英国文学选择题2

1. ____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.

A. Jane Austen B. Thackeray C. Dickens D. Charlotte

2. Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.

A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero C. The Newcomes D. Persuasion

3. Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.

A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero C. The Newcomes D. Persuasion

4. 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

5. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .

A. novel B. drama C. poetry D. sonnet

6. ______’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

7. _______ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent and his granddaughter Nell.

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A. Pickwick Papers B. The Old Curiosity Shop C. Great Expectations D. Hard Times

8. 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

9. 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 Expectation D. Dombey and Son

10. 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

11. 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

12. _____ 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

13. Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?

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A. The Virginians B. The Books of Snobs . The Newcomes D. Vanity Fair

14. 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

15. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.

A. Jane Eyre B. Agnes Grey C. Wuthering Heights D. Emma 16. Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.

A. optimism B. excitement C. irritation D. pessimism

17. The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.

A. 1837…1900 B. 1835…1901 C. 1832…1902 D. 1830…1903

18. 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

19. _____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.

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A. Earnest Jones B. Emily Brontё C. Charlotte Brontё D. Charles Dickens

20. 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

21. 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

22. ____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.

A. essay B. poetry C. novel D. drama

23. ____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.

A. Rochester B. Heathcliff C. Manette D. Martin

24. Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.

A. familiar things B. common people C. neighbors D. evils

25. _____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.

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A. Great Expectations B. David Copperfield C. Bleak House D. The Pickwick Papers

26. The greatest Scottish poet in the pre-romanticism is ________.

A. William Wordsworth B. Oliver Goldsmith C. Thomas Gray D. Robert Burns

27. _______ is written by William Blake, a great poet in the pre-romanticism.

A. The Songs of Innocence B. Reliques of Ancient English poetry C. Songs and Sonnets D. Kubla Khan 28.____ 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” 29.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

30..Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.

A. Wordsworth’s B. Byron’s C. Shelley’s D. Keats

31.Keats’ best ode is ____.

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A. “On a Grecian Urn” B. “To Autumn” C. “To Psyche” D. “To a Nightingale”

32. 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”

33.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

34._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott

35. 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

36. Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.

A. 17…1821 B. 1778…1823 C. 1798…1832 D. 1768…1819

37. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.

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A. the first B. the second C. the third D. the forth

38. ____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.

A. Jane Austen B. Thackeray C. Dickens D. Charlotte

39. Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.

A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero C. The Newcomes D. Persuasion

40. Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.

A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero C. The Newcomes D. Persuasion

41. 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

42. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .

A. novel B. drama C. poetry D. sonnet

43. ______’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

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44. Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in his poem.

A. novels B. poetry C. dramas D. prose

45. ____ 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

46. 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

47. _____ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A. Jane Eyre B Emma C. Wuthering Height D. Middlemarch 48.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the _____.

A. bitter satire B. Larger-than-life caricature C. Latinized diction D. dramatic monologue

49. The modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned with the __.

A. external world B. public life of an individual

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C. social activities of human beings D. inner life of an individual

50. Eliot’s poem, the Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the _____of a modern civilization.

A. social corruption B. spiritual breakup C. physical breakup D. religious corruption

51. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest on radical experimentation of technical innovation in novel writing.

A. Joseph Conrad B. D. H. Lawrence C. Virginia Woolf D. James Joyces

52. According to D. H. Lawrence, the ____is the 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

53. The Victorian age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.

A. pessimism B. naturalism C. modernism D. critical realism

54. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ____.

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A. Jane Austin B. Walter Scott C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. William Wordsworth

55. Who is the father of English poetry?

A. William Shakespeare. B. Edmund Spencer. C. John Milton. D. Geoffrey Chaucer.

56. ____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.

A. Free Verse B. Sonnet C. Ode D. Epigram

57. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?

A. She Walks in Beauty. B. The Solitary Reaper. C. When We Two Parted. D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

58. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ____ centuries.

A. 14th and mid 17th B. 14th and mid-18th C. 16th and mid-18th D. 16th and mid-17th

59. ____ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.

A. William Blake B. Robert Burns C. Byron D. Keats

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60. William Blake's The Tiger is collected in ____.

A. Songs of Innocence B. Songs of Experience C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell D.

Poetical Sketches 61. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?

A. William Wordsworth. B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C. Robert Southey. D. William Collins.

62. _____is a fork legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people. A. Beowulf B. Sir Gawain C. The Canterbury Tales D. King Arthur and His Knights 63. \"Beauty is truth, truth beauty\" is an epigrammatic line by ____.

A. John Keats B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

. Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend ____.

A. Coleridge B. Byron C. Keats D. Shelly

65. ____ is D. H. Lawrence's semi-autographical novel.

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A. Sons and Lovers B. Women in Love C. Rainbow D. Lady Chatterlay’s Lover

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