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1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.

A Robin Hood                              B   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C The Canterbury Tales               D   Beowulf

2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.

A The Canterbury Tales                               B   Piers the Plowman

C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight              D   Beowulf

3. ____was the most famous for The Canterbury Tales.

A Geoffrey Chaucer                                        B John Milton

C William Shakespeare                                    D Francis Bacon

4. Most of the ballads of the 5th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.

A Green Nights                                                B Gawain

C Robin Hood                                                  D Hamlet

5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.

A Paradise Lost                                                B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates

C Of Beauty                                                     D Utopia

6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language.

A Amoretti                                                       B The Shepherd's Calendar

C The Faerie Queen                                          D Four Hymns

7. ____ is from Shakespeare's sonnet No.18.

A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”

B “To be or not to be: that is the question”

C “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day”

D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”

8. The vivid portrayal of ____ by Shakespeare in Henry IV has earn for him an enviable place in the history of English literature.

A Julius Caesar                                                         B Falstaff

C Hamlet                                                                   D King Henry

9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ____.

A. Antony and Cleopatra                                          B. Julius Caesar

C Twelfth Night                                                        D King Lear

10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?

A Twelfth Night                                                        B The Tempest

C As You Like It                                                       D The Merchant of Venice