[单项选择]Biographers of Emily Dickinson have traditionally______.


A. criticized most of her poems
B. ignored her innocence and emotional fragility
C. seen her life in romantic terms
D. blamed her parents for restricting her activities

[单项选择]Biographers of Emily Dickinson have traditionally______.
A. criticized most of her poems
B. ignored her innocence and emotional fragility
C. seen her life in romantic terms
D. blamed her parents for restricting her activities

[单项选择]Many people attribute Emily Dickinson's seclusion to ______.


A. physical illness
B. a failed love affair
C. religious fervor
D. her dislike of people

[单项选择]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.

[单项选择]Which of the following is TRUE of Emily Dickinson


A. She was not a productive poet.
B. She was not a sociable person.
C. She saw many of her poems published.
D. She communicated only with seven people.

[单项选择]Early critics of Emily Dickinson's poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such （）.
A. astonishment
B. vexation
C. allusion
D. cunning

[单项选择]Emily Dickinson lived in a society that was characterized by ______. A) strong Puritan beliefs B )equality of men and women C) the encouragement of nonconformity D) the appreciation of poetic creativity

[单项选择]How long did Emily Dickinson live in the house where she was born


A. Almost all her life.
B. Less than half her life.
C. Until the year of 1830.
D. Before the year of 1872.

[单项选择]Literary historians believe Emily Dickinson had a lonely existence, finding joy only in her poetry.
A. friendship
B. happiness
C. expression
D. interest

[单项选择]

Emily Dickinson was a nineteenth-century American woman who lived her life completely unknown to anyone except her family and a few friends. Less than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. In spite of this, she is regarded today as a great poet, perhaps the greatest poet the United States has produced. Along with the Greek poet Sappho, she may be one of the two greatest women poets who have ever lived.
Dickinson was born on December 10,1830, in a small Massachusetts town called Amherst. Hers was an old family, and her ancestors had come to the United States 200 years before" Her parents were not really rich, but they were certainly not poor. She had an older brother, Austin, and a younger sister, Lavinia. Her parents seem to have been rather withdrawn people, and the members of the family spent a good deal of time by themselves. She doesn’t seem to have liked her mother very much. She spoke once of never really having a mother.
She wa
A. Sappho.
B. Emily Dickinson.
C. Both Sappho and Emily Dickinson.
D. Not mentioned in the passage.

[单项选择]After Emily Dickinson retreated from the world at the age of twenty-six, she wrote more than one thousand poems.


A. received praise from
B. withdrew from
C. rebelled against
D. traveled around