History of British Literature

What was the earliest literature found in The Anglo-Saxon period?

• Beowulf

• Romeo and Juliet

• The Canterbury Tales

• Utopia

When was the Medieval Period?

• The earliest time-1066

• 1066-15th century

• 15th-16th century

• 17th-18th century

Who was considered as the founder of English poetry in the Medieval Period?

• Shakespeare

• Homer

• Chaucer

• King Arthur

Below were the social background of English Renaiisance, except:

• Hunder Years' War and civil wars

• wars; the weakening of nobility and the rising of bourgeoisie

• the Reformation and the weakening of the power of church

• the mark of establishment of feudalism

As an important characteristic of Renaissance, humanism is considered as below, except....

• emphasis on the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life

• belief in the right to enjoy the beauty of this life

• to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption

• the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders

Below, which one is not written by Shakespeare?

• Romeo and Juliet

• The Faerie Queen

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Othello

Below were the social background of The Period of Revolution and Restoration, except:

• William I was executed in 1749;

• the clash between the King and Parliament

• the Civil War between 1642-1649

• the compromise with the feudal remnants

Below were the social background of The Period of Enlightenment and Classicism, except:

• a progressive intellectual movement

• the clash between the King and Parliament

• enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic idea

• to celebrate reason, equality and science

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of the powerful feelings” is a definition of poetry by...

• Wordsworth

• Coleridge

• Byron

• Shelley

"literature must be true to life, and exactly reproduce real life, including all the details without any selection" is the characteristic of...

• naturalism

• romanticism

• neo-romanticism

• aestheticism