81. Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam? ________
A. In Memoriam B. Lycidas
C. Adodais D. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
82. My Last Duchess is ________.
A. a dramatic monologue B. a short lyric
C. a novel D. an essay
83. ________ are generally regarded as Joseph Conrad’s finest novels.
A. Lord Jim B. Nostromo
C. Youth D. The Old Wives’ Tale
84. Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “stream of consciousness” literature in the 20th century?
A. John Galsworthy B. Henry James
C. Thomas Stearns Eliot D. James Joyce
85. George Bernard Shaw’s essay ________, a commentary on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic works, served also as the author’s own program of dramatic creation.
A. Widower’s Houses B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
C. Major Barbara D. The Quintessence of Ibsenism
86. In English literature, ________ and ________ are the two best-known novelists of the “stream of consciousness” school.
A. David Herbert Lawrence B. Robert Tressell
C. James Joyce D. Virginia Woolf
87. ________’s admirers have praised him as “second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of English language.”
A. D.H. Lawrence B. T.S. Eliot
C. James Joyce D. W.B. Yeats
88. ________ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments in novel form.
A. The Window B. Time Passes
C. To the Lighthouse D. The Waves
89. Which of the following novels belong(s) to the “stream of consciousness” school of novel writing?
A. Ulysses B. Finnegans Wake
C. To the Lighthouse D. The Waves
90. ________ was written by James Joyce.
A. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
B. Portrait of a Lady
C. The Picture of Dorian Gray
D. To the Lighthouse
91. D.H. Lawrence’s representative work ________ was positively taken as a typical example and lively manifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction, as the result of Lawrence’s long-range study of the psychologic theories of Sigmund Freud.
A. Sons and Lovers B. The Rainbow
C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. Women in Love
92. Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers?
A. Mrs. Morel B. Paul C. Miriam D. Clara
93. Which of the following writers were from Ireland?
A. George Bernard Shaw B. Jonathan Swift
C. James Joyce Oscar Wilde
E. W.B. Yeats
94. Which of the following play(s) was/were NOT written by George Bernard Shaw?
A. Mrs. Warren’s Profession B. Widower’s Houses
C. Major Barbara D. Pygmalion
E. The Man of Property
95. Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-called high-civilised English?
A. Major Barbara B. Pygmalion
C. Mrs. Warren’s Profession D. Man and Superman
96. In 1923, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
A. William Butler Yeats B. Samuel Butler
C. Thomas Stearns Eliot D. David Herbert Lawrence
97. William Butler Yeats was _______.
A. an Irish poet B. a dramatist C. a critic D. a senator in the Irish Free State in 1921
98. Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ________.
A. classicist in literature B. royalist in politics
C. Anglo-Catholic in religion D. all of the above
99. Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America.
B. Thomas Stearns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.
C. Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.
D. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, a critic and a playwright.
E. Thomas Stearns Eliot was also a great novelist.
100. In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed?
A. Ode to the West Wind B. The Solitary Reaper
C. Lamia D. The Waste Land
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1-5: A, D, D, A, A 6-10: B, B, D, D, ABCD
11-15:ABCD, D, D, C, B 16-20: C, ABC, AB, D, ABCD
21-25: ABCD, ABCDEFG, B, A, B 26-30: D, D, AD, D, B
31-35: D, BC, D, B, ABCDE 36-40: C, ACD, ABD, ACDE, A
41-45: D, C, B, B, D 46-50: A, D, BCDE, ABCDEF, D
51-55: A, B, ABCD, C, C 56-60: A, ABC, C, C, A
61-65: B, ABC, ABCD, A, AB 66-70: ABCDE, ABCD, C, CD, ABCD
71-75: ABCD, A, ABCD, ABC, ABCDE
76-80: ABCDE, ABCD, AB, ABCED, ABCDE
81-85: A. A. AB, B, D 86-90: CD, C, D, ABCD, A
91-95: A, ABCE, ABCDE, E, B 96-100: A, ABCD, D, E, D