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Dickens and Thackeray are novelists of social manners while Hardy and Emily Bronte are well known for their descriptions of romantic passions.

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_________ is Matthew Arnold’s representative work in social

criticism, in which the author divides the Victorian people into 3 categories: the Barbarians, the Philistines and the Populace. Arnolds recommends Hellenism as a cure for the Victorian society to uphold the sweetness and light of the Greek civilization can offer.

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My Last Duchess is one of the masterpieces of Robert Browning who made the ________a norm as a poetic form for presenting the internal world of the characters.

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The statement “It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life” may well sum up the main theme of Dickens’s.

A. B. C. D.

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Oliver Twist Great Expectations Bleak House

David Copperfield

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’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full happy life.

A. George Eliot

B. C. D.

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Thomas Hardy Charlotte Bronte

Jane Austen

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The wide currency of Utilitarianism in the Victorian age on the whole dominated popular thinking, but it provoked strong criticism from the major authors of the time, among others, Carlyle and Arnold.

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Which one is NOT written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti?

A. Goblin Market

B. Jenny C. The Kiss D. The Blessed Damozel

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Macaulay’s History of England was warmly received by his contemporaries because it had presented a faithful picture of historical events.

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Ruskin’s aesthetics and the Pre-Raphaelite artistic pursuits anticipate the Art-for-Art’s Sake school represented By Oscar Wilds.

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A. B. C. D.

Oscar Wilde’s first play is __________opened in February12.

An Ideal Husband

Lady Windermere’s Fan The Importance of Being Earnest

A Woman Importance

of No

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One of Charles Dickens’s best works is______, which 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.

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, the pioneering woman, according to D. H. Lawrence, was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”.

A. B. C. D.

Charlotte Bronte George Eliot Emily Bronte Jane Austen 

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Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?

A. B. C. D.

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Comic sense. Tragic sense

Surrealism.

Sentimentalism.

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Thackeray’s most successful novel is ________, which gets its title from Bunyan’s novel The Pilgrim’s Progress

The Victorian poetry was mainly characterized by experiments with new styles and new ways of expression. Among these famous experimental poets was______who created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.

A. B. C. D.

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Robert Browning Charles Dickens Alfred Tennyson

Thomas Hardy

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Which of the following is about the discussion of Tennyson’s aesthetic view of art and artistic creation.

A. B. C. D.

The Memoriam The Princess Idylls of the King

The Lady of Shalott

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The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s novel with a heavy autobiographical touch whereas ______is often regarded as her masterpiece.

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Almost all the Victorian prose writers oppose philistinism and emphasize spiritual and cultural values of human life.

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opposed Darwin’s explanation of evolution, finding it too mechanistic, and he expounded his own theories in Evolution Old and New, Unconscious Memory, and Luck or Cunning.

A. Samuel Butler

B. C. D.

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A. E. Housman Henry Jones

Oscar Wilde

问题 20

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Which one is NOT William Makepeace Thackeray’s works?

A. B. C. D.

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Sylvia’s Lover

The Newcomes

The Virginians

The History of Pendennis

问题 21

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Middlemarch offers a panorama of social life. Although subtitled ________, it is meant to be a miniature of 19th-century English life.

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A. B. C.

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Which one is NOT included in Trollope’s Barsetshire novels?

The Last Chronicle of Barset Barchester Towers

Autobiography

D.

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The Warden

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1. In more than one sense the Victorian period was an age of the novel, and all great Victorian novels follow the moral standards.

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问题 24

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Written in 1837-38, Charles Dickens’s novel tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide material for a description of the lower depths of poverty in the city of London

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John Ruskin’s book entitled _________ is actually not about painters; it is about the beauty of nature and the importance of the appreciation of nature.

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Which one is William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical novel?

A. B. C. D.

Denis Duval

Round about Papers

Vanity Fair

The History of Henry Esmond

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The Oxford Movement reflected the desire of the perplexed Victorians to cling to the old faith in face of doubt and emotional stress.

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In what region of England was Emily Bronte raised?

A. Sussex

B. C.

Warwickshire Yorkshire

D. Gloucestershire

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Emily Bronte’s novel ________is a pathetic 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.

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Thomas Hardy’s , one of the century’s finest novels, traces the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a tough, egotistical fellow who, having committed the folly of drunkenly selling his wife and baby at a fair, turns teetotal and by sheer perseverance rises to wealth as a corn-factor and to respectability as Mayor of Casterbridge.

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The purpose of both The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones ofVenice is to glorify, an architecture style distinguished by its high and sharply-pointed arches, which had prevailed in Western Europe from the 12th to the 16th centuries.

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Hardy’s principal works are the Wessex novels, i.e., novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.is NOT included.

A. B. C. D.

The Return of the Native

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Jude the Obscure

Under the Greenwood Tree

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The Victorian drama scene, did not quite regain its value until George Bernard Shaw came on the scene. ________is among one of his most popular early works, the first of its kind to present a prostitue as its major character.

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Both Carlyle and Arnold advocate the power of heroes as a solution to Victorian social problems.

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Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte are NOT all.

A. women novelists

B. C. D.

pseudonymous novelists Victorian novelists regional novelists

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These works are written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell EXCEPT.

A. B. C. D.

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Little Dorrit

Mary Barton

Ruth

Wives and Daughters

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Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best-known novels, portrays man as.

A. B.

being self-sufficient

being hereditarily good or bad

either

C. D.

having no control over his own fate

still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

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问题 38

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Between 1859 and 1885 Alfred Tennyson worked this narrative

poems based on the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Those poems were gathered together as.

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A.

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 ’s works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.

Charles Dickens

B. C. D.

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George Eliot Charlotte Bronte

Thomas Hardy

问题 40

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believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.

A. B. C. D.

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T. S. Eliot

Charles Dickens

Thomas Hardy

George Bernard Shaw

问题 41

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“The Sea of Faith// was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore// Lat like the folds of a bright girdle furled.” are the lines from Arnold’s poem________.

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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?...And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it a shard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.” The above quoted passage is most probably taken from.

A. B. C. D.

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Pride and Prejudice Great Expectations Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

问题 43

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The book News from Nowhere is a, telling the story of a man who falls asleep after an evening at a Socialist League meeting. He wakes in the future to find England transformed into a communist paradise where men and women are free, healthy, and equal.

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Which one is NOT Charlotte Bronte’s novel?

A. Professor

B. C. D.

Agnes Grey Shirley Villette

问题 45

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Besides being a successful novelist, Charlotte Bronte is also gaining a reputation as a good poet.

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问题 46

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Which one does NOT belong to Robert Louis Stevenson’s writings manipulating the genres associated with children?

A. B. C. D.

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Kidnapped The Black Arrow Prince Otto

Child’s Garden of Verses

问题 47

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The following are the common characters shared by the three Bronte sisters EXCEPT.

A. B. C. D.

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literary

unmarried

talented dying young

问题 48

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One of the features of the Victorian age was people’s emphasis on respectability.

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问题 49

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A. B. C. D.

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“History of the French Revolution” is written by.

Thomas Carlyle Charles Dickens

William Makepeace Thackeray

John Ruskin

问题 50

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is one that introduces to the English novel the first governess heroine.

A. B. C. D.

Agnes Grey Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch

Jane Eyre