英美文学练习6.doc

英美文学练习 PART ONE (40 POINTS) I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. 1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realis-tic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid charac-ters from all walks of life is most likely _B_____. A. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer9 s The Canterbury Tales C. John Gower5 s Confession Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe s The Tragic Histo-ry of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that ___A___. A. man is confined to time B. he tried to join Africa to Spain C. he became a man without soul after he sold it D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking - up of the Trojan War 3. The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summer5 s day? is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare) s __C____. A. comedies B. tragedies C. sonnets D. histories 4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from B A. the Renaissance B. the Old Testament C. Greek Mythology D. the New Testament 5.Spenser s masterpiece __A____ is a great poem of its time. A.The Faerie Queene B. The Shepheardes Calender C.The Canterbury Talks D. Metamorphoses 6.___C__ is the essence of the Renaissance. A.Poetry B. Drama C.Humanism D. Reason 7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ___C___. A.John Milton B. John Marlowe C.Ben Jonson D. Ed