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20th British Literature题目

20th British Literature题目
20th British Literature题目

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. W.

B. Y eats B. John Osborne

C. Samuel Beckett

D.

George Bernard Shaw

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

A. Virginia Woolf

B. Thomas Wolfe

C. Thomas Hardy

D.

Sommerset Maugham

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

A. Dubliners

B. Plain Tales from the Hills

C. The Second Jungle

Book

D.

The Jungle Book

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____is Galsworthy’s masterpiece which gives a profound an d 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 .

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

A. slum landlordism

B. political corruption

C. inequality between men and women

D.

economic exploitation of women

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.

A. Sons and Lovers

B. Women in Love

C. The Rainbow

D.

Birds, Beasts, and Flowers

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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. Woolf ’s Mrs. Dallow ay

B. Conrad ’s Heart of Darkness

C. Joyce ’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

D.

Hardy ’s Jude the Obscure

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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.

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The theory of psychoanalysis put forward first by

______exerts great influence over modern literature.

A. Carl Jung

B. William James

C. Sigmund Freud

D.

Jacques Lacan

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The modernist writers such as Dorothy Richardson, James

Joyce and Virginia Woolf are mainly concerned with the ______.

A.

historical events of English people

B. external world

C. material achievements of human beings

D.

inner life of an individual

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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.

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Virginia Woolf’s novel, published in1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer.

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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.

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written by

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

A. The Black Prince

B. Under the Net

C. Bruno ’s Dream

D.

The Bell

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“She frankly wanted h

im 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.

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

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

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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.

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A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy

, is a man with a strong sense of , who never pays any attention to human feelings.

A. property

B. humor

C. justice

D.

morality

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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.

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Eliot ’s poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the

______of a modern civilization.

A. spiritual integration

B. material achievement

C. spiritual breakup

D.

social reform

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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_________.

A.

obeyed his order and stopped smiling at

everybody , including the duke.

B. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the

duke

C. was murdered at the order of the duke

D.

refused to obey the order and never smiled again

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_______is claimed as the best Irish poet since W.B.Y eats, 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).

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William Butler Y eats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a maturepoet.

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By presenting a conventional hero as a villain,

or a conventional villain as a hero,

intends to give a shocking impression to his audience and challenge the conventional way of thinking.

A. D. H. Lawrence

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. T. S. Eliot

D.

Rudyard Kipling

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D. H.

Lawrence’s poems fall roughly into three categories —satirical and comic poems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poems about.

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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.

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

A. to elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.

B. to portray the distorted and alienated relationships

between man and his environment

C. to pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.

D.

to put more emphasis on traditional values

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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.

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In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent”p uts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.

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Which of following statements about Y eats is true?

A . In a certain way , Y eats’s experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater.

B . The m ajor themes of Y eats’s later poetry are usually

Celtic legends, local folk tales, or stories of the heroic

age in Irish history .

C . In 1948, Y eats was offered the Nobel prize for

literature.

D . Y eats is a great poet as well as an accomplished

novelist.

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The Golden Notebook is considered to be __________’s masterpiece, taken as a milestone work in Feminist Literature.

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In his poem “The Lake Isle of Innifree,” W. B. Y eats expressed his

_____.

A. fear caused by the impending war

B. interest in modern city life

C. Love for M. Gonne, a beautiful actress

D.

desire to escape the materialistic world

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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.

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Which of the following novels was NOT written by H. G . Wells?

A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

B. The First Men in the Moon

C. The Time Machine

D.

The War in the Air

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To create his modern Odyssey —Ulysses, Joyce adopts a kind of ________ style.

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is’s first novel.

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______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.

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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.

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In The French Lieutenant’s Woman ,

is an existentially independent woman, as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.”

A. Miranda

B. Ernestina

C. Sarah

D.

Mantissa

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

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

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Which of the following statements about D. H. Lawrence is

NOT true?

A. He was strongly against the dehumanizing effect of the mechanical civilization.

B. He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing.

C.

He believed that the primacy of life force was a guarantee in

the healthy development of an individual ’s personality

D. His novel Sons and Lovers is largely autobiographical.

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“The Bliss” is one of

’s famous short stories. She was skilled in psychological analysis, whose favorite technique is the flash-back.

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As a literary figure, Leopold Bloom appears in ______

A. Joyce ’s Ulysses

B. Woolf ’s To the Lighthouse

C. Lawrence ’s Lady Chatterley ’s Lover

D.

Eliot ’s Middlemarch

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

A. John Galsworthy

B. James Joyce

C. William Butler Y eats

D.

George Bernard Shaw

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The Old Wives’ Tale was written by .

A. Catherine Mansfield

B. Sommerset Maugham

C. D. H. Lawrence

D.

Arnold Bennett

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Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

A.

Freudian psychology influenced many modern

writers.

B. D. H. Lawrence received the Nobel Prize.

C.

James Joyce published his last and most important novel.

D.

Most writers were politically radical.

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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

deals with the conflict between the forces of reason and those of irrationality represented by .

A. Ralph

B. Piggy

C. Jack

D.

Simon

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Artistically, Samuel Beckett has come under

the strong influence

of, whose works parody the uns ympathetic world and man’s wretched lot.

A. T.S.Eliot

B. E. M. Forster

C. Virginia Woolf

D. James Joyce

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