文学史作业2

Exercise Two

I. Multiple Choice: Old and Medieval English Literature

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best completes the statement. For each question, write your choice A, B, C or D in the exercise book.

1.It is the cultural influences of the ______and ______ conquests that provided the source

for the rise and growth of English literature.

A. Anglian, Saxon B Greek, Roman.

C. Roman, Norman

D. Norman, Anglo-Saxon

2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is

the popular literary form in ______.

A. Romanticism

B. Renaissance

C. medieval period

D. Anglo-Saxon period

3. During what century did Chaucer live？

A. 13th

B. 14th

C. 15th

D. 16th

4. Historical evidence suggests that Chaucer may have died

A. after being knighted by Henry V

B. in Westminster Abbey

C. poor

D. an outcast

5. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. John Milton

D. W. Wordsworth

6. It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a

comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Martin Luther

C. William Shakespeare

D. John Gower

7. One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______.

A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry

B. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his country

C. he wrote in blank verse

D. he was the first to write sonnet

8. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed

couplet of iambic pentameter, which is to be called later____.

A. The Spenserian stanza

B. The heroic couplet

C. The blank verse

D. The free verse

9. ______was the first buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abby.

A. William Wordsworth

B. Francis Bacon

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. William Shakespeare

10. The story of is the highest point of the Arthurian romances.

A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B. The Song of Beowulf

C. Piers, the Plowman

D. The Canterbury Tales

II. Multiple Choice (Parts 1-2)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. For each question, write your choice A, B, C or D in the exercise book.