英美文学第一章练习1

Part One Early and Medieval English Literature

Ⅰ. Multiple Choice

1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating

England.

A. William the Conqueror

B. Julius Caesar

C. Alfred the Great

D. Claudius

2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .

A. Langland

B. Wycliffe

C. Gower

D. Chaucer

3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.

A. novel

B. drama

C. romance

D. Essay

4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.

A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B.Beowulf

C. Piers the Plowman

D. The Canterbury Tales

5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.

A. Kubla Khan

B. Piers the Plowman

C. The Dream of John Bull

D. Morte d’Arthur

6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The

Normans spoke _____.

A. French

B. English

C. Latin

D. Swedish

7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of

the Bible.

A. Langland

B. Gower

C. Wycliffe

D. Chaucer

8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,

through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.

A. primitive

B. feudal

C. bourgeois

D. modern

9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.

A. loyalty

B. revolt

C. obedience

D. mockery

10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary

outlaw called _____.

A. Morte d’Arthur

B. Robin Hood

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Piers the Plowman

11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the gre atest narrative poets of

England, was born in London in about 1340.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Sir Gawain

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Dryden

12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.

A. Flanders

B. France

C. Italy

D. Westminster Abbey

Ⅱ.Fill in the following blanks

1._______ can be justly termed England’ national epic and its hero_______----one

of the national heroes of the English people.

2.The most important work of _______________is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,

which is regarded as the best monument of the old English prose.

3.In the year ______,at the battle of _______,the _______headed by William, Duke

of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-Saxons

4.Geoffrey Chaucer, the _________________and one of the greatest narrative poets

of England, was born in England in about the year 1340.

5.Chaucer’s masterpiece is __________________, one of the most famous works in

all literature.

6.Two lines which rhyme (a couplet) are written in iambic pentameter is

called________________