2004年校级精品课程“英国文学”成果材料之三：英国文学课外习题 主持人：蔡玉辉 Part I: Filling Blanks: ___________has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. W. Wordsworth, ___________and R. Southey are known as “Lake Poets.” Stories of _________provide the major themes in all Jane Austen’s novels. _________ is the author of the novel Jude the Obscure. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard established ____________’s fame as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially “the Graveyard School”. As a leading Romanticist, G. Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the _________ a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. Oscar Wilde is famous for his theory of “________________”. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is in the genre of ____________. The novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover is written by ____________. Ulysses gives an account of man’s life during one day in ___________. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, _________ and King Lear. In 1948, T. S. Eliot was awarded the __________ for literature. The trilogy The Forsyte Saga consists of The Man of Property, In Chancery and “___________”. “____________”is R. Browning’s masterpiece which tells a horrible story of a man’s murder of his beautiful young wife. Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books. The original story is taken from genesis: 1-24 of the Bible, the theme is “____________”. ____________, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is considered as Henry Fielding’s masterpiece. In novels like The Rainbow and Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence made a bold psychological exploration of various human relationships, especially these between ___________, with a great frankness. Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. He is almost unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct precise. He defined a good style as “________________”. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s plays, especially The Rivals and “_____________” are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw, and as true classics in English comedy. As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, Gorge Eliot shows a particular concern for ___________, especially those with great intelligence, potential and social aspirations. Idylls of the King is made of 12 books of narrative poems, based on the Celtic legends of _____________ and his knights of the Round Table. Most of G. B. Shaw’s plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems, and thus, can be termed as ______________. James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent ____________novelist, concentrating on revealing in his novels the psychic being of the characters. Realism was a reaction against ___________ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is entitled _____________. The name of R. Browning is often associated with the poetic technique “______________”. _____________ is often taken as Willliam Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece. In “_____________”, Joyce presents a fantastic picture of the disjointed, illogical, illusory and mental-emotional life of Leopold Bloom, who becomes the symbol of everyman in the post-World-War-I Europe. “______________” is the most popular of F. Bacon’s 58 essays. It analyses what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and have studies exert influence over human character. The publication of “______________” by W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge in 1798 is often taken as the formal beginning of Romanticism. John Bunyan was imprisoned again in 1675. It was during this second term in prison that he wrote ____________, which was published in 1678 after his release. Sheridan was the only important English dramatist of the eighteenth century. His plays, especially The Rivals and “________________”, are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw, and as true classics in English comedy. W. Wordsworth is regarded as a “______________”. He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature. The demonic group of S. T. Coleridge includes his three masterpieces: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and “______________”. P. C. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, “_______________”(1820). According to the Greek mythology, Prometheus, the champion of humanity, who has stolen the fire from the heaven, is published by Zeus to be chained on Mount Caucasus and suffers the vulture’s feeding on his liver. Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of Queen Victoria who ruled over England from __________ to 1901. The period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history. As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for __________, especially those with great intelligence, potential and social aspirations. Thomas Hardy’s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex. These works , known as “_______________”, are the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer. Darwin’s theory of evolution exerted a strong influence upon the people, causing many to lose their religious faith. The social Darwinism, under the cover of “_____________”, is vehemently advocated by colonialism or jingoism. T. S. Eliot’s most famous poem, “____________”, appeared in the first number of the Criterion, for which he won various awards, including the Nobel Prize and the Order of Merit in 1948. Women in Love is rich in its symbolic meanings. Gerald Crich is a symbolic figure of spiritual ___________ , representing the whole set of bourgeois ethics. In 1916, James Joyce published his first novel “______________”. The title of the novel suggests a character study with strong autobiographical elements. 43. The Victorian Age, one of the golden times for Great Britain, saw a rapid development of __________ as well as deterioration of ____________. Modernism, as a literary trend, is generally thought to appear in English literature after ___________. William Yeats, a great Irish dramatist, is also regarded as one of the greatest ___________ in the English language. In English literature there was a prominent couple who shared common interest and made great achievements in poetry, and they were _________. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the heroin Tess is described as a simple, ______ and faithful country girl. In The Daffodils by William Wordsworth, the central image is _________, which was inspired from a real trip by the poet himself. In Wuthering Heights, the author describes a death-and-life love between ___________ and ____________.. In Oliver Twist there is an evil character who is the head of the thieves and always maltreats Oliver, and his name is _________. In The Merchant of Venice, the merchant refers to ___________. Hamlet, the character in Shakespeare’s play with the same title, is hesitating to make a decision by asking himself that “ _______________” . Percy Bisshe Shelley concludes his poem Ode to the West Wind with the line “ __________________”. T. S. Eliot accomplished a very celebrated poem which reveals the spiritual and ideological state of the western world after the first world war, and its title is _____________. In John Galsworthy’s novel The Man of Property, the hero is __________. It is generally thought that the death of __________, the best friend and future relative of Alfred Tennyson, had a great impact on his life and writing. William Wordsworth puts forward his famous definition on good poetry in his article ________________. In Pride and Prejudice the misunderstanding happens between _________ and _________. Hamlet, the character in Shakespeare’s play with the same title, is hesitating to make a decision by asking himself that “ _______________” . _________ is usually regarded as the first English national epic. James Joyce, as a modern English writer, is prominent for his application of a new writing technique which well reveals the truth of psychological situation of a character. The new technique is _____________. Part II : Short answer questions: 1. Do you like Jane in the novel Jane Eyre? Why or why not? 2. What part do Alec and Clare play respectively in Tess’s tragedy? 3. What is the historical significance of the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe? 4. What is the theme of the novel The Man of Property? What is the symbolic meaning contained in the poem Break, Break, Break by Alfred Tennyson? What is the implied meanings of the title of the play The School for Scandal by R. B. Sheridan. Do you have sympathy for Shylock (in The Merchant of Venice)? Why or why not? Why does Jane Eyre return to Thornfield Hall in the end? Why does the boy in Araby by James Joyce want to go to the market so seriously? What does the west wind symbolize for in the poem Ode to the West Wind? 11. What is your understanding of John Bunyan’s work The Pilgrim’s Progress in the perspective of Puritanism? 12. What is your understanding of the image of the tiger in the poem The Tiger? Part III : Short essay topics 1. Summarize the story of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist in about 150 words, and analyze the theme of the novel. 2. Summarize the story of Tess of the D’Urbervilles and comment on the social significance of the novel. 3. Comment on Paul’s ( in Sons and Lovers ) internal conflicts. 4. Comment briefly on the character Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. 5. Comment brief on Geoffrey Chaucer’s attitude toward his time, taking the general prologue of The Canterbury Tales as an example. 6. Comment on Hamlet’s delay in action, taking the historical background of the time as your supporting details. 7. Comment on Satan in Paradise Lost in the perspective of British Revolution. 8. Comment on the adventures taken by Robinson Crusoe, considering the making of capitalist spirit.