英美文学(天水师范学院) 中国大学慕课答案2024完整版100分

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历史小说 Historical fiction 历史小说 单元测验

1、 Which of the following statements on historical fiction is not TRUE?

A:Historical fiction as a literary genre emerged in the late 18th century.
B:Walter Scott is regarded as the progenitor of historical fiction.
C:A Tale of Two Cities is Dickens’s most popular historical fiction.
D:The French Revolution provides the social and historical basis for the rise of the historical fiction.
答案: Historical fiction as a literary genre emerged in the late 18th century.

2、 Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is not TRUE?

A:The Scarlet Letter is set in mid-seventeenth century Boston.
B:It refers to important historical events, for example, the Salem Witch Trials.
C:It includes several real historical personages.
D:Ann Hutchinson is a predecessor of Hester Prynne in the pursuit of freedom and independent will.
答案: It refers to important historical events, for example, the Salem Witch Trials.

3、 Which of the following statements about the significance of historical fiction is not TRUE?

A:It adds to our understanding of history.
B:It helps us to reflect on our own cultural heritage.
C:It challenges the grand narrative and gives voice to the oppressed group.
D:It helps us to escape from the present life.
答案: It helps us to escape from the present life.

4、 Metafiction is fiction that calls attention to its own fictionality and historicity.

A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误

5、 The informed reader is a competent reader who is equipped with all the necessary rhetorical and literary knowledge to comprehend a text.

A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确

戏剧 Drama I： Tragedy or Comedy？ This Is a Question. 戏剧 I 单元测验

1、 Which of the following is not a tragedy?

A:The Winter Tales
B:Hamlet
C:Macbeth
D:Othello
答案: The Winter Tales

2、 A repartee is ____.

A:a fencing game
B:a physical competition
C:a monologue
D:a witty conversation between sophisticated upper-class men and women
答案: a witty conversation between sophisticated upper-class men and women

3、 Aristotle in The Poetics describes the purgative effects through pity and fear that tragedy has on its audience as ____.

A:justification
B:salvation
C:catharsis
D:enlightenment
答案: catharsis

4、 The mixed generic tone of plays in early modern England _____ the play was intended to stage.

A:tells stories of more characters
B:adds complexity to the reality
C:questions the authority of playwright in interpretation of the play
D:flatters audience from different walks of life
答案: adds complexity to the reality

5、 Aristotle defined tragedy as “a representation of an action of a superior kind” grand and complete. It is presented in “embellished language, in distinct forms in different parts, ___, effecting,” ______.

A:performed by actors rather than told by a narrator… through pity and fear, the purification of such emotion
B: performed by a narrator…through glorification of heroic deeds
C:performed by actors rather than told by a narrator… through glorification of heroic deeds
D:performed by a narrator… through pity and fear, the purification of such emotion
答案: performed by actors rather than told by a narrator… through pity and fear, the purification of such emotion

哥特文学 Gothic Literature 哥特文学 单元测验

1、 Which Gothic building did Horace Walpole model at in his novel The Castle of Otranto?

A:Old St Paul’s Cathedral
B:Westminster Abbey
C:Canterbury Cathedral.
D:Strawberry Hill
答案: Strawberry Hill

2、 Who co-joined literature and Gothic architecture and ushered in the new literary genre, Gothic literature?

A:William Faulkner
B:Horace Walpole
C:Shakespeare
D:Herman Melville
答案: Horace Walpole

3、 What curbs the author’s characterization flexibility in the Castle of Otranto?

A:The moral theme about the destinies for tyrant’s descendants
B:Limited types of characters
C:The atmosphere of dark terror
D:The submissive characters
答案: The moral theme about the destinies for tyrant’s descendants

4、 What makes A Rose for Emily a “ghost story”?

A:Gothic setting
B:Gothic characters
C:Murder and Necrophilia Plot
D:All of above
答案: All of above

5、 Horace Walpole claimed he was the author for The Castle of Otranto in its first edition’s preface.

A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误

6、 Horace Walpole modelled at Shakespeare in his creating low-class characters in The Castle of Otranto.