大学MOOC 英语小说叙事（研）(浙江财经大学)1453188177 最新慕课完整章节测试答案
Fiction
TestforChapter1Fiction
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