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I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet
complete the statement.

1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-
Saxon period was termed England’s national epic.

A. The Canterbury Tales
B.
Paradise Lost
C. The Song of Beowulf
D. The Fairy Queen

2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular
literary form in ______.

A. Romanticism
B. Renaissance
C.
medieval period
D. Anglo-Saxon period

3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____.

A. Piers Plowman B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis
D. The Canterbury Tales

4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Milton D. W. Wordsworth

5.
It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic
picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther C. William Shakespeare D. John Gower

6.
One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______.

A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry B. he created striking brilliant
panorama of his time and his country
C. he wrote in blank verse
D. he was the first to write sonnet

7.
During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry.

A. Chaucer
B. John Donne
C. Thomas Wyatt
D. Earl of Surrey

8. During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse.

A. Chaucer
B. Edmund Spencer
C. Thomas Wyatt
D. Earl of Surrey

9. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance
Movement
？

A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture
B. The new discoveries in geography and
astrology
C. The Glorious revolution
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion

10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the
following is NOT such an event?

A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B. England’s domestic rest

C. New discovery in
geography and astrology.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

11. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.

A. 14th...mid-17th
B. 14th...mid-18th
C. 16th...mid-18th
D. 16th...mid-17th

12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence
is_______.

A. science B. philosophy
C. arts D. humanism

13.
_______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.

A. Edmund Spenser
B. John Donne
C. William Blake
D.
Thomas Gray

14.
_______ is known as “the poet’s poet”.

A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Edmund Spenser
D. John Donne

15. Romance
，
which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds
，
is
a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A. Christian
B. knightly
C. pilgrims
D. primitive

16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.

A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe
B. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe C. John Donne,
Edmund Spenser

D. John Milton, Thomas More

17.
Among the following plays which is not written by Christopher Marlowe?

A. Dr. Faustus
B. The Jew of Malta
C. Tamburlaine
D. The School for Scandal

18.
Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are _______.

A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
B. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and
Juliet
C. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and Macbeth
D. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth

19. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.

A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. histories
D. sonnets

20. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to?

A. Lover
B. Time C.
Summer
D.
Poetry

21.
Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
？

A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity
C. The speaker
praises the power of artistic creation
D.
The speaker meditates on man’s salvation

22.
“Bassani Antonio
，
I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself
；
But life itself
，
my wife
，
and all the world
，
Are not with me esteem’d above thy life
；
I would lose all
，
ay
，
sacrifice them all
，
Here to the
devil
，
to deliver you. Portia
：
Your wife would give you little thanks for that
，
ff she were by to hear you make the