Multiple-ChoiceQuestionsforWeek1(PoetryDelightsandInstructs)

1、单选题：
‌Who was Apollo in Greek mythology? (1.1. 02:26-3:22)‌
选项：
A: The beautiful daughter of a river god.
B: The god of poetry.
C:  The god of pastoral life.
D: The god of love.
答案: 【 The god of poetry.】

2、单选题：
​What did Horace mean when he said that “the poet has mingled profit with pleasure by delighting the reader at once and instructing him”? (1.1. 04:49-05:02)​
选项：
A: He means that poetry brings both money and pleasure to the reader.
B: He means that poetry brings both delight and wisdom to the reader at the same time.
C: He means that poetry brings something useful to the reader by giving him pleasure.
D: He means that poetry brings pleasure to the reader by instructing him.‍
答案: 【 He means that poetry brings both delight and wisdom to the reader at the same time.】

3、单选题：
‌Where does the pleasure of reading poetry come from? (1.2. 00:33-00:48) ‌
选项：
A: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from the beauty of the language.
B: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from the power of the emotion in the poem.
C: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from the depth of the insight suggested in the poem.
D: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from all the three answers mentioned above. ‍
答案: 【 The pleasure of reading poetry comes from all the three answers mentioned above. ‍】

4、单选题：
‌ How does an image come to us? (1.2. 01:46-02:01)‌
选项：
A: ‍‍An image may come through the eye as color or through the ear as sound.
B: An image may come to us through the tongue as taste.
C: An image may come to us through the nose as smell or the skin as
touch.‍
D: An image may come through any one of the ways mentioned above.
答案: 【 An image may come through any one of the ways mentioned above.】

5、单选题：
‎ What is Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” about? What is the theme of this poem? (1.2. 03:40-41)​
选项：
A: Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” is a love poem.
B: Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” is a night poem.
C: Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” is a meeting poem.
D: Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” is a poem about meeting at night.‍
答案: 【 Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” is a love poem.】

6、单选题：
‌“Poetry is founded on surprise: the surprise of regaining something that was there but we failed to notice.” Whose definition of poetry is this? (1.2. 15:07-16:00)‍
选项：
A: Robert Browning.
B: Robert Frost.
C: Louis Untermeyer.
D: Laurence Perrine.‍
答案: 【 Louis Untermeyer.】

7、单选题：
‌What do we mean when we say that Robert Frost’s simplicity is deceptive? (1.3. 00:23-00:44)‌
选项：
A: Frost’s poems are simple, direct and natural.
B: Frost’s poems are never simple, direct and natural.
C: Frost’s poems never say much in little.‍
D: Frost’s poems look simple, direct and natural, but Frost was almost never as simple, direct and natural as he appeared to be.
答案: 【 Frost’s poems look simple, direct and natural, but Frost was almost never as simple, direct and natural as he appeared to be. 】

8、单选题：
‎What does Robert Frost mean when he says that “I dropped to an everyday level of diction that even [William] Wordsworth kept above.” (1.3. 01:57-02:42)​
选项：
A: Robert Frost uses a poetic language which is even simpler than William Wordsworth’s.
B:  Robert Frost uses everyday language in his poetic writing.
C: Both Frost and Wordsworth use everyday language in their poetic writing.
D: Both Frost and Wordsworth use simple language in their poetic writing.
答案: 【 Robert Frost uses a poetic language which is even simpler than William Wordsworth’s. 】

9、单选题：
‌How many British and American poets will be focused in this course? (1.4. 00:50-01:10)‏
选项：
A: 6.
B: 7.
C: 8.
D: 9.
答案: 【 9.】

10、单选题：
‍Why do we read all these masterpieces? (1.4. 00:08-00:31)‎
选项：
A: They represent the best of their kind.
B: They have stood the test of time.‍
C: They are known to us not only in themselves but also in terms of their interpretation and reinterpretation through the ages.
D: All the three answers mentioned above.‍
答案: 【 All the three answers mentioned above.‍】

Multiple-ChoiceQuestionsforWeek2(WilliamShakespeare).

1、单选题：
‍ ​How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write? (Reading aloud, 00:30-31)​‍ ​
选项：
A: 36.
B: 37.
C: 154.
D: 152
答案: 【 154.】

2、单选题：
‌What are the major themes of Shakespeare’s sonnets? (Reading aloud, 01:41-48)‏
选项：
A:  The theme of love.
B: The theme of marriage.
C: The theme of literature.
D:  All the three mentioned above.
答案: 【  All the three mentioned above.】

3、单选题：
​What is the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18? (2.2. 01:25-33)​
选项：
A: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through love.
B: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through literature.
C: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through marriage.
D: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through offspring.
答案: 【 Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through literature. 】

4、单选题：
‎There is an ironic twist in the opening two lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. What is it? ‎‎(2.2. 05:32-06:02)‎
选项：
A: The changeable weather in the summer in England makes its summer days a good comparison with his beloved.
B: The variable weather in the summer in England makes its summer days a good comparison with his beloved.
C: The unpredictable weather in the summer in England makes its summer days a good comparison with his beloved.
D: His beloved is more beautiful or more handsome than a summer’s day.
答案: 【 His beloved is more beautiful or more handsome than a summer’s day.】

5、单选题：
‍What is the figure of speech used in line 3 (Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May)?‌‍ (2.2. 07:17-08:10)‌
选项：
A: metaphor
B: simile
C: onomatopoeia
D: personification
答案: 【 onomatopoeia】

6、单选题：
‏ ‎What are the figures of speech used in line 4 (And summer’s lease hath all too short a date)?(2.2. 09:10-10:15)‎‏ ‎
选项：
A:  personification and metaphor    
B: simile and personification  
C: metaphor and onomatopoeia 
D:  onomatopoeia and personification
答案: 【  personification and metaphor    】

7、单选题：
‌‍What does “the eye of heaven” refer to in line 5 (Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines)? (2.2. 10:21-10:45)​
选项：
A: The heavenly eye   
B: God’s eye
C: The sun   
D: The moon
答案: 【 The sun    】

8、单选题：
​What does the two “this” refer to in the last line (So long lives this, and this gives life to thee)? ​​(2.2. 19:10:-19:23)‍​
选项：
A:  This sonnet
B: This poet
C: The speaker “I”
D: Th