英美文学（1）期末复习题
I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below.
1. In Thomas Hardy’s novels, the outside nature, the natural environment or ______ herself, is shown as some mysterious supernatural force, very powerful but half0blind, impulsive and uncaring to the individual’s will, hope, passion or suffering. A. Nature B. Fate C. Fortune D. God
2. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from John Bunyan’s masterpiece ______. A. The Pilgrim’s Progress B. Gulliver’s Travels C. Hard Times D. Emma
3. D. H. Lawrence is regarded as revolutionary as James Joyce in novel-writing; but unlike Joyce, he was not concerned with technical innovations, his interest lay in the tracing of the ______ development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A. physical B. mature C. psychological D. immature
II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase.
1. As a love story, Wuthering Heights is one of the most moving: the passion between ______ and Catherine proves the most intense, the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible in human beings.
2. The novel ____________ written by Charles Dickens is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the 19th century London.
3. The conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong-willed and up-climbing mother is vividly presented in D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel __________
4. _________ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare.
III. Define the literary terms listed below 1. The Renaissance
IV. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it
1. “She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.”
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. 1. What is the social significance of Gulliver’s Travels?
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