Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1. The Way of All Flesh written by _____gives a devastating picture of the bourgeois
family and hypocrisy of the British middle class.
A. Samuel Butler B. George Meredith C. Herbert George Wells D. John Galsworthy 2. _____ is considered “the bard of imperialism”.
A. Joseph Conrad B. Arnold Bennett C. Rudyard Kipling D. Sean O’Casey 3. Arnold Bennett’s masterpiece is _____.
A. Kim B. The Old Wives’ Tale C. Lord Jim D. The History of Polly 4. Henry James is the forerunner of the _____.
A. Imagism B. Chartism C. impressionism D. stream of consciousness 5. Katharine Mansfield is a master of ____ at the turn of the century.
A. short story writer B. dramatic poetry C. realistic novels D. humor 6. After writing _____, Hardy turned to poetry.
A. Under the Greenwood Tree B. The Return of the Native
C. Jude the Obscure D. The Mayor of Casterbridge 7. John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for Literature because of _____.
A. The End of the Chapter B. The Forsyte Saga C. A Modern Comedy D. The Island Pharisees
8. The Man of Property is taken from Galsworthy’s trilogy, _____.
A. The End of the Chapter B. The Forsyte Saga C. A Modern Comedy D. The Island Pharisees 9. The Abbey Theatre performed works by _____ dramatists. A. Irish B. British C. American D. Scottish
10. Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in his poem. A. novels B. poetry C. dramas D. prose
11. ____ 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
12. ____ is a great novel spending James Joyce 7 years of hard working to complete. A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B. Ulysses
C. Finnegans Wake D. Dubliners
13. ____ is a collection of short stories which reflect three aspects of life in politics,
culture and religion.
A. A Portrait of the Artrist as a Young Man B. Ulysses
C. Finnegans Wake D. Dubliners 14. 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 15. Which of the following is not written by Yeats?
A. Four Quartets B. A Vision C. The Winding Stair D. The Tower
16. ____ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments through the novel form of
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“stream of consciousness”.
A. Jacob’s Room B. To the Lighthouse C. Orlando D. The Waves
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 ACBDA 6-10 CBBAB 11-16 BBDAAD
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1. Herbert George Wells’s literary works fall into three groups: the __ realistic ___
novels, __ scientific __novels and __ discussion ___novels.
2. Henry James’ method of characterization is “a complete __ objectification ___ of
characters”.
3. Hardy’s poetry is famous for its __ Wessex __ poetry.
4. Hardy’s novels are well-known for the __ characters ___ and __ environment
___.
5. ___ The Silver Box __ made Galsworthy famous as a playwright. 6. Lady Gregory is the founder of the __ Abbey __Theatre.
7. Sean O’Casey is renowned for his drama of __ Dublin __ slums in war and
revolution.
8. Shaw’s __ unpleasant __ play expose the seamy side of the society.
9. Rupert Brooke is one of the “___ war __ poets” whose poems is The Soldier. 10. John Masefield is considered “the poet of the __ sea ___”.
11. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf were great __ psychological __ fiction
writers.
12. Robert Tressell was a working-class __ novelist __ in the early 20th century. 13. Christopher Caudwell made great contribution to __ Marxist ___ literary
criticism by his 2 books, Illusion and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture.
Key to the blanks:
1. realistic; scientific; discussion 8. unpleasant 2. objectification 9. war 3. Wessex 10. sea 4. characters; environment 11. psychological 5. The Silver Box 12. novelist 6. Abbey 13. Marxist 7. Dublin
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