37. In general ， Browning ''s _______ are not meant to entertain the readers with the usual acoustic and visual pleasures ， but they are supposed to keep them alert ， thoughtful and enlightened .
A. novels
B. essays
C. plays
D. poems
38. ________ novels are all Victorian in date . Most of them are set in Wessex ， the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates .
A. Hardy''s
B. Bronte''s
C. Lawrence''s
D. Joyce''s
39. In his essay ， _______ clearly expresses the main principles of his Transcnedentalist pursuit and his love for nature .
A. Francis Bacon
B. Walt Whitman
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Ezra Pound
40. In ______ ， Hawthorne discusses sin and evil and sets out to prove that everyone posesses some evil secret .
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Young Goodman Brown
C. Sister Carrie
D. Daisy Milly
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1. The Renaissance ， in essence ， is a historical period in which the European ____ thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe ， to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoise ， and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic church .
A. religious
B. great
C. optimistic
D. humanist
2. Today ， Geoffrey Chaucer's reputation has been securely established as one of the best English _____ for his wisdom ， humor ，and humanity .
A. dramatists
B. novelists
C. poets
D. humanist
3. Many people today tend to regard the play The Merchant of Venice as a satire of the hypocrisy of _______ and their false standards of friendship and love ， their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against ________ .
A. Christians / Jews
B. Jews / Christians
C. oppressors / oppressed
D. men/ women
4. During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include ______ .
A. theology
B. conventional ideology
C. feudal governmental forms
D. all of the above
5. Returning to England from Germany in 1799 ， William Wordsworth and his sister settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere ， Westmoreland . The poet _____ as well as ______ lived nearby ， and the three became known as the lake poets .
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge / George Gordon Byron
B. Robert Southey / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. John Keats / Robert Southey
D. George Gordon Byron / Percy Bysshe Shelley
6. The ________ are generally regarded as John Keat's most important and nature works .
A. epics
B. lyrics
C. odes
D. poetry
7. As a _______ writer ， Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life ， and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind .
A. romantic
B. sentimentalist
C. pessimistic
D. realistic
8. In the Victorian period ， ____ ， that Wessex man ， 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. Charles Dickens
B. William Makepeace Thackeray
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Charlotte Bront
9. In Aflred Tennyson's poem Ulyssess he depicts ______ who ， old as he is ， persuades his old followers to go with him and to set sail again to pursue a new world and new knowledge .
A. Telemachucs
B. Ulyssess
C. Achilles
D. man
10. The publication of _____ ， Robert Browing's masterpiece ， in 1869 ， finally established the poet's position as one of teh greatest English poets .
A. In Memorian
B. The Ring and the book
C. Maud
D. Crossing the Bar
11. The love Song of J Afred Prufrock ， in a form of dramatic monologue ， presents the meditation of an aging _____ man over the business of proposing marriage.
A. grown
B. lunatic
C. old
D. young
12. Down by the Salley Gardens ， a short poem by W. B. Yeats ， is a reconstruction of an old ________ the poet heard from an old peasnat woman .
A. story
B. song
C. fairy tale
D. drama
13. ______ is reagarded as the most prominent stream-of -consciousness novels the psychic being of the characters.
A. Thomas Hardy
B. D. H. Lawrence
C. T. S. Eliot
D. James Joyce
14. Each of the 15 stories in Dubliners written by James Joyce presents an aspect of “ dear dirty Dublin ” ， an aspect of the city's _____ moral ， political of spiritual .
A. life
B. incidents
C. paralysis
D. useless
15. The finest example of Hawthorne 's symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _____ .
A. The Scarlet Letter