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11.Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?B [A]Cultivation of the art of this world and this life. [B]Tolerance of human foibles. [C]Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture. [D]Glorification of religious faith. 2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ . A A. poetry and drama B. drama and novel C. novel and poetry D. romance and poetry 6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______. B A. heroic couplet B. quatrain C. Spenserian stanza D. terza rima 1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（　　　）. A A. humanism B. realism C. naturalism D. skepticism 1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______.BA. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer9 s The Canterbury TalesC. John Gower5 s Confession Amantis?? D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______.CA.John Milton? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?B. John Marlowe C.Ben Jonson? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?D. Edmund Spenser 10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.AA.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual? s feeling and experiencesB.the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC.the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationD.the former advocates the return to nature whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models 1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical