大学MOOC 美国文学史及选读(上海应用技术大学)1450164168 最新慕课完整章节测试答案
1.美国文学之父华盛顿·欧文
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1、单选题：
_____ was known as the founder of the American short story.
选项：
A: Washington Irving
B: Mark Twain
C: Jack London
D: O. Henry
答案: 【 Washington Irving】
2、单选题：
Which famous graduation speech turned Transcendentalism into a major intellectual and literary movement?
选项：
A: The American Scholar
B: The Divinity School Address
C: The Conduct of Life
D: Representative Men
答案: 【 The American Scholar】
3、单选题：
The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ____.
选项：
A: The Leatherstocking Tales
B: The Sketch Book
C: The Autobiography
D: The History of New York
答案: 【 The Sketch Book】
4、单选题：
Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?
选项：
A: Rationalism
B: inner self
C: personal feelings
D: individualism
答案: 【 Rationalism】
5、单选题：
Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ___ and Thoreau.
选项：
A: Jefferson
B: Emerson
C: Freneau
D: Mark Twain
答案: 【 Emerson】
6、判断题：
Transcendentalism, in exalting feeling over reason and individual expression over the restraints of law and custom, very much reflects the spirit of Romanticism.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
7、判断题：
English Traits is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
8、判断题：
Benjamin Franklin is the father of American Literature.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
9、判断题：
An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named The Pilgrims.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
10、判断题：
Mark Twain was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
13.第一位真正的美国作家”马克•吐温
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1、单选题：
In _____, Whitman’s own early experience might be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.
选项：
A: “A Pact”
B: “Song of Myself”
C: “There was a Child Went Forth”
D: “Mending the Wall”
答案: 【 “There was a Child Went Forth” 】
2、单选题：
Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional way which is now called free verse, that is _____.
选项：
A: lyrical poetry with chanting refrains
B: poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
C: poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat
D: poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
答案: 【 poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme】
3、单选题：
Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.
选项：
A: “The Secret of the Sea”
B: The Scarlet Letter
C: “Hymn to the Night”
D: Leaves of Grass
答案: 【 Leaves of Grass 】
4、单选题：
“I Hear America Singing” was written by ____.
选项：
A: Mark Twain
B: Walt Whitman
C: Emily Dickinson
D: Ezra Pound
答案: 【 Walt Whitman】
5、单选题：
Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _____.
选项：
A: blank verse
B: free verse
C: heroic couplet
D: sonnet
答案: 【 free verse 】
6、单选题：
By means of “free verse,” _____ believes that he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.
选项：
A: Emily Dickinson
B: Ezra Pound
C: Robert Frost
D: Walt Whitman
答案: 【 Walt Whitman】
7、单选题：
Which one is NOT written by Walt Whitman?
选项：
A: “Song of of Myself”
B: “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
C: “I Hear America Singing”
D: “Because I Could not Stop for Death”
答案: 【 “Because I Could not Stop for Death”】
8、单选题：
Emily Dickinson was considered as one of two giants of American poetry in _____ century.
选项：
A: the 17th
B: the 18th
C: the 19th
D: the 20th
答案: 【 the 19th】
9、单选题：
What does “setting sun” symbolize in the poem of “Because I could not stop for Death”?
选项：
A: childhood
B: youth
C: maturity
D: old age
答案: 【 old age】
10、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT the recurring theme in Dickinson’s poetry?
选项：
A: religion
B: nature
C: war
D: death
答案: 【 war 】
11、判断题：
Walt Whitman used parallelism and refrain in his poems.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
12、判断题：
In “O Captain! My Captain!”, Walt Whitman used symbols.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
13、判断题：
Whitman brought the hard-working farmers and laborers into American literature. He attacked the slavery system and racial discrimination.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
14、判断题：
Whitman’s poetry is filled with pessimistic views about new things and new epoch.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
15、判断题：
Whitman’s writings were also influenced by his experiences in the American Civil War.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
16、判断题：
Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published when she was alive.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
17、判断题：
Emily Dickinson’s poetry is well-known for her thought-provoking themes and innovative use of form and syntax.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
18、判断题：
Emily Dickinson’s nature poems are rich in subject matter.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
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