英美文学史练习题和复习资料4

4. The Victorian Period

Multiple-choice questions

1.In Hard Times, Dickens attacks ______ that rules over the English educational

system and destroys young hearts and minds.

A.bourgeois commercialism

B.religious hypocrisy

C.the utilitarian principle

D.political corruptness

2.______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A. Jane Eyre

B. Emma

C. Wuthering Height

D. Middlemarch

3.Which of the following best describe the nature of Hardy‟s later novels?

A. Sentimentalism

B. Surrealism

C. Comic sense

D. Tragic sense

4.______ is the most representative Victorian poet whose poetry voices the doubt

and the faith, the grief and the joy of English people in an age of fast change.

A. Robert Browning

B. Alfred Tennyson

C. George G. Byron

D. Thomas Hardy

5.Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Charles Dickens?

A.He sets out a large-scale criticism of the inhuman social institutions and the

decaying social morality.

B.His works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.

C.The characters portrayed by Dickens are often larger than life.

D.He shows a human being not at moments of crisis, but in the most trivial

incidents of everyday life.

6.“As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined,

and there socially flogged as a public warning and example.”What figure of speech is used in the above sentence?

A. Simile

B. Metaphor

C. Irony

D. Overstatement

7.“I will drink/ life to the lees.” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he ______

till the end of his life.

A.will keep travelling and exploring

B.will go on drinking and being happy

C.would like to toast to his glorious life

D.would like t drink the cup of wine

8.“She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene‟er I passed her…/ … This grew; I gave commands;

/ Then all smiles stopped together.” The quoted lines imply that she ______.

A.obeyed his order and stopped smiling at everyday, including the duke.

B.obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the duke.

C.Refused to obey the order and never smiled again

D.was murdered at the order of duke

9. A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson, ______ is acknowledged by many as the

most original and experimental poet of the time.

A. Thomas Carlyle

B. Thomas B. Macaulay

C. Robert Browning

D. T. S. Eliot

10.Most of Hardy‟s novels are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural

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

A. Yorkshire

B. Wessex

C. London

D. Manchester

11.“The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the

garden the weeping of the garden‟s sensibility.” The quoted sentence is suggestive of ______.

A.the richness of the music in the garden

B.the beauty of the scenery in the garden

C.the great power of the music in affecting the environment

D.the harmony and oneness of the music, the garden and the heroine Tess.

12.In the statement “---Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the

grave?” the term “soul” apparently refers to ______.

A. Heathcliff himself

B. Catherine

C. one‟s spiritual life

D. one‟s ghost

13.“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence; with what I delight in --- with

an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.” Here in the quoted passage, Jane is