单选题 What is Milton’s stated purpose in Paradise Lost?
A、To assert his superiority to other poets
B、To argue against the doctrine of predestination
C、To justify the ways of God to men
D、To elucidate the conflict between God’s eternal foresight and free will
单选题 In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, A Tale of a Tub and______
A、The Drapier’s letter
B、Bickerstaff Almanac
C、Gulliver’s Travels
D、The Battle of the Books
单选题 In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the______
A、aristocratic class
B、enterprising landlords
C、rising bourgeoisie
D、hard-working people
单选题 Geoffrey Chaucer planned originally to have each of the pilgrims tell______ stories on the way to Canterbury and the same number of stories on the way back in his famous The Canterbury Tales.
单选题 “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is one of the epigrams found in______
A、Francis Bacon’s "Of Studies"
B、Thomas More’s Utopia
C、John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
D、Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
单选题 ______ are long narrative poems that record the adventures of a hero whose exploits are important.
A、Ballads
B、Romans
C、Epics
D、Odes
单选题 Which of the following social and economic developments was the most significant factor driving the rise of the modern English novel in the 18th century?
A、The government’s decision to provide direct funding for literature and authors.
B、The decline of the monarchy’s power and the rise of democratic ideals.
C、The intellectual movement of Romanticism, which emphasized imagination over reason.
D、The growth of the middle class and increased literacy, creating a new mass readership.
单选题 The Age of William Shakespeare is also called the second period of______.
A、Elizabethan Period
B、Victorian Period
C、English Renaissance
D、James Period