英美经典作家作品导读答案2023秋

第一章测试

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

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

答案:A
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:Understatements
C:Kennings
D:Personifications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

答案:B