英国文学史习题The Modern Period
I. Blank filling
1. ____________________ was one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers.  “The Man of Property” is one of his works.
2. It tool Galsworthy twenty-two years to accomplish the monumental work, his masterpiece ___________________.
3. The “The Forsyte Saga” consists of “The Man of Property”, “In Chancery” and “ ________”.
4. Galsworthy’s second trilogy ___________________ consists of “The White Monkey”, “The Silver Spoon”, and “Swan Song”.
5. _________________ is the founder of the “Stream of Consciousness” school of novel writing.
6. The novel ________________ describes the mental activities of two Dubliners in a single day.  This formless, plotless novel records the thoughts, shades and fleeting flashes of the mind.
7. __________________________ represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of consciousness school.  She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who, in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide.
8. Virginia Woolf’s novel____________________________, published in 1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer.
9. ____________________ is generally regarded as Woolf’s most remarkable work.  The autobiographical elements in the novel are obvious.  Mr.  and Mrs.  Ramsay were apparently drawn from the author’s parents.
10. Sons and Lovers is ____________________’s autobiographical novel.
11. The Rainbow and Women in Love are the two distinguished novels written by ______
_____.
12. Lawrence’s novel ____________________ was positively taken as a typical example of Oedipus Complex in fiction .
13. On a world tour made in 1931, __________________ visited China and was warmly received by Luxun and others.
14. _____________________________ satirizes bourgeois businessmen whose ill-gotten money is squeezed out of poor, suffering people.  Its main characters are Trench and Blanche.
15. Shaw’s play_____________________________ tells a story about a proprietress of brothels.  She considers the profit derived from this “business” quite honorable.
16. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels written by __________________.
17. Shaw’s play ____________________________ is a farce, satirizing bourgeois democracy and predicting the growing dependence of Great Britain upon U. S. monopolies.
18. “Sailing to Byzantine” is a well-known poem written by ____________________.
19. T.  S.  Eliot’s classic expression of the temper of his age is ___________________.
20. _________________, published two years after “The Waste Land” is also a powerful expression of an age of doubt that longs in despair for belief.
21. The first part of “The Waste Land” is ____________________________.
22. The girl Vivie appears in the play ___________________.
23. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was written by ___________________.
24. T.  S.  Eliot’s poem_________________ was published two years after “The Waste Land”.
25. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is written by _____________________________.
26. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and __________________, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.
27. William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the ________________ tradition and finishing as a mature ________________ poet.
28. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Show follows the great tradition of __________________.
29. Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the _________________ time over the chronological one.
30. In Mrs.  Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called ______________
____, in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.
landII. Multiple choice
1. Joyce’s masterpiece, ________ gives and account of man’s life during one day (16
June, 1904) in Dublin.
A. Dubliners
B. Finnegans Wake
C. Ulysses
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. The protagonist of the poem “Love Song of T.  Alfred Prufrock” is a kind of tragic figure caught in a sense of deafened idealism and tortured by satisfied desires.  Of the following
descriptions of him, which isn’t suitable for him?
A.  He is neurotic.          B.  He is self-important.
C.  He is illogical.          D.  He is a man of action.
3.  In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the Trojan War?

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