10. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is____________.
A. love and money
B. money and social status
C. social status and marriage D. love and marriage
11. T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem ____________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.
A. The Hollow Men
B. The Waste Land
C. Murder in the Cathedral
D. Ash Wednesday
12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups, poems about____________.
A. nature and human life
B. happiness and childhood
C. symbolism and imagination
D. nature and commonlife
13. Among the following writers ____________ is considered to be the best -known English dramatist since Shakespeare.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. John Galsworthy
C. W. B. Yeats
D. George Bernard Shaw
14. William Blake’s ____________ composed during the climax of the French Revolution plays
the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.
A. The Book of Urizen
B. The Book of Los
C. Poetical Sketches
D. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
15. Charles Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ____________ and pathos.
A. metaphor
B. passion
C. satire
D. humor
16. Daniel Defoe describes ____________ as a typical English middle -class man of the eigh- teenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.
A. Robinson Crusoe
B. Moll Flanders
C. Gulliver
D. Tom Jones
17. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ____________ touch in his de- scription of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A. nostalgic
B. tragic
C. romantic
D. ironic
18. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. Thomas Gray
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
