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The most outstanding romance on Arthurian
legend was the anonymous
.
A.
Beowulf
B.
The Vision of
Piers the Plowman
C.
The Canterbury Tales
D.
Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
Who is the
“
Father of English
Poetry
”
?
A.
Geoffrey Chaucer
B. William
Shakespeare
C. Venerable Bede
D. Alfred the
Great
Which of the following is
Chaucer
’
s masterpiece,
containing a general prologue and
24
tales?
A.
The Legend of Good
Women
B.
The Canterbury
Tales
C.
The Vision of Piers the
Plowman
D.
The House of
Fame
Which of the following is
considered as the most monumental work in English
history
of the early Anglo-Saxon
period, existed in oral form as early as the
6
th
century A.D.
and was not written down till the
7
th
or
8
th
century?
A.
Beowulf
B.
The Anglo-
Saxon Chronicle
C.
The Canterbury Tales
D.
Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
At the beginning of
the 16
th
century, the
outstanding humanist
wrote
Utopia
in
which
he
not
only
revealed
truthfully
the
social
evils
but
also
presented
an
ideal
society.
A.
Ben Johnson
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Thomas More
D. Francis
Bacon
The Essays
is written
by
.
A.
Thomas More
B. Francis Bacon
C. John Lyly
D. William Shakespeare
introduces the
Spenserian Stanza (9-line stanzaic form) into
English poetry.
A. Philip Sidney
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Lyly
D. William Shakespeare
Shylock, a Jewish usurer, appears in
the play called
.
A.
The Merchant of Venice
B.
Hamlet
C.
Romeo and Juliet
D.
A
Midsummer Night
’
s
Dream
All of the following
are the most outstanding dramatists in the
Renaissance England
EXCEPT
.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Ben Johnson
C. Thomas More
D. Christopher
Marlowe
Which of the following is NOT
right about Shakespeare?
A. Shakespeare
only wrote tragedies.
B. Shakespeare
wrote 154 sonnets.
C. Shakespeare wrote
2 long dramatic poems.
D. Shakespeare
wrote altogether 37 plays.
Which of the
following does not belong to
Shakespeare
’
s four great
tragedies?
A.
Romeo and
Juliet
B.
King Lear
C.
Hamlet
D.
Othello
John Milton wrote
his masterpiece
during his
blindness.
A.
The Defense of
the English People
B.
Paradise Lost
C.
Lycidas
D.
Comus
Which of the following work is NOT
Written by Milton?
A.
Paradise Lost.
B.
Paradise
Regained.
C.
Samson Agonistes
.
D.
The
Pilgrim
’
s
Progress
.
John Bunyan is his
gave a vivid
and satirical description of vanity fair which
is the symbol of London at the time of
Restoration.
A.
Paradise
Lost
B.
The Defense
of the English People
C.
The
Pilgrim
’
s
Progress
D.
Vanity Fair
The
is a progressive intellectual movement
through Western Europe on the
18
th
century.
A. Renaissance
B. Neoclassicism
C. Romanism
D.
Enlightenment
In the
18
th
century England,
is the most remarkable satirist whose
masterpiece
Gulliver
’
s
Travels
was published anonymously in
1726.
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Jonathan Swift
C.
Alexander Pope
D. Henry Fielding
In the 18
th
century England,
is
the most outstanding dramatist?
A.
Jonathan Swift.
B.
Henry Fielding.
C. Richard Sheridan.
D.
Richard Steele.
In
the
last
twenty
years
of
the
18
th
century,
England
produced
two
well-known
romantic poets
and Robert Burns.
A. William Blake
B.
Oliver Goldsmith
C. Alexander Pope
D.
Thomas Gray
The poem
was
NOT written by William Blake.
A.
The Tiger
B.
London
C.
The Chimney-Sweeper
D
.
A Red, Red
Rose
William
Blake
should
be
chiefly
remembered
for
his
in
which
he
bitterly
utters his
social
criticism towards the reality of his
day, such
as one of his
greatest
poem
London
.
A.
Songs of Innocence
B.
Songs of
Experience
C.
The
Deserted Village
D.
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish
Dialect
Who is the greatest
poet Scotland has ever produced? Whose poems
chiefly written in
Scottish dialect are
among the best?
A. Alexander Pope.
B. William Blake.
C. Edward
Young.
D. Robert
Burns.
The publication of
marks the beginning of Romantic Age.
A.
The Prelude
B.
Kubla Khna
C.
The Lyrical Ballads
D.
Don Juan
The Romantic Age comes to end with the
death of last well-known writer
.
A. Walter Scott
B. Jane Austen
C. George
Byron
D. William
Wordsworth
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