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Old and Middle English Period 1.The main in The Canterbury Tales is especially interesting, in which Chaucer draws a group of vivid sketches of typical medieval figures from different walks of life, 正确答案： General Prologue2.The beginning of settlement in Britain took place in about 700 B. C. The settlers were Celtic-speaking tribes called . 正确答案： Britons 3.William Langlands is written in the form of a dream vision. 正确答案： A. Piers the Plowman4.Critics tend to divide Chaucers literary career into three periods: the French period, the period and the English period. 正确答案： Italian 5.Chaucer Was once influenced by Italian Literature. His major work during this period is _. 正确答案： A. Troilus and Criseyde6. captured the spirit of the medieval period just as it was ending. 正确答案： D. Geoffrey Chaucer7. In the 14th century, the two most famous are and Langland. 正确答案： Geoffrey Chaucer8. Chaucer employed the _ couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury Tales. 正确答案： Heroic9. The most important work of Alfred the Great is _, which is regarded as the best monument of the Old English prose. 正确答案： B. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles 10.In 410, the Romans abandoned the island, which marks the end of “ ”. 正确答案： Roman Conquest11. In 55 B. C., Britain was invaded by the Roman general 正确答案： B. Julius Caesar12.Chaucers active career provided him not only with knowledge but also experiences, which accounted for the wide range of his writings. The following are all his career EXCEPT . 所选答案： B. businessman and churchman 13. Which of the following does not happen in the Middle English period? 正确答案： D. The accepting of Christianity. 14. is a 3182-line alliterative verse, considered the monumental work in English poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period, or the national epic of the English people. 正确答案： A. Beowulf 15.The most important romance of the Middle English period is about It was written in Latin. 正确答案： A. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table 16. Which of the following is not the effect of “Norman Conquest”? 正确答案： C. The decline of Christianity. 17. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely _正确答案： A. Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales 18. The narrative poems in the Middle English period fell roughly into three subject groups: “The Matter of ”, “The Matter of Britain” and“The Matter of Rome”. 正确答案： France 19. The spirit of knighthood is reflected in the literature, especially in the , based on the stories of King Arthur. 正确答案： A. Round Table Legends 20.The 15th century saw the development of popular literature, chiefly popular , and miracle and morality plays in the later part of the century. 正确答案： ballads21. _is the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Ages. 正确答案： Romance22. Today Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. His masterpiece is . 正确答案： The Canterbury Tales23.Chaucers masterpiece is 正确答案： A. The Canterbury Tales24. Beowulf is a _ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society. 正确答案： C. pagan 25.After the withdrawal of the Roman troops, England was soon invaded by three Germanic (Teutonic) tribes: the Angles, the and the Jutes. 正确答案： Saxons26.Beowulf is of heritage, and contains evidently pre-Christian elements. 正确答案： Germanic27.The two important prose works of the Old English period are The Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede and founded by King Alfred the Great.正确答案： D. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 28.Beowulf unfolds a picture of an early society, of its public life, its customs, rituals and cultural activities. 正确答案： A. Danish 29. is the most important writer of the 14th cent ury. 正确答案： a. Chaucer 30. In the year 1066, the Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of 正确答案： Hastings 31. Among the Middle English poets, three are the greatest. One is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The other two are William Langland and 正确答案： Geoffrey Chaucer 32. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called_. 正确答案： B. Quatrain33. The Vision Concerning Piers the Plowman is s famous poem. 正确答案： William Langland34. The Canterbury Tales contains the _ and 24 tales, two of which left unfinished. 正确答案： General Prologue35.The fifteen century has been traditionally described as the barren age in English literature. But it is the spring tide of English 正确答案： ballads36. The accelerated the development of feudalism in England. 正确答案： Norman Conquest 37. For nearly two centuries into the Old English period, pagan poetry and pagan spirit remained dominant on the poetic scene. It was essentially a body of .正确答案： heroic poetry38. In 1066, led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.正确答案： D. William the Conqueror39. The provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury Tales, and it comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures. 正确答案： General Prologue40. is the best of Arthurian romances, the most attractive and beautiful romance of chivalry, and one of the finest pieces of artistry of the English Middle Ages.正确答案： A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 41. The history of English literature begins in the_ century. 正确答案： 5th42.In the medieval period, was the important code of behavior for the knights.正确答案： chivalry43. In , St. Augustine and his monks landed in Kent. Then England was Christianized part by part in the following century. 正确答案： 59744.English literature actually began with the settlement in England. 正确答案： D. Anglo-Saxon 45. Chaucer did much in making the dialect of the foundation for modern English language. 正确答案： London46.In his Italian period (c. 13721385), Chaucer wrote under the influence of the great literary geniuses of early Renaissance in Italy Petrarch and Boccaccio. 正确答案： A. Dante 47. was the first to be buried in Poets corner of Westminster Abbey. 正确答案： Geoffrey Chaucer48. is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words, and is usually applied only to consonants and only when the recurrent sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word. 正确答案： D. Alliteration49. The only organic whole poem to come out of the Anglo-Saxon period is 正确答案： D. Beowulf 50. It is to that we owe much of the preservation of Old Anglo-Saxon Literature. 正确答案： C. Alfred the Great The Elizabethan Period 1. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece 正确答案： The Faerie Queen2. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowes best works in which dr. Faustus seeks _no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.正确答案： B. knowledge 3. William Caxton is important to the development of English literature in that he introduced _ into England. 正确答案： printing4. Thomas Wyatt is usually regarded as the first great English sonneteer. It is he who first used a _ for the conclusion of sonnetsa practice followed by Shakespeare.正确答案： couplet5. Shakespeares plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, _, tragedies and romances.正确答案： comedies6. “Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, I thou makst thy knife keen” In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a (n) . 正确答案： D. pun 7. Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeares dramas? 正确答案： D. blank verse8. Edmund Spenser is often referred as “the poets _”because of his considerable influence on later poets. 正确答案： poet9. In , Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism. 正确答案： C. King Lear 10. Which is not the works of Christopher Marlowe? 正确答案： A. Lycidas11. _ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare. 正确答案： Christopher Marlowe12. In the Elizabethan Period, wrote many excellent essays, such as “Of Studies”.正确答案： Francis Bacon13. Francis Bacon is the most important writer of the Elizabethan Age. He is a great scientist, thinker, philosopher and essayist. 正确答案： prose 14 A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line _. 正确答案： couplet15 Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeares comedies? 正确答案： A. Henry V 16. Which play is not a comedy? 正确答案： B. Romeo and Juliet 17. In the Elizabethan Period, is the greatest playwright of England. 正确答案： William Shakespeare 18. The Period refers to the years between the death of Chaucer and the ascension of Queen Elizabethan I. 正确答案： Pre-Elizabethan19 From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacons work. 正确答案： B. Venus and Adonis20. In Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from shylock because _. 正确答案： B. his ships had all been lost21. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama. 正确答案： Christopher Marlowe22. is the last great Elizabethan and probably the first poet Laureate (1616) and the first dictator in English history. 正确答案： Ben Jonson23. is the essence of the Renaissance.正确答案： A. Humanism24. The Elizabethan age was one in which transformed Chaucers Medieval England into Shakespeares modern one. 正确答案： Renaissance25. “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.” comes from Bacons essay “ ”. 正确答案： Of Studies 26. Of the following plays, which is not written by Ben Jonson? 正确答案： D. The Shoemakers Holiday 27.English Renaissance Period was an age of Poetry and 正确答案： Drama28. The cradle of Renaissance is 正确答案： C. Italy 29. The major, or central, character of the plot is called the _; his opponent, the character against whom he struggles or contends, is called the antagonist.正确答案： protagonist30.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement? 正确答案： D. The Glorious Revolution 31. best represented the spirit of the Elizabethan Age. In many years he stood for the renaissance ideal of “the complete man.” He held a strong Protestant conviction. 正确答案： Sir Philip Sidney32.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowes The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that _. 正确答案： C. he became a man without soul after he sold it 33. “To be, or not to bethat is the question; whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” Who said these words?正确答案： D. Hamlet 34.Ben Jonsons poetic line “not of an age, but for all time” was dedicated to _. 正确答案： D. William Shakespeare 35. Edmund Spensers Amoretti is a series of 88 sonnets in which he links each quatrain to the next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee. This form is usually called _.正确答案： Spenserian sonnet36.The miracle play had as its subject either a story from the , or else the life and martyrdom of a saint.正确答案： Bible37.The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summers day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares _.正确答案： D. sonnets 38. _is regarded as the earliest popular tragedy of bold and revenge. 正确答案： D. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 39. Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works except _. 正确答案： A. The Shepherds Calendar 40. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is one of the epigrams found in _. 正确答案： A. Francis bacons “Of Studies” 41. Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeares sonnet 18? 正确答案： A. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. 42. has established his giant position in world literature with his 37 plays. 正确答案： William Shakespeare43. The second period of English renaissance is also called the _period or the age of Shakespeare. 正确答案： Elizabethan44.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeares great tragedies? 正确答案： A. Romeo and Juliet 45. The writings of Francis bacon mainly fall into three categories: _, purely literary and professional.正确答案： philosophical46.The following playwrights belong to the “university wits”, Shakespeares predecessors, except _.正确答案： A. Ben Jonson 47. lay the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge. 正确答案： Francis Bacon48 In the English renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. The most significant intellectual movement was _. 正确答案： A. humanism49. used wisdom in saving Antonio from being punished by Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.正确答案： C. Portia 50. Soon after the _ was introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translation of Virgils The Aeneid, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama. 正确答案： blank verse The 17th Century 1.The prevalent mood that enveloped literary works in the 17th century was one of gloom, pessimism, , and frivolity. 正确答案： decadence2. Which of the following works is a good example to illustrate the idea that a man gains the whole world but loses his own soul? 正确答案： A. Marlowes Doctor Faustus3. Paradise Lost is full of classical and allusion. 正确答案： biblical4. In the Revolution Period towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as Chaucer Towers over the Medieval Period.正确答案： John Milton5.“To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?正确答案： D. By corrupting man and woman created by God.6. is the founder of the school of Metaphysical poetry. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form. 正确答案： John Donne7. after the Glorious Revolution, there brought to England a monarchy, within which the kings power was greatly restricted.正确答案： constitutional8. is the master of blank verse, the first to use blank verse in non-dramatic works.正确答案： John Milton9 Metaphysical poetry has gained new recognition because of their seriousness of art, their spirit of revolt, and their realism, and it has greatly influenced the modernist poetry of the _ century. 正确答案： 20th 10 In John Miltons Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of _.正确答案： D. Good and Evil 11 is not Miltons work. 正确答案： D. Gullivers Travels12 The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _. 正确答案： C. spiritual salvation 13 The general features of the 17th century are the and the spirit of doubt and scientific analysis. 正确答案： transition 14 John Miltons Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and _from the Garden of Eden.正确答案： Eve15 Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the “University Wits”. It is Marlowe who first made the principal instrument of English drama. 正确答案： blank verse16 The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, _, and playwright.正确答案： critic17 Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic, _. 正确答案： Paradise Lost18 By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious _of his time. 正确答案： C. persecution 19Metaphysical poetry is characterized by verbal and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and metaphysical conceits and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas.正确答案： wit20. After the Puritan Revolution there established a kind of dictatorship under which the people suffered greatly. 正确答案： military21 “To wage by force or guile eternal war, / Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.” (Milton, Paradise Lost) Who is the “grand foe” the speaker is referring to? 正确答案： B. God 22 is a long epic. The stories are taken from the Old Testament. 正确答案： Paradise Lost23 The chief fo