1、The Faerie Queene, fusing adroitly the strands of legend, fable, and praise of Elizabeth I’s England in iteself, is a masterpiece written by Thomas Wyatt, who introduced sonnet into English poetry.
A、对
B、错
2、“University Wits” were all graduates from Oxford or Cambridge during the 1580s; Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Nash, and Ben Jonson were outstanding representatives of this school.
A、对
B、错
3、Tamburlanine the Great, The Jew of Malta, and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus are great tragedies written by Christopher Marlowe, the most prominent figure among the “University Wits.”
A、对
B、错
4、William Shakespeare had produced 154 sonnets in total, and the first 126 sonnets seem to be addressed to a young woman, who possesses extreme beauty.
A、对
B、错
5、All Shakespeare’s plays take place in England.
A、对
B、错
6、( ) is a nine-line stanza of eight lines of iambic pentameter plus an iambic hexameter.
A、Spenserian stanza
B、Italian sonnet
C、English sonnet
D、Spenserian sonnet
7、Who coined the term “Metaphysical Poets”?
A、Samuel Johnson
B、John Donne
C、Andrew Marvell
D、George Herbert
8、Who is the most popular and most widely respected writer in all English literature?
A、John Donne
B、John Bunyan
C、William Shakespeare
D、John Milton
9、Which of the following adjectives can be used to describe Francis Bacon’s essays?
A、vigorous
B、powerful
C、fresh
D、conservative
10、Who were dramatists during the Elizabethan Age?
A、Thomas Kyd
B、Robert Greene
C、Thomas Nash
D、Ben Jonson
