维多利亚时期测试题

Test to Victorian Age

I. Fill in the blanks. (25’)

1. In the Victorian period, __________________ , and moral propriety, which were ignored by the Romanticists, became the predominant preoccupation in literary works.

2. In the Victorian period, the _______________ became the most widely read and the most vital expression of progressive thought.

3. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, the Victorian novelists shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about the fate of the _____________ people.

4. A new literary trend called _________________ flourished in the forties and the early fifties of the 19th century.

5. The ______________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.

6. The Chartist poetry played an important role in the development of English proletariat literature; the greatest Chartist poet was ___________________.

7. The comic element is strong in Charles Dickens’ first novel, ___________________________, which appeared in monthly sections between April 1836 and November 1837. It records the adventures of Mr. Pickwick and his companions as they journey about the country.

8. ________________________ is one of Charles Dickens’ best works. It is written in the first person and is the most autobiographical of all his books. In writing the novel, Dickens threw into it deep feelings and much of his own experience in his younger days.

9. Written in 1837-38, _____________ tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide material for a description of the lower depths of London.

10. In his works, Dickens sets out a full map and a large-scale criticism of the 19th century England, particularly _____________ (The name of a city).

11. In A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities are __________________ in the time of revolution.

12. The novel Hard Times makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and bourgeois philosophy ______________________________.

13. The novel __________________ touches upon a burning question of Dickens’ time: the education of children in the private schools.

14. __________________ was the greatest representative of English critical realism.

15. In 1847, William Makepeace Thackeray published his masterpiece _____________________ which marks the peak of his literary career.

16. The sub-title of Vanity Fair is ________________________ . The writer’s intention was not to portray individuals, but the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole.

17. The sub-title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in John Bunyan’s ____________________, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.

18. The main plot of Vanity Fair centers on the story of two women: Amelia Sedley and _________________ . Their characters are in sharp contrast.

19. George Eliot was the pseudonym of _____________________.

20. George Eliot produced three remarkable novels including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and ________________________ .

21. Wuthering Heights is written by _______________. It is a morbid story of love, but a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. It shows that true love in a class society is

impossible of attainment.

22. Thomas Hardy’s novels of character and environment, which are also called _______________, are of great significance.

23. Among Thomas Hardy’s novels, the best-known are ___________________ and Jude the Obscure.

24. The Happy Price and Other Tales and The House of Pomegranates are two collections of _____________________ written by Oscar Wilde.

25. Oscar Wilde’s novel, ________________________ created a sensation when it was published in 1891.

II. Decide whether the following statements are true(T) or false(F). (10’)

26. The most important poet of the Victorian Age was William Wordsworth. ( )

27. English poetry in the Victorian Age not only always touched on the serious social problems but also concerned itself with the poet’s purely personal tastes or spiritual questions. ( )

28. Aestheticism began to prevail in Europe at the middle of the 18th century. ( )

29. Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English critical realism at the turn of the 19th century. ( )

30. Oscar Wilde is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and decadence. ( )

31. Charles Dickens was the first socialist writer who gave bourgeois society a thorough criticism and who voiced the revolutionary ideal of Socialism in his poetry and prose. ( )

32. Mr. Rochester is a character in the novel Jane Eyre, which was written by Charlotte Bronte.

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33. The form of dramatic monologue of telling a story “from the inside”, by a series of psychological soliloquies or “soul-pictures”, was most suitable to Robert Browning’s literary talent. ( )

34. Tess is arrested and hanged because she murdered her seducer Angel Clare.

35. Alfred Tennyson is remembered mainly as a prose stylist in the history of English literature.

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III. Choose the best answer for each blank. (15’)

36. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the ________ for its rights.

A. soldiers

B. peasants

C. bourgeoisie

D. proletariat

37. Which of the following writers does NOT belong to critical realists? __________

A. Charles Dickens

B. Charlotte Bronte

C. William Makepeace Thackeray

D. John Keats

38. The greatest English critical realist novelist was __________ , who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.

A. William Makepeace

B. Charles Dickens

C. Charlotte Bronte

D. Emily Dickinson

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