《英国文学史及选读》(5)

《英国文学史及选读》

Thomas Hardy’s work.
A. The Mill on the Floss
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
C. Jude the Obscure
D. The Mayor of Casterbridge
7. “My Last Duchess” is _____.
A. a dramatic monologue B. a short lyric
C. a novel D. an essay
8. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” gets its inspiration from the following works or writers except_____.
A. Homer’s Odessey B. Joyce’s Ulysses
C. Dante D. Greek Mythology
9. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _____ appeared. And it flourished in the 1840s and in the early 1950s.
A. romanticism B. naturalism
C. realism D. critical realism
10. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from_____.
A.The Pilgrim’s Progress
B.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
C.Gulliver’s Travels
D.The Canterbury Tales
II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook
1. The aestheticists such as Oscar Wilde in the Victorian period advocated the theory of “_____.”
2. In the Victorian period, _____became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
3.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest _____ writers of the Victorian Age.
4.Tennyson’s poem “_____” is in memory of his bosom friend Arthur Hallam.
5.Robert Browning is famous for his _____.
6.George Eliot’s _____ is one of the most mature works in English literature.
7.Tennyson’s famous dramatic monologue based on the story in Greek Mythology is “_____.”
8._____ is Dickens’ first child hero.
9.Jane Eyre represents those_____-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.
10.The most important poet of the Victorian Age was_____. Next to him were Robert Browning and his wife.
III. Decide whether the following statements are true of false and write your answers in the brackets.
( )1. The Victorian period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history.
( )2. Tennyson is famous for his aesthetic viewpoint of “art for art’s sake.”
( )3. Wuthering Heights is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte’s.
( ) 4. Browning’s “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning” were originally one poem in dramatic monologue.
( )5. Naturalism has played an important part in Thomas Hardy’s work.
IV. Name the author of each of the following literary works.
1. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
3. In Memoriam
4. The Mill on the Floss
5.The Return of the Native
V. Define the literary terms listed below.
1. Dramatic Monologue
2. Critical Realism
VI. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work
from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
1. That same evening the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly

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