Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points) A B 1. ( ) Tome Jones a. Friday 2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield b. King of Brodingnag 3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe c. Sophia 4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels d. Mr. B 5. ( ) Pamela e. William Thornhill 6. ( ) The School for Scandal f. Charles Surface
The key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )
Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.
1. In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.
A. The Funeral B. The Lying Lover C. The Christian Hero D. The Tender Husband
2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?
A. The Tatler B. The Spectator C. The Theatre D. The English 3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.
A. A Letter from Italy B. Rosamond C. The Campaign D. Cato 4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator? A. Isaac Bickerstaff B. Mr. Roger C. Captain Sentry D. Andrew Freeport
5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the 18th century.
A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living B. Thomas Browne’s Religio Meidic C. Samuel Pepys’s diaries D. Addison’s Spectator essays
6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____. A. Steele B. Addison C. Pope D. Dryden 7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.
A. Essay on Criticism B. The Rape of the Lock C. Essay on Man D. The Dunciad 8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.
A. didactic B. satirical C. philosophical D. dramatic 9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century. A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Industrial Revolution C. The Religious Reform D. The Enlightenment
10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.
A. aristocratic B. middle class C. low class D. intellectual 11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just. A. Steele B. Milton C. Addison D. Pope
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12. The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . What the writers
described in their works were mainly social realities.
A. romanticism B. classicism C. realism D. sentimentalism
13. The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period
spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage. A. drama B. poetry C. essay D. novel
14. In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, which
made him well-known as a satirist.
A. A Tale of Tub B. Bickerstaff Almanac C. Gulliver’s Travels D. The Battle of the Books
15. In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment
of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____. A. Essays on Criticism B. A Modest Proposal C. Gulliver’s Travels D. The Battle of the Books
16. “Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This
sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose. A. Alexander Pope B. Henry Fielding C. Jonathan Swift D. Daniel Defoe
17. _____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which
contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church. A. Alexander Pope B. Henry Fielding C. Jonathan Swift D. Daniel Defoe
18. Henry Fielding’s first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela of
Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.
A. Tom Jones B. Joseph Andrews C. Jonathan Wild D. Amelia
19. ____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience
as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical. A. Roderick Random B. Humphry Clinker
C. Peregrine Pickle D. A Sentimental Journey
20. From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is
derived the term “malapropism” which means a ridiculous misusage of big words.
A. The Rivals B. The School for Scandal C. The Beggar’s Opera D. The London Merchant
21. Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.
A. The Review B. The Tatler C. The Rambler D. The Bee 22. Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.
A. The Traveller B. The Deserted Village C. The Vicar of Wakefield D. The School for Scandal
23. Which of the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.
A. The School for Scandal B. She Stoops to Conquer
C. The Good-natured Man D. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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24. The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves the
world to darkness and to me” is written by ____. A. William Cowper B. George Crabbe C. Thomas Gray D. William Blake 25. ______ is not written by William Blake.
A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell B. Songs of Experience C. Auld Lang Syne D. Poetical Sketches
26. “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited from
William Blake’s _____.
A. Songs of Experience B. Songs of Innocence C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell D. Poetical Sketches
27. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties,
______, which were satirized by Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels. A. the Whigs and the Tories
B. the senate and the House of Representatives C. The upper House and lower House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
28. ____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young
and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.
A. Pre-romanticism B. Romanticism C. Sentimentalism D. Naturalism 29. _____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the
foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries. A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson C. Alexander Pope D. John Dryden
30. Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?
A. Clarissa Harlowe B. Pamela C. Sir Charles Grandison D. Tomes Jones
31. Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal D. The Conscious Lovers
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB 16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDC
Ⅳ. Say true or false.
1. Addison’s The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay for each issue.
2. Addison’s chief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatler and The Spectator.
3. The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time which treated in a serious manner.
4. The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.
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5. Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroic couplet. 6. Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.
7. The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.
8. Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.
9. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist.
10. In the poems of Edward Young and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fine expression.
11. A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, in which the reader is told the story of the Bee and the Spider.
12. Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel of Roderick Random, in which Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.
13. The two most important of all Samuel Johnson’s literary works are the preface and comments of individual plays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.
14. Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast to sentimentalism, which had confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to the social and political life of London.
15. Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects.
16. In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and Charles Surface.
17. My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland. 18. Racial discrimination is expressed in Blake’s “The Little Black”. 19. Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.
20. Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton.
Key to the True/False statements: 1. F (one time a day) 2. T
3. F (light and pleasant manner) 4. T
5. F(Pope’s ) 6. F (The Tatler) 7. F (prose)
8. F (nobles; common people) 9. F (18th ) 10. T
11. F ( The Battle of the Books)
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12. T 13. T
14. F ( Sentimentalism; classicism) 15. F ( Scottish) 16. T 17. T 18. T
19. F (Burns’s)
20. F ( Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton; Burns and Blake)
Ⅴ. Questions
1. Comment on the English classicists in the 18th century. 2. Comment on The Spectator.
Part Five Romanticism in England
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1. Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.
A. realism B. Renaissance C. Enlightenment D. feudalism 2. The main literary stream is ____.
A. poetry B. novels C. prose D. periodicals 3. ____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.
A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” B. “Tintern Abbey”
C. “Revolution” D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” 4. Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.
A. Frost at Midnight B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria
5. Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage B. Hours of Idleness C. Lara D. Don Juan 6. Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.
A. Wordsworth’s B. Byron’s C. Shelley’s D. Keats’ 7. ____ lived the longest life.
A. Wordsworth B. Byron C. Shelley D. Keats 8. Keats’ first poem is ____.
A. O Solitude B. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer C. Poems D. Endymion 9. Keats’ best ode is ____.
A. “On a Grecian Urn” B. “To Autumn”
C. “To Psyche” D. “To a Nightingale” 10. The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.
A. The Spirit of the Age B. Table Talk
C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays D. On the English Poets
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11. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in
England.
A. “Tintern Abbey” B. Lyrical Ballads C. Frost at Night D. “The Daffodils” 12. The Prelude has also been called _____.
A. The Last Brazil B. The First Impression C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind D. The Spirit of the Age
13. Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.
A. “The Solitary Reaper” B. “The Daffodils” C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” D. “O Solitude” 14. _____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.
A. The Prelude B. Endymion
C. Don Juan D. Biographia Literaria
15. The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.
A. models of classicism B. familiar essay
C. rules of neo-romanticism D. ways of modernism 16. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.
A. Keats B. Walter Scott C. Charles Lamb D. William Hazlitt 17. The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.
A. pride and prejudice B. the writer’s own personalities C. love and marriage D. Both A and C
18. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.
A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott 19. Lamb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.
A. romanticism B. conversations C. inspirations D. archaisms 20. Lamb is a romanticist of ______.
A. the city B. the countryside C. nature D. imagination 21. _____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.
A. Endymion B. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia
22. Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,
Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.
A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Coleridge D. William
23. The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic
Age from _____.
A. Dun Juan B. The Prelude C. Kubla Khan D. Isabella 24. Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.
A. individual heroism and pessimism B. love of nature and optimism C. love of old writers D. hatred for the imperialism 25. One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.
A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night
C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria 26. Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.
A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night
C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria
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27. ____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.
A. Zastrozzi B. The Necessity of Atheism C. Queen Mab D. Prometheus Unbound 28. _____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.
A. John Woodvil B. Essays of Elia
C. Mr H D. Tales from Shakespeare
29. Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.
A. The Masque of Anarchy B. A Defence of Poetry C. The Necessity of Atheism D. The Triumph of Life 30. ______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.
A. Zastrozzi; Eton B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy C. Queen Mab; Greece D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy 31. The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.
A. 1789…1821 B. 1778…1823 C. 1798…1832 D. 1768…1819 32. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first B. the second C. the third D. the forth 33. The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.
A. novel B. poem C. periodical D. newspaper
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB 16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA 31-33 CBC
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1. English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century. 2. Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists.
3. After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude .
4. P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of his independent
and rebellious attitude.
5. The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee. 6. Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life.
7. Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”.
8. Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of
nature.
9. Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads.
10. Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth of a
Poet’s Mind.
11. The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’s
masterpiece.
12. Hazlitt’s life and career had been greatly influenced by the rise and fall of the
French Revolution.
13. Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romantic literature.
14. Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combined
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themselves with those forces.
15. Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets.
16. Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the second
generation.
17. The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. 18. The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenes and the
country people of that area in their writings.
19. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.
20. The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology. 21. Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet
in the English language.
22. Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood.
23. Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive
movements of his age.
24. Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty. 25. But some critics think Keats lacks the care for artistic finish; many of his lines
are harsh, rugged and not rhythmical;
26. Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. 27. Lamb’s essays are intensely personal.
28. Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide range
of subject matter.
29. Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.
30. Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad.
Key to True/False statements:
1. F (from late 18th to the mid-19th century) 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. T
6. F (city)
7. F (“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”) 8. T
9. F (Wordsworth) 10. F (“The Daffodils”) 11. F (Wordsworth) 12. T
13. F (familiar essay) 14. T
15. F ( Passive Romantic poets)
Ⅳ. Terms:
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16. T 17. T
18. F (the first generation/ The Lake Poets) 19. T
20. F (Greek) 21. T 22. T 23. T 24. T
25. F (Byron) 26. F (Keats) 27. T
28. F (Lamb) 29. T
30. F (Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”) 1. Romanticism 2. Lake Poets
Part Six English Critical
Realism
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1. ____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism. A. Jane Austen B. Thackeray C. Dickens D. Charlotte
2. ____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.
A. Sense and Sensibility B. The Book of Snobs C. The Pickwick Papers D. The Song of Lower Class 3. Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.
A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero C. The Newcomes D. Persuasion
4. Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____. A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero C. The Newcomes D. Persuasion
5. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. A. romanticism B. naturalism C. realism D. critical realism 6. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of
____ .
A. novel B. drama C. poetry D. sonnet
7. ______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.
A. George Eliot B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. W. M. Thackeray D. John Buyan
8. The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. A.
Enlightenment
B.
Renaissance C. Chartist D. Romanticist
9. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the _____ for its rights.
A. soldiers B. peasants C. bourgeoisie D. proletariat
10. The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.
A. Earnest Jones B. John Milton
C. Thomas Hardy D. John Keats
11. The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant. A. A Tale of Two Cities B. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers D. Oliver Twist
12. The novel _____ exposes the terrible conditions of
English
private
schools.
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A. Nicholas Nickleby B. Oliver Twist
C. Hard Times D. Great Expectations
13. The story of _____ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man
named
Trent,
and
his
granddaughter, Nell.
A. Pickwick Papers B. The Old Curiosity Shop
C. Great Expectations D. Hard Times
14. Which novel makes a fierce attack on
the
bourgeois
system
of
education?
A. Oliver Twist B. Hard Times
C. Great Expectations D. A Tale of Two Cities
15. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality? A. A Tale of Two Cities B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectations D. Dombey and Son
16. In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows his sympathy for the workers.
A. Great Expectations B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Hard Times D. Oliver Twist
17. In the novel ___ , Defarge and
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Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.
A. Dombey and Son B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Little Dorrit D. Bleak House
18. In the novel _____, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual. A. David Copperfield B. Wuthering Heights
C. Bleak House D. A Tale of Two Cities
19. _____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.
A. The Curiosity Shop B. David Copperfield
C. Oliver Twist D. Great Expectations
20. In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.
A. The Old Curiosity Shop B. The Pickwick Paper
C. Our Mutual Friend D. Little Dorrit
21. Which
of
the
following
is
Thackeray’s masterpiece?
A. The Virginians B. The Books of Snobs
C. The Newcomes D. Vanity Fair
22. The sub-title of Vanity Fair is _____.
A. The First Impression B. A Novel Without a Hero
C. The Spirit of the Age D. The Daffodils
23. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was A. taken The
from Pilgrim’s
Bunyan’s
masterpiece _____. Pendennis
C. The History of Henny Esmond D. Morte d’Arthur.
30. The Chartists refer to those _____ in the early Victorian Age
Progress A. Romantic writers B.
B. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
C.
Gulliver’s
Travels D. The Canterbury Tales
24. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.
A. Jane Eyre B. Agnes Grey C. Wuthering Heights D. Emma 25. Charlotte’s Villette is based on her sad days in_____.
A. Germany B. London C. Paris D. Brussels
26. Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______. A. optimism B. excitement C. irritation D. pessimism
27. ______is Dickens’ best of social satires.
A. American Notes B. Martin Chuzzlewit
C. Dombey and Son D. David Copperfield
28. Tennyson’s In Memoriam is a collection of ____ short poems. A. 130 B. 131 C. 132 D. 133
29. The chief source of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is taken from _____.
A. The History of the King of Britain B. The History of
working class writers
C. realistic poets D.
bourgeois writers
31. The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.
A. 1837…1900 B. 1835…1901 C. 1832…1902 D. 1830…1903 32. The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the ______. A. Enlightenment Movement B. Industrial Revolution
C. Chartist Movement D. Romantic Movement
33. _____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age. A. Earnest Jones B. Emily Brontё
C. Charlotte Brontё D. Charles Dickens
34. Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.
A. wide spread of critical realism B. his spirit of democracy and humanism
C. his unforgettable figures with
satire and simple and clear language
D. including A, B and C 35. “The
pride
of
wealth”
or
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“purse-pride” is the theme of _____. A. Dombey and Son B. Nicholas Nickleby
C. The Old Curiosity Shop D. Martin Chuzzlewit
36. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.
A. London and New York B. London and Paris
C. Paris and New York D. Brussels and Washington
37. ____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period. A. essay B. poetry C. novel D. drama
38. ____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.
A. Rochester B. Heathcliff C. Manette D. Martin
39. Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them. A. familiar things B. common people
C. neighbors D. evils 40. The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.
A. Earnest Jones B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. Mr. Browning D. Alfred Tennyson
41. ______ made Dickens famous overnight.
A. Sketches by Boz B. The Pickwick Papers
C. Oliver Twist D. The Old Curiosity Shop
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42. _____ is Dickens’ first novel of social history reflecting the sharp social contradictions.
A. Sketches by Boz B. American Notes
C. Martin Chuzzlewit D. Barnaby Rudge (《巴纳比·拉奇》)
43. Which of the following Dickens’ works is not based on Christmas with religious coloring?
A. Christmas Day in the Morning B. A Christmas Carol
C. The Chimes （《教堂钟声》） D. The Cricket on the Heart (《灶上蟋
蟀》)
44. _____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most. A. Great Expectations B. David Copperfield
C. Bleak House D. The Pickwick Papers
45. Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.
A. Paris B. New York C. London D. Portsmoth
46. The head of the gang of thieves is _____.
A. Fagin B. Gradgrind C. Pecksmiff D. Manette
47. _____ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”.
A. Nicholas Nickleby B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Hard Times D. The Pickwick Papers
48. _____marked a great advance in
Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knit and logical plot of his maturer works.
A. David Copperfield B. Dombey and Son
C. Little Dorrit D. The Chimes
49. In the ____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedies of only men who behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.
A. first B. second C. third D. fourth
book among the Christmas books. A.
A
Christmas
Carol
B. The Chimes
C. The Cricket on the Hearth D. The Battle of Life Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 CBABD 6-10 ACCDA
11-15 CABBC
16-20 CBDBC 21-25 DAACD 26-30 DBBDB
31-35 CCDDA 36-40 BCBAD 41-45 BDABC
46-50 ADBAB
50. ____ is the most class-conscious
Part Seven Prose Writers Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1. Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19th
and Poets of the Mid century England.
2. Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers th
and Late 19 Century which aroused the interests of the readers.
3. In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism. Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
4. The plot of Sketches by Boz is rather formless, but the novel fascinates the reader 1. ____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel. from beginning to end by its comical episodes. A. Lady Windermere’s Fan 5. The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is also an apt (B. A Woman of No Importance 贴切的 ) description of the society of the time. C. The Picture of Dorian Gray 6. Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethics(D. The Importance of Being Earnest 论理学，道德学) and on utilitarianism (功利主义）2. ____ is a description of the misery of .
7. Dombey and Son is a novel with imprisonment, both matter-o-fact or symbolic, man of letters. as its central theme. A. New Grub Street 8. A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the subject. B. The Current 9. The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there iC. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study s oppression, there is revolution.” D. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 10. Pip is the major character in Dickens’ novel 3. Our Mutual FriendA Dream of John . Ball is a prose work which ____ recalled the Key to True/False statements: peasants’ rising of the 14th century. 1-5 TTFFT 6-10 TFFTF A. Morris B. Gissing C. Stevenson D. Wilde
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4. News from Nowhere is a prose work England with a certain Abbot which ____ describes a dream of the Sampson’s admirable rule of his future classless society. monastery in the 12th century. A. Morris B. Gissing C. A. Past and Present B. Stevenson D. Wilde Heroes and Hero-Worship 5. _____is famous for his translation of C. Sartor Resartus D. Rubaiyat. The French Revolution A. F. Scott Fitzgerald B. 10. Thomas Macaulay’s masterpiece is William Fitzgerald ___. C. Robert Fitzgerald D. A. History of England B. Edward Fitzgerald Culture and Anarchy 6. _____ is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s C. Heroes and Hero-Worship D. best-known poem. Modern Painters A. The Blessed Damozel B. 11. Tennyson’s _____ expresses his Poems by D. G. Rossetti optimistic attitude towards death when C. The House of Life D. he is old. Ballads and Sonnets A. Break, Break, Break B. 7. ____ is considered “the Sage of Crossing the Bar Chelsea”. C. The Princess D. A. Thomas Carlyle B. Maud John Ruskin 12. ____remained a poet in his painting C. Matthew Arnold D. and a painter in his poetry. Tomas Macaulay A. Dante Gabriel Rosetti B. 8. ____introduced German literature to Christina Georgina Rossetti England with his Life of Schiller. C. Edward Fitzgerald D. A. Thomas Carlyle B. Algernon Charles Swinburne John Ruskin C. Matthew Arnold D. Key to the multiple choices: Tomas Macaulay 1-5 CAAAD 6-10 AAAAA 9. In ____, Carlyle contrasted the 11-12 BA misery and confusion of industrial
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1. In Carlyle’s works, archaic words and expressions are revived and new ones invented in the German manner. T
2. Swinburn wrote a number of plays including a trilogy of Mary Queen of Scots. T 3. Mrs. Browning’s Casa Guidi Windows written in 1851 is a support to the Irish people’s struggle for independence.
4. Mr. Browning’s Pippa Passes is the first poem in the book Bells and Pomegranates.
5. Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage made him famous. 6. George Gissing is a leading figure of naturalism.
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7. Swinburne wrote a trilogy of Mary Queen of Scots.
8. F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat. 9. The Germ is the magazine of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Key to the True/False statements: 1. T 2. T 3. F (Italian) 4. T 5. F (Treasure Island) Part Eight Twentieth Century English Literature Ⅰ. Choose the right answer. 1. The Way of All Flesh written by _____gives a devastating picture of the bourgeois family and hypocrisy of the British middle class. A. Samuel Butler B. George Meredith C. Herbert George Wells D. John Galsworthy 2. _____ is considered “the bard of imperialism”. A. Joseph Conrad B. Arnold Bennett C. Rudyard Kipling D. Sean O’Casey 3. Arnold Bennett’s masterpiece is _____. A. Kim B. The Old Wives’ Tale C. Lord Jim D. The History of Polly 4. Henry James is the forerunner of the _____. A. Imagism B. Chartism C. impressionism D. stream of consciousness 5. Katharine Mansfield is a master of ____ at the turn of the century. A. short story writer B.
6. T 7. T 8. F (Edward Fitzgerald) 9. T dramatic poetry C. realistic
novels D. humor
6. After writing _____, Hardy turned
to poetry.
A. Under the Greenwood Tree B. The Return of the Native C. Jude the Obscure D. The Mayor of Casterbridge 7. John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for Literature because of _____. A. The End of the Chapter B.
The Forsyte Saga C. A Modern Comedy D. The Island Pharisees
8. The Man of Property is taken from Galsworthy’s trilogy, _____. A. The End of the Chapter B.
The Forsyte Saga C. A Modern Comedy D. The Island Pharisees
9. The Abbey Theatre performed works by _____ dramatists. A. Irish B. British C. American D. Scottish 10. Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in
his poem. A. novels B. poetry C. dramas D. prose 11. ____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a
great innovator of verse technique.
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A. W. B. Yeats B. T. S. Eliot The Rainbow C. D. H. Lawrence D. G. B. Shaw C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. 12. ____ is a great novel spending Women in Love
James Joyce 7 years of hard 15. Which of the following is not working to complete. written by Yeats? A. A Portrait of the Artist as a A. Four Quartets B. A Vision Young Man B. Ulysses C. The Winding Stair D. The Tower
C. Finnegans Wake 16. ____ is the climax of Virginia D. Dubliners 13. ____ is a collection of short stories which reflect three aspects of life in politics, culture and religion. A. A Portrait of the Artrist as a Young Man B. Ulysses C. Finnegans Wake D. Dubliners 14. Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence? A. The Waste Land B. Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1. George Meredith’s novels are
masterpieces of satirical portrayal and psychological analysis. T
2. Joseph Conrad’s novels have groups:
jungle novels, sea novels and political novels. T
3. Henry James’s fundamental theme
was the innocence of the New World and the corruption of the Old. T
4. The story of Tess is filled with a
feeling of dismal foreboding and doom. T
5. Fateful circumstances and tragic
coincidences abound in the book of Jude the Obscure. F
6. Lady Gregory, John Millington
Synge and Sean O’Casey were great Irish dramatists. T
7. The house in Shaw’s Heartbreak
House embodies bourgeois England. T
8. Shaw’s Saint Joan is a historical
Woolf’s experiments through the novel form of “stream of
consciousness”. A. Jacob’s Room B. To the Lighthouse C. Orlando D. The Waves
Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 ACBDA 6-10 CBBAB 11-16 BBDAAD play devoted to the great daughter of the English people, Joan of Arc, and her struggle for the liberty of her country. F
9. Alfred Edward Housman, a classical
scholar of the highest order and professor of Latin at London University and Cambridge wrote poetry of crystal clarity. T
10. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are
the two best-known novelists of the “stream of consciousness” school. T
11. Robert Tressell was a working class
novelist whose great work is The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. T
12. In the 1930s, British Marxist literary
criticism was represented by two revolutionary writers, Ralph Fox and Christopher Caudwell. T
13. Ralph Fox’s representative book is
The Novel and the People. T
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