第一章 单元测试

1、单选题：
What does the term “novel” originate from? （ ）
选项：
A:Spanish
B:French
C:Italian
D:English
答案: 【Italian】

2、单选题：
Which is NOT a genre that preceded the novel? （ ）
选项：
A:Epic
B:Travelogue
C:Verse romance
D:Prose romance
答案: 【Prose romance】

3、单选题：
What does the first page of a novel usually do? （ ）
选项：
A:It’s just a setpiece feel to the author.
B:It’s not important for both the readers and the novelists.
C:It wants to tell us what it thinks important and get us involved.
D:It’s the whole of the novel.
答案: 【It wants to tell us what it thinks important and get us involved.】

4、单选题：
What do we learn from the first sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude? （ ）
选项：
A:Colonel Aureliano Buendía faced the firing squad.
B:The main family of the novel and the turbulent times in which they live.
C:Colonel Aureliano Buendía was dying.
D:We need to notice the changes on the first page of every new novel.
答案: 【The main family of the novel and the turbulent times in which they live.】

5、判断题：
Using children narrators is a perfect way of story-telling.（ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】

6、判断题：
Narratives may have their own biases and blind spots, for example, a author may idealize the some character in the novel. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】

7、单选题：
Which of the following statements is true about second-person narrations? （ ）
选项：
A:They are more likely to be used as a narrative gambit.
B:They are less likely to be strange experiences.
C:They are common in narrative texts.
D:They are always used to hide culpability.
答案: 【They are more likely to be used as a narrative gambit.】

8、判断题：
Sometimes theme overlaps with motif, as those recurrences serve to reinforce a key idea. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】

9、单选题：
Which of the following novel was written by Henry James? （ ）
选项：
A:The Great Gatsby
B:The Catcher in the Rye
C:One Hundred Years of Solitude
D:Portrait of a Lady
答案: 【Portrait of a Lady】

10、单选题：
What is the narrator’s attitude towards India in the first pages of A Passage to India? （ ）
选项：
A:Hostile.
B:Detached.
C:Impressed.
D:Fascinated.
答案: 【Detached.】

第二章 单元测试

1、单选题：
In the example of hybrid narration from Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King, what literary technique is primarily used? （ ）
选项：
A:Stream of consciousness
B:Unreliable narration
C:Mixing of character’s voice with the author’s voice
D:First-person limited point of view
答案: 【Mixing of character’s voice with the author’s voice】

2、多选题：
Which of the following statements are true regarding omniscient narrators? （ ）
选项：
A:Their knowledge and authority should not be questioned by the reader.
B:They are disembodied voices rather than locatable characters within the story.
C:They can know everything there is to know about their stories but may sometimes pretend not to know certain details.
D:They are assumed to express the real-life author’s thoughts and sentiments.
答案: 【Their knowledge and authority should not be questioned by the reader.;
They are disembodied voices rather than locatable characters within the story.;
They can know everything there is to know about their stories but may sometimes pretend not to know certain details.】

3、单选题：
What does an omniscient narrator imply in the context of fiction writing? （ ）
选项：
A:The narrator knows everything about the story.
B:The narrator is a main character in the story.
C:The narrator is unreliable and often misinforms the reader.
D:The narrator is limited to the perspectives of a few characters.
答案: 【The narrator knows everything about the story.】

4、单选题：
Which of the following novels features a narrator whose reliability is compromised by insanity? （ ）
选项：
A:Under Western Eyes
B:Jane Eyre
C:The Turn of the Screw
D:Wuthering Heights
答案: 【The Turn of the Screw】

5、多选题：
Which characteristics may make a narrator unreliable according to the text? （ ）
选项：
A:Being overly ambitious
B:Cultural prejudices
C:Insanity
D:Naivety
答案: 【Cultural prejudices;
Insanity;
Naivety】

6、单选题：
In George Eliot’s Adam Bede, Hetty Sorrel's character is portrayed with （ ）
选项：
A:heroic qualities and admiration
B:neutral, unbiased observation
C:deep psychological insight
D:limited inner depth and as an object of pity
答案: 【limited inner depth and as an object of pity】

7、单选题：
What does the narrative bias in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers primarily manifest as? （ ）
选项：
A:Excessive use of symbolism
B:Lack of historical context
C:Overemphasis on the protagonist's viewpoint
D:Unfair treatment of secondary characters
答案: 【Overemphasis on the protagonist's viewpoint】

8、多选题：
Which of the following are examples of narrative biases mentioned in the lesson? （ ）
选项：
A:Idealizing certain characters
B:Providing limited perspective
C:Manipulating events to suit fictional purposes
D:Directly stating the author’s opinions
答案: 【Idealizing certain characters;
Providing limited perspective;
Manipulating events to suit fictional purposes】

9、单选题：
Which of the following best describes the role of narrative in modernist literature? （ ）
选项：
A:To console and uplift the reader by restoring order.
B:To demonstrate the power of reason and progress.
C:To challenge the notion of a single grand narrative and explore multiple perspectives.
D:To ensure that all stories have a happy ending.
答案: 【To challenge the notion of a single grand narrative and explore multiple perspectives.】

10、判断题：
In some sense, modernist and postmodernist literary works are more realistic than most realism （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】