Ⅲ. Fill in the
blanks.
1.
The essays in Steele’s The Tatler were written in the form
of ______ style.
2.
Steele’s appeal was made to the ____classes.
3.
The purpose of Addison and Steele’s ideas expressed in The
Spectator is ______.
4.
_____ is the most striking feature in The
Spectator.
5.
Addison and Steele developed the form of letter writing to the
verge of the _____ novel.
6.
Humor, intimacy and elegance shown in The Tatler and The
Spectator essays have become the striking features of the
English _____.
7.
Essay on Criticism is a
______poem.
8.
The Dunciad is ______a
poem.
9.
English enlighteners believed in the _____.
10. English enlighteners believed that
social problems could be dealt with by ____.
11.
Blake attacks religious ______in the poem, A Little Boy
Lost.
12.
Burns’s poems like The Jolly Beggars are characterized by humor and
_____.
13.
Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great
comedy of _____, giving a brilliant portrayal and a biting satire
of English high society.
14.
Sameul Johnson’s ______ also marked the end of English writers’
reliance on the patronage of noblemen for support.
15.
Samuel Richardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first
_____novel in English literature.
16.
Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used the form of _____ novel. His
humor is better shown in Humphrey Clinker than anywhere
else.
17.
In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human
_____.
18.
Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of
_____.
19.
The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of
satire and ______.
20.
Laurence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were
versed in the “knowledge of _____.”
Key to the blanks:
1.
conversational
2.
middle
3.
social reform
4.
Character sketch
5.
epistolary
6.
familiar essay
7.
didactic
8.
satirical
9.
power of reason
10. human intelligence
11. persecution
12. lightheartedness
13. manner
14. A
Dictionary of English Language
15. epistolary
16. picaresque
17. labor
18. morality
19. symbolism
20. Heart
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.
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)
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
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
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
1.
In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled
“_____”.
2.
William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____
Revolution.
3.
Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of
____.
4.
Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an ____ poem.
5.
Writing The Prelude is a process of ____.
6.
Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____
poem.
7.
Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in
____ ____.
8.
The theme of Keats’ Hyperion is the ____ between the old and
the new.
9.
Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for
_____.
10.
______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend
Coleridge.
11.
The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the
beginning of the _____ in England.
12.
The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a
_____with the poor, simple peasants, a passionate love of nature
and the _____and ____of the language.
13.
The description of the book, ______ has been called a long journey
home.
14.
_____ was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion
to the cause of the French Revolution.
15.
All his life, Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____,
_____ and ______.
16.
Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____
century.
17.
The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with
______.
18.
The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and
_______.
19.
The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge published their joint work
_______.
20.
The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic
writer _______ died.
21.
Women as ____ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this
period that women took, for the first time, an important place in
English literature.
22.
The greatest historical novelist ______was produced in the Romantic
Age.
23.
The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and
_____.
24.
____ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic
Age.
25.
Among Wordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is
_______.
26.
______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of
realism which followed it.
27.
In 1817, _______ finished his literary criticism, Biographia
Literaria.
28.
At the turn of the 18th and 19th century
_____ appeared in England as a new trend in
literature.
29.
In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists
in the 18th century, the _____ paid great attention to
the spiritual and emotional life of
man.
30.
Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the _____ of his
language.
31.
Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem, is written
in the form of a _____.
32.
_____ was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people.
His political lyrics are among the best of their kind in the whole
sphere of European romantic poetry.
33.
After his second book Endymion appeared in 1818, _____ gave
up medicine for poetry.
34.
____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Hear lies one whose name is writ
in water.”
35.
The Eve of St. Agnes is a narrative poem written in
______.
36.
The theme of ____ is the conflict between the old and the new, and
the story is derived from Greek mythology. In this work, the poet
expresses the eternal law of nature—the passing of an old order of
things and the coming of a new.
37.
Modern essay originated from Montaigne’s _____, which were
translated into English by Florio and had an extensive influence
upon English literature.
38.
The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is ____
’s masterpiece. The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
39.
On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, ____ was made poet
laureate.
40.
In 1805, Wordsworth completed ______, containing all together 14
books.
41.
In 1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a small
volume called Hours of Idleness. The volume was sharply attacked in
the influential Edinburgh Review. Byron responded with his
first important poem, a biting satire
called____.
42.
In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet ___ went to Greece to help
that country in its struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long,
he died of fever there.
43.
George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is
____.
44.
The poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage contains ____ cantos. It
is written in Spenserian stanza.
45.
George Gordon Byron wrote ____ in Italy. It contains sixteen
cantos.
46.
George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is ______.
47.
____ is George Gordon Byron’s philosophical poetic
drama.
48.
____ is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical
story.
49.
George Gordon Byron’s first volume of poems is _____.
50.
____ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had
written the pamphlet The Necessity of
Atheism.
51.
After the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first wife, he was
compelled to leave England in 1818, and spent all the rest of his
life in _____.
52.
____ is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It
was written in the form of a fairy tale dream.
53.
_____ , a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece. The
story was taken from Greek
mythology.
54.
The Masque of Anarchy is one of Shelley’s political lyrics.
It deals with the infamous ____ which happened on August 16,
1819.
55.
Shelley wrote an elegy ______ lamenting the early death of his
fellow-poet _____.
56.
Ode to a Nightingale was written by ____.
57.
Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist
____.
58.
The prose-writers in the 19th century made the informal
essay a pliable (flexible) vehicle for expressing the writer’s own
personality, thus ringing into English literature _____.
59.
____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which
wasted two-thirds of his lifetime.
60.
To Charles Lamb, ____ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery
left little time for his literary
work.
61.
Specimens from English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with
Shakespeare was written by ____.
62.
William Hazlitt is one of the representatives of ___ criticism, in
which individual taste took the place of universal reason as the
foundation of literary
criticism.
63.
After the defeat of Napoleon, ____ was the only old Romantic who
never wavered in his devotion to the cause of the French
Revolution.
64.
____ was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for denouncing the
Prince Regent, future George IV, as a rake and a
liar.
65.
The importance of Leigh Hunt lies chiefly in his development of the
light miscellaneous ___.
66.
In order to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ____ became “a
regular and confirmed
opium-eater.”
67.
Thomas De Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his
fantasies and dreams. The major flow of his style is
____.
68.
____ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master
of historical novel.
Key to the blanks:
1.
literature; poetry
2.
French
3.
nature
4.
autobiographical
5.
self-exploration
6.
autobiographical
7.
politics; social justice
8.
conflict
9.
children
10. Lyrical Ballads
11. Romantic Movement
12. Sympathy; simplicity;
purity
13. The Prelude, or Growth of
a Poet’s Mind
14. Hazlitt
15. liberty; equality;
fraternity
16. late
18th; mid-19th
17.
classicism
18. enthusiasm; poetry
19.
Lyrical Ballads
20. Walter Scott
21. novelist
22. Walter Scott
23. Water Scott, Jane Austen
24. Charles Lamb
25. The Prelude
26. Scott
27. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
28. romanticism
29. romanticists
30. simplicity
31. fairy tale dream
32. Shelley
33. John Keats
34. John Keats
35. Spenserian Stanza
36.
Hyperion
37.
Essais
38. Coleridge
39. Wordsworth
40.
The Prelude
41.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
42. Byron
43.
Don Juan
44. four
45. Don Juan
46.
Don Juan
47.
Manfred
48.
Cain
49.
Hour of Idleness
50. Shelley
51. Italy
52.
Queen Mab
53.
Prometheus Unbound
54. Peterloo Massacre
55. John Keats
56. John Keats
57. Scott
58. the familiar essay
59. Charles Lamb
60. literature
61. Charles Lamb
62. Romantic
63. William Hazlitt
64. Leigh Hunt
65. essay
66. Thomas De Quincey
67. discursiveness
68. Walter Scott
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 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)
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”)
Ⅳ. Terms:
1.
Romanticism
2.
Lake Poets
Ⅴ. Questions:
1.
Comment on Lyrical Ballads.
2.
Comment on Charles Lamb.
3.
Comment on those Lake Poets.
4.
What are the features of Romanticism.
5.
Comment on The Prelude.
6.
Comment on Endymion.
7.
Comment on all the writers of the Romantic Age.
8.
Tell the main idea of some representative works of the Romantic
writers.
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.
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 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 taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece
_____.
A. The Pilgrim’s
Progress
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 Pendennis
C. The History of Henny
Esmond
D. Morte d’Arthur.
30. The Chartists
refer to those _____ in the early Victorian Age
A. Romantic
writers
B. 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 “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
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
50. ____ is the most
class-conscious 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
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.
Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of
youthful _______.
2.
Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of
_______.
3.
Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of
______.
4.
Nicholas Nickleby touches upon a burning question of the
time—the education of ____ in private
schools.
5.
_____ is a great novel of social satire and famous for its
criticism of both the British and American
bourgeoisie.
6.
The theme of Dombey and Son is the pride of wealth, or
“_____”.
7.
David Copperfield was written in the ____ person in a
combination of ____, sense of ____ and artistic ______.
8.
The main butt (目标) of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the
abuses of the English _____.
9.
In Hard Times Dickens describes the ____ movement with great
artistic power.
10.Dickens used ______ as his pen name in his first
book.
Key to the blanks:
1.
optimism
2.
excitement and irritation
3.
pessimism
4.
children
5.
Martin Chuzzlewit
6.
purse-pride
7.
first; verisimilitude; familiarity; maturity
8.
courts
9.
Chartist
10.Boz
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.
Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive
picture of early 19th century England.
2.
Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The
Pickwick Papers which aroused the interests of the
readers.
3.
In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the
inhumanity of country life under
capitalism.
4.
The plot of Sketches by Boz is rather formless, but the
novel fascinates the reader from beginning to end by its comical
episodes.
5.
The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is
also an apt (贴切的) description of the society of the
time.
6.
Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of
education and ethics(论理学，道德学) and on utilitarianism
(功利主义）.
7.
Dombey and Son is a novel with imprisonment, both
matter-o-fact or symbolic, as its central
theme.
8.
A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the
subject.
9.
The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where
there is oppression, there is
revolution.”
10. Pip is the major character in
Dickens’ novel Our Mutual
Friend.
Key to True/False statements:
1-5
TTFFT
6-10 TFFTF
Part Seven Prose Writers and
Poets of the Mid
and Late 19th Century
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1.
____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.
A. Lady Windermere’s
Fan
B. A Woman of No Importance
C. The Picture of Dorian
Gray D.
The Importance of Being Earnest
2.
____ is a description of the misery of man of letters.
A. New Grub
Street
B. The
Current
C. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
D. The Private Papers of Henry
Ryecroft
3.
A Dream of John Ball is a prose work which ____ recalled the
peasants’ rising of the 14th century.
A.
Morris
B. Gissing C.
Stevenson
D. Wilde
4.
News from Nowhere is a prose work which ____ describes a
dream of the future classless society.
A.
Morris B.
Gissing C.
Stevenson D.
Wilde
5.
_____is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat.
A. F. Scott
Fitzgerald
B. William Fitzgerald
C. Robert
Fitzgerald
D. Edward Fitzgerald
6.
_____ is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s best-known poem.
A. The Blessed
Damozel
B. Poems by D. G. Rossetti
C. The House of
Life
D. Ballads and Sonnets
7.
____ is considered “the Sage of Chelsea”.
A. Thomas
Carlyle
B. John Ruskin
C. Matthew
Arnold
D. Tomas Macaulay
8.
____introduced German literature to England with his Life of
Schiller.
A. Thomas
Carlyle
B. John Ruskin
C. Matthew
Arnold
D. Tomas Macaulay
9.
In ____, Carlyle contrasted the misery and confusion of industrial
England with a certain Abbot Sampson’s admirable rule of his
monastery in the 12th century.
A. Past and
Present
B. Heroes and Hero-Worship
C. Sartor
Resartus
D. The French Revolution
10. Thomas Macaulay’s masterpiece is
___.
A. History of England
B.
Culture and Anarchy
C. Heroes and
Hero-Worship D. Modern
Painters
11. Tennyson’s _____ expresses his
optimistic attitude towards death when he is old.
A. Break, Break,
Break
B. Crossing the Bar
C. The
Princess
D. Maud
12. ____remained a poet in his painting
and a painter in his poetry.
A. Dante Gabriel
Rosetti
B. Christina Georgina Rossetti
C. Edward
Fitzgerald
D. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5
CAAAD
6-10
AAAAA
11-12 BA
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.
Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is a ____phrase meaning “the tailor
retailored”.
2.
Ruskin’s works on art expound his ______ thoughts and
principles.
3.
Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice is a book in the sphere of
____ criticism.
4.
Tennyson’s book, ______, was written in memory of his friend A. H.
Hallam.
5.
Tennyson’s The Idylls of the King is based on the stories of
_____ and his Knights of the Round Table.
6.
Christina Georgina Rossetti was famous for her _____, her chief
narrative poem.
7.
The keynote of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s love poems is the union of
the body and the ______.
8.
Robert Browning’s greatest contribution to literature is
____.
9.
Robert Browning’s masterpiece is ____.
10.
The Importance of Being Earnest is the first modern _____ of
English.
11.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece is ________.
12.
William Morris was a great poet, artist and _______.
13.
Swinburne’s mastery of metrical skill, versatility in the use of
lyric forms and unconventional choice of themes made him an
_______.
14.
Songs before Sunrise expresses Swinburne’s support and
sympathy to the _________ revolution of independence.
15.
_______is the 4-lined stanza rhyming in its first, second, and
fourth lines.
Key
1.
Latin
2.
aesthetic
3.
art
4.
In Memoriam
5.
King Arthur
6.
Goblin Market
7.
soul
8.
dramatic monologue
9.
The Ring and the Book
10.
comedy
11. Treasure Island
12. socialist
13.
aesthete
14.
Italian
15. “Rubaiyat”
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.
In Carlyle’s works, archaic words and expressions are revived and
new ones invented in the German manner.
2.
Swinburn wrote a number of plays including a trilogy of Mary Queen
of Scots.
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.
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)
6.
T
7.
T
8.
F (Edward Fitzgerald)
9.
T
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.
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.
A. W. B.
Yeats B. T.
S. Eliot C.
D. H. Lawrence D. G. B.
Shaw
12.
____ is a great novel spending James Joyce 7 years of hard working
to complete.
A.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man
B. Ulysses
C. Finnegans
Wake
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. The Rainbow
C. Lady Chatterley’s
Lover D. Women in
Love
15.
Which of the following is not written by Yeats?
A.
Four Quartets
B. A Vision C. The Winding
Stair D. The Tower
16.
____ is the climax of Virginia 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
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.
Herbert George Wells’s literary works fall into three groups: the
_____ novels, ____novels and _____novels.
2.
Henry James’ method of characterization is “a complete _____ of
characters”.
3.
Hardy’s poetry is famous for its ____ poetry.
4.
Hardy’s novels are well-known for the _____ and
_____.
5.
_____ made Galsworthy famous as a
playwright.
6.
Lady Gregory is the founder of the ____Theatre.
7.
Sean O’Casey is renowned for his drama of ____ slums in war and
revolution.
8.
Shaw’s ____ play expose the seamy side of the
society.
9.
Rupert Brooke is one of the “_____ poets” whose poems is The
Soldier.
10.
John Masefield is considered “the poet of the
_____”.
11.
Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf were great ____ fiction
writers.
12.
Robert Tressell was a working-class ____ in the early
20th century.
13. Christopher Caudwell made great
contribution to _____ literary criticism by his 2 books,
Illusion and Reality and Studies in a Dying
Culture.
Key to the blanks:
1.
realistic; scientific; discussion
2.
objectification
3.
Wessex
4.
characters; environment
5.
The Silver Box
6.
Abbey
7.
Dublin
8.
unpleasant
9.
war
10.
sea
11.
psychological
12.
novelist
13. Marxist
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.
George Meredith’s novels are masterpieces of satirical portrayal
and psychological analysis.
2.
Joseph Conrad’s novels have groups: jungle novels, sea novels and
political novels.
3.
Henry James’s fundamental theme was the innocence of the New World
and the corruption of the Old.
4.
The story of Tess is filled with a feeling of dismal
foreboding and doom.
5.
Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book of
Jude the
Obscure.
6.
Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey were great
Irish dramatists.
7.
The house in Shaw’s Heartbreak House embodies bourgeois
England.
8.
Shaw’s Saint Joan is a historical play devoted to the great
daughter of the English people, Joan of Arc, and her struggle for
the liberty of her country.
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.
10.
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are the two best-known novelists of
the “stream of consciousness”
school.
11.
Robert Tressell was a working class novelist whose great work is
The Ragged Trousered
Philanthropists.
12.
In the 1930s, British Marxist literary criticism was represented by
two revolutionary writers, Ralph Fox and Christopher
Caudwell.
13.
Ralph Fox’s representative book is The Novel and the
People.
Key to True/False statements:
1.
T
2.
T
3.
T
4.
T
5.
F (Tess)
6.
T
7.
T
8.
F (French people)
9.
T
10.
T
11.
T
12.
T
13.
T
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