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第一章
1、 English literature began with the ( ) settlement in England.
A:Roman
B:Celtic
C:English
D:Anglo-Saxon
答案: Anglo-Saxon
2、 Beowulf, written about the life of England in the ( ) society,is said to bethe national epicof the English people.
A:primitive
B:feudal
C:medieval
D:agricultural
答案: feudal
3、 Beowulfis written in the form of ( ), a popular form of poetry in Anglo-Saxon literature.
A:ballad
B:blank verse
C:couplet
D:alliterative verse
答案: alliterative verse
第二章
1、 The medieval period is often called the Dark Age for the dominating power of ( ) over
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everything in the society.
A:the King
B:feudal lords
C:the Church
D:the knights
答案: the Church
2、 The central character of a romance is ( ), who follows the code of behavior calledchivalry.
A:the knight
B:the warrior
C:the Gladiator
D:a soldier
答案: the knight
3、 The stories of ( ) are the most well-known ballads, songs of stories told orally in 4-line stanzas.
A:the green knights
B:King Arthur
C:Robin Hood
D:the Vikings
答案: Robin Hood
4、 Piers the Plowmanwritten by William Langland in the form of ( ) represents the achievements of popular literature of Medieval England.
A:allegory
B:symbolism
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C:a dream
D:epic
答案: allegory
5、 ( ) is considered the father of English poetry, whose most representative work isThe Canterbury Tales.
A:William Langland
B:Edmund Spenser
C:John Milton
D:Geoffrey Chaucer
答案: Geoffrey Chaucer
6、 The Canterbury Tales,a collection of stories strung together and told by 30 pilgrims on their way to pilgrimage, is written in the form of ( ).
A:blank verse
B:alliterative verse
C:heroic couoplet
D:ballad
答案: heroic couoplet
7、 The key-note of the Renaissance is ( ).
A:humanism
B:realism
C:romanticism
D:asceticism
答案: humanism
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第三章
1、 It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare. A:JohnWycliff
B:University Wits
C:Christopher Marlowe
D:Ben Johnson
答案:B
2、 Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism, took ( ) as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.
A:the world
B:God
C:power
D:man
答案:D
3、 Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as “not of an age, but for all time”.
A:Christopher Marlowe
B:Ben Jonson
C:Robert Greene
D:Thomas Nash
答案:B
4、 Hamlet is characterized as a(an) ( ) on that, he loves good and hates evil; he is a man free from prejudice and superstition; he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief
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in the power of man.
A:idealist
B:Puritan
C:humanist
D:patriot
答案:C
5、 Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.
A:“the Poets’ Poet”
B:“father of English poetry”
C:“the saint of English poetry”
D:“the greatest English poet”
答案:A
6、 ( ) is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpieceThe Faerie Queene. It has 9-line stanzas, rhyming in ababbcbcc.
A:“The mighty lines”
B:sonnet
C:“The Spenserian Stanza”
D:blank verse
答案:C
7、 Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
A:dramatist
B:poet
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