现代和现实主义选择题.docVIP

I. Multiple choices 1.In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England. A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius 2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ . A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____. A. novel B. drama C. romance D. Essay 4. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible. A. Langland B. Gower C. Wycliffe D. Chaucer 5. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 6.?_____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare c. Phillip Sidney d. Thomas Campion 7.??The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English Drama. It was _______ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama. a. Christopher Marlowe b. Thomas Loge c. Edmund Spenser d. Thomas More 8. At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society. a. Christopher Marlowe b. Thomas More c. Phillip Sidney d. Edmund Spencer 9. Renaissance Period was an age of ____ . a. prose and novel b. poetry and drama c. essays and journals d. ballads and songs 10.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This line is taken from one of Shakespeare’s____________. a. Sonnet 18 b. the tragedy King Lear c. a long poem Venus and Adonis d. the comedy As You Like It 11. From the following choose the one______ that is not by Francis Bacon. a. The Advancement of Learning b. The New In