Week10ModernEnglishLiterature

quizforweek10

1、单选题:
Which of the following is NOT true about W. B. Yeats? ‍‎‍
选项:
A: Yeats was born into an Anglo-Irish Protestant family in Dublin.
B: Yeats and T. S. Eliot are the key poets who brought modernism into English poetry.
C: Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 for his The Waste Land.
D: Yeats’ poetic career can be divided into 3 periods.
答案: 【 Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 for his The Waste Land.

2、单选题:
  John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga appears in the form of__________. ‌​‌
选项:
A: epic
B: trilogy 
C: collection of short stories
D: ballad
答案: 【 trilogy 

3、单选题:
In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called ________, in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters. ‍​‍
选项:
A: stream-of-consciousness
B:  expressionism
C:  symbolism
D: naturalism
答案: 【 stream-of-consciousness

4、单选题:
​“APRIL is the cruelest month, breeding /Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain” was selected from_____.​‌​
选项:
A: The Canterbury Tales
B: The Second Coming
C: The Waste Land
D: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
答案: 【 The Waste Land

5、单选题:
Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. It is a literary school lasted from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of WWII. Which expression is wrong in the followings?‌‎‌
选项:
A: Modernism describes the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature.
B: Modernism exposes sterility and futility, shows man’s frustration and disillusion, and searches for salvation and spiritual regeneration.
C: Modernism is a strong and conscious break with the past, by rejecting the moral, religious and cultural values of the past.
D: Modernists write poems of impersonal beauty; poems with a dream-like effect, showing a sense of uncertainty about the world around the poet and his attempt to escape from reality.
答案: 【 Modernists write poems of impersonal beauty; poems with a dream-like effect, showing a sense of uncertainty about the world around the poet and his attempt to escape from reality.

6、单选题:
Which one is a modernistic novelist? ‍‎‍
选项:
A: John Galsworthy
B:  James Joyce
C: Rudyard Kipling
D: George Eliot
答案: 【  James Joyce

7、单选题:
Which of the following is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?‌‏‌
选项:
A: Hard Times
B: The Rainbow
C:  Women in Love  
D: Sons and Lovers
答案: 【 Hard Times

8、单选题:
Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the _____ of a modern civilization.‏‍‏
选项:
A: Social corruption
B:  spiritual breakup
C:  physical breakup
D: religious corruption
答案: 【  spiritual breakup

9、单选题:
The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated. Which one is not the ill relationship described in modernist literature? ______‍‎‍
选项:
A: Man and nature
B: Man and society
C: Man and himself
D: Man and God
答案: 【 Man and God

10、单选题:
Down by the Salley Gardens is a poem about the fundamental question of life: ______‎‏‎
选项:
A: How to live and enjoy
B: How to be with God
C: How to love
D: How to know yourself
答案: 【 How to live and enjoy

11、单选题:
In Mrs. Dalloway, the narrative voice is a commenting voice who knows everything about the characters. This voice appears occasionally among the subjective thoughts of characters. What’s the point of view in this novel?‏‎‏
选项:
A: Omniscient narrator 
B: Limited-omniscient narrator
C: First person narrator
D: Second person narrator
答案: 【 Omniscient narrator 

12、单选题:
In James Joyce’s novel, which one roughly corresponded to the episodes of Homer’s poem?‍‏‍
选项:
A: Ulysses  
B: Lady Chatterley's Lover
C: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D:  Dubliners
答案: 【 Ulysses  

13、单选题:
Which one was known as the last English novelist who embodies the dreams of a declining British Empire?‍‎‍
选项:
A: E. M. Forster
B:  John Galsworthy 
C: Joseph Conrad 
D: Rudyard Kipling
答案: 【 Rudyard Kipling

14、单选题:
Which novelist is mainly remembered for his short stories and novels, like Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim?‏‍‏
选项:
A: Joseph Conrad
B: James Joyce
C: John Galsworthy
D: D. H. Lawrence
答案: 【 Joseph Conrad

15、单选题:
__________ was a conventional writer, having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism, who focused on plot development and character portrayal.‏‍‏
选项:
A: Virginia Woolf
B: James Joyce
C: D. H. Lawrence
D: John Galsworthy
答案: 【 John Galsworthy

Week1IntroductionandElizabethanPoetry

QuizforWeek1

1、单选题:
‍Sonnet 75 starting with the line “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” was written by ________.   ‌
选项:
A: Shakespeare
B: Sidney
C: Donne
D: Edmund Spenser
答案: 【 Edmund Spenser

2、单选题:
‍There are 10 syllables in a line and they follow a regular pattern: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. This line is called a(an) _______ line. ​
选项:
A: iambic pentameter
B:  iambic tetrameter
C: trochaic pentameter
D: trochaic tetrameter
答案: 【 iambic pentameter

3、单选题:
‍The ______ sonnet consists of 3 quatrains (3 four-line stanza) and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.​
选项:
A: Italian
B: English
C: Petrarchan
D: Spenserian
答案: 【 English

4、单选题:
‍Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of ______ sonnets by William Shakespeare.‎
选项:
A: 154
B: 108
C: 89
D: 38
答案: 【 154

5、单选题:
‍In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare compares his beloved to the ______ and argues that his beloved is even better. ​
选项:
A: summer
B: spring
C: autumn
D: winter
答案: 【 summer

6、单选题:
‎______ is an Elizabethan poet who stood for the Renaissance ideal of “the complete man.”‍
选项:
A: Sir Philip Sidney
B: Shakespeare
C: Henry VIII
D: Edmund Spenser
答案: 【 Sir Philip Sidney

7、单选题:
​Spenser’s masterpiece ______ is an extended hymn dedicated to the Queen Elizabeth.‍
选项:
A: The Faerie Queen
B: Amoretti 
C: The Shepherd’s Calendar
D: Sonnets
答案: 【 The Faerie Queen

8、单选题:
‍The basic unit of poetic meter in English is a ______ which normally consists of one stressed syllable plus one or two unstressed syllables. ‏
选项:
A: foot
B: syllable
C: word
D: phrase
答案: 【 foot

9、单选题:
​A four-line stanza is called a ______. ‏
选项:
A: quatrain
B: couplet
C: triplet
D: sestet
答案: 【 quatrain

10、单选题:
​______ started Religious Reformation in Britain.‍
选项:
A: Henry VIII
B: Henry VII
C: Elizabeth I
D: Queen Mary
答案: 【 Henry VIII

11、单选题:
‍______ is often regarded as the father of English Literature.​
选项:
A: Chaucer
B: Shakespeare
C: Spenser
D: Milton
答案: 【 Chaucer

12、单选题:
‏Novel appeared in the ______ period.‎
选项:
A: Victorian
B: Renaissance
C: Neoclassical
D: Romantic
答案: 【 Neoclassical

13、单选题:
​The Victorian Age is the age of ______.​
选项:
A: romanticism
B: realism
C: neoclassicism
D: modernism
答案: 【 realism

14、单选题:
‌The the-stream- of- consciousness writing appeared in ______ age.‍
选项:
A: modern
B: realistic
C: neoclassical
D: romantic
答案: 【 modern

15、单选题:
______ (literary form) is popular in Elizabethan age.‎‏‎
选项:
A: Sonnet
B: Novel
C: Essay
D: Epic
答案: 【 Sonnet

16、单选题:
‎Referential language refers to the language that ______.‏
选项:
A: is limited to everyday real life and situational use
B: engages one’s imagination
C: stimulates one’s emotion
D: is mainly used in literary works
答案: 【 is limited to everyday real life and situational use

17、单选题:
‍Representational language refers to the language that ______. ‏
选项:
A: is mainly us

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