Exercises for 20th British Literature

问题 1

______represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of consciousness school. She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who, in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide. 问题 1 答案 Virginia Woolf

问题 2

Between 1912 and 1922 there came a great poetry movement______ in England and America to express the modern sense of fragmentization and dislocation. T.E. Hulme is considered the first outstanding theorist of this movement. 问题 2 答案 imagism

问题 3

Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism? C

A.to portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment

B. to elevate the individual and inner being over the social being. C. to put more emphasis on traditional values

D. to pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one. 问题 4

Sameul Beckett is an absurdist dramatist who is well known for his daring formal experimentation. His works are strongly suggestive of the two prominent literary phases modernism and postmodernism. The most famous of his plays is _______written in 1952.

问题 4 答案 Waiting for Godot

问题 5

. ______C____ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist of 20th century.

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. William Butler Yeats C. James Joyce D. John Galsworthy 问题 6

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is ’s first novel. 问题 6 答案 James Joyce

问题 7

B written by Iris Murdoch is remarkable for its meta-fictional structure, containing various narrators and narrative descriptions, and its multi-dimensional psychology.

A. Under the Net B. The Black Prince C. The Bell

D. Bruno’s Dream 问题 8

Artistically, Samuel Beckett has come under the strong influence of B , whose works parody the unsympathetic world and man’s wretched lot. A. T.S.Eliot B. James Joyce C. E. M. Forster D. Virginia Woolf 问题 9

To create his modern Odyssey—Ulysses, Joyce adopts a kind of ________ style. 问题 9 答案 mock-heroic

问题 10

Which of following statements about Yeats is true? D

A. The major themes of Yeats’s later poetry are usually Celtic legends, local folk tales, or stories of the heroic age in Irish history.

B. Yeats is a great poet as well as an accomplished novelist. C. In 1948, Yeats was offered the Nobel prize for literature.

D. In a certain way, Yeats’s experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater. 问题 11

_______is claimed as the best Irish poet since W.B.Yeats, and his work has been among the most profusely commented upon in the contemporary. The volumes of his verse include Death of a Naturalist (1966), The Haw Lantern(1987), and the spirit Level (1999).

问题 11 答案 Seamus Heaney

问题 12

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies deals with the conflict between the forces of reason and those of irrationality represented by A . A. Jack B. Ralph C. Simon

D. Piggy 问题 13

William Golding’s first novel_______, which describes a group of boys working out their lives on an isolated island, paves the way for him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983.

问题 13 答案 Lord of Flies 问题 14

Joyce seems to mean that the novel_________ describes the mental activities of two Dubliners in a single day, while Finnegans Wake, his second novel, describes the sub-conscious world in which a man lives through a good part of his life. 问题 14 答案 Ulysses

问题 15

In My Last Duchess, “She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene’er I passed her?/?This grew; I gave commands; /Then all smiles stopped together.” The last line of the above quoted passage implies that she_____D____.

A. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the duke

B. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at everybody, including the duke. C. refused to obey the order and never smiled again D. was murdered at the order of the duke 问题 16

“The Bliss” is one of ’s famous short stories. She was skilled in psychological analysis, whose favorite technique is the flash-back. 问题 16 答案 Katherine Mansfield

问题 17

In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called , in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters. 问题 17 答案 stream-of-consciousness

问题 18

By presenting a conventional hero as a villain, or a conventional villain as a hero, B intends to give a shocking impression to his audience and challenge the conventional way of thinking.

A. Rudyard Kipling B. George Bernard Shaw

C. T. S. Eliot D. D. H. Lawrence 问题 19

______, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The Waste Land”, is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot’s poems. 问题 19 答案 The Hollow Men

问题 20

The theory of psychoanalysis put forward first by __D____exerts great influence over modern literature.

A. Jacques Lacan B. William James C. Carl Jung D. Sigmund Freud 问题 21

T. S. Eliot’s poem_______, which is 433 lines long, is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of modernism, the first part of the poem is the Burial of the Dead.

问题 21 答案 The Waste Land

问题 22

B presents in his works strong Christian nihilism, which is reflected explicitly by his famous saying “The dirty dog, he doesn’t even exits!” in his play against the God, Endgame.

A. George Bernard Shaw B. Samuel Beckett C. John Osborne

D. W. B. Yeats 问题 23

Which of the following statements about D. H. Lawrence is NOT true? B

A. He was strongly against the dehumanizing effect of the mechanical civilization. B. He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing. C. His novel Sons and Lovers is largely autobiographical.

D. He believed that the primacy of life force was a guarantee in the healthy development of an individual’s personality 问题 24

John Fowles’s novel _________is a metafiction model of postmodernist form of writing fiction in the form of fiction, trying to use burlesque and parody as a means to reveal the discrepancy between the imitation and the original. 问题 24 答案 French Lieutenant’s Woman

问题 25

A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of D , who never pays any attention to human feelings. A. humor

B. morality C. justice D. property 问题 26

In the beginning of 20th century, the seminal developments in the fields of philosophy and psychology that impacted literary creativity and criticism are Bergson’s notion of ______and Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. 问题 26 答案 time

问题 27

In his poem “The Lake Isle of Innifree,” W. B. Yeats expressed his __A___. A. desire to escape the materialistic world B. Love for M. Gonne, a beautiful actress C. fear caused by the impending war D. interest in modern city life 问题 28

Which writer belongs to “stream-of-consciousness” school? A

A. Virginia Woolf B. Thomas Wolfe

C. Sommerset Maugham D. Thomas Hardy 问题 29

Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological one.

问题 29 答案 psychological

问题 30

The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence’s B . A. Women in Love

B. Sons and Lovers C. Birds, Beasts, and Flowers

D. The Rainbow 问题 31

The textual insinuation of Joyce’s Ulysses is parallel to Homeric epic_____, thus revealing the vast difference between the grandeur of the ancient Greek hero and the pettiness of the degraded modern anti-hero. 问题 31 答案 Odyssey

问题 32

All of Joyce’s novels and short stories have the same setting of his native country Ireland especially the city of . 问题 32 答案 Dublin

问题 33

The statement that a sensitive young man is at first shaped by excessively powerful and oppressive forces of his environment but gradually realizes the pressure and rebels against it and tries to find his own identity mat well sum up the major theme of __A___.

A. Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness C. Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

D. Hardy’s Jude the Obscure 问题 34

Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means is set in a hostel in the city of __________ in 1945 when the detonation of an unexploded bomb sets fire to the hostel, a moment when characters’ spiritual world is depicted in a biting satire. 问题 34 答案 London

问题 35

The Golden Notebook is considered to be __________’s masterpiece, taken as a

milestone work in Feminist Literature. 问题 35 答案 Doris Lessing

问题 36

Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? A A. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. B. Most writers were politically radical. C. D. H. Lawrence received the Nobel Prize.

D. James Joyce published his last and most important novel. 问题 37

In The French Lieutenant’s Woman, B is an existentially independent woman, as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.” A. Mantissa B. Sarah

C. Miranda D. Ernestina 问题 38

Which of the following novels was NOT written by H. G. Wells? A A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B. The First Men in the Moon C. The War in the Air D. The Time Machine 问题 39

The modernist writers such as Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are mainly concerned with the ___A___. A. inner life of an individual

B. material achievements of human beings C. external world

D. historical events of English people 问题 40

“She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a thing not very difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady.” is taken from D. H. Lawrence’s novel . 问题 40 答案 Sons and Lovers

问题 41

D. H. Lawrence’s poems fall roughly into three categories—satirical and comic poems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poems about . 问题 41 答案 nature

问题 42

G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the A in the English society.

A. economic exploitation of women

B. slum landlordism C. political corruption

D. inequality between men and women 问题 43

The Old Wives’ Tale was written by A . A. Arnold Bennett B. Catherine Mansfield

C. Sommerset Maugham D. D. H. Lawrence 问题 44

In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism. 问题 44 答案 T. S. Eliot

问题 45

William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a mature poet. 问题 45 答案 modernism

问题 46

Virginia Woolf’s novel , published in1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer. 问题 46 答案 Mrs. Dalloway

问题 47

____is Galsworthy’s masterpiece which gives a profound and true-to-life picture of the English society from the 80’s of the 19th century up to the 20’s of the 20th century.

问题 47 答案 The Forsyte Saga

问题 48

Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the ___A___of a modern civilization.

A. spiritual breakup

B. material achievement C.social reform D. spiritual integration 问题 49

Rudyard Kipling was the spokesman for imperialist sentiment. Which one is NOT his work? A

A. Dubliners B. The Second Jungle Book C. The Jungle Book

D. Plain Tales from the Hills

问题 50

As a literary figure, Leopold Bloom appears in ___B___ A. Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

B. Joyce’s Ulysses C. Eliot’s Middlemarch D. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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