英国文学选读上选择题(附答案).docVIP

I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement. 1.???The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic. A.??The Canterbury Tales????B.??Paradise Lost???C. The Song of Beowulf??D. The Fairy Queen 2.?Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ______. A. Romanticism ?B.??Renaissance ?C.??medieval period??D.??Anglo-Saxon period 3.??Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____. A.??Piers Plowman B.?Sir Gawain and the Green Knight??C. Confessio Amantis??D.?The Canterbury Tales 4.??_______ is regarded as the father of English poetry. A.?Geoffrey Chaucer??B.??Edmund Spenser??C.?John Milton D.??W. Wordsworth? 5.??It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life. A.?Geoffrey Chaucer??B. Martin Luther C.??William Shakespeare D.??John Gower 6.??One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______. A.??he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry B.?he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his country ??C.??he wrote in blank verse??D.?he was the first to write sonnet 7.???During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry. A.?Chaucer??B.??John Donne ?C.??Thomas Wyatt ??D.?Earl of Surrey 8.?During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse. A.?Chaucer??B. Edmund Spencer??C.?Thomas Wyatt??D.?Earl of Surrey? Blank verse?is?poetry?written in unrhymed?iambic pentameter.[1]? The first documented use of blank verse in the English language was by?Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey?in his translation of the??neid?(composed c. 1540; published 1554-1557[4]). He was possibly inspired by the?Latin?origin