I. Multiple choices

B. Julius Caesar C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius

A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower

A. novel B. drama

D. Essay

A. Langland B. Gower

D. Chaucer

B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon

D. John Dryden

b. William Shakespeare c. Phillip Sidney d. Thomas Campion

7. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English Drama. It was _______ b. Thomas Loge

c. Edmund Spenser d. Thomas More

8. At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.

a. Christopher Marlowe

c. Phillip Sidney d. Edmund Spencer

a. prose and novel

c. essays and journals d. ballads and songs

10. ______.

b. the tragedy King Lear

Venus and Adonis

d. the comedy As You Like It

11. Among the following, ______ is not written by Francis Bacon.

a. The Advancement of Learning b. The New Instrument c. Of Studies 12. b. Thomas Kyd

c. Earl of Surry d. Thomas More

b. Every One in His Humor

s Dream d. Much Ado about Nothing

14. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______

a. Shakespeare b. Thomas Kyd c. Ben Jonson 15. The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in London about

1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland dialect the language a. Shakespeare

b. Spenserc. C. Philip Sidney 16.

b. the fusion of irony with sarcasm

d. the fusion of humor with irony

17. _____was the first burie

a. Southy b. Francis Bacon c. Shakespeare 18. Macbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.

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