： 英国文学史及作品选读练习题（The Elizabethan Period)
名称 英国文学史及作品选读练习题（The Elizabethan Period)
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The writings of Francis bacon mainly fall into three
categories: ___philosophical _______, purely
literary and professional.
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Ben Jonson’s poetic line “not of an age, but for
all time” was dedicated to __________.
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William Shakespeare
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Which is not the works of Christopher Marlowe?
A. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
B. Lycidas
C. Tamburlaine the Great
D. The Jew of Malta
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The Elizabethan age was one in
which Renaissance transfo
rmed Chaucer’s Medieval England into Shakespeare’s modern one.
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Which of the following statements best illustrate
the theme of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18?
A. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.
B. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.
C. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation. 问题 6 2 分 保存
In the English renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and
the achievements of human culture. The most
significant intellectual movement was __________.
A. reformation
B. humanism
C. geographical explorations
D. the Italian revival
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“Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, I thou mak’st thy knife keen” In the above quotation
taken from The Merchant of Venice , Shakespeare employs a (n) .
A.synecdoche
B.oxymoron
C.simile
D.pun
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存The Pre-Elizabethan Peri
od refers to t he years between the death of
Chaucer and the ascension of Queen Elizabethan I.
问题 9 2 分保存“Some books are to be tasted, others to be
swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested” is one of the epigrams found in
__________.
A.Henry fielding’s Tom Jones
B.Thomas More’s Utopia
C.John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
D.Francis bacon’s “Of Studies”
问题 10 2 分保存From the following, choose the one which is not
Francis Bacon’s work.
A.The New Instrument
B.Essays
C.V enus and Adonis
D.The Advancement of Learning
问题 11 2 分保存Soon after the _____blank verse_____ was
introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his
translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid, and it
became the standard meter for Elizabethan and
later poetic drama.
问题 12 2 分保存Which of the following plays does not belong to
Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
A.Hamlet
B.Romeo and Juliet
C.Othello
D.Macbeth
问题 13 2 分保存Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the
Renaissance Movement?
A.The religious reformation and economic
expansion
B.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman
culture.
C.The new discoveries in geography and
astrology
D.The Glorious Revolution
问题 14 2 分保存In the Elizabethan Period, Francis
Bacon wrote many excellent essays, such
as “Of Studies”.
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Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to
dramatic type: histories, ____comedies _____, tragedies and romances.
问题 16 2 分 保存
William Shakespeare has
established his giant position in world literature
with his 37 plays.
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“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 troubles, and by opposing end them?” Who said these words?
A. Romeo
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet
D. Antonio
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Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three
works except __________.
A. Arcadia
B. The Shepherd’s Calendar
C. Astrophel and Stella
D.Apology for Poetry
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Francis Bacon lay the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific
way of thinking and fresh observation rather than
authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge.
问题 20 2 分保存The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular
development of English drama. It
was Marlowe who made blank
verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
问题 21 2 分保存The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of
Shakespeare’s __________.
A.tragedies
B.histories
C.sonnets
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问题 22 2 分保存“Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to
believe and take for granted, nor to find talk
and discourse, but to weigh and consider.” comes
from Bacon’s essay “Of
Studies”.
问题 23 2 分保存The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe’s best works in which dr.
Faustus seeks __________no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.
A.political power
B.money
C.knowledge
D.immorality
问题 24 2 分保存In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice,
Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed
from shylock because __________.
A.Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
B.his ships had all been lost
C.his money was all invested in the
newly-emerging textile industry
D.his enterprise went bankrupt
问题 25 2 分保存Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest
nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame
is chiefly based on his masterpiece The
Faerie Queen .
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is the essence of the
Renaissance.
A.Heroism
B.Reformati
on
C.Humanism
D.Chivalry
问题 27 2 分保存Ben Jonson is the last great Elizabethan and probably the first poet Laureate
(1616) and the first dictator in English history.
问题 28 2 分保存In the Elizabethan
Period, Shakespeare is
the greatest playwright of England.
问题 29 2 分保存The miracle play had as its subject either a story from the Bible, or else the life and martyrdom
of a saint.
问题 30 2 分保存Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti is a series of 88 sonnets in which he links each quatrain to the
next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.
This form is usually called ___Spenserian
sonnet_.
问题 31 2 分保存William Caxton is important to the development of
English literature in that he introduced
_printing____ into England.
问题 32 2 分保存and drama.
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The second period of English renaissance is also
called the _Elizabethan__period or the age of
Shakespeare.
问题 34 2 分保存The following playwrights belong to the
“university wits”, Shakespeare’s
predecessors, except __________.
A.Thomas Kyd
B.Ben Jonson
C.John Lyly
D.Christopher Marlowe
问题 35 2 分保存The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in
Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of
Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that __________.
A.he tried to join Africa to Spain
B.he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the
very cause of the Trojan War
C.he became a man without soul after he sold
it
D.man is confined to time
问题 36 2 分保存__________is regarded as the earliest popular
tragedy of bold and revenge.
A.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by
Christopher Marlowe
B.Alexander and Campaspe by John Lyly
C.The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
D.King Lear by William Shakespeare
问题 37 2 分保存Edmund Spenser is often referred as “the poets’
___poet_”because of his considerable influence on
later poets.
问题 38 2 分保存Which play is not a comedy?
A.The Merchant of Venice
B.Romeo and Juliet
C. A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
D.As You Like It
问题 39 2 分保存The cradle of Renaissance
is .
A.America
B.Italy
C.Germany
D.England
问题 40 2 分保存Sir Philip Sidney best represented the spirit of
the Elizabethan Age. In many years he stood for
the renaissance ideal of “the complete man.”
He held a strong Protestant conviction.
问题 41
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Francis Bacon is the most
important prose writer of the
Elizabethan Age. He is a great scientist, thinker, philosopher and essayist.
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Thomas Wyatt is usually regarded as the first great English sonneteer. It is he who first used a
____couplet __ for the conclusion of sonnets —a practice followed by Shakespeare.
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used wisdom in saving
Antonio from being punished by Shylock in The
Merchant of Venice .
A. Nobody
B. Judge
C. Bassanio
D. Portia
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__Christopher Marlowe _ is considered the first
great English dramatist and the most important
Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.
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The major, or central, character of the plot is called the _protagonist _; his opponent, the
character against whom he struggles or contends, is called the antagonist.
问题 46
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Which of the following plays does not belong to
Shakespeare’s comedies?
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. The Winter’s Tale
C. Henry V
D. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare’s dramas?
A. blank verse
B. sonnet
C. quatrain
D. lyric
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Of the following plays, which is not written by Ben
Jonson?
A. Every Man in His Humor
B. Volpone
C. The Alchemist
D. The Shoemaker’s Holida y
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In
, Shakespeare has not only made a
profound analysis of the social crisis in which
the evils can be seen everywhere, but also
criticized the bourgeois egoism.
A.King Lear
B.Hamlet
C.Romeo and Juliet
D.The Tempest
问题 50 2 分保存
A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three
four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line
___couplet_______.