11. Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is ______.(      )

A. The Return of the Native                             B. Far from the Madding Crowd

C. Under the Greenwood Tree                          D. The Woodlanders

12. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the ______ breakup of a modern civilization in which humanlife has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.(      )

A. spiritual                                                    B. religious

C. political                                                    D. physical

13. Charlotte Bronte’ s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.(      )

A. self-reliance                                              B. self-realization

C. self-esteem                                                D. self-consciousness

14. Among the works by Charles Dickens ______ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.(      )

A. Bleak House                                              B. Pickwick Paper

C. Great Expectations                                     D. Hard Times

15. In the Victorian Period ______ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.(      )

A. poetry                                                      B. novel

C. prose                                                        D. drama