： 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 J onson’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 transformed
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.
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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 th y knife keen” In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice , Shakespeare employs a (n) .
A. synecdoche
B. oxymoron
C. simile
D. pun
问题8 2 分保存The Pre-Elizabethan Period
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
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Whic h of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
A. Hamlet
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Othello
D. Macbeth
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
D. comedies
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“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 ”.
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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
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
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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
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Ben Jonson is the last great Elizabethan and probably the
first poet Laureate (1616) and the first dictator in English history.
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In the Elizabethan Period, Shakespeare is the greatest playwright of England.
The miracle play had as its subject either a story from
the Bible , or else the life and martyrdom of a saint.
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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 _.
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William Caxton is important to the development of English literature in that he introduced _printing ____ into England.
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English Renaissance Period was an age of Poetry and drama .
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The second period of English renaissance is also called the _Elizabethan __period or the age of Shakespeare.
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The following playwrights belong to the “university
wits”, Shakespeare’s predecessors, except
__________.
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Ben Jonson
C. John Lyly
D. Christopher Marlowe
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The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher M arlowe’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
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__________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 Spe nser 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
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The cradle of Renaissance is .
A. America
B. Italy
C. Germany
D. England
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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.
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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