英国文学史习题_2

I. Identify the author with his work.

1) William Langland ( c) a. Utopia

2) Edmund Spenser ( d ) b. Romeo and Juliet

3)William Shakespeare ( b) c. Piers, the Plowman

4) Francis Bacon ( g ) d. The Faerie Queene

5) Thomas More ( a) e. Doctor Faustus

6) Geoffrey Chaucer ( f ) f. The Canterbury Tales

7) Christopher Marlowe ( e) g. Advancement of Learning

II. Choose the best answer for each blank.

1. English Renaissance Period was an age of .

A. prose and novel

B. poetry and drama

C. romance and ballad

D. essay and drama

2. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is the opening line of one of Shakespeare’s .

A. songs

B. plays

C. sonnets

D. tragedies

3. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .

A. Thomas Wyatt

B. William Shakespeare

C. Henry Howard

D. John Lyly

4. first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama in the Renaissance period.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. Christopher Marlow

D. Henry Howard

5. The essence of humanism is to ________

A. restore a medieval reverence for the church

B. avoid the circumstances of earthly life

C. explore the next world in which men could live after death

D. emphasize human qualities

6. Although _____ was essentially a medieval writer, he bore marks of humanism and anticipated

a new era of literature to come.

A. Thomas More

B. William Langland

C. Edmund Spenser

D. William Shakespeare

7. 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 astronomy.

C. The Glorious Revolution.

D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

8. In 1066, _________led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.

A. William the Conqueror

B. Julius Caesar

C. Alfred the Great

D. Claudius

9. Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, and was buried in _______.

A. Flanders

B. France

C. Italy

D. Westminster Abbey

10. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the _________ poetry.

A. pagan

B. religious

C. romantic

D. sentimental

11. A ___ is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and the fourth rhymed.

A. ballad

B. romance

C. sonnet

D. lyric

12. Among the following plays which is NOT written by Christopher Marlowe?

A. Dr. Faustus

B. The Jew of Malta

C. Tamburlaine

D. New Instrument

13. ______ is NOT written by Francis Bacon.

A. Of Studies

B. New Instrument

C. Advancement of Learning

D. Edward II

III. Fill in the blanks.

1. A ___Morality___ play presents the conflicts between good and evil with allegorical personages such as Mercy, Peace and Hate.

2. A Miracle SS play is chiefly based on the biblical stories or the stories of the saints.