11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.
A. romantic B. modernist
C. socialist D. critical realist
12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.
A. Jane Eyre B. Shirley
C. Villette D. The Professor
13. William Wordsworth' s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of ______ acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.
A. Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude
C. Poems in Two Volums D. The Excursion
14. George Bernard Shaw' s play ______ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.
A. Widowers’Houses B. Too True to Be Good
C. Mrs. Warren' s Profession D. Candida
15. 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. Prurrock and Other Observations D. Poems 1909-25
16. D. H.Lawrence’s autobiographical novel, ______ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong — willed and up — climbing mother.
A. Sons and Lovers B. The White Peacock
C. The Trespasser D. The Rainbow
17. “To be, or not to be — that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?” These words are from ______.
A. King Lear B. Romeo
C. Antonio D. Hamlet
18. John Milton’s last important work, ______ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.
A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes D. Lydidas
19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.
A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe
C. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift
20. Drapier is the pseudonym of ______.
A. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel Defoe
C. Henry Fielding D. William Blake
