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• Shelley’sgreatestachievementishisfour-actpoeticdrama,______.
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• A.AntonyandCleopatraB.MeasureforMeasure

C
• C.TooTruetoBeGoodD.PrometheusUnbound
pEodemt”.und Spenser 3. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic
poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece _______________.
The Faerie Queen
Choose the right answer.
• Francis Bacon was _____C___ contemporary.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer’s B. Thomas More’s C. William Shakespeare’s D. John Milton’s
2. In 55 B. C., Roman troops led by
_____ invaded Britain.
A. Julius Caesar
B. Claudius
C. King Alfred the Great
A
D. William
Choose the right answer.
3.The Roman occupation in Britain lasted for about _____ years.

• Byron’sByronicheroappearsfirstin________.
•A
• A.DonJuanB.OrientedTales

• C.ChildeHarold’sPilgrimageD.Manfred

• TheRimeoftheAncientMarinertellsanadventurousstoryof________.
mainstream of the English Renaissance literature.
4. The Reformation in Engldanradmwaas in its full swing when
____________ declared himself through the approval of the
Choose the right answer.
• In Novum Organum (New Instrument), Bacon
A. writing
B
B. printing
C. heroic couplet
Choose the best answer.
3. The humanist ideas of the Renaissance were based
on such a conception that______ is the measure of
B
D. Alfred the Great
Choose the right answer.
2. It’s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature,
presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English
1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series 2. of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient
_______ and _______ culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.
Choose the right answer.
• Francis Bacon is best known for his
which
greatly inAfluenced the development of this literary
form.
A. essays
B. poems
C. works
D plays
D. Venus and Adonis
Choose the right answer.
• ____D_____is a great tract on education written by
Bacon. A. Novum Organum B. The New Atlantis C. Essays D. The Advancement of Learning
by three literatures.Which one is not true?
A. French literature
B. Italian literature
D
C. English literature
D. German literature
Choose the best answer.
Choose the right answer.
• From the following,choose the one which is not
Francis Bacon’s work.
D
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. The New Instrument
C. Essays
today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
A.The Wife’s Complaint
B.Beowulf
C.The Dream of the Rood
D.The Seafarer
B
Complete the sentences.
1. English language in the Anglo-Saxon period was influenced by the Northern ______________.
1. WChhoooissethteh“efartihgehrtoaf Ennsgwlisehr.poetry” and one of the greatest
narrative poets of England?
A. Christopher Marlow
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. W. Shakespeare
all things.
A. man
A
B. king
C. lover
Fill in the following blanks.
1. Generally, the ___R_e_n_a__is_s_a_n__cerefers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From Italy the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.
A. 200 B. 300
C. 400 D. 500
C
Choose the right answer.
4.Old English came into being by the ____ century.
A. 4th
B. 5th
C. 6th
D. 7th
D
Choose the right answer.
Parliament as the Supreme Head of the Church of England in
1534.
Henry VIII
Fill in the following blanks.
1. Thomas More’s ____U__t_o_p_i_a_is his famous prose work. 2. ___________________ is often referred to as “the poets’
2. It was Martin Luther, a German Protestant, who initiated the __________R__e_f_o.rmation
Fill in the following blanks.
3. The Elizabethan ________, in its totality, is the real
3. A. Chinese/ Indian
C
4. B. Hebrew / Egyptian
5. C. Roman / Greek
Choose the best answer.
2. William Caxton was the first person who introduced
_________ into England.
3. _A_l_l_it_e_r_a_t_i_o_n_ is the most important
feature in Beowulf. 4. Another writing feature in Beowulf is the
frequent use of_m__e_t_a_p__h_o_r__ and _u_n__d_e_r_s_t_a_t_e_m__e_n__t _for ironical humor.
A. The Legend of Good Women
B. Troilus and Criseyde
B
C. Romance of the Rose
D. Piers the Plowman
Choose the right answer.
5. In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced
Society in his masterpiece ______.
A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Legend of Good Women
A
C.Troilus and Criseyde
D. The Romaunt of the Rose.
Choose the right answer.
3. When he died, Chaucer was buried in the ________ Poet’s Corner.
A. Westminster Abbey
A
B. Normandy
C. Canterbury
D. Southward
Choose the right answer.
4. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _______based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.
5. The Anglo-Saxon period ended in
____.
A. 1017 B. 1042
C. 1016 D. 1066
Leabharlann Baidu
D
Choose the right answer.
6. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded
2. The Anglo-Saxon poetry belongs to
secular poMeytrtyh,otlhoagtyis ______________________ but with Christian coloring.
non-religious poems
Complete the sentences.
Choose the right answer.
1. The early inhabitants in the island
we now call England were ___.
A. Celts B. Britons
C. Britain D. English
B
Choose the right answer.
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