Chapter 5　The Modern Perod
 
一、单项选择题。

1.Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of-----.
A the common English people
B the upper class
C the rising bourgeoisie
D the enterprising landlord

2.The middle of the18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English----, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English pe
ople.
A prose
B short story
C novel
D tragicomedy

3.Who is the first “Angry Young Man?
A Osborne
B Eliot
C Christopher
D Bernard Shaw

4.----is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.
A Oscar Wilde
B John Galsworthy
C W.B.Yeats
D George Bernard Shaw

5.G. B. Shaw’s play “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” is a realistic exposure of the ---in the English poetry.
A political corruption
B inequality between men and women
C slum landlordism
D economic exploitation of women

6.The following comments on George Bernard Shaw are true except ------.
A George Bernard Shaw’s career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play Widowers’ House was put on by the Independent Theater Society.
B Shaw began his literary career by writing novels soon after his settling down in London.
C Shaw’s writings reflect the combination of realism and naturalism
D Shaw’s plays can be termed as problems plays.

7.Galsworthy was a ---- writer, having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens and Thackeray.
A naturalistic
B romantic
C realistic
D conventional

8.In “The Forsyte Saga” by John Galsworthy, a typical Forsyte has a remarkable characteristic—a strong sense of ---.
A money
B property
C success
D privilege

9.“Sailing to Byzantium” by Yeats is a poem exploring the problems of -----.
A death, love, old age and art
B religion and myth
C ambition, ideal and vision
D past, present and future

10.In “ The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, William Butler Yeats expresses his -----.
A hope to go abroad
B desire to escape into a “fairyland”
C love for common life
D hatred for war

11.In which of the following poems by W.B.Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the Trojan War?
A Sailing to Byzantium
B Down by the Sally Garden
C The Lake Isle of Innisfree
D Leda and the Swan

12.Of the following poems by T.S.Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?
A poems 1909—1925
B the Hollow Men
C Prufrock and Other Observations
D The Waste Land


13.“the yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes,/ the yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes/ Linked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/ Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains.” The stanza is taken from ----
A T.S .Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
B Emily Dickinson’s “ Because I could not stop for Death”
C Alfred Tennyson’s “Bread, Break, Break”
D William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

14.Which of the following best describes the speaker of “ The Love Song of J.Afred Prufrock”?
A he is a man of an action
B he is a man of apathy
C he is a man of inactivity
D all the above are wrong

15.Of the following works by D.H.Lawrence, ---- established his position as novelist.
A The White Peacock
B The Trespasser
C Women in Love
D Sons and Lovers

16.Which of the following is considered to be a better-structured novel ?
A Women in Love
B Sons and Loves
C The Rainbow
D Lady Chatterley’s Lover

17.“The Lawrence Trilogy” refers to the following three plays except -----
A  A Collier’S Friday Night
B The Daughter- In – Law
C The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyed
D Lady Chatterley’s Lover

18.Whcih of the following writings is not the novel of D.H. Lawrence’s?
A Sons and Lovers
B A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C the White peacock
D the Rainbow

19.Of the following writings by James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in literature?
A Ulysses
B A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man
C Dubliners
D Finnegans Wake

20.In the English history, who is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist?
A Leopold Bloom
B E.M. Forster
C James Joyce
D D.H. Lawrence

21.“At last she spoke to me. When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused tha ti did not know what to answer. She asked me was I going to Araby. I forget whether I answered yes or no. it would be a splendid bazaar, she said; she would love to go.” The passage is taken from
A John Galsworthy’s The Man of Property
B James Joyce’s Dubliners
hermitC D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
D James Joyce’s Ulysses

22.Which of the following is not true according to James Joyce?
A Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature
B Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of -consciousness novelist.
C Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history
D his novel “ a portrait of the artist as a young men” is a naturalistic account of the hero’s bitter experiences and his final artistic and spiritual liberation.

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