4. The Victorian Period

Multiple-choice questions

1. In Hard Times, Dickens attacks ______ that rules over the English educational system and destroys young hearts and minds.

A. bourgeois commercialism

B. religious hypocrisy

C. the utilitarian principle

D. political corruptness

2. ______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A. Jane Eyre B. Emma C. Wuthering Height D. Middlemarch

3. Which of the following best describe the nature of Hardy s later novels?

A. Sentimentalism B. Surrealism

C. Comic sense D. Tragic sense

4. ______ is the most representative Victorian poet whose poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of English people in an age of fast change.

A. Robert Browning B. Alfred Tennyson

C. George G. Byron D. Thomas Hardy

5. Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Charles Dickens?

A. He sets out a large-scale criticism of the inhuman social institutions and the decaying social morality.

B. His works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.

C. The characters portrayed by Dickens are often larger than life.

D. He shows a human being not at moments of crisis, but in the most trivial incidents of everyday life.

6. “As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there socially flogged as a public warning and example.” What figure of speech is used in the above sentence?

A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Irony D. Overstatement

7. “I will drink/ life to the lees.” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he ______ till the end of his life.