】

8、单选题：
‎What does the carpenter do in the poem “I Hear America Singing”, besides singing?‌
选项：
A: "measures his plank or beam"
B: "builds a bird house"
C: "builds a home for his family"
D: "flirts with the seamstress"
答案: 【 "measures his plank or beam"】

9、单选题：
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