MOOC 英美文学简史(广东石油化工学院)1452179162 最新慕课完整章节测试答案
Chapter 1 Fiction
Test for Chapter 1 Fiction
1、单选题：
In a traditional structure of a plot, what occurs when events and complications begin to resolve?
选项：
A: conflict
B: rising action
C: climax
D: falling action
答案: 【 falling action 】
2、单选题：
What is the climax of the short story Charlotte Perkins “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
选项：
A: The narrator appeal to spend her time writing and socializing gets overruled by the husband
B: The narrator strips off all the wallpaper in her room.
C: The wallpaper freaks out the narrator, and she imagines a woman trapped within the paper.
D: John attempts to find out what his wife is up to.
答案: 【 The narrator strips off all the wallpaper in her room.】
3、单选题：
What has lead to Gabriel’s final epiphany in "The Dead"?
选项：
A: Lily’s refusal of a tip: Gabriel’s failure as a gentleman
B: Miss Ivors’ use of the abusive term “West Briton”: Gabriel’s failure as a gentleman
C: Gretta’s withdrawal into the past and her revelation about her old lover
D: Gabriel’s failure at his after-dinner speech
答案: 【 Gretta’s withdrawal into the past and her revelation about her old lover】
4、多选题：
What is theme in literature?
选项：
A: The underlying message of a work.
B: What critical belief about life is the author trying to convey in his/her work.
C: It holds belief, or idea, transcends cultural barriers and is usually universal in nature.
D: A piece of literary writing can have only one theme.
答案: 【 The underlying message of a work.;
What critical belief about life is the author trying to convey in his/her work.;
It holds belief, or idea, transcends cultural barriers and is usually universal in nature. 】
5、多选题：
Which of the following can be regarded as a theme statement?
选项：
A: The theme of “The Egg” might be “Disillusionment is necessary to the process of maturing”.
B: Disillusionment and psychological paralysis in “The Dead”.
C: Bernard Shaw might suggest in his Widowers’ Houses that “Even the most idealistic young man must compromise his principles”
D: The protagonist Gabriel suffered a psychological breakdown in the end of the story.
答案: 【 The theme of “The Egg” might be “Disillusionment is necessary to the process of maturing”. ;
Bernard Shaw might suggest in his Widowers’ Houses that “Even the most idealistic young man must compromise his principles”】
6、多选题：
What’s true about Phoenix’s trip in “A Worn Path”?
选项：
A: It is an annual visit to Natchez, walking for half a day in December to reach the medical clinic to get soothing medicine for her grandson.
B: Despite the difficulty of her trip, she enjoys her adventure.
C: Phoenix has made the journey enough times that her path to Natchez seems a worn path.
D: When she gets to the clinic, she is offered a nickel, with which she buy medicine for her grandson.
答案: 【 Despite the difficulty of her trip, she enjoys her adventure.;
Phoenix has made the journey enough times that her path to Natchez seems a worn path.】
7、多选题：
What are the father’s personal experiences associated with eggs in Sherwood Anderson’s “The Eggs”?
选项：
A: nurturing eggs in the farm
B: serving eggs in the restaurant
C: entertaining the guests with eggs at the restaurant
D: destroying the eggs then he failed in the Columbus trickery
答案: 【 nurturing eggs in the farm ;
serving eggs in the restaurant ;
entertaining the guests with eggs at the restaurant】
8、多选题：
What are the general prose characteristics of Hemingway’s “In Another Country”?
选项：
A: precise and compact
B: full of verbs but short of adjectives and adverbs
C: minimal use of subordinate clauses
D: use plain and straightforward style
答案: 【 precise and compact ;
full of verbs but short of adjectives and adverbs;
minimal use of subordinate clauses;
use plain and straightforward style】
9、多选题：
Which of the following is true about the “External Narrator”?
选项：
A: can be a character in the story
B: a disembodied "voice" the writer creates to tell the story from outside
C: tells the story in the third person
D: characters and events is filtered through the narrator’s consciousness alone
答案: 【 can be a character in the story;
a disembodied "voice" the writer creates to tell the story from outside;
tells the story in the third person 】
10、多选题：
What are the two kinds of narrative structure in general?
选项：
A: Linear/Chronological order.
B: Non-Linear/ Achronological
C: First-Person Narrative
D: Third-Person Narrative
答案: 【 Linear/Chronological order. ;
Non-Linear/ Achronological】
11、多选题：
Which of the following statements about characters is true?
选项：
A: A flat character is two-dimensional and incapable of surprising the reader.
B: Conventionally, characters in fiction can be classifies as major and minor.
C: major characters are often round characters
D: antagonists are minor characters, so they are often flat characters.
答案: 【 A flat character is two-dimensional and incapable of surprising the reader.;
Conventionally, characters in fiction can be classifies as major and minor.;
major characters are often round characters】
12、多选题：
Which of the following can be regarded as “stock characters”?
选项：
A: the femme fatale
B: the mad scientist
C: geeky boy with glasses
D: an aggressive Asian
答案: 【 the femme fatale ;
the mad scientist;
geeky boy with glasses 】
13、多选题：
What are important symbolic images used by James Joyce to present the theme of the story?
选项：
A: windows
B: dusk and nighttime
C: food
D: snow
答案: 【 windows ;
dusk and nighttime;
food;
snow】
14、多选题：
What’s true about Gabriel in “The Dead”?
选项：
A: He loves his country and is proud of its culture.
B: His character is shaped by frustration, rancor, and disappointment.
C: He finds no genuine joy or pleasure in life.
D: He is obsessed with the past
答案: 【 His character is shaped by frustration, rancor, and disappointment.;
He is obsessed with the past 】
15、多选题：
What’s true about Estelle in Margaret Atwood’s “Rape Fantasies”?
选项：
A: she is the narrator of the story
B: she starts the discussion on “Rape Fantasie”
C: she is the only thoroughly developed character
D: Her constant observations about the other women and their conversation tells much more about herself than the other characters
答案: 【 she is the narrator of the story;
she is the only thoroughly developed character ;
Her constant observations about the other women and their conversation tells much more about herself than the other characters 】
16、判断题：
Literature as writing is “imaginative” or fictive, as opposed to factual, true, or historical.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
17、判断题：
Style is concerned not with “what to say” but “how to say it”.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
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.