課程名稱︰中世紀英國文學
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰楊明蒼
開課學院：外文系
開課系所︰文學院
考試日期（年月日）︰99/11/8
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
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. Britain was never a province of the Roman Empire.
2. Bede was sebt by Pope Gregory as a missionary to England.
3. The legendary ruler King Arthur was a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon.
4. After the Anglo-Saxon Conquest, the Arthurian legend became popular.
5. The word "wryd" means fate.
6. The Celtic language was used in Wales.
7. The earliest extant Old English poem is Beowulf.
8. The use of a compound of two words in place od another as when sea
becomes "whale-road" is called epithet.
9. In the ninth century the Danes occupied the northern part of England.
10. The word roman was initially applied in French to a work written in French
11. In the 14th century, monsteries were still the only centers of book
production.
12. Layamon was a Welsh cleric who helped create a legendary history of
Britain for the Norman overlord.
II.Explain FOUR of the following:(24%)
1. Hastings 2. Wiglaf 3.Judith 4.King Alfred
5. Chretien de Troyes 6. Morgan le Faye
III. Identify and analyze THREE of the following:(27%)
1. Therefore, the abbess, who cherished the grace of God in this man,
instructed him to give up secular life and to take monastic vows. And
when she and all those subject to her had received him into the community
of brothers, she gave orders that he be taught the whole sequence of
sequence of sacred history.
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. To the everlasting Lord of all,/ to the King of Glory, I give thanks/
that I behold this treasure here in front of me,/that I have been allowed
to leave my people/ so well endowed on the day I die.
4. Deep in his dreams he darkly mutters/ As a man may that mourns, with many
grim thoughts/ Of that day when the destiny shall be deal him his doom/
When he greets his grim host.../And must bow to his buffet, bating all
strife./ But when he sees her at his side he summons his wits,/Breaks
from the black dreams, and blithely answer.
5. It was long ago--I remember it still--that I was hewn down at the wood's
edge, taken form my stump. Strong foes seized me there, hewed me to the
shape they wished to see, commanded me to lift their criminals.
IV. Answer the following in well-witten and well-supported essay:(25%)
1. Compare and contrast gender roles in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight.
2. Use as least three example to discuss the fuction and significance of the
dream morif in medieval English literature.
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