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1. The most important and popular comedy written by Shakespeare is ___.
A. Romeo and Juliet B. Twelfth Night
C. The Merchant of Venice D. As You Like It
2. Which writing is a typical example of Shakespeare's pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years?
A. Tempest B. King Lear C. Hamlet D. Othello
3. Which one IS NOT one of Shakespeare's four tragedies?
A. Romeo and Juliet B. King Lear C. Hamlet D. Othello
4. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.
A. The Merchant of Venice B. Hamlet
C. King Lear D. Julius Caesar
5. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ____ plays.
A. 47 B. 27 C. 52 D. 37
6. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.
D. The speaker meditated on man’s salvation
7. Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal D. The Conscious Lovers
8.The sentence \"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?\" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ .
A.comedies B.tragedies C.sonnets D.histories
9. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.
B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.
D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.
10.―Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wife
Which is as dear to me as life itself;
But life itself, My wife, and all the world.
Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;
I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,
Here to the devil, to deliver you.
Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,
If she were by to hear you make the offer.
The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.
A.dramatic irony B.personification
C.allegory D.symbolism
11.In Shakespeare‘s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.
A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B. his enterprise went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost
12.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except ______.
A. Hamlet and King Lear
B. Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
C. Julius Caesar and Othello
D. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
13. ―To be, or not to be — that is the question；／whether‘ tis nobler in the mind to suffer，／the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,／Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, ／And by opposing end them?‖ The quoted lines are taken from ______.
A. King Lear B. Romeo and Juliet C. Othello D. Hamlet
14. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.
A. The Tempest B. The Winter's Tale C. Cymbeline D. The Rape of Lucrece
15. In ______,Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere,but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.
A.Hamlet B.Othello C.King Lear D.Macbeth
16. Many people today tend to regard the play “ The Merchant of Venice ” as a satire of the hypocrisy of _________ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _________ .
A. Christians / Jews B. Jews / Christian
C. oppressors / oppressed D. people / Jews
17_____is not written by William Shakespeare.
A.Henry V B. The Tempest C. As You Like It D. Paradise Lost
18.In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare_________________.
A.Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.
B.Satirize human’s vanity.
C.Predict the eternity of love.
D.Eulogize the power of the beauty.
19.Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.
A.Hamlet B.King Lear C.Romeo and Juliet D.Othello
20.The Renaissance refers to between 14th----mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen___and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ’real mainstream (真正的文学主流)’ was ____.
A.Victoria/poetry B.Elizabeth/ drama C.Mary/ novel D.James/ drama
21. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a ’philosophical exploration’ of life and death.
A.The Merchant of Venice B.Hamlet C.King Lear D.The Winter’s Tale
22.“And we will make thee beds of roses / And a thousand fragrant posies/ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/ Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.” The above lines are probably taken from______.
A.Spenser’s The Faerie Queene B.John Donne’s The Sun Rising
C.Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 D.Marlow’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
23.The rhyme scheme of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is______ .
A. aabb B.abab C.abcc D.abac
24.Usually there are __ groups of characters in Shakespeare’s comedies.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
25.Shakespeare produced __comedies in all.
A. 14 B. 15 C. 16 D. 17
26.The story of The Merchant of Venice is of ___origin.
A. Italian B. French C. German D. English
27.The story of Hamlet comes from a ____ legend.
A. French B. Italian C. Danish D. Chinese
28.Of all Shakespeare’s tragedies, ____ is the most complex in plot and also
the most painful.
A. Hamlet B. King Lear C. Othello D. Macbeth 29. The hero Macbeth is a famous general of ____. A. Russia B. India C. England D. Scotland
30.Shakespeare’s historical plays are ____plays.
A. Political B. Cultural C. Sport D. Love
31.Shakespeare’s historical plays reflect the historical events of ____ centuries from RichardⅡto Henry Ⅷ.
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four
32.In Shakespeare’s historical plays the ideal king is ___, though his real prototype differs little from the others kings.
A. HenryⅤ B. HenryⅣ C. HenryⅧ D. Richard
33.Shakespeare wrote _B__ historical plays in all.
A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13
34. HenryⅣ and HenryⅤ deal with the events of the ___ century.
A. 14th B. 15th C. 16th D. 17th
35.The play HenryⅣ contains ___ parts.
A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five
36.The first __ sonnets are addressed mainly to a young man of great beauty and promise.
A. 124 B. 125 C. 126 D. 127
37. Each of Shakespeare’s plays consists of ___ parts.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
38.“ Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend” is from ____.
A. King Lear B. Hamlet C. Venus and Adonis D. The Two Noble Kinsmen
39.Shakespeare belonged to the ___ period.
A. Revolution B. Restoration C. Renaissance D. Romantic
40. In the year of __, Shakespeare retired from the stage and return to his hometown.
A. 1609 B. 1612 C. 1615 D. 1618
41.___ embraces almost all of the important characteristics of a comedies.
A. As You Like It B. The Merchant of Venice C. The Twelfth Night D. The Winter’s Tale 42.___ and ___ are mainly relied on Holinshed’s Chronicles.
A. King Lear and Macbeth B. King Lear and As You Like It C. As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale D. The Twelfth Night and As You Like It 43.Each character in Shakespeare’s works is a representative of a group of
men, for example, Hamlet represents the ___.
A. Usurers B. Humanists C. Chivalry D. Governors
44. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____
A Hamlet
B The Twelfth Night
C The Merchat of Venice
D The Merchant of Venice
45.Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play ?
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream B. The Merry Wives of Windsor
C. Henry IV D. King Lear
46.William Shakespeare is one of the giants of________ .
A. Romanticism B. Critical Realism
C. Aestheticism D. the Renaissance
47.___ 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”
48. 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
49.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
50. 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
51.What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet ?
A. Cousins
B. Uncle and nephew .
C. Father-in-law and son-in-law .
D. Father and son .
52.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies ?
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet
D. Macbeth
53.In Hamlet's soliloquy , when he says , \" To sleep , perchance to dream : --ay, there's the rub . \" What is the primarily thinking about ?
A . The bad dreams that have recently been troubling him .
B. The fact that if dying is like going to sleep , then perhaps after death we have bad dreams .
C. The sinful behavior of Gertrude , whose guilty dreams he would like to know .
D. His desire to sleep so that he will not have to take vengeful action .
54.In \" Not on thy sole , but on thy soul , harsh Jew , / Thou mak'st thy knife keen \" , Gratiano ( a character in The Merchant of Venice ) uses a rhetorical device called____.
A. hyperbole
B. homonym
C. paradox
D. pun
55.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy ?
A. The Merchant of Venice
B.A Midsummer Night's Dream
C .As you like It
D. Romeo and Juliet
56.\" In a dream vision , Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana , and upon awakening resolves to seek her.\" The two literary figures \"Arthur \" and \" Gloriana \" are from _____ .
A. The Fairie Queene
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Dr. Faustus
D. Paradise Lost
57. In \" Sonnet 18 \" , Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _________ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .
A. death/ life
B. death/ love
C. time / beauty
D. hate / love
58. Which one is Shakespeare's longest play?
A Hamlet
B Henry VIII
C Romeo and Juliet
D The Merchant of Venice
59. So long as men can breath , or eyes can see ,/So long lives this ,and this gives life to thee (Shakespeare,Sonnets18) What does ”this” refer to?
A . Lover B . Time C. Summer D . Poetry
60. The character of the Merry Wives of Windsor is ____.
A . Miranda B. Mistress Ford C. Ariel
61. In King Lear，Shakespeare also described a family where members had no contact besides naked money, who was the unfilial son in this family?
A .Edgar B. Edmund C .The Duke of Cornwall
62. Shakespeare is the representative of period.
A Enlightenment B Classic C Renaissance
63. Which is not a tragedy in the following?
A Hamlet B Romeo and Juliet C King Lear
. Which is a work written in Shakespeare’s old time.
A As You Like It B Twelfth Night C The Tempest
65. Which is not the character in Shakespeare’s comedy.
A Shylock B Hermia C Othello
66. has ever translated Shakespeare’s works.
A Fu Lei B Zhu Shenghao C Yang Xianyi
67. Who is not the contemporary writer with Shakespeare.
A Marlowe B Bacon C Chaucer
68. Which is the name of Shakespeare’s wife.
A Anne Boleyn B Anne Hathaway C Anne Sullivan
69. Which form is not always used by Shakespeare.
A Free Verse B Blank verse C Sonnet
70. is the most famous sonnet of Shakespeare.
A Sonnet 15 B Sonnet 17 C Sonnet 18
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71. Which play is originated from Chronicles of Scotland.
A Macbeth B King Lear C Hamlet
72. Which is the lover of Portia in The Merchant of Venice. A Bassanio B Antonio C Shylock
73. Portia disguises a to save Antonio in The Merchant of Venice. A Judge B Lawyer C Policewoman
74. What’s the relationship between Hamlet and Claudius.
A Friend B Enemy C Strange
75 is the most notable characteristics of Hamlet.
A Humble B Haste C Hesitate
76. Hamlet is about the history of
A Norway B England C Denmark
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