課程名稱︰中世紀英國文學
課程性質︰系必修(九選五)
課程教師︰楊明蒼
開課學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2009/11/16
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
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試題 :
I. True/False (20%)
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 dsiplace French as
language for conducting business in Parliament and official correspondence.
9. In the 14th century, monasteries were still the only centers of boook
production.
10.Layamon was a Welsh cleric who helped create a legendary history of Britain
for the Norman oevelords.
II. Explain FOUR of the following (20%)
1. Hastings 2. Unferth 3. Judith 4. King Alfred
5. Chretien de Troyes 6 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
III. Identify and analyze THREE of the following (24%)
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 beyound the kingdoms of Gaul/ Is an islein 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 plain might go wrong.
4. They pierced me with dark nails: the wounds are seen on me, open gashes of
hatred. Nor did I dare harm any of them. They mocked us both together. I
was all met with blood... I had endured many bitter happenings on that hill.
IV. Answer the following in well-written and well-supported essay (36%)
1. Discuss the question of boundary in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight. (18%)
2. (1) What is the significance of the account of Shield Scefing at the
beginning of Beowulf and how is it related to the rest of the poem? (18%)
OR (2) THe Green Knight says tha the has 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 "games"
and how are all these games connected? (18%)
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