181. The long and progressive reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837-1901) came to a climax in the Diamond Jubilee Year (1897).

182. Imperialism had its outstanding advocate in Rudyard Kipling, who called England to “take up the White Man’s burden” by dominating all “lesser breeds without law.”

183. The most prominent writer to defend British imperialism and colonialism was    .

184. The end of the 19^th century is a period of struggle between realistic trend and anti-realistic trend in art and literature (, the latter reflected the crisis of bourgeois culture at the period of imperialism).

185. Robert Stevenson is the representative of Neo-romanticism in the novel writing at the end of the 19th century.

186. The novels of G. Meredith, T. Hardy, and J. Galsworthy are masterpieces of satirical pretrial and psychological analysis. 

187. The works of S. Butler, T. Hardy, and H G. Wells are imbued with pessimism often bordering on despair.

188. “The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book Heroes and Hero-worship.

189. The important writer who started as a poet and ended as a poet is Thomas Hardy.

190. Both Hardy’ s poems and novels are transition from realism to modernism.

191. Thomas Hardy believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.

192. The writer who figured his hometown—the Wessex country in his works is _____.

193. The two major “characters” in The return of the Native are Eustacia Vye and the heath itself, which symbolizes the blind forces of nature against which she rebels.

194. Eustacia Vye is the character in _________.

195. “A Pure Woman (Faithfully Presented)” is the subtitle of the novel ______.

196. The Forsyte Saga was written by ______, one of the most prominent of the 20^th century realistic English writers.

197. The trilogy of “The Forsyte Saga” includes The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let, plus two “Interludes” entitled “Indian Summer of a Forsyte”.

198.  _____’s second trilogy entitled “A modern Comedy” contains The white Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and The Swan Song.

199. ______’s third trilogy was entitled “End of the Chapter”, but the narrative is chiefly concerned with a rather distant relative of the Forsyte family.

200. The theme of the majority of Galsworthy’s novels was that (he saw) human existence in terms of the hunters and the hunted with varying emphasis and in a variety of guises.

201. The “Forsytism” in John Galsworthy’s ______ refers to the specifically English type of bourgeois morality and social attitudes.

202. One of the representatives who expounded the theory of, and was the spokesman for the school of, “art for art’s sake” was Oscar Wilde.

203. The Picture of Dorian Gray was written by Oscar Wilde.

204. The Preface to the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray emphasizes that art and morality are totally separate.

205. Oscar Wilde’s most outstanding success was as a writer of comedies, including____.

206. Oscar Wilde’s important poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the result of his two-year experience in jail.

207. Dorian Gray was the main character in ________ written by_______.

208. Man and Superman, written by _____, represented courtship as a war of the sexes and man as the victim of woman, who is the incarnation of nature’s purpose and the will to live.

209. Saint Joan was written by George Bernard Shaw. It is a historical play.

210. Widowers’ House was written by George Bernard Shaw.

211. The person who influenced D. H. Lawrence’s life and writing is his mother.

212. D. H. Lawrence’s relation with his mother and the personal problems and conflicts that resulted were presented in his novel Sons and Lovers.

213. The theme of Sons and Lovers, written by ______, is usually said to concern the effect of mother-love upon the development of a son.

214. Mrs. Morel and Paul are the two main characters in the novel of ______ by _____.

215. The relation in Sons and Lovers is mainly between the characters Mrs. Morel and her son Paul.

216. The relation between Mrs. Morel and Paul is mother and son.

217. Virginia Woolf was a skilled exponent of the “stream of consciousness” technique in her novels, exploring with great subtlety problems of personal identity and personal relationships as well as the significance of time, change, memory for human achievement. 

218. Joyce is the founder and one of the most prominent writer of stream of consciousness school of novel writing.

219. Symbolism, surrealism, imagism, expressionism, etc, all belong to modernism.

220. “Dubliners” is a collection of short stories written by _____ in the writing style of stream of consciousness.

221. “Dubliners” is a book about man’s fate as well as a series of sketches of Dublin life.

222. In all the stories in “Dubliners” dealing with childhood, the childe lives not with his parents but with an uncle and aunt—a symbol of that isolation and lack of proper relation between “consubstantial” (“in the flesh”) parents and children, which is also a major theme in his works.

223. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, written by James Joyce, is representatively true not only of the writer but of the relation between the artist and society in modern world.

224. “And all that’s best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes:” is the famous lines from ____ written by_____.

225. “The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is the famous line from _____ written by______.

226. “As soon as April pierces to the root / the drought of March, and bathes each bud and shoot / Through every vein of sap with gentle showers / From whose engendering liquor spring the flower…”is the famous lines from _____ written by______.

227. “Thy firmness makes me my circle just, / And makes me end, where I begun.” is the famous lines from _____ written by______.

228. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” is the famous lines from _____ written by______.

229. “To be or not to be, that is a question” is a line from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

230. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line from Sonnet 18 written by        .

231. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. /And summer’s lease has all too short a date.” is the lines from Sonnet 18 written by ______.

232. “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” is the beginning line from Sonnet 29 written by ______.

233. “Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, /And often is his gold complexion dimmed.” is the line from Sonnet 18 written by ______.

234. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is the famous line from _____ written by _______.

235. "Please, sir, I want some more." is a famous line from Oliver Twist written by _____.

236. “Justice was done; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from Tess of D’ Urbervilles written by _______.

237. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou are more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the daring buds of May,

And summer's least hath all too short a date:

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

is taken from _______ written by _______.