MOOC 英国文学导读(安庆师范大学)1452282166 最新慕课完整章节测试答案
Week 1 Introduction and Appreciation of Poetry
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Quiz for Week 1
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 used in everyday life
B: engages one’s emotion and imagination
C: is transaction-based and socially conditioned
D: is mainly used in practical writing
答案: 【 engages one’s emotion and imagination】
18、单选题：
The most important literary work of the Old-English period is ______.
选项：
A: Gulliver’s Travels
B: Beowulf
C: The Canterbury Tales
D: Hamlet
答案: 【 Beowulf】
19、单选题：
Medieval romances were ______.
选项：
A: stories about poor peasants’ lives
B: stories about supernatural characters
C: stories about knights and ladies and the chivalric adventures
D: stories about tragic love
答案: 【 stories about knights and ladies and the chivalric adventures】
20、单选题：
"Renaissance" means rebirth or revival of letters. It encourages a rebirth of ______.
选项：
A: Christian spirit
B: a respect for church
C: human spirit
D: science spirit
答案: 【 human spirit】
Week 12-13 Victorian Poetry
quiz for week 13
1、单选题：
Which of the following poet is NOT a major one in Victorian age?
选项：
A: Lord Alfred Tennyson
B: Robert Browning
C: Matthew Arnold
D: Lord Byron
答案: 【 Lord Byron】
2、单选题：
Victorian poets wrote poems with more social concerns and have assumed a more _______ and realistic attitudes towards nature and human life.
选项：
A: rational
B: ironic
C: comic
D: optimistic
答案: 【 rational】
3、单选题：
In 1847, The Princess was published, which was a satire on _______’s education.
选项：
A: a royal member
B: princess
C: women
D: men
答案: 【 women】
4、单选题：
“Ulysses” is written in the form of ________ and has been called the first true dramatic monologue.
选项：
A: sonnet
B: blank verse
C: couplet
D: ballad
答案: 【 blank verse】
5、单选题：
In Memoriam is a long ________ recording the emotional, religious and intellectual changes of the poet during the 17 years after the death of his close friend Hallam.
选项：
A: elegy
B: sonnet
C: ode
D: romance
答案: 【 elegy】
6、单选题：
Which of the following work recounts Arthur’s attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to power to his death?
选项：
A: Idylls of the King
B: Maud
C: The Princess
D: “Ulysses”
答案: 【 Idylls of the King】
7、单选题：
In what mood is the speaker talking to the sea in the poem “Break, Break, Break”?
选项：
A: pessimistic
B: indifferent
C: melancholy
D: resentful
答案: 【 melancholy】
8、单选题：
Why do lines 5 - 10 provide a joyful picture in the poem “Break, Break, Break”?
选项：
A: For comparison.
B: For contrast.
C: For analogy.
D: As a simile.
答案: 【 For contrast.】
9、单选题：
The poem “Crossing the Bar” describes the poet _______ attitude toward death.
选项：
A: horrified
B: placid
C: panic
D: indifferent
答案: 【 placid】
10、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT an image connotating death in the poem “Crossing the Bar”?
选项：
A: Sunset.
B: Evening star.
C: Twilight.
D: Moving tide.
答案: 【 Moving tide.】
11、单选题：
As for the title of the poem “Crossing the Bar”, what figure of speech is employed?
选项：
A: Metaphor.
B: Simile.
C: Analogy.
D: Hyperbole.
答案: 【 Metaphor.】
12、单选题：
The long blank-verse poem _______ finally established Browning’s position as one of the greatest English poets.
选项：
A: The Ring and the Book
B: Men and Women
C: Pauline
D: Sonnets from the Portuguese
答案: 【 The Ring and the Book】
13、单选题：
Browning compares poem writing to the work of goldsmith in making a ________ in one of his long poems.
选项：
A: diamond
B: ring
C: bracelet
D: metal
答案: 【 ring】
14、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT the image of the duke in the poem “My Last Duchess”?
选项：
A: Jealousy.
B: Arrogance.
C: Brutality.
D: Generosity.
答案: 【 Generosity.】
15、单选题：
Which of the following poet has the natural power of linking visual pictures with musical expressions in Victorian age?
选项：
A: Matthew Arnold.
B: Christina Rossetti.
C: Robert Browning.
D: Alfred Tennyson.
答案: 【 Alfred Tennyson.】
16、单选题：
The large number of ______’s poems even made him/her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate in 1850 on the death of Wordsworth.
选项：
A: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B: Robert Browning
C: Christina Rossetti
D: Matthew Arnold
答案: 【 Elizabeth Barrett Browning】
17、单选题：
In the poem “My Last Duchess,” what does the duke mean when he says that “This grew; I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together?”
选项：
A: He ordered the duchess to keep silence.
B: He required the duchess to be solemn.
C: He murdered the duchess.
D: He locked up the duchess.
答案: 【 He murdered the duchess.】
18、判断题：
Robert Browning has the natural power of linking visual pictures with musical expressions.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
19、判断题：
Robert Browning’s poems tend to make the readers alert, thoughtful and enlightened.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
20、判断题：
Tennyson is always regarded by many as the most original poet of the Victorian time.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
21、判断题：
Tennyson is a typical Victorian Englishman, sharing the national joys and worries with the rest.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
22、判断题：
The difficulty and the main interest of the poem“My Last Duchess” is the simplicity of the character of the duke.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
23、判断题：
“Ulysses” by Tennyson has been called the first true dramatic monologue.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
Week 14-16 Modern English Literature
quiz for week 14-16
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, w