Exercises for Victorian Literature 维多利亚时期英国文学.doc

问题 1 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which one is NOT Charlotte Bronte’s novel? 反馈： Agnes Grey 问题 2 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Thomas Hardy’s , one of the century’s finest novels, traces the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a tough, egotistical fellow who, having committed the folly of drunkenly selling his wife and baby at a fair, turns teetotal and by sheer perseverance rises to wealth as a corn-factor and to respectability as Mayor of Casterbridge. 正确答案： The Mayor of the Casterbridge 问题 3 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Dickens and Thackeray are novelists of social manners while Hardy and Emily Bronte are well known for their descriptions of romantic passions. 正确答案： 错 问题 4 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Middlemarch offers a panorama of social life. Although subtitled ________, it is meant to be a miniature of 19th-century English life. 正确答案： A Study of Provincial Life 问题 5 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Hardy’s principal works are the Wessex novels, i.e., novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside. is NOT included. 正确答案： A. A Pair of Blue Eyes 问题 6 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The Victorian poetry was mainly characterized by experiments with new styles and new ways of expression. Among these famous experimental poets was______who created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters. 正确答案： C. Robert Browning 问题 7 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Written in 1837-38, Charles Dickens’s novel tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide material for a description of the lower depths of poverty in the city of London 正确答案： Oliver Twist 问题 8 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The Oxford Movement reflected the desire of the perplexed Victorians to cling to the old faith in face of doubt and emotional stress. 正确答案： 对 问题 9 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Between 1859 and 1885 Alfred Tennyson worked this narrative poems based on the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Those poems were gathered together as . 正确答案： Idyll