Exercise Two
I. Fill in each blank.
1.   Edmund Spenser is often referred to as “the poet’s poet”.
2. Edmund Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest non-dramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece The Faerie Queene .
3. Hamet ,  Othello , King Lear and Macbeth are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. 
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream ,  The Merchant of Venice , As You Like It and      Twlefth Night are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great comedies.
5. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of   Marlove  monarchy’s best plays.
6. Thomas More’s masterpiece is   Utopia  .
7.   Jonson was in reality the Poet Laureate of James I.
II. Choose the best answer.
( B ) 1. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ______________.
A. sonnets  B. Drama  C. blank verse  D. translation
( A ) 2. The Elizabethan Age was largely one of drama eminently represented by ________ and Shakespeare.
A. C. Marlowe  B. J. Donne  C. J. Milton  D. B. Jonson
( D ) 3. Utopia was written in the form of _____.
A. drama  B. monologue  C. romance  D. dialogue 
( C ) 4. _____ is the first philosopher of industrial science.
A. Philip Sidney  B. Walter Raleigh C. Francis Bacon  D. Edmund Spenser
( D ) 5 In Elizabethan Period, ____ wrote more than fifty excellent essays, which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.
A. Walter Raleigh  B. John Lyly  C. Edmund Spenser  D. Francis Bacon
( B ) 6 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is a line from one of ____’s best known sonnets.
A. Christopher Malowe  B. William Shakespeare
C. Edmund Spenser      D. Ben Jonson
( D ) 7 Shakespeare’s plays are poetical. A great number of important dialogues and soliloquies in his plays assume the form of ____.
A. science fiction  B. essay  C. familiar essay  D. poetry
( B ) 8 ____ founded the Tudor dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie and so won its support.
A. Henry Ⅴ B. Henry Ⅶ  C. Henry Ⅷ D. James Ⅰ
( A ) 9 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 Malowe  B. Thomas More  C. Edmund Spenser    D. Ben Jonson
( B ) 10 English Renaissance Period was an age of ____.
A. prose and novel      B. poetry and drama 
C. essays and journals    D. ballads and songs
( D ) 11 “Denmark is a prison”. In which play does the hero summarize his observation of his world into such a bitter sentence?
A. Othello    B. Henry Ⅷ  C. The Merchant of Venice  D. Hamlet
( D ) 12 In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence: “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty”?
A. Othello    B. Henry Ⅷ  C. The Merchant of Venice  D. Hamlet
III. Answer the following questions.
1. What are the main features of Renaissance?P30
The one is a thirsting curiosity for classical literature.
Another feature of the Renaissance is the keen interest in the activities of humanity.
2. Make comments on the heroines in Shakespeare’s comedies.
In William Shakespeare's comedies we find a expression of his ungrudging. equalitarian atudetoward women. 
These plays show, in different ways, William Shakespeare's respect for the dignityhonesty, wit, courage, determination and resourcefulness of women.
Though there are weariness and frailty sometimes,they never lose courage intime of danger.And with every pang of affection and anxiety they only grow stronger and more capable of coping with various situations.In the ideal women of William Shakespeare’s comedies,the heart and head sway equal.
3. Analyze Hamlet’s hesitation in killing his uncle.
The reason Hamlet gives for his refusing to kill the King is that if he kills the Vainan now,he would send his soul to heaven;and he would fain kill soul as well as body.
But what he really shrinks from is the responsibility of premeditated killing of a king and its political result,because at that time the abrupt death of the King might cause panic to the people and danger to the state.
So what he considers now is no longer his personal wrong but the fated his coumy.

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