11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. To better human life, enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.
A. Daniel Defoe’s
B. Charles Dickens’
C. Jonathan Swift’s
D. Henry Fielding’s
12. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is ______ toward which she holds on a practical idealism.
A. love and money
B. marriage and money
C. love and family
D. love and marriage
13. Hardy’s ______ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.
A. Tess of the D’Urbervilles B. The Mayor of Caste Bridge
C. The Return of the Native D. Jude the Obscure
14. Henry Fielding adopted “______” to relate a story in his novel in which the author becomes the “all- knowing God”.
A. the first- person narration
B. the epistolary form
C. the picaresque form
D. the third -person narration
15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration.
A. “To a Skylark”
B. “The Cloud”
C. “Ode to Liberty”
D. Adonais
16. The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.
A. The Professor
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Far from the Madding Crowd
17. John Milton’s ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica
18. Wordsworth’s ______ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.
A. “To a Skylark”
B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”
C. “An Evening Walk”
D. “My Heart Leaps Up”
19. As the best of Shakespeare’s final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.
A. The Tempest
B. The Winter’s Tale
C. Cymbeline
D. The Rape of Lucrece
20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ______.
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley