英语专业八级人文知识（题集） — 英
国文学部分
一 古英语及中世纪文学（8—14 世纪） 1. Who is the \of English poetry\and one of the greatest narrative poets of England? a. William Shakespeare b. Alfred the Great c. Geoffrey Chaucer d. Christopher Marlow
2. When he died, Chaucer was buried in ________ the Poet' s Corner. A .Southwark b. Westminster Abbey c. Normandy d. Canterbury
3. ________is not only a prose writer but also a king of Wessex.
a. Adam Bede b. Alfred the Great c. Venerable Bede d. King Arthur
4. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named “________” based on
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Boccaccio' s poem \
a. The Legend of Good Women b. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight c. Beowulf d. Troilus and Gressie
5. In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures, which one is not true? a. English literature b. German literature c. Italian literature d. French literature
6. The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of________.
a. romanticists b. monks c. pagan d. sentimentalists
7. Who is the first important religious poet in English literature?
a. Caedmon b. Adam Bede c. Cynewulf d. Shakespeare
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8. Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf?
a. Heorot b. Beowulf c. Grendel d. Hrothgar
9. King Alfred' s Anglo Saxon Chronicle was written in________form.
a. poetic b. dramatic c. prose d. none of the above 10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight focuses on________.
a. the imagination of the future world
b. immediate social issues
c. the real life as well as people' s feelings and desires
d. a remote world belongs to the Celtic Legend of King Arthur and his knights
11. Geoffi'ey Chaucer develops his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with
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both typical qualities and________dispositions.
a. individual b. collective c. social d. natural
12. Among the great Middle English poets,
Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of________. a. Piers Plowman b. Sir Gawain and the Green knight e. Confession Amantis d. The Canterbury Tales
13. The period of________literature
extends from about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman conquest of England. a. the Old English b. the Middle English c. the Modern English d. Queen Victoria
14. Romance, which uses narrative verse
or prose to sing________adventures or other heroic deeds is a popular
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literary form in the medieval period.
a. knightly b. christian e. Greek d. primitive
15. Geoffrey Chaucer introduced from
France the rhymed stanzas of various type to English poetry to replace the old English________verse.
a. rhymed b. alliterative c. romantic d. visionary
16. The work that presented, for the first
time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely________.
a. Geoffrey Chaucer' s The Canterbury Tables
b. William Langland' s Piers Plowman
c. John Gower' s Confession Amantis
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