英国现代主义时期文学综合练习

英国现代主义时期文学综合练习
(Exercises for the British Modernistic Literature)
I. 选择题：Multiple-choice questions
1. “I will arise and go now, for always night and day/I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;”
The above two lines are taken from________.
[A] The Lake Isle of Innisfree [B] Down by the Sally Gardens
[C] The Waste Land [D] The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2. Bernard Shaw's plays are mostly concerned with political, economic, moral or religious problems. Therefore they can be regarded as________.
[A] social political plays [B] social problem plays
[C] social moral plays [D] social religious plays
3. The following statements all describe the style Shaw's plays EXCEPT__________.
[A] His language is easy, witty and forceful
[B] The conversation takes primacy over mere story
[C] The action in his plays is reduced to a minimum
[D] Poetic imagination and symbolism are used to express the intimate feelings
4. John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga appears in the form of__________.
[A] epic [B1 trilogy
[C] collection of short stories [D]ballad
5. All the following are characterstic of Galsworthy‟s The Man of Property EXCEPT__________.
[A] Soames [B] Irene [C] Dedalus [D] Bosiney
6. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons" sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence's__________.
[A] Sons and Lovers[B] The Rainbow
[C] Women in Love [D] Lady Chatterley'.s lover
7. What metrical foot is used in William Butler Y eats's poem “Lake Isle of Innisfree" ?
[A] Iamb. [BI Anapest. [C] Trochee. [D] Dactyl
8. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels written by __________.
[A] E. M. Forster [B] Joseph Conrad [C] D. H. Lawrence [D] James Joyce
9. “I believe you are made of stone, “he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. “Y ou seem to for get, ” she said, “that cup is not!”
From the above quotation we might suppose the woman's tone is very _________.
[A] delightful [B] sarcastic [C] sentimental [D] humorous
10. According to D. H. Lawrence, the _________ is most responsible for the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human personality.
[A] pride of the aristocratic class [B] vanity of the middle class
[C] man's desire for power and money [D] capitalist mechanical civilization
11. The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with i conflict between Paul and his
mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother's different views towards ________.
[A] Paul's father [B] art [CI life [D] Paul's brother
12. According to James Joyce, the three required things for the perception of beauty are wholeness,
harmony and __________.
[A] integrity [B] proportion [C] coherence [D] clarity
13. James Joyce's Dubliners is __________.
[A] a collection of short stories [B] a novel
[C] an autobiography [D] a short story
14. Joyce takes great pains to create Ulysses from a complex of various techniques and experiments. The following are the styles found in Ulysses EXCEPT__________.
[A] original style [B] stream of consciousness [C] mock-style [D] sarcastic style
15. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of imagism?
[A] To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word.
[B] To create new rhythms, as the expressions of anew mood.
[C] To recommend heroic couplet as a preferable verse form.
[D] To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject.
16. Writers like Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and V irginia Woolf concentrated their efforts on digging into the human_________.
[A] dignity [B] behavior
[C] morality [D] consciousness
17. In Shaw's plays action is reduced to a minimum, while the dialogue and the interplay of the minds of the characters maintain the ________ of the audience.
[A] interest [B] ideas [C] suspense [D] expectations
18. Among the great writers of the modern period, ________ might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.
[A] Joseph Conrad [BI James Joyce [C] D . H . Lawrence [D] V irginia Woolf
19. Since A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man develops around a middle-class Irish boy, Stephen Dedalus, from his infancy to his manhood, it is generally regarded as a(n) ______ novel., [A] biographical [B] autobiographical
[C] historical [D] sentimental
20. "The Love Song of J . Alfred Prufrock"is intensely anti-romantic with an evasive ______
atmosphere.
[A] sublime [B] hellish [C] sensual [DI warm
21. "Paul was afraid lest she might have misread the letter, and might be disappointed after all. He scrutinized it once, twice. Y es, he became convinced it was true. Then he sat down, his heart beating with joy." The above quotation is taken from _______.
[A] The Man of Property
[B] Mrs. Warren's Profession
[C] Sons and Lovers
[D] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
22. The statement that the refined bourgeois aristocrats are put to ridicule while a simple flower girl is lovingly portrayed may refer to _________.
[A] Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
[B] Sheridan's The School for Scandal
[C] Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral
[D] Galsworthy's The Silver Box
23. With their joint efforts, W. B. Y eats, Lady Gregory, and J.M. Synge started an Irish ______ revival in the early 20th century.
[A] moral [B] religious [C] dramatic [D] spiritual
24. In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called ________, in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.
[A] Stream-of-consciousness [B] Expressionism [C] Symbolism [D] Naturalism
25. The mission of ______ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.
[A] T. S. Eliot's [B] J. Galsworthy's [C] B. Shaw's [D] W. B. Y eats
II. 阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)
1. "Should I, after tea and cakes and ices
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
Questions :
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. Who is "I", the speaker of the poem?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?
2. "Vivie: ` . . . People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. '
…. . . but why did you choose that business? Saving good management will succeed in any business.‟
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. Who is "Vivie", the speaker of the quoted passage'?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?
3. "When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; " Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What figure of speech is used in the quoted passage'!
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?
4. "North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind detatched from its neighbours in a square ground. The houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, at one another with brown imperturble faces. "
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. What is the tone of the narrator in the quoted passage'?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?
5. "She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a 11 not very difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the em marry a lady. "
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. Who does the word "she" in the quoted passage refer to?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?
III. 回答问题(Questions and answers)
1. What is the theme of G. B. Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession?
2. What are the artistic features of T. S. Eliot‟s poetry?
3. Note the religious language in Joyce story Araby, especially, the words “chalice, ”“Prayers and praises”, and the “confused adorations”What does this language reveal a boy “I,” about how he sees himself, about how he envisions what he is doings and thinking?
4. Make a brief analysis of Y eats‟ poem “Down by the Salley Garden.”
5. “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”What is the implied meaning of the quoted sentence? ( James Joyce: “Araby”from Dubliners )
IV. 论述题(T opic discussions)
1. Comment on Eliot's poem, " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" .
2. Make a brief analysis of the character Paul Morel in Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers.。