英国文学复习资料

英国文学复习资料

1、All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except___d___.

a. William Shakespeare

b. Ben Jonson

c. Christopher Marlowe

d. Francis Bacon essayist

2. The English Renaissance period was an age of ___a______.

a. poetry and drama

b. drama and novel

c. novel and poetry

d. romance and poetry

3. Which of the following is not among Shakespeare’s four great tragedies? b

a. Hamlet

b. Romeo and Juliet

c. Macbeth

d. King Lear

4. _a_____is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.

a. Francis Bacon

b. Edmund Spenser

c. Willam Carxton

d. Sidney

5. What flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature? b

a. novel

b.drama

c. essay

d. poetry

6. William Shakespeare is one of the gaints of________d

a. Romanticism

b. critical realism

c. Aetheticism

d. the Renaissance

7. Paradise Lost is the masterpiese of_____c_______

a. William Shakespeare

b. Robert Buns

c. John Milton

d. William Blake

8. Which of the following plays written bu Shakespeare is histor play?c

a. Juliet Caesar

b. The Merry Wives of Windsor

c. H enry IV

d. King Lear

9. “To be or not to be” has become a universal question puzzling every intellectual mind. This is a quotation from_____b_____.

a. King Lear

b. Hamlet

c. Romeo and Juliet

d. Othello

10. The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in ___b____

a. 16th century

b. 17th century

c. 18th century

d. 19th century

11. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespear’s romantic love comedies?b

a. Twelfth Night

b. The Tempest

c. As You Like It

d. The Merchant of Venice

12. Francis Bacon’s Essays first published in 1597 has been considered as an important landmark in the development of English_______, and as the first collection of essays in the English language.d

a. poetry

b. epics

c. fiction

d. prose

13. In the following descriptions of the Neoclassical Period, which is wrong? d

a. The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period

b. Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical Period

c. The modern English novel came into being in the Neocalssical Period

d. Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment

14. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel__________ which first established his reputation as a ______b___

a. Gulliver’s Travels

b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe

c. The Pilgrim’s Progress

d. Oliver Twist

15. “Yahoos” from the novel____a__written by Jinathan Swift are described to be very much similar to human beings in outward appearance and their unworthy actions as well.

a. Gulliver’s Travels

b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe

c. The Pilgrim’s Progress

d. Oliver Twist

16. “ Poetry is Spontaneous” was put forward by_____c___