英国文学复习题含问题详解

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I. Multiple Choice: from a, b, c or d, choose the best one to complete the statements below. (1×50, 50 points)
1.---- ----- is the first important religious poet in English literature.
a. John Donne
b. George Herbert
c. Caedmon
d. Milton
2.The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions,
---------- and Christian.
a. Pagan
b. Roman
c. French
d. Danish
3.“----------”is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the
surviving epic in the English language.
a. Beowulf
b.Sir Gawain and Green Knight
c. The Canterbury Tales
d. Hamlet
4.Fielding has been regarded by some as the “----------”for his contribution
to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
a.Best Writer of English Novel
b. Father of English Novel
c. Father of English Poetry
d. Father of English Essay
5.All of the following three writers except---------- are the most famous
dramatists in the Renaissance England.
a.Marlowe
b. Shakespeare
c. Bacon
d.
Thomas Kyd
6.Byronic Hero was created by Lord Byron in one of his following works
---------.
a. Don Juan
b. Ode to the West wind
c. She Walks in Beauty
d.
Daffodils
7.Which play is not Shakespeare’s tragedy? ----------
a.Othello
b. The Merchant of Venice
c.Romeo and Juliet
d. King Lear
8.The literary form of The Faerie Queen is ----------.
a. lyric poem
b. narrative poem
c. epic poem
d. elegy
9.Which of the following cannot correctly describe the English
Enlightenment Movement ----------?
a.It flourished in France.
b. It was a furtherance of the
Renaissance.
c.Its purpose was to enlighten the whole worl
d. d. It emphasized
“reason & order.”
10.“Blindness, partiality, prejudice and absurdity”in the novel Pride and
Prejudice are most likely to be the characteristics of ----------.
a. Elizabeth
b. Darcy
c. Mrs. Bennet
d. Lydia
11.T he prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ----------.
a. French
b. Latin
c. romance
d. science
12.T he story of “----------”is the culmination of the Arthurian metrical
romances.
a.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
b. Beowulf
c.Piers the Plowman
d. The Canterbury Tales
13.C haucer, the ‘father of English poetry’and one of the greatest ----------
poets of England, was born in London about 1340, and was the first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
a. lyrical
b. blank verse
c. narrative
d. ballad
14.W hich kind of metrical form was adopted by Chaucer in The Canterbury
Tales?
a. London dialect
b. Heroic Couplet
c. sonnet
d. elegy
15.G enerally speaking, Chaucer’s works fall into three main groups
corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life. Which period is wrong?
a.The period of French influence (1359-1372)
b.The period of Italian influence (1372-1386)
c.The period of English influence (1386-1400)
d.The period of American influence (1371-1382)
16.--------- was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
a. Thomas Wyatt
b. William Shakespeare
c. Philip Sidney
d.
Thomas Campion
17.T he epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English
drama. It was ---------- who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
a. Edmund Spenser
b. Thomas Lodge
c. Christopher Marlowe
d.
Thomas More
18.A bsolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of
Queen ----------.
a. Mary
b. Elizabeth
c. Victoria
d. William
19.E nglish Renaissance Period was an age of ----------.
a. prose and novel
b. poetry and drama
c. essays and journals
d.
ballads and songs
20.F rom the following, choose the one that is not Francis Bacon’s work.
----------
a.The Advancement of Learning
b. Essays
c.Maxims of the Law
d. Othello
21.E nglish Renaissance Period was not an age of prose, but Thomas More
wrote his famous prose work ----------.
a. Of Studies
b. Robinson Crusoe
c. Gulliver’s Travels
d. Utopia
22.W hich play is not Shakespeare’s comedy? ---------
a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
b. The Merchant of Venice
c.Romeo and Juliet
d. As You Like It
23. ----------, considered John Milton’s masterpiece, vividly tells the story of
Satan’s rebellion against God and his tempting of Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge.
a. Paradise Regained
b. Bible
c. The Pilgrim’s Progress
d. Paradise Lost
24.---------- was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western
Europe in the 18th century.
a. The Renaissance
b. The Enlightenment
c. The Religious Reformation
d. The Chartist Movement
25.I n the last 20 years of the 18th century, England produces two great
pre-romantic poets. They were ----------.
a. Johnson and Blake
b. Grey and Young
c. Pope and Goldsmith
d. Blake and Burns
26.T he 18th-century witnessed that in England there appeared two political
parties, ----------, which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
a.The Whigs and the Tories
b.The senate and the House of Representatives
c.The upper House and lower House
d.The House of Lords and the House of Commons
27.T he critical realism in 19th-century England has been considered as the 3rd
important literary achievement after the ancient Greek tragedy and the Renaissance drama. It has some basic characteristics as follows except: ----------
a.Truthful reflection of the society with superb artistic style
b.Violent exposure and criticism with profound humanism
c. Harmonious unity between the characters and situation
d. The use of simple and common language
28.T he Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads, which was
written by ----------.
a. William Wordsworth
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d. Wordsworth and Coleridge
29.W hich poet did not belong to the Lakers?
a. Coleridge
b. Wordsworth
c. Southey
d. Keats
30.C hoose the ode that is not written by Keats. ----------
a. Ode to the West Wind
b. Ode to a Nightingale
c. To Autumn
d. Ode on a Grecian Urn
31.C hoose the work that was not written by Jane Austen. ----------
a. Emma
b.Sense and Sensibility
c. Mansfield Park
d.Jane
Eyre
32.E nglish critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ----------.
a. novel
b. drama
c. poetry
d. prose
33.W hich of the following writers did not belong to English critical realists?
a. Charles Dickens
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. Daniel Defoe
d. W. M.
Thackeray
34.D ickens’s David Copperfield is often regarded as the semi-autobiography
of the writer in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life, while his --------- is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution.
a. Oliver Twist
b. Great Expectations
c. Hard Times
d. A Tale of
Two Cities
35.The sub-title of Vanity Fair is ‘---------’.
a. A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed
b. The Spirit and the Flesh
c. A Novel Without a Hero
d. Sense and Sensibility
36.I n the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte has some basic subject matters to express
as follows except ----------.
a.pours a great deal of her own experience
b.criticizes the American bourgeois system of education
c.shows that true love is the foundation of marriage
d.shows that women should have equal rights with men
37.J ames Joyce was one of the foremost writers of --------- novels.
a. critical realist
b. Gothic
c. stream of consciousness
d. romantic historical
38. The first English essayist Francis Bacon composed, during his lifetime,
numerous prose work, and --------- is unmistakably among the most
eloquent and elegant essays produced in English Renaissance.
a. Of Studies
b. Ode to the West Wind
c. The Tiger
d. Don Juan
39.A mong the following 20th-century Irish writers, who is the spokesman for
the school of “Art for Art’s Sake”? ----------
a. Bernard Shaw
b. Oscar Wilde
c. James Joyce
d. W. B.
Yeats
40.W ordsworth believes that ---------- can inspires poetry, and it is his nurse,
guide, guardian and anchor of his thoughts.
a. nature
b. God
c. love
d. wealth
41.A lthough writing from different points of view and with different techniques,
writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ----------.
a.the love story of the rich
b. the future of their country
c.the fate of common people
d. the love-making of the middle class
people
42.--------- lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on
scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge.
a. Charles Dickens
b. Francis Bacon
c. Thomas Hardy
d.
Thomas More
43.T he following comments on Daniel Defoe are true except ---------.
a.Robinson Crusoe is his first novel.
b.He is a member of the upper class.
c.Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece.
d.He embarked on a new career—the writing of novel—when he was 60.
44.T he term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the
17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ----------.
a. John Donne
b. John Keats
c. John Milton
d. John
Bunyan
45.T he cradle of the Renaissance is ----------.
a. Germany
b. England
c. Italy
d. France
46.T he middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary
form that is the modern English ----------, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.
a. prose
b. novel
c. tragicomedy
d. drama
47.W hich of the following writings did Wordsworth not create? ------c--
a.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
b. The Solitary Reaper
c.The Chimney Sweeper
d. The Prelude
48.W hich of the following writings is not the work by Dickens? c
a. A Tale of Two Cities
b. Hard Times
c. Sons and Lovers
d.
Oliver Twist
49.T he Victorian Age was largely an age of ---------, eminently represented by
Dickens and Thackeray.
a. poetry
b. drama
c. essay
d. novel
50. The 23-year-old Austen composed three novels, and among them, First
Impressions was early version of --00------.
a. Pride & Prejudice
b. Sense & Sensibility
c. Emma
d.
Northanger Abbey
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension:read the following selected parts carefully, and give the best answer to the relevant questions. (0.5×50, 25 points)
Part 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Questions:
51.This is one of Shakespeare’s best known ----------.
a. sonnets
b. ballads
c. songs
52.It runs in iambic pentameter rhymed ----------.
a. abba abba cdcd cd
b. abab cdcd efef gg
53. The 14 lines include three quatrains together with the last two
lines as ---------- which completes the sense of the lines above.
a. prelude
b. couplet
c. epigraph
54. The theme of this poem is ----------.
a. love
b. friendship
c. immortality of arts
Part 2 I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Questions:
55.This is the first two stanza of a poem that is written by --------.
a. Byron
b. Wordsworth
c. Keats
56.The title of the poem is ----------.
a. To Autumn
b. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
c. The Solitary Reaper
57.The poem’s theme is about ----------.
a. beauty of nature
b. country life
c. love
58.The poet adopts one kind of figure of speech: ---------- to
describe the flowers in the poem.
a. personification
b. alliteration
c. conceit
59.The rhyme scheme in each stanza is ----------.
a. ababab
b. ababcc
c. abcdcd
Part 3 IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well
fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered
as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Questions:
60. This passage is the opening of a novel entitled ----------.
a. Sense and Sensibility
b. Pride and Prejudice
c.
Jane Eyre
61.The writer of the novel is the first famous woman novelist—
---------.
a. George Eliot
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. Jane Austen
62.The story in this novel is based on the lovemaking of the young
people in the ------- families in 18th-century England.
a. upper-middle-class
b. aristocratic
c. royal
Part 4 That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: FràPandolf's hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will 't please you sit and look at her? I said
'FràPandolf' by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
Questions:
63. These lines are quoted from the poem entitled-------.
a. Song
b. My Last Duchess
c. When We Two Parted
64. It was composed by the outstanding poet -------.
a. Robert Browning
b. Lord Byron
c. William
Wordsworth
65. In the famous piece, the form of ------- is skillfully employed.
a. ballad
b. dramatic monologue
c. blank verse
Part 5 GO and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear,
No where
Lives a woman true and fair.
Questions:
66.These are the first 2 stanzas of the poem written by ------- in
17th-century England.
a. John Milton
b. John Donne
c. John Bunyan
67.The poet is the most outstanding figure of the poetic school of
“-------”during this period.
a. Graveyard Poets
b. Metaphysical Poets
c.
Romantic poets
68.He was appointed by King James I in 1621 as the dean of -------
and he held this post till his last day.
a. Westminster Abbey
b. St. Paul Cathedral
c. Canterbury
Cathedral
69.Besides his unique love poetry, he is also famous for his
religious -------.
a. poetry
b. sermons
c. plays
70.This group of poets prefers to use an elaborate and surprising
figure of speech, -------, to express ideas in a sharp and harsh
manner, by comparing two very dissimilar things.
a. conceit
b. similar
c. alliteration
Part 6
"I tell you I must go!" I retorted, roused to something like passion. "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?--a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;--it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we
stood at God's feet, equal,--as we are!"
Questions:
71.This passage is taken from the novel “-------”.
a. Emma
b. Wuthering Heights
c. Jane Eyre
72.The author of the work is -------.
a. Jane Austen
b. Emily Bronte
c. Charlotte
Bronte
73.The speaker in the passage is -------.
a. Cathy
b. Lydia
c. Jane
74.The character is passionately emphasizing the significance of
------- between men and women.
a. marriage
b. equality
c. relationship
75.The character is speaking to -------.
a. Mr. Rochester
b. Mr. Bingley
c. Mr. Bennet
Part 7
`I have been hoping, longing, praying, to make you happy! I have thought what joy it will be to do it, what an unworthy wife I shall be if I do not!
That's what I have felt, Angel!'
`I know that.'
`I thought, Angel, that you loved me - me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me?'
`I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you.'
`But who?'
`Another woman in your shape.'
Questions:
76.This passage is taken from the novel “-------”.
a. Sons and Lovers
b. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
c.
Jane Eyre
77.The author of the work is -------.
a. William Thackeray
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Charles
Dickens
78.The female speaker in the passage is --------.
a. Tess
b. Elizabeth
c. Jane
79.The novel reveals women’s dreadful life in ------- England.
a. 19th-century
b. 18th-century
c.17th-century
Part 8 Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with some one, up went her back like a cat’s; or she purred. Devonshire House, Bath House, the house with the china cockatoo, she had seen them all lit up once; and remembered Sylvia, Fred, Sally Seton—such hosts of people; and dancing all night; and the waggons plodding past to market; and driving home across the Park. She remembered once throwing a shilling into the Serpentine. But every one remembered; what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must
inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?
Questions:
80.This passage is taken from the novel “-------”.
a. Sons and Lovers
b. Mrs. Dalloway
c.
Dubliners
81.The author of the work is -------.
a. James Joyce
b. D. H. Lawrence
c. Virginia
Woolf
82. The writer is the representative figure of ------- novelists in
20th-century England.
a. steam-of-consciousness
b. critical realism
c.
aestheticism
83.This passage reveals the inner spiritual world of --------.
a. Clarissa
b. Tess
c. Jane Eyre
84. The author of the novel committed suicide by drowning
because of --------.
a. her insanity
b. marriage
c. poverty
Part 9 He was a comely handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd, and as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He had a very good Countenance, not a fierce and surly Aspect; but seem'd to have something very manly in his Face, and yet he had all the Sweetness and Softness of an European in his Countenance too, especially when he smil'd. His Hair was long and black, not curl'd like Wool; his Forehead very high, and large, and a great Vivacity and sparkling Sharpness in his Eyes. The Colour of his Skin was not quite black, but very tawny; and yet not of an ugly yellow nauseous tawny, as the Brasilians, and Virginians,and other Natives of America are; but of a bright kind of a dun olive Colour, that had in it something very agreeable; tho' not very easy to describe. His Face was round, and plump; his Nose small, not flat like the Negroes, a very good Mouth, thin Lips, and his line Teeth well set, and white as Ivory.
Questions:
85. This passage is taken from the novel “---------”.
a.Robinson Crusoe
b. Ulysses
c. Gulliver’s
Travels
86. The author of the work is --------.
a. Daniel Defoe
b. Henry Fielding
c. Charles
Dickens
87. The writer was the representative figure of realistic novelists
in ------ century England.
a. 17th
b. 18th
c. 19th
88. The point of view used in this novel is the ---------.
a. first-person
b. third-person
c.
second-person
89. The character described in this passage is -------- who is saved
by the narrator.
a. Crusoe
b. Friday
c. the slave trader
Part 10To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
Questions:
90.These lines are taken from a famous play named ----------.
a. Hamlet
b. King Lear
c. Othello
91. The author of the play is ----------.
a. Marlowe
b. Wyatt
c. Shakespeare
92.In the play these lines are uttered by ---------.
a. Ophelia
b. Hamlet
c. Gertrude
93. These lines are written in ----- which was introduced firstly by
Christopher Marlow from French literature.
a. ode
b. blank verse
c. elegy
94.This play is a ----------.
a. comedy
b. tragicomedy
c. tragedy
Part 11O, my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O, my luve is like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
Questions:
95.This is the first stanza of a poem that is written by a pre-romantic
poet -----.
a. Byron
b. Burns
c. Keats
96.The poem is written in the form of ----------.
a. ballad metre
b. sonnet
c. ode
97. The “red, red rose”in the poem is a token of ---------.
a. friendship
b. love
c. happiness
98. The poet was cultivated by -------- culture.
a. Scottish
b. English
c. Welsh
99. He spent his life among the common people in the
countryside and is thus regarded as a -------- poet.
a. aristocratic
b. peasant
c. lake
100. He created a great deal of poems from the resource of the
folksong in his homeland. Among them, --------- has
become a world-famous one.
a. Auld Lang Syne
b. To a Mouse
c. John Anderson,
My Jo
III. True or False: if the statement is True, please mark A on the answer sheet; if it is False, please mark B on the answer sheet. (0.5×50, 25 points)
1. Imperialism and the demand for social reform are the two factors that had a large influence on modern English literature. T
2. The slogan of aesthetic literature is “Art for Art’s Sake”. T
3. Modern English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importance of the English (bourgeoisie) middle class. T
4.Self-acknowledge is one of the major themes of Pride and Prejudice. T
5. Robert Burn’s passionate poem, My Heart's in the Highlands, opens with the lines: “My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, / My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer”. T
6. The central character in a romance is usually a knight. T
7. Many of famous verses by John Keats are crafted in the form of ode. T
8. Walter Scott is called the Father of English Prose. F
9. It is in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling that Henry Fielding succeeds best in creating “a comic epic in prose”. T
10. In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living on Laputa. F
11. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of
lovers to a pair of compasses. T
12. Bacon’s Essays has been recognized as an important landmark in the
development of English essay. T
13. The most important poet in the Victorian age is Robert Browning. Next to him
is Alfred Tennyson. F
14. Popular ballad is an important stream of English medieval literature. Of all the
ballads, those of Robin Hood are of paramount importance. T
15. The difficulty of knowing the truth, the connection between thought and action,
revenge, and death are all the themes explored in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. T 16. Thomas Gray’s poetry is bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of the Scottish people. F
17.A n elegy is a poem in which the poet mourns the death of a specific person. T
18.M uch like Jane, Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice is an amiable and
good-tempered person. T
19.S helley’s most famous lyrics include To a Skylark and The Cloud. T
20.R obert Burns wrote under the influence of Scottish folk traditions and old
Scottish poetry. T
21.T he literary technique with which authors represent the flow of sensations and
ideas is called stream of consciousness. T
22.T he end of the 19th century is a period of struggle between Romantic and
Realistic trends in literature. F
23.O ptimism and positivism are strongly reflected in Hardy’s writings. F
24.B oth The Waves and Women in Love are stream-of-consciousness novels. F
25.T homas Carlyle and Matthew Arnold are famous prose writers in the Victorian
period. T
26.T homas Hardy succeeded Tennyson and George Bernard Shaw as president of
the Society of Authors. T
27.I n 1850 Wordsworth, who had been poet-laureate after Southey, died; and
Tennyson took the laurel. T
28.T he title Ulysses has been adopted by two British writers—one is Tennyson the
poet in his famous monologue; the other D. H. Laurence in his famous stream-of-consciousness novel. F
29.T he Bronte sisters published their first work—Poems by Currer, Ellis, and
Acton Bell in 1846. T
30. Besides E. M. Foster, Virginia Woolf is also an active member of the
“Bloomsbury Group”. T
31.D ubliners—the starting point of Wilde’s writing career—is a collection of
sharp realistic sketches about the Dublin life. F
32. The principal writers of the 17th-century English Gothic novel included Horace
Walpole—author of The Castle of Otranto,and Ann Radcliffe—author of The Mysteries of Udolpho. F
33.W ilde’s most excellent success was as a writer of novels, esp. in The Portrait
of Dorian Gray. F
34.J ane Eyre, the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte and an immediate success in her
time, has been dedicated to Thackeray—the author of Vanity Fair. T
35.B ecause of the reception of Tess and Jude, Hardy turned with relief to the
writing of experimental lyrical poetry in 1896. T
36. George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann or Marian Evans, was one of the best
19th-century English novelists, whose best-known works are Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner. T
37. Sir Walter Scott, the author of Waverley and Rob Roy, was the first major
historical novelist. T
38. The hero of the poem, Don Juan, was the first example of what came to be
known as the Byronic hero. T
39.M rs. Browning is most famous for her Sonnets from the Portuguese as well as
Aurora Leigh. T
40.J ohn Galsworthy, the first serious British writer on sex, was equally prolific as a
dramatist who for many years rivaled Bernard Shaw. F
41. Charles Dickens was the first to gain fame and popularity before other
prominent Victorian novelists, including Thackeray, George Eliot and Emily Bronte. T。