《英国文学史及选读》
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2.Modernism rose out of_____.
A. skepticism B. disillusion of capitalism
C. irrational philosophy D. al the above
3.Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against_____.
A .romanticism B. realism
C. post-modernism D. all the above
4._____is not a movement in the modern period.
A. “the Angry Young Men” B. “the Beat Generation”
C. “the Lost Generation” D. “the Theater of the Absurd”
5. _____ is not a representative figure in applying the technique of “the stream of consciousness” in his/her writing.
A. D. H. Lawrence B. James Joyce
C. Virginia Woolf D. Dorothy Richardson
6. Waiting for Godot is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd. It is written by_____.
A. George Bernard Shaw B. Samuel Beckett
C. John Galsworthy D. Eugene O’ Neill
7. The Waste Land is_____’s most important single poem.
A. Ezra Pound B. William Butler Yeats
C. Alfred Tennyson D. T. S. Eliot
8. _____ is not D. H. Lawrence’s work.
A. Finnegans Wake B. Sons and Lovers
C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. The Rain Bow
9. _____ is not James Joyce’s novel.
A. Ulysses B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C. Dubliners D. Finnegans Wake
10.“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is written by_____.
A. W. H. Auden B. D. H. Lawrence
C. W. B. Yeats D. T. S. Eliot
II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook
1.The French_____, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.
2. Modernism rejects_____, which is the theoretical base of realism.
3.In stimulating the technical innovations of novel creation, the theory of the Freudian and Jungian_____played a particularly important role.
4.Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems, and, thus, can be termed as_____.
5._____is famous for his frank discussion of “sex” in his works.
6.John Galsworthy’s trilogy is named_____.
7._____, an American Poet, took English Citizenship in 1927, and became a devout member of Anglican Church.
8._____is Eliot’s most important poetry, revealing the spiritual decadency and meaninglessness of life of the 20th century.
9.Most of Joyce’s works are concerning the life of his hometown_____.
10.Joyce’s “Araby” is a short story in his collection_____.
III. Decide whether the following statements are true of false and write your answers in the brackets.
( )1. The rise of modern poetry was, in some sense, a revolution against the conventional ideas and forms of the Romantic poetry.
( )2.Writers like E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence ar
e still conventional writers, as in their works, old traditions are still there.
( )3.John Galsworthy has been awarded Nobel Prize for literat
