Chapter I An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature & The Renaissance Period

I. Choose the right answer:

1. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A.British/ immoralityB.French/moneyC.German/knowledgeD.American/political power Answer: C (可参考课本P21)

2. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

A.The Wife‘s Complaint B.BeowulfC.The Dream of the RoodD.The Seafarer

Answer: B (可参考课本P1)

3.It‘s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece__________.

A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Legend of Good WomenC.Troilus and CriseydeD. The Romaunt of the Rose.

Answer: A (可参考课本P4)

4. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.

A. Geographical explorationB. Religious reformationC. Publishing and translationD. Humanism. Answer: D (可参考课本P8)

5. ―Prince Arthur‘s greatest mission is his search for Gloriana, with whom he has fallen in love through a love vision.‖The two figures come from_____.

A.Paradise Lost B.Dr. FaustusC.The Faerie QueeneD.Hamlet

Answer: C (可参考课本P13)

6. In ―Sonnet 18‖, Shakespeare_________________.

A.Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.

B.Satirize human‘s vanity.C.Predict the eternity of love.D.Eulogize the power of the beauty. Answer: A (P37)

7. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his ―mighty lines‖ and make ‘blank verse‘ the principle vehicle of expression in drama.

A.Surrey B.WyattC.MarloweD.Sidney

Answer: C (P21)

8. Shakespeare‘s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.

A.HamletB.King LearC.Romeo and JulietD.Othello

Answer: C (P33)

9. The Renaissance refers to between 14th----mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen___and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ‘real mainstream (真正的文学主流)‘ was ____.

A.Victoria/poetry B.Elizabeth/ drama C.Mary/ novel D.James/ drama

Answer: B (P11)

10. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter, which is to be called later____.

A.The Spenserian stanza B.The heroic couplet C.The blank verse D.The free verse

Answer: B (P5)

11. The Redcrosse Knight in ―The Faerie Queene‖ stands for_____, and Una stands for_____.