1、It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.
A、University Wits
B、Ben Johnson
C、John Wycliff
D、Christopher Marlowe
2、Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism, took ( ) as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.
A、power
B、God
C、man
D、the world
3、Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as “not of an age, but for all time”.
A、Ben Jonson
B、Christopher Marlowe
C、Robert Greene
D、Thomas Nash
4、Hamlet is characterized as a(an) ( ) on that, he loves good and hates evil; he is a man free from prejudice and superstition; he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief in the power of man.
A、humanist
B、Puritan
C、patriot
D、idealist
5、Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.
A、“father of English poetry”
B、“the saint of English poetry”
C、”the greatest English poet”
D、“the Poets’ Poet”
6、( ) is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. It has 9-line stanzas, rhyming in ababbcbcc.
A、blank verse
B、sonnet
C、”The mighty lines”
D、“The Spenserian Stanza”
7、Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
A、prose writer
B、poet
C、dramatist
D、essayist
8、The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.
A、Advancement of Learning
B、Novum Organum
C、Essays
D、The Interpretation of Nature
