A. William Wordsworth      B. Oliver Goldsmith  C.  Thomas Gray   D. Robert Burns

46. _______ is written by William Blake, a great poet in the pre-romanticism.

A. The Songs of Innocence  B. Reliques of Ancient English poetry  C. Songs and Sonnets  D. Kubla Khan

47. The Rights of Man, a pamphlet, was written by ______, in which he advocated that politics was the business of the whole mass of common people and not only of a government oligarchy.

A. John Milton  B. Jonathan Swift  C. Robert Burns  D. Thomas Paine

48. William Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.

A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people  B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings  C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

49. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”？

A. “I fall upon the thorns of life！I bleed！” B. “They are both gone up to the church to pray.”   C. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.” D. “Beauty is truth，truth beauty.”

50. “If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind.” is an epigrammatic line by___.

A. John Keats  B. William Blake  C. William Wordsworth   D.  P. B. Shelley

51. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between the______ of art and the____ of human passion.

A. glory，ugliness   B. permanence, transience  C. transience，sordidness  D. glory，permanence

52. One of the great essay writers of the early 19^th century is ______.

A. Jane Austen   B. Charles Lamb  C. Walter Scott  D. George Eliot

53. Tales form Shakespeare was written by _____.

A. Charles Lamb  B. William Hazlitt   C. Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb  D. Wordsworth and Coleridge

54. Charles Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.

A. humor  B. satire  C. passion  D. metaphor

55. In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more”. What did Oliver ask for more?

A. More time to play  B. More food to eat  C. More books to read   D. More money to spend

56.  In ____ ’s hands, “dramatic monologue” reaches its maturity and perfection.

A. Alfred Tennyson  B. Robert Browning  C. William Shakespeare  D.  George Eliot

57.  The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.

A. explorer   B. peasant    C.  worker   D. governess

58. The three trilogies of _____ ’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.

A. John Galswortry  B. Arnold Bennett  C. James Joyce   D.  H. G. Wells

59.  The Victorian Age was largely an age of________ eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.

A. poetry   B. drama   C. novel   D. prose

60. The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT_________.

A. the Trojan War     B. Homer’s Odyssey  C. adventures over the sea   D. religious quest

61.  The work ____ written by Alfred Tennyson was about the question of higher education of women.

A. Crossing the Bar  B. The Princess   C.  Break, Break, Break   D. Ulysses

62. The bard of imperialism was ____, who glorified the colonial expansion of Great Britain in his works.

A. R. L. Stevenson   B. Rudyard Kipling   C. H. G. Wells   D. Daniel Defoe

63. The Dynasts was a gigantic epic drama written by ______.

A. George Bernard Shaw   B. Thomas Hardy   C. Oscar Wilde   D. John Galsworthy

64. The major concern of____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his character sand in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A.  D. H. Lawrence’s   B.  J. Galsworthy’s   C.  W. Thackeray’s   D.  T. Hardy’s

65. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of_______, who never pays any attention to human feelings.

A. property  B. justice  C. morality   D. humor

66. _____is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare，and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.

A. Richard Sheridan  B. Oliver Goldsmith  C. Oscar Wilde  D. George Bernard Shaw

67. “art for art’s sake” was put forth by ______.

A. aestheticism   B. naturalism   C. realism  D. neo-romanticism

68. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT________.

A. Dubliners   B. Jude the Obscure  C. A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  D. Ulysses