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英美文学 第三周课堂测试（一） I.Celts has been conquered three times,the Romans,the English and the Normans , while Scotland, and partial Wales were left almost untouched. In the year 597, St. Augustine was sent from Rome to Kent and about the same time missionaries from Ireland began to preach Christianity in the north. Beowulf is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. Old English poetry consists of the religiousone and the secular one. Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the Father of English poetry 英美文学第二次测?? .The tribes from Europe who overrun to England in the 5th century brought with them the Old English, or Anglo-Saxon language, which is the basis of Modern English. 正确答案为：A.Germanic .Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of 您的回答：D.The Canterbury Tales （ 得分： .The most significant idea of the Renaissance is_ 您的回答：A.humanism （得分：5） 4. Shakespeare s four greatest tragedies are__ 您的回答：C.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth .In English poetry, the two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter are called_ [分值：5] 您的回答：B.heroic couplet 、 英雄双韵体 Studies serve for delight, for ornament（装饰品）,and for ability. The above passage is taken from [分值：5] 您的回答：C. Francis Bacons Of Studies （得分：5） has been called the summit （ 最高点）of the English Renaissance[ 分值：5] 正确答案为：W. Shakespeare After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time.The Normans spoke__ [分值：5] 您的回答：A.French、（得分：5） 9. It was and the two conquests that provided the source for the rise and growth of English literature. [分值：5] 您的回答：B. Normans/ Anglo-Saxons 10. __,the “father of English poetry ” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340s. [分值：5] 您的回答：D. Geoffrey Chaucer （得分：5） 英美文学第三次测试 English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.[ 分值：10] 正确答案为：错 Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects.[ 分值：10] 正确答案为：错 罗伯特彭斯是苏格兰人，用的是 Scottish dialect