英美经典作家作品导读答案2023

第一章测试

1.Which is the oldest poem in the English language? （ ）
A:Utopia
B:Faerie Queene
C:The Canterbury Tales
D:Beowulf

答案:D
2.The first christian writer is ______.（ ）
A:Bede
B:Geoffrey Chaucer
C:Cynewulf
D:Caedmon

答案:D
3.__________ embellish the whole of Beowulf. For example the sea is often “swan’sway” or “whale-path”; a soldier is often a “ shield-hololder or battle-hero” , etc.（ ）
A:Alliterations
B:Personifications
C:Kennings
D:Understatements

答案:C
4.The chief form of medieval English literature is ____.（ ）
A:tales
B:romance
C:epic
D:drama

答案:B
5._____ is the father of English poetry. （ ）
A:Edmund Spenser
B:Beowulf
C:Geoffrey Chaucer
D:William Shakespeare

答案:C
6.The sketch of a middle-class woman in Chaucer’s time was vividly reflected in the tale told by ______.（ ）
A:the knight
B:the Oxford scholar
C:the prioress
D:the wife of Bath

答案:D
7._______ began to come in large bands with the deliberate purpose of permanent settlement.（ ）
A:Celts
B:Jutes
C:Angles
D:Saxons

答案:BCD
8.After the conquest, three languages co-existed in England. _______became the official language used by the king and the Norman lords.（ ）
A:Latin
B:English
C:French

答案:C
9.The Canterbury Tales is written for the greater part in _______couplets.（ ）
A:blank
B:alliterative
C:heroic

答案:C
10. Geoffrey Chaucer is the founder of the English __________.（ ）
A:heroic epics
B:classical novels
C:Realism
D:Romanticism

答案:C