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1. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____. 　　A comedies 　　B tragedies 　　C sonnets 　　D histories 2. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English. 　　A Anglos, Saxons jutes 　　B Anglos, Saxons, Irish 　　C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish 　　D Anglos, Saxons, welsh 3. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry. 　　A William Shakespeare’s　　 　　B Geoffrey Chaucer’s 　　C Thomas more’s 　　D Edmund Spenser’s 4. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____. 　　A the faerie queene 　　B the shepherd’s calendar 　　C epithalamion 　　D amoretti 5. Francis bacon is a ____. 　　A poet 　　B playwright 　　C essayist 　　D novelist 6. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind” with all the following terms except_____. 　　A tamed 　　B swift 　　C proud 　　D wild 7. The novel starts with “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife.” The novel is Jane Austen’____. 　　A Emma 　　B persuasion 　　C sense and sensibility 　　D pride and prejudice 8. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. 　　A Charles dickens’s 　　B D.H .Lawrence’s 　　C Thomas hardy’s 　　D john Galsworthy’s 9. “do you think, because I am poor ,obscure ,plain and little ,I am soulless and heartless? And if god had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me , as it is now for me to leave you .” the above Is quoted from_______. 　　A pride and prejudice 　　B Jane Eyre 　　C Wuthering heights 　　D