A. Dombey and Son B. Nicholas Nickleby C. The Old Curiosity Shop D. Martin Chuzzlewit 36. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.
A. London and New York B. London and Paris C. Paris and New York D. Brussels and Washington 37. ____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period. A. essay B. poetry C. novel D. drama
38. ____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.
A. Rochester B. Heathcliff C. Manette D. Martin 39. Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.
A. familiar things B. common people C. neighbors D. evils
40. The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.
A. Earnest Jones B. Elizabeth Gaskell C. Mr. Browning D. Alfred Tennyson 41. ______ made Dickens famous overnight. A. Sketches by Boz B. The Pickwick Papers C. Oliver Twist D. The Old Curiosity Shop
42. _____ is Dickens’ first novel of social history reflecting the sharp social contradictions.
A. Sketches by Boz B. American Notes
C. Martin Chuzzlewit D. Barnaby Rudge (《巴纳比·拉奇》)
43. Which of the following Dickens’ works is not based on Christmas with religious coloring?
A. Christmas Day in the Morning B. A Christmas Carol
C. The Chimes （《教堂钟声》） D. The Cricket on the Heart (《灶上蟋蟀》) 44. _____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.
A. Great Expectations B. David Copperfield C. Bleak House D. The Pickwick Papers 45. Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____. A. Paris B. New York C. London D. Portsmoth 46. The head of the gang of thieves is _____.
A. Fagin B. Gradgrind C. Pecksmiff D. Manette 47. _____ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”. A. Nicholas Nickleby B. A Tale of Two Cities C. Hard Times D. The Pickwick Papers
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48. _____marked a great advance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knit and logical plot of his maturer works.
A. David Copperfield B. Dombey and Son C. Little Dorrit D. The Chimes
49. In the ____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedies of only men who behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding. A. first B. second C. third D. fourth
50. ____ is the most class-conscious book among the Christmas books. A. A Christmas Carol B. The Chimes C. The Cricket on the Hearth D. The Battle of Life
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 CBABD 6-10 ACCDA 11-15 CABBC 16-20 CBDBC 21-25 DAACD 26-30 DBBDB 31-35 CCDDA 36-40 BCBAD 41-45 BDABC 46-50 ADBAB
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1. Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful _______. 2. Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of _______. 3. Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of ______.
4. Nicholas Nickleby touches upon a burning question of the time—the education of ____ in private schools.
5. _____ is a great novel of social satire and famous for its criticism of both the British and American bourgeoisie.
6. The theme of Dombey and Son is the pride of wealth, or “_____”.
7. David Copperfield was written in the ____ person in a combination of ____, sense of ____ and artistic ______.
8. The main butt (目标) of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the abuses of the English _____.
9. In Hard Times Dickens describes the ____ movement with great artistic power. 10. Dickens used ______ as his pen name in his first book.
Key to the blanks: 1. optimism
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2. excitement and irritation
3. pessimism 4. children
5. Martin Chuzzlewit 6. purse-pride
maturity 8. courts 9. Chartist 10. Boz
7. first; verisimilitude; familiarity;
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1. Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19th century England. 2. Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers which aroused the in3. In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism. 4. The plot of Sketches by Boz is rather formless, but the novel fascinates the reader from beginninepisodes.
5. The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is also an apt (贴切的) description of the so6. Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethics(论理学，道德学) and 义）.
7. Dombey and Son is a novel with imprisonment, both matter-o-fact or symbolic, as its central theme. 8. A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the subject.
9. The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution.”10. Pip is the major character in Dickens’ novel Our Mutual Friend.
Key to True/False statements:
1-5 TTFFT 6-10 TFFTF
Part Seven Prose Writers and Poets of the Mid
and Late 19th Century
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1. ____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.
A. Lady Windermere’s Fan B. A Woman of No Importance C. The Picture of Dorian Gray D. The Importance of Being Earnest 2. ____ is a description of the misery of man of letters.
A. New Grub Street B. The Current
C. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study D. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 3. A Dream of John Ball is a prose work which ____ recalled the peasants’ rising of the 14th century.
A. Morris B. Gissing C. Stevenson D. Wilde
4. News from Nowhere is a prose work which ____ describes a dream of the future classless society.
A. Morris B. Gissing C. Stevenson D. Wilde 5. _____is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat.
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald B. William Fitzgerald
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C. Robert Fitzgerald D. Edward Fitzgerald 6. _____ is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s best-known poem. A. The Blessed Damozel B. Poems by D. G. Rossetti C. The House of Life D. Ballads and Sonnets 7. ____ is considered “the Sage of Chelsea”.
A. Thomas Carlyle B. John Ruskin C. Matthew Arnold D. Tomas Macaulay
8. ____introduced German literature to England with his Life of Schiller. A. Thomas Carlyle B. John Ruskin C. Matthew Arnold D. Tomas Macaulay
9. In ____, Carlyle contrasted the misery and confusion of industrial England with a certain Abbot Sampson’s admirable rule of his monastery in the 12th century. A. Past and Present B. Heroes and Hero-Worship C. Sartor Resartus D. The French Revolution 10. Thomas Macaulay’s masterpiece is ___.
A. History of England B. Culture and Anarchy C. Heroes and Hero-Worship D. Modern Painters
11. Tennyson’s _____ expresses his optimistic attitude towards death when he is old. A. Break, Break, Break B. Crossing the Bar C. The Princess D. Maud
12. ____remained a poet in his painting and a painter in his poetry. A. Dante Gabriel Rosetti B. Christina Georgina Rossetti C. Edward Fitzgerald D. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 CAAAD 6-10 AAAAA 11-12 BA
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is a ____phrase meaning “the tailor retailored”. 2. Ruskin’s works on art expound his ______ thoughts and principles. 3. Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice is a book in the sphere of ____ criticism.
4. Tennyson’s book, ______, was written in memory of his friend A. H. Hallam. 5. Tennyson’s The Idylls of the King is based on the stories of _____ and his Knights
of the Round Table.
6. Christina Georgina Rossetti was famous for her _____, her chief narrative poem. 7. The keynote of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s love poems is the union of the body and
the ______.
8. Robert Browning’s greatest contribution to literature is ____. 9. Robert Browning’s masterpiece is ____.
10. The Importance of Being Earnest is the first modern _____ of English. 11. Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece is ________. 12. William Morris was a great poet, artist and _______.
13. Swinburne’s mastery of metrical skill, versatility in the use of lyric forms and
unconventional choice of themes made him an _______.
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14. Songs before Sunrise expresses Swinburne’s support and sympathy to the
_________ revolution of independence.
15. _______is the 4-lined stanza rhyming in its first, second, and fourth lines.
Key
1. Latin 9. The Ring and the Book 2. aesthetic 10. comedy 3. art 11. Treasure Island 4. In Memoriam 12. socialist 5. King Arthur 13. aesthete 6. Goblin Market 14. Italian 7. soul 15. “Rubaiyat” 8. dramatic monologue
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1. In Carlyle’s works, archaic words and expressions are revived and new ones invented in the German manner.
2. Swinburn wrote a number of plays including a trilogy of Mary Queen of Scots. 3. Mrs. Browning’s Casa Guidi Windows written in 1851 is a support to the Irish people’s struggle for independence.
4. Mr. Browning’s Pippa Passes is the first poem in the book Bells and Pomegranates.
5. Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage made him famous. 6. George Gissing is a leading figure of naturalism. 7. Swinburne wrote a trilogy of Mary Queen of Scots.
8. F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat. 9. The Germ is the magazine of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Key to the True/False statements: 1. T 6. T 2. T 7. T 3. F (Italian) 8. F (Edward Fitzgerald) 4. T 9. T 5. F (Treasure Island)
Part Eight Twentieth Century English Literature
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
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英国文学史习题全集（含答案）
