英美文学小史答案2023秋

第九章测试

1.Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth both fought to ______ slavery. （ ）
A:adorn
B:pervade
C:vanquish
D:consecrate

答案:C
2.A common ________ of slave owners was that they were “civilizing” the people they held in bondage. （ ）
A:delusion
B:cathedral
C:allusion
D:perusal
3.In the end, the South could not ________ with the North’s overwhelming force. （ ）
A:induce
B:protrude
C:contend
D:assent
4.The ‘great war’, according to no less an admirer than Abraham Lincoln himself, was started by Harriet Beecher Stowe with her anti-slavery novel, ________. （ ）
A:Native Son
B:Invisible Man
C:Uncle Tom’s Cabin
D:My Bondage and My Freedom
5.When Walt Whitman first published Leaves of Grass in 1855, it marked the beginning of a revolution in poetry. ( ）
A:对 B:错 6.Whitman was nurtured by the transcendentalists, and he took great delight in the quiet joys of nature. （ ）
A:对 B:错 7.Whitman wrote in ________, which revolutionized the form of poetry. ( )
A:free verse
B:sonnet
C:blank verse
D:ballad
8.Emily Dickinson’s poetry could turn the ordinary into the deeply meaningful. （ ）
A:对 B:错 9.Which of the following is not the feature of Dickinson’s distinctive style? ( )
A:Traditional meter
B:Fondness of riddles
C:Free verse
D:Use of dashes
10.

 Dickinson’s poems could be categorized in conventional terms—________—but she brought irony and keen observation to these common topics.  ()

A:loneliness 

B:love C:eternity D:death