4. The Victorian Period
Multiple-choice questions
1.In Hard Times, Dickens attacks ______ that rules over the English educational system and destroys young hearts and minds.
A.bourgeois commercialism
B.religious hypocrisy
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D.political corruptness
2.______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
A. Jane Eyre B. Emma C. Wuthering Height D. Middlemarch
3.Which of the following best describe the nature of Hardy’s later novels?
A. Sentimentalism B. Surrealism
C. Comic n D. Tragic n
4.______ is the most reprentative Victorian poet who poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of English people in an age of fast change.
A. Robert Browning B. Alfred Tennyson
C. George G. Byron D. Thomas Hardy
5.Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Charles Dickens?
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A.He ts out a large-scale criticism of the inhuman social institutions and the decaying social morality.
B.His works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.
C.The characters portrayed by Dickens are often larger than life.
D.He shows a human being not at moments of crisis, but in the most trivial incidents of everyday life.
6.“As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there socially flogged as a public warning and example.” What figure of speech is ud in the above ntence?
A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Irony D. Overstatement
7.“I will drink/ life to the lees.” In the quoted line Ulyss is saying that he ______ till the end of his life. 大学太极拳
A.will keep travelling and exploring
B.will go on drinking and being happy
C.would like to toast to his glorious life
D.would like t drink the cup of wine
8.星光月光“She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene简历自我介绍’er I pasd her…/ … This grew; I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together.” The quoted lines imply that she ______.
A.obeyed his order and stopped smiling at everyday, including the duke.
B.obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the duke.
C.Refud to obey the order and never smiled again
D.was murdered at the order of duke
9.A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson, ______ is acknowledged by many as the most original and experimental poet of the time.
A. Thomas Carlyle B. Thomas B. Macaulay
C. Robert Browning D. T. S. Eliot
10.Most of Hardy’s novels are t in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region that is really the home place he both loves and hates.
A. Yorkshire B. Wesx C. London D. Manchester
11.“The floating pollen emed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden’s nsibility.” The quoted ntence is suggestive of ______.
A.the richness of the music in the garden
B.the beauty of the scenery in the garden
C.the great power of the music in affecting the environment
D.the harmony and oneness of the music, the garden and the heroine Tess.
12. In the statement “---Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term “soul” apparently refers to ______.
A. Heathcliff himlf B. Catherine
C. one’s spiritual life D. one’s ghost
13.“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence; with what I delight in --- with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.” Here in the quoted passage, Jane is really saying that she has talked face to face with ______.
A.God who appears in her dreams
B.The reverent priest
C.Mr. Rochester
D.Miss Ingram
14.In the clau “As Mr. Gamfield did happen to labor under the slight imputation of having bruid three or four boys to death already…” , the word “slight” is ud as a(n) ______.
A. simile B. metaphor C. irony D. overstatement
15.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ______.
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A. Great Expectations B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Bleak Hou D. Oliver Twist
16.The Victorian Age was largely an age of _____, eminently reprented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A. poetry B. drama C. pro蓝宝石的寓意 D. epic pro
17.The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulyss” reminds the reader of the following except ______.
A. the Trojan War B. Homer C. quest D. Chirst
18.The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a ______.
A. conventional hero B. Byronic hero
C. chivalrous aristocrat D. Homeric hero
19.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Paper are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.中国的地形
A. comical B. tragic C. round D. sophisticated
