bsp; B. T. S. Eliot
C. Charles Dickens D. George Bernard Shaw
II. True or false. (10 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are ten items. Decide whether the statements are true (A) or false (B) and blacken the corresponding A/B on the ANSWER SHEET.
21. Alfred Tennyson is the most representative, if not the greatest, Victorian poet.
22. Dubliners is a novel written by James Joyce.
23. William Butler Yeats is the most representative romantic poet.
24. “Down by the Salley Gardens” is written by Alfred Tennyson.
25. Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
26. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes us to the core of Wordsworth’s poetic beliefs.
27. Middlemarch is considered today by many to be George Eliot’s greatest achievement.
28. James Joyce’s masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, gives the account of man’s life during one day in Dublin.
29. D. H. Lawrence’s representative work Women in Love was positively taken as a typical example and lively manifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction.
30. The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies written by John Galsworthy.
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III. Match. (10 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for the following works and put them on the ANWSER SHEET.
31. The Merchant of Venice
32. Gulliver’s Travels
33. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
34. Oliver Twist
35. Dubliners
36. Pride and Prejudice
37. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
38. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
39. The Prelude
40. Robinson Crusoe |
A. Charles Dickens
B. James Joyce
C. Jane Austen
D. John Keats
E. Jonathan Swift
F. William Shakespeare
G. William Wordsworth
H. Thomas Hardy
I. Daniel Defoe
J. Thomas Gray |
IV. Blanks Filling. (9 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are 10 items. Fill in the best answer on the ANSWER SHEET according to the knowledge you have learned.
41. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, ________.
42. ________ , the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a philosophical exploration of life and death.
43. “ ________ ” is one of Coleridge’s masterpieces. It tells an adventurous story of a sailor.
44. Wordsworth is a poet in memory of the past. To him, life is a cyclical journey. Its beginning finally turns out to be its end. His philosophy of life is presented in his masterpiece ________.
45. ________ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.
46. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term: “ ________.”
47. Today Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. His masterpiece is ________.
48. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ________.
49. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as ________.
V. Identification. (10 points, 1 point for each blank)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five excerpts. Judge the authors and titles of these works and write the corresponding answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
50. That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Fr
Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fr
Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus.
Author: ________
Work: ________
51. Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair; it is kept all the year long; it bearth the name of Vanity Fair because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise, “All that cometh is vanity”.
Author: ________
Work: ________
52. Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, throuth certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question…
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
Author: ________
Work: ________
53. Behold her, single in the field,
You solitary Highland lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Along she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! For the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
Author: ________
Work: ________
54. To be, or not to be-that is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The sli