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課程名稱︰英國文學1600以前
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰楊明蒼
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰94.11.8
試題 :
I. (T)rue/(F)alse:(22%)
1.Christianity was first introduced to England by St. Augustine of Canterbury.
2.King Alfred was the first English Christian king.
3.The legendary ruler King Arthur was a descedant of the Anglo-Saxons.
4.The earliest extant Old English poem is Beowulf.
5.The use of a compound of two words in place of another as when sea becomes
"whale-road" is called epithet.
6.The Exeter Book contains the largest surviving collection of Middle English
poetry.
7.The word roman was initially applied in French to a work written in the
French vernacular.
8.The Anglo-Norman England was a bilingual society.
9.In the 14th century, the merchant class was not influential at all.
10. A friar was supposed to stay in the monastery.
11, Wace was a Welsh cleric who helped create a legendary history of Briton
for the Norman overlords.
II. Analyze and comment on THREE of the following passage to show your
understanding of the text:(18%)
1. They decked his body no less bountifully
with offerings than those first ones did
who cast him away when he was a child
and launched him alone out over the waves.
2. ...where the sun sets beyond the kindoms of Gaul/ Is an isle in the ocean,
closed all around by hhe sea.... Seek it out, for it shall be your homeland
forever;/ It shall be a second Troy for your descendants.
3. Whan that April with his showres soote
The droughte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veine in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flowr.
4. I will worship Truth with it all my lifeime,
And be his pilgrim at the plow for poor men's sake.
My plowstaff shall be my pikestaff and push at the roots
And help my coulter to cut and cleanse the furroes.
III. Explain FOUR of the followings:(20%)
1. Hastings
2. Tarbard
3. Wiglaf
4. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
5. Marie de France
6. Julian of Norwich
IV. Answer TWO of the following in well-written and well-supported essays:
1. "For Anglo-Saxon poetry, it is difficult and probably futile to draw a line
between 'heroic' and 'Christian,' for the best poetry crosses that boundary."
Use Beowulf as an example to comment on the statement.
2. The Green Knight says that he was come to Arthur's court only to ask "a
Christmas game." Much of the action in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
revolves around various kinds of games. What is the Green Knight's "game" and
how are all these games connected?
3. At the end of The Nun's Priest's Tale, the narrator says, "Lo, such it is
for to be reckless/ And negligent and trust in flattery.../ Take the fruit,
and let the chaff be still. Comment on the statement and discuss tje "fruit"
of the tale.
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