MOOC 英美文学选读I(常州工学院)1450332389 最新慕课完整章节测试答案
Chapter 1 Introduction to British Literature
测试1.6.1
1、单选题：
In terms of complexity, characters be divided into...?
选项：
A: static and dynamic characters
B: minor and major characters
C: flat and round characters
D: protagonist and antagonist characters
答案: 【 flat and round characters 】
2、判断题：
A dynamic character may also be the antagonist, and a protagonist can also be, say, a flat and stock character.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
测验1.1
1、判断题：
There seems to be no universally satisfying answer to the question “what is literature”. Any definition of “literature” can be highly subjective, which reveals about the definer’s attitudes, beliefs, values, training, or socialization.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
2、判断题：
Language in literature should always be beautiful and refined. The sentence, “This is awfully squiggly handwriting!” is not literary language.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
测验1.2.1
1、单选题：
What is NOT a basic element of plot?
选项：
A: exposition or introduction
B: climax
C: falling action
D: character
答案: 【 character】
2、判断题：
Decide True or False: “A boy finds a new family in a traveling circus run by orphans.” is not a plot but only a random incident for there is no cause-and-effect relationship between the events.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
测验1.2.2
1、多选题：
What are the major conflicts in “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
选项：
A: The narrator’s request to read and socialize is overruled by the husband.
B: The narrator tries to express her own opinion to her husband, but is ignored on every count.
C: John doesn’t take his wife seriously.
D: The narrator strips off all the wallpaper in her room.
答案: 【 The narrator’s request to read and socialize is overruled by the husband.;
The narrator tries to express her own opinion to her husband, but is ignored on every count. ;
John doesn’t take his wife seriously.】
2、判断题：
Good stories start with a fundamental list of ingredients: the initial situation, conflict, complication, climax, suspense, denouement, and conclusion.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
测验1.3.1
1、多选题：
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a feminist critique of the role of women in late nineteenth century society, what roles of women are explored in the fiction?
选项：
A: women as children
B: women as mother
C: women as domestic slaves
D: women as prisoner
答案: 【 women as children ;
women as domestic slaves ;
women as prisoner】
2、判断题：
The themes in literature are usually of universal significance.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
测验1.3.2
1、多选题：
What could be the possible themes of “Ticket, Please"?
选项：
A: women’s inferiority to man
B: dehumanizing mechanical civilization
C: social progress
D: conflict between the two sexes
答案: 【 women’s inferiority to man ;
dehumanizing mechanical civilization ;
conflict between the two sexes】
2、判断题：
Since D. H. Lawrence’s “Tickets, Please” was written against the background of war, it centers on the horrific conflict in northern France and Belgium.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
测验1.3.3
1、多选题：
What are the major conflicts in “A Father”?
选项：
A: reason V.S. superstition
B: western culture V.S. middle east culture
C: modernism V.S. orthodoxy
D: technology V.S. morality
答案: 【 reason V.S. superstition ;
western culture V.S. middle east culture;
modernism V.S. orthodoxy】
2、判断题：
The Conflict between a protagonist and an antagonist is a most common external conflict in literature.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
测验1.3.4
1、多选题：
What could be the possible themes of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path?
选项：
A: power of love
B: racial isolation
C: regeneration of life
D: oppression over African Americans
答案: 【 power of love;
racial isolation ;
regeneration of life;
oppression over African Americans】
2、判断题：
Phoenix walks carefully through the trail, gets her dress stuck in prickers and struggles to free herself, sees apparitions that aren't even there as she struggles step by step to get into town... All the hardships and struggles she encounters in her journey account for the rising action of the plot.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
测验1.3.5
1、单选题：
Besides the “phoenix”, what is the other main recurring symbol in the story?
选项：
A: birds
B: Heliopolis
C: snow and rain
D: the maimed grandson
答案: 【 birds 】
2、多选题：
In what ways is Phoenix Jackson’s story indicative of the legend of the phoenix?
选项：
A: Phoenix’s name and appearance
B: Phoenix’s language
C: Phoenix’s repeated journeys
D: Phoenix’s immortality
答案: 【 Phoenix’s name and appearance ;
Phoenix’s repeated journeys ;
Phoenix’s immortality】
测验1.3.6
1、多选题：
What could be the major themes of “The Egg”?
选项：
A: ambition
B: sacrifice
C: failure
D: happiness
答案: 【 ambition ;
sacrifice;
failure ;
happiness】
2、判断题：
The fact that the narrator can still see the egg on the table at the end of the story after his father has failed the trick, put it there and didn’t break it suggests an optimistic view of the American Dream that the family will continue to pursue.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
测验1.4.1
1、多选题：
What does the image of the narrator walking through the dark, empty streets suggest?
选项：
A: fear of death
B: isolation and despair
C: bravery
D: destruction
答案: 【 fear of death;
isolation and despair】
2、判断题：
Hemingway’s “In Another Country” is set in Milan during WWI about the relationships that develop among an American and five Italian soldiers. The story is told from the perspective of the American, who has received wounds and medals because of bravery in battle and is depicted as Hemingway “code hero”
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
测验1.5.1
1、多选题：
What are the three major variations of the External Narrator?
选项：
A: Vision From Behind
B: Vision From Without
C: Vision From With
D: Vision From Within
答案: 【 Vision From Behind ;
Vision From Without;
Vision From With 】
2、多选题：
Which of the following statements about “internal narrator” is/are true?
选项：
A: The story-world of characters and events is filtered through the narrator’s consciousness alone.
B: The Narrator can be the central character or a witness to what happens to the central character.
C: The narrator can go into the mind of other characters freely and describe how they think and feel directly.
D: Frequently it is called the First-Person Narrator because the story is told by a character who uses “I”.
答案: 【 The story-world of characters and events is filtered through the narrator’s consciousness alone.;
The Narrator can be the central character or a witness to what happens to the central character.;
Frequently it is called the First-Person Narrator because the story is told by a character who uses “I”.】
测验1.5.2
1、单选题：
What’s NOT true about the narrative perspective of “In Another Country”?
选项：
A: the story is told by an external narrator
B: the story is told in an objective third person
C: the young American soldier is the narrator of the story
D: the story is told from the American’s point of view
答案: 【 the young American soldier is the narrator of the story】
测验1.6.2
1、多选题：
What’s true about the narrator Rose?
选项：
A: She is a typical Western stereotype of “passive Asian women”
B: She always sacrifices her own value to maintain relationships out of insecurity.
C: The reversal of roles within the narrator’s relationship with Ted reveals her inability to take responsibility
D: Rose and her mother have very different values due to their different cultural upbringings.
答案: 【 She is a typical Western stereotype of “passive Asian women”;
She always sacrifices her own value to maintain relationships out of insecurity.;
The reversal of roles within the narrator’s relationship with Ted reveals her inability to take responsibility;
Rose and her mother have very different values due to their different cultural upbringings.】
2、判断题：
The story “Half and Half” explores into the theme of connection, control, insecurity, fear, responsibility, acceptance, letting go, tradition and loss.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
测验1.6.3
1、多选题：
What’s true about the story “Rape Fantasies”?
选项：
A: It is retold from the perspective of Estelle
B: It is a recap of a conversation among several women during their lunch hour, a few of them playing bridge.
C: Estelle is the only thoroughly developed character in the story.
D: One of Estelle’s rape stories involve a real rape.
答案: 【 It is retold from the perspective of Estelle;
It is a recap of a conversation among several women during their lunch hour, a few of them playing bridge.;
Estelle is the only thoroughly developed character in the story.】
2、判断题：
Darlene describes her rape fantasy where she deflects her attacker by squirting juice from a plastic lemon in his eyes.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
测验1.7.1
1、多选题：
Winter is a time for celebration and holiday, what is the symbolic meaning of “winter” in “The Dead”?
选项：
A: isolation and destruction
B: reunion and love
C: eternal sleep and death
D: inevitability and universality of mortality
答案: 【 eternal sleep and death;
inevitability and universality of mortality】
2、判断题：
The story takes place in the middle of a winter snowstorm in Ireland at the old home of Morkans on the night of the Feast of Epiphany; the setting of the story is highly symbolic.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】