Tests for Part 8

I. From a, b, c, d, or e, choose one or more for each of the following

1. In the 19^th 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

  2. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of _____. The critical realists, most of whom were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.

a. novel   b. drama   c. poetry   d. sonnet

  3. The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.

a. William Makepeace Thackeray  b. Charles Dickens  c. Charlotte Bronte

d. Emily Dickinson

  4. _____ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society. His novels, such as “Vanity Fair”, are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society.

a. George Eliot  b. Elizabeth Gaskell  c. William Makepeace Thackeray

d. John Bunyan

 5. Which of the following writers belong to critical realists.

a. Charles Dickens  b. Charlotte Bronte   c. William Makepeace Thackeray

d. Elizabeth Gaskell  e. Thomas Hardy

6. Which of the following writers don’t belong to English critical realists?

a. Oliver Goldsmith  b. Chares Dickens  c. William Makepeace Thackeray

d. Jonathan Swift  e. Daniel Defoe

7. In the Victorian age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The main poets of the age were ________.

a. Tennyson   b. Robert Browning   c. Mrs. Browning  d. Robert Burns

e. William Blake

8. The ______ Movement appeared in thirties of the 19^th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.

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. Dickens’s first literary career is referred to those years from 1836 to 1841. It is marked for youthful optimism. The main works written in this period by Dickens are_____.

a. The Pickwick Papers  b. Oliver Twist  c. Nicholas Nickleby

d. The Old Curiosity Shop  e. Hard Times

11. The second period of Dickens’s literary career, which began from 1842, and ended in 1849, was a period of excitement and irritation. Dickens’s naive optimism toward the capitalist society was profoundly shaken. The main novels produced in this period are _____.

a. “Martin Chuzzlewit”  b. “Dombey and Son”  c. “David Copperfield”

e. “Pickwick Papers”  e. “Oliver Twist”

12. In the third period of Dickens’s literary career, his works showed the intensifying pessimism. His main novels produced in this period are _______.

a. Hard Times  b. Great Expectations  c. A Tale of Two Cities

d. Bleak House  e. David Copperfield

13. In the novel “______”, Dickens gives a truthful presentation of the sufferance of the poor, and makes a complete exposure of the terrible conditions in the English workhouse of the time and the brutality and corruption of the oppressors under the masks of philanthropy.

a. David Copperfield  b. Oliver Twist  c. Great expectations  d Hard Times

14. Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and bourgeois utilitarianism?

a. Oliver Twist  b. Hard Times  c. Great Expectations  d. Tale of Two Cities

15. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “____”.

a. A Tale of Two Cities  b. Great Expectations  c. Hard Times

d. David Copperfield

16. “______” 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. David Copperfield   b. Great Expectations  c. Oliver Twist  d. Tom Jones

17. Which is Thackeray’s masterpiece?

 a. The Virginians  b. Vanity Fair  c. The Books of Snobs  d. The Newcomes

18. In the novel “_______”, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement.

 a. Great Expectation  b. A Tale of Two Cities  c. Hard Times  d. Oliver Twist

19. In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel “_______”.

 a. The Old Curiosity Shop  b. The Pickwick Paper  c. Our Mutual Friend

 d. Little Dorrit

20. Which characters are in the novel “Vanity Fair”?

 a. Amelia Sedley  b. Rebecca Sharp  c. George Osborne  d. Joseph Sedley

 e. William Dobbin

21. The Bronte sisters are _______. They were all talented writers and all of them died young.

 a. Charlotte Bronte b. Emily Bronte  c. Anne Bronte  d. Jane Eyre  e. Catherine

22. Charlotte Bronte produced four novels:_______.

 a. Professor  b. Jane Eyre  c. Shirley  d. Villette  e. Agnes Grey

23. Choose the names appearing in the novel “Jane Eyre”.

 a. Jane Eyre  b. Mr. Rochester  c. Mary Barton  d. Silas Marner

24. Which characters appear in the novel “Wuthering Heights”?

 a. Heathcliff  b. Catherine  c. Hindley  d. Cathy  e. Hareton

25. In the novel “Jane Eyre”, Charlotte ________.

 a. pours a great deal of her own experience

 b. criticize the bourgeois system of education

 c. show that true love is the foundation of marriage

 d. shows that women should have equal right with men

II. Complete the following statements with a proper word or a phrase.

1.      The precisian may limit the Victorian period to the years between the Queen’s accession in ____ and her death in____, but a new era really began with the passage of the Reform Bill in____ and closed at the end of the Boer War in____.

2.      The rearrangement of the old Whig and Tory groups which resulted in the modern____ and ______parties is of some significance for the student of literature.

3.      The awakened _______is the predominant theme in Early Victorian literature.

4.      The most important immediate legislative accomplishment of the reformed parliament was__________ in British dominions.

5.      The first effective act regulating child labor in factories was passed in_____.

6.      The picture in “_______”(1838) is of the typical workhouse in the years before experience and protests introduced ameliorating modification in the administration of the law.

7.      The rapidly increasing population, concentrated in London. Liverpool, ______lived in circumstances of physical and moral wretchedness.

In contrast to the ill-managed fanaticism of the Chartist movement had been the effective and well-directed purposefulness of__________.

8.      The repeated upsurge of ______agitation forced the ruling class in England to make certain concessions, resulting in the Repeal of the Corn Law in 1846 and the passage of the “Ten Hours Act in 1847.

9.      Chartist arose out of the increasing strength and a greater confidence of_________ as well as their increasing ______in life.

10.  The basic purpose of the Chartist was the redress of social grievance which could, they held, be accomplished only when workingmen had representation in _______.

11.  Though it failed, Chartism signified the first great political movement of the ________in English history.

12.  The greatest English realist of the time was________.

13.  The greatest of the English realists lies not only in their satirical portrayal of _______and in the exposure of the greed and hypocrisy of________, but also in their profound_______ which is revealed in their sympathy for the laboring people.

14.   In the fifties and sixties the realistic novel enters a stage of______.

15.   The English working class created a literature of its own which can be called___________.

16.  The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into English literature---the struggle of _________for its right.

17.  English critical realism of the 19^th century flourished in the______ and in the early_____.

18.  In the 19^th century English literature, a new literary trend______ appeared after the romantic poetry.

19.  Critical realism found its fine expression in the form of ______. Most of the critical realists were______.

20.  The great English realist of the 19^th century, was______, who pictures bourgeois civilization, and shows the misery  and sufferings of the common people.

21.  ________was also a critical realist. His novels are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper class of society.

22.  The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially of the_______.

23.  The _______Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19^th century.

24.  Charles Dickens’s first published sketch appeared in the “______” in 1833. They were collected in 1836 as “__________”.

25.  Dickens first and best Christian book, “________”, 1843, failed to sell as well as he expected.

26.  Dickens returned to the Continent for several months in 1846, and in Switzerland began “_________”, 1847-1848, which was a great financial success.

27.  “_________”, 1849-1850, pleased everyone.

28.  The setting of “Vanity Fair” is England during and after the__________, but its panoaramic view of folly and vanity is universal.

29.  “Vanity Fair” was borrowed by Thackeray from “___________” by______.

30.  The scene of the story of “Vanity Fair” is England in the first half of the ___century.

31.  Charlotte’s book, “_______”, based on her Brussels experience, was refused by a publisher and was not published until after her death.