英伦文学地图:英国文学中的地域书写智慧树知到答案章节测试2023年苏州

第一章测试

1. What is included in Jane Austen’s landscapes?

A:Ireland

B:Scotland

C:Wales

D:England

答案:D

2. It is in Southern England that the women in Jane Austen’s novels can feel

comfortable.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

3. The marriage transactions in Jane Austen’s novels take place in the following

places:

A:Brighton

B:Bath

C:Cambridge

D:London

答案:ABD

4. The characteristics of the late eighteenth century in England include:

答案:ABC

5. Literary geography is a perspective on literature that incorporates the study

of geographical space and place.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

6. When does the cultural turn of human geographies take place?

A:the end of the 1980s

B:the early twentieth century

C:the sixteenth century

D:the end of the 1950s

答案:A

7. The scope of literary geography studies includes:

A:the plot

B:the study of literature in space

C:geography documents

D:the study of space in literature

答案:BD

8. Geography is not an inert container, is not a box where cultural history

happens, but an active force, that pervades the literary field and shapes it in

depth

A:错

B:对

答案:B

9. The act of writing itself might be considered as a form of mapping or

cartographic activity.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

10. Great Britain is a country.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

第二章测试

1. Who is honoured as the father of English literature?

A:Ben Johnson

B:John Donne

C:Geoffrey Chaucer

D:John Milton

答案:C

2. In the Medieval hierarchical system of England, the church was responsible

for the spiritual welfare of the body politic.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

3. Geoffrey Chaucer’s diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372 brought him into

direct contact with the Italian Renaissance.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

4. Scholars conjecture that The Canterbury Tales was probably first conceived

in 1386, when Chaucer was living in Canterbury.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

5. When does the pilgrimage take place in The Canterbury Tales?

A:April

B:June

C:May

D:March

答案:A

6. Which one is the opening tale after “The General Prologue” in The

Canterbury Tales?

答案:D

7. A dialectic between ___ is a recurrent feature of The Canterbury Tales.

A:styles

B:genres

C:classes

D:rhetorics

答案:ABC

8. The persona “I” in The Canterbury Tales is also one of the pilgrims.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

9. “The Miller’s Tale” concerned with order, love and fraternity parodies “The

Knight’s tale” that involves deception and body.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

10. “The Miller’s Tale” has the following characteristics:

A:hilarious

B:fabliau

C:tragic

D:aristocratic

答案:AB

第三章测试

1. Shakespeare was a contemporary of ( ).

A:King Charles II and Queen Victoria

B:King George IV and Queen Elizabeth II

C:Queen Elizabeth I and King James II

D:Queen Elizabeth I and King James I

答案:D

2. Shakespeare came from a well-educated family in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

3. Shakespeare was buried in Westminster Abbey.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

4. Geographically speaking, Stratford-upon-Avon is situated in the Southeast of

London.

A:错

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

B:对

答案:A

In Shakespeare’s life, he had been ( ).

A:an actor

B:a theatre manager

C:a playwright

D:a poet

答案:ABCD

The Globe Theatre is situated on ( ).

A:the south bank of River Avon

B:the north bank of River Avon

C:the south bank of River ThamesRiver Thames

D:the north bank of River Thames

答案:C

Which of the following was once a patron of Shakespeare?

A:The 3rd Earl of Southampton

B:Christopher Marlowe

C:James V

D:Robert Greene

答案:A

Before 1597, many plays were published without the identification of its

writer.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

Which of the followings statement is NOT true about Shakespreare’s The

First Folio?

A:It helps modern day scholars to understand Shakespeare.

B:It was published after his death.

C:It contains all of Shakespeare’s plays.

D:It includes comedies, tragedies, and historical dramas.

答案:C

The first actor who played Hamlet was ( )

A:David Tennant

B:Shakespeare himself

C:Richard Burbage

D:Benedict Cumberbatch

答案:C

第四章测试

1. Burns Night is traditionally celebrated on？

A:January 24th

B:January 22nd

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

C:January 23rd

D:January 25th

答案:D

Robert Burns’s parents were buried in the graveyard of the same old kirk

featured in his poem “Tam O’Shanter”.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

Tam in “Tam O’Shanter” witness ( ) at a stormy night.

A:a fight happened at the market

B:witches and warlocks partying with the devil

C:a murder that happened in the graveyard

D:a debate between God and Satan

答案:B

Scots refers to English spoken in the Scottish accent.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

The development of the Scots language has been influence by ( ）

A:the Scandinavian languages

B:the Germanic languages

C:the Cyrillic languages

D:the Romance languages

答案:ABD

“A wee bairn” in Scots means ( ) in English:

A:a small dog

B:a big child

C:a big dog

D:a small child

答案:D

Because “Tam O’Shanter” was written for a historical record of Scottish

castles and churches, the story of it was factual.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

The 18th century Ayrshire was dominated by ( ).

A:none of above

B:Catholicism

C:Protestantism

D:the Orthodox Church

答案:C

Robert Burns’s education include ( )

A:school and a private tutor

B:the University of Edinburgh

C:folksongs and tales from his mother and nanny

D:his father’s teaching him to read from The Bible

答案:ACD

第五章测试

1. Which one is the largest natural lake in England?

A:Windermere

B:Loch Ness

C:Derwentwater

D:Esthwaite Water

答案:A

2. The Lake District is well known for its connection with Romantic poets, such

as William Blake.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

3. Where was William Wordsworth born?

A:Cumbria

B:London

C:Oxford

D:Sussex

答案:A

4. Dorothy Wordsworth wrote the Grasmere Journal when she lived in the Dove

Cottage.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

5. In whose work does the following passage appear? “I never saw daffodils so

beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some

rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest

tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind

that blew upon them over the Lake”

A:William Wordsworth

B:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C:Dorothy Wordsworth

D:Thomas De Quincey

答案:C

6. The final version of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” published in 1815 is a

revision of the original published in 1807.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

7. In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, what words does the poet use to convey a

tranquil image?

A:wander

B:flutter

C:float

D:lonely

答案:ACD

8. In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, the poet compares the daffodils to ___

A:stars

B:dancers

C:wanderers

D:flowers

答案:AB

9. What does “the inward eye” refer to in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?

A:focused attention

B:remembrance

C:imagination

D:absent-mindedness

答案:ABC

10. William Wordsworth’s life at the Lake District exerts a huge impact on his

poetry.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

第六章测试

1. Which of the following titles belong to Walter Scott?

A:The Wizard of Oz

B:The Heaven-taught Ploughman

C:The Inventor of Scottish History

D:The Wizard of the North

答案:CD

2. Walter Scott decorated his house with the entrance doorway to the Old

Talbooth Prison in Edinburgh.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

3. How many times did Walter Scott meet Robert Burns?

A:4

B:2

C:1

D:3

答案:C

4. The name of Walter Scott’s castle comes from the route leading to the

Melrose Abbey, an abbey important in Scottish history.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

5. The aftermath of the Jacobite’s defeat on Culloden Moor includes:

A:the dying of the clan system

B:the restriction of foreign travel

C:the taboo on wearing tartan

D:the decline of the Gaelic language

答案:ACD

6. In Waverley, the character Fergus MacIvor was a highland chieftain loyal to

the Jacobite leader “Bonnie Prince Charles”.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

7. Edward Waverley believed that the Jacobite cause would succeed.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

8. Which of the following British monarchs was the first to visit Scotland

wearing a tartan kilt after the Battle of Culloden ?

A:Queen Victoria

B:George III

C:George IV

D:Edward I

答案:C

9. Walter Scott received help from ( ) to collect ballads.

A:James Hogg

B:Robert Burns

C:All the other choices are correct

D:Bishop Percy

答案:AD

10. Walter Scott was against ballad singers or collectors leaving their own

stamps on the ballads.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

第七章测试

1. The City of Bath is situated in the Southwest of England.

A:错

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

B:对

答案:B

The Romans were good at combining their own gods and the local deities

after they conquered other lands.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

Bath started to regain its Roman glory when Richard “Beau” Nash invested in

the city in the ( )

A:17th century

B:19th century

C:16th century

D:18th century

答案:D

Which of the followings are likely to be a Regency social event in Bath?

A:a ball

B:a dinner party

C:a cricket match

D:a concert

答案:ABD

Bath’s influences on Austen’s life and works include ( ）

A:a practical experience working with the lower class people

B:a documentary record of the social manners

C:an ethical perspective of the gentry

D:the romantic encounter of her future husband

答案:BC

In the Regency Era, Bath’s social hierarchy could be reflected by the different

carriages arriving at ballrooms such as the Pump Room.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey was the heir of a rich couple Mr and

Mrs Allen and thus she attracted much attention from suitors.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

The estate of Northanger Abbey is owned by ( )

A:Mr and Mrs Allen

B:Henry Tilney

C:General Tilney

D:The Morlands

答案:C

9. Which of the following statements is/are true about Bath’s social geography

in the Regency Era?

A:The rich population lived in the north of the city.

B:The lower class people lived in the south of the city.

C:The poor population lived in the north of the city.

D:The upper class people lived in the south of the city.

答案:AB

10. The Camden Place was a fictional location created by Austen, it did not

actually exist in Bath.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

第八章测试

1. Which one of the following works is written by Anne Bronë?

A:Agnes Gray

B:Jane Eyre

C:Wuthering Heights

D:Villette

答案:A

2. The Brontë sisters’ connection with Yorkshire was through blood.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

3. The Brontë sisters were born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England in the

early 19th century.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

4. Emily Brontë incorporates the harsh and unhealthy conditions of the clergy

school she attended in her novel Wuthering Heights.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

5. Who is the most private and reclusive one of the three Brontë sisters?

A:Charlotte Brontë

B:Branwell Brontë

C:Anne Brontë

D:Emily Brontë

答案:D

6. Wuthering Heights is similar to Dickens’ novels in terms of its engagement

with social issues.

A:错

7.

8.

9.

10.

B:对

答案:A

Which one of the following settings is the counterpart of Wuthering Heights

in the eponymous novel?

A:Dove Cottage

B:Lowood

C:Keswick House

D:Thrushcross Grange

答案:D

The following passage is uttered by ____ in Wuthering Heights: “This is

certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have

fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society.”

A:Catherine Linton

B:Mr. Lockwood

C:Edgar Linton

D:Mr. Heathcliff

答案:B

The following passage shows that the moor is a place of ___ in Wuthering

Heights: “About midnight, while we still sat up, the storm came rattling over

the Heights in full fury. There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and

either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building; a huge

bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney-stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen fire”.

A:desolation

B:disaster

C:happiness

D:violence

答案:ABD

The moors witness a kind of U-turn in the story: paradise for young

Catherine and Heathcliff – hell for their adult life – paradise again for the

offspring.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

第九章测试

1. Dickens, like some of his fictional characters, was forced to serve as a child

labor in a shoe “blacking factory” to eke out a living at a very young age

A:对

B:错

答案:A

2. Dickens’ first novel( ) brought him instant success at the age of twenty-five.

A:The Pickwick Papers

B:A Tale of Two Cities

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

C:Oliver Twist

D:David Copperfield

答案:A

Dickens harbors a strong sense of localism rooted in the modes of existence

and landscape of the countryside.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

The image of London offered by Dickens in Oliver Twist is generally

charming and attractive.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

In order to highlight Oliver’s first encounter with the shockingly filthy

London underworld, Dickens portrays London with a series of unpleasant

natural elements including ( ).

A:rain that falls sluggishly down

B:black mist

C:stones covered with thick mud

D:“everything felt cold and clammy to the touch”

答案:ABCD

The streets in Oliver Twist are marked by ( ).

A:narrowness

B:muddiness

C:cleaness

D:darkness

答案:ABD

Dickens’ depiction of those ruinous slums in London can find expression in (),

the most notorious gutter alongside The Thames.

答案:A

The fall of those slum houses has been embedded by Dickens with two layers

of implications, ( ).

A:the fall of the hypocritical capitalist humanism

B:the rocketing development of capitalism

C:the precarious state of existence of those disenfranchised groups

D:the extremely dire financial conditions

答案:AC

Dickens’depiction of the slums, those dilapidated houses in particular, pushes

to the climax his critique of the government’s indifference towards the poor

and, more generally, its non-performance in tackling the problem of poverty.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

10. Dickens witnessed the rise of London as one of the largest metropolises in

the European continent because it ( ).

A:built intricate sewer and street systems

B:attained great achievements of industrialization and urbanization

C:erected all sorts of facilities

D:constructed railways

答案:ABCD

第十章测试

1. The following passage appears in the novel ___: “London. Michaelmas Term

latterly over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable

November weather.”

A:The Sign of the Four

B:Hard Times

C:Bleak House

D:A Study in Scarlet

答案:C

2. Much of the 19th-century detective fiction was published in periodicals.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

3. It’s generally believed that The Moonstone is the first detective novel in

Britain.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

4. In which one of the following works does the character Shelock Holmes first

appear?

A:A Study in Scarlet

B:The Hound of Baskerville

C:The Moonstone

D:The Sign of the Four

答案:A

5. It’s said that Conan Doyle’s inspiration for the character Sherlock Holmes

came from Bucket, a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University

of Edinburgh

A:错

B:对

答案:A

6. The Sign of the Four gets its name bcause in the story there are four pieces of

treasure stolen.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

7. Although Conan Doyle lived only a few months in London before moving to

the suburbs, London exerts a huge impact on his writings.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

8. The following quotation describes the city of London in ____: “a dense drizzly

fog lay low upon the great city, mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly over the

muddy streets.”

A:The Sign of the Four

B:The Hound of Baskerville

C:The Moonstone

D:A Study in Scarlet

答案:A

9. Lyceum Theatre in the East End figures in both Conan Doyle’s real life and his

stories.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

第十一章测试

1. Which of the following writers had been influenced by Freudian theories?

A:Virginia Woolf

B:Franz Kafka

C:Marcel Proust

D:James Joyce

答案:ABCD

2. For most of Virginia Woolf’s life, she lived in ( )

A:the East End of London

B:the West End of London

C:the seaside of Southwest England

D:Richmond

答案:B

3. Virginia Woolf was sent to study at the University of Oxford.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

4. None of the characters in Mrs. Dalloway met one another during their walks

on that day before Clarissa Dalloway’s party.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

5. Septimus Warren Smith suffers from

A:a depressing unhappiness in marriage

B:post-traumatic stress disorder

C:a serious wound he got from fighting in WWI

D:none of above

答案:B

6. Modernism is a movement only in literature.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

7. European Modernism lasted from the end of 19th century to ( )

A:the 1960s

B:the breakout of WWII

C:the 1970s

D:the breakout of WWI

答案:B

8. Before Modernism, art converted the unexplainable to a very abstract form.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

9. Which of the following theories contributed to Modernism?

A:Marxism and Darwinism

B:Bergson’s “élan vital”

C:Nietzsche’s “Will to Power”

D:Einstein’s “theory of relativity”

答案:ABCD

10. Freud and literature mutually influenced each other.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

第十二章测试

1. Oxford got its name for being the fording point in Saxon times.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

2. Which one is the oldest university in the English-speaking world?

A:University of Cambridge

B:University of Paris

C:Harvard University

D:University of Oxford

答案:D

3. University of Oxford was modeled on the University of Paris.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

4. Which one(s) of the following is(are) the initial faculties of the University of

Oxford?

A:medicine

B:theology

C:law

D:liberal arts

答案:ABCD

5. The various colleges of Oxford were intended primarily for well-off scholars.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

6. Oxford is known as the “City of Spires” or the “City of Dreaming Spires”,

because of its beautiful skyline of Gothic towers and steeples.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

7. C. S. Lewis completed The Chronicles of Narnia series at Oxford.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

8. J.R.R. Tolkien taught English language and literature at the University of

Oxford.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

第十三章测试

1. The famous journal Edinburgh Review founded in the 19th century

promoted the literary trend of ( )

A:Realism

B:Futurism

C:Romanticism

D:Symbolism

答案:C

2. The Edinburgh born writers include ( )

A:Robert Louis Stevenson

B:Conan Doyle

C:Walter Scott

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

D:J. M. Barrie

答案:ABCD

Spark was honoured “Dame Muriel Spark” for her contribution in literature.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

Muriel Spark was raised as a ( ) but later converted to a ( )

A:Presbyterian … Catholic

B:Catholic … Protestant

C:Catholic … Presbyterian

D:Jewish … Catholic

答案:A

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a biographical work of Muriel Spark’s school

teacher Miss Christina Kay.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

The “prime” of Miss Jean Brodie, according to herself, referred to ( )

A:her past youth

B:her current teaching career

C:her coming years

D:her school years

答案:B

The regular members of “The Brodie Set” includes ( )

A:4 girls

B:6 girls

C:7 girls

D:5 girls

答案:B

The most controversial topic Miss Jean Brodie taught the girls which

eventually led to her being expelled from the school was

A:religion

B:fascism

C:her personal romantic history

D:poetry

答案:B

Miss Jean Brodie eventually found out which girl of the Brodie Set betrayed

her.

A:对

B:错

答案:B

Calvinism is a religious branch of ( )

A:Judaism

B:Puritanism

C:Protestantism

D:Catholicism

答案:C

第十四章测试

1. V. S. Naipaul was born in an impoverished rural area of Trinidad.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

2. V. S. Naipaul is a travel writer.

A:错

B:对

答案:A

3. The values of the English middle class that Naipaul celebrates basically refer

to ( ).

A:the Victorianism

B:the British monarchy

C:colonialism

D:anarchism

答案:A

4. ( )prompted Naipaul to view Victorian tradition as a lifeline.

A:his nostalgia for Trinidad

B:his desire to purge himself of his West Indianness

C:his image of writing as a fundamentally British vocation

D:his lack of readers

答案:BCD

5. The protagonist of The Enigma of Arrival is widely accepted to be Naipaul.

A:对

B:错

答案:A

6. In Naipaul’s eye, this rural county in Wiltshire is an embodiment of ( ).

A:the imperial past

B:his hometown

C:his immigration

D:the pastoral beauty

答案:A

7. In The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul gives a meticulous and detailed account of

this rural county, including ( )

A:farm houses

B:routes

C:tourist attractions

D:clusters of vegetation

答案:ABCD

8. According to Naipaul, Wiltshire rehearses the process of the destruction of ( ).

A:the British colonialism in Trinidad

B:the capitalism in Britain

C:an illusory conception of England

D:the agriculture in England

答案:C

9. The critical comments received by The Enigma of Arrival are conflicting.

A:错

B:对

答案:B

第十五章测试

1. 《向西行》（Stepping Westward）的主题是（ ）。

A:单纯的英国人到美国寻求自由

B:世故的英国人到美国寻求自由

C:单纯的美国人到英国寻求经验

D:世故的美国人到英国寻求经验

答案:A

2. 《向西行》对于英国性和美国性、英国自由主义和美国自由主义的描述，以下错误的是（ ）。

A:英国人提供的是镇定剂（tranquilizers），美国人提供的是兴奋丸（pep-pills）

B:美国人试图改变世界，英国人试图维持现状

C:美国人比英国人寿命要长

D:美国人追求进步，英国人相信维持现状

答案:C

3. 以下对于《向西行》中人物的描述，正确的有（ ）。

A:在两人的交往中，伯纳德·弗勒利希（Bernard Froelich）是詹姆斯·沃克（James Walker）的提线木偶

B:伯纳德·弗勒利希（Bernard Froelich）是一个积极、主动、城府颇深的人

C:詹姆斯·沃克（James Walker）拒绝签署效忠宣言（Loyalty Oath）

D:詹姆斯·沃克（James Walker）是一个慵懒、被动的英国人

答案:BCD

4. 在《吃人是错误的》（Eating People Is Wrong）中，斯图亚特·特里斯（Stuart Treece）属于“吃人的人”。（ ）

A:错

B:对

答案:A

5. 以下对于《换位》中“羞辱”游戏的描述，正确的有（ ）。

A:“羞辱”游戏通过羞辱自己取胜

B:“羞辱”游戏通过羞辱别人取胜

C:叫出一本自己没读过的书，在场每有一个人读过这本书，叫书名的人就得一分。

D:叫出一个书名，如果自己读过、在场的人都没读过，叫书名的人得一分

答案:AC

第十六章测试

1. 亚瑟王的文学传统中，骑士传奇这一体裁起源于（ ）

A:英国

B:意大利

C:法国

D:德国

答案:C

2. 诗人在“Lady of Shalott”中直接提到了亚瑟王。（ ）

A:错

B:对

答案:A

3. 下面哪些是典雅爱情的常见特征：（ ）

A:骑士为女士服务

B:提升人物的道德

C:经常发生在婚姻之外

D:爱情超越尘世

答案:ABCD

4. 诗中哪些意象表现了Lady of Shalott受到了禁锢（ ）

A:water-lily

B:mirror

C:tower

D:wall

答案:BCD

5. 下列选项中哪一个不是以亚瑟王传奇为主题的文学作品（ ）

A:Tintagel

B:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C:“The Lady of Shalott”

D:Le Morte d’Arthur

答案:A