1、Which is the oldest poem in the English language?
A、Utopia
B、Faerie Queene
C、Beowulf
D、The Canterbury Tales
2、The first christian writer is ______.
A、Bede
B、Cynewulf
C、Geoffrey Chaucer
D、Caedmon
3、__________ embellish the whole of Beowulf. For example the sea is often “swan’sway” or “whale-path”; a soldier is often a “ shield-hololder or battle-hero” , etc.
A、Personifications
B、Alliterations
C、Understatements
D、Kennings
4、The chief form of medieval English literature is ____.
A、drama
B、epic
C、romance
D、tales
5、_____ is the father of English poetry.
A、Beowulf
B、William Shakespeare
C、Geoffrey Chaucer
D、Edmund Spenser
6、The sketch of a middle-class woman in Chaucer’s time was vividly reflected in the tale told by ______.
A、the knight
B、the Oxford scholar
C、the prioress
D、the wife of Bath
7、_______ began to come in large bands with the deliberate purpose of permanent settlement.
A、Jutes
B、Celts
C、Saxons
D、Angles
