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The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?

A. The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture.

B. England's domestic rest.

C. New discovery in geography and astrology.

D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A. The Pilgrim's Progress

B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

D. The Holy War

It is alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Martin Luther

C. William Langland

D. John Gower

All of the following four except are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.

A. Francis Bacon

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. William Shakespeare

D. Ben Jonson It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of .

A. elegy

B. ode

C. epic

D. sonnet

Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on .

A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence

B. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security

C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth

D. the desire of the criminals for property

In Beowulf, fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon. A. the Anglo-Saxons B. Beowulf C. the Scandinavian D. the Winter Dragon Francis Bacon is best known for his which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.

A. essays

B. poems

C. works D plays

Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex .

A. a crude region in England

B. a fictional primitive region

C. a remote rural area

D. Hardy's hometown

We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except .

A. swift

B. proud

C. tamed

D. wild

"Blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of .

A. Elizabeth

B. Darcy

C. Mr. Bennet

D. Mrs. Bennet

The modern English novel came into being in .

A. the middle of the 17th century

B. the 17th century

C. the late 18th century

D. the middle of the 18th century