1. According to Liang Shiqiu, which of the following text is NOT the source of inspiration for Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"? 1)Spanish romance "Tirante el Blanco" 2)"Orlando Furioso" of Ariosto 3)"Faery Queen" of Spenser 4)English romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" 2.In"Much Ado About Nothing", the lines"Well,as time shall try": "In time savage bull doth bear the yoke." belong to 1)Don Pedro 2)Leonato 3)Benedick 4)Watch 3.. According to Liang Shiqiu, Dogberry is a character created by Shakespeare mainly to poke fun at English 1)bureaucracy 2)hypocrite 3)arrogance 4)gallantry 4. In"Much Ado About Nothing": A Modern perspective ",Gail Kern Paster says that"Benedick's dissmive mention of his mother as the woman who conceived me" betrays her real importance to the structure of repressed memory" The word "dismissive" means showing 1)compassion 2)discontent 3)indifference 4)sadness 5.In the same essay,Paster argues that if "cuckoldry jokes are in the air in Messina," it is because Elizabethan society is dominated by a 1)misongynistic 2)misanthropist 3)mischievious 4)miscreant attitude. 6.The Renaissance interpretation of imagination or "fantasy" is equivocal in that it refers on the one hand to 1)artistic madness 2)literary criticism 3)musical creation 4)poetic furor and to a loss-in-reality on the other. 7.Shakespeare's plays as blank verse is composed mainly of 1)iambic pentameter 2)11-syllable 3)alexandrine 4)iambic hexameter lines. 8.In"Much Ado About Nothing": A Modern perspective" Paster contends that for Benedick, the fear of women is less generic than personal.The word "generic" means 1)generous 2)general 3)generative 4)genetic. 9.In the same essay, the author believes that the real source of patriarchal anxiety is patriarchy's inevitable dependence on the 1)labor 2)sacrifice 3)chastity 4)service of wives and mothers. 10.Also, according to him,"in psychoanalytic narratives of male repression, the mother's lack of 1)patience 2)the breasts 3)love 4)the phallus is a distributing image for the child. 11.In"Much Ado About Nothing", Benedick asks himself,"Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a person from the carrer of his humor? The word "quip" means 1)stupid jokes 2)clever, sarcastic remarks 3)saddening words 4)disappointing comments. 12.In the same play, it is 1)Claudio 2)Hero 3)Leonato 4)Beatrice who compares "wooing, wedding, and repenting" to three different types of dance. 13.In"Much Ado About Nothing", Dogberry is a bumbling and officious character. The word "bumbling" is used to describe a person who 1)speaks in a flatter manner 2)rushes in an indifferent manner 3)does anything in an uninterse- -ting manner 4)walks in a stately manner. 14.following question 13, The word "officious" means 1)putting on a mask 2)susceptible to lying 3)fond of silly jokes 4)offering unwanted help. 15."What is in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other smell as sweet." In terms of rhythm, these two lines are marked first by the device of 1)metaphor 2)simile 3)caesura 4)suggestion, 16.Following question 15, then by that of 1)enjambment 2)sarcasm 3)contrast 4)comparison. 17.From the essay on the figurative language of "Much Ado About Nothing", we learn that the wit of Beartice lies in her 1)ironic 2)creative 3)literal 4)metaphoric interpretation of a figurative phrase. 18.At the end of the movie "Much Ado About Nothing", a modern adaption by BBC , the directer endows the role of Hero with a sense of 1)artistic awakening 2)female individuation 3)male domination 4)artistic deception. 19.In the play "Much Ado About Nothing", when the messenger say to Beartuce, "I see, lady the gentleman is not in your books.",he actually means the gentleman is not 1)an intersting person for her 2)a person in her favor 3)a person she respects for his erudition 4)a person in her charge 20."A kind of overflow kindness", says Leonato. As a pun, the word "kind" means both 1)sort and good 2)sort and warmhearted 3)natural and warehearted 4)good and natural. 21.Following question 20, The word "kindness" as another pun means both 1)likeness and affection 2)likeness and effection 3)kinship and affection 4)kinship and effect 22.The word "fain" in the line "which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not" means 1)sadly 2)hastily 3)gladly 4)emotionally". 23.Although dominated by the values inherited from Catholicism, Elizabethan society faces the emergence of a new ideal about 1)religion 2)marrige 3)society 4)art. And this cultural situation is said to be at the root of the double plot of "Much Adi About Nothing". 24.Instead of encouraging his or her readers to be man-haters, by revealing how the masculine society functions, or its underlying logic, a feminist critic tries to remind them of the importance of not 1)taking what is natural for what is social 2)adapting what is social to what is divine 3)take what is social foe what is natural 4)adapting what is divine to what is moral. 25.In "Much Ado About Nothing": A Modern Perspective , Paster suggests that "anxiety about sexual betrayal in marriage seems endemic in Messina." The word "endemic" means 1)peculiar to 2) belonging to 3)attached to 4)bound to 26.One of Shakespeare's critics considers that "Much Ado About Nothing" as a whole can be read as brilliant repartee. The word "repartee" means a conversation marked by 1)intelligent comparisons 2)witty retorts 3)nonsensical repetitions 4)meaningless murmurs. 27.The author of "Much Ado About Nothing": A Modern Perspective , suggests that cuckoldry jokes reflect in reality men's dominant 1)self-criticism 2)celibacy 3)suspicion 4)status quo in relation to women's subordination. -- --

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