16. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.(      )

A. human beings in their personal relationships

B. the love story between the rich and the poor

C. maturity achieved through the loss of illusions

D. the day-to-day country life of the upper-middle-class English

17. Shelley’s ______ is the best of all the Romantic well-known lyric pieces.(      )

A. “The Cloud”                                              B. “To a Skylark”

C. “Ode to a Nightingale”                               D. “Ode to the West Wind”

18. The most important contribution of ______ is that he not only started the modern poetry, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.(      )

A. William Blake                                           B. William Wordsworth

C. George Gordon Byron                                D. John Keats

19. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is ______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.(      )

A. youthhood                                                B. childhood

C. happiness                                                  D. sorrow

20. Working through the tradition of a Christian huanism, John Milton wrote ______ intending to “justify the ways of God to men.”

 A. Paradise Lost                                          B. Samson Agonistes

 C. Lycidas                                                   D. Paradise Regained