英美文学史练习题和复习资料4.pdf

英美文学史练习题和复习资料4

4.TheVictorianPeriod

Multiple-choicequestions

1.InHardTimes,Dickensattacks______thatrulesoverthe

Englisheducational

systemanddestroysyoungheartsandminds.

A.bourgeoiscommercialism

B.religioushypocrisy

C.theutilitarianprinciple

D.politicalcorruptness

2.______isthefirstimportantgovernessnovelintheEnglish

literaryhistory.

A.JaneEyre

B.Emma

C.WutheringHeight

D.Middlemarch

3.WhichofthefollowingbestdescribethenatureofHardy?s

laternovels?

A.Sentimentalism

B.Surrealism

C.Comicsense

D.Tragicsense

4.______isthemostrepresentativeVictorianpoetwhose

poetryvoicesthedoubt

andthefaith,thegriefandthejoyofEnglishpeopleinan

ageoffastchange.

A.RobertBrowning

B.AlfredTennyson

C.GeorgeG.Byron

D.ThomasHardy

5.Whichofthefollowingstatementsisnotatypicalfeature

ofCharlesDickens?

A.Hesetsoutalarge-scalecriticismoftheinhumansocial

institutionsandthe

decayingsocialmorality.

B.Hisworksarecharacterizedbyaminglingofhumorand

pathos.

C.ThecharactersportrayedbyDickensareoftenlargerthan

life.

D.Heshowsahumanbeingnotatmomentsofcrisis,butin

themosttrivial

incidentsofeverydaylife.

6.“Asforsociety,hewascarriedeveryotherdayintothehall

wheretheboysdined,

andtheresociallyfloggedasapublicwarningand

example.”Whatfigureofspeechisusedintheabovesentence?

A.Simile

B.Metaphor

C.Irony

D.Overstatement

7.“Iwilldrink/lifetothelees.”InthequotedlineUlyssesis

sayingthathe______

tilltheendofhislife.