課程名稱︰英國文學1600以前
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰楊明蒼
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰95.11.14
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試題 :
I. (T) rue/ (F) alse:(22%)
1. From the first to the fifth century, England was a province of the
Roman Empire.
2. King Alfred was the first English Christian king.
3. The legendary ruler King Arthur was a descendant of the Anglo-Saxons.
4. The word “wyrd” means award.
5. The earliest extant Old English poem is Beowulf.
6. The use of a compound of two words in place of another as when sea
becomes "whale-road" is called epithet.
7. The Anglo-Norman England was a bilingual society.
8. In the 14th century, the merchant class was not influential at all.
9. In the 14th century, monasteries were still the only centers of book
production.
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 passages to you’re your
understanding of the text: (18%)
1. A Geat woman too sang out in grief;
with hair bound up, she unburdened herself
of her worst fears, a wild litany
of nightmare and lament, her nation invaded,
enemies on the rampage, bodies in piles,
slavery and abasement.
2. ...where the sun sets beyond the kingdoms of Gaul/ Is an isle in the ocean,
closed all around by the sea..../ Seek it out, for it shall be your homeland
forever;/ It shall be a second Troy for your descendants.
3. The king comforts the knight, and the court all together/ Agree with gay
laughter and gracious intent/ That the lords and the ladies belonging to the
Table,/ Each brother of that band, a baldric should have,/ A belt brone
oblique, of a bright green.
4. 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.
III. Explain FOUR of the following: (20%)
1. Hastings 2. fabliaux 3. Wiglaf 4. Judith
5. Chretien de Troyes 6. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
IV. Answer TWO of the following in well-written and well-supported essays:
(40%)
1. Compare and contrast the notion of space in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight.
2. (A)In The Wife of Bath’s Tale, the king turns out to be the winner that
takes it all. How can s feminist like the Wife reward the knight this way?
OR (B) 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 the "fruit" of the tale.
※ 編輯: quizzical 來自: 140.112.7.59 (11/14 19:29)