英国文学Exercise 2

Exercise 2

I.Choose the best answer for each statement.

1.With classical culture and the _____ humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.

A. French

B. German

C. Italian

D. Greek

2.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 astrology.

C. The Glorious revolution.

D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

3.The religious reformation in the early 16th-century England was a reflection of the class struggles waged by the _____.

A. rising bourgeoisie against the feudal class and its ideology

B. working class against the corruption of the bourgeoisie

C. landlord class against the rising bourgeoisie and its ideology

D. feudal class against the corruption of the Catholic Church

4.The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was ______.

A. the Reformation

B. Humanism

C. the Italian revival

D. geographical explorations

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.English Renaissance Period was an age of _____.

A. prose and novel

B. poetry and drama

C. essays and journals

D. ballads and songs

7.______ first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. Philp Sidney

D. Christopher Marlowe

8.Here are two lines from a ling poem: “Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave.” The poem must be_____.

A. Beowulf

B. J. John M ilton’s Samson Agonistes

C. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County Churchyard

D. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

9._____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

A. Thomas Wyatt

B. William Shakespeare

C. Philip Sidney

D. Edmund Spencer

10.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability” opens one of

well-known essays by _____.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Francis Bacon

D. Jonathan Swift

11.________is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Christopher Marlowe.

C. Edmund Spenser

D. Ben Johnson

12.The statement that a man gained the whole world but lost his own soul makes a good summary of the main plot of ______.

A. Paradise Lost

B. The Merchant of Venice

C. Hamlet

D. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus

13.In which of the following years was Hamlet most likely written?

A. 1570

B. 1601

C. 1581

D. 1610

14.Shakespeare’s tr agedies include all the