英美文学选读选择题

1. _______, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. Exodus

C. Beowulf

D. The Legend of Good Women

2. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.

A．William Langland’ s Piers Plowman B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales C．John Gower’s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

3. With classical culture and the（）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.

A. French

B. German

C. Italian

D. Greek

4. During the reign of_________, England started its Religious Reformation and broke away from Rome.

A. Henry VII

B. Henry VIII

C. Edward VI

D. Queen Elizabeth

5. The Protestant movement, which was seen as a means to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption and superstition of the Middle Ages, was initiated by _______.

A. Francis Bacon

B. Martin Luther

C. Thomas More

D. William Shakespeare

6．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT_________.

A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture

B．the vast expansion of British colonies in North America

C．the new discoveries in geography and astrology

D．the religious reformation and the economic expansion

7. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.

A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideas

B. getting control of the parliament and government

C. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie

D. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church

8. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.

A. the old English

B. the medieval

C. the feudalist

D. the capitalist

9. The English Renaissance period was an age of

A. poetry and drama

B. drama and novel