acuteness of his senses) (2)Words are beautiful and musical. (3)The ancient Greek and English poetry provides the most important imaginative resource. (4)The construction of poems are knit, and the description go beyond the physical beauty of the world. (P218-219)
7. Jane Austen was the only important female author in the 18-19th century, how do you know about her？ Answer:
Generally speaking, Austen was writer of the 18th century. (1)Her novels always dealt with the romantic entanglement of the heroines; (2)She believed in it that reason over passion, sense of responsibility, good manners,and clear judgment over romance; she honored the Augustan virtues of moderation, dignity disciplined emotion and common sense; (3)She contempt snobbery, stupidity, worldliness etc;(4)Her main concern was the relationship between men and women in love; (5)Her writing range was limited, all restricted to the provincial life of the 18th century England; (6)She presented the quiet, day-to-day country life of the middle -upper -class English. (7)Her characteristic theme was: maturity is got by the loss of illusions. (P223--226)
Chapter 4 The Victorian Period
I. Choose the right answer:
Chronologically the Victorian refers to__________. A. -1901 C Romantic period Neoclassical Period Answer: B (P233)
____works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos. Hardy’s Dickens’s Bronte’s Answer: B (P241)
3. _____is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the 19th century London.
Twist Expectations Copper Field Times Answer: A (P243)
____is an elaborate and powerful expression of Alfred Tennyson’s philosophical and religious thoughts.
of the King B.“Ulysses” , Chieoqy Lyrical] Memoriam Answer: D (P274)
4. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’s works lies in his ______. criticism setting Answer: C (P241)
_____is based on the Celtic legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. Memoriam B.“Ulysses” of the King Princess Answer: C (P275)
5. _____is Robert Browning’s best-known dramatic monologue. A.“My Last Duches” B.“Meeting at Night” C.“Parting at Morning” D.“Pippa Passes” Answer: A (P287)
6. _____initiates a new type of realism and sets into motion a variety of developments, leading in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel. Dickens Eliot Bronte hardy Answer: B (P292)
7. _____works are known as “novels of characters and environment.” Dickens’s Eliot’s Austen’s Eliot’s Answer: B (P300)
8. ____belives that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of ‘nature”, both inside and outside. Dickens hardy Shaw Eliot Answer: B (P301)
9. The author of the work “Dombey and Son” is _________. Dickens James Lee Frost Pound Answer: A (P239—240)
10. The most important characteristic in Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is _______. of language choice of words of the dramatic monologue metaphor Answer: C (P273)
11. “Self-conceited”, “cruel” and “tyrannical” are most likely the names of the character in______.
Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ Marlowe’s ‘’
’s Love’s ‘Labour’s lost’ ’s ‘The School for Scandal’ Answer: A (P287)
12. Robert Browning’s style is_______.
with that of the other Victorian to that of Tennyson artistic and disproportionate in appearance Answer: D (P285)
13. According to . Lawrence, _____was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”.
Eliot Hardy Dickens Eliot Answer: A (P236)
14. Middlemarch is considered to be George Eliot’s greatest novel, owing to all the following reasons EXCEPT_______.
vividly English country life probed into perpetual philosophical thoughts provides a panoramic view of life reveals women’s true feelings Answer: B (P293)
15. ‘Every day, every hour, brought to him one more little stroke of her nature, and to her one more of his”, the sentence is found in_____. by George Eliot of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Heights by Emily Bronte Answer: B (P309)
16. Which of the following best describes the protagonist (Henchard) of Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of the Casterbridge”？
is a man of self-esteem is a man of self-contempt
is a man of self-confidence is a man of self-sufficiency Answer: D (P300)
17. Which of the following description of Thomas Hardy is wrong？ of his novels are set in Wessex.
of the D’Urbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.
Hardy’s major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic. The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels. Answer: D (P299---302)
18. Charlotte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly________.
Answer: A (P255)
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:
“You teach me now how cruel you’ve ---cruel and false. Why did you despise me Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy I have not one word of comfort---you deserve this…”
Who is the speakerWhat does it refer to “you despise me, you break your own heart”？ What was the meaning of the story from the social point of view？ What is the main device of the story in description？
Answer:
The speaker was Heathcliff.(P270—271)It refers to Cathy married her husband (Linton) and deserted him and her own love.
From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man –Heathcliff abused, betrayed and distorted by his social betters/by the people with higher social position, because he is a poor nobody. (P266) Flashback. (P267)
“In pursuance of this determination, little Oliver, to his excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to put himself into a clean shirt. He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread. A very tremendous sight, Oliver begins to cry very piteously. Thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have decided to kill him for some useful purpose, or
they never would have begun to fatten him up in this way.”
Identify the title and the writer. Why Oliver was released from the bondage？ Why had he been punished Interpret “A very tremendous sight”.
Answer:
This is an excerpt from “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. (P249)
Because he would be sold to a notorious chimney-sweeper (at 3 pound ten) and became his apprentice. (P243)
Oliver was punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more gruel.” (P242)]
From the passage we can see the food is so little and poor in fact, but in the little Oliver’s eyes, it became “A very tremendous sight”. Because in the usual days Oliver and other children were maltreated and abused cruelly, they couldn’t eat well and were punished severely by the cruelty and hypocrisy of the dehumanizing workhouse board. (P243)
“Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea.”
Explain the implications of the “sunset, evening star, sea”. Name the title of the poem and interpret it. Can you say some comment on the poem？
Answer:
Sunset, evening star: the images of the death; sea symbolizes life. (P277—278) The title is “Crossing the Bar”. It means leaving this world and entering the next world –the world of the spirit
The poem expresses the fearlessness to death of the poet and his faith in God and an afterlife.
(The poem is musical in language, rich in poetic images, elaborate in texture and melancholy in air –the characters of Tennyson.) (P273/P278)
“My favour at her breast,
The dropping of the daylight in the west, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard of her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace –all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech,
Or blush, at least. She thanked men –good! But thanked
Somehow –I know not how –as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody’s gift”
Name the author and the title of the works. What does it mean “a nine-hundred-years-old name”, and to whom the word was spoken？
Interpret the passage and analyze the character of the speaker. What is the literary form？ Answer:
This is the “My last Duchess” written by Robert Browning. (P286)
It means the title of the Duchess (of Ferrara) the Duck gave her through marriage has a family history of over 900 years. (P288)
Interpret: My favor –the title of the Duchess is better and more proud than any gifts of the world, but my last duchess was ready to be grateful to others’ flatter and The Duck was a self-conceited, cruel, possessive, and tyrannical person.
The word was spoken to the agent who comes to negotiate the marriage of the Duck. (P287) The literary form is “dramatic monologue”. (the Duck’s own defensive words betrays and condemns himself) (P287)
“I will drink Life to the lees:
all times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: ……
……but honour’d of them all”
Identify the name of the poem. Explain “drink life to the lees”. What is the theme of the poemIn what form is the poem written？ Answer:
The name of the poem is “Ulysses”. (P278)
The sentence means: I will keep travelling and exploring till the end of my life. (P281) The theme is Ulysses can’t endure the peaceful commonplace everyday life. Old as he is, he persuaded his old followers to go with him and to set sail again to pursue a new world and new knowledge. (the poem also expresses Tennyson’s own determination and courage to brave the struggle of life but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration/anxiety of the age.) (P281)
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