中国大学MOOC 美国现代主义短篇小说赏析-周口师范学院 测验与作业答案

1. Introduction

1 What is the difference between Bill’s “Oh” and Mary’s “Oh”?

Bill is sadder than Mary.

Mary is happier than Bill.
Bill shows his sadness.Mary shows her politeness .
喵查答案：

Bill shows his politeness.Mary shows her sadness.

2 Why is Mary’s youngest son  named Bill? Which one is not the reason.
Mary still loves Bill.

Mary wants to remember Bill.
Mary’s love toward Bill is intensified into the image her youngest boy.
喵查答案：

Mary hates Bill.

3 Which one is not the correct statement about defamiliarization?

By disrupting the modes of ordinary lingustic discourse, “literature” makes strange the word of everyday perception.

It renews the reader’s lost capacity for fresh sensation.

Defamiliarization means estrange or making something familiar uncommon.
喵查答案：

Defamiliarization means estrange or making something unfamiliar common.

4 What is a gap in a text?
喵查答案：The meaning between the lines.
The meaning appearing in the text.
The meaning told by the writer.
The meaning not reliable to the readers.

5 What is defamiliarization? 
喵查答案：To make sth usual strange
To make sth usual commom
To make sth usual familiar
To make sth usual boring

6 Choose the correct statements.
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Bill has changed only a little because of happy marriage.
Bill has changed only a lot because of hard life.
喵查答案：Mary has changed only a lot because of hard life.

Mary has changed only a little because of happy marriage.

7 Why does the writer use the title “Early Autumn”?
喵查答案：It is the time of harvest.
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It is the time of death.
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It symbolizes Mary’s hope.
喵查答案：It symbolizes Mary’s disappointment.

8 How to appreciate a text?
喵查答案：Take part in the text.
喵查答案：Fill in the gaps of the text.
喵查答案：Create new meanings beyond the text.
Try to experience the content only in the text.

9 Robert Frost’s The Span of Life does not belong to literature.
正确
喵查答案：错误

10 By disrupting the modes of ordinary lingustic discourse, “literature” makes strange the word of everyday perception and renews the reader’s lost capacity for fresh sensation.
喵查答案：正确
错误

2. Features of literature

1 What is the issue of the short story?
喵查答案：

Domestic voilence

Happiness of family life
Harmonious relationships
Mutual understanding

2 Which one does the title not indicate?
喵查答案：

Happiness in the family.

Conflicts between the couples.
Quarrelling and fighting.
Separation and even divorce.

3 What is the meaning of the last sentence “In this manner, the issue was decided.”
The father had the baby.
The mother had the baby.
The baby was deserted.
喵查答案：The baby was killed by separating into two parts.

4 What is the symbolic meaning of little shoulder-high window?
Father
Mother
喵查答案：Baby
Everyone

5 What are the symbolic meanings of dirty water and darkness?
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Evil
喵查答案：Crime
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Hurt
Happiness

6 There are two ways of foregrounding, which are defamiliarization and connotations.
喵查答案：正确
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7 Texts have some relationships with the former texts more or less, which is intertextuality.
喵查答案：正确
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8 All of the texts should have the feature of self-reflexiveness.
正确
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9 Aesthetic object means that literature is to be enjoyed and it is only a kind of experience.
喵查答案：正确
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10 Usually the writer is the narrator and the events in literature are the real events happening in history.
正确
喵查答案：错误

3. Development of American literature and representative short story writers

1 Modernism is author-centered, with anti-heroes troubled by alienation, loss, and despair.
喵查答案：正确
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2 Romanticism is reader-centered and portrays common people.
正确
喵查答案：错误

3 Realism is author-centered, full of imagination, emotion, and introspection.
正确
喵查答案：错误

4 American literature has 6 stages:  Colonial Period, Enlightenment, Romantic Age, Realism, Modernism, and Post 1945.
喵查答案：正确
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5 American literature is one of the youngest literatures, just over 200 years old.
喵查答案：正确
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6 Modernism is not full of private emotion and a sense of loss.
正确
喵查答案：错误

7 American Naturalism is a pessimistic off-shoot of American Realism.
喵查答案：正确
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8 Realism is rebellion against Romanticism and the disillusionment with the idea heroism.
喵查答案：正确
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9 Romanticism is rebellion against Neoclassicism, the rise of anti-traditionalism.
喵查答案：正确
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10 American social development (including literature) was strongly influenced by American Puritanism.
喵查答案：正确
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4. Edgar Allan Poe

1 As a literary device, _______ contains at least one more layer of meaning concealed behind an explicit expression.
image  
metaphor 
喵查答案：symbol
Both A and B.

2 What is metaphor?
It means only what it is.
喵查答案：It means something other than what it is.
It means what it is and something more too.
It contains at least one more layer of meaning.

3 Edgar Allan Poe wrote poems which are marvels of beauty and craftsmanship, such as______.
“One’s Self I Sing ” 
喵查答案：“To Helen”
“To Make a Prairie ”  
” A Psalm of Life”

4 From the following, choose the stories NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Ligeia
喵查答案：The Scarlet Letter 

The Cask of Amontillado   

5 Edgar Allan Poe is usually acknowledged as the originator of ______.
the sea adventure tales 
喵查答案：the detective stories 
the love stories 
the frontier saga

6 Edgar Allan Poe is generally thought of as the true beginner of the short stories because he was the first writer who formulated a poetics of the short stories.
喵查答案：正确
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7 In the view of Montresor, “human foot” represents himself, and “snake” represents the person he wanted to revenge, that is, Fortunato.
喵查答案：正确
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8 The word “cask” in the title only means “barrel” without symbolic meanings.
正确
喵查答案：错误

9 The pronunciation of Fortunado is similar to that of “fortunate” in English, which symbolizes that Fortunado is a lucky person in the story.
正确
喵查答案：错误

10 Symbolism was a late 20th century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.
正确
喵查答案：错误