Quiz for Week 1

1、单选题：
‌Sonnet 75 starting with the line “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” was written by ________.   ‌
选项：
A: Shakespeare
B: Sidney
C: Donne
D: Edmund Spenser
答案: 【 Edmund Spenser】

2、单选题：
‏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. ​
选项：
A: iambic pentameter
B:  iambic tetrameter
C: trochaic pentameter
D: trochaic tetrameter
答案: 【 iambic pentameter】

3、单选题：
‏The ______ sonnet consists of 3 quatrains (3 four-line stanza) and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.‌
选项：
A: Italian
B: English
C: Petrarchan
D: Spenserian
答案: 【 English】

4、单选题：
‎Shakespeare’s Sonnets is the title of a collection of ______ sonnets by William Shakespeare.‏
选项：
A: 154
B: 108
C: 89
D: 38
答案: 【 154】

5、单选题：
‎In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare compares his beloved to the ______ and argues that his beloved is even better. ‎
选项：
A: summer
B: spring
C: autumn
D: winter
答案: 【 summer】

6、单选题：
​______ is an Elizabethan poet who stood for the Renaissance ideal of “the complete man.”‏
选项：
A: Sir Philip Sidney
B: Shakespeare
C: Henry VIII
D: Edmund Spenser
答案: 【 Sir Philip Sidney】

7、单选题：
‏Spenser’s masterpiece ______ is an extended hymn dedicated to the Queen Elizabeth.‌
选项：
A: The Faerie Queen
B: Amoretti 
C: The Shepherd’s Calendar
D: Sonnets
答案: 【 The Faerie Queen】

8、单选题：
​The basic unit of poetic meter in English is a ______ which normally consists of one stressed syllable plus one or two unstressed syllables. ​
选项：
A: foot
B: syllable
C: word
D: phrase
答案: 【 foot】

9、单选题：
‌A four-line stanza is called a ______. ​
选项：
A: quatrain
B: couplet
C: triplet
D: sestet
答案: 【 quatrain】

10、单选题：
​______ started Religious Reformation in Britain.‏
选项：
A: Henry VIII
B: Henry VII
C: Elizabeth I
D: Queen Mary
答案: 【 Henry VIII】

11、单选题：
‏______ is often regarded as the father of English Literature.​
选项：
A: Chaucer
B: Shakespeare
C: Spenser
D: Milton
答案: 【 Chaucer】

12、单选题：
‍Novel appeared in the ______ period.‌
选项：
A: Victorian
B: Renaissance
C: Neoclassical
D: Romantic
答案: 【 Neoclassical】

13、单选题：
​The Victorian Age is the age of ______.​
选项：
A: romanticism
B: realism
C: neoclassicism
D: modernism
答案: 【 realism】

14、单选题：
​The the-stream- of- consciousness writing appeared in ______ age.​
选项：
A: modern
B: realistic
C: neoclassical
D: romantic
答案: 【 modern】

15、单选题：
______ (literary form) is popular in Elizabethan age.‍‍‍
选项：
A: Sonnet
B: Novel
C: Essay
D: Epic
答案: 【 Sonnet】

16、单选题：
‎Referential language refers to the language that ______.‌
选项：
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、单选题：
​Representational language refers to the language that ______. ​
选项：
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、单选题：
‌The most important literary work of the Old-English period is ______.‌
选项：
A:  Gulliver’s Travels
B: Beowulf
C: The Canterbury Tales
D: Hamlet
答案: 【 Beowulf】

19、单选题：
‎Medieval romances were ______.​
选项：
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、单选题：
‏"Renaissance" means rebirth or revival of letters. It encourages a rebirth of ______.‎
选项：
A: Christian spirit
B: a respect for church
C: human spirit
D: science spirit
答案: 【 human spirit】

quiz for week 10

1、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT true about W. B. Yeats? ​‎​
选项：
A: Yeats was born into an Anglo-Irish Protestant family in Dublin.
B: Yeats and T. S. Eliot are the key poets who brought modernism into English poetry.
C: Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 for his The Waste Land.
D: Yeats’ poetic career can be divided into 3 periods.
答案: 【 Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 for his The Waste Land.】

2、单选题：
  John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga appears in the form of__________. ‎‏‎
选项：
A: epic
B: trilogy 
C: collection of short stories
D: ballad
答案: 【 trilogy 】

3、单选题：
In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called ________, in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters. ‏‏‏
选项：
A: stream-of-consciousness
B:  expressionism
C:  symbolism
D: naturalism
答案: 【 stream-of-consciousness】

4、单选题：
‏“APRIL is the cruelest month, breeding /Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain” was selected from_____.‏‏‏
选项：
A: The Canterbury Tales
B: The Second Coming
C: The Waste Land
D: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
答案: 【 The Waste Land】

5、单选题：
Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. It is a literary school lasted from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of WWII. Which expression is wrong in the followings?‏​‏
选项：
A: Modernism describes the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature.
B: Modernism exposes sterility and futility, shows man’s frustration and disillusion, and searches for salvation and spiritual regeneration.
C: Modernism is a strong and conscious break with the past, by rejecting the moral, religious and cultural values of the past.
D: Modernists write poems of impersonal beauty; poems with a dream-like effect, showing a sense of uncertainty about the world around the poet and his attempt to escape from reality.
答案: 【 Modernists write poems of impersonal beauty; poems with a dream-like effect, showing a sense of uncertainty about the world around the poet and his attempt to escape from reality.】

6、单选题：
Which one is a modernistic novelist? ‎‌‎
选项：
A: John Galsworthy
B:  James Joyce
C: Rudyard Kipling
D: George Eliot
答案: 【  James Joyce】

7、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?‍‏‍
选项：
A: Hard Times
B: The Rainbow
C:  Women in Love  
D: Sons and Lovers
答案: 【 Hard Times】

8、单选题：
Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the _____ of a modern civilization.‎‎‎
选项：
A: Social corruption
B:  spiritual breakup
C:  physical breakup
D: religious corruption
答案: 【