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英美文学知识（二）

31. In

Paradise Lost

, the real hero created by Milton is _______.

A. Adam

B. Satan

C. Eve

D. God

32. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development in English _______.

A. ballad

B. romance

C. drama

D. novel

33.

was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

A. Thomas Wyatt

B. William Shakespeare

C. Philip Sidney

D. Thomas Campion

34. They are the forerunners of Renaissance EXCEPT ________.

A. Thomas More

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Thomas Wyatt

D. Thomas Malory

35. Thomas More

’

s

is regarded as the forerunner of the philosophical fantasy fiction.

A.

Utopia

B.

The Painful Life of Edward V

C.

Historie of Richard the Third

D.

Arcadia

36. Philip Sidney

’

s

is regarded as earliest English literary criticism.

A.

Arcadia

B.

The Defence of Poesie (Apology for Poetry)

C.

Utopia

D.

Le Morte d

’

Arthur

37.

is regarded as the most splendid epic in Elizabethan period.

A.

The Farie Queene

B.

Tamburlaine

C.

Venus and Adonis

D.

Macbeth

38. Which of the following is NOT written by William Shakespeare?

A.

The Twelfth Night

.

B.

Romeo and Juliet

.

C.

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

.

D.

Othello

.

39.

“

To be or not to be, that is a question

”

is a we!l-known quotation from _______.

A.

King Lear

B.

Othello

C.

Romeo and Juliet

D.

Hamlet

40. Which of the following poets is different from the others?

A. John Donne.

B. John Keats.

C. Lord Byron.

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley.

41. John Donne was a representative of _______.

A. Romanticism

B. Romance

C. Metaphysical school

D. Pre-romanticism

42.

was honored as the

A. George Herbert

B. Andrew Marvel

C. John Donne

D. Christopher Marlowe

43. Edmund Spencer has created a new kind of verse style named _______.

A. English sonnet

B. iambic pentameter

C. Spenserian stanza

D. Scottish song

44.

was one of the founders of modern science and materialism.

A. Francis Bacon

B. George Herbert

C. Thomas More

D. Philip Sidney

45. Francis Bacon

’

s

is regarded as a milestone in the history of English prose.

A.

The Advancement of Learning

B.

The New Instrument

C.

Essays

D.

Of Study

46.

The

Pilgrim

’

s

Progress

was

written

by

who

was

the

most

popular

puritan

writer

in

Restoration

period.

A. John Milton

B. John Bunyan

C. John Donne

D. Joseph Addison

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