Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)

Section A

A                                               B
(1)Charles Dickens                            A. Dombey and Son
(2)Samuel Taylor Coleridge                 B. The Forsyte Saga
(3)Jonathan Swift                              C. The Jew of Malta
(4)John Galsworthy                           D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(5)Christopher Marlowe                     E. A Modest Proposal

Section B

A                                               B
(1)Doctor Faustus                                    A. Darcy
(2)The Man of Property                     B. Joseph Surface
(3)The School For Scandal                 C. Sophia
(4)Pride and Prejudice                       D. Irene
(5)Tom Jones                                           E. Mephistophilis
Part Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper words or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)
1. It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “______”.
2. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ______.
3. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and ______.
4. The most original playwright of the theatre of ______ is Samuel Beckett.
5. James Joyce’s novels and short stories are regarded as his great works, all of which have the same setting: ______.
Part Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%)
1. The first important English essayist ______ is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
A. Charles Lamb                                B. Samuel Johnson
C. Francis Bacon                                D. William Hazlitt
2. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ______.
A. King Lear…Romeo and Juliet         B. King Lear…Macbeth
C. King John…Julius Caesar              D. King John…The Merchant of Venice
3. The predominated metaphor in The Pilgrim’s Progress is that ______.
A. Life is a journey                            B. Life is a dream
C. Life is to endure hardship                      D. none of the above
4. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the ______ legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A. German                                        B. Greek                                          
C. English                                         D. Scottish
5. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the ______ century writers who wrote under the influence of ______.
A. 16^th…Edmund Spenser                  B. 17^th…John Donne
C. 18^th…Thomas Gray                       D. 20^th…John Ransom
6. A good style as “proper words in proper places” is defined by ______.
A. Defoe                                           B. Swift                                    
C. Pope                                            D. Feilding
7. Which of the following is NOT Defoe’s works?
A. Moll Flanders                                B. Colonel Jack                                       
C. Silas Marner                                 D. Roxana
8. Tand is an imaginary island where ______.
A. Horses are endowed with reason and all good and admirable qualities.
B. Yahoos are governing class.
C. Horses are hairy, wild, low and despicable brutes, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also almost every other way.
D. Yahoos are possessed of reason.
9. ______ was first intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality and false sentimentality of Richardson’s Pamela.
A. Joseph Andrews                             B. Tom Jones
C. Jonathan Wild the Great                 D. Moll Flanders
10. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” once and for all established his fame as the leader of the ______ poetry.
A. Romantic                                      B. Pastoral                                       
C. Neoclassical                                  D. Sentimental
11. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is quoted from Shelley’s ______.
A. The Cloud                                           B. Ode to Liberty
C. Ode to the West Wind                     D. To a Skylark
12. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about ______ and poems about ______.
A. nature…love & friendship                                          B. nature…human life
C. Scotland…love & friendship                                       D. Scotland…human life
13. Literarily, ______ was the first important Romantic poet, showing contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18^th century, and treasuring the individual imagination.
 A. Burns                                         B. Blake                                    
C. Wordsworth                                 D. Coleridge
14. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic hero”, a ______.
A. proud, strong-minded rebel under pressure
B. proud, mysterious rebel of noble birth
C. proud, selfish person with evil heart
D. a proud, vindictive person without mercy
15. In his works, ______ set out a full map and a large-scale criticism of 19^th century England, particularly London.
A. Dickens                                        B. Hardy                                          
C. George Eliot                                  D. Walter Peter
16. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term______.
A. dramatic monologue                             B. transferred epitet
C. blank verse                                   D. free verse
17. As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for ______.
A. the destiny of women, especially those with great intelligence, potential and social aspiration
B. women’s pathetic tragedy
C. women’s rebellion against domestic duties expected of them by the society
D. both A and B
18. The 20^th century Modernism comes out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. It takes ______ as its theoretical base.
A. the theories of realism and romanticism
B. the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis
C. the theories of post-modernism and existentialism
D. the pessimistic philosophy and the doctrines of Christian morality
19. In the mid-1950s and earlier 1960s, there appeared a group pf young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working-class background, who were known as “______”.
A. The Sentimental Young Men           B. the Radical Young Men
C. the Furious Young Men                  D. the Angry Young Men
20. Most of G. B. Shaw’s plays are concerned with ______, and thus can be termed as problem plays.
A. political, economic, moral, or religious problems
B. the cruelty and madness of the World War I
C. the people with the gift of insight and freedom
D. the contemporary radical reformist point of view
21. In Lawrence’s opinion, the______ is responsible for the unhealthy development of human personalities, the perversion of love and the failure of human fulfillment in marital relationships.
A. the First World War                       B. original sin
C. Victorian conventions                     D. mechanical civilization
22. Which of the following is NOT James Joyce’s works?
A. The Portrait of a Lady                   B. Dubliners
C. Ulysses                                         D. Finnegans Wake
23. Modernism, in many aspects, is a reaction against ______.
A. neoclassicism                                B. realism                                        
C. romanticism                                  D. aestheticism
24. Which of the following is T. S. Eliot’s best known verse drama?
A. Sailing to Byzantium                      B. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
C. Ash Wednesday                              D. Murder in the Cathedral
25. James Joyce’s ______, written in 1939, is regarded as the most original experiment ever made in the novel form, and also the most difficult book to read.
A. Dubliners                                     B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C. Finnegans Wake                            D. The Portrait of a Lady
Part Ⅳ: Interpretation (20%)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
(1)
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”——that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
　　1. Where does eternity lie, according to the author?
　　2. Interpret “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” within the context of this poem.
(2)
Who’d stoop to blame
This sort of trifling? Even had you skill
In speech——(which I have not)——to make your will
Quite clear to such a one, and say, “Just this
Or that in you disgust me; here you miss,
Or there exceed the mark”——and if she let
Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set
Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse
——E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose
Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands
As if alive. Will’t please you rise? We’ll meet
The company below, then. I repeat,
The Count your master’s known munificence
Is ample warrant that no just pretence
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;
Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed
At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go
Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
　　3. What is dramatic monologue? What is the title of this poem?
　　4. Who is the speaker of this dramatic monologue? What kind of person is he?
(3)
　　He was surprised to find this young woman - who though but a milkmaid had just that touch of rarity about her which might make her the envied of her housemates - shaping such sad imaginings. She was expressing in her own native phrases - assisted a little by her Sixth Standard training - feelings which might almost have been called those of the age - the ache of modernism. The perception arrested him less when he reflected that what are called advanced ideas are really in great part but the latest fashion in definition - a more accurate expression, by words in logy and ism, of sensations which men and women have vaguely grasped for centuries.
　　Still, it was strange that they should have come to her while yet so young; more than strange; it was impressive, interesting, pathetic. Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration. Tess’s passing corporeal blight had been her mental harvest.
　　Tess, on her part, could not understand why a man of clerical family and good education, and above physical want, should look upon it as a mishap to be alive. For the unhappy pilgrim herself there was very good reason. But how could this admirable and poetic man ever have descended into the Valley of Humiliation, have felt with the man of Uz-as she herself had felt two or three years ago - ‘My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not live alway. ’
　　It was true that he was at present out of his class. But she knew that was only because, like Peter the Great in a shipwright’s yard, he was studying what he wanted to know. He did not milk cows because he was obliged to milk cows, but because he was learning how to be a rich and prosperous dairyman, landowner, agriculturist, and breeder of cattle. He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-stroked, his men-servants and his maids. At times, nevertheless, it did seem unaccountable to her that a decidedly bookish, musical, thinking young man should have chosen deliberately to be a farmer, and not a clergyman, like his father and brothers.
　　Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each other’s history.
　　Every day, every hour, brought to him one more little stroke of her nature, and to her one more of his. Tess was trying to lead a repressed life, but she little divined the strength of her own vitality.
　　　5. Who does “he” in the first sentence refer to? What is Tess’s life like at Talbothay Diary?
Part Ⅴ: Give brief answers to the following questions(15%).
1. What are the main characteristics of the Romantic Movement in Europe?
2. Sum up the characteristics of George Eliot’s literary works.
 


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