北语20新上《英美文学选读》作业1答案01

(单选题)1: In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.

A: emptiness of life

B: the corruption of the upper class

C: contrast of the rich and the poor

D: the happy days of the Jazz Age

正确答案: A

(单选题)2: In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.

A: Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B: Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie

C: Copper＇s Leather-Stocking Tales

D: Thoreau＇s Walden

正确答案: B

(单选题)3: The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___

A: Dorothy Wordsworth

B: William Wordsworth

C: Coleridge

D: John Keats

正确答案: B

(单选题)4: Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse?

A: Mrs. Ramsay

B: Mr.Ramsay

C: David

D: James

正确答案: C

(单选题)5: Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of

A: Piers Plowman

B: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C: Confessio Amantis

D: The Canterbury Tales

正确答案: D

(单选题)6: Hamlet is a prince of ___

A: England

B: Ireland

C: Britain

D: Denmark