Test of British Literature-Chapter 5

1、Test of British Literature -Chapter 5Chapter 5 The Modern Period A. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative an?swers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the bracket. ( ) 1. The three trilogies of_Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critica

2、l realism in the early 20th century. A. D. H. Lawrence's B. John Galsworthy's C. James Joyce's D. Thomas Hardy's ( ) 2. _is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness nov?elist. A. James Joyce B. John Galsworthy C. D. H. Lawrence D. George Bernard Shaw ( ) 3. The most celebrated dr

3、amatists in the last decade of the 19th century were_and George Bernard Shaw. A. T. S. Eliot B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan C. James Joyce D. Oscar Wilde ( ) 4. _ , with its purely dramatic power, remains the most popular of T. S. Eliot's verse plays. A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Lady's N

4、ot for Burning C. Juno and the Paycock D. The Family Reunion ( ) 5. The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play,_, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Ab?surd. A. Watting for Godot B. Murder in the Cathedral C. Too True

5、 to Be Good D. Mrs. Warren's Profession ( ) 6. In his famous poem, _, Yeats explores the problems of death, love, old age and art. A. "Leda and the Swan" B. "No Second Troy" C. "September 1913" D. "Sailing to Byzantium" ( ) 7. , which bears a strong themat

6、ic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot's poems. A. "Gerontion" B. The Hollow Men C. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" D. The Cocktail Party ( ) 8. _is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in wh

7、ich human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. A. Ulysses B. The Waste Land C. The Confidential Clerk D. Dubliners ( ) 9. The Rainbow and _ are generally regarded as D. H. Lawrence's masterpieces. A. Women in Love B. Sons and Lovers C. Lady Chatterley's Lover D. The Plumed Se

8、rpent ( )10. _is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm. A. The Rainbow B. Women in Love C. Sons and Lovers D. The Plumed Serpent ( )11. In_, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a sin?gle event conta

9、ins all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day. A. A Portrait of the' Artist as a Young Man B. Dubliners C. Ulysses D. Finnegans Wake ( ) 12. In his famous essay "Tradition and Individual Talent," _puts great emphasis on the importance of

10、tradition both in creative writing and in criticism. A. T. S. Eliot B. D. H. Lawrence C. James Joyce D. George Bernard Shaw ( ) 13. By presenting a conventional hero as a villain, or a conven?tional villain as a hero, _ intends to give a shocking impression to his audience and challenge the conventi

11、onal way of thinking. A. James Joyce B. George Bernard Shaw C. T. S. Eliot D. D.H. Lawrence ( ) 14. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition of_. A. modernism B. romanticism C. realism D. naturalism B. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word

12、 or a phrase according to the textbook. 1. D. H. Lawrence is one of the first novelists to introduce themes of_into his works. 2. T. S. Eliot's major achievement in play writing has been the creation of a _in the 20th century to express the ideas and actions of modern society with new accents of

13、 the _speech. 3. The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot's most important single poem, has been hailed as a _and a model of the 20th century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth's _. 4. William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the_tradition and f

14、inish?ing as a matured_poet. 5. The mission of George Bernard Shaw's drama is to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical _ point of view. 6. Most of George Bernard Shaw's plays have one passion, and only one, that is _. 7. The English dramatic revolution in the 1950s de

15、veloped in two directions: the _drama and the Theater of_. 8. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working-class background, who were known as "_. " 9. In his novels of social satire, H. G. Wells makes realis

16、tic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the "_ man. " 10. Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of _as its theoretical base. 11. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distort?ed, alienated and ill relationships between man and _, man and society

17、, man and man, and man and himself. 12. George Bernard Shaw is considered to be the best known English dramatist since_. 13. In George Bernard Shaw's plays, _is reduced to a min?imum, while the dialogue and the interplay of the minds of the characters maintain the interest of the audience. 14. D

18、. H. Lawrence's poems fall roughly into three categories satirical and comic poems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poems about _. 15. "Araby" from Dubliners is a tale of the frustrated quest for _ in the midst of drabness. C. Decide whether the following statements ar

19、e true or false and write your answers in the brackets. ( ) 1. With an entirely new sense of reality, Osborne brought vital?ity to the English theater and became known as the first "An?gry Young Man. " ( ) 2. Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play about the economic op?pression of women. (

20、 ) 3. John Galsworhty is a radical writer, having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical real?ism such as Dickens and Thackeray. ( ) 4. The major themes of Yeats's later poetry are usually Celtic legends, local folktales, or stories of the heroic age in Ir

21、ish history. ( ) 5. In a certain way, Yeats's experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater. ( ) 6. T. S. Eliot was one of the important verse dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century. ( ) 7. In his works, D. H. Lawrence has expressed a strong reac?tion agains

22、t the mechanical civilization. ( ) 8. The French symbolism, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism. ( ) 9. The modernist writers concentrate more on the public than on the private, more on the objective than on the subjective. ( ) 10. The early poems of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot and

23、 William Butler Yeats's matured poetry marked the rise of "modern poetry. " ( )11. One feature of George Bernard Shaw's characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another. ( )12. In John Galsworthy's works, the two classes

24、often appear in contrast; a dull, parasitic and inhuman class of the rich and an oppressed, but rebellious and unyielding class of the poor. ( )13. The Man of Property is the last novel of the Forsyte trilogies which tell the ups an downs of the Forsyte family from 1886 to 1926. ( ) 14. "Leda a

25、nd the Swan" expresses a tragic sense of history as a series of patterns of behavior and action. ( )15. William Butler Yeats is a great poet as well as an accom?plished novelist. ( )16. T. S. Eliot is both a great poet and a successful verse drama?tist , but he has made no efforts in prose writ

26、ing. ( )17. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is intensely romantic with visual images. ( )18. D. H. Lawrence, by presenting the psychological experience of individual human life and of human relationships, has opened up a wide new territory to the novel. ( )19. All of James Joyce'

27、s novels and short stories have the same setting: Ireland, especially Dublin, and the same subject; the Irish people and their life. ( ) 20. Ulysses is, in fact, not a novel, since there is virtually no story, no plot, almost no action , and little characterization in the usual sense. D. Name the au

28、thor of each of the following literary works. I. Mrs. Warren's Professio 2. The Man of Property 3. "Sailing to Byzantium" 4. Cathleen ni Houlihan 5. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" 6. "Down by the Salley Gardens" 7. The Hollow Men 8. The Waste Land 9. Murder in the Cat

29、hedral 10. "Tradition and Individual Talent" 11. "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" 12. Sons and Ijyvers 13. The Rainbow 14. Women in Love 15. Dubliners 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 17. Ulysses E. Define the literary terms listed below. 1. Modernism 2. Stream of

30、Consciousness F. A) 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. "And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to

31、 where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings, I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While 1 stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear i

32、t in the deep heart's core. " 2. " In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But 1 was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. " 3. " And indeed th

33、ere will be time To wonder, 'Do I dare? 'and, 'Do 1 dare? ' Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin! ') My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, My necktie rich and modest,

34、 but asserted by a simple pin (They will say: 'But how his arms and legs are thin! ') Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. " B) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. 1. "Wha

35、t sort of mother do you take me for! How could you keep your self-respect in such starvation and slavery! And whats a woman worth? Whats life worth! without self-respect! Why am I independent and able to give my daughter a first-rate education, when other women that had just as good opportunities ar

36、e in gutter? Because I always knew how to respect myself and control myself. " A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken. B. Who is the speaker? C. Summarize the theme of the work in one or two sentences. 2. "Her eyes met his, and he looked away. He

37、neither believed nor disbelieved her, but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never would know, what she was thinking. The sight of her inscrutable face, the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that, soft and passive, but so unread

38、able, unknown, en?raged him beyond measure. " A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken. B. What is the relationship between him and her? C. As far as their relationship is concerned, what is indicated in the passage? 3. " You know," he said to

39、 his mother, "I don't want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people best. I belong to the common people. " But if anyone else said so, my son, wouldn't you be in a tear. You know you consider yourself equal to any gentle?man. " In myself," he answ

40、ered, "not in my class or my education or my manners. But in myself I am." "Very well, then. Then why talk about the common people?" "Because the difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the

41、common people life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves. " A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which the dialogue is taken. B. What does the mother expect her son to be? C. How do you understand the meaning of his words "but in myself I am"? 4. "Her name sprang to my lips