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II. Choose one or more correct answers to complete the statement.
69._________ belonged to the stream of consciousness.
A. D. H. Lawrence
B. James Joyce
C. Virginia Woolf
D. T. S. Eliot
70. Which of the following factors has/have connections with the most popular literary form, romances, in Anglo-Norman period?
A. knight
B. tales of love and adventure
C. chivalry
D. loyalty to king and lord
71. Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry and language lie in ______.
A. introducing rhymed stanzas from France to England
B. writing purely in English
C. writing in blank verse
D. making the dialect of London the foundation of Modern English;
E. the first great poet writing in the current English;
72. Which of the following has / have associations with Metaphysical poetry?
A. conceit
B. wits
C. metaphor
D. reason
E. hyperboles
F. baroque architecture and painting
73. Charles Dickinson wrote _____ in the following works.
A. The Old Curiosity Shop
B. A Christmas Carol
C. Our Mutual Friend
D. Bleak House
E. Dombey and Son
74. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote ______ in the following works.
A. The Rose and the Ring
B. The Books of Snobs
C. The Newcomes
D. Henry Esmond
E. American Notes
75. Which of the following works were written by Alfred Tennyson?
A. Morte d’Arthur
B. The Princess
C. Adam Bede
D. Silas Marner
E. In Memoriam
76. Which of the following works were written by Robert Browning?
A. Paracelsus
B. In a Balcony
C. The Ring and the Book
D. The Rose and the Ring
E. Dramatic Lyrics
F. Sonnets from the Portuguese
77. Which of the following works were written by Thomas Hardy?
A. Under the Greenwood Tree
B. The Return of the Native
C. Justice
D. The Silver Box
E. The Mayor of Casterbridge
78. Which of the following works were written by John Galsworthy?
A. The Woodlanders
B. Jude the Obscure
C. The Man of Property
D. The Silver Box
E. A Woman of No Importance
79. Which of the following works were written by Oscar Wilde?
A. Strife
B. An Ideal Husband
C. Lady Windermere’s Fan
D. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
E. The Importance of Being Earnest
80. Which of the following works were written by George Bernard Shaw?
A. Arms and Man
B. Man and Superman
C. A Woman of No Importance
D. Widower’s House
E. The Doctor’s Dilemma
81. Which of the following works were written by Virginia Woolf?
A. Jacob’s Room
B. The White Peacock
C. The Waves
D. The Rainbow
E. Between the Acts
82. Which of the following writers belong(s) to modernism?
A. D. H. Lawrence
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Robert L. Stevenson
83. What the following features /elements does Aestheticism include?
A. a kind of escapism
B. art for art’s sake
C. separating art or literature from realty or life
D. emphasizing imagination, adventure
E. the representative is Oscar Wilde
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