16. Oliver Twist presents Oliver as Dickens’s first child hero and ________ the first grotesques figure.
A. Nancy B. Fagin
C. Brownlow D. Gamfield
17. In Middlemarch, the leading figure is ________ , a beautiful, intelligent young lady of an “ardent and theoretic nature”.
A. Tertius Lydgate B. Casaubon
C. Dorothea Brooke D. Mr. Bulstrode
18. Based on the major ideas of his predecessors, ________ established his irrational philosophy, which put the emphasis on creation, intuition, irrationality and unconsciousness.
A. Karl Marx B. Henry Perkins
C. Henry Bergson D. Friedrich Engels
19. In the poem, “________”, Yeats, with severe satire, assaulted the bourgeois philistines and their meanness of spirit and selfish materialism.
A. No Second Troy B. September 1913
C. Sailing to Byzantium D. The Shadowy Waters
20. Kangaroo, written out of Lawrence’s trip to Australia, is about the struggle for leadership in ________ as well as in politics.
A. education B. religion
C. custom D. marriage
21. Dubliners begins by presenting ________ as an inscrutable fact in a small boy’s existence.
A. living B. idling
C. death D. wandering
22. The Man of Property centers itself on the ________ triangle.
A. Soames-Irene-Bosinney B. Bosinney-Forsyte-Irene
C. Soames-Irene-Forsyte D. Irene-Bosinney-Ivanhole
23. In the modernist period, in stimulating the technical innovations of novel creation, the theory of the Freudian and ________ psycho-analysis played a particularly important role.
A. Darwinism B. Socialism
C. Symbolism D. Jungian
24. Hardy’s The Dynasts is a long epic-drama about the ________.
A. Hundred Years War B. First World War
C. Napoleonic Wars D. Second World War
25. The year 1863 saw the publication of Romola, a full elaborately documented story of ________ in the time of Savornarola.
A. Venice B. London
C. Florence D. Paris
