______’s literary achievements can be ...

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

A. the Old English
B. the medieval
C. the feudalist
D. the capitalist

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The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Such as the rediscovery of ancient and culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.

A. Chinese, Indian
B. Hebrew, Egyptian
C. Roman, Greek
D. Britain, American

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Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between and centuries.

A. 14th, mid-17th
B. 16th, mid-17th
C. 14th, mid-18th
D. 16th, mid-19th

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The Renaissance was ______ in reaching England not only because of England’s separation from the Continent but also because of its domestic unrest.

A. quick
B. slow
C. speedy
D. deep

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But it was not until the reign of ______ that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England.

A. Richard Ⅲ
B. Henry Ⅷ
C. Henry Ⅶ
D. Elizabeth Ⅰ

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The cradle of the Renaissance is ______.

A. Germany
B. England
C. America
D. Italy

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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

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Which of the following is not regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism

A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.
B. Tolerance of human foibles.
C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.
D. Glorification of religious faith.

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The English Renaissance, which was perhaps England’s Golden Age, especially in literature, began in ______.

A. the 14th century
B. the 15th century
C. the 16th century
D. the 17th century

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Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the ______ of all things.

A. measure
B. king
C. lover
D. rule

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Which of the following is not true about the Renaissance

A. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.
B. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and Reformation.
C. It was Chaucer, who initiated the Reformation.
D. The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real main stream of the English Renaissance.

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

A. French
B. German
C. Italian
D. Greek

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The statements about the English Renaissance are true except ______.

A. The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.
B. Academies after the Italian type were founded.
C. Petrarch was regarded as the fountainhead of literature by the English writers.
D. Poetry, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.

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It was ______ who first introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.

A. Caxton
B. Wyatt
C. Surrey
D. Marlowe

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In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and ______ were the most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

A. fiction
B. dramatic fiction
C. poetic drama
D. novel

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Marlowe gave new vigor to the ______ with his "mighty lines".

A. Petrarchan sonnet
B. sestina
C. terza rima
D. blank verse

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______ as the master, left a monument of the Renaissance unrivaled for pure creative power by any other product of that epoch.

A. Shakespeare
B. Chaucer
C. Francis Bacon
D. Edmund Spenser

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Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.

A. 47
B. 27
C. 52
D. 38

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In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems ______ and The Rape of Lucrece.

A. The Faerie Queen
B. Venus and Adonis
C. Measure for Measures
D. Sonnet 18

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Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is not a comedy

A. The Merchant of Venice.
B. A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
C. As You like It.
D. King Lear.

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All of the following plays are among Shakespeare’s four greated tragedies EXCEPT ______.

A. Hamlet
B. Macbeth
C. Romio and Juliet
D. Othello

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William Shakespeare’s history plays are mainly written under the that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a .

A. fact, possibility
B. story, probability
C. principle, necessity
D. reality, truth

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Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to ______.

A. a handsome young man
B. his wife
C. a "Dark Lady"
D. both A and C

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The three history plays on the reign of ______ are the beginning of Shakespeare’s epic treatment of English history.

A. Richard Ⅲ
B. Elizabeth
C. Henry Ⅳ
D. Henry Ⅵ

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The first and second parts of Henry IV are undoubtedly the most widely read among Shakespeare’s history plays. Shakespeare presents the ______ spirit in it.

A. patriotic
B. optimistic
C. pessimistic
D. ironic

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The play Romeo and Juliet is permeated with ______ spirit.

A. optimistic
B. sentimental
C. pessimistic
D. just

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Many people today tend to regard the play The Merchant of Venice as a satire of the hypocrisy and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against .

A. Christians’, Jews
B. Jews, Christians
C. oppressors, the oppressed
D. men, women

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______, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage.

A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth

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______ is a natural medium for Hamlet to release his anguish.

A. Conversation
B. Soliloquy
C. Speech
D. Action

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Hamlet is urged by ______ to seek revenge for his father’s "foul and most unnatural murder".

A. his own will
B. his mother
C. his father’s brother
D. the ghost

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Shakespeare’s playwright ______ resorts to the supernatural atmosphere and to the dreams to solve the conflict.

A. The Tempest
B. Twelfth Night
C. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
D. Hamlet

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As the best of Shakespeare’s final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.

A. The Tempest
B. The Winter’s Tale
C. Cymbeline
D. The Rape of Lucrece

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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. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth

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______ states that literary works which have truly reflected nature and reality can reach immortality.

A. Francis Bacon
B. William Shakespeare
C. John Donne
D. John Milton

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Shakespeare’s plays are written in beautiful English language. He created ______ to express his characters.

A. free verse
B. blank verse
C. regular verse
D. short verse

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In Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare ______.

A. meditates on man’s mortality
B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation
C. satirizes human vanity
D. presents a dream vision

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In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.

A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B. his enterprise went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost

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Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in ______.

A. The Merchant of Venice
B. Much Ado About Nothing
C. Twelfth Night
D. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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"It is not so express’d, but what of that Twere good you do So much for charity." What of that in the above sentence means ______.

A. this is very important
B. this is not important
C. this is true
D. this is not true

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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" These lines are taken from ______.

A. King Lear
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Othello
D. Hamlet

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John Milton wrote ______ to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men."

A. Paradise Regained
B. Paradise Lost
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica

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Lycidas is a work of Milton written for ______.

A. his parents
B. his sister
C. his fellow undergraduate
D. his teacher

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John Milton’s greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica
B. Paradise Lost
C. Lycidas
D. Samson Agonistes

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Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ______ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.

A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Lost
C. Paradise Regained
D. Areopagitica

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______’s literary achievements can be divided into three groups, the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.

A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. John Donne
D. John Milton

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Milton’s Paradise Lost took its material from ______.

A. the Bible
B. Greek myth
C. Roman myth
D. French romance

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"To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe." (John Milton, Paradise Lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God

A. By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
B. By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.
C. By removing God from His throne.
D. By corrupting men and women created by God.

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Milton wrote his three major poetical works ______.

A. in his early period
B. together with his pamphlets
C. in his middle period
D. after the Restoration

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The work ______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.

A. Paradise Regained
B. Paradise Lost
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica

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"Man shall find grace." But he must lay hold of it by an act of free will. The freedom of the will is the keystone of ______’s creed.

A. Milton
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Samuel Johnson

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In Samson Agonistes, Milton again borrows his story from the ______. But this time he turns to a more vital and personal theme.

A. history
B. religion
C. legend
D. Bible

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In his life, ______ shows himself a real revolutionary, a master poet and a great prose writer. He fought for freedom in all aspects as a Christian humanist, while his achievements in literature make him tower over all the other English writers of his time and exert a great influence over later ones.

A. William Shakespeare
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Donne
D. John Milton

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Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______.

A. the Renaissance
B. the Old Testament
C. Greek Mythology
D. the New Testament

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"All is not lost: the unconquerable will, /And study of revenge, immortal hate, /And courage never to submit or yield: /And what is else not to be overcome" The above comes from ______.

A. Dr. Faustus
B. Paradise Lost
C. Paradise Regained
D. Tamburlaine

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"O prince, O chief of many throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war /Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King." In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to ______ conduct.

A. Satan’s
B. God’s
C. Adam’s
D. Eve’s

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Which of the following is not among the literary giants of English Renaissance

A. Edmund Spenser.
B. John Donne.
C. Samuel Johnson.
D. Francis Bacon.

______’s literary achievements can be divided into three groups, the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.

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

The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Such as the rediscovery of ancient ______ and ______ culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.

Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.

The Renaissance was ______ in reaching England not only because of England’s separation from the Continent but also because of its domestic unrest.

But it was not until the reign of ______ that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England.

The cradle of the Renaissance is ______.

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

Which of the following is not regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism

The English Renaissance, which was perhaps England’s Golden Age, especially in literature, began in ______.

Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the ______ of all things.

Which of the following is not true about the Renaissance

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

The statements about the English Renaissance are true except ______.

It was ______ who first introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.

In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and ______ were the most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

Marlowe gave new vigor to the ______ with his "mighty lines".

______ as the master, left a monument of the Renaissance unrivaled for pure creative power by any other product of that epoch.

Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.

In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems ______ and The Rape of Lucrece.

Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is not a comedy

All of the following plays are among Shakespeare’s four greated tragedies EXCEPT ______.

William Shakespeare’s history plays are mainly written under the ______ that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a ______.

Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to ______.

The three history plays on the reign of ______ are the beginning of Shakespeare’s epic treatment of English history.

The first and second parts of Henry IV are undoubtedly the most widely read among Shakespeare’s history plays. Shakespeare presents the ______ spirit in it.

The play Romeo and Juliet is permeated with ______ spirit.

Many people today tend to regard the play The Merchant of Venice as a satire of the ______ hypocrisy and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against ______.

______, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage.

______ is a natural medium for Hamlet to release his anguish.

Hamlet is urged by ______ to seek revenge for his father’s "foul and most unnatural murder".

Shakespeare’s playwright ______ resorts to the supernatural atmosphere and to the dreams to solve the conflict.

As the best of Shakespeare’s final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.

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.

______ states that literary works which have truly reflected nature and reality can reach immortality.

Shakespeare’s plays are written in beautiful English language. He created ______ to express his characters.

In Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare ______.

In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.

Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in ______.

"It is not so express’d, but what of that Twere good you do So much for charity." What of that in the above sentence means ______.

"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" These lines are taken from ______.

John Milton wrote ______ to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men."

Lycidas is a work of Milton written for ______.

John Milton’s greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ______ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.

______’s literary achievements can be divided into three groups, the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.

Milton’s Paradise Lost took its material from ______.

"To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe." (John Milton, Paradise Lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God

Milton wrote his three major poetical works ______.

The work ______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.

"Man shall find grace." But he must lay hold of it by an act of free will. The freedom of the will is the keystone of ______’s creed.

In Samson Agonistes, Milton again borrows his story from the ______. But this time he turns to a more vital and personal theme.

Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______.

"All is not lost: the unconquerable will, /And study of revenge, immortal hate, /And courage never to submit or yield: /And what is else not to be overcome" The above comes from ______.

Which of the following is not among the literary giants of English Renaissance

The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Such as the rediscovery of ancient and culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.

Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between and centuries.

William Shakespeare’s history plays are mainly written under the that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a .

Many people today tend to regard the play The Merchant of Venice as a satire of the hypocrisy and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against .