北语17秋《英美文学选读》作业4.doc

1. When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___
A. Bush
B. Kennedy
C. Clinton
D. Fort
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2. After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___
A. Life on the Mississippi
B. The Gilded Age
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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3. The sentence "Shall pare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ .
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. s
D. histories
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4. "I have no monarch in my life." this was said by___
A. Walt Whitman
B. Robert Frost
C. John keats
D. Emily Dickinson
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5. "This is my letter to the World" is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's___ about munication with the outside world.
A. indifference
B. anger
C. anxiety
D. sorrow
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6. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A. Religion and immortality
B. Life and death
C. Love and marriage
D. War and peace
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7. Henry David Thoreau's work___, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Walden
B. The Pioneers
C. Nature
D. Song of Myself
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8. In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I a