英美文学史测试题 Chapter 5

测试题Chapter 5
I Of the four alternative answers, choose the one that would best cpmplete the statement:
1.Modernism rose out of skepticism and _______of capitalism.
A.Darkness
B. evils
C. disillusion
D. corruption
2.The outstanding realistic novelists of the modern period were John Galesworthy.
H.G.Wells and ________.
A. Arnold Bennett
B. Aldous Huxley
C. George Orwell
D. Kingsley Amis
3. In 1884 Bernard Shaw joined _______ and became one of its most influential members.
A.Chartist Movement
B. Fabian Society
C. Socialist Movement
D. Trade Union
4. In his novel “The Man of Property”. John Galsworthy exposes the sense of ______of the upper-middle class.
A. superiority
B. nobility
C. property
D. wealth
5. Which of the following is William B. Yeats’poem?___________
A. “Swan Song”
B. “To the Cuckoo”
C. “Ode to the Nightingale”
D. “The Wilde Swans at Coole”
6. “___________” was written by James Joyce.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Portrait of a Lady
C. Picture of Dorian Gray
D. To the Lighthouse
7. “__________”, Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as landmark in the 20th- century English poetry.
A.Hollow Men
B. The Waste Land
C. Prufrock and Other Observations
D. Ash Wednesday
8. D.H. Lawrence had his first novel _______ published in 1911.
A. The White Peacock
B. Sons and Lovers
C. Rainbow
D. Women in Love
9. In his writing, Lawrence has expressed a strong reaction against _________.
A. exploitation
B. idealism
C. materialism
D. the mechanical civilization
10. In “Ulysses”, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole _______.
A. universe
B. world
C. human life
D. capitalist society
II. For each of the quotation listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it:
1.Everybody has some choice, mother. The poorest girl alive may not able to choose between
being Queen of England or Principal or Newnham: But she can choose between
rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste.
2.I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore.
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray.
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
III. Give brief answer to the following question:
1.What a kind of image is Prufrock im T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J.Alfred
Prufrock”?
2.What a kind of book is James Joyce’s “Dubliners”?
IV. Short essay question:
Please discuss the conflict between Mrs. Warren and her daughter Vivie in Bernard Shaw’s Play “Mrs. Warren’s Prefession”.。