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III. 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. T
IV. 1. Charles Dickens 2. Anne Bronte
3. Alfred Tennyson 4. George Eliot
5. Thomas Hardy
V. 1. Dramatic Monologue is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one In the speaker’s personality as well as the incident that is the subjects of the poem. An example of a dramatic monologue is “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.
2. Critical Realism is a literary movement in the 19th century. It sticks to the principal of faithful representation of the 18th century realistic novel and carries its duty forward to the criticism of the society and the defense of the mass. The representative figures are Dickens, the Bronte’s, etc.
VI. 1. It is taken from Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist. This part describes how Oliver is punished for asking for more to eat and how he is therefore sold at three pound ten to a notorious chimney-sweeper. It reveals that the pitiable state of the orphan boy and the cruelty and hypocrisy of the workhouse board.
2. It is taken from Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. This part describes how Tess forgets about her past misfortune in the beautiful, pastoral dairy farm and unconsciously gives herself up to the attraction of Angel Clare.
III. 现代时期
I. Each of the statement below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets
1. Modernism
takes_____as its theoretical base.
A. the irrational philosophy B. the theory of psycho-analysis
C. both A and B D. neither A

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nor B
2.Modernism rose out of_____.
A. skepticism B. disillusion of capitalism
C. irrational philosophy D. al the above
3.Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against_____.
A .romanticism B. realism
C. post-modernism D. all the above
4._____is not a movement in the modern period.
A. “the Angry Young Men” B. “the Beat Generation”
C. “the Lost Generation” D. “the Theater of the Absurd”
5. _____ is not a representative figure in applying the technique of “the stream of consciousness” in his/her writing.
A. D. H. Lawrence B. James Joyce
C. Virginia Woolf D. Dorothy Richardson
6. Waiting for Godot is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd. It is written by_____.
A. George Bernard Shaw B. Samuel Beckett
C. John Galsworthy D. Eugene O’ Neill
7. The Waste Land is_____’s most important single poem.
A. Ezra Pound B. William Butler Yeats
C. Alfred Tennyson D. T. S. Eliot
8. _____ is not D. H. Lawrence’s work.
A. Finnegans Wake B. Sons and Lovers
C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. The Rain Bow
9. _____ is not James Joyce’s novel.
A. Ulysses B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C. Dubliners D. Finnegans Wake
10.“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is written by_____.
A. W. H. Auden B. D. H. Lawrence
C. W. B. Yeats D. T. S. Eliot
II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook
1.The French_____, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.
2. Modernism rejects_____, which is the theoretical base of realism.
3.In stimulating the technical innovations of novel creation, the theory of the Freudian and Jungian_____played a particularly important role.
4.Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems, and, thus, can be termed as_____.
5._____is famous for his frank discussion of “sex” in his works.
6.John Galsworthy’s trilogy is named_____.
7._____, an American Poet, took English Citizenship in 1927, and became a devout member of Anglican Church.
8._____is Eliot’s most important poetry, revealing the spiritual decadency and meaninglessness of life of the 20th century.
9.Most of Joyce’s works are concerning the life of his hometown_____.
10.Joyce’s “Araby” is a short story in his collection_____.
III. Decide whether the following statements are true of false and write your answers in the brackets.
( )1. The rise of modern poetry was, in some sense, a revolution against the conventional ideas and forms of the Romantic poetry.
( )2.Writers like E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence ar
e still conventional writers, as in their works, old traditions are still there.
( )3.John Galsworthy has been awarded Nobel Prize for literat

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ure.
( )4.John Galsworthy is a conventional writer, inheriting the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens.
( )5.James Joyce is a prolific writer, creating a great number of famous works.
IV. Name the author of each of the following literary works.
1.Modernism
2.Angry Young Men
V. Define the literary terms listed below.
1. Pygmalion
2. “Sailing to Byzantium”
3. Woman in Love
4. Ulysses
5. The Man of Property
VI. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
1. I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
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