Week 1 Course Introduction
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 1
1、单选题：
Who was Apollo in Greek mythology? (1.1. 02:26-3:22)
A: The beautiful daughter of a river god.
B: The god of poetry.
C: The god of pastoral life.
D: The god of love.
答案: The god of poetry.
2、单选题：
Where does the pleasure of reading poetry come from? (1.2. 00:33-00:48)
A: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from the beauty of the language.
B: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from the power of the emotion in the poem.
C: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from the depth of the insight suggested in the poem.
D: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from all the three answers mentioned above.
答案: The pleasure of reading poetry comes from all the three answers mentioned above.
3、单选题：
How does an image come to us? (1.2. 01:46-02:01)
A: An image may come through the eye as color or through the ear as sound.
B: An image may come to us through the tongue as taste.
C: An image may come to us through the nose as smell or the skin as
touch.
D: An image may come through any one of the ways mentioned above.
答案: An image may come through any one of the ways mentioned above.
4、单选题：
What do we mean when we say that Robert Frost’s simplicity is deceptive? (1.3. 00:23-00:44)
A: Frost’s poems are simple, direct and natural.
B: Frost’s poems are never simple, direct and natural.
C: Frost’s poems never say much in little.
D: Frost’s poems look simple, direct and natural, but Frost was almost never as simple, direct and natural as he appeared to be.
答案: Frost’s poems look simple, direct and natural, but Frost was almost never as simple, direct and natural as he appeared to be.
5、单选题：
Why do we read all these masterpieces? (1.4. 00:08-00:31)
A: They represent the best of their kind.
B: They have stood the test of time.
C: They are known to us not only in themselves but also in terms of their interpretation and reinterpretation through the ages.
D: All the three answers mentioned above.
答案: All the three answers mentioned above.
Week 2 British Renaissance Poetry
Multiple-Choice Questions for William Shakespeare
1、单选题：
What is the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18? (2.2. 01:25-33)
A: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through love.
B: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through literature.
C: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through marriage.
D: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through offspring.
答案: Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through literature.
2、单选题：
There is an ironic twist in the opening two lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. What is it? (2.2. 05:32-06:02)
A: The changeable weather in the summer in England makes its summer days a good comparison with his beloved.
B: The variable weather in the summer in England makes its summer days a good comparison with his beloved.
C: The unpredictable weather in the summer in England makes its summer days a good comparison with his beloved.
D: His beloved is more beautiful or more handsome than a summer’s day.
答案: His beloved is more beautiful or more handsome than a summer’s day.
3、单选题：
What is the figure of speech used in line 3 (Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May)? (2.2. 07:17-08:10)
A: metaphor
B: simile
C: onomatopoeia
D: personification
答案: onomatopoeia
4、单选题：
What are the figures of speech used in line 4 (And summer’s lease hath all too short a date)?(2.2. 09:10-10:15)
A: personification and metaphor
B: simile and personification
C: metaphor and onomatopoeia
D: onomatopoeia and personification
答案: personification and metaphor
5、单选题：
What does “the eye of heaven” refer to in line 5 (Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines)? (2.2. 10:21-10:45)
A: The heavenly eye
B: God’s eye
C: The sun
D: The moon
答案: The sun
6、单选题：
What does the two “this” refer to in the last line (So long lives this, and this gives life to thee)? (2.2. 19:10:-19:23)
A: This sonnet
B: This poet
C: The speaker “I”
D: This last line
答案: This sonnet
7、单选题：
What is a sonnet? (2.3. 00:12-02:50)
A: A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter.
B: A sonnet is a 14-line poem with its own rhyme schemes.
C: A sonnet is a 14-line poem written with its own logical and emotional organization.
D: A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter with its own rhyme schemes and its own logical and emotional organization.
答案: A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter with its own rhyme schemes and its own logical and emotional organization.
8、单选题：
What is the rhyme scheme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18? (2.3. 02:32-02:50)
A: abba abba cdcdcd
B: abba abba cdecde
C: abab cdcd efef gg
D: abab bcbc cdcd ee
答案: abab cdcd efef gg
Week 3 British Metaphysical Poetry & John Miltons Poetry
Multiple-Choice Questions for John Donne
1、单选题：
Why did John Donne take no degree both at Oxford and Cambridge? (4.2. 00:47-01:05)
A: Because he was a Puritan and refused to take the Oath of Supremacy required at graduation.
B: Because he was a Catholic and refused to take the Oath of Supremacy required at graduation.
C: Because he was an Anglican and refused to take the Oath of Supremacy required at graduation.
D: Because he was a Presbyterian and refused to take the Oath of Supremacy required at graduation.
答案: Because he was a Catholic and refused to take the Oath of Supremacy required at graduation.
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