英国文学导读(华中农业大学) 中国大学mooc慕课答案2024版 m38672

Week 1 Introduction and Elizabethan Poetry Quiz for Week 1

1、 Sonnet 75 starting with the line “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” was written by __.

A:Shakespeare
B:Sidney
C:Donne
D:Edmund Spenser
答案: Edmund Spenser

2、 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.

A:iambic pentameter
B: iambic tetrameter
C:trochaic pentameter
D:trochaic tetrameter
答案: iambic pentameter

3、 The ______ sonnet consists of 3 quatrains (3 four-line stanza) and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.

A:Italian
B:English
C:Petrarchan
D:Spenserian
答案: English

4、 Shakespeare’s Sonnets is the title of a collection of ______ sonnets by William Shakespeare.

A:154
B:108
C:89
D:38
答案: 154

5、 In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare compares his beloved to the ______ and argues that his beloved is even better.

A:summer
B:spring
C:autumn
D:winter
答案: summer

6、 ______ is an Elizabethan poet who stood for the Renaissance ideal of “the complete man.”

A:Sir Philip Sidney
B:Shakespeare
C:Henry VIII
D:Edmund Spenser
答案: Sir Philip Sidney

7、 Spenser’s masterpiece ______ is an extended hymn dedicated to the Queen Elizabeth.

A:The Faerie Queen
B:Amoretti
C:The Shepherd’s Calendar
D:Sonnets
答案: The Faerie Queen

8、 The basic unit of poetic meter in English is a ______ which normally consists of one stressed syllable plus one or two unstressed syllables.

A:foot
B:syllable
C:word
D:phrase
答案: foot

9、 A four-line stanza is called a ______.

A:quatrain
B:couplet
C:triplet
D:sestet
答案: quatrain

10、 ______ started Religious Reformation in Britain.

A:Henry VIII
B:Henry VII
C:Elizabeth I
D:Queen Mary
答案: Henry VIII

11、 ______ is often regarded as the father of English Literature.

A:Chaucer
B:Shakespeare
C:Spenser
D:Milton
答案: Chaucer

12、 Novel appeared in the ______ period.

A:Victorian
B:Renaissance
C:Neoclassical
D:Romantic
答案: Neoclassical

13、 The Victorian Age is the age of ______.

A:romanticism
B:realism
C:neoclassicism
D:modernism
答案: realism

14、 The the-stream- of- consciousness writing appeared in ______ age.

A:modern
B:realistic
C:neoclassical
D:romantic
答案: modern

15、 ______ (literary form) is popular in Elizabethan age.

A:Sonnet
B:Novel
C:Essay
D:Epic
答案: Sonnet

16、 Referential language refers to the language that ______.

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、 Representational language refers to the language that ______.

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、 The most important literary work of the Old-English period is ______.

A: Gulliver’s Travels
B:Beowulf
C:The Canterbury Tales
D:Hamlet
答案: Beowulf

19、 Medieval romances were ______.

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、 ”Renaissance” means rebirth or revival of letters. It encourages a rebirth of ______.

A:Christian spirit
B:a respect for church
C:human spirit
D:science spirit
答案: human spirit

作业Week 2 Elizabethan Drama Assignment for week 2

1、 Humanism Reflected in The Merchant of Venice
评分规则:  清晰明确地写出了莎士比亚的人文主义思想在《威尼斯商人》中的体现，如他对美好爱情和友谊的歌颂、对人性的肯定、对女性的褒扬等。
能够运用剧本中的2-3个事例说明的观点，并有文本细节或其他材料支撑。如Portia对爱情的追求，她的智慧体现了对女性的歌颂；对Antonio和Bassanio友谊的描述、对Shylock珍爱送给妻子的指环的描绘等。答题不足100字，扣3分；答题在100字以上，不足200字，扣2分。
语言准确，逻辑清晰。不能用完整句子答题的扣2分。

Week 3 Milton and Neoclassical Poetry Quiz for Week 3

1、 The most famous prose work of Milton is probably ______.

A:Paradise Lost
B:Arcades
C:Samson Agonistes
D:Areopagitica
答案: Areopagitica

2、 Milton served as ______ for the Cromwell government.

A:the Latin Secretary
B:the Prime Minister

C:the Foreign Minister
D:the spokesman
答案: the Latin Secretary

3、 The story of Paradise Lost is taken from ______.

A:Homer
B:Greek Mythology
C:Genesis of the Bible
D:New Testament
答案: Genesis of the Bible

4、 In Paradise Lost, Raphael warned Adam ______.

A:not to eat the fruit on the tree of knowledge
B:to fight against Satan
C:not to follow Eve
D:not to follow Satan
答案: not to eat the fruit on the tree of knowledge

5、 Milton said that his writing purpose of Paradise Lost was ______.

A:to defend for Satan
B:to blame God’s way to human beings
C:to justify God’s punishment on human beings
D:to explain why human beings lost paradise
答案: to justify God’s punishment on human beings

6、 Satan was originally ______.

A:a human
B:an angel
C:God’s son
D:a devil
答案: an angel

7、 After Satan was defeated, he ______.

A:fell down to the human world
B:fell down to the blazing fires of hell
C:was put into a prison of fires by God
D:was turned into a serpent by God
答案: fell down to the blazing fires of hell

8、 When Satan woke up after the defeat, he immediately ______.

A:vowed he would ask for God’s forgiveness
B:expressed his remorse
C:expressed his determination that he would never change or beg for forgiveness
D:went back to heaven to fight with God
答案: expressed his determination that he would never change or beg for forgiveness

9、 Satan told his followers that ______.

A:they should do good things to get God’s forgiveness
B:they should find means of good out of evil
C:doing ill is their only delight
D:doing good is they only purpose thereafter
答案: doing ill is their only delight

10、 Neoclassicists thought that all forms of literature should model on ______.

A:the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers
B:their contemporary Italian writers
C:Elizabethan writers
D:the famous writers in Europe
答案: the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers

11、 The peak of the Neoclassical Age is called the “Golden Age” or the “Augustan Age” represented by ______.

A:Daniel Defoe
B:Alexander Pope
C:John Dryden
D:Samuel Johnson
答案: Alexander Pope

12、 The new literary genre which appeared in the Neoclassical Age is ______.

A:prose
B:heroic couplets
C:novel
D:essay
答案: novel

13、 Which of the following is not a sentimental novel?

A:The Vicar of Wakefield
B:Tristram Shandy
C:A Sentimental Journey
D:Robinson Crusoe
答案: Robinson Crusoe

14、 “A little learning is a dangerous thing” is quoted from ______.

A:Francis Bacon
B:William Shakespeare
C:Alexander Pope
D:John Milton
答案: Alexander Pope

15、 ______ is a fanciful and ingenious mock-heroic work or a mock epic.

A:The Rape of the Lock
B:An Essay on Criticism
C:The Dunciad
D:The Essay on Man
答案: The Rape of the Lock

16、 In An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope suggested that ______.

A:writers should use shining conceits and wits
B:writers should show the real beauty of nature
C:writers should avoid plainness
D:wit should be found in every line
答案: writers should show the real beauty of nature

Week 4 Novels in the 18th Century Quiz for Week 4

1、 A piece of writing which is not patterned into the lines is called ______; if it is patterned into lines, it is called verse.
答案: prose

2、 Jonathan Swift’s prose satire Gulliver’s Travels describes stories in imagined lands such as ______, where tiny people of 6 inches live.
答案: Lilliput

3、 A new literary genre, ______ appeared and satisfied the demands of the reading public of the middle-class in the 18th century.
答案: novel

4、 A main feature of the eighteenth century novel is ______ which means the novels at that time often gave an authentic depiction of the society and its people.
答案: realism

5、 One feature of the 18th century novel is ______, which means they all concern the life story of a particular individual, rather than the tales of a general group.
答案: individualism

6、 Defoe’s hero or heroine are usually from the ______ class and become a middle class at the end of the story through mercantile spirit and formidable fortitude.
答案: lower

7、 Crusoe reused a black man from cannibals and renamed him ______ and took him as his servant.
答案: Friday

8、 One way to understand Robinson Crusoe is to read it as a story of ______ which described a lot of thrilling incidents and exiting and dangerous journeys of Crusoe.
答案: (以下答案任选其一都对)sea adventures;
adventures;
sea adventure

9、 One way to understand Robinson Crusoe is to interpret it as a story of ______ in which Robinson represents the prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.
答案: (以下答案任选其一都对)colonist expansion;
colonism

10、 Richardson is often regarded as the founder of the ______ English novel since his novels focus on the limited problems of marriage and other family problems.
答案: domestic

11、 ______ tells a story about a virtuous servant girl’s resistance to the base attempts of her young master Mr. B and her final reward of matrimony with the man.
答案: Pamela

12、 Before Fielding became a novelist, he was a successful ______, but the Theatrical Licensing Act ruined his career.
答案: playwright

13、 Henry Fielding and his brother John found the Bow Street Runners in 1749, which is London’s first ______.
答案: police force

14、 Fielding put forward his theory of fiction as “______”: a work of prose fiction, epic in length and variety of incident and character.
答案: comic epic in prose

15、 One night after a trip from London, Mr. Allworthy found an infant in his bed. The infant was later named ______.
答案: (以下答案任选其一都对)Tom Jones;
Tom

16、 By dramatizing a village quarrel in the ______ style, Fielding makes Tom Jones so ridiculously funny that the reader cannot help bursting into laughter as he reads through the passage.
答案: (以下答案任选其一都对)epic;
grand epic

Week 5 Early Romantic Poetry quiz for week 5

1、 Which of the following is NOT a feature of English Romanticism?

A:Passion.
B:Emotion.
C:Nature.
D:Reason.
答案: Reason.

2、 Which of the following poet is NOT a passive or escapist romanticist?

A:Wordsworth.
B:Coleridge.
C:Byron.
D:Southey.
答案: Byron.

3、 Songs of Innocence, published in 1809, is a lovely volume of poems. The poems praise _.

A:the beauty of nature and the innocence of the child
B:the kindness of the masters and parents
C:power of dream and comfort of religion
D:the white and happy world
答案: the beauty of nature and the innocence of the child

4、 In the poem “Songs of Innocence”, “lamb” is the symbol of ____ in Christianity.

A:courage
B:patience
C:innocence
D:endurance
答案: innocence

5、 Songs of Experience paints this world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a ___ tone.

A:playful
B:serious
C:melancholy
D:sarcastic
答案: melancholy

6、 In the line of the poem “The Chimney Sweeper”, “a heaven of our misery” is a figure of speech called __. “Heaven” and “misery”, two words of opposite meaning, are put together to create strong ironic effect.

A:oxymoron
B:symbol
C:metaphor
D:comparison
答案: oxymoron

7、 “A Red, Red Rose” is one of Burns most popular songs of ___ in Scottish dialect.

A:friendship
B:love
C:patriotism
D:dream
答案: love

8、 Robert Burns is most famous for his songs, in which he uses simple and __ language to celebrate love, friendship, patriotism and other beautiful human feelings and emotions.

A:idiomatic
B:informal
C:formal
D:musical
答案: musical

9、 Which of the following is NOT a feature of the poetry of Wordsworth?

A:Musical poetry is spontaneous.
B:Nature inspires poetry.
C:Common subjects can be poetic.
D:Poems should describe supernatural realm.
答案: Poems should describe supernatural realm.

10、 What are the 2 subjects of Wordsworth’s poetry?

A:Nature and common life.
B:Emotion and spirituality.
C:Individuality and convention.
D:Revolution and oppression.
答案: Nature and common life.

11、 The “never-ending line” of flowers is compared to _______ in “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”.

A:dancing daffodils
B:twinkling stars
C:clouds
D:sparkles of water
答案: twinkling stars

12、 Which of the following expression is NOT a suitable description for the solitude and mysteriousness of Lucy in the “Lucy Poems”?

A:“Untrodden ways.”
B:“None to praise.”
C:“Very few to love.”
D:“Fair as a star.”
答案: “Fair as a star.”

13、 Coleridge can be regarded as the first __ of the romantic age because of his work Biographia Literia.

A:scholar
B:critic
C:poet
D:writer
答案: critic

14、 ___ is a dream-poem.

A:“The Rime of Ancient Mariner”
B:“Christabel”
C:“Kubla Khan”
D:“Nightingale”
答案: “Kubla Khan”

15、 A recurring motif throughout Coleridge’s poetry is the power of dreams and of the ___.

A:imagination
B:reality
C:nature
D:emotion
答案: imagination

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