Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.   Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

1 ． The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.

A ． William Langland’ s Piers Plowman               B ． Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

C ． John Gower’s Confession Amantis               D ． Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2 ． The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of

Dr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________.

A ． man is confined to time                              

B ． he tried to join Africa to Spain

C ． he became a man without soul after he sold it       

D ． he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War

3 ． 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

4 ． Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.

A ． the Renaissance                                          B ． the Old Testament

C ． Greek Mythology                                        D