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The writings of Francis bacon mainly fall into three

categories: ___philosophical _______, purely literary and professional.

B en Jonson’s poetic line “not of an age, but for all time” was dedicated to __________.

A. Edmund Spenser

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. William Shakespeare

Which is not the works of Christopher Marlowe?

A. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Lycidas

C. Tamburlaine the Great

D. The Jew of Malta

The Elizabethan age was one in

which Renaissance transformed

Chaucer’s Medieval England into Shakespeare’s modern one.

Which

of the following statements best illustrate the theme

of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18?

A. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

B. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.

C. The speaker satirizes human vanity.

D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.

In the English renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human

culture. The most significant intellectual movement was __________.

A. reformation

B. humanism

C. geographical explorations

the Italian revival

“Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, I thou mak’st thy knife

keen” In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice ,

Shakespeare employs a (n) .

A. synecdoche

B. oxymoron

C. simile

D. pun

The Pre-Elizabethan Period

refers to t he years between the death of Chaucer and the

ascension of Queen Elizabethan I.

“Some books are

to be tasted, others to be swallow ed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is one of the epigrams found in __________.

A. Henry fielding’s Tom Jones

B. Thomas More’s Utopia

C. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

D. Francis bacon’s “Of Studies”

From the following, choose the one which is not Francis

Bacon’s work.

A. The New Instrument

B. Essays

C. V enus and Adonis

D. The Advancement of Learning

Soon after the _____blank verse _____ was introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translation of Virgil’s The

Aeneid , and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.

Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?

A. Hamlet

B. Romeo and Juliet

C. Othello

D. Macbeth

Which of the following historical events does not directly

help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance

Movement?

A. The religious reformation and economic expansion

B. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.

C. The new discoveries in geography and astrology

D. The Glorious Revolution

In the Elizabethan Period, Francis Bacon wrote

many excellent essays, such as “Of Studies”.

Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into

four categories according to dramatic type: histories,

____comedies _____, tragedies and romances.

world literature with his 37 plays.

“To be,

or not to be—that is the question ; whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of

outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of

troubles, and by opposing end them?” Who said these words?

A. Romeo

B. King Lear

C. Hamlet

D. Antonio

Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works except __________.

A. Arcadia

B. The Shepherd’s Calendar

C. Astrophel and Stella

D. Apology for Poetry

Francis Bacon lay the foundation for modern

science with his insistence on scientific way of

thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as

a basis for obtaining knowledge.

The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was Marlowe who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.

The sentence “shall

I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s

__________.

A. tragedies

B. histories

C. sonnets

D. comedies

“Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but

to weigh and consider.” comes from Bacon’s essay “ Of Studies ”.

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe’s best works in which dr. Faustus

seeks __________no matter at what cost and finally meets

his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.

A. political power

B. money

C. knowledge

D. immorality

In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice , Antonio

could not pay back the money he borrowed from shylock

because __________.

A. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt

B. his ships had all been lost

C. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry

D. his enterprise went bankrupt

Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece The Faerie Queen .

is the essence of the Renaissance.

A. Heroism

B. Reformati on

C. Humanism

D. Chivalry

playwright of England.

the or else the life and martyrdom of a saint.

Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti is a series of 88 sonnets in which he links each quatrain to the next by a continuing

rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee . This form is usually called ___Spenserian sonnet _.

William Caxton is important to the development of English literature in that he introduced _printing ____ into England.

The second period of English renaissance is also called the _Elizabethan __period or the age of Shakespeare.

The following playwrights belong to the “university

wits”, Shakespeare’s predecessors, except

__________.

A. Thomas Kyd

B. Ben Jonson

C. John Lyly

D. Christopher Marlowe

The

tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the

protagonist in Christopher

Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus , is the

very fact that __________.

A. he tried to join Africa to Spain

B. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very cause of the Trojan War

C. he became a man without soul after he sold it

D. man is confined to time

__________is regarded as the earliest popular tragedy of bold and

revenge.

A. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

B. Alexander and Campaspe by John Lyly

C. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

D. King Lear by William Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser is often referred as “the poets’ ___poet _”because

of his considerable influence on later poets.

Which play is not a comedy?

A. The Merchant of Venice

B. Romeo and Juliet

C. A Midsummer Night’s

Dream

D. As You Like It

The cradle of Renaissance is .

A. America

B. Italy

C. Germany

D. England

问题40 2 分保存Sir Philip Sidney best represented the spirit of the

Elizabethan Age. In many years he stood for the

renaissance ideal of “the complete man.” He held a

strong Protestant conviction.

thinker, philosopher and essayist.

Thomas Wyatt is usually regarded as the first great English sonneteer. It is he who first used a

____couplet__ for the conclusion of sonnets—a practice

followed by Shakespeare.

used wisdom in saving Antonio from being punished by Shylock in The Merchant of Venice .

A. Nobody

B. Judge

C. Bassanio

D. Portia

playwright before Shakespeare.

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The major, or central, character of the plot is called the

_protagonist _; his opponent, the character against whom

he struggles or contends, is called the antagonist.

Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s comedies?

A. The Merchant of Venice

B. The Winter’s Tale

C. Henry V

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare’s dramas?

A. blank

verse

B. sonnet

C. quatrain

D. lyric

Of the following plays, which is not written by Ben Jonson?

A. Every Man in His Humor

B. Volpone

C. The Alchemist

D. The Shoemaker’s Holida y

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, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be

seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.

A. King Lear

B. Hamlet

C. Romeo and Juliet

D. The Tempest

A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line ___ couplet _______.