-
national epic of the Anglo-
Saxons is ____.
A Robin
Hood
B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C The Canterbury Tales
D
Beowulf
2. ____was the most
outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend
written in
alliterative
verse.
A The Canterbury
Tales
B Piers the
Plowman
C Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight
D Beowulf
3. ____was famous for The Canterbury
Tales.
A Geoffrey Chaucer
B
John Milton
C William
Shakespeare
D Francis Bacon
4. Most of the ballads of the 15th
century focused on the legend about ____ as a
heroic
figure.
A
Green Nights
B
Gawain
C Robin Hood
D
Hamlet
the 16th century,
Thomas
More’s
work
____became immediately popular after its
publication.
A
Paradise Lost
B A Pleasant
Satire of the Three Estates
C Of Studies
D Utopia
6. ____was Edmund
Spencer’s
masterpiece which
has been regarded as one of the grea
t
poems in the English language.
A Amoretti
B The
Shepherd’s
Calendar
C The Faerie
Queene
D Four
Hymns
7. ____ is from
Shakespeare’s
sonnet No.18.
A
“Let
me not to the marriage
of true
minds”
B
“To
be or not to be: that is
the
question”
C
“Shall
I compare thee to a
summer’s
day”
D
“No
longer mourn for me when I am
dead”
8. _____, the
“
father of English
poetry
”
and one of the
greatest narrative poets of England,
was born in London about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Sir Gawain
C. Francis Bacon
D. John Dryden
four great tragedies written by
Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and
___
_.
A. Antony
and Cleopatra
B. Julius Caesar
C Twelfth Night
D King Lear
10. Which of the following
does not belong to
Shakespeare’s
romantic love
comedies?
A Twelfth Night
B The Tempest
C
As You Like It
D The Merchant
of Venice
D C A
C D
C C A D B
?
1.
All
of
the
following
are
the
most
eminent
dramatists
in the
Renaissance England except______.
?
a.
William Shakespeare
?
b. Ben
Jonson
?
c. Christopher Marlowe
?
d.
Francis Bacon
?
2. The English Renaissance period was
an age of
_________.
?
a. poetry and
drama
?
b. drama and novel
?
c. novel and
poetry
?
d. romance and poetry
?
3. Paradise
Lost
is the masterpiece of
_____
?
a. William
Shakespeare
?
b. Robert
Burns
?
c. John Milton d. William
Blake
?
4.
Which
of
the
following
plays
written
by
Shakespeare
is history play
?
?
a.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
?
b.
The Merry Wives of
Windsor
?
c. H
enry IV
d.
King Lear
?
5. The first
official version of Bible known as
the
Great Bible
, was revised in
______
a. 16th
century b. 17th century
?
c. 18th
century d. 19th century
?
6.
Francis
Bacon’s
Essays
first
published
in
1597
has
been considered as an
important landmark in the
development
of English_______, and as the first
collection of essays in the English
language.
?
a. poetry b. epics c. fiction
d. prose
?
7. Daniel Defoe was famous for his
novel ____ which
first established his
reputation.
?
a.
Gulliver’s Travels
?
b
. The
Adventure of Robinson Crusoe
?
c.
The Pilgrim’s Progress
?
d.
Oliver Twist
?
8. The famous
poem “ A Red Red Rose” was written
by_________
?
a. William Wordsworth
?
b. George Byron
?
c. Robert Burns
?
d. William
Blake
?
9. Mary
Shelley’s no
vel Frankenstein belongs to
the
type
of
____
which
is
often
set
in
gloomy
castles
where
horrifying, supernatural events take
place.
?
a. Gothic b. Realism
?
c.
Romanticism d. Classicism
?
10. The first
complete English Bible was translated
by _______, “the morning star of the
Reformation”
and his followers.
?
A. William
Langland B. James I
?
C. John
Wycliffe
?
D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews
?
D A C C B D
B C A C
?
?
1. The
literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls
naturally
into two divisions, ______
and Christian.
?
a. Pagan
b.
Roman
?
c.
French
d. Danish
?
2. “ Poetry is
Spontaneous” was put forward by________
?
a. Robert Burns
b. William
Blake
?
c. William
Wordsworth
?
d. Charles Lamb
?
3.
Which
of
the
following
writings
can
be
regarded
as
typical belonging to the
school of Romantic literature?
?
a.
Don Juan
b.
Ulysses
?
c.
Jane Eyre
?
d.
Sons and
Lovers
?
4.
______is the first important English
essayist and the
founder of modern
science in England.
?
a. Francis Bacon
?
b. Edmund
Spenser
?
c.
Thomas More
d. Sidney
?
5.
What is flourished in Elizabethan age
more than any
other form of literature?
?
a. novel
?
c. essay
d. poetry
?
6. The
publication of _______marked the beginning of the
Romantic Age.
?
a.
Don Juan
?
b.
The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner
?
c.
The Lyrical
Ballads
?
d.
Ode to the
West Wind
?
7. Which of the
following did not belong to Romanticism?
?
a.
John Keats
?
b.
Percy Shelley
?
c.
William Wordsworth
?
d. Alfred Tennyson
?
8.
Frankenstein
was
filmed
many
times.
Who
wrote
the
book?
?
a. Edgar Allan
Poe
?
b. James Joyce
?
c. Mary Shelley
?
d. Walter Scott
?
9. In the
mid-18th century, a new literary movement called
_______came to Europe and then to
England.
?
a.
Romanticism
b. Classicism
?
c. Realism
d.
Restoration
?
10.
Which of the following poem was not written by
John
Keats?
?
a.
Ode to the West Wind
?
b. Ode to Autumn
?
c. Ode on a Grecian Urn
?
d. Ode to a Nightingale
?
A C A A B C
D C A A
?
?
1. William
Shakespeare is one of the giants
of________
?
a. Romanticism
?
b.
Critical Realism