1. 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 ' Piers Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower'Confessio Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Answer: B
2. The tragedy of Dr.Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe's The Tragic History of Dr.Faustus, is the very face that_____.
A. man is confined to time
B. he tried to join Africa to Spain
C. he became a man without soul after he sold it
D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very course of the Trojan War
Answer: A
3. Here are two lines from a ling poem: Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave. The poem must be_____.
A. Beowulf
B. John Milton's Samson Agonistes
C. Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a County Churchyard
D. Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Answer: D
4. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.
A .the former celebrates reason, rationality , order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual's feeling and experiences
B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.
D. the former advocates the return to nature whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models
Answer: A
5. When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dressed, Alexander Poppe means that __________.
A. pompous words are always destructive to good taste
B. the purple colour is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple
C. conceits are always misleading
D. true wit is best in a plain style
Answer: D