课程名称︰中世纪英国文学 课程性质︰必修 课程教师︰杨明苍 开课学院：外文系 开课系所︰文学院 考试日期（年月日）︰99/11/8 考试时限（分钟）：120分钟 是否需发放奖励金：是 （如未明确表示，则不予发放） 试题 : 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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