英国文学试题库8.1.doc

?VIII. Fill in the blanks with correct information 1. Angles, ___, and ___ were the Teutonic tribes came from the northern continent. 2. By the 7th century, after the small kingdoms in the present England were combined into a whole people, the language spoken by them is generally called _____, which is now called Old English. 3. The long poem _________ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic. 4. Grendel, a monster half-human, appeared in the story of ______. 5. The earlier inhabitants in the present England were _________, a tribe of Celts. 6. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon Period falls into two kinds—___ and ___. 7. The 3182-line The Song of Beowulf can be divided into two parts with a(n) _____ between the two and the whole song is essentially ___ in spirit and matter. 8. The songs and poems in the Anglo-Saxon period were written in the style of ______ as could be seen from The Song of Beowulf. 9. In 1066, the ___ headed by Duke William, defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of _____. This marked the beginning of ____ in England and England entered into ___ society. 10. The greatest influence made by the Normans in England is on ___ and ____.? 11. The most popular literary form in the Anglo-Norman period was _____, in which the central character was _____. 12. Sir Gawain and Green Knight employs the form of romance. 13. The story of Sir Gawain and Green Knight is the culmination of the Arthurian romances. 14. In the year 1066, the Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of Hastings. 15. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors; among them is the famous Romance of the Rose and The House of Fame. 16. The one who propose the story-telling in The Canterbury Tales is the inn-keeper. 17. Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the “________” and is one of the greatest narrative poets of England. 18. “The father of English poetry” is ______. 19. Chaucer is called the founder of English realism because he portrays