I.     Multiple choices
1.In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.
A. William the Conqueror    B. Julius Caesar  C. Alfred the Great    D. Claudius
2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .
A. Langland    B. Wycliffe    C. Gower    D. Chaucer
3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.
A. novel      B. drama    C. romance    D. Essay
4. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.
A. Langland    B. Gower      C. Wycliffe     D. Chaucer
5. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of Englan
d, was born in London in about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer   B. Sir Gawain  C. Francis Bacon  D. John Dryden
6. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare  c. Phillip Sidney  d. Thomas Campion
7. 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 Marlowe    b. Thomas Loge  c. Edmund Spenser  d. Thomas More
8. At the beginning 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. Christopher Marlowe    b. Thomas More c. Phillip Sidney    d. Edmund Spencer
9. Renaissance Period was an age of ____ .
a. prose and novel    b. poetry and drama  c. essays and journals  d. ballads and songs 
10.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This line is taken from one of Shakespeare’s ______.
a. Sonnet 18                    b. the tragedy King Lear
c. a long poem Venus and Adonis    d. the comedy As You Like It
11. Among the following, ______ is not written by Francis Bacon.
a. The Advancement of Learning  b. The New Instrument  c. Of Studies d. The rape of the Lock
12. Elizabethan poetry is remarkable. England then became “a nest of singing birds”. The famous poet of that period was_______.
a. Edmund Spenser  b. Thomas Kyd      c. Earl of Surry      d. Thomas More
13. Which play is not a comedy?
a. The Jew of Malta               b. Every One in His Humor
c. A Midsummer Night’s Dream    d. Much Ado about Nothing
14. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______’s best plays.
a. Shakespeare      b. Thomas Kyd    c. Ben Jonson      d. Christopher Marlowe
15. The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in London about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland dialect the language of the court, the learned and the well-to do) the foundation for modern English language.
a. Shakespeare    b. Spenserc.     C. Philip Sidney      d. Chaucer
16. The basic note of Chaucer’s style is_______.
a. the fusion of humor and genial satire    b. the fusion of irony with sarcasm
c. the fusion of humor with  epigrams      d. the fusion of humor with irony
17. _____was the first buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abby.
a. Southy        b. Francis Bacon   c. Shakespeare        d. Chaucer
18. Macbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.
a. tragedy         b. comedy  c. tragicomedy      d. historical play
19. “To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of trouble,
And by opposing ” are the famous lines in Hamlet which expresses the Hamlet’s ______ character.
a.. resolute      b. resolute and hesitant  c. stubbon      d. indecisive and hesitant
20.    Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.
a.Church of England  b. Puritanism  c.Calvinism        d. Catholicism
21. Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.
a.belief      b. characters   c.  idea            d. God
22. In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
  a. William the conqueror  b. Julius Caesar  c. Alfred the Great  d. Claudius
23. Of many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most important and well known was ______who became the Poet Laureate in 1616.
a. John Dryden      b. Samuel Johnson   steele c. Ben Jonson      d. Robert Southy
24. The main literary form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets,___was the greatest.

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