7. In his best novels like The Rainbow and Women in Love, ________ made a bold psychological exploration of various human relationships, especially those between men and women, with a great frankness.

A. D. H. Lawrence                                                     B. George Eliot

C. James Joyce                                                           D. Charles Dickens

8. ________ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. Its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils.

A. Robinson Crusoe                                                 B. Gulliver’s Travels

C. The Pilgrim’s Progress                                         D. A Tale of a Tub

9. The Faerie Queene is the masterpiece of ________ .

A. William Shakespeare                                           B. Edmund Spenser

C. John Donne                                                           D. John Milton

10. All of the following are the writers in the Victorian period except ________ ?

A. Charles Dickens                                                   B. George Eliot

C. Thomas Hardy                                                      D. James Joyce

11. ________ is the essence of the renaissance.

A. Humanism                                                             B. Realism

C. Modernism                                                            D. Romanticism

12. All of the following are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies except ________.

A. Hamlet                                                                   B. Othello

C. King Lear                                                              D. The Merchant of Venice

13. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s ________.

A. Lyrical Ballads