专八英美文学习题word版本

专八英美文学习题

I. Multiple choices

A 1.In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.

A. William the Conqueror

B. Julius Caesar

C. Alfred the Great

D. Claudius

D 2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .

A. Langland

B. Wycliffe

C. Gower

D. Chaucer

C 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.

A. novel

B. drama

C. romance

D. Essay

C 4. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.

A. Langland

B. Gower

C. Wycliffe

D. Chaucer

A 5. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Sir Gawain

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Dryden

A 6. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

a. Thomas Wyatt

b. William Shakespeare

c. Phillip Sidney

d. Thomas Campion

A 7. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English Drama. It was _______ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.

a. Christopher Marlowe

b. Thomas Loge

c. Edmund Spenser

d. Thomas More B 8. At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.

a. Christopher Marlowe

b. Thomas More

c. Phillip Sidney

d. Edmund Spencer

B 9. Renaissance Period was an age of ____ .

a. prose and novel

b. poetry and drama

c. essays and journals

d. ballads and songs

A 10.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This line is taken from one of Shakespeare’s____________.

a. Sonnet 18

b. the tragedy King Lear

c. a long poem Venus and Adonis

d. the comedy As You Like It

D 11. From the following choose the one______ that is not by Francis Bacon.

a. The Advancement of Learning

b. The New Instrument

c. Of Studies

d. The rape of the Lock

A 12. Elizabethan poetry is remarkable. England then became “a nest of singing birds”. The famous poet of that period was_______.

a. Edmund Spenser

b. Thomas Kyd

c. Earl of Surry

d. Thomas More

A 13. Which play is not a comedy?

a. The Jew of Malt a

b. Every One in His Humor

c.A Midsummer Night’s Dream

d. Much Ado about Nothing

D 14. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______ ‘s best plays.

a. Shakespeare

b. Thomas Kyd

c. Ben Jonson

d. Christopher Marlowe