I. Blank filling
th 1. In the 19 century English literature, a new literary trend ____________________________
appeared after the romantic poetry .
2. The greatest English realist of the 19 century was ___________________________, who
pictures bourgeois civilization, and shows the misery and suffering of the common people. 3. The Victorian Age in English literature was largely on age of prose, especially of the
_________________.
4. Robert Browning is a great experimenter in poetic art. He is best known for the technique of
__________________.
5. The most important poet of the Victorian Age was _________________________. Next to
him were Robert Browning and his wife.
6. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature: the struggle of the
_________________________ for their rights.
7. The novel________________________ deals with the adventure of Mr. Pickwick, a retired
old merchant, who is the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club.
8. The novel “OliverTwist ”tells the story of a poor child named_________________ who is
born in a workhouse and brought up under miserable conditions.
9. In “A Tale of Two Cities ”th,e two cities are _________ and ________ in the time of
revolution.
10. The subtitle of “Vanity Fair ”is __________________________. The write r ’sintention was
not to portray individuals, but the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole.
11. The main plot of “Vanity Fair ”centers on the story of two women: Amelia Sedley and
___________________. Their characters are in sharp contrast.
12. The Bronte sisters are Charlotte Bronte, _____________________ and Anne Bronte. 13. Charlotte Bronte 15. The author of 16. The author of
’s masterpiece is _________________________. “Mary Barton ” is ________________________. “ TRheeu tr n of the Native
” is __________________.
14. Emily Bronte ’s masterpiece is _____________________________.
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17. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _______________________.
18. George Eliot produced three remarkable novels including “AdamBede”,“TheMill on the
Floss ” and ___________________. 19. In
the
novel
“Adam Bede”, Adam of
character
and
falls
in
love
with
a are
village also
girl called
called__________________________ who is seduced and deserted by a squire. 20. Hardy’s novels
environment,
which
______________________________, are of great significance.
21. Among Hardy’snovels, the best-known are _________________________ __ and “Judethe
Obscure ”.
22. Hardy’snovel _________________________ talks about the life of a merchant who leaves
the big city and return to his home village.
23. __________________________ is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and
decadence.
“The Picture of Dorian Gray
” is a typical decadent novel written by him.
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24. “In Memoriam ”is a collection of 131 short poems intended as a lament for the death of his
friend___________________________.
25. It was while living in Italy that Robert Browning published his finest volume of poems
__________________
.
II. Multiple choice
1. Although writing from different points of view and with different technique, writers in the
Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about________.
A. the love story between the rich and the poor B. the techniques in writing C. the fate of the common people D. the future of their own country 2. The author of the work
A. Charles Dickens A. Fagin
“Dombey and S o_n__” _ _i.s B. Henry James
C. Oliver Twist
C. Robert Browning ’s first child hero? D. Bill Sikes
D. Thackaray
3. In the following figures, who is Dickens
B. Mr. Brownlow
4. As a love story, Wuthering Heights is one of the most moving: the passion between_______ proves the most intense, the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible.
A. Hareton and Cathy C. Hareton and Catherine
B. Heathcliff and Catherine D. Heathcliff and Cathy
5. Which of the following statements about Emily Bronte is not true?
A. She was famous for here Wuthering Heights. B. She wrote 193 poems. C. She lived a very short life.
D. Her masterpiece is noted for its optimistic tone.
6. The most important characteristic in Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is ___________.
A. mastering of language C. use of the dramatic monologue poets?
A. Pauline
B. The Ring and the Book
C. Sordello D. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
”
8. Which of the following poems is not by V ictorian poets?
A. “Break, Break, Break ” C. In Memoriam
B. “My Last Duches D. The Isles of Greece
B. excellent choice of words D. excellent metaphor
7. In the Robert Browning ’s works, whichestablished his position as one of the great English
9. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? 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. ”The above passage is most pr obably taken from___________.
A. Great Expectations 10. The sentences
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Jane Eyre
D. Pride and Prejudice
”are found
“And now he stared as here so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his
gaze, would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt
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in ________.
A. Wuthering Heights
B. Jane Eyre
C. Gulliver
’ s TraveDls. Pride and Prejudice
” read
“ Break,
“break ” suggests_______.
11. The first two lines of Alfred Tennyson break, break, / On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
A. joy A. love
B. fear
C. fondness
D. hatred
” , the
“ book ” is compared to ______.
D. the method of study
C. the hard truth
12. In the long poem 13. Most of Thomas Hardy
C. a remote rural area reasons except ________
A. it vividly depicts English country life
B. it probes into perpetual philosophical thoughts C. it provides a panoramic view of life D. it reveals women __________.
A. being hereditarily good or bad B. being self-sufficient
C. having no control over his own fate
D. still retaining his own faith in a world confusion 16.In the play
A. corrupt
“The ImportanceeoinfgBEarnest”by Wilde, the upper-class people is described as B. snobbish
C. hypocritical
D. ambitious
of the existing society, but
the following except_______.
17. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.
A. worker
B. peasant
C. governess
D. explorer
18. Which of the following descriptions of Thomas Hardy is wrong?
A. most of his novels are set in Wessex B. Tess of the D and a critical realist writer.
C. Among Hardy ’ s mawjoorrks, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic. D. From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels. 19. “ Everyday, every hour, brought to him one more little stroke of her nature, and to her one more of his
” , the sentence is found in ___________.
viUlerbsebr ’y Hardy
A. Middlemarch by George Eliot B. Tess of the D
C. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte D. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
20. In ______ Tennyson dealt with the theme of women
A. The Princess Casterbridge
”?
B. Memoriam
C. Idylls of the King
’ s rights and positions. D. Poems
’ Urbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic
’ s true feelings
15. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’sbest known novels, portrays man as
“ The Ring and the book
-known ’poesmwell“ Break, Break, Break
” the repeated word
B. comprehensive knowledge
’ s novels are set in Wessex _______.
B. A fictional primitive region D. Hardy ’ s hometown
A. a crude region in England
14. Middlemarch is considered to be George Eliot ’grseatest novel, owning to all the following
21. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of Thomas Hardy’s“TheMayor of
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A. He is a man of self-esteem. C. He is a man of self-confidence.
B. He is a man of self-contempt. D. He is a man of self-sufficiency.
22. _________ not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.
A. George Eliot
B. Thomas Hardy
C. D. Lawrence
D. Charles Dickens
23. Robert Browning created the verse novel, transferring the thematic interest from mere narration of the story to revelation and study of characters in’ner world and brought to the Victorian Poetry____________.
A. some psycho-analytical element C. some realistic element 24. Dicken
A. metaphor
B. passion
B. some romantic element D. some classical element C. satire
D. humor B. Middlemarch D. Romola B. use of symbol D. use of lyrics
’s seven novels, ________ is essentially an autobiographic account of her
B. Middlemarch D. The mill on the Floss
’s works are characterized by a mingling of __________ and pathos.
25. Among the writings by George Eliot, _______ is her only novel on English politics.
A. Felix Holt, the Radical C. Daniel Deronda A. dramatic monologue C. use of ironic language 27. Among George Eliot life.
A. Felix Holt, the Radical C. Daniel Deronda
26. The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is _________.
28. The author of ______ makes clear in the novel that it is wrong to discriminate on the basis of social status, and it is cruel and destructive to break genuine, natural human passions.
A. Jane Eyre
C. Pride and Prejudice
B. Wuthering Heights D. Tess of the D ’Urbervilles
29. George Eliot holds that the individual life is determined basically by two major forces:
A. the spiritual self and the physical self B. the good and the evil C. the individual
’s personality and the outer social circumstances
D. the divided self and the integrated self
30. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that wriers became___________, exposing all kinds of social evils.
A. didactic writers A. psychoanalysis
C. character and environment 32. The title of the Alfred Tennyson ________.
A. the Trojan War A. the Celtic legends C. a Roman murder case
B. Homer
C. quest
D. Christ
33. Tennyson ’s poem, Idylls of the King, was based on _________.
B. an Italian document D. the Bible
’ novels is __________.
B. individual idealists
C. moral critics
D. religious advocators
31. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of _______.
B. pure romance D. religious advocators
’s poem “Ulysses ” reminds the reader of the following except
34. One of the typical features of Dickens
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A. complicated narration C. compressed syntax thematic matters.
A. neo-classicism
B. modernism
B. exaggerated caricature D. streams of consciousness
35. In style, Thomas Hardy is a traditionalist, though there are obvious traits of ______ in
C. romanticism
D. utilitarianism
III. Error correction
1. In the period of Victorian Age, a new literary trend called preromanticism appeared, which
flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
2. The greatest English critical realist was Charles Dickinson.
3. Both Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth Gaskell were well-known poet. 4. Heathcliff is a character in the novel
5. In “Mary Barton ”, Carson is an active Chartist. 6. Optimism and positivism are strongly reflected in Hardy 7. The subtitle of Hardy
’s “Tess of the D
’Urbervilles
’s writings.
” is “a Novel without a Hero
”.
“Emm”a .
8. Oscar Wilde is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and critical realism. 9. The greatest Chartist poet was Thomas Cooper, who wrote a long poem “Therevolt of
Hindostan ” in his imprisonment. 10. The short poem
“Break, Break, Break
” was written by Shelly.
IV. Exercises on Selected Reading
Exercise 1
The room in which the boys were fed was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end, out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at mealtimes; of which composition each boy had one porringer, and no more
－ except
on festive occasions, and then he had two ounces and a quarter of bread besides. The bowls never wanted washing — the boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again: and when they had performed this operation, (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls) they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as is they could devour the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves meanwhile in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon. Boys have generally excellent appetites. Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months;
at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger,
’ t been used to that sort of thing, (for his father had
that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn
kept a small cook ’sshop) hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he should some night eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age. He had a wild, hungry eye, and they implic itly believed him. A council was held; lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and
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ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist.
The evening arrived; the boys took their places; the master in his cook ’usniform stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out, and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared, and the boys whispered to each other and winked at Oliver, while his next neighbours nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger and reckless with misery. He rose from the table, and advancing, basin and spoon in －
hand, to the master, said, somewhat alarmed at his own temerity
”
“ Pleased, Sir, I want some more.
The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear.
“ What! ” said the master at length, in a faint voice. “ Please sir,
” replied Oliver,
“ I want some more.
”
The master aimed a blow at Oliver ’hesad with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle. QUESTIONS:
1. This passage is taken from a well-known novel entitled _____________________. 2. The writer of the novel is ____________________. 3. What can you see from this passage?
Exercise 2
MRS WARREN: (piteously) Oh, my darling, how can you be so hard on me? Have I no rights
over you as your mother? VIVIE: Are you my mother?
MRS WARREN: (appalled) Am I your mother! Oh, Vivie!
VIVIE: Then where are our relatives? my father? our family friends? You claim the rights of a
mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of London man about town. Before I give myself the trouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out the whether they have any real existence.
MRS WARREN: (distracted, throwing herself on her knees) Oh no, no. Stop, stop. I am your
mother: I swear it. Oh, you can ’mt ean to turn on me－my own child! It ’nso t natural. You believe me, don
’ t you? Say you believe me.
’re asking. I can
’t tell you.
VIVIE: Who was my father?
MRS WARREN: You don ’t know what you
VIVIE: (determinedly) Oh yes you can, if you like. I have a right to know; and you know very
well that I have that right. Y ou can refuse to tell me, if you please; but if you do, will see the last of me tomorrow morning.
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MRS WARREN: Oh, it ’s too horrible to hear you talk like that. oYu wouldn ’－ you couldn ’t leave t
me.
VIVIE: (ruthlessly) Y es, without a moment
waster in my veins?
MRS WARREN: NO, no. On my oath it
certain of that, at least.
VIvie ’ s eyes fasten sternly on her mother as the significance of this flashed on her. QUESTIONS:
1. This passage is taken from a play entitled________________ . 2. Who is the writer of this play? 3. Do you kno w what is Mrs. Warren 4. What is the theme of the play?
’s profession?
’ s not he, nor any of the rest that you have ever met. I ’s hesitation, if you trifle with me about this. (Shivering
with disgust) How can I feel sure that I may not have the contaminated blood of that brutal
V. Questions and Answers
1. Comment on Tess of the D
’ Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
’ s novels.
2. Make comments on Samuel Butler
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