課程名稱︰英國文學1600以前
課程性質︰
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）︰2007/11/13
考試時限（分鐘）：約150分
是否需發放獎勵金：是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
I. (T)rue/(F)alse: (24%)
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 "scop" means shepherd.
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 word roman was initially applied in French to a work written in
French.
8. Toward the end of the 14th century, English began to displace French as
the language for conducting business in Parliament and official
correspondence.
9. In the 14th century, monasteries were still the only centers of book
production.
10. A monk was supposed to preach and beg.
11. Layamon was a Welsh cleric who helped createa legendary history of
Britain for the Norman overlords.
12. The Miller is the second pilgrim to tell his tale in The Canterbury
Tales.
II. Explain FIVE of the following: (25%)
1. Hastings 2. fabliaux 3. Unferth 4. Judith 5. Chretien de Troyes
6. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 7. Tabard
III. Identify and analyze THREE of the following: (27%)
1. For a brief while your strength is in bloom/ But it fades quickly; and
soon there will follow/ illness or the sword to lay you low,/ or a sudden
fire or surge of water/ or jabbing blade or javelin from the air/ or
repellent age.
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. So uncommonly kind and complaisant was she,/ With sweet stolen glances,
that stirred his stout heart,/ That he was at his wits' end, and wondrous
vexed;/ But he could not rebuff her, for courtesy forbade,/ Yet took pains to
please her, though the plan might go wrong.
4. That is to sayn, that telleth in this cas/ Tales of best sentence and most
solas─/ Shal have a soper at oure aller cost,/ Here in this place, sitting
by this post,/ Whan that we come again fro Canterbury.
IV. Answer ONE of the following in well-written and well-supported essay:
(24%)
1. Discuss the question of boundary in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight.
2. Compare and contrast women's roles in Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green
knight and The Nun's Priest's Tales.
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