16. The religious hypocrisy of charity institutions are sharply criticized in the novel （       ）

A. Sons and Lovers.                                     B. Wuthering Heights.

C. Jane Eyre.                                               D. A Tale of Two Cities.

17. In the summit of his literary career, two of Thomas Hardy’s novels received a lot of hostile criticisms. They are  （       ）

A. The Return of the Native and Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure.

C. The Dynasts and Jude the Obscure.

D. Middlemarch and Jude the Obscure.

18. Which of the following statements is true about Thomas Hardy’s heroines and heroes?

（       ）

A. They were fortunate young men and women in pursuit of personal fulfillment.

B. They were persistent in their pursuit for an ideal life.

C. They struggled desperately for individual equality and freedom.

D. They struggled desperately for personal fulfillment and happiness.

19. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working-class background, who were known as “_________”.

（       ）

A. the Sentimental Young Men                       B. the Lost Generation

C. the Angry Young Men                              D. the Beat Generation

20. Lawrence had once been a most controversial author mainly for  （       ）

A. his concern about the relationship between men and women .

B. his strong reaction against the mechanical civilization.

C. his description of the distortion of personality.

D. his frank treatment and discussion of sex in his novels.