課程名稱︰英國文學史
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
考試日期（年月日）︰96/1/16
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
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試題 :
I.T(rue)/F(alse):(22%)
1. Thomas Waytt introduced the sonnet into English poetry.
2. Julian of Norwich composed the first spiritual autobiography of a medieval
laywoman.
3. The sonnet sequence Amoretti was written by Spenser.
4. The Geneva Bible was the work by a group of English Catholics.
5. The Reformation emphasized the system of confession, pardons and sacred
relics.
6. In England, the Reformation began with dynastic politics during the reign of
Henry VII.
7. William Tyndale was a famous defender of the Catholic faith.
8. The War of the Roses was resolved by the establishment of the Tudor dynasty.
9. Elizabethans had a taste for eleborate, intricate, but perfectlyregular
designs.
10.The name given by the Greeks to poets─poietes─means "prophet."
11.St. George is the patron saint of England.
II.Explain FOUR of the following.(20%)
1.guild 2.sprezzatura 3.Hythloday 4.Bedivere
5.William Caxton 6.the cult of Elizabeth 7.Archimago
III.Analyze and comment on THREE of the following passages to show your
understanding of the texts: (18%)
1.All the fair working and all the sweet kindly offices of dearworthy
motherhood is appropriated to the second person, for in him we have this
goodly will, whole and safe without end.
2."And to say the truth that[Sir Lancelot] were not of worship but if he had
rescued the Queen, insomuch as she should have been burned for his sake. And
as in that," said Sir Gawain, "he hath done but knightly, and as I would have
done myself if I had stood in that case."
3.But Utopus, who conquered the country and gave it his name, and who brought
its rude and uncouth inhabitants to such a high level of culture and humanity
that they now excel in that regard almost every other people, also changed its
geography.
4."O let me not," quoth he, "then turn again/ Back to the world...." "That may
not be," said he, "nor may thou yet/ Forgo that royal maid's bequeathed care,/
Who did her cause into thy hand commit,/ Till from her cursed foe thou have
her freely quit."
IV. Answer the following questions in well-written and well-supported essays:
(40%)
1. Discuss the significance of the figure of the plowman in Piers Plowman.
2. (A) How are Shakespeare's sonnet different from the traditional Petrarchan
sonnets?
OR (B) "In Twelfth Night conventional categories of sexual identity and social
class give way to a different mode of perceiving the world." Comment on
the statement to show your understanding of the play.
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