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I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet
complete the statement.
1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-
Saxon period was termed England鈥檚 national epic.
A. The Canterbury Tales
B.
Paradise Lost
C. The Song of Beowulf
D. The Fairy Queen
2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular
literary form in ______.
A. Romanticism
B. Renaissance
C.
medieval period
D. Anglo-Saxon period
3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____.
A. Piers Plowman B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis
D. The Canterbury Tales
4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Milton D. W. Wordsworth
5.
It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic
picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther C. William Shakespeare D. John Gower
6.
One of Chaucer鈥檚 main contributions to English poetry is ______.
A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry B. he created striking brilliant
panorama of his time and his country
C. he wrote in blank verse
D. he was the first to write sonnet
7.
During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry.
A. Chaucer
B. John Donne
C. Thomas Wyatt
D. Earl of Surrey