Renaissance习题
1.Utopia consists of two books with empohasis on book_____,which has ______sections.
2.______was known as the “Morning Star of the Reformation”. And ____ first started the
Reformation in Germany in 1517.
3._____was the first English printer.
4.The Sherpherd’s Calendar consists of ____pastoral eclogues which fall into three groups:
_____,_____ and ______.
5.Because of Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, the country of Arcardia has become, ever since, a symbol
for _____ life.
6.The tragic flaw of Tamburlaine in the play Tamburlaine is ________, and that of Barabas in
The Jew of Malta is _______.
7.Altogether Shakespeare wrote ____sonnets, ____plays and ____long poems.
8.The most famous speech in Hamlet is the prince’s soliloquy_______.
9.The three unities in drama refer to _____,_____ and ______.
10.The Bible consists of two parts: ___________and ________.
Choices
1._____was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Campion
2. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was ____ who made blank verse the principal vehivle of expression in drama.
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Thomas Lodge
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Thomas More
3. Great popularity ws won by John Lyly’s prose romance_____which gave rise to the term “euphuism”, designating an affected style of court speech.
A, Cymbeline B. Venus and Adonis
C. Lucrece
D. Euphues
4. At the beginning of 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. Thomas More
B. Thomas Marlowe
C. Francis Bacon
D. William Shakespeare
5. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen _____.
A. Mary
B. Elizabeth
C. William
D. Victoria
6. English Renaissance Period wan an age of _____.
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballads and songs
7. The greatest and most distictive achievement of Elizabethan literature is drama. Thus appeared
a group of excellent dramatists. Mainly they are_____.
A. John Lyly
B. Thomas Kyd
C. George Peele
D. Christopher Marlowe
E. William Shakespeare
8. Elizabethan Poetry is remarkable. England then became “a nest of singing birds”. The famous poets of that period are _____.
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. Henry Howard
C. Philip Sidney
D. Edmund Spenser
9. Sidney is well known as a poet and a critic of peotry. He is known mainly for his three principal works. They are______.
A. Arcadia
B. Astrophel and Stella
C. Apology for Poetry
D. Utopia
10. “Liberty, Fraternity and equality” were first uttered in the book______.
A. The Shepherd’s Calendar
B. Utopia
C. The Rights of Man
D. The Declaration of Independence
11. From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work.
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. The New Instrument
C. Essays
D. The New Atlantis
E. Venus and Adonis
12. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line one of Shakespeare’s __.
A. songs
B. plays
C. cmedies
D. sonnets
13. Which play is not a comedy?
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B. The Merchant of Venice
C. Twelfth Night
D. Remeo and Juilet
E. As You Like It
14. Which historical plays are written by Shakespeare?
A. HneryⅥ
B. HenryⅣ
C. RichardⅢmonarchy
D. HneryⅤ
E. RichardⅡ
F. CharlesⅠ
G. Otto the Great
15. Which are Ben Jonson’s main comedies?
A. Every Man in His Humour
B. V olpon, or the Fox
C. The Alchemist
D. Bartholomew Fair
E. The Merchant of Venice
F. The Winter’s Tale

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