英国文学史及作品选读自测题1

Test Paper One

Ⅰ. Identification.

1. Identify each on the left column with its related information on the right column.

(1) Ernest Jones A. euphuism

(2) Oscar Wilde B. Lake poet

(3) John Lyly C. Chartist poetry

(4) Robert Louis Stevenson D. tragedy

(5) Robert Southey E. sentimentalism

(6) George Eliot F. critical realism

(7) Laurence Sterne G. art for art’s sake

(8) Pamela H. Kunstlerroman

(9) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I. epistolary novel

(10) Macbeth J. neo-romanticism

2. Identify the author with his or her work.

(1) Charles Dickens A. A Passage to India

(2) E. M. Foster B. Paradise Regained

(3) Virginia Woolf C. The Garden Party

(4) John Milton D. Of Studies

(5) Shelley E. Jonathan Wild the Great

(6) Francis Bacon F. Jude the Obscure

(7) Katherine Mansfield G. The Waste Land

(8) Henry Fielding H. Hard Times

(9) T. S. Eliot I. To the Lighthouse

(10) Thomas Hardy J. Prometheus Unbound

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1. was one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers. The Man of Property is one of his works.

2. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels written by .

3. Of Human Bondage is a naturalistic novel by , dealing with the story of

a deformed orphan trying vainly to be an artist.

4. , T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads.

5. Henry James’ most famous short story is , a ghost story in which the question of childhood corruption obsesses governess.

6. The pessimistic view of life that p redominates most of Hardy’s later works earns him a reputation as a writer.

7. is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature.

8. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of ,

a legendary outlaw.

9. The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is ________.

10. and were two schools of poetry prevailing in the 17th century.

11. wrote his famous prose composite on “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” i n1668, which established his position as the leading critic of the day. 12. , one of Graham Green’s best novels, tells a story of the wandering of a whisky priest, an outlaw in Mexico, who is seedy and alcoholic as an ordinary man, but fulfills his function as priest.

13. is Byron’s masterpiece, written in the prime of his creative power. He called it an “epic satire”, “a satire on abuses of the present state of society.”14. Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English against the neoclassical , which prevailed from the days of Pope to those of Johnson.

15. All such works of Coleridge as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christable” and “Kubla Khan” revealed his keen interest in.

16. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into English literature: the struggle of the for its rights.

17. The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.

18. In , Jonathan Swift suggests that children of the poor Irish people be sold at one year old as food for the English nobles. It shows his indignation toward the terrible oppression and exploitation of the Irish people by the English ruling class.

19. Horace Walpole’s novel began the tradition of Gothic romance in English literature.

20. The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the .

Ⅲ. Choose the best answer.

1. Life of Charlotte Bronte is written by .

A. Emily Bronte

B. Anne Bronte

C. Mrs. Gaskell

D. George Eliot

2. was appointed poet laureate in succession to Wordsworth in1850.

A. Alfred Tennyson

B. Robert Browning

C. Mrs. Browning

D. Dante Rossetti

3. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in , the fictional primitive and

crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

A. London

B. Yoknapatawpha

C. Wessex

D. Paris

4. Which of the following novels doe s NOT belong to the “stream-of- consciousness” school of novel writing?

A. Ulysses

B. Finnegan’s Wake

C. The Rainbow

D. The Waves

5. is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm.

A. Sons and Lovers

B. Women in Love

C. The Rainbow

D. Man and Superman