18 ． All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.

A ． Robinson Crusoe                                         B ． Captain Singleton

C ． Moll Flanders                                            D ． Colonel Jack

19 ． Among the three major works by John Milton ______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A ． Paradise Regained                                      B ． Samson Agonistes

C ． Lycidas                                                      D ． Paradise Lost

20 ． English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.

A ． the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament     

B ． the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads

C ． the publication of T ． S ． Eliot’s The waste Land

D ． the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament

21 ． Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of ______.

A ． the common English people                           B ． the upper class

C ． the rising bourgeoisie                                   D ． the enterprising landlords

22 ． The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.