tsys专八英美文学习题word版本

2021年1月20日发(作者：phoebus)
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I.

Multiple choices

A 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
D 15.
The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in
London about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland
dialect the language of the court, the learned and the well-to do) the foundation for modern
English language.
a. Shakespeare b. Spenserc. C. Philip Sidney d. Chaucer
A 16. The basic note of Cha
ucer’s style is_______.

a. the fusion of humor and genial satire b. the fusion of irony with sarcasm
c. the fusion of humor with epigrams d. the fusion of humor with irony
D 17.
_____was the first buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Ab
by.
a. Southy b. Francis Bacon c. Shakespeare d. Chaucer
A 18.
Macbeth
by Shakespeare is a ______.
a. tragedy b. comedy c. tragicomedy d. historical play
19. “To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ‘t
is nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of trouble,
D
And by opposing end them...” are the famous lines in Hamlet which expresses the
Hamlet’s ______ character.

a.. resolute b. resolute and hesitant c. stubbon d. indecisive and hesitant
D 20.
Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.
of England b. Puritanism ism d. Catholicism
B 21. Though
Beowulf
was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.
b. characters c. idea d. God
A 22. In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
a. William the conqueror b. Julius Caesar
c. Alfred the Great d. Claudius
C 23. Of many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most important and well
known was ______who became the Poet Laureate in 1616.
a. John Dryden b. Samuel Johnson
c. Ben Jonson d. Robert Southy
A 24. The main literary form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets,
_______was the greatest.
a. Milton b. Bunyan c. the Metaphysical poets d. the Cavalier poets
25. Choose the poets who belong to the Cavalier group.
a. Sir John Suckling b. Richard Lovelace
c. Thomas Carew d. George Herbert
D 26
.The title of “Poet’s poet” is given to the writer of the following work
__ _____.
a.
Death Be Not Proud
b.
Venus and Adonis

c.
Romeo and Juliet
d.
The Faerie Queen
A 27.
The Merchant of Venice
belongs to Shakespearian plays of_______.
a.
comedy b. sequence of sonnets
c.
tragedy d. historical play
C r was the first important poet of a royal court to write in______ after the
Norman conquest.